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Haryana Minister Offers Gun, Gunmen And Money To Voters In Local Bodies Election

Manish Grover, the Haryana Minister of State for Cooperatives has courted controversy after he allegedly offered guns, money and gunmen to voters while campaigning for the municipal elections. Grover who was addressing an election campaign in Rohtak’s Pahrawar village allegedly made the offer after some villagers complained that that one of the candidates in the …

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'Sealed' EVM Found Abandoned On Road After Polling In Rajasthan, EC Claims It Was Not Used

If  the assembly elections, which just concluded was anything, it was a credibility nightmare for the Election Commision.  A number of incidents, mostly related to Electronic Voting Machines.  Adding to the headache of the EC is an EVM which was found lying unattended on the national highway in Shahabad area of Kishanganj constituency in Rajasthan.  #WATCH: A ballot unit was …

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Strong Democracy Didn't Let Even 0.5% Of 180 Million Indian Muslims Join ISIS: Ex-IB Director

Out of a total population of 180 million Indian Muslims, only 108 had joined the terrorist outfit Islamic State informed former Intelligence Bureau Director Syed Asif Ibrahim on Friday. 108 Muslims accounted only for 0.000058% of the total Indian Muslim population. He attributed the reason behind such low numbers to Sufi and non-Salafi nature of Islam in India. Existence of …

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Facebook temporarily removes post accusing it of having a ‘black people problem’

Facebook temporarily pulled down a post by a former employee who accused the tech firm of having “a black people problem,” a removal that didn’t escape the attention of its author. Mark Luckie, who left his job as Facebook’s strategic partner manager for global influencers, posted his note publicly on Nov. 27. The post accused Facebook of “failing its black …

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FCC kicks off investigation into broadband map accuracy

The federal government keeps a map that highlights areas that have or don’t have broadband service. Critics say this national broadband map doesn’t accurately reflect the level of access in the US. Now, the Federal Communications Commission is going to act on this. On Friday, Chairman Ajit Pai said his agency will investigate if carrier companies have submitted incorrect coverage …

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Apple now sells the new Beddit 3.5 sleep monitor for $150

On Friday, Apple released the new Beddit 3.5 Sleep Monitor. It’s the first sleep tracker Apple has launched with Beddit since it acquired the company in 2017. The Beddit Sleep Monitor was registered on the FCC website earlier in the week, and now you can buy it from Apple’s website for $150/£149/AU$229. Like the previous Beddit Sleep Monitors, the new …

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Holiday shoppers forecasted to spend over $124 billion online

Holidays shoppers are set to break even more online sales records this year. Adobe Analytics forecasts that this holiday season, which runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, will see at least $124.1 billion in total online retail sales in the US. By Thursday, shoppers had already spent a record $80.3 billion online, an 18.6 percent increase from last year, …

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Brave browser matures with move to Chromium foundation

Borrowing Google’s open-source Chrome browser technology is popular these days. One day after Microsoft announced it’s ditching its own EdgeHTML core and rebuilding its Edge browser on Google’s rival Chromium project instead, rival Brave said it’s completed its own move to a tighter integration with the software. When Brave launched two years ago, it used its own interface software, but …

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