However, instead of leaving you at a dilemma, we will elect one as the slightly better option depending on what you prefer — If you are a geek and care about things such as timely Android updates and a slick user experience, then the Mi A1 is your best bet. There’s a 12MP + 5MP rear camera setup and a 20MP selfie camera with an LED flash. Therefore, one can extract maximum up to a day’s usage under considerably heavy usage.    Mi A1 (left) and Redmi Note 5 Pro (right)The Mi A1 wasn’t supposed to be an all-rounder smartphone like the Note 5 Pro, which is why it’s been left at the mercy of a 3080mAh battery.

Winner: Mi A1Battery life:The Redmi Note 5 Pro is supposed to be an all-rounder smartphone delivering equally on all fronts.Mi A1The real difference between both the phones is how Android is served to the user — the Redmi Note 5 Pro runs on MIUI, which means there’re tons of customisation options and added convenient features such as Dual apps, touch gestures and many others. There’s a 12MP + 12MP dual rear camera and a 5MP selfie shooter as standard.Winner: Redmi Note 5 ProSpecifications, Performance:In keeping with the tradition, Xiaomi has blessed the Redmi Note 5 Pro with a brand new Snapdragon 636 chipset, which accompanied with up to 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage, makes the spec sheet looks interesting.

The Redmi Note 5 Pro is a smartphone from 2018, which means you get a big 18:9 5. Xiaomi has given all of the features that people expect from a new Redmi Note device every year — a new Qualcomm midrange chipset, more than adequate RAM as well as storage, and a pair of improved cameras. The dual camera setup is laid out horizontally, similar to the iPhone 7 Plus.0 Oreo. However, between of them, we feel the Mi A1 is slightly better value for money than the Note 5 Pro — thanks to the Android One ROM.Redmi Note 5 ProAlso read: Redmi Note 5 Pro first impressionsIn comparison, the Mi A1 looks a tad dated with its 16:9 display.Redmi Note 5 ProHowever, if you like a lively and customisable user experience and a pair of extremely capable of cameras, then the Redmi Note 5 Pro makes sense as a better SHJ-A Weft Feeder buy.Mi A1Out of the two, the Redmi Note 5 Pro is a newer smartphone and therefore comes with a  better build and a more pleasing design.Winner: Mi A1Verdict: TieDespite pitting them against each other, both of them come out to be equally armed and capable.0 Oreo ROM and it receives timely Android security patches.  

However, MIUI 9 lags behind timely software updates, which is one of the major drawbacks with this one. It sports a 5.1 Nougat based MIUI 9, which doesn’t make any sense in 2018. With narrow bezels up front, the Note 5 Pro definitely attracts attention. Android One is a leaner and lighter version of Android OS compared to MIUI and therefore is able to get Android updates before any other smartphone. There’s a 16:9 5. Since there are no plastic caps on this one, there are iPhone-inspired antenna lines, which don’t look that bad.Also read: Xiaomi Mi A1 reviewTherefore, if you are looking for an affordable midrange offering with good build quality, notable everyday performance and a pair of decent cameras from Xiaomi, which is the right one to choose? Read on. That said, the Mi A1 still looks premium and if you don’t have issues with its fat bezels, this shouldn’t embarrass you anytime soon. Therefore, one is assured of an eager software support on the Mi A1.Mi A1Make no mistake, the Redmi Note 5 Pro is also tremendous value for money when you consider all the features on offer — a pair of incredibly capable cameras and a superfast chipset makes it a swift everyday performer. Starting at a price of Rs 13,999, the Note 5 Pro can be termed as one of the most value-for-money budget smartphones that one can buy in India currently.99-inch IPS LCD display. In fact, both these midrange Xiaomis are evenly capable of dealing with casual usage inputs such as browsing through social media apps, streaming videos, playing games and photography. The 4000mAh battery with Xiaomi’s excellent optimisation manages to keep the Note 5 Pro awake for close to a day and a half with fairly comprehensive usage.(source). Of course, being a new phone, the Note 5 Pro’s camera performs noticeably better than that of the Mi A1’s — the bokeh mode is more efficient in distinguishing the subject from the background and the selfie camera is capable of snapping portrait selfies using AI. The thick bezels around the display aren’t a pleasant sight, especially in the lighter colour variants. It delivers on all those fronts that makes a casual user happy. Since this is Xiaomi’s Android One offering, the Mi A1 is already running on the latest version of Android 8.0 Oreo, thereby making it a favourite of all Android enthusiasts. If battery is your primary concern, then look no further than this beast.

