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"The current debate goes much beyond privacy-oriented consumers, with some even contemplating stopping their WhatsApp usage, and considering alternatives, such as Telegram or Signal," said Satya Mohanty

The prime minister expressed confidence that MPs will not shy away from contributing to make full use of Parliament for fulfilling people's aspirations.

The opposition parties led by Congress and backed by the Left parties and a few regional parties decided on Thursday not to attend Kovind's joint address.

Around 500 protesters stayed put at the UP Gate with more pouring in from western Uttar Pradesh in the night on the call of the BKU, an influential farmers' union in north India.

There are 1,71,686 active coronavirus cases in the country, which account for only 1.60 per cent of the total number of cases.

Earlier, the DGCA had extended the restriction on flights between India and the UK till February 14 to contain the spread of a new strain of COVID-19.

The Budget Session will begin today with an address by President Ram Nath Kovind to the joint sitting of two houses of Parliament.

The Centre has told the top court that no extra attempt for UPSC will be given to students who had their last attempt in October and those who could not appear due to Covid-19.

Late on Wednesday night, a large number of police personnel entered their tents, resorted to lathi charge on the sleeping farmers and chased them away, they told reporters.

The update for Redmi 8 has the firmware version V12.0.1.0.QCNINXM while the Redmi 8A's firmware is V12.0.1.0.QCPINXM. The former weighs around 2.1GB while the latter is about 1.8GB in size, reports GizmoChina.

Apple delivered a phenomenal performance in the December quarter, returning to the top position with 90.1 million devices shipped, driven by the success of the iPhone 12 series, according to preliminary data from the IDC

According to software company Pegasystems, the study surveyed over 1,000 consumers in India on their views about AI as it relates to morality, ethical behaviour and empathy.

While the B2B firms are more prepared than B2C, 80 per cent of organisations have a defined data retention policy, according to a joint report by Deloitte and Blancco, that provides data erasure and mobile device diagnostics software.

"The STPs at Rithala, Kondli, Coronation Pillar and Okhla with a total capacity of 279 million gallons a day are under rehabilitation/upgradation and likely to be completed by June 2023," the Delhi government said in the affidavit.

He also said that the youth wing of India's armed forces has witnessed a 35 per cent increase in the number of girl cadets in the last few years.

The HP Smart Tank 500 is available at a starting price of Rs 11,999 at HP Online shopping while the HP Smart Tank 515 wireless is available at a starting price of Rs 14,499.

The polling to the civic bodies in 20 districts of the state started at 8 am and will continue till 5 pm, A spokesperson of the State Election Commission said 48.89 per cent polling was recorded till 1 pm.

"While these findings do not indicate the need for a new vaccine to address the emerging variants, the companies are prepared to respond if a variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates evidence of escaping immunity by the Covid-19 vaccine," Pfizer and BioNTech said in a statement on Wednesday.

The new facility will serve as a premier hub for driving engineering and innovation, Microsoft said, adding that the new facility is Microsoft's third Development Centre in India after Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said, "The only issue of the boycott is farm laws and 16 parties have decided to jointly boycott the Address".

Sidhu was present at the Red Fort when a religious flag and a farmer flag were put at the flagpole at the historic monument, triggering massive outrage.

All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective state governments.

Total jewellery demand in India for 2020 was down by 42 per cent at 315.9 tonnes as compared to 544.6 tonnes in 2019. The value of jewellery demand in 2020 was Rs 1,33,260 crores, down by 22 per cent from 2019

For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections.