The SC agreed to consider the Centre’s submissions for an open court hearing of its plea seeking review of the judgment by which several provisions of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 were struck down. The court had struck down section 3(2) and section 5 of Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, and one of the provisions which provided for the punishment of a maximum jail term of three years or a fine or both for those indulging in ‘benami’ transactions.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a US labour agency has found.
The National Labor Relations Board will issue a complaint targeting the policies and claiming Apple executives made comments that stymied worker organising unless the company settles first, an agency official said on Monday in an email reviewed by Reuters.
The official had sent the email to Ashley Gjovik, a former Apple senior engineering manager who filed complaints against the company in 2021.
The NLRB investigates charges filed by workers and unions and decides whether to issue formal complaints against companies. The agency can seek to strike down workplace policies and require employers to notify workers of legal violations.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment. The company has said it takes worker complaints seriously and thoroughly investigates them.
An NLRB spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gjovik in an email on Tuesday said she hoped the development will spur more Apple workers to speak up about working conditions and to organise.
In her complaints, Gjovik said various Apple rules, including those relating to confidentiality and surveillance policies, deter employees from discussing issues such as pay equity and sex discrimination with each other and the media.
Gjovik also cited a 2021 email from Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook that allegedly sought to stop workers from speaking to the press and said "people who leak confidential information do not belong here."
Many tech companies have strict confidentiality policies designed to protect trade secrets.
US labour law prohibits policies that could discourage workers from exercising their right to band together to improve working conditions.
Apple is facing several pending NLRB complaints, including one claiming the tech giant unlawfully required workers at an Atlanta retail store to attend anti-union meetings. Apple has denied wrongdoing.
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Monday, January 30, 2023
Govt sets March 1 deadline for TV channels to report obligatory public service content
The information and broadcasting ministry has advised private TV channels to report their obligatory public service broadcasting content to the government with effect from March 1. Though the government advisory said “voluntary compliance and self-certification” will be the guiding principles of the directive, it laid down a clutch of overarching pointers that would help TV channels develop content, account for time, and report compliance.
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10,918 vs 10,340: Local patent filings beat overseas ones
Rs 4 lakh crore likely for rail, highways next fiscal
The highways and railway sectors are likely to get a combined budgetary allocation of over Rs 4 lakh crore, the highest ever. Both the ministries may see 20-30% increase in their allocation considering their track record in spending so far. During the current financial year, the Centre has allocated almost Rs 2 lakh crore for the road transport and highways ministry and going by the current trend of expenditure; the total spending is likely to touch Rs 2.1 lakh crore by March end.
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Morbi collapse: Oreva accepts HC directive on compensation
Oreva Group company Ajanta Monday accepted the Gujarat high court’s directive to calculate compensation payable to the families of the 135 victims in the Morbi suspension footbridge collapse like it’s done for motor vehicle accident claims or follow the Supreme Court’s recompense formula in one such case involving the death of a family’s breadwinner.
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1/3rd of undergraduate students in India doing BA: Survey
Over 78.9% of 4.1 crore students in higher education are enrolled at the undergraduate level, and of the total enrolled students over one crore are pursuing BA. Another 17 lakh (4.2%) of the students are doing BA (Hons) from various higher education institutions. This was revealed in the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 released on Sunday by the ministry of education.
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Adani Group loses 29% market value in 3 days
The massive sell-off in Adani Group stocks continued for the third consecutive session on Monday, wiping out nearly Rs 1.4 lakh crore worth of investors’ wealth. In all, about 29% of the group’s market capitalisation, or about Rs 5.6 lakh crore, has been eroded in the last three trading sessions.
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Sunday, January 29, 2023
Adani bets on big funds for Rs 20,000 cr FPO
Institutional investors are fully backing the Rs 20,000-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) for Adani Enterprises (AEL) even though the stock is below the offer price. However the company is not sure how retail investors will look at the issue at the current market price. However, it is confident some high net worth and ultra-high net worth investors (UHNIs) will participate in it.
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For 100 days of NREGS jobs to all, Rs 1.8L cr will be needed
If the government were to actually provide 100 days of work to every household registered under MNREGS, it would need to allocate over Rs 1.8 lakh crore in the coming Budget assuming the number of households opting for the scheme remains at the current level. What has actually happened is a steady shrinking of the outlay after the Covid period boost to under half this amount.
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165 sentenced to death in 2022, highest in 2 decades
Trial courts in the country sentenced 165 people to death in 2022, the highest in a year in the last two decades. This is up from 146 prisoners who were sent to death row in 2021. In almost a third of the capital punishment cases, the offender had committed a sexual crime. At the end of 2022, 539 were on death row, the highest since 2016.
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2nd T20I: India edge NZ in a low-scoring thriller, level series 1-1
Suryakumar Yadav (26 not out) and Hardik Pandya (15 not out) used all their experience to help India edged New Zealand by six wickets in a last-over thriller in Lucknow on Sunday. The duo held their nerves in the low-scoring contest as India levelled the three-match series 1-1 with a scrappy victory in the second Twenty20 International.
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Saturday, January 28, 2023
Maldives President Solih wins party primary in re-election bid
Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih won the presidential primary election of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) on Saturday, reported avas.mv. Solih faced off against the party's President and Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, and received 61 per cent of the votes cast.
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Court sets aside order on summons to Shetty sisters
Observing that the order against them was not proper or legal, in a relief to actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra and her sister Shamita Shetty, a Mumbai court recently quashed and set aside a 2022 magistrate court order issuing summons to them in a Rs21 lakh cheating case. The court, however, said the proceedings will continue against their mother Sunanda after finding that a prima facie case was made out against her.
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HC: Merely naming caste not an offence under SC/ST Act
Merely taking the name of the caste of the victim would not make it an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, unless it is with an intention to insult the person belonging to that caste, the Karnataka high court observed recently.
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India begins work on 135km Ladakh road to link key locations
India has started building a strategic road along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh that will, in the most part, trace the Indus and mirror a blacktop surface link on the Chinese side. The road will plug a vital gap in connectivity between the strategically important Chushul south of Pangong Tso and Demchok in eastern Ladakh, a distance of about 135km along the LAC.
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Friday, January 27, 2023
India modernising nuke arsenal with eye on China: US report
India continues to modernise its nuclear arsenal and operationalise its nascent triad, and the country's nuke strategy, traditionally focused on Pakistan, now appears to place increased emphasis on China, says a 2022 report of the Federation of American Scientists. At least four new weapon systems are under development to complement or replace the country's existing nuclear-capable aircraft, land-based delivery systems and submarine launched missiles, it said.
