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By Conn Hallinan During the faceoff earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of...
Flipkart, Axis Bank partner to launch co-branded credit card
As online cashless transactions continue to grow, e-commerce giant Flipkart has launched a co-branded credit card in partnership with Axis Bank and Mastercard. It is Flipkart’s first co-branded card. The highlight of this card is that it offers users with a five percent flat discount on purchases made on...
Madhya Pradesh Continues To Remain A ‘BIMARU’ State
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Three developments in Madhya Pradesh have damaged the prestige of the Bhartiya Janata Party. They are: 1. Decision of the state government to place the report of judicial commission headed by Justice (Retd.) N. K. Jain about some alleged malpractices by Kailash Vijayvargiya,...
Tamil Nadu Curbs Right To Strike In Auto Component Industries
By B. Sivaraman If Karnataka, with Bangalore as the IT capital of India, has banned workers’ strikes in IT industry, Tamil Nadu, with Chennai as the ‘Detroit of India’, now bans strikes in auto components industries. These so-called advanced states impose such strike bans by declaring them as...
From Red Cloth To Politics Of Nudge
By Arun Srivastava While presenting her budget in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tried to reason out her move to carry the budget papers in a red cloth. Red cloth otherwise has been pariah for the saffron as it symbolized Marxism for them. But here it was something...
No End In Sight To Kerala’s Budgetary Blues
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It has been an unremitting tale of neglect for Kerala in Union Budget ever since the Modi government came to power. The latest Budget is no exception to the ‘rule’! Kerala, it may be mentioned, had pinned great hopes in the wake of...
Leadership Void Stares Congress In The Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the Lok Sabha election, Congress President Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post. But political observers who are watching the Congress closely, are saying that for decades the Congress has not planned for life without the Gandhi-Nehru family. It last happened after the assassination...
Xiaomi Mi A3, Mi A3 Lite to feature Snapdragon 730 and Snapdragon 675?
Xiaomi is widely expected to launch the Mi A3 and Mi A3 Lite smartphones soon, and these will be part of Google’s Android One program. We have heard few rumors about the phones, and the last one from XDA claimed that the new Mi A3 series could be powered...
Vivo Z1 Pro second sale at 8PM tonight via Flipkart, Vivo.com: Price, offers
The Vivo Z1 Pro went on sale for the first time in India today. The Chinese company claimed that the first batch of Z1 Pro smartphones was sold out in a matter of minutes. Notably, the second sale of the device will take place at 8:00PM tonight. It will...
Nokia 9 PureView vs OnePlus 7 Pro vs Oppo Reno 10x Zoom
Nokia 9 PureView, the penta-camera smartphone from HMD Global, has launched in India. If you said at last then we are with you. The smartphone was first announced at Mobile World Congress 2019 in February. The Finnish company has taken a good five months to bring the device to...
Motorola One Vision Bronze Gradient now available on Flipkart
Smartphone maker Motorola has just launched a new color variant for its Motorola One Vision. The company just launched a Bronze Gradient variant of its Motorola One Vision. Similar to other color variants for the device, the new Bronze Gradient is also priced starting at Rs 19,999. If you...
Twitter down? Well you are not alone; details, possible fixes
Social media giant Twitter seems to be currently facing some problems. The popular microblogging website is currently not working for thousands of people across the globe. If you can’t access Twitter right now then you are not alone. To clarify, it is not your Internet Service Provider or the...
Apple temporarily disables Walkie-Talkie app on Apple Watch due to a bug
Apple has temporarily disabled the Walkie-Talkie app for Apple Watch. The company introduced this feature in watchOS 5 last year. The iPhone maker has disabled the feature due to a recently reported bug. This bug allowed other users to eavesdrop on other Apple Watch users. The Cupertino-based company confirmed...
Xiaomi Redmi 7A next sale scheduled for July 18, features
Xiaomi has revealed the date for the next flash sale of its extremely affordable Xiaomi Redmi 7A. The company listed the new sale date right after concluding the first sale that took place today on July 11 at 12 noon. Similar to most Xiaomi sales, the next one is...
OnePlus TV Remote control certified by Bluetooth SIG
OnePlus seem to be actively working on launching its much anticipated Smart TV. The company teased this new product a couple of months back revealing the next segment they want to focus on. At the time, OnePlus did not indicate any concrete launch date for its upcoming smart TV....
Google Maps gets 3 new features for users in India
Google has introduced three new features in Google Maps to discover local places for users in India. The software giant has revamped the Explore tab to a redesigned ‘India-inspired’ Explore tab, which will now fetch dining offers and suggestions tailored to users’ taste. The Explore tab in Google Maps...
WhatsApp message tracing easily possible, says IIT professor
With India pressing for traceability of WhatsApp messages to check the spread of fake news, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras stressed that the issue can be easily resolved easily. The professor further asserted that without diluting end-to-end encryption, the messages can be traced. It will reportedly...
WhatsApp to get Quick Edit Media Shortcut soon on iOS and Android
WhatsApp will soon allow iOS and Android users to edit media right from the chat window. The Facebook-owned social messaging platform is testing a new feature called Quick Edit Media Shortcut. The feature will make it easier for users to edit a media file from a personal chat or...