Redmi Note 5 ProThe Mi A1 was the darling of the media industry when it came out last year.5-inch IPS LCD panel with backlit capacitive touch navigation buttons at the bottom. It is powered by Xiaomi’s favourite Snapdragon 625 chipset, which is also used in the ‘standard’ Redmi Note 5. The learning curve on the Mi A1 is far lesser than the Note 5 Pro. The Mi A1 is already on the Android 8. One exceeds with modern features and capable hardware whereas the other gets the basics right with a solid software experience. However, the presence of a micro USB port doesn’t sound right.Since its launch on Valentine’s Day, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro has been hogging attention of the consumers and the media alike.  Unlike the Note 5 Pro, there’s a USB Type-C port, which makes it convenient to plug in chargers which having to look out for the correct alignment. However, the display is a big 5.5-inch IPS LCD display. However, customisation fanatics will be happier with MIUI’s comprehensive theme store.99-inch display. With a bigger display on almost the similar form factor, the Note 5 Pro offers a bigger viewing experience with better dynamic range and viewing angles. The only sore point in this setup Android 7. With a standard 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, the Mi A1 also pleases nerds.In terms of performance, its hard to find faults with both of them. The display is protected by an undisclosed variant of Gorilla Glass. It might fall behind in terms of aesthetics and camera performance but is otherwise a reliable companion on an everyday basis.We prefer the Mi A1’s sorted approach to deliver a good user experience over MIUI’s customisation oriented philosophy. Launched last September, the Mi A1 was a drastic departure from Xiaomi’s traditional offerings — a nearly stock Android One OS and a pair of dual rear cameras.However, at exactly Rs 13,999, Xiaomi also sells another of its highly-appreciated budget midrange smartphones — the Mi A1. Currently one of our favourites, the Mi A1 is one of the first few smartphones to taste Android 8.Winner: Redmi Note 5 ProValue:Both the smartphone are made by Xiaomi, which is why both of them are immense value for money in comparison to offerings from rivals. The rear panel has plastic ends on the top and bottom for housing the antenna, which negates the requirement for putting thick visible antenna lines. That said, the Mi A1’s display and camera are pretty capable as well; it won’t make a difference to a layman. The rear is reminiscent of the Apple iPhone X with its vertically stacked dual camera module, which according to us isn’t a bad deal if one of your primary intentions to buy a midrange smartphone is flaunting.

The called a strike to protest against this bill, after which it was referred to a parliamentary select committee. We are now seeing the emergence of an epidemic of non-communicable chronic diseases related to food and the environment.. Food is central to the well-being of the planet and people, their health and healing.Across the world, there is an intense contest emerging between two paradigms of health and two paradigms of science. It tries to reduce the rich systems of knowledge of agro-ecology and ayurveda to a mechanistic basis, thus robbing the systems’ paradigm of its very strength. I see it as one of India’s greatest gifts to the world, along with agro-ecology and organic farming brought to the West by Sir Albert Howard through his agricultural testament. The mechanistic worldview sees us as separate from nature and each part of our body as separate from all others, as parts of a machine are.To function in a healthy way, the gut microbiome needs a diverse diet and a diverse diet needs diversity in our fields and gardens.The ayurvedic science of health is centred around food.

