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Haryana Plans Libraries In Every Village With Computers, Exam Guides

India News | Written by Mohammad Ghazali | Sunday August 9, 2020

The Haryana government says it wants to ensure students from villages don't have to travel to cities to prepare for competitive exams. To enable this, the government wants to open modern libraries in each village modelled after coaching centres, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said on Sunday. All village panchayats have been asked t...

"Memories" From Irrfan Khan's Home Shared By Son Babil

Entertainment | Divya Goyal | Friday August 7, 2020

Babil shared glimpses of walls adorned with old family pictures and the posters of Irrfan Khan's films.

Google Chrome's Lazy-Loading Images Data Saving Feature Made More Efficient

Tanishka Sodhi | Tuesday July 28, 2020

Google Chrome’s lazy loading feature has reduced its distance-from-viewpoint threshold, allowing you to save more data. It will only load images on the site when you’re about to come in view with it.

Democracy Books Disappear From Hong Kong Libraries

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday July 4, 2020

Books written by prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have started to disappear from the city's libraries, online records show, days after Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the finance hub.

Shut Due To COVID-19, Jamia Millia Islamia Expands E-Book Collection

Education | Edited by None | Friday July 3, 2020

Jamia Millia Islamia University has expanded its e-book collection at the Dr Zakir Hussain Library. It will be accessible remotely and help students continue their research.

WWDC 2020: iOS 14 Unveiled With App Library, Redesigned Widgets, Upgraded Siri, and More

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday June 23, 2020

The iOS 14 update has been unveiled as Apple’s latest mobile operating system. The new iOS version brings a list of interface-level changes that include an App Library and redesigned Widgets.

Jio Fiber Users Can Now Watch Movies, Shows on Zee5 Premium for Free

Jagmeet Singh | Monday June 22, 2020

Jio Fiber users can now avail Zee5 Premium subscription for free. The paid subscription worth Rs. 99 a month is touted to include a library of over 4,500 movies and over 120 originals.

IIT Kharagpur Launches Online Lecture Series On Innovation And Entrepreneurship After COVID-19

Education | Edited by None | Friday June 19, 2020

The 16-part virtual lecture series will be delivered over June 22-29 through the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, or NPTEL, platform and can also be accessed on SWAYAM Prabha channels and National Digital Library of India.

CBSE Asks Schools To Celebrate National Reading Day Virtually

Education | Edited by None | Friday June 19, 2020

The 25th National Reading Day will be celebrated on June 19. National Reading Day is celebrated to honour the father of the 'Library Movement in Kerala', the late P.N. Panicker, whose death anniversary falls on June 19.

Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk Due to ‘Ripple20’ Vulnerabilities, Claim Security Researchers

Jagmeet Singh | Wednesday June 17, 2020

The vulnerabilities, which are given the name Ripple20, exist in connected devices offered by various renowned companies including Caterpillar, Cisco, HP, Intel, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, among others, Israeli security research firm JSOF revealed through a detailed post.

Kerala: Online Classes Conducted At Libraries For Economically Weak Students

Education | Edited by ANI | Thursday June 11, 2020

Online classes are being conducted for economically weak and backward students at libraries and anganwadis by the Kerala Education Department, in the wake of COVID-19 lockdown.

Internet Archive Sued by Publishers Over Scanning of Books

Reuters | Tuesday June 2, 2020

Four of the US' biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including such favourites as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Facebook Staffers Walk Out Saying Trump's Posts Should Be Reined In

Reuters | Tuesday June 2, 2020

Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing US President Donald Trump's posts as strictly as the rival platform has done.

Jamia Millia Islamia To Digitise Photographs, Papers Of Mahatma Gandhi, Zakir Hussain And Others

Education | Edited by Mridusmita Deka | Monday June 1, 2020

Jamia Millia Islamia University has acquired an art-scanner for the digitisation unit of the Dr Zakir Hussain Library. The digital preservation of the archival documents present in JMI will provide easy access to these resources and help with research.

National Digital Library of India Reaches Out To Students Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

Education | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 7, 2020

With educational institutions shut due to the lockdown, the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has reached out to students with 3.5 crore academic content to enable them to study from home, an NDLI spokesperson said on Thursday.