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READ MORE Asus CEO Jerry Shen took the stage at Mobile World Congress 2018 and took the wraps off not one, but three new ZenPhone 5 devices: the ZenPhone 5Z, ZenPhone 5 and ZenPhone 5 Lite. The announcement brings Asus’ ZenPhone line up to par with modern smartphone design, including adding the ubiquitous notch to one of the devices. Let’s start with the best of the bunch, the ZenPhone 5Z. During the unveiling of the ZenPhone 5 series, Asus made it abundantly clear that it went in a direction that consumers want. That meant it slimmed down the bezels, included bigger displays and added design quirks that make the phone stand out. All that coalesced into the ZenPhone 5Z, a mobile powerhouse. The specs speak for themselves; the Snapdragon 845, configured 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and dual camera system ensure this device has all the features consumers want. Asus followed a similar path with design. On the front of the 5Z lives a 6.2-inch display that overtakes nearly the...

READ MORE Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The Australia women’s Under-19 team is set to play for the first time in 15 years when they travel to South Africa for a tri-series, also featuring England, in April. Having last played a match in 2003, against England at home, the tour will also be the maiden overseas foray for the Under-19 side. The Cricket Australia Women’s youth selection panel named a 14-member squad that will take on South Africa’s Emerging Women and England Women’s Academy across four 50-over matches – between April 12 and 18 – and two Twenty20s, on April 24 and 26. The final will be a 50-over match and will be played on April 28. The team will be coached by former Australia batsman and current Cricket Australia high performance coach and Under-19 head coach Leah Poulton, with Ben Sawyer and Luke Williams acting in the assistant roles. The leadership duties will be split across the formats, with 16-yea...

READ MORE Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring for PSG Photo:AP With star striker Neymar out injured, Angel Di Maria staked his claim to start against Real Madrid next week by scoring two goals as Paris Saint-Germain beat a sloppy Marseille side 3-0 Wednesday to reach the French Cup semifinals. Di Maria put French Cup holder PSG ahead on the stroke of halftime, whipping in a fierce shot from the edge of the penalty area after Marseille failed to clear the ball properly and it was played back into his path. Marseille’s poor defending led to the Argentina winger’s second goal, three minutes after the break. Center half Aymen Abdennour failed to clear an easy ball — swiping wildly as it went under his foot — and Di Maria fired in his 12th goal since January. PSG’s top scorer Edinson Cavani guided in the third after Julian Draxler astutely headed the ball into his path with 10 minutes left. League leader PSG beat Marseille by the same score on Sunday, and ju...

READ MORE Rafael Nadal has aggravated his leg injury forcing him to pull out of Mexican Open. Rafael Nadal pulls out of Mexican Open as hip injury flares up Roger Federer thanks Rafael Nadal after winning Laureus Award, watch video Rafa Nadal out for three weeks after Australian Open injury setback Top seed Rafael Nadal has pulled out of this week’s Mexican Open in Acapulco after aggravating the leg injury that forced him out of the Australian Open last month. The world number two, who was due to face fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez on Wednesday, said he felt a sharp pain during his final training session on Tuesday and decided not to compete on the advice of his medical team. “Doctors have told me that it is impossible to play, regardless of whether it hurts,” said Nadal. “There is a significant risk of increasing the injury and I have no choice. “I was well prepared to play and I had hopes of doing something important here....

READ MORE Shah Rukh Khan And Sridevi Photo:PINTEREST Bollywood’s veteran actress Sridevi’s last rites were performed on Wednesday at Vile Parle Seva Samaj crematorium, where she was cremated with full state honours. Prior to that, a prayer meet was held at Celebrations Sports Complex where thousand of her fans and Bollywood celebs arrived to pay their last respects to the legendary actress. Bollywood actors like Rekha, Sushmita Sen, Shahid Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Kajol, Ajay Devgn among others came to pay their homage to India’s first female superstar. Among the array of celebs was superstar Shah Rukh Khan who arrived to pay his respects to the actress who left us all too soon. Reflecting on the sudden demise of screen legend Sridevi, SRK has written an emotional and insightful post on Twitter. SRK wrote, “How can one not just feel love beauty be grateful for a life that became a part of yours in some small way by making it prettier…....

