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"Trump Lost In Rigged Polls, Biden Is Corrupt": Russian Textbook Fuels Controversy
A textbook for Russian students asserts that the 2020 presidential election defeat of former President Donald Trump was a result of voter fraud.
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Books Banned In US Prisons: "The Art Of War", "Prison Ramen" And More
Tens of thousands of books are banned from US prisons, a new report said Wednesday, including a primer on drawing, a book about tying knots and textbooks teaching inmates foreign languages.
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How SVB And Signature Bank Failed So Fast - And The Crisis Isn't Over Yet
Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time.
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BitConnect Founder Satish Kumbhani Charged With $2-Billion Cryptocurrency Fraud by US SEC
The top US securities regulator sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect over his alleged role in fraudulently raising about $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,600 crores) from thousands of retail investors.
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Pearson+ App-Based Subscription Service for Digital Textbooks Announced
Pearson, one of the leading publishers of textbooks in the US, has announced a subscription service called Pearson+ for digital textbooks. Users will be able to take advantage of the subscription service via the Pearson+ app that will reportedly arrive in the US this fall with a global rollout planned as well.
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Hotstar Nukes PM Modi-Centric Episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Hotstar has left out the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which dealt with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and several controversies, including PM Modi’s Hindu nationalist beliefs, the RSS’ Hitler ties, dangerous views of those closest to him — Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath — demonetisation, textbook manipul...
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ISRO Successfully Inserts Cartosat-3, 13 US Nano Satellites Into Orbit
ISRO has successfully placed into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 American nano satellites in a textbook style.
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Apple Hit by Trademark Lawsuit Over iPhone X's Animoji Feature
A Tokyo-based firm has sued Apple, saying it holds the US trademark on the term 'animoji', and that Apple's use of the word is a "textbook case" of deliberate infringement.
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What Reserve Bank Chief Urjit Patel Said On Apple, IBM, Cisco
The RBI chief said the calls for protectionism in the United States were on account of equity and domestic distribution issues which"textbook economics tells us should be addressed through domestic fiscal policy" such as taxation and income transfers.
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Vidya Balan: There Are Not Many Films On Women And Partition
Vidya Balan, who will be portraying the role of a brothel madam in her upcoming film, said that it was difficult to play the role Begum Jaan
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Blog: Replacing 9 Textbooks With 1 Tablet In Mumbai
A brief look at it tells us that 3,76,791 students study in 1,231 schools of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai dotted across the city. The students learn in languages ranging from Marathi to English, Semi-English, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada and more.The deeper one looks at this system, the more surprises it throws up.
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Hindus Oppose Proposed Textbook Changes In California
Hindus in the US are strongly opposing against suggestions mooted by California's Department of Education to make changes in textbooks which they allege not only distort India's history but ignore facts on Hinduism.
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In Gujarat textbooks, Mahatma Gandhi killed in October, Japan nukes US
"Japan dropped a nuclear bomb on US during World War 2", "Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on October 30, 1948" - these are just two of the many factual errors in textbooks published by the Gujarat government for state-run schools.
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Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
US school is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.
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Robo-readers, teachers' new helpers in US
American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbook and testing companies jumped into the field.
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"Trump Lost In Rigged Polls, Biden Is Corrupt": Russian Textbook Fuels Controversy
A textbook for Russian students asserts that the 2020 presidential election defeat of former President Donald Trump was a result of voter fraud.
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Books Banned In US Prisons: "The Art Of War", "Prison Ramen" And More
Tens of thousands of books are banned from US prisons, a new report said Wednesday, including a primer on drawing, a book about tying knots and textbooks teaching inmates foreign languages.
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How SVB And Signature Bank Failed So Fast - And The Crisis Isn't Over Yet
Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed with enormous speed so quickly that they could be textbook cases of classic bank runs, in which too many depositors withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time.
-
BitConnect Founder Satish Kumbhani Charged With $2-Billion Cryptocurrency Fraud by US SEC
The top US securities regulator sued the founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange platform BitConnect over his alleged role in fraudulently raising about $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,600 crores) from thousands of retail investors.
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Pearson+ App-Based Subscription Service for Digital Textbooks Announced
Pearson, one of the leading publishers of textbooks in the US, has announced a subscription service called Pearson+ for digital textbooks. Users will be able to take advantage of the subscription service via the Pearson+ app that will reportedly arrive in the US this fall with a global rollout planned as well.
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Hotstar Nukes PM Modi-Centric Episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Hotstar has left out the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which dealt with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and several controversies, including PM Modi’s Hindu nationalist beliefs, the RSS’ Hitler ties, dangerous views of those closest to him — Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath — demonetisation, textbook manipul...
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ISRO Successfully Inserts Cartosat-3, 13 US Nano Satellites Into Orbit
ISRO has successfully placed into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 American nano satellites in a textbook style.
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Apple Hit by Trademark Lawsuit Over iPhone X's Animoji Feature
A Tokyo-based firm has sued Apple, saying it holds the US trademark on the term 'animoji', and that Apple's use of the word is a "textbook case" of deliberate infringement.
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What Reserve Bank Chief Urjit Patel Said On Apple, IBM, Cisco
The RBI chief said the calls for protectionism in the United States were on account of equity and domestic distribution issues which"textbook economics tells us should be addressed through domestic fiscal policy" such as taxation and income transfers.
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Vidya Balan: There Are Not Many Films On Women And Partition
Vidya Balan, who will be portraying the role of a brothel madam in her upcoming film, said that it was difficult to play the role Begum Jaan
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Blog: Replacing 9 Textbooks With 1 Tablet In Mumbai
A brief look at it tells us that 3,76,791 students study in 1,231 schools of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai dotted across the city. The students learn in languages ranging from Marathi to English, Semi-English, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada and more.The deeper one looks at this system, the more surprises it throws up.
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Hindus Oppose Proposed Textbook Changes In California
Hindus in the US are strongly opposing against suggestions mooted by California's Department of Education to make changes in textbooks which they allege not only distort India's history but ignore facts on Hinduism.
-
In Gujarat textbooks, Mahatma Gandhi killed in October, Japan nukes US
"Japan dropped a nuclear bomb on US during World War 2", "Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on October 30, 1948" - these are just two of the many factual errors in textbooks published by the Gujarat government for state-run schools.
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Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
US school is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.
-
Robo-readers, teachers' new helpers in US
American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbook and testing companies jumped into the field.
