Both protesters and the authorities in Hong Kong are using complex combinations of technology, reports Devangshu Datta.
'One of the director's primary jobs is to make sure that all the actors perform as if they are in the same movie, playing in the same band -- one is not acting in a different band than the other.'
To Kill a Mockingbird is considered one of the great classics of 20th century American literature, and is standard reading in classrooms across the world.
Owing to cancelled schedules, busy Bollywood celebrities are engaging in all sorts of fun activities with their brood.
Sudha Murty has various roles -- philanthropist, author, teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt -- and she revels in each one of them, discovers Savera R Someshwar.
The decision to speak to the political convention in pre-recorded remarks from Jerusalem breaks with the longstanding precedent of sitting secretaries of state avoiding partisan politics and appears to violate guidance on political activities that Pompeo himself emphasised in a cable to diplomats just last month.
Here's everything you need to know about To Kill a Mockingbird.
'I would recommend every young Indian reads Shashi Tharoor's book to get a perspective of our colonial past in the present day mesmerising euphoria of the global village in spite of Donald Trump, says Shivanand Kanavi.
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With the changes in the workplace, in-demand skills, flexibility and being tech-savvy will help you save your job.
'The timing of the lockdown was such that Kriti was at home after more than a month of shooting.' 'So we are getting good family time.'
Four individuals who have taken up poker professionally tell Norma Godinho/Rediff.com how their stars have changed for the better.
By buying The Washington Post in his personal capacity, the Amazon founder and internet pioneer may just be looking to save an American institution.
'Whether it's a morning walk, an evening swim or an afternoon workout in the gym, just get moving.'
'In India, we are paying a price for not managing water as we are not willing to pay the cost for it.'
Don't let people with repugnant ideas abrogate your rights by taking advantage of your commitment to free speech, observes Mihir S Sharma
'Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and the most powerful, is also the worst governed.'
'Right now there are two battles, the one in our heads about the pandemic and 2, the actual pandemic itself.'
It took a lockdown for us in India to even recognise that the plight of migrants needs to be addressed. They were faceless and unrecognised. They were unappreciated and even hounded. They were poorly paid and exploited, notes Ramesh Menon.
This is the second acquisition Google is making to boost its NBU initiative, having acquired four-month-old Halli Labs founded by Pankaj Gupta in July 2017, reports Yuvraj Malik.
Written on the occasion of Rosh Hashana (Jewish new year) on September 1, 1939, the letter also marked the beginning of the World War II when Germany invaded Poland, setting the stage for the despicable atrocities of the Holocaust.
Despite the Oscars, the box office glory, and the universal acclaim, Francis Ford Coppola, I am sure, remembers The Godfather with as much frustration as pride. Like Michael Corleone, he got into it with the best of intentions, and got out of it on top but lost in the heights. Sreehari Nair revisits the film as it turns 50 this month.
Because the Andaman Islands are gorgeous!
'Try to get in 30 to 60 minutes of a brisk walk every day, like my grandparents would do in the village -- twice a day they would go for morning walks and they would go after dinner.'
Not only is your privacy stripped stark naked, says Mitali Saran, the system itself is illegal and vulnerable.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
The processor is just 5 per cent of the overall cost of a computing device.
'You are a Kashmiri first. You are not an Arab.' 'Revisit our traditional sufi thought.'
Did you know that the Indian railways carries 23 million passengers every day?
From Dindigul to Google and Chennai, this entrepreneur has travelled a full circle riding on English
'If India maintains the Constitutional set-up that its founders envisaged -- which is that it is a parliamentary democracy, with a broadly speaking market economy, in which all people are equal as everyone votes, in which the rights of minorities are respected -- that will be a great thing.' 'Not just for India. But for humanity.'
'The obsession of the Pakistan army with India leads to several destabilising things. Support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. Support for groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, that have attacked India. Every time you get an attack like that there is a possibility of a war. And then the build up of the their nuclear arsenals. Chances of a nuclear weapon landing in the hands of a terrorist group, or a nuclear war breaking out, are tiny. But they are higher here than anywhere else in the world.'
'This is not a Sanjay Baru or Natwar Singh type of book. It's not a memoir. It's not a book to reveal conversations, real or imaginary. This is not a book to position myself at the centre of the world.' Jairam Ramesh on his stint as environment minister.
'I try to say to myself, 'Don't cry in front of people'. But sometimes I can't help it.'
Most incidents of triple talaq are eloquent examples of the failure of Muslim society to instil in its men the teachings of the Quran; instead, they end up relying on the Quran's interpretation by local maulanas, says Ziya US Salam.
Two IIT-B grads cracked the cab aggregator code, tasted success & failure.
'Not a single person I spoke to there believes that the Kundalkulam plant is safe.'
'Research shows that customers want their loans instantly.' 'So the team asked can we reduce the time for approval from 5 days to 30 seconds?' 'It took the company two years of hard work to tear apart our operations and processes and rebuild them through fresh ideas and by leveraging technology.' 'We reduced the time of loan approval to 3 hours and another year to get it down to 30 seconds,' Sanjiv Bajaj tells Surajeet Das Gupta.
'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.'
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