There is a growing awareness that the epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases is related to our environment and food. Tools and technologies have not been viewed as self-referential in Indian civilisation. The second one is reductionistic, mechanistic and commercial. Our gut is a microbiome which contains trillions of bacteria. A loss of diversity in our diet creates ill-health.Today, Western science has begun to realise what ayurveda understood 5,000 years ago — that the body is not a machine and food is not fuel that runs this machine as per Newton’s laws of mass and motion. There are 100,000 times more microbes in our gut than people on the planet. With the repeated failures and limitations of the reductionist approach to life, in agriculture and in health, the relevance of agro-ecology and ayurveda grows. One element of the controversy is a contest between two paradigms of healthcare, the holistic ancient systems like ayurveda versus the “modern” allopathic system based on drugs and pharmaceuticals.The mechanistic paradigm has transformed the diversity of knowledge systems into a hierarchy, privileging the mechanistic and reductionistic paradigm as the only science, pushing all other knowledge systems to oblivion or treating them as inferior.  

The first is holistic and sees connections between the health of the planet and our health. Mechanistic reductionist thinking does not just reduce the world to fragmented parts, but also reduces our capacity to know.The holistic sciences like ayurveda are based on inter-connectedness and living processes while weft feeder parts“modern medicine” is based on a mechanistic paradigm of separation, reductionism, fragmentation and on pharmaceuticals derived from the chemicals and dye industry over 100 years ago. May All See what is Auspicious, May no one Suffer. They are referred to as lifestyle diseases. Tools must be assessed on ethical, social and ecological criteria.It has thus evolved as an ecological and a systems science, not a fragmented and reductionist one. Our sciences have been based on the recognition of the inter-connections and inter-relatedness between humans and nature, between diverse organisms, and within all living systems including the human body. The chemicalisation of health has created new Iatrogenic disease which are the result of mechanistic chemical approaches and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which result in adverse drug reactions and side-effects often more fatal than the disease being attempted to be cured. The principles of self-organisation were identified by the ayurveda thousands of years ago.Ayurveda — the science (veda) of life (ayur) — is guided by 5,000 years of time-tested knowledge of health, nutrition and diet.  

This is a “knowledge apartheid” which prevents us from obtaining real answers on how to live healthy lives.The toxic chemical industry is responsible for many of the chronic disease epidemics we face. “Science” is derived from the Latin scire — “to know”. They have been assessed in the context of contributing to the well-being of all. The bill seeks to allow practitioners of ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy to practice modern medicine once they complete a short-term “bridge” course. Food is not “mass”; it is living, it’s the source of life and health.In a mechanistic paradigm, chemical, mechanical and genetic technologies become the measure of the sophistication of a health system.In the United States and Britain, intense debates are taking place over  Obamacare and the NHS, on whether health is a public good or a privatised commodity for sale.)Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah has been our philosophy and the objective which guides all science, technology and knowledge.

In India, a multi-dimensional debate emerged when the   was introduced in Parliament.While the objection of allopathic doctors is to ayurveda and other traditional medicine practitioners being able to practise “modern medicine”, my objection is to the degradation and devaluation of one of the oldest and most sophisticated health systems being swallowed by a mechanistic, commodified system.The same chemical industry that brings us toxics in agriculture also controls “modern medicine” based on pharmaceuticals. But technologies are tools.There have been many objections to the bill. I prefer to call them food style diseases.Because we are more bacteria than human, when the poisons we use in agriculture such as pesticides and herbicides, reach our gut through food, they can kill beneficialbacteria.Ayurveda recognises that every part of the body is inter-related and that the digestive system plays an important role in both health and disease.Instead of degrading ayurveda by fitting it into the mechanistic paradigm, it is time to evolve a biodiversity of health and knowledge systems that recognise the ecology of health, our bodies and the connection of our health to the health of the earth. We need holistic systems to understand the inter-connection between living beings and the earth so that we can live in ways that contribute to a healthy planet and healthy people.