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India now home to 70% of world’s tigers, govt tells SC
The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that there is an annual growth of 6% in tiger population, which offset natural losses. India achieved the target of doubling the tiger population in 2018, four years ahead of schedule of the St Petersburg Declaration on tiger conservation, it said. and is now home to 70% of world’s tigers.
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Morbi bridge collapse: Chargesheet names Oreva promoter, 9 others
The sessions court here is scheduled to hear the anticipatory bail application of maintenance contractor and operator Oreva Group's promoter Jaysukh Patel on February 1 over the Morbi suspension footbridge collapse that claimed 135 lives. Nine others named in the chargesheet are already in custody. Patel has been named "absconder".
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J&K cops reject lapse charge as Rahul calls off 11km leg of Yatra
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Friday claimed that a security lapse forced him to abandon the 11km leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra. He had crossed the Jawahar Tunnel from Jammu’s Banihal in a bulletproof vehicle and walked less than a kilometre towards the gateway to Kashmir division when the alleged security lapse brought his march to a halt. J&K Police contested allegations of poor crowd management.
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1st T20I: NZ beat India by 21 runs to take a 1-0 lead
Washington Sundar's maiden T20I fifty went in vain as hosts India suffered a 21-run defeat against New Zealand at JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi on Friday. With the victory, New Zealand took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Chasing a competitive 177-run target, Sundar scored a quick 50, off 28 balls, but could manage to take India to just 155 for 9 in their 20 overs in the end.
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Adani may take legal action against US-based Hindenburg
India's centibillionaire Gautam Adani is considering legal action against US-based Hindenburg Research over its report, accusing his group of "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud" that wiped nearly Rs 97,000 crore off the value of his conglomerate's shares in Wednesday's trade.
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Telangana CM KCR, governor hold separate R-Day events
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao followed the high court's orders and ensured that the official Republic Day parade took place at Raj Bhavan on Thursday. But he did not turn up for the flag-hoisting nor send any of his cabinet colleagues for the event, further straining the relationship between him and governor Tamilisai Sounderarajan.
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No backchannel talks with India by Sharif govt: Pak minister
Pakistan had no backchannel diplomacy with India since PM Shehbaz Sharif's govt took office, junior foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar said. PM Sharif had said last week that PM Modi should hold serious talks to address all "burning points", including Kashmir. A day later, the PM's office changed its position and stated that talks with India can happen only after it reverses its action of abrogating J&K's special status.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Meta to restore Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts
Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will restore former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. Trump has 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram.
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PM Modi meets El-Sisi: Egypt supports India on cross-border terror fight
Counter-terrorism efforts, increasing radicalisation and cyber security were among the issues that dominated PM Modi's dialogue with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, with Modi saying in a media statement later that both leaders agreed concerted action is necessary to end cross-border terrorism. The summit also saw India and Egypt elevating their relationship to the level of strategic partnership in an effort to ramp up defence, political, energy and economic ties.
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Mulayam Singh, Zakir Hussain, Dilip Mahalanabis among 6 Padma Vibhushan awardees
ORS (oral rehydration solution) pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis will receive the Padma Vibhushan (posthumous) in the field of Medicine (Pediatrics), the Centre announced on Wednesday. A total of 25 other personalities across various walks of life will be awarded the Padma Shri.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Gautam Adani slips to 4th position in global billionaires ranking
Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani slipped to 4th position in Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His wealth plunged by $872 million in a day to $120 billion. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now the 3rd richest person in the world. Although there is not much difference in his and Adani's wealth. While Bezos holds the 3rd spot with $121 billion, Adani is at 4th position with $120 billion net worth.
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Monday, January 23, 2023
Delhi sees warmest January day in 4 years, rain likely today
Sunday, January 22, 2023
PM lauds idea of providing SC verdicts in regional languages
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the suggestion made by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud to provide translated copies of Supreme Court orders in Indian languages was a laudatory idea as it will help the common people, particularly youngsters, understand them better.
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63 lakh cases pending in lower courts due to ‘lack of counsel’, says National Judicial Data Grid
Of the over four crore cases pending in lower courts in the country, about 63 lakh cases remain undecided because of non-availability of counsel, according to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), as of January 20. At least 78% of such cases are criminal and the rest civil.
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Saturday, January 21, 2023
9 hurt in twin blasts on Jammu outskirts
9 hurt in twin blasts on Jammu outskirts
Peegate: AI body mulls legal action over pilot suspension
Air India pilots’ body IPG is considering legal recourse and other options, regarding aviation regulator DGCA suspending the licence of the pilot-in-command of the flight where a passenger allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger onboard last November. A senior member of the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), which represents the airline’s pilots who fly wide-body planes, said it will take up the issue of suspension of the pilot concerned strongly.
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Centre sacks WFI assistant secretary for backing chief
A day after brokering a peace deal and asking Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to ‘step aside’ pending inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation against him, Union sports minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday dismissed WFI’s assistant secretary Vinod Tomar with immediate effect for his public remarks in Gonda defending Singh, a BJP strongman and six-time Lok Sabha MP.
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Friday, January 20, 2023
Wrestlers end protest after assurances, WFI chief Sharan to step aside
The aggrieved grapplers called off their protest late on Friday night after getting assurances from the government that their grievances would be addressed, the first step of which was the stepping aside of under-fire Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The wrestlers, decided to end their protest after a breakthrough was achieved during a second round of talks with union sports minister Anurag Thakur.
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Cyber security, data theft new-age policing challenges: Amit Shah
Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said challenges to policing have now drastically transformed: from tackling geographical problems like terrorism and unrest in J&K, Left-wing extremism and unrest in the northeast to countering new-age “thematic” threats of cyber security and data theft, with problems becoming multi-dimensional as narco-terror and fourth-generation warfare catch on.
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More girl wrestlers are coming forward to report abuse: Vinesh Phogat
Vinesh, who is spearheading the campaign for Singh's removal as the WFI chief over charges of sexual harrasment, also alleged that several complaints of sexual abuse and mistreatment of boys wrestlers were reported to the federation's higher-ups but no action was taken on them.
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
SC rejects RAW objections, sends Kirpal’s name for HC judge again
The Supreme Court collegium headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud has rejected “objections” of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) to reiterate for the second time the name of gay senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal for appointment as a judge of the Delhi high court.
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Uttarakhand CM says 70% of Joshimath residents leading ‘normal lives’
During his meeting with home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Wednesday, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said “65% to 70% of Joshimath residents were leading a normal life and only 30% have been affected by land subsidence”. Dhami reiterated his remark in Dehradun on Thursday.
