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'Nobody Expected Armaan To Slap Vishal'

'It is difficult to understand Armaan's game plan because there is a vast difference between what he says and what goes on in his head.'




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'I Wanted To Slap Armaan Back'

'How can he justify marrying two women?'




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'Shammi Kapoor Wanted To Marry Me But...'

'It was not a love affair, it was much more.'




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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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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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OnePlus 13 launched with Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC: Price details, battery and other specifications

While the OnePlus 13 has only been revealed in China so far, speculations are that it will arrive on the global market in the coming months. In India, the phone is expected to be launched in January 2025.




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Expert clinic director successfully implements half-hour scheduling system, boosting therapist productivity

As word spread about the success of the half-hour schedule, some early adopters became curious after the clinic director and the team showcased the benefits.




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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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A leap in his heart

Ottan Thullal artist Kalamandalam Suresh Kaliyath tells how he is propagating the art he loves.




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Spectacular choreography, recital

Vimmi Easwar and her disciples enthralled the audience in Thrissur with their Kuchipudi performance.




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The Krishna metaphor

Natyarangam’s annual thematic fest for young dancers opens today. Chitra Swaminathan on its multi-disciplinary approach.




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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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Tobacco growers in Andhra Pradesh make hay as export demand spikes, seek higher crop cap

Global shortage of 400 million kg of tobacco spurs export demand for the crop; premium leaves fetch farmers in Prakasam and Nellore districts a record ₹210 a kg during e-auctions




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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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From soaps to lip balms: How demand for donkey milk has kicked off a farming revolution in Tiruchi district

Once a ubiquitous beast of burden, the donkey is slowly making its way out of oblivion in Tiruchi as the global beauty industry discovers the benefits of its milk




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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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Cheaper blueberries, cranberries, turkeys headed to India




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Wheat, rapeseed crops ravaged by rain days before harvesting

A poor harvest could force the Centre to import wheat, palm oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil




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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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This capitalism theme park will make you shudder

KidZania is an unashamed shrine to the sterile, dystopian human-made landscapes, comedian Steve Parry writes.




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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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Nuclear excitation by electron capture seen at long last

Breakthrough could lead to new type of energy source




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Japan’s SuperKEKB set for first particle collisions

Revamped accelerator will soon be smashing electrons and positrons together




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Tales from a British physicist in Japan

Elizabeth Tasker details the good, the bad and the confusing of working as a physicist in Japan




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Tales from a British physicist in Japan

Elizabeth Tasker details the good, the bad and the confusing of working as a physicist in Japan




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Master of the chronograph

New Breitling CEO Georges Kern comes forth on what can be expected from the maritime chronograph company




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Grapes are sweet

New Zealand’s Central Otago region, once famous for its gold rush, is basking in riches of another kind — the headiness of wines




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Chef Agostino D’ Angelo: Pasta comes in all shapes and sizes

Visiting chef Agostino D’ Angelo takes his audience through the flavours of true Sicilian food




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Helsinki: The Scandinavian design capital

If you love great design and architecture, Finland’s capital is right up your alley




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A flower in time: Chronographs with a softer touch

Latest floral chronographs to add a bit of drama and fantasy to your attire




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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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Karnataka HC stays FIR against Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders in KGF Chapter 2 copyright violation case

In its complaint lodged before the Yeshwantpur police, MRT Music had alleged that popular songs and audio clips of the film were illegally used to promote Mr. Gandhi as hero and a mass leader




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Bellamkonda Sreenivas on ‘Chatrapathi’ remake: This is our tribute to SS Rajamouli

Actor Bellamkonda Sreenivas talks about his debut in Hindi cinema with the redux of Rajamouli-Prabhas blockbuster ‘Chatrapathi’




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Alice Birch’s adaptation of David Cronenberg’s ‘Dead Ringers’ converts the anarchic physicality of childbirth into something laboratory-like

The Mantle twins want to “change the way women give birth” — the body horror subgenre has always been nimble and alert to the red-button political issues of the day




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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