is UCM, AMUCO, CAU, BGVS, actress Tonthoi and others distribute relief items By Published On :: UCM, AMUCO, CAU, BGVS, actress Tonthoi and others distribute relief items Full Article
is COVID-19 mortality rate low, says Minister By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 19:37:04 +0530 TIRUVARUR The mortality due to COVID-19 virus infection in Tamil Nadu is 0.67%, according to Food Minister R. Kamaraj.Disclosing this at a special med Full Article Tiruchirapalli
is ICICI Bank Q4 net up 26%, provisions rise By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:02:31 +0530 ‘Net NPA at lowest in 19 quarters’ Full Article Markets
is Credai alleges cartelisation, flags cement and steel prices By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:31:02 +0530 The Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India (Credai) has written to Housing and Urban Affairs minister Hardeep Puri and Commerce Full Article Business
is COVID-19 pandemic is likely to reduce investment in construction related projects : KPMG By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:36:46 +0530 COVID-19 pandemic is likely to reduce investment in construction related projects in the range of 13 to 30% which will have significant impact on Gros Full Article Business
is Minister promises all help to gas leak victims By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:57:49 +0530 Medical camps will be conducted in the five villages around the plant, says Muttamsetti Full Article Andhra Pradesh
is 5 more COVID hospitals in the pipeline: Minister By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:06:04 +0530 Minister for Medical and Health Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas on Saturday said that five more private hospitals were designated as COVID-19 hospitals in Full Article Andhra Pradesh
is Seed distribution in villages from May 18: Kannababu By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:14:58 +0530 Minister for Agriculture Kurasala Kannababu on Saturday said that distribution of seeds would be done in villages from this year and farmers need not Full Article Andhra Pradesh
is Officials in Nellore on alert as Koyambedu cases rise By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:28:05 +0530 The district has regular transactions with traders in Tamil Nadu Full Article Andhra Pradesh
is Coronavirus | Maharashtra tops 20,000-mark; toll rises to 779 By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:49:02 +0530 State registers 48 deaths, the highest in a day Full Article Other States
is What is the great urgency for environment notification, asks Congress By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:13:44 +0530 Draft has alarming clauses including the concept of post facto clearance, it says. Full Article Environment
is Coronavirus | Key ICMR panel on vaccines dissolved By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:54:06 +0530 5 groups set up in National Task Force Full Article National
is Ban on sale, use of tobacco products in Udupi district By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:35:53 +0530 The district administration has banned sale and use of tobacco products in Udupi district to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In a press release issued Full Article Karnataka
is Despite permission to reopen, industries raise logistical issues By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:46:22 +0530 The State government may have permitted industrial units to reopen, but an interaction with MSME bodies brought to light the acute logistical problem Full Article Karnataka
is Technical glitches, delay in issue of passes leave many stranded at border By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:14:13 +0530 Migrants complain officials are delaying their entry citing silly reasons and technical formalities Full Article Karnataka
is 289 workers quarantined in Shivamogga district By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:18:55 +0530 As many as 289 migrant workers from Shivamogga district working outside the State who have returned to their native areas in the past one week have be Full Article Karnataka
is Man who returned from Padarayanapura tests positive in Tumakuru district By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:48:49 +0530 A 45-year-old man (P-764), who worked at a hotel in Padarayanapura in Bengaluru and returned to his hometown in Sira of Tumakuru district on May 4, te Full Article Karnataka
is Wimbledon visit made me take up the game: Zeeshan By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:50:49 +0530 Ashutosh says he gained from following his father’s disciplined methods Full Article Tennis
is You innovate and exercise: Neeraj Chopra By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:11:04 +0530 The javelin thrower isconfident of regaining fitness in two weeks once training restarts Full Article Other Sports
