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Amazon Prime Day Sale 2024: Why was the shopping event created?
July 20, 2024 9:22 pm
Prime Days are meant to drive shopping sprees and purchases of Prime memberships. During the peak of the 2023 Prime Day, 22,190 orders were placed in a single minute in India. Why did the company launch the sales event eight years ago, and how has it fared?
How Just Stop Oil activists were slapped with ‘draconian’ prison sentences for a Zoom call
July 20, 2024 5:47 pm
Five members of Just Stop Oil, a British environmental activist group famed for its disruptive in-your-face tactics, were slapped with unprecedented prison sentences for planning to block a British motorway
Scourge of the pink bollworm, and why cotton farmers struggle to deal with it
July 20, 2024 12:35 pm
Cotton acreage in the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan has significantly dropped because of the pink pest. Why have the states failed to deal with the issue?
Windows outage: how a faulty software update hit businesses worldwide
July 20, 2024 12:09 pm
Microsoft said that a preliminary cause for the disruption was a configuration change “in a portion of [its] Azure backend workloads”, which resulted in connectivity failures that affected Microsoft 365 services dependent on these connections.
Bombay HC quashes exemption from RTE quota for private schools: what did the rule say?
July 19, 2024 7:32 pm
The quota comes under Section 12(1)(C) of The Right Of Children To Free And Compulsory Education Act, 2009. Students admitted under this quota are given fee concessions, with the state government meant to reimburse private schools for the same.
Why members of the Bhil tribe have again demanded a separate ‘Bhil Pradesh’
July 19, 2024 7:00 pm
While a tribal MP from Rajasthan has advocated for an independent Bhil state in western India, the BJP’s Tribal Area Development minister has spoken against it. What is the demand?
Sebi's new asset class, positioned between MFs and PMS: how will it benefit investors?
July 19, 2024 10:22 pm
The new category of products will have a ticket size of Rs 10 lakh. Who is it targeted at, and should you be investing? Here's what to know.
What caused the global Microsoft outage?
July 19, 2024 10:38 pm
Microsoft said that it has identified the cause terming it an outcome of ‘configuration change’. Here is what we know so far.
Emergence of La Niña delayed: Will this affect Indian monsoon?
July 19, 2024 2:42 pm
Multiple global weather models have forecast the likely emergence of La Niña, which is known to favour rainfall during the monsoon season in India, conditions in September or later
Cryptocurrency firm WazirX suffered a major security breach. How did it happen?
July 20, 2024 6:26 am
The WazirX cyberattack is not just the biggest security breach of a cryptocurrency exchange in India, but is among the top hacks in the world, too.
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Quixplained: What to keep in mind as gyms, fitness centres reopen
August 08, 2020 11:44 am
The government has allowed opening of yoga institutes and gymnasiums from August 5 as part of the ‘Unlock 3’ phase.
Quixplained: What's new in the National Education Policy
August 07, 2020 8:31 am
National Education Policy or NEP is a comprehensive framework to guide the development of education in the country. A new policy usually comes along every few decades. The latest policy is India's third. It replaces the 1986 NEP, which was in place for 34 years.
Quixplained: How ‘corona’ of the virus changes into a hairpin shape — and why
August 07, 2020 8:31 am
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 — the ‘corona’ in the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 disease — has just revealed new secrets. Researchers have found that the spike protein changes its form after it attaches itself to a human cell, folding in on itself and assuming a rigid hairpin shape.
Quixplained: India's Rafale vs Pakistan's F16 and China's J20
August 07, 2020 8:31 am
The five Rafale fighter jets that land in Ambala on Wednesday morning will resurrect the Number 17 Golden Arrows squadron of the Indian Air Force. It will take the IAF’s squadron strength to 31. When all the 36 Rafale jets are delivered by 2022, it will take it to 32 squadrons, still well below the 42 squadrons of the sanctioned strength.
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