The industrial health system and the mechanistic reductionist paradigm of health that it is based on cannot be the future of a healthy planet and healthy people.We pray — Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah Sarve Santu Nir-Aamayaah| Sarve Bhadraanni Pashyantu Maa Kashcid-Duhkha-Bhaag-Bhavet| Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih! (Om, May All Beings Be Happy, May All be Free from Illness.There is an intimate connection between the soil, plants, our gut and brain. It is based on the ecological science of inter-connectedness. Bayer and Monsanto are now merging.Diverse knowledge systems are scientific within their own paradigms. Health is defined as a commodity we buy from the pharmaceutical industry. Om Peace, Peace, Peace. Today, biological sciences are gaining an understanding that the body is not a machine; it’s a complex, self-organised and self-regulated ecosystem.

An Indian-origin former woman warrant officer in the Singapore Army was on Monday jailed for four months and three weeks for abusing and beating her Indian maid.On the night of March 3, 2012, after Jeeva ironed Rajakumari weft feeder uniform, the employer chided the maid for not knowing how to do a proper job of ironing.Rajakumari had picked her and she was to be paid Singapore dollars 350 a month without any days off. But Rajakumari told her this was not possible.

Rajakumari later admitted to him that she had hit Jeeva.Rajakumari's lawyer Kalidass Murugaiyan had earlier asked the judge to sentence his client to probation, stressing that she has had three hip replacements.A policeman later heard Rajakumari tell Jeeva in Tamil: "Please forgive me, I won't do this anymore, please don't tell anyone about the abuse".That night, Jeeva gestured to # a maid in a neighbouring home for help and the latter called the police.But the police officer investigating the case understood the language and Rajakumari was caught, 'The Straits Times' reported on Monday.Jeeva told the employer that she could not "withstand this torture any more" and requested Rajakumari to send her back to the agent's house.Unknown to Rajakumari, the officer could speak the language.Two days later, she scolded and slapped the maid hard on her face before pulling her hair and pushing her face against the window grill and kicking her in the waist.K Rajakumari, 57, who retired after 35 years of service, apologised to Sargunam Jeeva in Tamil and asked her not to tell anyone about her ordeal which included being hit by a plastic hanger until it broke.

She then hit Jeeva on her left upper arm with a plastic hanger until it broke.For each count of maid abuse, she could have been jailed for up to three years and fined up to Singapore dollars 7,500.She was charged for repeatedly abusing her maid in 2012.Jeeva, who had studied up to eighth grade and could not speak English, was regularly scolded with caustic remarks by Rajakumari by the second week of February 2012 and the abuse soon became physical.After a 14-day trial, District Judge Imran Abdul Hamid convicted Rajakumari on September 5 last year of five counts of causing hurt to Jeeva, then 35, in her condominium apartment.Jeeva first came to Singapore in late January 2012 but was abused between February and March of the same year.

The big and dangerous difference is the injection of a quasi-religious sentiment by invoking “Shri Ram”. If that were to happen, the BJP needs to be sure that it can collect the spillage.The construction of an oppressed people, cowering from the Trinamul Congress’  bully boys needing to be released from their enslavement by the protective, powerful, nationalist and assertively righteous bhakts of the Sangh Parivar is a tactical manoeuvre.Bubbles of violence are erupting all over West Bengal; on July 6, no fewer than 10 clashes, confrontations and altercations between the Trinamul Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party occurred in almost as many districts.Well before and during the just-concluded elections, sentiment was stirred by the danger to the nation and the heroic efforts of Narendra Modi to safeguard it, from dangers outside its borders and from elements within, like Mamata Banerjee who opposed him.  The BJP’s positioning of itself as the harbinger of change is exactly what Ms Banerjee promised, Poriborton. If it fails, the BJP will sweep to power in West Bengal. Sentiment is high and the BJP is working hard to keep it at boiling point, to keep the focus on its proximity to the people and highlight the growing distance and distrust of the electorate from the Trinamul Congress.The BJP is seems is in a fix over West Bengal.The track that the BJP has chosen is a well-used one; shorn of the religious wrap, it was a track laid by the Trinamul Congress as it raced to oust the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front and the Congress in West Bengal and emerge as the big party or the supreme force. The confrontations, 10 or more in one day, is reminiscent of the pre-2011 run-up by the Trinamul Congress. Effectively, the cut-money story has turned into an extension of the “syndicate” story, used by Mr Modi and Amit Shah to discredit Ms Banerjee on the grounds that a “political syndicate rules in the land of ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Jana Gana Mana’”. In contrast, Jai Shri Ram is specific in its appeal; it is directed at stirring the Hindu awake and shouting out his/her allegiance. Jai Shri Ram as BJP’s war cry is as incoherent in West Bengal’s cultural universe as was the equally incoherent construction of Ma, Mati, Manush used to brilliant effect against the CPI(M) by the Trinamul.The only glitch in this linear progress, from Opposition to ruling party, is the BJP’s indecision on how soon it wants to occupy Writers’ Buildings or Nabanna, whichever structure it chooses as its seat of government.  

