Saturday, July 18, 2020
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Apps in the Google Play Store that can't be used at all
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July 18, 2020, 05:13 p.m. Online version
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It is very difficult to find people who have not used Android mobile phones. Although the size of mobile, operating system and various features have improved over the ages and many other things have changed, the current era is now for mobiles with Android operating system. At present, the popularity of Android phones is much higher. A survey conducted in 2019 on the popularity of Android phones found that 2.3 billion people worldwide use Android smartphones and Android has a market share of 74.13%. On the other hand, the market share of iPhone is 33.33% which is much less than that of Android phone. This survey shows how popular Android smartphones are.
A few days ago, a well-known university with 50 Android users to test on some of the apps in the Play Store that have been unnecessarily uploaded to the Play Store. In that test, 50 users were given RAM enhancing apps, fast charging apps, mobile memory enhancing apps and some other apps whose increase and decrease is only related to hardware.
Their mobile phones were monitored for 20 days by researchers at the university (with permission), where it was found that 39 out of 50 people had all their data going through an app on an unknown company's server. 6 people were being monitored directly through the app through their fonts and back camera. Only the gallery, contract and SMS data of the other 3 people was going to the server (each was tested by different apps in the same category). Let's see what happens if something like this happens to you and how hackers or these apps are taking data from users.
In general, we know that the things that are more popular are the things that unscrupulous individuals or groups pay more attention to. They also have their eye on Android smartphones. They have not left out anything from hacking to hacking or taking user data. Although they use a lot as a trap, the strategy that they use to benefit the most or can do the most harm to the users is the "Android app".
"We often see apps in the Play Store that are unfounded and a kind of temptation to take user data," said Ryan Malik, an IT analyst at Craft, a technology support organization that works to build a secure online platform for using Android apps. As we can see, there are many apps in the Play Store itself to increase RAM and mobile memory, but RAM or memory is all a matter of hardware, it is not possible to increase these by any app. Many more such useless apps are circulating in the Play Store and users are downloading without realizing it. Giving and using unnecessary permissions.
He added that an analysis has shown that many of these apps are taking a lot of data from users on their own servers and some companies are also selling their user data. One thing we need to keep in mind is that there are some things in mobile or computer that increase or decrease depending on the hardware; There is no way to increase these by app.
Almost all the features and services that we use on Android phones are through Android apps. We understand the need for Android apps. Some unscrupulous circles are taking advantage of that. The only thing they can do to get the trap is to develop a variety of tempting apps and put them in the Play Store. Many Android smartphone users download and use it without realizing it. As a result, different types of user data and information continue to flow to or from app developer companies. Analysis of some of them has shown that they are not just customer behavior, they are taking all the data from the mobile from the phone number to the gallery pictures.
Jennifer Alam, president of CRAFF, told Jugantar to warn Android phone users that there are some apps in the Play Store that are taking unnecessary and unnecessary permission from users. This allows users to take data very easily. On the other hand, the user is also keeping an eye on the behavior. The biggest risk here is that the data is going to third parties. So with user data they will be able to work as they wish, thereby violating user privacy. We will try to refrain from installing such tempting apps.
He further said, when we install the app, we will pay a little attention to which apps are going with which permission. In case of doubt, we will refrain from using those apps. For example, a simple RAM encryptor app seeks permission for a contract or gallery, or a fast charging app seeks permission for a microphone. These are the traps of taking user data. So you have to be careful in installing and giving permission to the app.
Let's find out what kind of apps can't be used in Google Play Store-
1. RAM and mobile memory enhancing app. It usually deletes the cache in the memory and gives you enhanced results.
2. Cleaner app. It is better not to use third party app unnecessarily. Cleaner is now available by default on Android phones.
3. Fast charging app. It also depends on the hardware but this system is now by default in the phone. So there is no need for extras.
4. UC Browser. This browser is sending all the data of the users to the Alibaba server in China and is showing various kinds of nonsense ads on the users' phones.
5. Some apps that require unreasonable and unnecessary permissions cannot be installed or used.
1 Country 2 Strategies.
One country, two strategies
Dubai is open and Abu Dhabi is closed
July 18, 2020, 12:00 AM | Print version
Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The two main states and cities in the UAE. But even though they are one country, these two regions have taken completely different strategies to deal with the coronavirus.
Last week, shops, shoppinghotels, amusement parks and everything else were completely opened by the Dubai authorities. Tourists have started returning. However, the guidelines for wearing ocial distance rules remain in force.
