Technology, Mobiles tabs, 18th Feb 2020, News & Stories from India

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Technology Mobiles & Tabs 18 Feb 2020

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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee meets governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

In a sign of thaw, Mamata Banerjee meets governor Jagdeep Dhankar

At around 11.55 am the chief minister reached the Raj Bhavan and met Mr Dhankhar.

18 Feb 2020 2:07 AM

Delhi court sends Sharjeel Imam to one-day police custody

The court granted custody to the police after Imam was interrogated in the court for half-an-hour.

18 Feb 2020 2:03 AM

Madhya Pradesh Congress seeks Rajya Sabha berth for Priyanka Gandhi

The ruling Congress and Opposition BJP are in a position to send one candidate each to the Rajya Sabha.

18 Feb 2020 2:03 AM

Delhi lieutenant-governor Anil Baijal greets AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal after he took oath as the chief minister of Delhi for the third consecutive time at a ceremony at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Arvind Kejriwal takes charge, all ministers retain portfolios

CM Kejriwal will not be taking charge of any department, instead he will be directly overseeing the work of all ministers.

18 Feb 2020 2:00 AM

Now, slipper thrown at Kanhaiya Kumar in Bihar, 1 held

The incident occurred while Mr Kumar was addressing a public meeting at Lakhisarai in Bihar.

18 Feb 2020 1:59 AM

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananada Sonowal (Photo: PTI)

Assam govt moves Centre for NPR exercise in state

The NPR exercise is different from the decennial census. The NPR is a register of the “usual residents” of the country.

18 Feb 2020 1:56 AM

Bengal govt to provide Z-plus security to Prashant Kishor

Kishor would now be escorted by a team of commandoes armed with tactical weapons, sources revealed.

18 Feb 2020 1:55 AM

Moody’s peer Fitch Ratings had last month cut the country’s GDP growth forecast for 2019-20 fiscal year to 4.6 per cent and said growth would recover to 5.6 per cent in FY21.

Moody’s cuts 2020 growth to 5.4 per cent

Moody's growth projections are based on calendar year and as per its estimates, India’s GDP grew 5 per cent in 2019.

18 Feb 2020 1:54 AM

Union minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah welcomes Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM-Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi after he merged his party with the BJP in Ranchi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Hours after BJP-JVM merger, 2 MLAs join Congress

Both MLAs Pradeep Yadav and Bandhu Tirkey suspended from JVM last month.

18 Feb 2020 1:51 AM

Prema Gopalan: A silent crusader in rural India

Today, several thousand women among those severely affected by the tragedy are recognised as transformational leaders.

18 Feb 2020 1:50 AM

Smoke billows out of the GST Bhavan after a fire broke out on its eighth floor in Mazgaon, Mumbai on Monday. (Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

Massive fire engulfs GST Bhavan; scores evacuated

The fire broke out on the 8th floor of the GST Bhavan and gutted the 9th floor as well.

18 Feb 2020 1:48 AM

Isro scientists Muthayya Vanitha, project director, and Ritu Karidhal, mission director of the Chandrayaan-2 mission.

Changing trajectories: More women needed in science, tech, engineering, maths in India

There are also hidden contributions where the work that women did was attributed to their male colleagues or supervisors.

18 Feb 2020 1:48 AM

Congress leaders in a Twitter spat on Delhi results

It all began with the Mumbai Congress leader praising Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in a tweet.

18 Feb 2020 1:46 AM

Mystic Mantra: Creation is nothing but a manifestation of God

To establish in this state of oneness, we can start perceiving and attributing everything as manifestation of the supreme divinity.

18 Feb 2020 1:44 AM

The Labour MP has been a bitter critic of New Delhi’s move last year to revoke Article 370 that granted a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking on the developments, Indian government sources told this newspaper: “Ms Abrahams was not in possession of a valid Indian visa when she landed. It had been conveyed to her in advance well before she boarded a flight to India that her visa had been revoked. Despite that, she chose to board the flight. It was also a mistake of the concerned airline.” (Photo: PTI)

British MP critical of J&K policy denied entry, deported

Ms Abrahams has been a member of Parliament since 2011 and was said to have come on what was to have been a two-day personal trip to India.

18 Feb 2020 1:40 AM

Because viruses, along with making us sick and occasionally killing us, have helped us evolve.

In the future, viruses may well be hailed as saviours, not scourges

But amidst all the panic and apocalyptic fear-mongering, we forget the debt that we owe viruses.

18 Feb 2020 1:38 AM

Give women command: Supreme Court to Army

The court gave the Union government three months’ time to comply with its directions.

18 Feb 2020 1:37 AM

Hate speech is not a punishable offence, and is protected under the First Amendment.

Not ‘just words’: How to counter hate speech

The argument then, that hate speech cannot be penalised is therefore a common one.

18 Feb 2020 1:36 AM

Shaheen Bagh: SC seeks lawyers’ help; says protest, but don’t blockade

The right to protest is recognised the world over in democracies, especially in India.

18 Feb 2020 1:32 AM

A paradigm shift is needed on discourse in public life

No one is without sin, yet those who criticise their rivals are often the same people who would have committed far worse deeds.

18 Feb 2020 1:29 AM

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