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Government slams BBC documentary for ‘bias, colonial mindset’
India on Thursday slammed the controversial BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi and the Gujarat riots, saying it lacked objectivity and betrayed a colonial mindset. While noting that the documentary had not been screened in India, the foreign ministry said it was a propaganda piece designed to push a particular "discredited" narrative.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Fearing ‘water war’ by China, govt puts Arunachal dams on fast track
Fearing a Chinese threat of “water wars”, India has initiated its biggest hydroelectric project of 11,000 megawatt (MW) in Upper Subansiri in Arunachal Pradesh. Responding to Chinese dams coming up close to its borders in the north-east, India is also expediting three stalled projects for possible allocation to NHPC after recommendations of an evaluation committee and in-principle approval by ministry of power.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
JP Nadda to remain BJP chief till 2024 June
Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday exuded confidence that BJP will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with a bigger mandate than 2019 margin even as the party extended the term of current chief J P Nadda till June next year, beyond the Lok Sabha polls due next year.
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8-yr-old daughter of diamond baron to embrace monkhood
An eight-year-old heir to a diamond empire with roots in this Gujarat city is set to embrace monkhood on Wednesday after what may have been her last tryst with ostentation - song, dance, finery and a grand procession involving ornamented elephants, horses and camels.
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Man believed killed is now main accused in murder
BJP beats AAP, gets mayor post in Chandigarh
First since March, 2020: Under 100 Covid cases in a day
No Covid death was reported in India for 4 days at a stretch, again a first since 2020. India reported 83 fresh cases on Monday, down from 114 on the previous day. India had first reported over 100 cases in a day on March 27, 2020, & the daily tally hadn't fallen to double digits since then.
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'RRR' actor Jr NTR to star in a Marvel film? Here's what we know
We all know that 'RRR' star Jr NTR was present at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in the US recently. During an interaction with international media there, Jr NTR said that Iron Man is his all-time favourite character when asked what kind of Hollywood movies he would star in if he gets a chance. He also said that he would love to do a Marvel film and is awaiting a call from Marvel Entertainment.
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Monday, January 16, 2023
K’taka contractors level bribe charge, BJP MLA denies it
Delhi, Gujarat cops 'seized' Banga Bhavan footage: Didi
BBC under fire from PIOs over new series attacking PM Modi
BJP identifies 160 Lok Sabha seats for special campaigns
After hotels, damaged homes in Joshimath colony to come down
This would be the second major demolition exercise after the administration a few days ago began to raze two of Joshimath's biggest hotels. There are over 30 houses in the colony, many of them with large cracks, which a resident said "seem to be getting bigger."
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No new Covid cases in Delhi for first time since pandemic began
For the first time since March 2020, the national capital recorded no new Covid case on Monday. Delhi recorded its first coronavirus case on March 2, 2020 and logged a total of 20,07,313 cases with a cumulative positivity rate of 4.94 per cent and 26,522 pandemic-related fatalities so far.
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Sunday, January 15, 2023
6.2-magnitude quake hits off Indonesia's Sumatra
Narrow escape for Surpiya Sule as saree catches fire
Most landslides on Joshimath road to Rishikesh ‘fresh’: Study
As many as 309 "fully or partially road-blocking landslides" were identified along the 247-km road between Rishikesh and Joshimath - an average of 1.25 landslides per km - according to a study by a team of Indian and foreign scientists, which was introduced for discussion at European Geosciences Union on January 10.
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Cold wave returns, chill likely to intensify for 2-3 days
Nepal plane crash: 3 victims on way home from funeral in Kerala
72 years on, India's oldest pending case finally settled
Popular Telugu-Tamil writer Bala murugan passes away
Recently we have seen several film stalwarts passing away one after the other such as Krishna, Krishnam Raju, Kaikala Sathyanarayana and Chalapathi Rao. Now, there is yet another tragedy in the southern film industry. Popular Tamil-Telugu story writer Shri. Balamurugan, who wrote several films in Tamil film Industry besides writing a few Telugu cinema has passed away today. He was 86 years old and was unwell.
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Saturday, January 14, 2023
''Surgical strike' a failure, commander Hidma alive'
A security force operation seems to have come close to Maoist military commander Hidma, mastermind of some of the most brutal massacres in Bastar, but he escaped yet again. A woman Maoist was killed in the operation near the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border on January 11 this year.
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Man gets 3 years imprisonnment for sex assault on girl
Observing that the incident had left an impression that the house and the vicinity is not safe for children, a special Pocso court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old man to three years' imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 13-year-old neighbour on the pretext of adjusting her clothes while taking her pictures on the staircase of their building in 2017.
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UP constable 'molests' varsity student in train, sent to jail
Terror act: Police seize grenades from rented Jahangirpuri house
The two alleged terrorists arrested by Delhi Police's special cell on Thursday had murdered a man, chopped his body into pieces and filmed the act, including the beheading, the police have claimed. They also sent the video to their foreign-based handlers, including an ISI operative, to prove their worth, claimed sources.
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Congress suspends Bharat Jodo Yatra for a day after MP's death
Friday, January 13, 2023
Gay rights voice Onir Dhar's lit fest talk scrapped
U-turn by alleged 'urinator' in court: She peed on self
Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on an elderly woman on an Air India flight, claimed in a Delhi court on Friday that the woman "urinated on herself" because she suffered from incontinence, which was common among Kathak dancers. The sudden twist in Mishra's defence came two days after his lawyer had submitted in court that his client had in fact unzipped his fly but the intent had not been sexual.
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CBI gets nod to prosecute Lalu Yadav in rail jobs scam
Rajasthan twins die in similar manner 900km apart
A pair of 26-year-old twins from Rajasthan's Barmer living 900km apart in different states died within hours of each other in bizarrely similar circumstances - one falling to his death from the terrace of a house in Surat and the other fatally slipping into a water tank after being called home from Jaipur.
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Supreme Court: Why no arrest in '21 Delhi hate speech case?
Nirav Modi extradition ‘barred’ by legal issue
Uttarakhand govt on Joshimath: Probing NTPC project role
Citroen India, Jio-Bp Partner to Facilitate Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Services
Citroen India on Friday announced a strategic partnership with Jio-Bp, a fuels and mobility joint venture between Reliance Industries (RIL) and bp, to build electric vehicle infrastructure and services across its network.
"Jio-Bp will install DC fast-chargers across Citroen's key dealership network and workshops across the country in phases," Jio-Bp and Citroen India said in a joint statement.
These chargers will also be open to the entire universe of EV car customers to help boost EV adoption among consumers, according to the statement.
With the New Citroen e-C3 all-electric scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2023, the JV said this partnership would ensure Jio-bp's charging infrastructure network is accessible via the My Citroen Connect app.
