WHAT HAPPENS WHEN your drop your phone and shatter the screen? Or when its battery starts to grow noticeably weaker? These common technological woes are things that you should be able to remedy yourself—just buy some parts, get some tools, and fix your device. But it’s not that simple. Gadget manufacturers have been increasingly restricting access to the parts, tools, and ... Read More »
Author Archives: Loknath Das
Sri Lanka Blocked Social Media Services Following the Deadly Easter Attacks
Sri Lankan authorities have blocked most social media services in the country following the Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 200 people, a group that monitors internet censorship said. The NetBlocks observatory said it detected an intentional nationwide blackout of popular services including Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and Viber. Sri Lankan officials said they were temporarily blocking social media to ... Read More »
India’s 21st Century Education Imperative
Each year, over 20 million students enrol for a graduate degree in India. But as the quality of education in these institutions differs, the race to join the country’s top academic institutions is intense. In fact, with an acceptance rate of only 0.7per cent, IIT JEE has earned the reputation of being the toughest entrance exam in the world. Concerns ... Read More »
Do We Really Need It? On The Excess Of Technology
One of the banes of listicle journalism is the outright promotion of goods that we are told that we “must have.” Are you sick of being told about the ten or twenty “must-have gadgets” that you just “can’t live without”? Thankfully, due to limited time and finances, most of us are doing just fine, breathing and walking about planet earth ... Read More »
Radical Transparency: How One Distiller Uses Social Media To Change Rum
Foursquare distiller Richard Seale uses Facebook as a tool to share his views on rum, which are many. GETTY Social media has been an increasingly utilized tool for consumers dispensing harsh opinions. But when it comes to corporations or executives doing the criticizing, the verdict has yet to be rendered. Should owners of companies call out consumers in live social ... Read More »
Is social media addiction breaking up marriages in UAE?
Top reasons for divorce included infidelity, lack of communication, job loss, social media, and unrealistic expectations. Social media addiction is taking a toll on family life, with husbands and wives glued to their phones instead of interacting with each other and their children. And, according to a judicial official in Abu Dhabi, this lack of real communication at home has ... Read More »
7 Ways Technology can Help you Grow Business Effectively
Latest technological innovations are the edge that really needs to grow and to boost the revenues ultimately. Using the latest business technology and innovations, small business owners and companies can leverage limited financial resources and capital in smart and most effective ways to get more sales. From resources management to business marketing, there are countless ways, technology can help you ... Read More »
Opinion | Education should be India’s most important electoral issue
You may be 18, scrambling to get into a college or hunting for a course that can help you get a job quickly. You may be a young parent, worried about your child’s admission to school or feeling helpless with the poor attention given to her in school. You may be middle aged, getting crushed by the struggle to pay ... Read More »
Tech view: Nifty50 forms ‘Inside Bar’; market vulnerable to selloff
NEW DELHI: Nifty50 jumped in late trade on Tuesday and eventually formed a bullish candle on the daily chart. That said, the trading range did not expand and was within the previous session’s high-low range. With the advance-decline ratio still in favour of the bears, upsides, in any, remained vulnerable to selloffs. The index may need to move past the ... Read More »
Education gave this Yavatmal woman’s life a new direction
Shubhangi Jirapure with her son Om. (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo) Shubhangi was 23, with a 13-month old son, when her husband Sanjay Jirapure, 27, committed suicide in 2006. Sanjay was a farmer from Kheda village of Karanja tehsil in Washim district. He had 9.5 acres of land, but did not get any yield that year. He had a farm loan of ... Read More »