Daily Newsletter | Saturday, February 18, 2017
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| India’s rocket dreams were born in Ahmedabad |
| As the nation sat glued to their TV sets watching Isro’s workhorse, PSLV-C37, launch 104 satellites into space — a new world record—the vapour trail of this dream leads back to the year 1962. |
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| Facebook CEO wants users to ‘define’ objectionable content |
| Already facing flak for its censorship policies, Facebook now wants its users to define what is “objectionable”, eventually empowering them to decide how much nudity and violence they are comfortable seeing, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post. |
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| Sania slams media for focusing on tax notice and not her game |
| “Standing ovation to our amazing certain sections of media who haven’t bothered to write or report about me being in another semi finals of a tournament in Qatar, but heyyy there are 100 articles about ‘tax evasion’ which most of them don’t even understand properly,” Sania tweeted on Friday. |
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| Will focus on expanding into banking this year: Paytm |
| Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Friday said the company will focus on expanding its operations in banking. Sharma said the Paytm Payments Bank will become operative next week. Talking about expanding customer base, he said by 2020 the company targets to reach a customer base of 500 million. |
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| Notes ban to have positive impact on economy: Report |
| The demonetisation move has led to widespread adoption of online payment and is expected to have a positive long term impact on the economy, according to a report. Combining demonetisation with Digital India and Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana will ensure transparency in financial transactions. |
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