Suppose you have two loans. The first is a student loan of $40,000 with an interest rate of 6 percent, and the second is a credit-card balance of $12,000 with an interest rate of 11 percent. You find that at the end of each month, you have about $1,000 left over, and you want to use it to pay down the principal on your debts. That’s sensible. So how much do you put toward each loan? The rational thing to do would be to pay off the 11 percent loan before even starting to repay the 6 percent loan. This…
Author: Loknath Das
When Iranian authorities cracked down on the internet this month in an attempt to suppress unrest, tech entrepreneur Milad Nouri did what he has grown accustomed to doing: He found a way around the censors. Like other Iranians dependent on the web, Nouri was at first set back when the Supreme National Security Council restricted access to social media applications and servers commonly used to bypass Iran’s cloistered internet. “We weren’t able to communicate to our users and we lost payments,” Nouri said. PAID POST WHAT IS THIS? Dr. Gundry reveals the No. 1 toxic vegetable you should never eat. Watch…
Millions of Americans use social media daily. But that doesn’t mean they love it. Or so they say. Some of the most-used social media products in the world — Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram — are also some of the ones that Americans have strong negative feelings about, according to a recent Harris Poll that surveyed more than 2,000 U.S. adults online last month. Case in point: Twitter. The service has 330 million monthly active users around the world, as of last September, and the U.S. president uses it to threaten nuclear war and blast the news media. Most people — 89…
Amid the cascade of revelations from Michael Wolff’s incendiary book about the Trump administration, one Twitter user posted a screenshot Thursday night of what looked like an especially stunning excerpt. It described how the president, on his first night in office, had complained that White House televisions did not carry “the gorilla channel” and that Trump spent hours a day watching gorilla programming his staff subsequently produced to satisfy his simian appetite. The excerpt, of course, was satire. But that was not clear to the countless people who spread it like wildfire across the internet, where the gag commingled with actual…
The island is blackened; a red ribbon tangled among a single tree’s branches. A blocky person stands on a rock contemplating death; the red ribbon draped around its neck. Candles line the perimeter of the rotating platform, though none are lit. After a bit of time, a terrifying dark settles in. It’s a polygonal vignette that seeps of disturbing imagery, though it’s not without reason. Kurt Young and Nikola Kostic, of Mokuni Games and KBros Games, respectively, created Jukai: Ocean of Trees in 2016. You can see the game in action above and download it here. (Chih-Tang Chang, also of Mokuni Games, did…
Government has appointed Arif Ahmed Khan as secretary of Ministry of Finance, Geo News reported Saturday. Khan was presently serving as secretary of Economic Affairs Division and has also served as secretary interior. The post had fallen vacant after the previous secretary, Shahid Mehmood, retired. However, reports emerged that Mehmood will be appointed as an adviser to the finance minister. This is not the only change the ministry has undergone in the last three months or so. On December 26, last year, Member National Assembly Rana Muhammad Afzal took oath as Minister of State of Finance, in a ceremony held…
SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande has slammed President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of free tertiary education during his address at the Joe Slovo commemoration held at the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto on Saturday morning. Nzimande, the former Minister of higher education who was in the spotlight during #FeesMustFall protests, said while the move was welcomed, there was no indication where the money would be coming from. “It is very important the announcement made by Zuma must be clarified as a matter of urgency. If we don’t handle this correctly, a train is coming,” he said. “Can we afford free Higher Education,…
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is popular the world over and India is no exception. So much so that barely 10 months after hitting Steam, India’s first official PUBG tournament is here and it’s called the PUBG India Open. The PUBG India Open is being run by GamingMonk — a Delhi-based e-sports company. It claims that there’s an active userbase of around 1,00,000 to 2,00,000 PUBG players in India on Steam and is running the PUBG India Open with PUBG Corp’s blessing. Up to 400 players will compete in the PUBG India Open which takes place on January 7 from 3pm IST.…
Microsoft India has revealed the Xbox One X price and release date for India. The Xbox One X is the company’s answer to Sony’s PS4 Pro, it’s a souped up, more powerful version of the Xbox One and Xbox One S. The Xbox India website lists the Xbox One X India price as Rs. 44,990 (approximately $710) with a release date of January 15, 2018. Internationally the console costs $499 (around Rs. 32,000). At the moment, the console is available in the grey market for around Rs. 38,000 to Rs. 42,000. The Xbox One X can be pre-ordered from Flipkart and Amazon although links…
Apart from successfully managing high school and intermediate examinations involving over 67 lakh students this year, the UP Board now has an additional responsibility. The board has been approached by the government of Nepal for “support and guidance” to its newly established National Examination Board of Nepal after it was impressed with its expertise in accommodating lakhs of students. The Nepal board, formed last year through an amendment to country’s Education Act, 1971, will now be conducting the high school and Intermediate examinations in the country instead of Nepal’s Higher Education Examination Board. UP Board officials have shared various details…