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Loan apps with Chinese links under scanner

These apps offer instant loans to Indians on attractive terms, without any collateral security or paper work.

News S. Rama Krishna

SIKHISM: See beyond the perishable

This particular incident from the travels of Guru Nanak Dev alludes to the practice...

Sacred Texts DAVINDER P.S. SANDHU

ISLAM: Miraculous nine days

According to researchers at University of California, Berkeley, a rapid succession of coronal mass...

Sacred Texts Late Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

HINDUISM: The worship of idols

Idol worship helps the mind to ideal worship. An idol is a symbol for...

Sacred Texts Prarthna Saran

Return the ASEAN Sea to Southeast Asia

Geographically, the nomenclature ‘South China Sea’ makes no sense, as the territories comprising South...

opinion M.D. Nalapat

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Tech-savvy city bans a crime- fighting tool: Facial recognition

San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use of facial...

Europe is reining in tech giants. But some say it’s going too far

In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded anti-terrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German citizens were blocked because...

‘Striding across the Pacific’: Huawei’s identity problem

Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei once recommended that his senior executives watch a TV series called Proof of Identity. In that 2009 series, a...

Vivo is gearing up for its next growth phase in India

One of the most successful Chinese smartphone brands in our time, Vivo has gone from strength to strength in the last few years. The...

Smartphones that will set the pace for the entire industry

It’s clear that the global smartphone industry is going to see exponential growth in the coming years, and that it is going to be...

With focus on phone cameras, Huawei plays to its strengths

From being an underdog in the global smartphone market to becoming an industry leader, Huawei has covered a long distance in a very short...

Oppo has big, innovative and market-savvy plans for India

It was only five years ago that the Chinese smartphone brand Oppo ventured into the Indian market. Today, it has established itself as one...

Apple’s surprise package from the latest Cupertino event

Apple launch events at its Cupertino headquarters in California have acquired a mythic status. Whatever is announced from this stage tends to make headlines...

Riversong and its attempts to carve a lucrative niche in India

The successful run of several Chinese smartphone brands in India—from Xiaomi to OnePlus—has paved the way for new players to follow in their footsteps....