In politics, that is a long time. The spurt in BJPs claims of deaths due to political clashes, within a matter of weeks, from 54 in May to over 200 in July, is also a photocopy of the how Ms Banerjee effectively reduced the CPI(M) to a ruthless killing machine intent on remaining in power by whatever means. It is a tool that has prewinder no ideology, except that of the user..The sentiment quotient in politics has zoomed in the past five years, across the country and in Bengal. Political violence, irrespective of just how many people have died, given that the BJP’s version of the head count grows by leaps and bounds, could spiral out of control. The danger is that at some point, the bubbles could join up and the pot could boil over.On the other hand, the volatile appeal of the Jai Shri Ram slogan could become harder to handle. If the Trinamul can fight it off, it will succeed in postponing its overthrow. As much as the anti-incumbency sentiment against Ms Banerjee could climb steeply, so could the anti-incumbency feelings against the Narendra Modi government and the BJP in West Bengal. By declaring Ms Banerjee an “anti-national”  for defying the Prime Ministers call for a collective push for development, as in sabka vikas, the die was cast for the current chapter of the anti-Trinamul Congress campaign, namely “cut-money”, or the percentage of funds deducted by ruling party functionaries from payouts to beneficiaries under various government schemes.

The question that BJP or at least Mr Supriyo and his handlers need to answer is if indeed the situation in West Bengal is as dire as they claim, then ought not the Narendra Modi government take a decision to restore governance in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution? Instead of calculating the political risk of imposing President’s Rule, should not the BJP government at the Centre relieve West Bengal from the oppressive government of the Trinamul Congress immediately? Does the BJP need to make cynical calculations of political expediency on saving West Bengal from the Trinamul Congress? Does timing the ouster of the Trinamul Congress matter more for the BJP than giving relief to the people of West Bengal?On this, the BJP is most explicit; Mr Supriyo and others are open in admitting that invoking President’s Rule now would politically boomerang. If it waits till the end of the Trinamul Congress’ term in office, it will be 2021 before it can hope to be in power in West Bengal.By the BJP’s reckoning, or least one section of it, namely Babul Supriyo, the ex-minister and Member of Parliament from Asansol, West Bengal is already in the throes of a situation that can be deemed as a breakdown of law and order, or as is in the Constitution, the situation in West Bengal is, at the moment, such that “the government of the state cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution”.  

It would swing sympathy in favour of Ms Banerjee and the BJP would become the bad guys. Whereas Ma, Mati, Manush was inclusive, Jai Shri Ram is definitively divisive. It needs to calibrate its tactics to fit the sentiments of a body of voters about whose allegiance it has no real confidence. Low-level violence, that bubbles and bursts, is how the BJP seems intent on keeping its pot boiling. For the BJP’s purposes, sentiment is stirred by linking every point in its political attack strategy to a single sentiment — that the principal ruling party or even the Opposition has, in the present as in the past, betrayed the people, one way or another. Ma, Mati, Manush and Poriborton covered the entire spectrum of political issues that Ms Banerjee used to mobilise and detach voters from the CPI(M).