But the gates of Abu Dhabi are not yet open to visitors. No one is allowed to enter, whether domestic or foreign, without a Corona certificate. News New York Times.
The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven independent states or emirates in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula. The emirates are Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Al Fujairah, Raas Al Khaimah, Ash Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain.
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the federation and Dubai is the largest city in the country. Although one state, each state is a rival to each other in terms of development.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the most competitive. The Corona epidemic has intensified it.
Abu Dhabi's economy is in a relatively advantageous position among other states due to its huge oil reserves and hydrocarbon industry. On the other hand, Dubai, which relies on aviation, international tourism, trade and real estate business, is on the brink of collapse.
The situation in the two cities has also come under the scrutiny of analysts. Jim Crane, a Middle East specialist at Rice University's Baker Institute, says Corona is on the brink of collapse due to lockdowns and social distances. Abu Dhabi, on the other hand, did almost nothing.
According to the Washington Post, Dubai has had to return to work quickly to repair the collapsed economy. Necessity in this case has forced him to take a different strategy to deal with Corona. Authorities shut down the first two densely populated cities in March in response to Corona.
A 24-hour lockdown was imposed on the entire city from next month. Neighboring states then took such steps. But since the end of May, the Dubai authorities have begun to lift the lockdown and other restrictions much earlier than the neighbors.
This is basically a clear message, the virus is now under control and the city is ready for the return of tourists. Apart from bars and nightclubs, hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and entertainment centers are all open. However, masks and social distance rules have been made mandatory.
Meanwhile, despite the fall in oil prices in the world market, Abu Dhabi did not suffer much. In addition, 1 trillion has been released from the Sovereign Wealth Fund to cover financial losses. The capital city is in no hurry to lift the lockdown as the financial sector is strong.
Still isolated themselves from other states in the country. Corona negative certificate has been made compulsory for everyone to enter the country or foreign cities. In this case, corona test should be done at least 48 hours before admission.
Relief: Ladakh
Eventually relief returned to Ladakh
Indo-China talks very fruitful: Beijing * China returns to economic progress after coronary shock
Jugantar Desk
July 18, 2020, 12:00 AM | Print version
Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected
Border tensions between India and China in Ladakh have finally eased.
A Chinese spokesman said talks between the two sides on the area, which turned into a battlefield last month, had been very fruitful. The country said the success came at a meeting at the corps commander level on Tuesday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has said that the withdrawal of troops from the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the near future will be based on the talks. News from Al Jazeera.
The meeting between the corps commanders of the two countries lasted for about 15 hours. Experts say the talks have led to a return to stability in the region. This time the two countries must work together to maintain this peace situation.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, "The July 14 meeting was the fourth round. Loyalty has grown between us. This time we will work on easing the tension and withdrawing the army.
Lieutenant General Harinder Singh, commander of the 14th Corps, based in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, led India in the talks. The commander of the South Myanmar Military Region, Major General Leu Lin, was led by China.
There was no immediate comment from India's defense ministry on the meeting. Last week, Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jayashankar said Indian and Chinese troops were withdrawing from the disputed border area. He called it a huge breakthrough.
Jayashankar said the two countries had agreed not to get involved in the conflict as the armies of the two countries were very close.
Meanwhile, China has returned to economic progress after coronavirus. On December 31, Corona's presence was detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. From then on, a terrible catastrophe started in the country. The economy collapsed.
But in the last few months, China has been able to cope with the Corona's push. The economy also began to recover.
According to the BBC, China has achieved 3.2 percent growth in recent times. The country's second-largest economy was down in the first three months of this year. The long-running lockdown due to Corona had an impact on the country's economy.
However, GDP growth has been observed from April to June. China's economic situation is starting to get better than experts thought.
China was forced to tighten its grip on the Corona outbreak. As a result, various factories and businesses in the country were shut down for several months. However, as the incidence of corona began to decline, the country's economy was gradually relaxed.
The government has even stopped taking taxes from various organizations. At the end of the lockdown, China's economy is becoming stronger than previously thought. However, the country's retail market has made relatively little progress.
So far, 83,612 people have been infected with corona in China. Of these, 4,843 people died. Most of the victims in the country have recovered. 6,619 people have already recovered.
Friday, July 17, 2020
Buddha to Christian.
