Textbooks of government-run schools in Uttar Pradesh will now be available online for teachers and students who may download it on their smart phones. The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has uploaded the e-books on its official website (www.scertup.co.in) where it can be downloaded free of cost. For the benefit of visually-impaired students, there is also a provision where they may listen to the text of these books by clicking on the audio option. Presently, there are 105 textbooks prescribed in UP government schools out of which 25 e-books are already available. The process of uploading of…
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The first week in DU is like being thrust into a different dimension. There’s much to do and explore, and the usually ‘pumped’ fucchas like to take up everything as soon as they can. But where does one start? Well, that is where we come in. Decoding the first week in the varsity for fucchas, we’ve listed down 10 points that you can take a hint from. ORIENTATION EXPERIENCE You’d probably think of skipping this (since it’s much like a school assembly), but we’d recommend you to actually not skip it at all. Orientation is a great time to…
Nintendo Switch smash hit The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gets its first downloadable content (DLC) pack this week. Dubbed as The Master Trials, here’s everything you need to know. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Master Trials DLC release date Master Trials will be available for download on the Nintendo eShop from Friday, June 30. You will need The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Season Pass or Expansion Pass as it’s also known, to access it. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Master Trials DLC price Unlike other DLC, you can’t buy the Master Trials separately.…
The Central Intelligence Agency admitted this week that it had been compromised for months in 2013 by a network of high-tech snack thieves. A report released this week shows the premier US intelligence body discovered that insider hackers had stolen more than $3,300 worth of potato chips, chocolate bars and other snacks from its vending machines. The culprits weren’t undercover agents or veteran Al-Qaeda chasers, but instead “contractors” – of which the CIA has thousands, doing everything from terror analysis to servicing the machines that answer American spies’ junk food needs. A CIA Inspector General’s report on the candy cabal…
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at VidCon on Thursday announced an all-new video format VR180 that will make VR content creation slightly easier for creators. Google has also confirmed that the Daydream team is working with several manufacturers to build cameras from the ground up for VR180 video format. The company says that the new VR180 video will ensure what’s in front of the user is high resolution, and “look great on desktop and on mobile.” YouTube’s main focus is to boost VR with the new video format as it can be seen on phones with regular 2D screens as well…
Shortly after the official launch of OnePlus 5 last week, the biggest story on the Internet was how the company was claimed to manipulate synthetic benchmark scores with its latest flagship smartphone by an investigative report. While the company’s initial response to the matter was far from convincing, the latest real world speed test comparison has revealed that the OnePlus 5 might actually have the hardware that can back the company’s tall claims to some degree. Separately, a Mint Gold colour variant of the smartphone has also been spotted getting clearance at a Chinese certification site. In a speed comparison…
Now that the Delhi University has announced its first list of cutoffs for admission in its colleges, all that is standing between applicants and a seat in their preferred college is your ‘best four’ score. Students have until June 28 to visit colleges and secure a seat in these highly sought-after colleges. However, one must first calculate the ‘best four’ score to ascertain if they have cleared the cutoff grade to be eligible for one of the 56,000 seats available in 63 DU colleges. DU asks its students to calculate the aggregate of the ‘best four’ subjects, to see if they qualify…
Gear up to grab a seat at their dream college as Delhi University (DU) released its first cutoff list on Friday evening. The admission process for the first cutoff list will be on from June 24 to June 28, following which the university will release its second list on July 1. HT spoke to a few DU students who shared their experience of struggling to find the way to offices in colleges, losing their original certificates to hiring e-rickshaw drivers as guardians to get rooms in hostels. Many students recounted the first day of admission to be full of struggle. “The first day…
The first day of admissions at most Delhi University colleges, under the first cut-off list, was a slow affair with many colleges recording only a handful of admissions. The process was also plagued with issues of payment, as the portal was not working earlier in the day. Some applicants, despite meeting the required cut-off, could not confirm their seats as they could not get the printout of the college form on time. One such applicant was Bindu Patnana from Chhattisgarh, who waited the entire morning for her DU college form, but in vain. “I will now have to extend my…
The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday, June 20, released version 10 of the Unicode Standard, adding emoji counterparts of a T-Rex and Stephen Colbert’s signature quizzical look, which sees one eyebrow raised as if to depict a kind of doubtfulness. Unicode 10 Now Released The release of Unicode 10 also means that code points required for the new batch of emoji have now been finalized and considered as stable enough for major device manufacturers, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Samsung, to include in their software. What Kind Of Emoji Are Included? The promised batch of emoji contains 56 in all, which…