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TikTok crosses 2 billion downloads:India accounts for over 30%

As people across the world have been confined to the comfort of their homes, the popularity of TikTok has take over to skies. The short video sharing application has crosses over 2 billion downloads across Google Play Store and The App Store. Th play store has contributed 75.5% (1.5 billion) of the total downloads, while the app store has recorded 24.5% (495.2 million) of the total downloads reported by the owned platform. Notably, TikTok registered over 50% increase in the number of downloads from the past two weeks. On April…

Lockdown effects: Bhim UPI records 20% fall of transactions in April

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For the first time in the history UPI has recorded less than one billion transactions for the month of April. This is the first time in the past seven months that UPI volume went below the one billion mark. As per the data released by the National payments corporation of India (NPCI), UPI has registered 0.99 billion transactions. It was anticipated that the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic would affect the digital payment volumes. However financially it was assured that digital payments will continue to…

The Engineer

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Engineering is one of the key influences that shapes our society. Engineers just dont work with machines, designs and electronics, they also use maths and science to provide innovations and inventions that plays a major role in shaping our society and improve the way we live and work. The utilization of the scientific knowledge over time establishes that some of the knowledge is immediately relevant to societal needs while other parts are less immediately relevant where the society may never realize the relevance of a particular scientific enquiry. Engineers may…