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Winter Solstice is an astronomical event when the Sun reaches the Tropic of Capricorn. It results in the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The event is marked with various traditional festivals, customs and practices. As Winter Solstice approaches, we bring to you wishes and messages to send your loved ones. Festivals & Events Kabir| Dec 20, 2020 04:44 PM IST Winter Solstice is an astronomical event when the Sun reaches the Tropic of Capricorn. It results in the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The date of the winter solstice varies every year between December 20 and December 23, with 21 or 22 being the most common dates. Winter Solstice 2020 is on December 21. The event is marked with various traditional events, festivals, customs and practices. As Winter Solstice approaches, we bring to you wishes and messages to send your loved ones. You can wish your closed people by sending these beautiful Winter Solstice HD Images with messages. It also includes Winter Solstice WhatsApp Stickers, Facebook Greetings, GIFs, Instagram Stories, Messages and SMS to send on the observance. Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will mark…

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Facebook's long campaign to keep conservatives happy didn't buy it protection from a potential breakup, said Jordan Weissmann at Slate. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission and 46 states "filed a massive pair of antitrust suits" accusing Facebook of buying rivals Instagram and WhatsApp to prevent them from competing. The twin cases are "a concerted, full-frontal assault on Mark Zuckerberg's empire," and it's what he deserves. For the past four years, Zuckerberg "bent over backward to avoid offending the Trump administration" while Facebook "kept the traffic flowing to the right-wing fever swamps." Despite the company's efforts to work the refs, Republicans have "continued to haul Zuckerberg" to Capitol Hill so they could gripe about "anti-conservative bias." Zuckerberg thought "playing nice" would spare him a serious regulatory crackdown. He was wrong. Before you talk about breaking up Facebook, show some actual harm to consumers, said Jessica Melugin at the National Review. "Regardless of why Facebook decided to purchase Instagram and WhatsApp," it has used its size and technological "know-how" to vastly improve them. After buying WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, it "dropped download and subscription fees"…

Gadgets NowSlideShows​8 things to know about how hackers target online shoppers on WhatsApp and other social media websitesGadgets Now Bureau19 Dec, 2020, 09:41AM ISTFacebookTwitterLinkedin19​8 things to know about how hackers target online shoppers on WhatsApp and other social media websitesChina-based hackers reportedly used the recent festive sales of Flipkart and Amazon to dupe online shoppers. Please note that the scam did not take place on these e-commerce websites but on WhatsApp and other social media apps. According to a report by CyberPeace Foundation, hackers used the sales to scam online shoppers by sending them malicious links. They ran fake contests with names similar to the sales of these websites -- 'Big Billion Days Spin the Lucky Wheel' and 'Amazon Big Billion Day Sale'. Users are lured to click on malicious links and win prizes. As per the report, these links are still active and operational. Here's what you need to know about this scam as well as other similar online frauds. 29​Several hacker domains of 'Big Billion Days Spin the Lucky Wheel' scam based in ChinaAll domain links are registered in China, specifically in the Guangdong and Henan provinces, under the name of an organization called Fang Xiao Qing. The…

Whatsapp is one of the most popular social media applications used by millions of people across the world. Facebook-owned WhatsApp keeps on adding new features for its users. The messaging app first proposed the idea of introducing the payment feature in India in 2018, but it took the company two years to receive approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in November to go live on Unified Payment Interface (UPI) with over 160 supported banks.However, WhatsApp Pay on Wednesday announced that it is now live with State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and Axis Bank for Indian users. Now, if you want to send and receive money through WhatsApp Pay, you first need to add your bank account on WhatsApp.To add your bank account on WhatsApp, you will need an active account at an Indian bank that supports UPI (Unified Payment Interface). The primary phone number associated with this bank account must match the phone number of your WhatsApp account.To use payments, make sure you're using the latest version of WhatsApp. Here is a step by step guide you can follow to add bank account on WhatsApp using Android and iPhone.How to add bank account on…

The Indian eCommerce space is still maturing – majority of the consumers, especially the tier 2 and 3 residents, still prefer brick and mortar stores, and are suspicious of online stores. There are multiple news reports suggesting how consumers were duped by marketplace sellers and their suspicion is not unwarranted.  Then there is another class of consumers willing to go the extra mile and order online but are not technically equipped to do so. In collaboration with Statista, UAE based eCommerce company YourLibaas conducted a survey to understand the Indian consumer’s pain points within the ethnic apparel space and tried to understand what are the hurdles they face shopping online. They introduced AI-based chatbots for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to facilitate the ordering process as the major pain point turned out to be ‘inability to order online’. Founded by Khalid Raza Khan and Akram Tariq Khan in 2014, YourLibaas features international designers within the ethnic apparel space. “The Indian designer apparel eCommerce space is vibrant and growing at an herculean pace with an influx of new consumers,” said Akram Tariq Khan, cofounder of YourLibaas. Akram, who was born and brought up in the middle east, said that similarities within cultures…