Jio-Bp currently operates a rapidly expanding network of EV charging and swapping stations under the Jio-Bp pulse brand.
The entire range of Jio-Bp pulse offerings can be accessed via its mobile app helps customers easily locate EV charging stations in their vicinity, and facilitates digital payments amongst others, the statement noted.
Driven by the vision to be among India's largest EV charging networks, Jio-Bp said it was creating an electric mobility ecosystem that will benefit stakeholders across the EV value chain and was expanding its Jio-bp pulse-branded EV charging network by setting up charging facilities at multiple touch points within cities and major highways to ensure smooth intra-city and inter-city commutes for EV owners.
Operating under the brand Jio-Bp, Reliance BP Mobility (RBML) is an Indian fuels and mobility joint venture between Reliance Industries (RIL) and bp. RBML provides advanced mobility solutions and alternate fueling options to its customers such as electric vehicles (EV) charging points, and battery swapping stations (BSS).
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
J'khand HC cites ED findings, rejects bail plea of Soren aide
The Jharkhand high court on Tuesday rejected the bail application of Prem Prakash, a close associate of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, while validating the findings of the Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the money trail in alleged illegal mining worth Rs 1,000 crore.
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PM: Global South must create new world order
PM Narendra Modi on Thursday exhorted developing countries to work towards redesigning global political and financial governance to remove inequalities, enlarge opportunities, support growth and spread progress and prosperity. Modi called for creating a new world order to ensure welfare of citizens of the developing countries, as he emphasised the next phase of global growth will come from countries in the South.
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Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy's Most-Distant Stars
Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy — almost halfway to a neighboring galaxy.
The researchers said these 208 stars inhabit the most remote reaches of the Milky Way's halo, a spherical stellar cloud dominated by the mysterious invisible substance called dark matter that makes itself known only through its gravitational influence. The furthest of them is 1.08 million light years from Earth. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).
These stars, spotted using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea mountain, are part of a category of stars called RR Lyrae that are relatively low mass and typically have low abundances of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. The most distant one appears to have a mass about 70 percent that of our sun. No other Milky Way stars have been confidently measured farther away than these.
The stars that populate the outskirts of the galactic halo can be viewed as stellar orphans, probably originating in smaller galaxies that later collided with the larger Milky Way.
"Our interpretation about the origin of these distant stars is that they are most likely born in the halos of dwarf galaxies and star clusters which were later merged - or more straightforwardly, cannibalised — by the Milky Way," said Yuting Feng, an astronomy doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led the study, presented this week at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.
"Their host galaxies have been gravitationally shredded and digested, but these stars are left at that large distance as debris of the merger event," Feng added.
The Milky Way has grown over time through such calamities.
"The larger galaxy grows by eating smaller galaxies — by eating its own kind," said study co-author Raja GuhaThakurta, UC Santa Cruz's chair of astronomy and astrophysics.
Containing an inner and outer layer, the Milky Way's halo is vastly larger than the galaxy's main disk and central bulge that are teeming with stars. The galaxy, with a supermassive black hole at its center about 26,000 light years from Earth, contains perhaps 100 billion–400 billion stars including our sun, which resides in one of the four primary spiral arms that make up the Milky Way's disk. The halo contains about 5 percent of the galaxy's stars.
Dark matter, which dominates the halo, makes up most of the universe's mass and is thought to be responsible for its basic structure, with its gravity influencing visible matter to come together and form stars and galaxies.
The halo's remote outer edge is a poorly understood region of the galaxy. These newly identified stars are almost half the distance to the Milky Way's neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
"We can see that the suburbs of the Andromeda halo and the Milky Way halo are really extended - and are almost 'back-to-back,'" Feng said.
The search for life beyond the Earth focuses on rocky planets akin to Earth orbiting in what is called the "habitable zone" around stars. More than 5,000 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, already have been discovered.
"We don't know for sure, but each of these outer halo stars should be about as likely to have planets orbiting them as the sun and other sun-like stars in the Milky Way," GuhaThakurta said.
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Crypto Crime Hits Record $20 Billion in 2022: Chainalysis Report
Illicit use of cryptocurrencies hit a record $20.1 billion (nearly Rs. 1,63,217 crore) last year as transactions involving companies targeted by US sanctions skyrocketed, data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis showed on Thursday.
The cryptocurrency market floundered in 2022, as risk appetite diminished and various crypto firms collapsed. Investors were left with large losses and regulators stepped up calls for more consumer protection.
Even as overall crypto transaction volumes fell, the value of crypto transactions related to illicit activity rose for the second year running, Chainalysis said.
Transactions associated with sanctioned entities increased more than 100,000-fold in 2022 and made up 44 percent of last year's illicit activity, Chainalysis said.
Funds received by the Russian exchange Garantex, which was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in April, accounted for "much of 2022's illicit volume", Chainalysis said, adding that most of that activity is "likely Russian users using a Russian exchange." A spokesperson for Chainalysis said wallets are tagged as "illicit" if they are part of a sanctioned entity.
Garantex did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
The United States also imposed sanctions last year on cryptocurrency mixing services Blender and Tornado Cash, which it said were being used by hackers, including from North Korea, to launder billions of dollars worth of proceeds from their cyber crimes.
The volume of stolen crypto funds rose 7 percent last year, but other illicit crypto transactions including those related to scams, ransomware, terrorism financing and human trafficking, saw volumes fall.
"The market downturn may be one reason for this," Chainalysis said. "We've found in the past that crypto scams, for instance, take in less revenue during bear markets."
Chainalysis said its $20.1 billion estimate only includes activity recorded on blockchain, and excludes "off-chain" crime such as fraudulent accounting by crypto firms.
The figure also excludes when cryptocurrencies are the proceeds of non-crypto-related crimes, such as when cryptocurrency is used as a means of payment in drug trafficking, Chainalysis said.
"We have to stress that this is a lower bound estimate — our measure of illicit transaction volume is sure to grow over time," the report said, noting that the figure for 2021 was revised to $18 billion (nearly Rs. 1,46,120 crore) from $14 billion (nearly Rs. 1,13,650 crore) as more scams were discovered.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
CPM & Cong have agreed on Tripura pre-poll pact: Yechury
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Wednesday that the party has agreed to form a pre-poll alliance with Congress for the upcoming assembly elections in Tripura. The alliance is likely to jointly announced by Congress and CPM over the weekend. Congress leader Mukul Wasnik, the senior observor for Tripura polls, and Yechury were in Agartala, where the CPM chief made the announcement.
