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Guide to debugging Android NDK apps with Eclipse and gdb (video)

   Debugging Android* NDK apps with Eclipse* and gdb Eclipse* with ADT plugin and CDT, all part of the ADT bundle, support the Android* NDK quite well. You can even use gdb integration to debug yo...




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How to use Intel Mashery APIs, Edison and XDK for a basic Node.js application

  In this article I will be demonstrating how to create a basic Node.js application using Intel Mashery's JamBase API with Intel Edison and XDK. You will find accompanying GitHub source in the provi...




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Intel XDK Update - HTML5 Games, Sublime Text* & Easier to Get Started

  We are gearing up for two of the biggest shows of the year: Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco and Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain - both the week of March 2. Come loo...




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How to use Intel XDK plugins for Sublime Text

  Rejoice Sublime Text* users, you can now automate Intel® XDK tasks directly from Sublime Text. With the new plugin for the Intel XDK, you can edit your code in Sublime Text and launch the editor,...




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How To Make Your Existing Windows Version Look Like Windows 10

  It’s been more than a month since the public release of Windows 10 and after seeing all the feature updates and the deceptive snooping efforts by Microsoft, if you are yet to be convinced about...




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The best tools to get started with Augmented Reality development

  Last month, Pokémon GO officially launched in… Oh, wait! Not again! Not another article about augmented reality starting with Pokémon GO! It almost seems as if Pokémon GO a...




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Tutorial: Character Modeling for 3D Applications

  Introduction Character modeling is the process of creating a character within the 3D space of computer programs. The techniques for character modeling are essential for third - and first - person e...




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How to Preserve VR Performance when Anti-Aliasing

   File(s): TSCMAA-CodeSample (76.6 MB) License: BSD 3-clause Optimized with..   OS: Windows® 10 ​ H...




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SMEs seek one-year extension to Scip database, poison centres deadlines

Regulatory work relegated to background amid Covid-19




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Australia consults on restrictions for isothiazolinones

Applies to rinse-off cosmetics and other preparations




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Colombia publishes GHS instructions for workplaces

Resolution details the country's 2018 adoption of UN system




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Efsa publishes framework for scientific assessments

Intended for staff and external experts




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China publishes final text of regulation governing new chemicals

MEE Order 12 comes into force 1 January 2021




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Church and Dwight eliminates 97% of ‘chemicals of concern’

Consumer products giant provides updates on 2020 chemicals goals




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Envi urges ‘dynamic alignment’ of future UK-EU chemicals laws

Pushes need for future cooperation agreements




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China to publish several mandatory standards for disinfectants

Will go into force 1 November this year




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Covid-19: Deadline extensions, derogations and supply-chain news

The latest news and developments




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Govt uses JAM-based digital pipeline to transfer over Rs 28k crore to 32 crore people

By front-loading PM-Kisan, the Centre has transferred Rs 13,855 crore as the first instalment of Rs 2,000 to each of the 6.93 crore farmers as on Friday, the finance ministry tweeted.




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Covid-19 crisis: Supreme Court seeks details of relief steps for migrant labour

In its status report submitted earlier, the Centre had said that all the steps were being taken for the welfare and benefit of migrant workers.




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FICCI panel seeks relief based on Dutch-model wage subsidy

The letter has urged, mainly for wage subsidy to large employers, on the lines of the Netherlands and Australia .




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Coronavirus lockdown 2.0 guidelines: Select economic activities to resume

Job guarantee programme (MGNREGA) works are allowed with strict implementation of social distancing and face mask.




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RBI reduces FPI investment limits in G-secs to Rs 2.34 lakh crore for FY21

At the same time, long term FPI investment limits in G-secs have been brought down to Rs 1.03 lakh crore from the prevailing limit of Rs 1.15 lakh crore  a reduction of almost $1.5 billion.




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RBI provides limited provisioning relief for unresolved cases

According to the June 7, 2019, circular of the RBI, banks had to make additional 20% provisioning for the cases where resolution could not be reached over a period of 210 days, after signing the inter-creditor agreement.




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RBI to provide Rs 50,000-crore refinance facility to AIFIs

The measure has been taken by the RBI to meet sectoral credit needs at a time when the institutions are facing difficulty in tapping the market.




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RBI grants NPA relief, but with 10% additional provisioning

Prior to RBI’s announcement on Friday, three-month moratorium was limited to accounts whose installments were falling due after March 1, 2020.




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COVID-19 crisis: WMA limit hike for states to help reduce market borrowing cost

With the increased WMA limit, state governments are expected to plan their market borrowings in a better way rather than bunch up their borrowings, leading to oversupply issues.




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Lower inflation to open up policy space further: RBI

As for growth, the governor stuck to sharing the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) view on India's growth, offering no forecast from the central bank.




