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B’desh crisis: President resigns ahead of Hasina’s return; reports of rift with govt

Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin resigns Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin resigned on Friday, nearly two years before the end of his five-year term, Reuters reported citing local media.His resignation comes amid reports that the government was no longer comfortable with his continuation in office because of his perceived ties to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.Shahabuddin’s resignation...

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The state is draining ISRO’s hard-won excellence

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is being poisoned by politicisation. With each passing year of late, it is a darker shadow of its once-formidable self, on the brink of a history in which it is no longer an engine of national growth. In the recent past, the organisation has suffered a non-trivial number of...

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Nokia once sold 2 in 5 phones on Earth, then lost it all in 7 years

130 countries and a name that everyone remembered, that’s how successful Nokia once was. The Finnish company that spent its first century making rubber boots, toilet paper, cables and gas masks reinvented itself in the 1990s as the world’s dominant mobile phone maker, controlling roughly a third of global handset sales by 2000. But within...

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‘Risk of misuse’: Govt tells GitHub to take down Bluetooth-based Bitchat app

The app allows anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification or centralised logging of messages NEW DELHI: The Union government’s cybercrime coordination centre has directed Microsoft-owned GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging application developed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, citing concerns that it could be misused by terrorists, organised crime groups...

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‘Eye damaged’: Rahul presents alleged pellet gun victim, calls Pradhan ‘criminal’

Rahul Gandhi brings alleged pellet gun victim before media (Image/X) New Delhi: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday renewed his demand for the removal of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, accusing him of being responsible for the alleged NEET paper leak and the ongoing crisis in the education system.Addressing...

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