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Facebook may soon lure its users with ad-free version of the social platform, but it will not come free. It will be a paid subscription. It is learned the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company lately has been conducting market research to assure whether paid version of Facebook could be able to...
Reliance To Offer 1.1TB Data Through Jio Fibre
Reliance Jio may soon launch Jio Fiber fixed line broadband services in India. Since September 2016 the new service is in testing mode in select cities. Named as fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), it is learned the Jio Fiber has come up with initial plan offering up to 1.1TB of data though...
Dedicated Server Benefits and Disadvantages
Normally, hosting solutions that are usually seen advertised, unless explicitly stated, is shared hosting – not dedicated sever hosting. Shared hosting means that your server is simultaneously hosting many other sites at the same time, on the same server. While shared hosting provides the benefit of lower hosting costs...
Creating a Slideshow with Music Using Movavi Slideshow Maker
Thinking about compiling a slideshow out of some of the travel photos that you snapped on a recent vacation? Maybe instead you want to create a presentation out of images to talk ab out a certain topic? As you’re probably aware slideshows can be used in a number of...
BJP’S Communal Politics Behind Triple Talaq Bill
By Kalyani Shankar Is there politics behind the Triple Talaq Bill, which the Modi government is keen to push through in the ensuing Monsoon session? Will it be passed or sent to the select committee for further scrutiny or will it be buried? The Lok Sabha passed the Bill...
‘M’ Is The Flavour Of The Month
By Aditya Aamir Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in election mode. A picture doing the rounds on Monday, July 16, 2018, tells it all. To sense what Modi is thinking and is up to, look at the Opposition. The picture shows a galaxy of out-of-power politicians lined...
Chocolate Ad Not Made For The Lynch Mob
By Sushil Kutty Looking “sophisticated” and “polished” doesn’t mean zilch to the lynch mob. And if you distribute candies and toffees to children you’re bound to be a child-lifter, get your skull cracked. This much was proven last Friday after a mob gathered by Whatsapp beat to...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Shia Waqf Board surrenders claim to Ayodhya Land – During the hearings of the Babri Masjid demolition case last week, in a surprising development, the Shia Central Board of Waqf decided to surrender its claim to the temple land in the interest of the ‘integrity of the country’. The...
Congress In Kerala Scores A Self-Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala has scored a self-goal, to put it in the prevailing mood of football fever. The reference is to the move by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s (KPCC) ‘Vichar Vibhag’ to celebrate the ‘Ramayana month’ to ‘liberate Ramayana from the clutches of...
Supreme Court Bench Receptive To Protecting Rights For Gays
By Amritananda Chakravorty The much awaited hearings in the constitutional challenge to Section 377, IPC began last week before the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, presided by Chief Justice Dipak Mishra, and Justice Rohington Nariman, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, and Justice Indu Malhotra. The...
Labour Issues Will Play A Key Role In Monsoon Session Of Parliament
By Nitya Chakraborty The monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 18 is set to witness fierce battle between the NDA government led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a number of key policies including labour issues, especially the centre’s bid for privatization of the public sector companies...
High Tax Rates Inducing Tax Evasion, Avoidance
By Nantoo Banerjee The population count is around 1.3 billion. The national GDP is close to $2.6 trillion. India, the world’s sixth largest economy, is growing at well over seven percent. Big spenders number nearly 250 million. The domestic air traffic growth, last year, was close to 20...
Nitish’s Prohibition U-Turn To Please BJP
By Arun Srivastava The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday but the verdict was passed at the get together of some senior BJP leaders at the residence of a national leader a couple of months ago. The BJP leaders attending the session demanded that the...
The Unseemly ‘Noise’ Over Taj Mahal
By K Raveendran A day before senior Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjan Gogoi spoke about the need for ‘noisy judges and independent journalists’, describing them as democracy’s first line of defence, a bench of the apex court made noise over Taj Mahal. It was not clear whether the...
Centre Should Pay Heed To Supreme Court’s Warning On Taj Mahal
By Harihar Swarup The Supreme Court is rightly concerned over the “apathy” of the Centre and the U.P. government towards preserving the Taj Mahal. It gave an ultimatum to the government— either restore the pristine beauty of the Taj or demolish it. The apex court has been monitoring...
Trump Is Treating India As A Client State
By Barun Das Gupta The Trump administration has imposed a fresh sanction on Iran and issued a peremptory diktat to “all Asian countries”, including India, to bring down Iranian oil imports to ‘zero’ by November 4. This is nothing but imposing sanctions on Iran unilaterally. It is illegal...
Brazilian Right Determined To Keep Lula In Jail
By Emile Schepers On Sunday July 8, there was brief elation on the Brazilian left as it appeared as if former President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, known to all as just “Lula,” would be released on a writ of habeas corpus from a prison in Curitiba where...
Nitish’s Game Plan Fails To Deliver
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar’s election strategist Prashant Kishore’s Mumbai mission failed to make Lalu Prasad forgive his ‘younger brother’ for his betrayal and embrace him once more. As the political emissary of Nitish, his election strategist was flown to Mumbai with the task of assuaging Lalu’s feeling...
