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Fintech lenders have a dominant share of the sub-Rs 1 lakh loan market, both in terms of number of loans and the amount disbursed, but will need to keep an eye on sustainability going forward, a report released by credit bureau Experian and Digital Lenders’ Association of India has found.Till September 2023, 77% of the loans under Rs 1 lakh were given out by fintech lenders, from around 50% in FY18. In value terms, fintechs accounted for 50% of market share with non-banking lenders making up 25%. In FY18, this share was…

Margot Robbie starred in the $1.4 billion-grossing 'Barbie', which took the box office by storm, but a new report found only a third of top films had a female lead. The share of Hollywood films with women in the lead role fell last year, new research showed Thursday, despite standout successes like "Barbie." In the year that the feminist blockbuster starring…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than half of the 60 countries holding national elections this year are experiencing a democratic decline, risking the integrity of the electoral process, as reported in the latest Democracy Report from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. The worsening election quality is concerning, given the pivotal role elections play in either reinforcing or mitigating the trend of…

Credit: Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nurnberg Academic freedom today is not available for 3.6 billion people, or 45.5% of the world's population. After a global peak in academic freedom in 2006, the situation today is comparable to circumstances fifty years ago in 1973. This is one of the results of the 2024 Update of the Academic Freedom…

Former White House physician and current House Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) left the West Wing in 2019 amid a fog of allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct and alcohol abuse while on the job. Since his departure, he’s claimed the rank of a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral in his public statements, but according to a report from The Washington Post, Jackson was quietly demoted in 2022 to the rank of Captain after the release of a scathing report on his behavior by the Pentagon’s inspector general.  In 2018,…

Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro were launched in October last year with a Tensor G3 chipset and several AI-based features. A few short months after their release, we are seeing multiple leaks about the next-generation Pixel phones on the Web. Google's next-generation SoC — Tensor G4 — is anticipated to power the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro. The chipset would be reportedly based on Samsung's latest 4nm process and might offer improved power efficiency and heat management.As per a report by Korean media outlet FNN, Google will…

The Department of Telecommunications has introduced a new facility for the people of India to report suspected fraud communications. The government has introduced a new Chakshu portal under its Sanchar Sathi initiative. The new portal aims to detect and prevent suspected fraud calls and messages. Union IT and Communication Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says the new portal offers a “user-friendly platform that will help subscribers to promptly report any suspicious communication, whether be it a call, SMS or a WhatsApp…

As you may be familiar with by now, Apple has officially canceled its project to build an electric car. The project never saw the light of day and wasn’t even confirmed by Apple, but the company had been working on its own car since 2014. Following reports that Apple had approached Tesla for a partnership, we now know that the company has also talked to Mercedes-Benz about building an Apple Car together. Apple tried to build an Apple Car with Mercedes-Benz As reported by Bloomberg on Wednesday, Apple…

Material flows through the Australian economy in 2019. The displayed units are million metric tons (Mt).Credit: Australian material flow analysis to progress to a circular economy (2024). Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has released a new report on the country's material use, highlighting opportunities to transition to a more circular and sustainable economy. …

Google Pixel 8a price, storage, colours tippedGerman publication WinFuture has learned from its retail sources that the Pixel 8a could come in a 256GB storage variant also. More particularly, it has found only the Pixel 8a black edition with this larger storage SKU. So, expect the phone in 128GB and 256GB models. The Pixel 7a came only in the former.What’s surprising though is the WinFuture claim that the Pixel 8a 128GB model could start at 569.90 Euros (about Rs 51,282.95). That’s around a 60 Euro jump from the Pixel…