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  • WhatsApp is not going to work on these smartphones in 2021: Here is the total listing

    Come 2021, the extensively standard messaging platform WhatsApp will cease engaged on plenty of older iPhones and Android smartphones. Few could lose entry altogether whereas others could not be capable to use a number of options on the Facebook-owned platform.
    Old smartphone customers who haven’t upgraded to iOS 9 or above or Android 4.0.3 or above will be unable to run WhatsApp. It is suggested by the makers of the app that the customers ought to replace their gadgets to those variations of their working system to maintain utilizing it. The ones who can’t replace will both have to purchase a brand new smartphone or search for alternate options to WhatsApp.

    Users who’re nonetheless holding on to the iPhone 4 or decrease mannequin will lose entry. Similarly, if somebody is utilizing a Samsung Galaxy S2, he/she will be unable to make use of WhatsApp.
    On iPhone gadgets system improve is simple as they’ll go into ‘Settings’ adopted by ‘General’ after which faucet on ‘Software Update’. This will assist them know which model of the OS they’re operating and whether or not they can improve or not. On the opposite hand, Android customers will discover it within the ‘About Phone’ part within the ‘Settings’ of their smartphone.
    Other standard telephones that may cease operating WhatsApp embody HTC Sensation, Samsung Google Nexus S, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, LG Optimus 2X, Samsung Galaxy S I9000, HTC Desire S and others.
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  • Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Shri T.S. Singhdev will reply the questions of listeners on the radio

    Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Shri T.S. Singhdev will reply questions from listeners in this system ‘Hamar Gram Sabha’ to be aired on radio on 27 December. They will reply the questions requested by the listeners by means of WhatsApp on this particular program broadcast from Akashvani Raipur from seven to half previous eight within the night. Mr. Singhdev can even tackle the viewers’s curiosity in regards to the insurance policies, plans and applications of the state authorities in this system. The program could be heard on Medium Web 981 kHz. All the stations of All India Radio positioned within the state will relay this program concurrently.    

  • WhatsApp: How to create your individual 2021 New Year stickers

    WhatsApp already provides a number of sticker packs, however what if you wish to create your individual sticker packs? There are a lot of methods to create enjoyable and artistic WhatsApp stickers. While you should utilize any photograph enhancing apps to create stickers, we propose you obtain the ‘Sticker Maker’ app, which is able to assist create stickers inside two minutes. Alternatively, you too can use ‘Sticker Studio – WhatsApp Sticker Maker’ app. If you don’t need to create your individual WhatsApp stickers, then you can see a number of third-party sticker apps on Play Store, that you should utilize to ship 2021 New Year stickers. If you want to create your stickers, then comply with these steps.
    WhatsApp: How to create your individual 2021 New Year stickers

    Step 1: You first have to obtain the ‘Sticker Maker’ app from Google Play Store.

    Step 2: Open the app and faucet on ‘Create a new stickerpack.’

    Step 3: You shall be requested to enter the title of the sticker pack and add an writer title for the pack. The latter mainly means that you could add your title if you wish to take credit score for creating the stickers.

    Step 4: The app means that you can add 15 stickers in each pack. In order to create your individual WhatsApp sticker, it’s essential faucet on any of the containers. You will then get a number of choices, together with Take Photo, Open Gallery, Select File and extra. You can faucet on Open Gallery if you wish to create stickers utilizing the images saved within the cellphone’s Gallery. The app even offers you the choice to immediately click on an image of something after which create a sticker of it. You even have the choice to pick photos out of your file supervisor.

    Step 5: Once you faucet on ‘Open gallery,’ choose any photograph for making a sticker. You will then get the choice to chop the image right into a form. There can also be a Freehand choice, which you’ll choose to attract a form manually or crop the sticker. Once you’re achieved with cropping, the app gives you the choice so as to add define or textual content. After including this, you’ll be able to then faucet on ‘Save Sticker.’
    Step 6: Now to make use of all of the 2021 New Year stickers in WhatsApp, you’ll have to faucet on ‘Add to WhatsApp.’ You will see a affirmation message on display as soon as it’s been added. Do notice that it’s essential create a minimum of three stickers so as to add the Stickerpack to WhatsApp.

    Step 7: Now open WhatsApp, faucet on the emoji icon and faucet on stickers icon, which is situated on the backside proper nook. Here, you will notice your new sticker pack.
    You can delete the sticker pack from WhatsApp by urgent on the “+” icon, situated within the stickers part. Then go to ‘My Stickers’ part and you will notice your sticker pack on the highest with a dustbin icon. You can delete the pack by tapping on it and may add it anytime through the Sticker Maker app.

