Getty Images Reshma Saujani Forty years ago, my parents were forced to flee their home in Uganda when the dictator Idi Amin came to power. Pushing nationalist “Uganda First” policies, Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of all people of Indian descent from the country within 90 days or risk being shot on spot. The dictator baselessly blamed ethnic Indians – many of whom were Ugandan citizens – of stealing jobs during a time of economic uncertainty. Even though two generations of my family had lived in Uganda, my parents’ religion and national origin put them at risk. My parents applied…
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The secondary school located in President Maithripala Sirisena’s home district Polonnaruwa will be constructed using a grant of SLR 300 million from the Indian Government The secondary school will be constructed in President Maithripala Sirisena’s home district Polonnaruwa RELATED STORIES CBSE: Physical education to be made compulsory for Class 10 students Neighbourhood criteria, not a new concept: DoE Congress MP raises issue of student suicide in RS NEET UG 2017 Urdu Row: Students organisation to file petition in SC Civil aviation ministry approved mechanical and avionics aircraft courses India and Sri Lanka have entered into collaboration to build a multi-ethnic…
In 2015, the commission announced the annulment of non-NET fellowships owing to shortage of funds, which prompted nationwide protests. No fellowship to non-NET candidates RELATED STORIES CBSE: Physical education to be made compulsory for Class 10 students Neighbourhood criteria, not a new concept: DoE Congress MP raises issue of student suicide in RS NEET UG 2017 Urdu Row: Students organisation to file petition in SC Civil aviation ministry approved mechanical and avionics aircraft courses Retired professors and international students will not be allowed to attain non-NET research fellowships for MPhil and PHD programmes. The notification was announced by the University…
A senior official said that “even if the new plan is approved by the ministry and CBSE starts working on the scheme it would not” happen before 2019-20. RELATED STORIES Congress MP raises issue of student suicide in RS NEET UG 2017 Urdu Row: Students organisation to file petition in SC Civil aviation ministry approved mechanical and avionics aircraft courses Maharashtra textbook dowry shocker: Will correct it, not in power when syllabus framed, says Education Minister Why is CBSE removing its international curriculum? In a sigh of relief for all board students and their parents, the Central Board of Secondary…
Life isn’t getting any easier for holdouts on Windows XP and Vista. Google recently announced that Gmail would stop supporting Chrome version 53 and lower by the end of 2017. The move specifically impacts XP and Vista since Google capped support for both of those systems at Chrome v49. So what does this all mean for XP and Vista users? Is Gmail going to stop working in Chrome? Not exactly, but it could suck a whole lot more. The first thing that will happen, Google says, is that starting on Wednesday, February 8, a banner will appear at the top…
Plex is getting into the home automation game. The popular media management software just announced it now has an Alexa skill, as well as smart home features that turns off the lights or post a message in Slack based on an action you take with Plex. MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE Amazon Echo TECHHIVE RATING $179.99MSRP $179.99 VIEW on Amazon Amazon’s Echo is versatile and powerful; it’s a terrific value all around. Read TechHive’s full review The new Alexa skill is available now in the US and UK Alexa stores. Once you’ve activated the Plex skill, you can ask your Alexa…
The implementation of the SMB network file sharing protocol in Windows has a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to, at the very least, remotely crash systems. The unpatched vulnerability was publicly disclosed Thursday by an independent security researcher named Laurent Gaffié, who claims that Microsoft has delayed releasing a patch for the flaw for the past three months. Gaffié, who is known on Twitter as PythonResponder, published a proof-of-concept exploit for the vulnerability on GitHub, triggering an advisory from the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University. [ Further reading: Our best Windows 10 tricks, tips and tweaks.…
T-Mobile has started rolling out a new update to Samsung Galaxy Note5 and S6 edge+ units on its network. They are about 60MB in size and bring the Android security fixes for January. In addition, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge on T-Mobile are also said to be getting the patch, although the carrier is yet to update the software pages for these handsets to reflect this. The update for these devices arrives as version N910TUBU2DQA1 and N915TUBU2DQA1, respectively. source”cnbc”
Google released new Chrome Beta version and it comes with the feature called Progressive Web Apps. When a mobile site is launched and you want to “Add to Home Screen” through the Chrome options, a shortcut appears. The difference is it doesn’t act as a normal bookmark, but as an app that can draw notifications, be uninstalled and such. This is really important for users who want to use mobile site instead of downloading an app. Other new features of the Chrome Beta v57.0 are the “CSS Grid Layout” that gives developers more options of positioning various segments on media…
Samsung postponed its Galaxy S8 launch and thus left more time for rumors to thrive. According to latest leaks from an industry insider, the Galaxy S8 will come with camera with Dual ADC, which should in theory enable better color depth. The same insider also revealed availability and prices for the device. Follow 萌萌的电教 @mmddj_china S8’s CMOS may support Dual ADC.IMX204 support Dual ADC.But S8’s CMOS is not IMX204,I think.BTW,IMX204 is 20MP 1/1.7,it’s not for smartphones 5:05 PM – 1 Feb 2017 Retweets 33 likes According to the leakster South Korea and China will get devices with 6GB RAM and…