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What Happened To Alka Yagnik: A Doctor...

'The earlier you get your treatment done, the better the chance of recovery.'




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'I Wanted To Make A Happy Film'

'I wanted people to know that women across all ages have an exciting life.'




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'When It Happened To Me, I Was Shocked'

'I have had my share of unpleasant situations being a woman, like so many other actors have gone through.''I took it in my stride because I knew it happens.''What saved me was what my mother used to say: Education.'




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'Happy Performances Are Usually Ignored'

'If people think that films that are happy or light, or comedy or romance are not substantial, that's not true.''I was really happy when this award was given for Thiruchitrambalam because it highlights that.'




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'There Is A Fear Of Disappearing'

'God can you get work, but once you get it, you have to do it with honesty and put your 100 percent into it.'




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'The Appetite For Horror Has Increased'

'How to hold people's attention is challenging.'




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'Why Must I Put My Head On A Chopper?'

'Once in a while, I flirt with the idea of direction.''If I direct, it will be a human story that touches me.''I'm nervous of forcing myself into making a socially relevant film.'







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Apple iPhone maker buys equipment worth Rs 2670000000 for India factory, gears up to start...

This is the first time Apple's high-end iPhone Pro series will be made in a country other than China.




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Apple iPhone 16 is now banned in THIS country due to...

The ban on the iPhone 16 in Indonesia comes after Apple CEO Tim Cook's visit to Jakarta in April, where he spoke with President Joko Widodo about potential manufacturing plans.




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Flipkart Big Diwali Sale 2024: Best deals on iPhone 16 Pro Max, others; buy Apple iPad 9th Gen for just Rs...

The iPhone 16 series made its debut in India in September, with the flagship iPhone 16 Pro Max starting at Rs. 1,44,900 for the 256GB variant.




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Shaping the Future of Web Apps: Full Stack Developer's Expertise in API Design and Cloud Deployment

Naga Lalitha has become visible as someone who is changing the face of technology for industry verticals like supply chain and manufacturing.




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Dance for happiness

The Thimphu Tshechu in Bhutan, offers a spiritual uplift through dance.




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Apprenticeships can make India’s youth matter

With a target of skilling 500 million people by 2022, apprenticeship will be the key to increasing the employability of youth




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#BLChat : Of bell curves and appraisals

Missed BusinessLine's Twitter Chat on performance reviews? Read the Storify here!




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Give employees appropriate strokes




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Leadership approach, a paradigm shift




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A new approach to visioning




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The happy apple growers of Himachal

The decision to sell apples by weight and not box will benefit growers




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Farmers to approach Supreme Court against India-U.S. deal on poultry

Reduced import duty on produce and relaxed norms will affect farmers and traders here, they say




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Centre raises minimum support prices for Rabi crops, farmers unhappy

Farmers’ organisations say the MSP did not match the increase in input costs




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Cabinet approves ₹22,303 cr subsidy on P&K fertilisers for Rabi crop season

The decision was informed by Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur after the Cabinet meeting




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Should Minimum Support Price be legalised?




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India sugar crop woes create opportunity for Al Khaleej refinery




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Centre lifts onion export ban, but conditions apply

Outbound shipments now feasible if global buyers pay at least $770 a tonne for Indian onions




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Officers prepare for livestock census in India, will use mobile app for first time

The data will be used for formulating policies and programmes for farmers and the dairy sector




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‘Dirty Fashion’ report reveals pollution in big brands’ supply chains

How H&M, Zara and Marks & Spencer are buying viscose from highly polluting factories in Asia. By Natasha Hurley.




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A Visual Approach to Help Pages

As the functionality and scope of Web sites and applications has grown over the years, so has the prevalence of Help pages. Nearly every feature has an explanatory article outlining how to use it and why. But most Help pages are walls of text making them hard to act on. So a few years ago, we tried something different.

First let's look at the status quo. This Help page from Amazon is both pretty typical and by those standards, pretty good. It's specific to one topic, brief, outlines steps clearly, and includes links to help people accomplish their intended task. Companies iterated to these kinds of Help pages because they mostly work and because they're less work.

Keeping Help text up to date and accurate is less labor-intensive than updating images or videos with the same information. But as the old saying goes, a picture is worth a lot of words and there's a reason many people turn to video tutorials to learn how to do things instead of reading about how to do them.

