Mandip Singh Brar, UT Deputy Commissioner Ramkrishan Upadhyay Tribune News Service Chandigarh, April 13 While the Labour Department of the UT Administration has started the online registration of shops and has made it mandatory, initial glitches in the software has left traders harassed, who have failed to upload the required documents. As per rules, the traders have to renew the registration every year by April. However, due to the technical glitch in the software, a large number of traders are yet to get their registration renewed. Failure to the get the registration renewed invites a penalty. Traders met Deputy Commissioner…
Author: Loknath Das
Disney CEO Bob Iger delivered a scalding rebuke of social media at a dinner at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, where he was honored with its 2019 Humanitarian Award. “Hitler would have loved social media,” Iger said at Wednesday’s event, according to Variety. “It’s the most powerful marketing tool an extremist could ever hope for because by design social media reflects a narrow world view filtering out anything that challenges our beliefs while constantly validating our convictions and amplifying our deepest fears.” Iger’s criticism follows that of regulators and lawmakers around the world. Over the past two days, representatives from tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google have been called…
Carleton Coffrin, a computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, developed the Severe Contingency Solver software to help government agencies better plan for power outages caused by extreme events. The software is now available publicly. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory A new, free, open-source software reliably predicts how damage from hurricanes, ice storms, earthquakes, and other extreme events will restrict power delivery from utility grids. The Severe Contingency Solver for Electric Power Transmission is the only software available—commercially or open-source—that reliably supports analysis of extreme events that cause widespread damage. “The software was designed specifically to address extreme events where…
Jay Tank, 25, is self-employed and earns about Rs 1 lakh a month. He lives with his homemaker wife and parents in their house, in Navsari, Gujarat. Given the early start to financial planning, his portfolio is meagre. It comprises cash of Rs 82,000, and equity in the form of mutual funds worth Rs 1.75 lakh and stocks worth Rs 1.02 lakh. In fact, his net worth is currently in the negative due to a car loan of Rs 9 lakh, for which Tank is paying an EMI of Rs 14,500. His goals include building an emergency corpus, saving for his future…
One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In order to keep coming up with new characters to summon, so as to entice players to keep summoning them and possibly buying premium currency to do so, Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents turn to history to fill out their rosters. That’s how you end up with Sexy Anime George Washington. Outstream Video 00:00…
India’s higher education system is the world’s third largest in terms of students, next to China and the United States.(HT file) India’s higher education system is the world’s third largest in terms of students, next to China and the United States. According to a research conducted by a private university in Lucknow, in future, India will be one of the largest education hubs. India’s Higher Education sector has witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of Universities/University level Institutions & Colleges since independence. The ‘Right to Education Act’ which stipulates compulsory and free education to all children within the age…
MUMBAI: Non-banking financeNSE 0.12 % company L&T Finance is looking to raise up to Rs 1,000 crore through an issue of non-convertible debentures. The base size of the issue, which is the second tranche, is Rs 500 crore with an option to retain oversubscription of up to Rs 500 crore, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. In the second tranche, the company is offering bondsmaturing in 3, 5 and 8 years offering a coupon of 8.48-9.05 per cent, it said. Company Summary NSE BSE Larsen & Toubro Ltd. -20.80 (-1.48%) Power Finance Corpor… 0.15 (0.12%) “Net proceeds of the issue will…
There’s no question that the crypto industry has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past year, regardless of persisting bear trend that has sent overall market sentiment towards rock bottom. One indication of this growth has been the large and growing trend of social media giants entering the industry, and because social media companies operate on the forefront of the general public, their quickness to adopt crypto may signal a bigger trend of growing mainstream adoption. Report: Russian Social Media Giant VKontakte (VK) Developing Own Crypto According to a recent report from Russian news outlet RNS, VKontakte (VK) –…
School funding per pupil has fallen by 8% in real terms over the past eight years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Photograph: Julian Claxton/Alamy Teachers at a cash-strapped primary school have volunteered to take a £7,000-a-year pay cut to save the jobs of colleagues. Schools across the country are so short of funds that headteachers are being forced to make drastic cutbacks. In a stark example of the funding squeeze, Furzedown primary school, in the south London borough of Wandsworth, had instigated a series of measures to balance its books and was facing the possibility of making redundancies. But…
SAN FRANCISCO: Adobe Inc and MicrosoftCorp are partnering to bolster each other’s sales and marketing software capabilities, taking aim at common rival Salesforce.com Inc, they said on Tuesday. Adobe and Microsoft hope to make it easier for users of Adobe’s marketing software to find and target teams of potential customers for business goods on LinkedIn, the social network owned by Microsoft, they said at a conference in Las Vegas. If an Adobe customer is selling medical equipment to a hospital, for example, the new partnership would make it easier to target tailored LinkedIn ads to all of the people involved in the…