HUAWEI overtook Apple to claim the No. 2 spot in smartphones in the first quarter of 2019, moving a step closer to its avowed ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of the market. The networking giant, shrugging off a barrage of accusations that it aids Chinese espionage (which it’s repeatedly denied), grew shipments 50 per cent from a year
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Tamil Nadu Athlete Gomathi Marimuthu has won a Gold medal in the Asian Athletics championships held at Doha, Qatar, clinching the medal in the 800 m race event. It must be noted that this was India’s first Gold in the tournament. Gomathi hails from Mudikandam village near Trichy and is from a family dependent on agriculture. Born in an economically
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Chennai: The Madras high court has said based on the Carbon dating report regarding samples taken from Adichanallur site, the Archaeological Survey of India has to take a decision whether it is going to excavate on its own or the Central government is going to permit the state government in this regard. A division bench comprising Justices N.Kirubakaran and S.S.Sundar said,
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In a first of its kind, Tamil nationalist Senthamilan Seeman’s fledgling party Naam Thamizhar Katchi or NTK has allotted 50 per cent seats for women for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu, India. The party has fielded 20 women for the 40 seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. All are graduates, some with masters and research qualification. In
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Tamil Sri Lankan-born Australian Yasodai Selvakumaran has been named a finalist for the $1 million Global Teacher Prize. Australian actor Hugh Jackman did the honours, announcing the list of 10 from a field of 10,000 applicants spanning 179 countries. The actor known for his role as Wolverine in X-Men said teachers are “the real superheroes…the ones that change the world.” “Something I
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The Tamil Nadu government announced in an assembly on Tuesday that it will take measures to ban the video-sharing app TikTok as it has led teens and young adults to participate in acts of “cultural degradation” after it was found that sexually explicit content was being shared through the app. In response to a query from AIADMK MLA Thamimun Ansari
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Homeless Man Is Admitted To Hospital — But People Realize He’s Not Alone “Seeing them like that, waiting at the door, only shows how much they are cared for and loved. ON 12/11/2018 This week, healthcare worker Cris Mamprim and her colleagues at Hospital Regional Alto Vale in Brazil bore witness to a touching scene that none will soon forget.
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It’s not everyday we come across a beautiful love story which triumphs against all odds. Such inspiring stories do make this world a better place and restore our faith in love! The story of Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia and Charlotte Von Schedvin began 40 years ago. Pradyumna was a street artist from a remote village in India in 1949. He was
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