The recommendation came in November after the report came out of school children being forced to feed from the ground due to lack of plates and other utensils. No proper mid-day meal RELATED STORIES IIHMR University ties-up with Bhutan-based university to provide health science training Academia need to be part of India’s growth story instead of mere spectators: Prakash Javadekar Haryana board makes Aadhaar card mandatory for board exams 2017 CBSE extends deadline for private schools to update key information on website IIM Kashipur to announce three courses for online learners Notwithstanding the recommendation laid out by the Madhya Pradesh…
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We’re still a few weeks out from announcing our own Game(s) of the Year list, but 2016’s first Faux Video Game Oscars event happened last night: The Game Awards, the show that Geoff Keighley spun out of Spike’s old Video Game Awards. And as with every year, the awards themselves took second stage to the non-stop hype train of trailers for next year’s games. What an honor! So inside, you’ll find all of the World Exclusive Reveals™ from last night’s 2016 Game Awards. That means Mass Effect: Andromeda, Guardians of the Galaxy: A Telltale Series, and more. Bulletstorm: Full Clip The “World…
Sling TV, Twitter, YouTube, and now CBS All Access. The NFL and CBS just announced that CBS All Access subscribers can watch the network’s NFL broadcasts starting on Sunday, December 4 and continuing through the post-season—including Thursday night games. This is a multi-year deal, which means NFL on CBS will return to CBS All Access for the 2017 season beginning with the pre-season games. There are also a few extra benefits for CBS All Access subscribers. Apparently subscribers will also be able to “sample content” from NFL Game Pass beginning next season. Game Pass is the NFL’s subscription game streaming…
Yesterday, Nokia officially handed the keys to its brand to upcoming phone maker HMD, which already has plans for Android-powered phones and tablets. We looked through the leaders of the new company and it turned out that many of them had long stints at Nokia. If that isn’t enough to ease your worries that we’ll be disappointed once New Nokia phones launch try this on for size – Google had plenty of input for the new devices. Seeing how warmly the Pixels were accepted raises hopes of a return to form for Nokia handsets. Details on what was said are…
Samsung will roll out the Android Nougat update to its Galaxy A (2016) series devices as well, according to a new report. This means that the 2016 iterations of the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A7, Galaxy A8, Galaxy A9, and Galaxy A9 Pro will all get the update. There’s, however, no word on exactly when the roll-out would begin, although given that even the South Korean tech giant’s flagships haven’t received the update yet, we’re not expecting the Galaxy A (2016) Nougat update to be released anytime soon. In case you missed, Samsung has reopened registrations for the Galaxy…
LG will be launching its flagship V20 in India on December 5. The company has sent out media invites for the same. Yesterday we reported that the LG V20 was already being received by retailers. The phone is priced at INR 54,999 ($808). The V20 is the latest and greatest from LG. It has a 5.7-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB expandable storage, dual rear camera with 16 megapixel wide angle camera and 8 megapixel ultra wide angle camera, 5 megapixel wide angle front camera, 3200mAh battery, and Android 7.0 Nougat. The phone comes with complimentary B&O…
U.S. housing starts surged to a more than nine-year high in October as builders ramped up construction of both single and multifamily homes, offering hope that housing will contribute to economic growth in the fourth quarter. Groundbreaking jumped 25.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.32 million units, the highest level since August 2007, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. The percent increase was the biggest since July 1982. Starts increased in all four regions last month. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads September’s starts were unrevised at a 1.05 million-unit rate. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast housing…
Yellen: I intend to serve full term as Fed chairThursday, 17 Nov 2016 | 10:28 AM ET | 03:08 Forget all that talk about Janet Yellen stepping down if Donald Trump becomes president: The Fed chair told Congress on Thursday she’s not leaving. Trump has been critical of the central bank leader and has suggested that he would replace her at some point. He once told CNBC that Yellen should be “ashamed” of her actions, saying her policies were political positions to help President Barack Obama. Amid expectations that the president-elect would step up political pressure on the Fed after…
Alex Wong | Getty Images Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee September 28, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Fed Chair Janet Yellen made news Thursday morning by telling a Joint Economic hearing on Capitol Hill that she isn’t stepping down just because President-elect Donald Trump has been one of her harshest public critics. But if Trump critics are hoping this means Yellen will stand as a major opponent to Trump’s eventual policies, they need to think again. History and Washington’s realities tell us that Yellen will probably toe…
Tougher banking regulations put into effect since the Great Recession have lowered the chances of another financial crisis, but they odds are still much too high, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari told CNBC on Thursday. Based on an analysis of data from the International Monetary Fund on past crises, Kashkari said on “Squawk Box” the odds of another bust over the next century are now 67 percent, down from 84 percent. “I think if most Americans knew that they’d say that’s ridiculous. That’s much too high,” he said. Kashkari, who unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for governor of California…