Rumita Patel
Uber has launched a number of safety initiatives and features as part of its UberSAFE campaign in India, in a bid to ensure customers have a safe ride. The features include the Share My Trip option, which allows drivers to share the trip information with family without divulging the drop-off information. These features have been rolled…
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India is expected to release in September a request for information to Saab and Lockheed Martin for the production of single-engine fighter aircraft in partnership with a domestic private company as part of the Make in India program, Defense News reported Monday. The South Asian country’s defense ministry expects Lockheed and Saab to respond to…
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Exhausted of hearing news on farmer suicides, drought impacting agri output, pest attack leading to crop loss and many more news on anguish in Indian farming. Time is changing certainly, technological advancement in farming is ready to revolutionize Indian farming by 2020. Yes, you’re reading it right – Sensors, Automation and Engineering are going to…
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Meet Melanie Barboni, an assistant researcher in the UCLA Earth, Planetary and Space Science program, who is also known as the ‘hummingbird whisperer’. She built a community of 200 hummingbirds who live outside her office and come to complain if she’s late to serve their dinner. Barboni has always been a bit obsessed with hummingbirds…
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Economic Times View: Here is how demonetisation is a big successEconomic TimesBy R Sriram On the morning of November 9, 2016, the mood of the nation could be summed up in one word: Bewilderment. PM Narendra Modi’s decision to cancel the tender of 85 per cent of currency in circulation was greeted with delight in…
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India Today MS Dhoni is a DRS genius: Memorable moments from the legend’s 300th ODIIndia TodayMS Dhoni was spot on with the DRS as India pushed Sri Lanka on the backfoot in the fourth ODI at Colombo. Rajarshi Gupta · [email protected] August 31, 2017 | UPDATED 20:00 IST. A +A -. (Reuters photo) …Virat Kohli, Rohit…
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Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas is well-researched and easy to read, especially for a non-legal audience. Analysis of the clause in India’s patent law that allows for rejecting patents on minor inventions that do not significantly improve efficacy – narrowly interpreted by the Supreme Court in the Novartis case as therapeutic efficacy – falls…
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Under the premiership of Narendra Modi, India’s culture of one-party dominance is violating both standard operating procedures and dharma to get the better of its political rivals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspecting the Guard of Honour at Red Fort, on the occasion of 71st Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2017. Credit: pmoindia.gov.in Seventy years ago,…
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It seems that the Ministry of Communications, on August 7th 2017, issued (and notified) rules for shutting of telecom services – and by extension, the shutting down of Internet services in India. The notification for the rules is available here, issued under the Telegraph Act. The Lowdown 1. Who can issue such an order? Central government:…
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On the heels of Trump’s unhinged Phoenix rally, Alec Baldwin made a triumphant return to SNL’s Weekend Update to discuss all of his most recent controversies (video below). Baldwin hit Trump on the solar eclipse, the Charlottesville pro-white rally, the government shutdown, the departure of Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and his infamous and unpopular wall…
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