Delhi University offers unique courses at the Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC), with a keen focus on innovation. The courses are not just aimed at preparing students for a fast-changing innovative world but they also use unique concepts such as ‘meta college’ and ‘meta university’ to allow them to experience multiple colleges and universities during the course. The CIC offers two Read More

Persistency ratio, which tells you what percentage of an insurer’s policies are still in force after a certain period of time, such as one, three or five years, is a criterion you should definitely look up when choosing your life insurer. This data gives you an idea of whether policyholders are retaining their policies with the insurer or exiting it Read More

Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s education secretary, built her political resume by raising and contributing millions of dollars to support the cause of giving parents choices on where their children go to school. The daughter of one wealthy businessman and the wife of another, DeVos has headed a series of groups that help rich contributors spend large sums on elections, Read More

Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc generated $6.5 billion (roughly Rs. 41,914 crores) in revenue last year and its gross bookings doubled to $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,28,964 crores), the company said on Friday. Its adjusted net loss was $2.8 billion (roughly Rs. 18,054 crores), excluding the operation in China it sold last year, Uber said. As a private company, now Read More

Apple has hired NASA augmented and virtual reality expert Jeff Norris, Bloomberg reports, to build AR and VR projects for the company. Norris apparently joined Apple’s augmented reality team earlier this year, Bloomberg says, as a senior manager reporting to former Dolby Labs executive Mike Rockwell. It’s not clear exactly what Norris will be doing at Apple, but Rockwell’s team Read More

Bharti Airtel has said that enough points of interconnection (PoIs) have been provided to Reliance Jio to support 20-25 million subscribers and that the company has not been able to deploy its full capacity due to under-preparedness and insufficient testing effort. “Post our bilateral meeting on September 13 to premeditate on the matter of augmentation of PoIs, we had analysed Read More

With rising concerns on the growth prospects of the information technology sector, equity fund managers have drastically cut their asset allocation to stocks of software companies this calendar year. They’ve pruned their holdings by 300 basis points since January, to a low of 7.7 per cent in August. This is the lowest monthly exposure to information technology (IT) stocks in Read More

With rising concerns on the growth prospects of the information technology sector, equity fund managers have drastically cut their asset allocation to stocks of software companies this calendar year. They’ve pruned their holdings by 300 basis points since January, to a low of 7.7 per cent in August. This is the lowest monthly exposure to information technology (IT) stocks in Read More

Triple Tour de France champion Chris Froome says he has “no issue” with his private medical records being leaked in a cyber attack by Russian hackers on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). – Hackers release another batch of athlete data? – Williams sisters let off by WADA despite positive dope test? A group known as APT28 and Fancy Bear by U.S. cyber-security Read More

Many of Ganesha’s names are used in the chanting of the sahasranam or the thousand-names chant. 1. Akhurath: One who has mouse as his charioteer 2. Alampata: Ever eternal lord 3. Amit: Incomparable lord 4. Anantachidrupamayam: Infinite and consciousness personified 5. Avaneesh: Lord of the whole world 6. Avighna: Remover of obstacles 7. Balaganapati: Beloved and lovable child 8. Bhalchandra: Read More