Vivo NEX with pop-up selfie camera, 8GB RAM in India
New Delhi, July 19: Upping the ante when it comes to innovation, Chinese smartphone maker Vivo on Thursday launched its made in India "NEX" smartphone with pop-up selfie shooter at Rs 44,990 in India.
The smartphone, that will be available for purchase both online and select retail stores from July 21, comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor and has high-end specifications including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset, 8GB RAM and 128GB onboard storage.
The company also introduced a new "cooling system" on the smartphone which is dedicated to hardcore gamers and said the feature would will keep the device cool even during long sessions of gaming.
"The Vivo NEX smartphones are being manufactured at the company's facility in Noida, Uttar Pradesh," Nipun Marya, Head of Marketing Strategy, Vivo India, told reporters here.
The retractable front snapper of the device pops out in a jiffy while the 6.59-inch full-HD+ Super AMOLED "Ultra FullView" display with 19.3:9 aspect ratio doubles up as an earpiece, using the company's "Screen SoundCasting" technology.
The smartphone sports dual rear camera set-up with 12MP+5MP sensors, 4-Axis OIS, slow motion, backlight HDR, live photo, portrait bokeh (dual cameras), panorama, time lapse, AR stickers and filters.
The pop-up selfie camera comes with an 8MP camera sensor.
The device runs Vivo's proprietary FunTouch OS 4.0 based on Android 8.1 Oreo.
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Notice sent to SAU PhD student over Noam Chomsky's critique of PM; Sri Lankan scholar resigns
New Delhi: According to The Indian Express, a doctoral research proposal on the ethnography and politics of Kashmir, which referenced American linguist Noam Chomsky's criticism of the NDA government, has resulted in a show-cause notice for a PhD scholar and a disciplinary inquiry for his supervisor at South Asian University (SAU).
Days after the disciplinary inquiry was initiated, Sasanka Perera, a founding member of the Sociology department at SAU and a sociology professor, resigned from the varsity. The PhD scholar has since apologized to the university administration for any offense caused.
Perera, a cultural anthropologist with a Master's and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, held several positions at SAU, including Chairman of the Department of Sociology, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Vice President. Prior to joining SAU, he spent 20 years at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and was the Founding Chairman of the Colombo Institute for Advanced Study of Society and Culture.
SAU has denied that the PhD proposal triggered Perera's resignation but did not clarify what was objectionable in the proposal. According to university rules, a PhD student must seek approval from the supervisor, the Dean, and/or the Department Board of Studies before commencing fieldwork. The proposal in question was forwarded to the Dean after being approved by the supervisor, but only after a show-cause notice dated May 9 was issued to the student.
The letter pointed out that the cited video was a private YouTube video from 2021, uploaded in 2022 by the scholar. In the video, Chomsky spoke critically about the Modi government. Explanations were requested from the student and the supervisor for selecting that particular topic. The student responded with an apology and took down the video on May 15. An inquiry committee was subsequently formed to investigate the role of the supervisor and the motive behind the proposal.
Amidst all this, Perera submitted his resignation from the university. SAU, which is sponsored by eight SAARC countries and under the Ministry of External Affairs, recently appointed K K Aggarwal as its president after the post had remained vacant for four years.
Responding to questions from The Indian Express, SAU stated that disciplinary action was taken based on the SAARC Intergovernmental Agreement, Rules, Regulations, and Bye-Laws. The inquiry is still pending.