is Shops offer discounts, virtual tours to win back customers By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:15:24 +0530 Some stores are giving up to 50% rebate Full Article Bengaluru
is Is It Time to Forget Big Data and Focus on Real People? By feeds.uxmag.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Sep 15 17:12:18 +0000 September 21, 2015Big data is all the rage. It’s discussed at heavily conventions all over the world and written about on blogs across industries. Big data is starting to look like an inevitable mechanism for doing business in the always-on, ever-connected, Internet-of-Things era that is upon us. Big data is here to guide our corporate decisions, save our business’ money, and direct our experience design initiatives in every way.When it comes to UX, before we jump on the big data bandwagon, we need to challenge its predominance. UX professionals cannot create an experience for figures in a database or tracking systems, and designers must keep focusing on real people rather than on numbers. Online experiences must remain geared toward real users and their interests, goals, and desires.What About the Numbers?Many companies and their marketing departments have...read more By Maya Nix Full Article
is Using “Dumb Data” To Make Smart Design Decisions By feeds.uxmag.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Sep 15 19:42:45 +0000 September 23, 2015As an industry, we’ve worked to established many new practices and tools for nimble design teams, from A/B testing to measuring bounce rates and CTR performance. But a lot of these methods require engineers or some amount of technical know-how to execute, and they take place only after something has been launched.The judicious application of “dumb data” can streamline your workflow and improve your designsWhat many people don’t know is that there are some unexpected applications of data to consider earlier in the design process, which you, the designer, can do yourself. They’re not fancy, and you don’t need to know how to write SQL queries. The judicious application of just-enough “dumb data” can streamline your workflow and improve your designs in surprisingly useful ways.Here are...read more By Jocelyn Lin Full Article
is Aurangabad train mishap: NHRC notice to Maharashtra govt By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:04:01 +0530 Full Article
is New BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal takes official charge By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:24:01 +0530 Full Article
is Maha Home Minister expresses grief over Aurangabad train accident By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 02:18:02 +0530 Full Article
is Disturbed architect attacks 3 Mumbai cops with chopper By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:27:02 +0530 Full Article
is Trump administration tightens visas for Chinese reporters By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:08:59 IST The Trump administration is tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists in response to the treatment of US journalists in China, as tensions flare between the two nations over the coronavirus. Full Article
is Obama calls Trump's handling of pandemic a 'chaotic disaster' By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 09:44:57 IST Former president Barack Obama has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it an "absolute chaotic disaster." Full Article
is Kerala will not dilute labour laws, says Labour Minister By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:14:06 +0530 Workers’ unions irked by ‘anti-labour’ moves of States such as UP, MP, Gujarat Full Article Thiruvananthapuram
is Paradise Papers: The moral dilemmas of tax avoidance By www.hardnewsmedia.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:54:59 +0000 Mohan Guruswamy The tranche of documents uncovered recently has not only brought several stalwarts of Indian politics, cinema industry, and business tycoons under scanner but has also thrown up pertinent questions over the moral dilemmas of avoiding tax The paradise in the Paradise Papers refers to tax havens of low or even no taxation. Such havens usually are shadowy and sleazy little countries and principalities such as the Cayman Islands, Lichtenstein and Monaco, and sometimes entities within countries like Jersey, Guernsey, Bermuda in the UK and Delaware and Puerto Rico in the USA. Then there are low taxation countries like Switzerland, Singapore and Dubai that assure secretive rich people of their privacy. Essentially a tax haven exists to cheat sovereign states of their lawful incomes. The Tax Justice Network campaign group estimates that corporate tax avoidance costs governments $500bn a year, while personal tax avoidance costs $200bn a year. This in effect means that anywhere between $20-30 trillion of business transactions are sheltered from taxations. Moody’s estimated that in 2016 giant American technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Apple