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Urination case: Court dismisses Mishra’s bail plea
Terming the alleged act of Shankar Mishra urinating on an elderly woman on board an Air India flight last November under the influence of alcohol “utterly disgusting and repulsive”, and “sufficient to outrage the modesty of any woman”, a Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed his bail plea.
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Google Refused to Be Given Interim Stay on CCI Fine by NCLAT
In a setback for Google, an appellate tribunal on Wednesday refused an interim stay on the competition regulator imposing a Rs. 936-crore penalty on the US tech giant for abusing its dominant position in the market.
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal directed Google to deposit 10 percent of the fine that was slapped by the Competition Commission of India in a case related to its Play Store policies.
A week back, Google failed to get relief from the NCLAT on a separate Rs. 1,337.76 crore fine imposed by CCI on alleged abuse of the dominant position that the US tech giant has in the Android smartphone operating system in the country. It was asked to deposit 10 percent of the fine within four weeks.
Google challenged that order before the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear it on Monday.
While in the first case, CCI had in October last year asked Google to allow smartphone users on the Android platform to uninstall apps and let them select a search engine of their choice, the regulator had stated that the company to take corrective steps on policies that forced developers to use Google Play's billing system to list their apps on its Play Store.
A two-member bench of NCLAT comprising Justice Rakesh Kumar and Alok Srivastava on Wednesday issued notices to CCI and posted the matter for hearing on April 17, 2023.
A mail sent to Google for comments did not elicit a response.
Senior advocate Harish Salve said that the US firm has appealed the Play Store and Android decisions because the Commission failed to account for the adverse impacts on users, developers and manufacturers.
Google will, in the hearings before the NCLAT, endeavour to establish that the CCU's directions put in peril technology, security and the choice that Play and Android provide.
It will also endeavour to establish that the Commission failed to consider the benefits of Play and Android to Indian end-users, including benefits such as enabling mobile access (and thereby furthering the goal of increased teledensity, which is at the heart of the push for Digital India) as well as protecting end-users from malware and abusive billing practices.
Google's business model for its Play Store is linked to the business model of the app developers. When app developers distribute their apps for free, there is no charge. Where the app developers sell their apps or sell digital content within the app to the end-users, Google receives a service fee.
This, Google says, has been done for technical, security and commercial reasons.
On October 25, CCI imposed a penalty of Rs 936.44 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position with respect to its Play Store policies. The regulator had also directed the company to cease and desist from unfair business practices as well as carry out various measures to address the anti-competitive issues within a defined timeline.
Google had subsequently said it is "pausing" enforcement of the requirement for developers to use Play's billing system for the purchase of digital goods and services for transactions by users in India while it reviews legal options, in the aftermath of the recent ruling by the CCI.
"Following the CCI's recent ruling, we are pausing enforcement of the requirement for developers to use Google Play's billing system for the purchase of digital goods and services for transactions by users in India while we review our legal options and ensure we can continue to invest in Android and Play," Google said in an update on help centre page on November 1.
The search engine giant has faced criticism globally for mandating software developers using its app store to only use its proprietary in-app payment system that charge a commission of up to 30 per cent on purchases made within an app.
Google is also facing a separate probe into its business conduct in the news content and Smart TV market in India.
Following the landmark rulings by CCI, Google filed appeals before the NCLAT against the two orders.
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NRIs From 10 Countries Will Soon Be Able to Do UPI Fund Transactions Using International Numbers
The NPCI has permitted non-residents from 10 countries, including the US, Canada and UAE, to digitally transfer funds using the UPI platform from NRE/NRO accounts. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in a circular said it has been receiving requests for allowing non-residents to use international mobile numbers for transacting in Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
Accordingly, the NPCI in a circular dated January 10 has asked the UPI participants to put in place a mechanism by April 30 under which non-residents having NRE/NRO accounts will be allowed to transfer funds using their international mobile numbers.
To start with, this facility will be available to non-residents in 10 countries — Singapore, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE and the United Kingdom.
While NRIs and PIOs can open Non-Resident (External) Rupee (NRE) bank accounts, Non-Resident Ordinary (NRO) accounts can be opened by any person residing outside India for bonafide transactions in the rupee.
The NPCI, which operates the UPI platform, said, "To begin with, we shall be enabling transaction from mobile numbers having the country code of (10 nations)... and shall extend for other country codes in near future...".
Payments Council of India Chairman Vishwas Patel said the major convenience factor would be in the form of 'payment/money transfer convenience' for NRIs when they visit India.
Sarvatra Technologies Founder MD Mandar Agashe said all these years, NRIs couldn't access the UPI network since SIM binding, which is an important security feature of UPI, was available only to Indian SIM card phones.
"NRIs will just need to link their NRE and NRO accounts linked to their international SIM to UPI and use it like any other Indian UPI user for merchant payment as well as peer-to-peer payments," Agashe said.
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US Air Travel Services Restores Gradually to Life After FAA Computer Outage
US flights were slowly resuming departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all US departing flights.
More than 6,000 flights were delayed and nearly 1,000 canceled according to the FlightAware website as officials said it will take hours to recover from the halt. The numbers were still rising.
The cause of the problem with a pilot-alerting system, which delayed thousands of flights in the United States, was unclear, but US officials said they had so far found no evidence of a cyberattack.
The outage occurred at a typically slow time after the holiday travel season, but demand remains strong as travel continues to recover to near pre-pandemic levels.
"Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the US following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted. We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem," the FAA tweeted.
Update 5: Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted.
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem
The number of flights impacted rose even after the ground stop was canceled. One issue airlines are facing is trying to get planes in and out of crowded gates, which is causing further delays.
At an airport in Greenville, South Carolina, Justin Kennedy abandoned a work trip to nearby Charlotte. He said confusion reigned as airline employees weren't aware what the FAA was saying, and many passengers were initially unaware of the delays.
"I sat in a Chick-fil-A dining area that had a good view of the TSA exit," the 30-year-old information technology employee said. "I saw at least four people sprinting to gates because they thought they were going to miss their flight, only to come back to the food court, out of breath."
Ripple Effects
Captain Chris Torres, vice president of the Allied Pilots Association, said the outage could impact traffic through Friday.
"This thing was lifted at 9 am Eastern Time (7.30 pm IST). That doesn't mean the problem stops at 9 am This is going to cause ripple effects," said Torres, whose members fly for American Airlines. "The end result of this is going to be very similar to big weather events."
The FAA had earlier ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures after its pilot alerting system crashed and the agency had to perform a hard reset around 2 am (12.30 pm IST), officials said. Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinations.
US President Joe Biden ordered the Transportation Department to investigate and said the cause of the failure was unknown. Asked if a cyber attack was behind the outage, Biden told reporters, "We don't know."
