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About 1 million bank officers are expected to participate in the strike on May 30 and May 31 Current Affairs News : Around 1 million bank employees will go on a two-day strike this Wednesday as the conciliation efforts by the Union government failed to convince bank unions to call off protests against the proposed   low wage hike. Additional Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) Rajan Verma met the bank unions, under the banner of the United Forum of Bank Unions   (UFBU), finance ministry officials and bank management, represented by the Indian Banks’ Association   (IBA) in an effort to avert the strike. “The CLC tried his best to sort out the strike-related issues but there is no positive development. Though the bankers, through the IBA, said they are willing to reconsider the proposed wage hike, there was no concrete proposal. Hence, the strike stands,”   All India Bank Employees’ Association   General Secretary C H Venkatachalam said. ...

The Vivo X21 in-display fingerprint sensor smartphone will be Flipkart-exclusive and will go on sale starting May 23 Technology News : Vivo, a Chinese mobile phone brand, was one of the first smartphone manufacturers to launch consumer-ready notch screen-based smartphone   the Vivo V9   in India. Now, in another first, the company is gearing up to launch an in-screen fingerprint sensor -based device the   Vivo   X21. The smartphone will be Flipkart-exclusive and will go on sale starting May 29. The   Vivo   X21 is a flagship smartphone with top of the line specifications. The phone sports a vivid fullHD+ super AMOLED 6.28-inch notch-based screen, which has an embedded fingerprint sensor at the lower bottom. The phone boasts premium glass-metal-glass sandwich design, which is in-line with other premium offerings. Powering the smartphone is a rather modest Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 system-on-chip (SoC), paired with mammoth 6GB of RAM and 128GB...

History also suggests that the danger will probably recede over time as people grow accustomed to the ads, which will cease to work as effectively Technology News : Jordan Peele, the comedian turned horror-movie director, recently made a video meant to give American voters shivers of dread. It showed President Barack Obama giving a speech he never gave, and uttering sentences that he didn’t actually say. The video demonstrated how easy it is to use current   technology   to create powerful and persuasive lies, now also known as   fake news. When this video magic is coupled with the ability of companies like Facebook to micro-target each of us and select the news we see, the implications for the future of our democracy seem dire.   Fake news   and microtargeting can be combined to create a kind of advertising   that’s like an evil version of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and we are being exposed to more of these pernicious morsels every y...

In the eight years from 2004, about 20 million women (the size of the combined populations of New York, London and Paris) vanished from India's workforce, the World Bank estimates Current Affairs News : There are two things New Delhi marketing executive Khyati Malhotra never leaves home without: Her taser and a pepper spray. It’s just part of the investment she makes to stay safe in a country where crimes reported against women have surged over 80 percent in a decade and deadly cases of sexual violence often roil cities and villages. So a chunk of Malhotra’s salary goes into a car and driver to avoid the dangers of public transport, where women are cat-called, groped and assaulted. In Bangalore, Vidya Laxman, an executive at a multinational in India, pays for a battalion of household help and security cameras to keep her children safe. Sajna Nair of Delhi figures she’s lost almost $200,000 in earnings after quitting a bank job because she couldn’t find safe childc...

The CBSE Class 10 exams were marred by controversy in 2018 when question paper leaks being reported from Delhi-NCR, Haryana and Jharkhand of Class 10 mathematics paper Education News : CBSE will declare results of Class 10 examinations today at 4 pm. The results will be available on the official website of CBSE which is cbse.nic.in. Students can also check their results on cbseresults.nic.in, cbse.examresults.net. Over 16 lakh students appeared for Class 10 exams this year. "Results of CBSE Class 10 examinations for 2017-18 to be declared by 4 pm on 29th of May, 2018," Union Education   Secretary Anil Swarup tweeted on Monday. Central Board of Secondary   Education   conducted Class 10th examination from March 5 to April 4. The CBSE Class 10 exams were marred by controversy in 2018 when question paper leaks being reported from Delhi-NCR, Haryana and Jharkhand of Class 10 mathematics paper. Ministry of Human Resource Development (Ministry of HRD) decided no...

The order is being seen as Islamabad's efforts towards incorporating the disputed region as its fifth province Current Affairs News : Pakistan   has rejected India's protests over its latest move on exercising administrative authority on the disputed   Gilgit-Baltistan   region, saying New Delhi's "spurious" claim over   Jammu and Kashmir   contradicts everything from history to the situation on the ground. Pakistan   cabinet on May 21 approved   Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018 which was also endorsed by the assembly for the region. The order is being seen as Islamabad's efforts towards incorporating the disputed region as its fifth province. India   on Sunday summoned Pakistan's Deputy High Commissioner Syed Haider Shah in New Delhi and lodged a strong protest over Islamabad's latest move, saying any action to alter the status of any part of the territory under its "forcible and illegal occupation" has no legal basis. In a ...

In line with petrol, the price of diesel also increased -- to Rs 69.17 a litre in Delhi, and Rs 73.64 in Mumbai Economy & Policy News : Retail fuel prices in India continue to burn a hole in pockets, with the cost of petrol increasing for a 15th consecutive day on Monday to touch a new high of Rs 78.27 a litre in Delhi, up from Rs 78.12 per litre a day before. This, incidentally, happened on a day when the global crude   oil price   showed a decrease. On Monday, petrol prices in Mumbai stood at Rs 86.08 a litre, in Kolkata Rs 80.76 and in Chennai Rs 81.11. In line with petrol, diesel prices also increased -- to Rs 69.17 per litre in Delhi and Rs 73.64 per litre in Mumbai. Following the Karnataka polls and the 19-day fuel price freeze from April 24, oil marketing companies opted for a price rise for petrol and diesel. On May 15, the price of petrol was increased by 17 paise a litre and that of diesel by 21 paise a litre in Delhi. The petrol price was seen at ...