When building Polar several years ago, we wanted a more approachable and fun way of helping people learn how to use our product. And while you might say "the best Help pages are no Help pages -just make your app easy to use" not all Help pages are smearing over usability issues. Some introduce higher level concepts, others outline capabilities, and some serve as marketing for specific features.

So with those goals in mind, we iterated to a simple formula. Each concept or feature gets a Help page that has a title alongside 1-2 sentences and as many sections consisting of a title, 1-2 sentences, plus a graphic as needed.

This approach meant people primarily relied on images (or their alt tags if visually impaired) to figure out how to get things done. So we iterated a fair amount on the images to find the right balance of detail and abstraction. Make the UI too realistic and it becomes hard to focus on the relevant elements. Realistic UI images also need updating anytime the actual product UI changes. Conversely, make the image too simplistic and it doesn't provide enough detail for people to actually learn how to do things.

Of course, not all Help topics are well suited to an image but the process of trying to create one often triggers ideas on how to simplify the actual UI or concepts within a product. So it's worth the iteration.

But is a visual approach to Help pages able to scale? Assuming it works, can companies invest the time and effort needed to generate all these images and keep them up to date? Perhaps in a time of image generation AI models, it's increasingly possible through automated or supervised pipelines. Time will tell!




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A golden door of opportunity

The Government may have tightened gold import norms, making it difficult for investors to invest in the yellow metal. But if you are one who is willing to take risks, then there is a door that is wide open to help you take advantage of the current situation.



  • M R Subramani

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Engaging critical pedagogy in education [electronic resource] : global phenomenon, local praxis / edited by Fida Sanjakdar and Michael W. Apple.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge , 2025.




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Rethinking writing instruction in the age of AI [electronic resource]: a universal design for learning approach Randy Laist ; with contributions from Nicole Brewer, Cynthia J. Murphy, and Dana Sheehan

Lynnfield, Massachusetts CAST [2024]




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How Kalki penned Ponniyin Selvan dipping into archival books in an old steel trunk

For the historical book, the author travelled widely across Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka




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Watch | Directors’ Take: How director Sashi Kiran Tikka approached ‘Goodachari’ and ‘Major’ like an American indie

Sashi Kiran Tikka, director of ‘Goodachari’ and ‘Major’, looks back at the indie approach to filmmaking, collaborative work atmosphere and his days at the New York Film Academy




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Apple resolves issue with WordPress app

Tech major says implementation of in-app purchases no longer required



  • Computers & Laptops

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Apple 'M1' Silicon-based Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, and Mac Mini launched

Prices start at $699 for Apple Silicon 'M1' based Mac Mini, $999 for Macbook Air, and $1299 for the 13-Inch MacBook Pro.



  • Computers & Laptops

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Google relaunches offline support for Google Calendar on desktops

The offline feature for Google Calendar was rolled back in 2018



  • Computers & Laptops

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Apple working on iPad pro with wireless charging, new ipad mini

The main design change in testing for the iPad Pro is a switch to a glass back from the current aluminum enclosure




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Apple set for first MacBook Pro revamp in five years on October 18

The new MacBook Pros are likely to use a higher-end version of the M1 chip, with increased performance



  • Computers & Laptops

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Apple rolls out new AirPods, Mac chips, MacBook pros

Apple introduced two chips -the M1 Pro and the M1 Max in the new MacBook Pro 14 and 16-inch models



  • Computers & Laptops

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India PC market grew 44.5% YoY, shipping a record 14.8 million units in 2021: IDC

Total PC shipments witness a record 14.8 million units during Jan-Dec 2021




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Apple’s M2-based MacBook Air is up for pre-order

The original sleek and slim notebook is geared up with more power in 2022




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Apple MacBook Air M1 long-term review 

A slim entrant to the Apple Silicon lineup 



  • Computers & Laptops

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India shipped less than 4 mn PCs in April-June quarter: IDC 

HP lead the overall PC market with a share of 30.8 per cent followed by the Dell 21.6 per cent  



  • Computers & Laptops

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India eyes $550 million incentives to draw Apple, tablet makers

The effort is aimed at companies such as Apple, Dell, HP Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. to widen or begin local production




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Early Apple computer that helped launch $3T company sells at auction for $223,000

The Apple-1 has been restored to a fully operational state and came with a custom case with a built-in keyboard




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L'après-coup : temporalité de l'événement et approches critiques du trauma / Alice Laumier.

Paris : Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2024.




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4 X D (1964) / written, narrated and directed by Philippe Labro [DVD].

[France] : uniFrance, [2015]