ANICambodia not a dustbin to China, says PM Hun SenPhnom Penh , December 18 (ANI): Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen hit out at China saying the country is not a dumping ground for Beijing in terms of vaccine trial" adding that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will come from the UN-backed COVAX.News18US Joint Chiefs Chairman Meets With Taliban On Peace TalksThe top U.S. general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, even as senior American officials in Kabul warned that steppedup Taliban attacks endanger the militant group's nascent peace negotiations with the Afghan government.ANICBI raids multiple locations in two separate bank fraud casesNew Delhi , December 18 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered two separate cases relating to bank fraud of about Rs 452.62 crore (approx) and Rs 72.55 crore and conducted searches at nine places at premises of the accused in Gujarat and Mumbai in both the cases.NewsBytesTata Altroz Turbo spotted again in India, design details reiteratedTata Motors is expected to launch a turbo-petrol variant of its Altroz hatchback in India in early-2021. In the latest development, a production-ready test mule of the…

Thursday December 17, 2020 2:41 am PST by Tim HardwickWhatsApp will soon let Mac users make voice and video calls from the platform's desktop client, according to a new report from forthcoming feature specialist WABetaInfo. WhatsApp has offered voice and video calling in its mobile app for some time, but the feature doesn't extend to the encrypted messaging platform's web and desktop clients. However, that looks set to change, based on a beta of WhatsApp's desktop variant. As the screenshot below shows, users involved in the beta testing stage of the client can see new voice and video calling buttons in the chat header of the app window. Clicking either button initiates a voice or video call to the selected contact, and then displays a separate pop-up window showing options to enable or disable video, mute the call, or hang up. Meanwhile, a call recipient using the desktop client sees a similar pop-up window indicating someone is calling them and offering them options to accept or decline the incoming call. It's not clear how long voice and video calls will remain in beta testing on the desktop client, but WhatsApp is fairly quick at introducing new features, so if we…

There is nothing I hate more than using USSD payment based systems like ZIPIT, Ecocash and OneMoney. The whole thing is like walking on your hands- it’s very possible but unnatural. It also doesn’t take you very far. Don’t believe me, try doing five ZIPIT transactions using USSD. Zimbos live on WhatsApp and therefore need more local payment solutions on it While people are using the internet more and more at the expense of voice, for most Zimbabweans, WhatsApp is the internet. This is because the majority of people, about 95% according to POTRAZ, prefer using bundles instead of out of bundle browsing and it is these bundles that shape the way we consume stuff online. WhatsApp bundles just happen to be the most accessible. This has led to a lot of informal businesses setting up shop on the platform. A lot of tech-savvy sellers out there are already taking advantage of some of the features that WhatsApp business offers including catalogues. Sadly the Zimbabwean WhatsApp shopping experience is sorely lacking with the platform only being used to initiate transactions which are then concluded in the real world. Recently WhatsApp introduced a shopping cart feature. Unfortunately without the necessary payment…

Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad (ANI photo)NEW DELHI: The Cabinet has accepted the telecom department’s proposal on the next spectrum auctions at its meeting on Wednesday, which would include a sale of only 4G airwaves and will be held in March.Telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government will auction a total of 2251.25 MHz spectrum in 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2100MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500 MHz bands. 2251.25 MHz will be offered with total valuation of Rs. 3,92,332.70 crore (at reserve price).The Department of Telecom will issue Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) from telecom companies for auction process within this month."By winning the right to use spectrum through the auction, incumbent telecom service providers will be able to augment their network capacity whereas new players will be able to start their services," the government said in an official release.Successful bidders may pay entire bid amount in one go (upfront) or may exercise an option to pay a certain amount (25% for spectrum won in 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz bands or 50% for spectrum won in 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, 2500 MHz bands) upfront and remaining amount in a maximum up…

Facebook is working to bring back the Instagram Lite app, months after it shut down the light version offering worldwide. The social conglomerate said on Wednesday that it is testing the revamped Instagram Lite app in India, where it hopes to “gain valuable insights” about the new offering before “a global rollout” of the app later. The revamped Instagram Lite app weighs less than 2MB and delivers a “fast, reliable, and responsive” experience of the social service. The Android app supports Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, but currently lacks a several core features of Instagram including Reels, Shopping and IGTV. Facebook quietly discontinued the previous iteration of Instagram Lite earlier this year. In July, Vishal Shah, VP of Product at Instagram, told TechCrunch that the company had identified some issues in the app and was working to resolve those. In September, a new Lite app was spotted in the wild, though Facebook did not acknowledge it. Lite apps are especially popular in emerging markets where most users don’t have access to high-end smartphones or fast and cheap mobile internet data. Facebook Lite app, for instance, had about 40 million monthly active users in India last…