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pledged a "process to determine root causes and recommend next steps."
Shares of US carriers initially fell in Wednesday's premarket trading, but most rallied after the market opened to positive territory as flights resumed.
After dropping more the 19 percent last year — its third consecutive year of decline — the S&P 500 airlines index has gotten off to a strong start this year, up 15.5 percent, as travellers return to the skies.
Southwest Airlines shares were flat, while Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines shares rose. JetBlue and Spirit each rose about 2 percent.
A trade group representing the US travel industry, including airlines, called the FAA system failure "catastrophic."
"America's transportation network desperately needs significant upgrades," Geoff Freeman, president of the US Travel Association, said in a statement. "We call on federal policymakers to modernise our vital air travel infrastructure.”
'Completely Unacceptable'
For US travelers flying great distances, the alternatives are few. Driving distances are too great, and the country's passenger rail network is thin compared to those in Europe and Asia.
Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, said the panel would investigate. “We will be looking into what caused this outage and how redundancy plays a role in preventing future outages," she said.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz called the failure "completely unacceptable" and said the issue should lead to reforms as part of the FAA reauthorization due by September.
FAA's system outage comes weeks after an operational meltdown at Southwest at the end of last year left thousands stranded. A severe winter storm right before Christmas, coupled with the Texas-based carrier's dated technology, led to over 16,000 flight cancellations.
The DOT, FAA's parent agency, criticized Southwest's failures and pressured the airline to compensate passengers. There is no legal requirement that the FAA must compensate passengers for flight delays caused by agency computer issues.
The FAA suffered another significant computer issue on January 2 that led to significant delays in Florida flights. A problem with the functioning of a system known as the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) used to control air traffic prompted the FAA to issue a ground stop order, slowing traffic into Florida airports.
A NOTAM is a notice containing information essential to personnel concerned with flight operations but not known far enough in advance to be publicized by other means. A ground stop is an air traffic control measure that slows or halts aircraft at a given airport.
A total of 21,464 US flights were scheduled to depart Wednesday with a capacity of nearly 2.9 million passengers, data from Cirium showed.
Rodney Allen was on his way with friends to vacation in Puerto Rico from Cincinnati but got stranded in Newark.
"Once we landed, passengers on the plane were saying flights were grounded," the 25-year-old entrepreneur said. He still had the option to check in to his flight to Puerto Rico, but his friends had been offered travel credits.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Live: Russian-Ukrainian human rights commissioners hold talks
According to an intelligence update from the British defence ministry on Tuesday, Russian and Wagner forces are believed to have gained control over a significant portion of the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar, as a result of tactical advances over the past four days. Meanwhile, a Russian warship armed with hypersonic cruise weapons has held exercises in the Norwegian Sea, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Stay with TOI for live updates-
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Golden Globe Awards 2023 live updates
The golden night of Hollywood is here – the Golden Globe Awards 2023 is on in full swing with Hollywood royalty and television’s greats coming together to celebrate the best in cinema. Glitz, glamour and grandeur are at its peak at this gala. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael will be hosting the entertaining evening. This year the Golden Globe Awards are extra special for India with RRR bagging a nomination in Best Picture (Non-English language) and Best Song categories. Top contenders for the night also include 'Avatar: The Way of Water', 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Elvis'. The Golden Globes also honours the best in television and are voted for by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Keep watching this space for more updates.
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Delhi India’s most polluted city, just 7% cleaner in 3 years
Delhi has earned the dubious tag of being India’s most polluted city, rising from rank 3 in 2019 and rank 2 last year in the worst-polluted list, as per the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) Tracker based on annual PM2.5 levels measured by the Central Pollution Control Board.
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Monday, January 9, 2023
World listens to India, it can be global skill capital: PM
The world listens to India and the country has what it takes to become the global skill capital, PM Narendra Modi said Monday while inaugurating the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention in Indore. “Today, the world listens to India. It can become the engine of development of the world,” he said. “India taking over the G20 presidency this year gives a great opportunity to make the world aware of India’s experiences to attain a sustainable future and learn from these experiences.”
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Mission Majnu Trailer: Sidharth Malhotra-Led Spy Thriller Shows Rashmika Mandana as Blind Pakistani Girl
Mission Majnu's official trailer has been unveiled by the makers of the movie on Monday. The spy thriller has Sidharth Malhotra and Rashmika Mandana play the lead role. Set in 1970s, the movie shows Sidharth's character as India's only hope to gather information from Pakistan and fail their mission. The movie opens with Parmeet Sethi's character briefing the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi about Pakistan's attempt to make nuclear weapons and suggests taking help of a RAW agent. Netflix India released the official trailer on YouTube as well as social media pages.
In the trailer, Sidharth plays a RAW operative who travels to Pakistan to learn more about that nation's nuclear capabilities and whether they are planning a bomb with India as its target. On his mission, Sidharth marries a blind Pakistani woman, played by Rashmika, after falling in love with her in order to establish his identity in the nation and his cover.
During his mission in Pakistan, Sidharth works as tailor, plumber, servant, among others, to make sure his country get the access to all the information.
Set in the 1970s, Mission Majnu is a patriotic thriller with a love story at its core, showcasing one of India's most covert operations of taking down Pakistan's efforts of a nuclear attack.
Directed by Shantanu Bagchi and produced by RSVP and GBA, Mission Majnu is all set to premiere exclusively on the OTT platform Netflix from January 20, 2023.
Apart from this, Sidharth will also be seen in the upcoming action-thriller Yodha opposite Disha Patani, which is all set to hit the theatres on July 7, 2023.
He also has an upcoming web series Indian Police Force, which will stream on the OTT platform Amazon Prime Video.
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Tejashwi’s cricket practice triggers ‘power’ play buzz
In this article, the deputy CM of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, is caught on camera playing cricket with budding cricketers at a local cricket ground. Tejashwi's passion for cricket is very much alive in his heart, and he enjoys practicing with young and bright players of Bihar. However, his cricket practice in the chilly winter has generated much heat in the political circles in the sense that whenever he picked up a bat, state's politics underwent a drastic change. In July last year, he was caught on camera playing cricket with housing staff at his mother Rabri Devi's official residence. The next month, he was part of the government as CM Nitish dumped BJP to form the Grand Alliance Ga Government with RJD and others. Chitranjan Gagan, RJD spokesperson, remarked that "sab kuchh thik hai" (everything is "fine").
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Sunday, January 8, 2023
PM dials Dhami, promises ‘all financial & technical support’
PM Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday morning. Dhami informed the PM about the situation in Joshimath as well as plans for rehabilitation and arrangements being made in light of several houses developing cracks amid fears that the town is ‘sinking’.