  • WhatsApp will soon get the most awaited multi-device support

    Multi-device support has been in the works for quite some time in WhatsApp. This year, several reports revealed that the company is making many improvements to bring this upcoming feature. Now once again the new report has revealed new information about the WhatsApp multi-device feature.

    WhatsApp is currently testing how the call will be configured when this feature is turned on. Tipster says that since last week, WhatsApp has been testing how the calling feature for the same account will work on different devices. This indicates that WhatsApp is serious about this upcoming feature and may soon roll out this feature.

    Let us know that even before this, information has been revealed many times regarding the multi-device support feature. In a report, it was revealed that users will be able to run the same WhatsApp account on four different devices simultaneously. And the special thing is that while using WhatsApp web, users will not need an active internet connection on the primary device.

    In previous reports it was also said that multi-device support will be available in the app under the Linked Devices section. Users will be able to add a new device by tapping on ‘Link a New Device option’. Apart from this, users will have a list of all connected devices as well as a toggle button to enable and disable the feature.

  • Schools form CyberPeace Clubs to educate students on cyber safety

    Dayanand Public School and Gulmohur High School have become the first two schools in Jamshedpur to form a CyberPeace Club that aims to make children involved in cyber safety activities.

    The CyberPeace Clubs are handheld by the CyberPeace Foundation, an award-winning civil society organisation that aims to form student and faculty-driven task forces across the country for the welfare and growth of children in the virtual space. It aims to bridge the gap revolving around the protection of children online and enabling them with knowledge that will help them combat threats and risks. 

    The clubs have been formed as part of a joint initiative involving Whatsapp and the CyberPeace Foundation. The initiative has also trained school students on online safety. In Jharkhand, 3500 students from 13 CISCE and CBSE schools were trained between September and December.

    Vineet Kumar, founder and president of CyberPeace Foundation, explained the role of CyberPeace Clubs in schools and how there will be more engaging activities that will make students aware of cyber safety. “It is high time schools should have ambassadors who can take forward the vision of a safe cyberspace not just within institutions but beyond them,” he said.

    Rachit Ranjan, who represented Whatsapp, appreciated how teachers have adapted to the situation and have tried their best to make education reach every student. “I thoroughly enjoyed the session. This is a world that is going to impact students. Thus, it becomes important to equip yourself to understand the benefits and pitfalls of social media,” said Ranjan.

    On Wednesday, the CyberPeace Club of Dayanand Public School organised an online intra school debate on the topic ‘Social media is responsible for aggravating mental and emotional health problems’. Students of Dayanand Public School spoke for and against the motion arguing how a balanced social media life would not affect health while excessive use leads to serious psychological issues. The hour-long webinar was attended by school principal Swarna Mishra; a member of the school managing committee Rajiv Talwar; founder and president of CyberPeace Foundation Vineet Kumar and Rachit Ranjan from Whatsapp. Teachers from the school also attended the webinar.

    “This is a good initiative which is the need of the hour. We hope to organise a lot more activities in the future,” Mishra said.

  • These new features were added to WhatsApp, from payment to calling updates

    Facebook’s proprietary instant messaging app WhatsApp has added many new features in the last few days. The company has brought a better dark mode and new sticker pack from the cart. Through the cart feature, it has become even easier for users to shop through WhatsApp or order goods. 

     Some fees have been added to the instant messaging app WhatsApp, so many features will be added in the coming days. At the same time from the new year, many Android and iPhone mobile phones will stop working on WhatsApp.

    The company has started the ‘WhatsApp Pay’ feature for all users last month. Through this, money can also be transacted through WhatsApp. This week the company said that WhatsApp has partnered with State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank for payment service. That is, users will be able to use the accounts of these banks for payment on WhatsApp. 

    WhatsApp is soon going to bring voice and video calling features on desktops and laptops. For this, the company has also started testing in beta mode. At present, WhatsApp users can avail voice and video calling only through the mobile app. According to the report, a separate window of call will pop up on WhatsApp web, through which users will be able to receive, reject or ignore the call. 

  • Chas Municipal Corporation installs app-enabled help desk for residents to file complaints

    In an innovative step, to solve the day-to-day problems of residents, Chas Municipal Corporation (CMC) has brought a special kind of app-enabled help desk kiosk, using which complaints lodged by people will land directly on WhatsApp of concerned authorities. The complainant will also receive a receipt mentioning their complaint number instantly. This help desk is the first of its kind installed in the CMC office on Wednesday, if proves successful, it would be lodged in block offices and other government offices.

    “This user-friendly help desk kiosk, roughly costs around Rs 60,000, is app-based. It is developed by Wipenex IT software. There is a tab installed in it, which helps in collecting detail and sending it immediately to the authorities. The mobile phone numbers of the officials of different departments are loaded in the app which instantly collects the complaint letter and delivers it in their WhatsApp. This app is created by CMC with the help of local youths,” said Shashi Prakash Jha, CEO of CMC.