READ MORE Rajkumar Santoshi Filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi has stated that he went to the hospital for routine check-up and he is well. He added that has no heart ailment, contrary to media reports. “I am well and have no heart ailment. I had gone to Nanavati Hospital for a routine check-up. Thank you for your concern. I value it,” Santoshi said in a statement. Santoshi was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday evening, and he will be under observation till Saturday morning. He is there for routine tests, his spokesperson told IANS. This is indeed a sigh of relief to all his fans. Salman Khan and Aamir Khan starrer Andaz Apna Apna, which was directed by the filmmaker is one of the cult films of the Hindi cinema. It is till remembered for its dialogues. The filmmaker is one of the popular directors of Bollywood. He has made films like “Ghayal”, “Damini”, “Ghatak”, “Pukar”, “The Legend of Bhagat Singh” and “Phata ...

READ MORE WhatsApp has still not brought forward proposals to address EU regulators’ concerns over the messaging service’s sharing of user data with parent company Facebook , Facebook’s European regulator said on Wednesday. The popular messaging service changed its privacy policy over a year ago to start sharing users’ phone numbers and other information with Facebook. That drew widespread regulatory scrutiny across Europe, and WhatsApp subsequently suspended the data sharing for EU users. The Irish data protection authority (DPC) – which has jurisdiction over Facebook because the company’s European headquarters are in Dublin – said last April it hoped to reach a deal with WhatsApp on the data sharing in a matter of months. With no proposals forthcoming, the DPC said it had maintained its insistence that WhatsApp’s EU personal data not be shared with Facebook for the management of advertising campaigns and product enhancement purposes unt...

READ MORE A long time after serving its offerings largely for fitness enthusiasts, Fitbit is now apparently looking to attract the masses with its new smartwatch – which has been leaked in some images. The new wearable, which could debut as the Fitbit Blaze 2, is rumoured to run the same Fitbit OS that first arrived on the Ionic last year, though it is also said to lack GPS support. Importantly, Fitbit CEO James Park during the recent investor call divulged the plans to launch a smartwatch with “mass appeal” and efforts to expand the existing smartwatch category, adding credibility to the rumour. The leaked images, shared by Wearable, show an all-new Fitbit device that appears to be reminiscent of the Pebble Time Steel. Fitbit notably acquired Pebble last year and is set to end support for Pebble smartwatches in June. Folks at Wearable mention that the device spotted on the renders will come as a successor to the Fitbit Blaze ; it is thus expected to be launched as...

READ MORE Xiaomi Redmi 5A, the ‘Made in India’ smartphone, features a 5-inch HD display. Xiaomi Redmi 5A will go on sale on Mi.com and Flipkart from 12 PM today. Redmi 5A can be bought in Grey, Gold or Rose Gold colour options and comes in either 16GB or 32GB storage variants. Xiaomi Redmi 5A with 2GB RAM+16GB storage is priced at Rs 4,999, while the 3GB RAM+32GB storage option costs Rs 6,999. Reliance Jio is offering Rs 1000 cashback to people who buy the Redmi 5A. The cashback will be given in the form of ten vouchers of Rs 100 each. Redmi 5A users will have to do 13 consecutive recharges of Rs 198 each to become eligible for the offer. Xiaomi Redmi 5A, the ‘Made in India’ smartphone, features a 5-inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and a pixel density of 296 ppi. The phone sports a metal unibody design. It is powered by a Quad–core 1.4GHz Snapdragon 425 processor with Adreno 308 GPU for graphic performanc...

READ MORE Google is keeping a free version of Hangouts as it does for Gmail and Docs. The paid version of Hangouts supports group conversations with up to 8,000 participants. Google released an update to its internet chat tool Hangouts, aiming to make it suitable in workplaces so the Alphabet Inc unit can compete with business software makers including Microsoft Corp and Slack Technologies Inc. Hangouts Chat supports instant messaging across devices between workers, including group conversations. It also allows users to integrate widgets to access data from other corporate software in a chat window. Google announced the service last March, but told Reuters it would be available to all customers for the first time on Wednesday. Hangouts Chat sits in Google’s G Suite, a workplace software package that includes email and word-processing tools, for which more than 4 million businesses globally pay as much as $25 per user each month. Hangouts launched as a free service ...

READ MORE Voyager 2, despite its name, was the first of two twin probes launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets. While Voyager 1 focused on Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2 took close-up pictures of those planets as well as Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2’s mission to those last two planets would be humanity’s only visit there in the 20th century. Even today, the spacecraft is still beaming back information from the very edge of the solar system. Carrying a golden record bearing sounds from Earth, Voyager 2 is poised to enter interstellar space and rake in new scientific discoveries, 40 years after its launch.  Credit: NASA/JPL Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5. NASA planned for the Voyager spacecraft to take advantage of an alignment of the outer planets that takes place only every 176 years. It would let each probe swing from one planet to the next, using a gravity boost to help it along the way. The V...