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1.9°C at main city station as Delhi faces extended cold wave
Delhi suffered its fourth consecutive cold wave day on Sunday, with the minimum at the city’s base station Safdarjung falling below 2 degrees Celsius for the first time in two years and the city experiencing one of its worst fog spells of the season with nine hours of lower than 200m visibility. Over 100 flights were delayed at IGI Airport due to dense fog and 42 trains were running late.
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Saturday, January 7, 2023
Average work hours per week longest in S&E Asia: ILO
Demolish worst affected Joshimath homes, expert panel tells Centre, state
A senior official, privy to the report submitted both to the Centre and state government, told TOI on Saturday: “Prima facie, it appears that at least 25% area of Joshimath, which has a population of about 25,000, has been affected by the land-subsidence problem. A survey to ascertain the intensity of damage (to buildings and sundry structures) is currently underway. It will be put in three categories: severe, moderate and slight.”
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Motorola Defy Rugged Smartphone to Get Bullitt's Two-Way Satellite Messaging Service: Report
Motorola will bring satellite messaging service on its upcoming Defy rugged smartphone in Q1 2023. The company has partnered with Bullitt to bring satellite connectivity to its Android devices. Satellite connectivity was introduced by Apple with iPhone 14 series. The feature on iPhone 14 as well as iPhone 14Pro model allows users to make an emergency call and send SOS messages even when there is no cellular or Wi-Fi connection. Now, Motorola is also planning to bring this feature to the Android eco-system, as announced at CES 2023.
According to a report by Android Authority, Bullitt Satellite Connect's satellite messaging service in Motorola phones will enable users to send and receive text messages, send SOS requests, and share their location without using cellular or Wi-Fi connection. The company has confirmed to launch this feature with upcoming Motorola Defy rugged 5G smartphone. However, there have been no other official details about the said smartphone.
As per the report, to use this service on Motorola Defy rugged 5G smartphone, users will need to install free Bullitt Satellite Messenger app. Initially, the service will only support text and emoji, which will later extend to images, audio, and video support. Bullitt added that those who will have the free Android or iOS application installed on their handset will be able to receive and react to messages sent from Bullitt Satellite Messenger over IP or satellite service. On the other hand, the users without the app will get the messages as an SMS, however, they won't be able to respond to it.
Additionally, those who won't have a phone with satellite connectivity support will be able to use the app via Wi-Fi or a cellular connection.
A Bullitt representative has been quoted as saying that SOS on Android will be launched in phased manner. Initially, it will be made available in Europe and North America in Q1 2023, and then it will reach in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, in the first half of 2023. Other countries will get this feature in the second half of the year.
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Redmi K60, Redmi K60 Pro Teardown Video Shows Similar Internals
Redmi K60 and Redmi K60 Pro were launched in the Chinese market in the last week of December. Most recently, the new phones have been put through extensive teardowns to reveal their internals and showcase their repairability. The teardown video of the Redmi K60 and Redmi K60 Pro released by WekiHome shows similarities and differences in their internals. Both models feature a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with a 2K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. The Redmi K60 Pro is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, while the vanilla model has Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC under the hood.
The nine-minute teardown video by the YouTube channel WekiHome starts by opening the dual-SIM (nano) tray of the Redmi K60 and Redmi K60 Pro. The trays are placed at the bottom of the two handsets. Once the rear glass covering is removed, it shows a black frame along with a wireless charging coil.
Rear camera positions are different in the two devices. The Redmi K60 Pro has a larger sensor than the Redmi K60. The teardown video shows a plastic bracket around the vanilla model for adjusting the dimensions. The flash cable is glued on the cover, while the LED lamp bead and a rear ambient light sensor are seen integrated on the cable. They have a similar motherboard layout as well.
The YouTuber finds that both motherboards use a single-layer design for heat dissipation. Apart from the camera, the Redmi K60 series smartphones differ in chipset and memory features. The Redmi K60 Pro is powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, coupled with LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage. The vanilla model has Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 under the hood, alongside LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.
Disassembling the sub-board part shows that the two handsets have similar matching earpiece configurations with two separate suppliers. Both batteries have single-cell designs. The Redmi K60 Pro has a 5,000mAh battery with support for 120W wired fast charging, while Redmi K60 has a slightly larger 5,500mAh battery with support for 67W wired fast charging.
Further, the tear-down video exposes the screen. The Youtuber scratches the glue around the screen to detach it from the body. Both Redmi K60 and Redmi K60 Pro pack CSOT-made screens and C6 luminescent material, while the back of the screen has copper foil coating. The tearing of two pieces of the colling film reveals a VC chamber area of 5000mm square. The vapour chambers seem a bit different in colour with the Redmi K60 Pro having a yellowish finish.
The Youtuber states that the overall power consumption of the Redmi K60 Pro will be lower. However, he adds that the temperature of the devices will be similar.
The teardown video can be watched below:
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Friday, January 6, 2023
Centre: Will honour SC timeline for judge appts
Entrusted by the apex court to persuade the Centre to “follow the law” by complying with its verdicts on appointment of judges, attorney general R Venkataramani, at the outset , told a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka that all efforts were being made to conform to the timelines and names sent to the government by collegiums would be cleared expeditiously with decision on 44 out of 104 names decided in the coming two days.
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‘Bro, I think I am in trouble’, drunk flyer told co-passenger
Seated behind them were two woman passengers. Bhattacharjee said he was asleep when Mishra allegedly urinated on the passenger in seat 9A, but he witnessed the events that followed. “Though she was visibly distraught, the cabin crew coaxed her to speak to the man who had urinated on her,” he said.
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SC pushes for e-monitoring to check over-speeding
'Sinking' Joshimath: Uttarakhand readies choppers, plans to move residents
n an urgent and high-powered meeting called by chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday, the Uttarakhand government — shaken by reports of a "sinking" Joshimath and images of huge cracks on the town's buildings, roads and fields — has signalled "maximum alert" and put a slew of emergency measures in place, most of them to be implemented immediately.
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Thursday, January 5, 2023
Autonomous college, univ rating norms out
As TOI had reported on November 14, this is the first time that the NAAC has declared the highest marks called benchmarks that it has set aside for each of the parameters it grades institutes on, thus allowing every higher education institute to know the maximum achievable marks.
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Autonomous college, univ rating norms out
As TOI had reported on November 14, this is the first time that the NAAC has declared the highest marks called benchmarks that it has set aside for each of the parameters it grades institutes on, thus allowing every higher education institute to know the maximum achievable marks.