    The kiosk was inaugurated by DC, Bokaro, Rajesh Singh in the small function at CMC office, Chas. The installation of the kiosk is the brainchild of Singh which was brought to reality by Jha and his team.

    Jha said, “During Covid-19 days they were facing huge problems related to sanitization and received complaint letters of residents. Then the idea got generated, that there should be some tool which facilitates paper-less receiving of complaints with full transparency.”

    “This help desk would help in speedy disposal of complaints, unlike the old way of submission of complaints which was very time-consuming. Earlier complaint letter reached the concerned authority in several days making rounds in different tables of babus in the office. In this digital era, this help desk will not only saves time but also makes the process transparent and effective,” he added.

    Jha said, “There were other apps and tools working in a similar line, but this concept is totally different. The residents only have to stand in front of this help desk and by pressing a button, their face and complaint letter get captured. The software installed in it will directly send their complaint letter to the WhatsApp of the concerned authorities. We have allotted different time slots for separate departments for receiving complaints.”

    CMC is working to install few more such help desks in its five zonal offices which were opened recently to address grievances of the residents. DC said that they are going to install it in all the block officers across the district. “The complaints of many people will be executed through this app.  Complainants will also be rewarded, including the employees and officials who have done better work in the execution of the application received online,” he added.

  • Parents say thank you to special teachers

    As the world celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3, parents of children with disabilities in Jharia expressed their gratitude to the special teachers of a government-owned resource centre for the disabled children. The teachers of the centre took the extra effort to continue the training and exercise session for these children even during the lockdown by reaching their houses. The resource centre was established under the education programme of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. 

    Manoj Singh, physiotherapist of the Jharia-based resource centre, and Akhlaque Ahmad, special educator-cum-speech therapist, during the lockdown, didn’t allow the training and exercises to be discontinued even for a single day for over 20 cerebral palsy affected and autistic children.

    Talking to The Telegraph Online on Thursday, Singh said, “Though altogether 109 children are registered at our centre, we were greatly concerned about the well-being of around 20 cerebral palsy affected children, ever since the imposition of lockdown. We used the smartphones to make video calls explaining the exercises and even sent videos of exercises to be carried out regularly through WhatsApp.”

    Echoing sentiments, Akhlaque Ahmad, said, “We also carried out training in basic hygiene and cleanliness about these children which is quite crucial for their health.”

    “For some children of the economically backward section of the society, whose parents could not afford to have smartphones to avail the online exercise lessons, we had to visit their home and give them the lessons,” said Ahmad.

  • WhatsApp released Disappearing Messages feature for Indian users

    The instant messaging app Whatsapp officially launched the Disappearing Message feature earlier this month. Now this feature has been released on the Android and iOS platform for Indian users. The feature of this feature is that after activating it, the messages, photos and videos sent on WhatsApp will disappear automatically after a week.To activate this feature, open WhatsApp. Open the contact for which you want to activate the Disappearing Message feature. Now click on the name of the contact. As soon as you click, your WhatsApp account will open in front of you. Here you will see the Disappearing Message feature. Click. After this you will see the option of On and Off, here you have to click on the option of On. Now this feature will be activated and the sent message-photos and videos will disappear automatically after 7 days.

  • No fee will be charged for sending money via WhatsApp, says Mark Zuckerberg

     No fee will be charged when sending money via WhatsApp, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday (local time) following the nod by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for WhatsApp to go live on UPI in the multi-bank model.

    Speaking through a video statement, Zuckerberg said that it will be supported by more than 140 banks.
    “Now you can send money to your friends and family through WhatsApp as easily as sending a message. There’s no fee, and it’s supported by more than 140 banks. And because it’s WhatsApp, it’s secure and private too,” he said.

    He further said that the payments will be available in 10 Indian regional language versions of WhatsApp. “All you need is a debit card with a bank that supports UPI and you can set it up straight away. You can find it in the latest version of WhatsApp,” he said.

    “We’ve been working on this with the National Payments Corporation of India, who oversee everything to make sure it’s secure and reliable. And we’ve built it using India’s Unified Payments Interface, which makes it easy for anyone to instantly accept payments across different apps — and for companies to provide people with great services,” he added.

    “When people can access financial tools, they’re more empowered to support themselves and others, or start a business. Long term, we need more innovation that gives people control over their money, and making payments easier is a small step that can really help,” he said while adding that India is the first country to do anything like this.

    On November 5, the NPCI had stated that WhatsApp can expand its UPI user base in a graded manner starting with a maximum registered user base of 20 million in UPI.

    NPCI was incorporated in 2008 as an umbrella organisation for operating retail payment and settlement systems in India.