READ MORE Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space. It originally was launched (along with Voyager 2) in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system. However, it has remained operational long past expectations and continues to send information about its journeys back to Earth.  The spacecraft officially entered interstellar space in August 2012, almost 35 years after its voyage began. The discovery wasn’t made official until 2013, however, when scientists had time to review the data sent back from Voyager 1. Voyager 1 was actually the second of the twin spacecraft to launch, but it was the first to race by Jupiter and Saturn. The images it sent back have been used in schoolbooks and newspaper outlets for a generation. Also on board was a special record, carrying voices and music from Earth out into the cosmos.  Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched about two weeks later, on Sept. 5. Since then, the spacecraft ha...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Fortis Healthcare Ltd, whose promoters have been facing multiple legal troubles, reported a net loss for the September and December quarters late on Wednesday, after it sought an extension to approve results for the two reporting periods. Fortis posted a net loss of 236.1 million rupees ($3.62 million) for the quarter ending Sept. 30 compared with a profit of 382.4 million rupees a year ago, mainly on a one-time charge due to the closure of a hospital, it said in a stock exchange filing. bit.ly/2FCVJgh For the December quarter, it reported a net loss of 191 million rupees, compared with a profit of 4.53 billion rupees on a one-off gain by an associate company in the year-ago period. bit.ly/2FHs8lO The main shareholders of Fortis, Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh, stepped down from the board last month saying it was in the interests of the company because of multiple legal troubles they were facing. On Wednesday, the promoters including the Si...

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READ MORE Walmart Inc, the largest US retailer, joined Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc in raising the minimum age to purchase firearms to 21 after the massacre at a Florida high school that has reopened a fierce debate over gun control in America. Walmart said that “in light of recent events” it was raising the age for purchasers of firearms and ammunition to 21 from 18. The retailer is also was removing items from its website that resemble assault rifles, including non-lethal airsoft guns and toys. Walmart stopped selling assault firearms and accessories in 2015 and only sells handguns in Alaska. Building on our 2015 decision to not sell modern sporting rifles, we announced important changes today: – Raising the age for purchase of firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21 years old – Removing online items resembling assault-style rifles See details https://t.co/K7wnc0XEwK Walmart (@Walmart) February 28, 2018 Dick’s, a US retailer of camping supplies, sporting...

READ MORE Jammu: Heavy firing exchanges erupted on Thursday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district after two Pakistani soldiers were killed in retaliatory firing by the Indian side overnight. The incident occurred in the Bhimber Gali area of Jammu and Kashmir. Heavy shelling and firing exchanges were going on in Balakote and Manjakote areas of the LoC in Rajouri, defence sources said. “After the Pakistani Army resorted to unprovoked shelling and firing in Manjakote and Balakote sectors, our positions retaliated effectively,” the sources said. Also Watch Sridevi Death : Meet the Man Who Helped Send Back Sridevi’s Body to India Samsung Galaxy S9, S9+ First Look at MWC 2018 Watch Now: Exclusive Interview With Jimmy Shergill, Pulkit Samrat and Kriti Kharbanda #NotSoSerious LG V30S ThinQ First Look Video at MWC 2018 Article source: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karnataka-polls-2018-rahul-embark-three-day-campaign-address-all-women-rally-76913 Best Wo...

READ MORE New Delhi: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has transferred IIS Group A Officers’ Association president Anindya Sengupta with immediate effect, according to an order. Sengupta had recently written to the prime minister’s office (PMO) regarding the transfers of Indian Information Service (IIS) officers by the IB ministry, alleging that the “large-scale” transfers were happening due to the ministry’s refusal to adhere to the laid down policies and guidelines. Sengupta, who was working as the Director of Doordarshan News, New Delhi has been transferred as the Director at the Publication Division, New Delhi, the ministry’s order said. The transfer was with “immediate effect or until further order”, it added. In the letter written to the secretary to the prime minister, Sengupta had said the ministry had issued a number of transfer orders, affecting one-fourth (around 140 officers out of less than 500 Group A officers) of...

READ MORE New Delhi:  A top committee including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Justice of India, meets today on the appointment of an anti-corruption Lokpal but the main opposition Congress has refused to be a part of it, objecting to “special invitee” status in the meeting. “A more apt and statesman-like conduct is expected from the prime minister of the country,” Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has written in a sharp letter to PM Modi, refusing the invitation. “My mere presence as special invitee without rights of participation, recording of my opinion and voting would be a mere eyewash ostensibly aimed at showcasing the participation of the opposition in the selection process,” he says, calling the ‘Special Invitee Invitation’ a concerted effort to exclude the opposition from the selection process. The selection panel includes the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India, the Lok Sabha Speaker and an eminent juris...