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COVID-19 lockdown: No immediate relief in supply of goods

The stock of products with retailers currently is just about sufficient and distributors have been directed to supply them with quantities that will last for about four days or so.




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COVID-19 lockdown: Govt gives blanket extension of timeline for renewable projects

The move comes after renewable companies made representations to the government to allow a blanket extension for six months to overcome supply-side disruptions in completing the projects.




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Maharashtra agri body seeks procurement of grade 2 & 3 quality cotton

Ginning units are not keen on buying cotton since most of the workers have left for their villages and they do not have the capital to buy cotton and other processing units are also shut.




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Southern India Spinners’ Association seeks relief from Tamil Nadu

The unprecedented situation created by Covid–19 pandemic and lockdown announced by both the Union and state governments from March 24 has led to severe disruptions affecting the economy and impacting people at large and the MSME spinning mills.




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Cane dues pile up to over Rs 13,000 crore as mills face liquidy crunch

Now that the GOI has fixed the base price of sugar and most of the mills have set up distilleries too, to augment their business, the scenario has changed.




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No conflict if state cane prices higher than minimum fixed by Centre: Supreme Court

Since 2009-10, the SMP has been replaced with fair and remunerative price (FRP) and some states like Uttar Pradesh continue to announce state-advised prices which are higher than FRPs.




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Don’t limit packages to businesses, lenders; states too need succour: Sharad Pawar to PM Modi

Pawar’s letter to Modi dated April 25 echoed similar demands raised by many states including Kerala and Punjab, and underlined the notion that cutting spending was hardly an option for states at this juncture.




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Market reliance: Govt in a fix over raising H1 borrowing target

The central government will likely ramp up market borrowing in the second half of this fiscal, but may be forced to stick to its target for the first half at the moment.




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Odisha may slash Kalia aid, merge scheme with PM-Kisan

The Odisha government’s direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme for farmers, Kalia, which was announced a few months before the Assembly elections last year, may be curtailed and subsumed in the PM-Kisan scheme run by the Centre.




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Audit files to be opened for scrutiny for greater accountability

The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) has floated draft procedures for submission of audit logs to the regulator by audit companies and chartered accountants (CAs).




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Tax collections to decline further in May, state’s fiscal deficit may touch 4% in FY21: Sushil Modi

The revenue situation will only get worse next month as the lockdown in the whole of April would be reflected in collections in May, said Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi.




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Covid blues: Manufacturing PMI sees record slide in April

Indian manufacturing saw its worst contraction in April, as a nation-wide lock-down hit fresh orders and businesses cut staff at a record pace.




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Coronavirus lockdown 3.0: States up taxes on auto fuels, liquor for income

At least 13 states hike VAT on petrol/diesel since mid-March, many make liquor costlier with new imposts.




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No Aarogya Setu app on mobile punishable act in Noida: Police

The section can attract a fine of Rs 1,000 or imprisonment up to six months.




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Tamil Nadu hikes liquor prices by up to Rs 20, Tasmac shops to open today

The Tamil Nadu government has decided to hike prices of liquor by up to Rs 20, as it is readying itself to open liquor outlets on Thursday.




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COVID cess on liquor: Kerala may go Delhi way

Following the devastating flood in 2018, the state had collected a flood cess which had fetched Rs 308.68 crore to the state exchequer.




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UP hikes taxes on liquor, fuels; hopes to mop up Rs 4,500 crore annually

Grappling with low revenues following the outbreak of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown, the UP government hiked the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel and increased the excise duty on liquor.




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Procedural relief to GST payers, but experts say no substitute for financial package

The e-way bill generated on or before March 24 and expiring during the March 20-April 15 period would now be valid till May 31.




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Indian spinners stare at $3-billion loss in FY21: Icra

As the lockdown in China was lifted from the beginning of April 2020 onwards, spinners there have been scaling up operations.




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Italian ‘Arte Povera’ art critic Germano Celant dies

Through key exhibitions and texts, Celant was an influential proponent of the work of young Italian artists in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Rome, working with natural materials and elements such as dirt, sticks or rags who were seeking to challenge the commercial art scene at the time




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Coverage of Kashmir crackdown, Alaska policing, win Pulitzers

The New Yorker took the feature reporting prize for Ben Taub’s piece on a detainee at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with judges saying the story offered 'a nuanced perspective on America’s wider war on terror.'




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Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ wins Pulitzer Prize

Several of the works honored in the arts explored race in American culture, including the music winner, Anthony Davis’ opera The Central Park Five. It tells of the wrongful conviction of five black and Latino teenagers for the 1989 assault on a white female jogger in Central Park. Five adult singers depicted the group as boys and men in Davis’ opera




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Met Opera Mezzo Rosalind Elias dies at 90

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 13, 1930, Elias was the youngest of 13 brothers and sisters whose parents had migrated to the U.S. from the region later called the Republic of Lebanon