were hoarding about $1.84 trillion cash in offshore havens. Clearly they are avoiding tax and as bending the rules of the tax system is not illegal unlike tax evasion; they are operating within the letter, but perhaps not the spirit, of the law. In the early 1980’s, shaken up by the number of scandals in Wall Street, and by the number of its MBA graduates who were found wanting in ethical and moral values, the Harvard Business School made a course on “Leadership and Corporate Accountability” a core requirement. I am sure Jayant Sinha, a Harvard MBA, had to do this course and would have scored a high grade in it. Such courses now are in the core curriculum of the business schools attended by the other two young politicians also named in the Paradise Papers or capers if you will. Sachin Pilot graduated from the famous Wharton School of Business and Karti Chidambaram took his business masters from Texas and a law degree from Cambridge to boot. Doing the required ethics course is one thing but it is quite something else to be able to resolve moral dilemmas of what John Kenneth Galbraith described as the “HBS’s ethical view of capitalism which derives straight out of the Protestant ethic and its transformational view of money, in which the ability to accumulate wealth is a reflection of one’s character.” The charge against Jayant Sinha is that while acting as an Omidyar Network representative was on the board of a California company that made a loan to that company’s Cayman subsidiary. Usually such a loan to such a subsidiary suggests a fiddle. Whether Sinha knew this or did not know it is something else? Clearly the evidence does not suggest any malfeasance. But clearly there is room for skepticism. Omidyar Network proclaims its belief: “Just as eBay created the opportunity for millions of people to start their own businesses, we believe market forces can be a potent driver for positive social change.” Grand words but that hardly conceals the true goal that is to make bucks, sometimes fast ones too. Again as Galbraith put it: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” Jayant, then fresh out of one of the IIT’s, worked with me way back in the mid 1980’s on a paper that proposed the mass construction of smokeless challahs for rural homes as a profitable employment for hundreds of thousands of rural workers. I remember it as a bit of an elaborate scheme that also computed the savings due to improved health results. It was published in this newspaper and the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi took note of it. I was impressed enough to write a recommendation when he applied for a Masters in Energy Management at Pennsylvania. I next met him when I was serving as his fathers Advisor in the Finance Ministry. Jayant and his wife were both working with foreign companies investing in Indian stocks. He was apprehensive about a proposal made by me to disinvest PSU stocks by selling them to the governments banks for onward restructure and disinvestment. The minister had clearly spoken to him. At that time too I wondered if the HBS’s core business ethics course would have seen conflict of interest issues in it? The minister however had plenty of flex in him. To my mind tax avoidance is just as reprehensible as tax evasion. Sinha was too junior in the Finance Ministry to have expressed views on this. It would have been unlikely though for that is not the HBS way. The previous Finance Minister, himself a Harvard MBA, would not have any left footprints for young Sinha to tread on. Neither would the present lawyer Finance Minister. CorruptionParadise PapersPanama PapersGovernment of IndiaLead Image: Full Article
is Smog disrupts Northern Railways By www.hardnewsmedia.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:32:41 +0000 Hardnews Bureau The smog that has engulfed large swathes of Northern India has effectively brought the Northern Indian Railways to a standstill Witnessing delays and cancellations due to the heavy smog that has descended over large parts of North India, several long-distance trains reaching stations such as New Delhi, Chandigarh and Lucknow and others have been held up by more than twelve hours. This disruption has caused several problems, many people have been stranded, unable to get to their workplaces on time, while others have been seen lying on the platform. Trains that have been delayed: Kamyakhya Express Kamkhaya Junction, Maligaon Guwahati Anand Vihar, New Delhi + 20h Chhattisgarh Express Bilaspur, Chhatisgarh Amritsar, Punjab +11h Heerakund Express Amritsar Jn, Punjab Vishakhapatanam, Andhra Pradesh +5h Lucknow-Chandigarh Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chandigarh, Punjab +5h Unchahar Express Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Chandigarh, Punjab +5h50m According to the Northern Railways, over 25 trains were delayed in the Ambala division on Thursday. The morning Shatabdi, operating between Chandigarh