AI could help the participant in identifying the level of understanding reached after relevant sections by exposing students to adaptive evaluation, at times leading to participant going back to the sections where learning is identified as inadequate. For learning-oriented and in-classroom processes, traditional classrooms have often water jet loom been blamed to be unresponsive and mass delivery focused.. AI could also help students in engaging in specific social groups by identifying groups among the learning community that aid in learning of each other and further help the instructors in identifying most effective learning content amongst the myriad of choices.-- Prof. In other words, it does not enable personalization of educational experience (this needs to be interpreted as way beyond anytime access to material which is easily available today).

Among the beyond classroom activities, AI could help the higher learning institutions setup effective career counselling sections. Let us break this down into in-classroom and learning-oriented areas as well as beyond classroom processes. Nevertheless, there is a greater need to study and understand the newer and emergent paradigms of the human-machine interface that may impact the pedagogical methods for higher learning in a futuristic world. Every participant irrespective of backgrounds might have different learning needs and more importantly learning may happen at a varied pace. Among more efficiency based aspects AI and data analytics could be used to answer various admission related queries thereby bringing down need more manpower, identifying parking spaces, lighting and facility maintenance using data from the Internet of Things (IoT). Subsequently, a blended, adaptive learning environment could be implemented wherein the coursework could move with appropriate video lectures, forums and specific teaching assistance as is required by the participant.  AI-based algorithms could help assess beforehand the kind of learning set-up and speed that would be suitable for a specific participant. We have still not reached a point where a teacher or classroom learning could be completely avoided or made obsolete. Although AI-related academic research has been in place since the late nineties but it is recently that products and services inspired by AI have emerged out of labs into our daily routine activities.Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an idea seems to have caught the imagination of both industry and academia alike.  Based on the learning speed and interaction of the student with the course material, final customized evaluation could be conducted, thereby establishing higher engagement among students as well as ensuring better learning outcomes.  

These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of Deccan Chronicle and/or other staff and contributors to this site. Now with every vertical across industry engaged in understanding exactly how AI and analytics could help them transform, education as an industry too followed suit. Deakin University in Australia is a case in point as they have developed a 24/7 query response system for students that brings together over 90 servers and 200 million pages of data with the aim of cost-saving and better service. Whether it is the buzz around autonomic vehicles, drones, speech recognition, various voice response systems like Alexa and Google assistant, every single one of these products has some form of AI at its core. Today we produce more data in a single day then possibly we did in the entire year in the eighties. The most obvious impact of AI and analytics could be felt in evaluation methods. AI could also help in assessing the parts of coursework where greater human intervention may be required for higher learning impact. Clearly, higher education world of tomorrow would be a lot more automated, more personalized and more impactful in its ability to enhance the learning of the participants.Various scholarly and popular articles over the years have identified domains within higher education where AI and analytics together could reshape the future.  

A teacher in a classroom is here to stay for a very long time given the complexities and subtleties of human to human interaction based on real-time behaviour of the teacher and student alike. Undoubtedly, ever-increasing processing speeds and storage capacities along with possibilities of machine to machine (M2M) communication have let the cat out of the bag.However, a word of caution is to be put in place. Students were so impressed by the teacherbot that they nominated it as the best teaching assistant. In this regard, the role of IBM’s cognitive computing platform Watson based teaching assistant in a master’s level course at Georgia Tech is especially noteworthy.  

This article aims to differentiate the achievable from the hype in this arena. It did not take long for the industry stalwarts to realize that they were not storing and analyzing a lot of data that could help in offering completely new and customized services, thereby bringing completely new revenue streams in existence. AI and analytics could help the students identify various domains wherein they could do better or help them map learning trajectories to be followed for specific career choices. Prageet Aeron, Assistant Professor, Information Management Area, MDI GurgaonDisclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the original author. Lastly, the instructors could utilize AI to assess even the most complex answer sheets in a much more objective way as compared to today.