How the Buddha became a Christian saint
July 12, 2020 3.58pm EDT
Philip C. Almond, The University of Queensland
From the 11th century onwards, the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat enjoyed a popularity in the medieval West attained perhaps by no other legend. It was available in over 60 versions in the main languages of Europe, the Christian East and Africa. It was most familiar to English leaders from its inclusion in William Caxton’s 1483 translation of the Golden Legend.
Little did European readers know that the story they loved of the life of Saint Josaphat was in fact that of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
The ascetic life
According to the legend, there reigned in India a king called Abenner, immersed in the pleasures of the world. When the king had a son, Josaphat, an astrologer predicted he would forsake the world. To forestall this outcome, the king ordered a city to be built for his son from which were excluded poverty, disease, old age and death.
But Josaphat made journeys outside of the city where he encountered, on one occasion, a blind man and a horribly deformed one and, on another occasion, an old man weighed down by illness. He realised the impermanence of all things:
No longer is there any sweetness in this transitory life now that I have seen these things […] Gradual and sudden death are in league together.
While experiencing this spiritual crisis, the sage Barlaam from Sri Lanka reached Josaphat and told him of the rejection of worldly pursuits and the acceptance of the Christian ideal of the ascetic life. Prince Josaphat was converted to Christianity and began to practise the ideal of the spiritual life of poverty, simplicity and devotion to God.
Scenes from the Story of Jehosophat from the Bible. Augsburg, G. Zainer, c.1475. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
To forestall his quest, his father surrounded him with seductive maidens who “tantalised him with every kind of temptation with which they sought to arouse his appetites”.
Josaphat resisted them all.
After the death of his father, Josaphat remained determined to continue his ascetic life and abdicated the throne. He journeyed to Sri Lanka in search of Barlaam. After a quest lasting two years, Josaphat found Barlaam living in the mountains and joined him there in a life of asceticism until his death.
A great saint
Barlaam and Josaphat were included in the calendars of saints in both the Western and Eastern churches. By the 10th century, they were included in the calendars of the Eastern churches, and by the end of the 13th century in those of the Catholic church.
Saints Barlaam and Josaphat, Jacques Callot’s Calendar of Saints, c.17th century. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray, by exchange
In the book we know as The Travels of Marco Polo, published around the year 1300, Marco gave the West its first account of the life of the Buddha. He declared that — were the Buddha a Christian — “he would have been a great saint […] for the good life and pure which he led”.
Read more: Netflix ‘Chinese Game of Thrones’ charts the life of Marco Polo – so who was he?
In 1446, an astute editor of the Travels noticed the similarity. “This is like the life of Saint Iosaphat”, he declared.
It was, however, only in the 19th century the West became aware of Buddhism as a religion in its own right. As a result of editing and translating of the Buddhist scriptures (dating from the first century BCE) from the 1830s onwards, reliable information about the life of the founder of Buddhism began to grow in the West.
The Sacred Bodhi Tree. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers
Then the West came to know the story of the young Indian prince, Gautama, whose father – fearful his son would forsake the world – kept him secluded in his palace. Like Josaphat, Gautama eventually encountered old age, disease and death. And, like Josaphat, he left the palace to live an ascetic life in quest of the meaning of suffering.
After many trials, Gautama sat beneath the Bodhi tree and finally attained enlightenment, thereby becoming a Buddha.
Only in 1869 did this new-found knowledge in the West about the life of the Buddha lead inescapably to the realisation that, in his guise as Saint Josaphat, the Buddha had been a saint in Christendom for some 900 years.
Intimate connections
How did the story of the Buddha become that of Josaphat? The process was long and complicated. Essentially, the story of the Buddha that began in India in the Sanskrit language travelled east to China, then west along the Silk Road where it was influenced by the asceticism of the religion of the Manichees.
It was then transposed into Arabic, Greek and Latin. From these Latin versions it would be translated into various European languages.
Years before the West knew anything about the Buddha, his life and the ascetic ideal which it symbolised were a positive force in the spiritual life of Christians.
Gautama Buddha seated on a lotus throne, c.1573-1612. © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA
The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat demonstrates powerfully the intimate connections between Buddhism and Christianity in their commitment to the ascetic, meditative and mystical religious life.
Few Christian saints have a better claim to that title than the Buddha.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Flood VS Relief.
Flood-Hit People: Relief hard to come by amid pandemic People standing in
floodwaters, some loading boats on which they live now with necessities they
have salvaged from their inundated homes. The water of the Jamuna in Bogura’s
Sariakandi upazila has been flowing 121cm above the danger level. In this second
round of flash floods, around 80,000 people of the district are left stranded.
