The decision assumes importance as it comes before the crucial Lok Sabha polls in key onion belts like Nashik, Ahmednagar and Solapur in Maharashtra

This partnership is expected to enable farmers to avail hassle-free, affordable, and flexible credit facilities.

A release said the award signifies the station’s unwavering commitment to maintain the highest standards in quality seed production and has emerged as a front runner setting an example for excellence in the field of seed production

Polyp's latest cartoon, from our June magazine.

The most significant user interface change from iOS 17 to iOS 18 are the navigation differences in Apple's Photos app. The ubiquitous tab bar that's became the default navigation model in mobile apps is gone and in its place is one long scrolling page. So how does it work and why?

Most mobile applications have adopted a bottom bar for primary navigation controls. On Android it's called bottom navigation and on iOS, a tab bar, but the purpose is the same: make the top-level sections of an application visible and let people move between them.

And it works. Across multiple studies and experiments, companies found when critical parts of an application are made more visible, usage of them increases. For example, Facebook saw that not only did engagement go up when they moved from a “hamburger” menu to a bottom tab bar in their iOS app, but several other important metrics went up as well. Results like this made use of tab bars grow.

But in iOS 18, Apple removed the tab bar in their Photos app. Whereas the prior version had visible tabs for the top-level sections (Library, For You, Albums, Search), the redesign is just a single scroll view. The features previously found in each tab are now accessed by scrolling up and down vs. switching between tabs. One notable exception is Search which stays anchored at the top of the screen.

In addition to the persistent Search button, there's also a Select action and user profile image that opens a sheet with account settings. As you scroll up into your Photo library a persistent set of View controls appears at the bottom of the screen as well. The Close action scrolls you to the end of your Photo library and reveals a bit of the actions below making the location of features previously found in tabs more clear.

It's certainly a big change and given the effectiveness of tab bars, its also a change that has people questioning why? I have no inside information on Apple's decision-making process here but based on what I've learned about how people use Google Photos, Yahoo! Photos, and Flickr, I can speculate.

1. By far the dominant use of a Photo gallery is scrolling to find an image whether to share, view, or just browse.
2. Very few people organize their photo libraries and those that do, do it rarely.
3. People continue to have poor experiences with searching images, despite lots of improvements, so they default to browsing when trying to find photos.
4. Most automatic curation features like those found in For You just get ignored.

All that together can easily get you to the design answer of "the app should just be a scrolling list of all your Photos". Of course there's trade-offs. The top-level sections, and their features are much less visible, and thereby less obvious. The people who do make use of features like Albums and Memories now need to scroll to them vs. tapping once. But as iOS18 rolls out to everyone in the Fall, we'll see if these trade-offs were worth it.

New material is made by compressing treated wood

Baselworld, one of the most important watch fairs in the world that hosts brands like Rolex, Omega and Breitling was held in Basel this month from March 22-27. Here’s a Luxe review of some of the novelties to watch out for

Notes from Baselworld 2018, keeping an eye out for top innovations in watchmaking

Every year just before Easter, Basel hosts the world’s biggest and most important watch show where some of the most prominent watchmakers arrive to boast of their latest creations. As this year’s Baselworld went off successfully, we bring you the top five men’s timepieces from the Messe Basel exhibition centre

The 2018 Baselworld focusses anew on women’s watches. Watch manufacturers are now no longer emphasising on just bejewelled timepieces but also offering complications. Here is our pick of the top four timepieces that stand out from the rest

Up, close and personal with Masaba Gupta on wedding outfits and life choices

A visit to the restoration project site of an ancient harbour in Kerala, steeped in history, is peppered with anecdotes and delicious local fare

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The organisation, Poovulagin Nanbargal, uses the birth dates and birth places of popular Tamil actors to highlight how climate change, such as increasing hot days, has affected the State over the decades

While “RRR” finds mention in the BAFTA longlist for a ‘film not in English language’ category, “All That Breathes” is also vying for a spot in the top five of the documentary category.

The two biggest box office successes of 2022 - “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick” - were shut out.

As the Telugu film ‘Balagam’ wins hearts and international awards, director Venu Yeldandi talks about how he wanted the film to reflect native culture and relationships in Sircilla, Telangana

TheWriter of two of the best period dramas in the recent history of Malayalam cinema, Gopan Chidambaram talks speaks about how Thuramukham, a play written by his father in 1968, was adapted to the screen and why he often gravitates towards historical tales

Actor Nandamuri Balakrishna’s 108th film directed by Anil Ravipudi is titled ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’, also stars Kajal Aggarwal, Sree Leela and Arjun Rampal

The teaser of actor Nandamuri Balakrishna’s 108th film ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’, directed by Anil Ravipudi, has the actor mouthing fan-pleasing dialogues in Hindi and Telangana-laced Telugu

‘Baby’ is the most emotional film he has done so far, says actor Anand Deverakonda, while asserting that it’s a gender-sensitive film with Vaishnavi Chaitanya’s character as its backbone

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

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

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