Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said two-time MVP Stephen Curry will start Friday’s Game 3 against the New Orleans Pelicans. Curry, returning from a knee injury, came off the bench in his playoff debut Tuesday, scoring 28 points in the Warriors’ 121-116 win over the Pelicans. “Oh yeah, yeah, he’ll start Game 3,” Kerr said Wednesday on 95.7 The Game. “You don’t keep a guy like that on the bench for long. … He’ll be in the starting lineup.” Curry suffered a sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his left knee on March 23 and missed 15 games, including the first round…
Author: Loknath Das
New Delhi: Tata Motors Finance has upped its disbursements in new vehicle business by 59 percent from Rs 8,670 crore in FY17 to Rs 13,792 crore in FY18. This growth has been driven by Tata Motors volumes, improvement in average ticket size of loans, introduction of various financing schemes and increase in market share, according to a media statement. The company’s Assets under management increased by 27 percent to Rs 22,551 crore in FY18. Collection performance improved leading to reduction in GNPApercentage to 4.7 percent as on March 2018 against 9.8 percent as on March 2017. Profit before tax stood at Rs 358 crore while profit after tax accounted for…
China-led AIIB is not a “threat” to the Asian Development Bank and both the institutions can cooperate to meet the large investment needs across Asia, ADB President Takehiko Nakao said today. Speaking at a news conference to kick-start the bank’s annual meeting, Nakao said the ongoing trade dispute between countries is a matter of “concern” and “utmost efforts” should be made to keep economies open in terms of trade and investment. With the Manila-based multilateral lender developing a long-term strategy- ‘Strategy 2030’- to deal with the changing dynamics in the way Asian countries need finances and assistance to come out…
Privacy is something of a Marmite concept. Some cling to it in their personal lives, others let their activities and opinions all hang out on social media (not to mention in their back gardens). Some see it as the key bulwark against oppression, others as an impediment to protecting law-abiding citizens from criminals. The concept is big news, in the wake of the scandal over Cambridge Analytica’s alleged use of Facebook data – gathered by an academic – to influence voters in the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election. The European Commission, which has always valued privacy highly, is…
Andrew Cuomo all but declared war on the teachers union when he ran for governor of New York eight years ago. The centrist Democrat, who was the state attorney general at the time, campaigned on cutting education spending and capping property taxes (which fund public schools). He supported charter schools, which are publicly financed but privately run and typically don’t employ unionized teachers. The major teachers union in the state declined to endorse him; he won, nonetheless. When Cuomo unveiled his first budget, the union-backed Alliance for Quality Education released a video featuring its spokesperson—a familiar, telegenic woman standing in a home kitchen. “New York State has a budget to balance,…
What price can you put on a child’s education? It depends on who that child is. New figures show the average fee for attending a top private school has now risen above £17,000 a year for the first time. In contrast, a child attending a state school in England can expect to have £4,000 to £6,000 spent on them, depending on location and additional allowances. This would be worrying in any circumstances but when we have crumbling and cramped state schools, it feels almost grotesque. While some children enjoy drama halls and swimming pools, others are trying to learn surrounded by leaks,…
Social media managers take note: The Stories format Snapchat invented and Facebook ripped-off is on track to eclipse the ubiquitous News Feed format. According to a new report from social media agency Block Party, more than 970 million accounts across Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Facebook Messenger currently consume or create Stories every day, an 842 percent increase since early 2016. From the second quarter of 2016 through the third quarter of 2017, the top 3 Stories products (Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat) grew 15 times faster than the top News Feed platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter). “While Feeds generated a healthy 28 percent growth, that pales…
It’s undeniable that people stare at their phone screens too much. In fact, a Nielsen study found that the average adult spends five and a half hours every week on social media. That’s nearly 12 full days every year. If that doesn’t scare you enough, a lot of us are now addicted to social media. The rush of dopamine you get from likes, comments and retweets is actually rewiring your brain to crave Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To test if you’re at risk for addiction, ask yourself: Do you feel like social media is keeping you from doing your best work or living up to your full…
China’s push to cleanse its internet of unsavory elements appears to have claimed an unlikely victim, with thousands of videos of children’s cartoon program “Peppa Pig”reportedly culled from a video app. Douyin, an online video platform owned by technology firm Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., removed all trace of the British TV show, the state-run China Dailyreported on Tuesday. The app had previously carried more than 30,000 videos related to Peppa Pig, according to state media. Searches of the Douyin app for the program — which follows the adventures of a young cartoon pig and her family — yielded no results on Wednesday.…
Imagine paying over $900 to a government agency just to be allowed to blog. This is what the government of Tanzania wants to require of its citizens. The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority has given all online content providers until May 5 to submit massive amounts of documentation to earn state approval for what the Internet has always given for free. If you can’t pony up details of shareholders, share capital, citizenship of owners, staff qualifications, training programs and a tax clearance certificate, you risk a fine of at least $2,200 and/or a year-long prison sentence. While the rest of the progressive world is considering…