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Why 'Yuva AI' For All Matters And What Students Can Learn From The Free Course
Yuva AI for All offers six modules on AI basics, practical applications, and ethical use, aiming to equip 10 million Indians with AI skills via platforms like FutureSkills Prime.
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NTA Releases City Intimation Slips For SWAYAM July 2025 Exams
NTA has released city intimation slips for SWAYAM exams scheduled in December 2025. Candidates can download slips from the official NTA website using their application details.
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Gemini Live Two-Way Communication Feature Now Available for All Android Users: How to Use
Gemini Live, Google’s latest two-way voice chat feature for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, is now available to all Android users. The feature was initially released to the Gemini Advanced users via the Google One AI Premium plan, but now the company is rolling it out to all users. However, only the basic version of the feature is avail...
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Coronavirus: Piaggio Announces Multiple Relief And Safety Initiatives To Fight COVID-19
Piaggio India has announced extending its support in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic in India with multiple relief and safety initiatives. Firstly, the company is arranging for free supplies of ration kits to nearly 1000 migrant labourers in Pune and Baramati, ensuring basic food security for a month.
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Jio Fiber to Offer Free 10Mbps Broadband to New Users, Double Data to Existing Users Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Jio has announced that through Reliance Industries Limited’s #CoronaHaaregaIndiaJeetega initiative, it will provide basic JioFiber broadband connectivity without any service charges
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Facebook Free Basics Accused of Collecting Metadata, Violating Net Neutrality
A fresh research report outlines all the things that are wrong with Facebook’s Free Basics including violation of net neutrality, non-promotion of local content, and collecting metadata of users.
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As Google and Facebook Race to Bring Indians Online, Microsoft's Efforts Hit a Roadblock
As Facebook and Google push to make affordable Internet available to more Indians in an attempt to get the country's population online for the first time, Microsoft's ambitions may have hit a roadblock.
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After Major Setback, What's Next For Facebook In India
India's telecom regulator dealt the first major blow to the social media giant's effort to provide low-cost Internet to the poor last Monday - effectively banning its Free Basics application and others like it after months of controversy.
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India Deserves Better Than Zuckerberg's Watered-Down Internet
Mark Zuckerberg is taking intense fire in India over an initiative that his organization Internet.org launched, to provide limited Internet access to the masses.
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IIT Faculty, Startup India vs. Zuckerberg's Free Basics: 10 Facts
Should India allow Facebook's initiative - Free Basics - which claims a commitment to bringing free basic Internet services to cellphone users across the country?
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Free Basics Vs Net Neutrality: Mark Zuckerberg Fuels Debate in India
First splashy full page ads in major Indian newspapers and now a personal piece by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a leading English daily defending Free Basics, the war over "free" or "selective" internet services for the poor and net neutrality has entered a new phase.
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Why 'Yuva AI' For All Matters And What Students Can Learn From The Free Course
Yuva AI for All offers six modules on AI basics, practical applications, and ethical use, aiming to equip 10 million Indians with AI skills via platforms like FutureSkills Prime.
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NTA Releases City Intimation Slips For SWAYAM July 2025 Exams
NTA has released city intimation slips for SWAYAM exams scheduled in December 2025. Candidates can download slips from the official NTA website using their application details.
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Gemini Live Two-Way Communication Feature Now Available for All Android Users: How to Use
Gemini Live, Google’s latest two-way voice chat feature for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, is now available to all Android users. The feature was initially released to the Gemini Advanced users via the Google One AI Premium plan, but now the company is rolling it out to all users. However, only the basic version of the feature is avail...
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Coronavirus: Piaggio Announces Multiple Relief And Safety Initiatives To Fight COVID-19
Piaggio India has announced extending its support in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic in India with multiple relief and safety initiatives. Firstly, the company is arranging for free supplies of ration kits to nearly 1000 migrant labourers in Pune and Baramati, ensuring basic food security for a month.
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Jio Fiber to Offer Free 10Mbps Broadband to New Users, Double Data to Existing Users Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Jio has announced that through Reliance Industries Limited’s #CoronaHaaregaIndiaJeetega initiative, it will provide basic JioFiber broadband connectivity without any service charges
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Facebook Free Basics Accused of Collecting Metadata, Violating Net Neutrality
A fresh research report outlines all the things that are wrong with Facebook’s Free Basics including violation of net neutrality, non-promotion of local content, and collecting metadata of users.
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As Google and Facebook Race to Bring Indians Online, Microsoft's Efforts Hit a Roadblock
As Facebook and Google push to make affordable Internet available to more Indians in an attempt to get the country's population online for the first time, Microsoft's ambitions may have hit a roadblock.
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After Major Setback, What's Next For Facebook In India
India's telecom regulator dealt the first major blow to the social media giant's effort to provide low-cost Internet to the poor last Monday - effectively banning its Free Basics application and others like it after months of controversy.
-
India Deserves Better Than Zuckerberg's Watered-Down Internet
Mark Zuckerberg is taking intense fire in India over an initiative that his organization Internet.org launched, to provide limited Internet access to the masses.
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IIT Faculty, Startup India vs. Zuckerberg's Free Basics: 10 Facts
Should India allow Facebook's initiative - Free Basics - which claims a commitment to bringing free basic Internet services to cellphone users across the country?
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Free Basics Vs Net Neutrality: Mark Zuckerberg Fuels Debate in India
First splashy full page ads in major Indian newspapers and now a personal piece by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a leading English daily defending Free Basics, the war over "free" or "selective" internet services for the poor and net neutrality has entered a new phase.
