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On Tuesday, 16 October Allahabad was officially renamed as Prayagraj. The decision was taken by the Uttar Pradesh cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The city was given its name by Mughal emperor Akbar, who called it ‘Illahabad’, and has been called Allahabad for a long time now. The change of name has […]
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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had on Saturday, 13 October, announced that Allahabad would be renamed ‘Prayagraj’ ahead of the Kumbh Mela, should a broad consensus be arrived at on the subject, reported ANI. Speaking to reporters, Yogi had said: “It might be the wish of many people that Allahabad be renamed as Prayagraj. I think […]
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TV producer Vinta Nanda has recently accused the lead actor of Tara, Alok Nath of raping her almost 19 years ago. Queen director, Vikas Bahl has also been accused of sexual assault by an ex-employee of the now dissolved Phantom Films. Filmmakers Sajid Khan and Subhash Ghai have also been accused by women of sexual harassment and assault. And […]
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Soon after allegations of sexual harassment against Tanmay Bhat and Gursimran Khamba, co-founders of All India Bakchod were made public, online streaming platform Hotstar cancelled their production of season 3 of ‘On Air with AIB’ on Monday, 8 October. Hotstar Tweeted the message on 8 Oct saying : “In light of recent events involving AIB, […]
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Sri Lanka, is like an aircraft carrier guarding all seven east-west gateways to the Indian Ocean that criss-cross sea lanes of communication, 10 to 12 nautical miles from the country’s southern coast. Nearly 100,000 ships transit annually, two thirds of the world’s oil shipments, one third of bulk cargo and half the world’s container traffic […]
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On Tuesday, 2 October Rahul Gandhi, while addresing a rally in Maharashtra’s Wardha , slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the government’s alleged unfulfilled promises in the backdop. “While Mahatma Gandhi wanted to unite India, PM Modi wants to divide us,” said Gandhi in the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. Taking to Twitter on the […]
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Hundreds and Thousands of farmers, marching as part of the ‘Kisan Kranti Padyatra’, were stopped at the Delhi-UP border on Tuesday, 2 October, with the police using water cannons and tear gas shells to disperse them. The Congress, along with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, expressed solidarity with the protesting farmers. […]
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Best Buy has recently sold the unannounced product to a customer accidentally who picked it up off the shelf, via AndroidPolice. Now Google’s annual fall hardware event is planned for October 9th, where we’ll see the official announcement of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL on top of the usual slate of Google-made hardware upgrades. The customer, who posted […]
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It has been recently reported that California Governor Jerry Brown has recently signed a cybersecurity law covering “smart” devices, making California the first state with such a law. The bill, SB-327, was introduced last year and passed the state senate in late August. Starting on January 1st, 2020, any manufacturer of a device that connects “directly […]
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Today Facebook revealed a security flaw that could have allowed hackers or other malicious third parties to access an affected user’s account by gleaning their security token. The flaw affected as many as 50 million people, and Facebook says it’s forcibly making around 90 million users log back into their accounts in full today to […]
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