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May302017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Indian Navy & medical teams join Sri Lanka flood rescue ops toll reaches 193

Technology

Indian Navy diving and medical teams joined rescue efforts of Sri Lankan authorities in flood-hit regions as the death toll in the country’s worst torrential rains since 2003 climbed today to 193. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said the adverse weather condition had left 112 people injured and nearly 600,000 people have been forced from their homes, with thousands suffering structural damage from flood inundation and landslides. The weather has begun to clear, and many of the more than 100,000 people who evacuated over the weekend had returned home to begin clearing debris and mud from their waterlogged homes. More than 80,000 others remained in relief camps as their homes were either destroyed or remain unreachable. The Indian contingent of more than 300 navy personnel was assi...

May292017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

10 facts you need to know about ISRO’s GSLV-Mk III

National

The GSLV-Mk III-D1 launcher would carry GSAT-19 satellite which has a mass of 3,200 kg. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III), the heaviest rocket ever made by India and capable of carrying large payloads, is set for launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on June 5, 2017. Here are a few facts you need to know about the rocket. GSKV-Mk III is capable of launching four-tonne satellites in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The rocket is also capable of placing up to eight tonnes in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), enough to carry a manned module. GSLV-Mk III’s first developmental flight, D1, will carry on June 5 the GSAT-19 satellite — developed to help improve telecommunication and broadcasting areas. This is India’s first full...

May292017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

AI startup to help Police forces find criminals with its app ABHED

Technology

Artificial Intelligence startup Staqu, has launched its proprietary criminal registration and search system, ABHED (Artificial intelligence Based Human Efface Detection) which will help police forces to opt for mobile-phone-based criminal registration, including biometric information. The app will provide every Police personnel will have its own login password to use the app for both, registering & search. The access can be controlled at different levels, with the mobile phone number of police personnel. The OTP based logins for profiling or searching ensure optimum security. Then police personnel can automatically profile criminals or missing people, including biometric information like fingerprints, voice & face pictures which can also be integrated with the current CCTNS sys...

May282017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat begins 4-day visit to Myanmar to further strengthen defense & security cooperation

National

Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat today began a four-day visit to Myanmar during which he will meet the country s iconic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hold talks with top military leadership to further ramp up defence and security cooperation between the two countries. Myanmar is one of India’s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur. General Rawat is scheduled to meet Suu Kyi, who is Myanmar’s Foreign Minister, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, and Vice Senior General Soe Win, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and Commander-in-Chief of Army. In the meetings, both sides are expected to explore ways to further broaden security and defence engagements...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Bahubali 2 set to release in China

Entertainment

After smashing domestic and global box-office with record breaking numbers, SS Rajamouli's larger than life saga Bahubali 2: The Conclusion is all set to take the Chinese box office by storm. The Prabhas-starrer will be soon releasing in China. "Lots of speculation about #Baahubali2 release in China... The update: #Baahubali2 makers have started the process of releasing in China," wrote Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh on Twitter sharing the information. However, he added that no specific release date has been finalized and the makers are looking for an earliest date possible. https://twitter.com/taran_adarsh/status/867607502736764928 https://twitter.com/taran_adarsh/status/867607613499768833 After its release in the West, the film conquered the fort. Toppling Vin Diesel's Fate o...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Major setback to Pakistan: Trump administration has proposed a reduction of $190 million in funding

Pakistan

Trump administration has proposed a reduction of $190 million in funding to Pakistan for the current fiscal year as compared to the last. The US grant stands at $344 million in financial assistance which includes $100 million in foreign military funding. “Pakistan plays a key role in US counter-terrorism strategy, the peace process in Afghanistan, nuclear non- proliferation efforts, and stability and economic integration in South and Central Asia. It is also a large and growing economy offering profitability for US businesses,” the State Department said in its annual budget proposals sent to the US Congress. In the first budget of the Trump administration, the State Department said that it will continue to maintain a strong diplomatic presence that will facilitate bilateral cooperation...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

1 killed, 24 injured after Mayawati’s rally in Saharanpur

Uttar Pradesh

At a time when myriad questions are being raised regarding the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, fresh clashes have resulted in the death of one person and injuring several after Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati’s public meeting in Saharanpur district’s Shabbirpur village. A total of 24 people have been reportedly injured in what victims say has been caused largely by “Rajputs” or upper caste Hindus in the region. While it is not clear if all of the 24 injured belong to the Dalit community, The Indian Express reports that 13 injured in the fresh clashes were from the minority community, with at least one from the Muslim community. The spiralling caste-based violence in the region has increased due to high “political undercurrents” and inaction by police, desp...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Tata Motors reduced its managerial force by up to 1,500 people as part of an organisational restructuring exercise

Economy

Tata Motors today said it has reduced its managerial workforce by up to 1,500 people domestically as part of an organisational restructuring exercise. “The reference (total managers) on which we started (the exercise) was in the vicinity of 13,000…we do see as far as the white collar population is concerned, an overall reduction in the vicinity of 10-12 per cent (up to 1,500),” managing director and chief executive Guenter Butschek told reporters here. He was speaking after announcing the company’s earnings for the fiscal 2016-17. The company joins a growing number of organisations adopting such strategies for a variety of reasons, ranging from cutting the flab to automation. These job cuts, which have led to concerns on ‘jobless economic growth’ in various quarters, have been ac...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

AAP received Rs 50 lakh each from 4 companies on single day

Delhi

In a new revelation, media has accessed documents which show that at least four companies had donated Rs 50 Lakh each on a single day to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Shiv Charan Goel. The party, however, did not disclose the donation details to the Election Commission about the funding. Notably, AAP is already facing a probe in disclosed funding case after the sacked Delhi Water Minister, Kapil Mishra, alleged party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of corruption charges. Mishra, in a press conference, on Sunday, May 14, also alleged that the ruling party of Delhi is involved in taking donations from various sources. He disclosed a slew of documents showing how senior AAP leaders and Arvind Kejriwal knew about a major donation scam involving “crores of rupees”. Minutes aft...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

ED arrests Misa Bharti’s CA in Rs 8,000 crore PMLA scam

Bihar

In a big setback to RJD, Enforcement Directorate arrested chartered accountant allegedly linked to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti in Rs 8,000 crore PMLA cases. The CA, Rajesh Agarwal, has been arrested under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and will be produced in court today, officials said. Agarwal was allegedly instrumental in providing accommodation entries to many high-profile people to help launder their funds. These included those being probed by the Income Tax Department in the Rs 1,000 crore dubious land deals case allegedly linked to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s family, they said. The CA, officials said, was also allegedly involved in routing funds for the Jain brothers, Virendra and Surendra,...