and Delhi, was delayed by three hours and failed to reach at the scheduled time. “The trains are running late due to smog in Delhi and other parts of the northern states. On Thursday as well several trains were delayed. We don’t see any change in the coming days. The situation will improve only if the smoggy weather ends,” said an official to news agencies. Several trains have been cancelled as well, which include: The Ajmer-Jammu Tavi Express, New Delhi-Amritsar Express, Allahabad-Saharanpur Express, Amritsar-Jai Nagar express, Malda-Delhi Farakka Express, Poorvottar Express from Amritsar to Silchar and Pooja Express from Jammu to Ajmer. Smog disrupts Northern Railways HealthSmogPollutionTrainsNorthern Indian RailwaysLead Image: Full Article
is Kozhikode Corpn. rolls back decision to hand over Muthalakkulam project to private firm By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:36:08 +0530 The Kozhikode Corporation Council has gone back on its decision to hand over the project for renovation of Muthalakkulam grounds to Salim Group and As Full Article Kozhikode
is Motorist hurt after metro worker’s tool falls on him By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:42:21 +0530 A two-wheeler rider was injured on Saturday evening after a hand grinder, that slipped from the hands of a worker engaged in cladding work over Kochi Full Article Kochi
is Rumour on issuance of token for train tickets creates furore By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:49:38 +0530 Workers rush to Tiruppur Railway Station, only to be disappointed Full Article Coimbatore
is Public advised to exercise caution while handling biomedical waste By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:03:31 +0530 The district administration has advised public to exercise caution while handling biomedical waste of persons in home quarantine or from quarantine fa Full Article Coimbatore
is Minister visits site for relocation of Uddandapur reservoir oustees By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:07:30 +0530 ‘Proper opportunities would be created for their livelihood’ Full Article Hyderabad
is A COVID-19 social exercise that seems to have got it right on three counts By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:09:27 +0530 It is a case of trying to understand the society around us through experiential knowledge transfer Full Article Chennai
is Eatala kicks off Ayush kit distribution programme By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:09:59 +0530 About 20,000 kits to be distributed to policemen, healthcare workers in red zone areas, in first phase Full Article Hyderabad
is Publicise helpline number for differently-abled persons: HC By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:15:17 +0530 Asks govt. to examine possibility of earmarking exclusive funds for them Full Article Hyderabad
is Clarify stand on AP’s plan to divert Krishna water: CPI By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:35:28 +0530 Chada Venkat Reddy wants Telangana government to announce its water policy Full Article Hyderabad
is Buyer orders one Pixel 4 online, Google delivers 10 units by mistake By Published On :: Buyer orders one Pixel 4 online, Google delivers 10 units by mistake Full Article
is Visakhapatnam gas leak: LG Polymers apologises, offers ‘every support’ to affected By Published On :: Visakhapatnam gas leak: LG Polymers apologises, offers ‘every support’ to affected Full Article
is Rishi Kapoor wanted son Ranbir Kapoor to marry THIS person and not Alia Bhatt? By Published On :: Rishi Kapoor wanted son Ranbir Kapoor to marry THIS person and not Alia Bhatt? Full Article
is Fortified foods vs. supplements: What is better? By Published On :: Fortified foods vs. supplements: What is better? Full Article
is SS Karthikeya walks out of his next venture By Published On :: SS Karthikeya walks out of his next venture Full Article
is Shriya Saran urges fans to help small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis By Published On :: Shriya Saran urges fans to help small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis Full Article
is Mother’s Day 2020: ‘One Day isn’t enough to thank our mothers’, says Divya Khosla Kumar who feels we should express our gratitude towards them whenever we feel it By Published On :: Mother’s Day 2020: ‘One Day isn’t enough to thank our mothers’, says Divya Khosla Kumar who feels we should express our gratitude towards them whenever we feel it Full Article
is Gymnastics: Italian Lodadio cultivates his garden to stay fit By Published On :: Gymnastics: Italian Lodadio cultivates his garden to stay fit Full Article
is Lewis Hamilton grateful for Grand Prix 'sabbatical' By Published On :: Lewis Hamilton grateful for Grand Prix 'sabbatical' Full Article
is US PGA's Memorial to track fans to maintain COVID-19 social distancing By Published On :: US PGA's Memorial to track fans to maintain COVID-19 social distancing Full Article