News by Numbers
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Does India care about free speech? Lesser than Russia
India ranks 25th out of 33 countries in its support for free speech, a survey of 50,000 people done by Danish think tank Justitia and British data analytics firm YouGov found. It further assessed that while 'in principle' support for free speech is high everywhere, it drops significantly, even in India, when confronted with competing values like religion, health, and national security
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News By Numbers: New Delhi joins Canadian, US cities to ride the unprecedented heatwave
New Delhi, India's capital, was among the hottest cities—Lytton, Canada and Salem, US— in the world on June 30. Alas, the reason wasn't the thriving culture
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News by Numbers: IoT—Internet of Thieves
The 2021 Norton LifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report defines a cybercrime as having personally experienced a crime committed with devices over the Internet. This includes crimes such as theft or fraud, and crimes that target other computers and connected devices to access the data on the device or that affect the device's operation
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From 2007 to 2020: Here's how the iPhone has evolved
A quick look at how the iPhone has evolved in shape, size, and more, in the 13 years since it was first launched in 2007
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As Wimbledon returns, some key numbers you should know
One of the most prestigious tennis tournaments and the third Grand Slam of the year begins today. The event was called off last year due to the pandemic, the first pause since World War II. We break it down in numbers
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Chasing the rain
Although the first two weeks of June witnessed a vigorous start to the monsoon this year, by mid-June it seemed to be losing some steam. Numbers, however, show that the season still holds promise
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Timeline: The life, rise and fall of John McAfee
Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee died in Spanish prison outside Barcelona, by an alleged suicide by hanging in his cell. This comes soon after Spain approved the US's extradition request of him. A look at the life, rise and fall of John McAfee through the years
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India is likely to spend up to $3 billion on cybersecurity in 2022
In 2020 alone, data breaches cost India an average of $2 million per such event. A look at which Indian state has the most cybersecurity cases on record, the one that has arrested the most, and more
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Cheat-sheet: Class 12th results evaluation for various boards from CBSE to state
Class 12 examinations, crucial for college admissions, have been cancelled across the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here's a look at the different evaluation assessment models devised by various boards so far, to compute results for the academic year 2020-21
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Here's how much data Indians consume per month
A look at the amount of mobile data used per smartphone, on average, in India on a monthly basis
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Over Rs 20,700 crore: That's how much money Indians have stowed in Swiss banks
In 2020, Indians parked 2.55 billion Swiss francs or Rs 20,700 crore in Swiss banks, up from 899 million in 2019. Here's an approximate breakup of the holdings