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Ram temple to be ready by Jan 1, 2024, says Amit Shah
“Congress hindered the construction of the Ram temple in courts. After the SC verdict, Modiji began its construction. Hopefully, the temple will be ready in a year and it will be open for the public at the beginning of 2024. The country is eagerly waiting for the Ram temple for many years, which will be over by January 1, 2024,” Shah said.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2023
MSI Creator Z, Prestige Series Creator Laptops Updated, MSI Pen 2 Stylus Announced at CES 2023
In addition to unveiling a raft of new gaming laptops, MSI has also updated its models aimed at professional content creators and those who need the performance but not necessarily the style of most gamer-focused hardware. These laptops feature Intel's new 13th Gen Core CPUs and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs. The creator models also typically use Nvidia's Studio drivers which are optimised and certified for content creation workflows and apps. The new models should go on sale in the US within a few weeks and make their way to India soon after.
The new MSI Creator Z17 HX Studio and Creator Z16 HX Studio feature Intel's 13th Gen HX-series Core CPUs, up to the Core i9-13950HX with 24 cores, which is said to deliver desktop-class performance on the go. They also feature a new vapour chamber cooler. GPU options go up to the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 with 8GB of GDDR6 RAM. Both models support up to 64GB of DDR5 RAM and feature one PCIe 5.0 X4 slot for a high-performance NVMe SSD.
The larger Creator Z17HX Studio has a 17.3-inch QHD+ 16:10 2560x1200-pixel IPS-class panel with a 165Hz refresh rate and 100 percent DCI-P3 colour coverage. The slightly more portable Z16 HX Studio features a 16-inch 120Hz panel with the same resolution and other specifications. The two weigh 2.49kg and 2.35kg respectively.
Other features include Thunderbolt 4, an SD Express card slot, an IR webcam, fingerprint sensor, per-key RGB LED backlighting, and a quad-speaker sound system on both models. Prices start at $2,999 (approximately Rs. 2,48,225 before taxes) and $2,899 (approximately Rs. 2,39,950) respectively.
As for the thin-and-light Prestige series, MSI has introduced refreshed MSI Prestige 14 Evo and Prestige 16 Evo models as well as the all-new MSI Prestige 13 Evo. The latter is what MSI is calling the lightest laptop in MSI's entire lineup, weighing only 990g thanks to an aluminium alloy chassis, while still delivering up to 15 hours of battery life.
The larger two models feature up to a Core i7-13700H CPU while the ultraportable Prestige 13 Evo gets a Core i7-1360P CPU. All three rely on Intel's Iris Xe integrated graphics but MSI also offers another model, the Prestige 16 Studio, with up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 discrete GPU. All models have 16GB of soldered LPDDR5 RAM and ship with Windows 11. They all feature white backlit keyboards, IR webcams, fingerprint sensors, and microSD card slots.
The MSI Modern series gets updated hardware and new colour options to keep things fresh. There's also a new MSI Summit Flip Evo model with a 13.4-inch full-HD touchscreen.
In addition to laptops, MSI has announced its new MSI Pen 2 stylus, which uses the MPP 2.6 standard to ensure compatibility with a variety of laptops, and boasts of haptic feedback as well as 4,096-level pressure sensitivity. It can also work as a traditional writing implement so you don't have to switch what you're holding to take notes on paper.
Disclosure: MSI sponsored the correspondent's flights and hotel stay for CES 2023.
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SC stays HC order to hold UP urban polls sans OBC quota
As the tenure of several local bodies has expired or is about to expire by the end of this month, a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha allowed their functions to be discharged by a three-member body headed by the district magistrate as directed by the high court but restrained the committee from taking any major decision.
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VHP, Bajrang Dal activists tear posters of Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'Pathaan' at Ahmedabad mall
Members of the right-wing outfits Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal on Wednesday created a ruckus at a mall in Vastrapur area here and tore up posters and other publicity material of the upcoming film "Pathaan" starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.
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CES 2023: MSI Gaming Laptop Portfolio Refreshed With 13th Gen Intel CPUs, Nvidia RTX 40 Series GPUs
MSI on Wednesday announced that it has overhauled its entire gaming portfolio with the latest Nvidia RTX 40 series GPUs and 13th Gen Intel CPUs. The firm says all the heat pipes have been redesigned to include shared pipes, dedicated pipes, and VRAM-exclusive pipes for maximum performance. MSI has released over 10 new designs in its gaming series and some of the laptops such as the Raider GE, Vector GP, and Stealth series have been equipped with 16:10, 240Hz Quad-HD+ displays. MSI is yet to announce pricing details for the new laptops, but the firm has revealed that the new range will be available in India soon.
MSI Titan GT series, Raider GE series, Vector GP series specifications, features
The newly announced MSI Titan GT and MSI Raider GE can be configured with the top-of-the-line Intel Core i9-13980HX processors and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. These laptops also feature MSI's OverBoost Ultra technology that is said to be able to push the CPU and graphics to a total of 250W of power or support 5.2GHz frequency across eight P-cores on the CPU, depending on the workload.
The Titan GT is also said to have the world's first 4K Mini LED display with a 144Hz refresh rate, and can deliver up to 1000 nits of peak brightness. Meanwhile, the MSI Vector GP series features a 17.3-inch QHD IPS display with a 240Hz refresh rate. This laptop can be configured with up to an Intel Core i9-13900H CPU and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU.
The MSI Cyborg 15 is a new entry-level gaming laptop
MSI Stealth series specifications, features
The MSI Stealth series will be available in 14-inch, 15-inch, 16-inch and 17-inch screen sizes. The MSI Stealth 14 Studio and Stealth 16 Studio are new laptops that feature magnesium-aluminium alloy bodies for low weight and a slim design.
The Stealth 16 Studio comes with a trilateral Dynaudio six-speaker sound system. The Stealth 17, 16, and 14 Studio laptops are also Nvidia Studio validated and are geared towards content creation. The MSI Stealth Studio 15 features a 240Hz OLED display and a quick 0.2s response time. It also supports a 100 percent DCI-P3 colour gamut.
MSI Cyborg, Pulse, Katana, Sword series specifications, features
According to the company, the MSI Cyborg 15 is a brand-new entry-level gaming laptop featuring a translucent chassis design, allowing you to see some of the components inside. This laptop can be configured with up to an Intel Core i7-12650H and up to an Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU.
The MSI Katana, MSI Sword and MSI Pulse series have also been updated with high refresh rate displays and feature Nvidia's GeForce RTX 40 series CPUs.
Disclosure: MSI sponsored Gadgets 360's flights and hotel for the trip to Las Vegas.
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