The Jammu and Kashmir government lashed out on Saturday at Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat over his remarks about schools in the state, saying the ‘well-decorated officer’ should not give sermons on issues that are not in his domain. The state government’s retort was in response to Rawat’s statement that schools in the state were teaching two maps — India’s and Jammu and Kashmir’s — to the students, which he said was radicalising youth. Rawat’s statement was criticised on social media with many pointing out that students in all schools in the country are taught two maps, the country’s and the state’s.…
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The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday hit back at Army chief General Bipin Rawat over his remark that government schools in the state are spreading a “disinformation campaign” which is radicalising the youth, saying the Army’s “meddling” in the state’s affairs was unacceptable. Minister for Education Syed Altaf Bukhari denied reports that the education system of the state was driving students toward radicalisation. Mr Rawat, in a press conference held on Friday, said each classroom in government schools in Jammu and Kashmir has a separate map of the state besides that of India which sowed the seeds of thought…
While notebooks and TVs have been the primary mainstay of CES 2018, Nokia has ultimately stepped in with its unique heath product that it called Nokia Sleep. As its name suggests, the new device is a mattress pad that has an “advanced” sensor to help you monitor your sleep cycles as well as control the lights and thermostats available in your room – all without getting out of bed. The new Wi-Fi-enabled pad works with Nokia’s Health Mate app and also has an integration with automation app IFTTT. It will start shipping in the first quarter of this year with a price…
Kodak, which traces its roots to the early days of film-based photography, is getting into the digital licensing and cryptocurrency market as part of a partnership with WENN Digital. The companies are launching blockchain technology with KodakOne and KodakCoin. Blockchain is a ledger where transactions of digital currencies, like Bitcoin, are recorded. Rochester, New York-based Kodak, founded in 1880, is the latest company to enter the cryptocurrency market as Bitcoin makes gains. Bitcoin has surged from less than $1,000 (roughly Rs. 63,000) a year ago to more than $14,000 (roughly Rs. 8,91,000). Recently, Long Island Iced Tea said it plans to change its…
D-Link has announced the launch of a new range of routers and security cameras at CES 2018. The highlight of the announcement is the DIR-2680 Wi-Fi router that offers protection for IoT devices. Apart from that, D-Link has also unveiled other products such as two mesh networking systems, a couple of Ultra Wi-Fi routers, an LTE security camera, and other standard Wi-Fi cameras. D-Link DIR-2680 Router Developed to protect IoT products, the DIR-2680 router uses McAfee’s Global Threat Intelligence to scout for threats regularly. It also incorporates the Intel Home Wi-Fi WAV500 series to provide Wi-Fi connectivity for up to 128 connected…
Bugsnag, the cloud service that helps developers find bugs inside their software, announced a $9 million Series B today. They also released a new version of their dashboard that features a stability score than can give customers an unbiased grade of the current stability of their software. Let’s look at the funding first. Investors included first-timer GV (formerly Google Ventures) joining existing investors Matrix Partners and Benchmark Capital. Today’s investment brings the total raised to over $17 million, according to data on Crunchbase.The company’s Series A was $7.2 million in July, 2015. Bugsnag analyzes the code using a set of software development…
1. Social media vs reality In 2017, roughly a third of the 7.6 billion global population were social-media users, and about a quarter had Facebook accounts. This isn’t a dramatic increase from 2016, but still. Social media is big, and it’s changing the world. In a literal sense, augmented reality has altered the way people experience the world. Admittedly, its main manifestation in 2017 was people of all ages searching the streets for Pokémon characters, and the anti-climactic launch of Snapchat’s spectacles. But the AR/VR arms race is undoubtedly on, with Apple and Google investing furiously in this technology. Then…
The US reality star Kim Kardashian is known for the pictures she keeps sharing on the internet. Every post of her somehow gets viral on the social media. The Kardashian family makes headlines every now then, whether it’s the Jenner sisters or their mother, Kris Jenner. Other than the gossips about their show ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’, fans totally look forward to their Instagram and Twitter posts. Kendall Jenner was recently in the news after she was seen at ‘The Golden Globes’ event in her black flowy gown. And now, the elder sister, Kim Kardashian, has broken the internet…
Also known as the small-cap effect, this refers to a theory which states that shares of companies with smaller market capitalisation usually offer higher returns to investors than large-cap stocks. One of the reasons is that smaller firms generally have greater growth opportunities ahead of them, which in turn leads to a greater appreciation of their stock prices. The small firm effect was famously studied by Nobel laureate Eugene Fama and Kenneth French in their 1992 paper “The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns”. Source:-thehindu
The premier of Western Australia, Mark McGowan, has abandoned a plan to close the School of the Air and reversed other education funding cuts after a campaign led by the National party, which said the proposal was unfair to regional areas. McGowan announced the reversal on Thursday, saying: “upon reflection we realise we took it too far when it comes to education services and we now need to get the balance right.” The move reverses the funding cuts to the School of the Air, the gifted and talented program, and Northam College, which provides accommodation to out-of-town students at the wheat-belt town.…