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How to spend less time on your phone in 2023 (TechRadar)

Cut the ties with your smartphone and form healthy habits in 2023 with iOS' Screen Time and Android's Digital Wellbeing.

You can always re-add or reinstall them, but you may find yourself surprised at just how frequently you check on them in the day to day. Sometimes you can lower your screen time just by removing notifications from a particularly chatty app, or changing the notifications to be less prevalent and visible. You may even want to try charging your phone away from your bed, meaning you’re less tempted to grab it at night and scroll through social media. Speaking of Focus modes, Apple has been improving its implementation for a couple of years and offers a series of pre-existing offerings which can be customized, as well as the ability to create entirely new ones. In fact, with some easy steps, you can rely less on your device than ever before – and Apple and Google offer the tools to help. Starting to form new smartphone habits isn’t just something that happens instantly, so be prepared to spend some time getting used to the tools available, whether you're on iOS or Android.

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Is it time for state-run banks to end industry-wide wage pacts? (Business Standard)

Early talks have started for hammering out the 12th bipartite settlement between the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) and bank unions. But more than half a ...

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Students spend quality time with elderly, differently-abled kids (Hindustan Times)

Amidst melodious songs, lively conversations and important advice given by the distinguished residents of Samarpan, the youngsters spent their time ...

Amidst melodious songs, lively conversations and important advice given by the distinguished residents of Samarpan, the youngsters spent their time fruitfully in their company. Experiences and conversations were shared over delicious snacks put together by the pupils. Heart- touching performances by the pupils of Chetna filled everyone with awe for these special children.

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When UTC became the standard of time (The Hindu)

These atomic clocks were able to show that Earth's rotational period actually varied ever so slightly on an everyday basis owing to tectonic movements, melting ...

Irrespective of where you are on Earth, the time in that region can be given in terms of UTC. Instead of having it as CUT or TUC, a compromise was reached, and the acronym UTC was born. This meant that UTC had effectively become the successor of GMT, providing for the basis of time worldwide. It was a way to accommodate the differences in timekeeping that arise between atomic time and solar time. The idea for a universal time stemmed from this requirement and it was first conceived late in the 1800s. UTC is not only kept within an exact number of seconds of International Atomic Time (TAI), but is also kept within 0.9 second of solar time or astronomical time, denoted as UT1.

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Time to reboot aeronautical industry (The Tribune)

THE C-295 transport aircraft acquisition project of the IAF has been a long time coming and has been hailed as a 'trailblazer'; what is a bit overwhelming, ...

The solution to end foreign dependency in the aviation sector is not simple, but there are options available. These are all radical suggestions that perhaps cannot be implemented for the fundamental reason that there is not one private entity in the country with HAL’s infrastructure and technical expertise to absorb the knowhow to ensure a seamless transition. To state only two — if just one airline, Air India, is planning to buy 300 aircraft, shouldn’t the Chinese model of demanding the assembly of such huge numbers in India be made a criterion in the selection process, like the Chinese have done with Airbus and Boeing? Similarly, Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft company which started in 1969 (HAL was founded in 1940) with a small turboprop, has now graduated to 140-seat commercial carriers, the Tucano series of trainer and counter insurgency aircraft and the C-390 Millennium medium-lift transport aircraft. This is what that should engage the company’s leadership since moving into the bigger league of aviation products requires decades of planning and action. Incidentally, the fact that 15 additional C-295 are now being ordered for the Navy and Coast Guard shows that we have not learnt from past experience; if these 15 had been added in the original order of 56 aircraft, it would have resulted in a reduction of the cost per machine due to the increased number.

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