PHOTO: MOSTAFA SHABUJ Star Report The volume of relief and food aid distributed
by individuals and private organisations among the flood victims has
significantly reduced this year. The poor response from individuals and private
organisations might have caused for coronavirus, said locals in the flood-hit
areas. Many individuals and business institutions have been making less profit
and incurring losses due to the pandemic. Thus, they were less interested in
distributing relief, they added. Also, a large number of affluent people do not
want to go out of their houses to minimise the risk of being infected with
Covid-19, they further added. Meanwhile, at least 11 rivers across the country
were flowing above the danger level yesterday. At this time when thousands of
people remained marooned in northern and northeastern regions, fresh areas in
districts adjacent to the capital were feared to be inundated. In Lalmonirhat
and Kurigram, no Non-Government Organisation (NGO) and individual was seen in
the flood affected areas. Sadek Ali, 66, a flood victim at Sardob village in
Kurigram Sadar upazila, said individuals and NGOs previously offered them help
with dry food, candle, fire box, soap, saline, lamp, and kerosene oil. "None of
them came forward to help us this year," he said. Echoing Sadek's statement,
Sekendar Ali, 50, of Lalmonirhat town's Thanapara, said he used to distribute
relief among the victims in the previous years but he did not go out this year
considering the Covid-19 situation. In Pabna, Baser Pramanik, of Betil Char in
Sirajganj's Chowhali upazila, has been marooned for over a month now but nobody
reached him with relief. Mentioning his expectations of relief from NGOs, he
said none came forward this year to help them. In Sunamganj, the situation was
quite similar. Mohammad Ful Miah, chairman of Gourarang union, said he saw no
private initiative to help the victims this year. "The help that is coming from
the administration is not sufficient. Private initiatives could help the
victims," he said. In Nilphamari, Dimla and Jaldhaka upazilas were the worst
affected. People there were suffering immensely as a second spell of flood hit
them. Moynul Islam, chairman of worst flood hit Tepakharibari union in Dimla
Malala:Abused Women
Malala has written a book about abused women
13 July 2020, 12:00 AM | Print version
Photo: Collected
Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani woman working for women's rights, is writing a book on women. He is working day and night to bring women to higher seats.
He is writing another book about the best 25 brave women in the world. The announcement came on Malala Day on April 12. The book will be published next year. However, the name of the book was not disclosed. News of Hindustan Times. The United Nations has declared July 12 as Malala Day to commemorate Malala's birthday.
On October 9, 2012, Malala was shot dead by the Taliban in Pakistan. But after treatment in London he recovered.
Started working for women in new ventures. So far, Malala has been involved with numerous foundations. She herself is a unique example of female courage.
This young woman has set out to write another book for women around the world to find the motivation to be brave.
In this book, he will cite himself as an example of how people can rise without fear. How much of a role he can play for people. HarperCollins Publications has announced the publication of this book about the 25 bravest women in the world. It will be funded by the Malala Fund.
The book will be released next year. The publishing house hopes the book will help fulfill Malala's dream of women.
In early 2019, a book called 'We Are Displaced' was published.
In the book, she talks about herself and young female refugees of her age who have been forced to leave their homes. "We listen to refugees and immigrants," she said. But do not hear from them.
Especially young women refugees. Her book 'I Am Malala' published in 2013 is still on the list of best sellers.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Israel Plan VS EU
EU opposes Israeli plan to occupy Palestinian land
Online desk
15 July 2020, 01:35 p.m. Online version
The European Union, Israel's biggest trading ally, has also said it will not accept the forcible occupation of Palestinian land in the Zionist state.
European foreign ministers have called on the European Union (EU) to respond to a possible Israeli plan to seize the West Bank and Jordan Valley.
The foreign ministers of several European countries have called for a timely response to Israel's plan. News from the Israeli daily Haaretz.
In a letter to EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borel, the foreign ministers of 11 EU member states demanded that the 28-nation body "prepare a possible response to the Israeli plan as soon as possible."
They say the time to prepare a response to Israel's integration plan is running out very quickly.
The letter to Joseph Borel includes France, Italy, Holland, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Portugal and Malta.
In the letter, the ministers added that Israel's plan to occupy Palestinian territory was a matter of deep concern to the European Union and its member states.
EU foreign ministers met with Borrell on May 15 and called for a possible Israeli response. Responding to the ministers' call, Borrell asked his office colleagues to make a list of possible answers.
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