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MiG-21s well past their retirement age: Here’s why IAF needs new jets As aircraft age, the number of failures due to the ageing of their functional equipment or system components grows Current Affairs :-The  MiG-21  Bison that Wing Commander  Abhinandan Varthaman was flying when he was brought down by a Pakistan Air Force F-16 was well past its retirement age, and kept bursting at the seams with rehashed redesigns and administration life expansions, specialists have told IndiaSpend. The clumsy Russian-made MiGs- – 482 of which were lost to mishaps among 1971 and April 2012, averaging almost 12 every year- – were first drafted into the  Indian Air Force in the mid-1960s. These were to resign by the mid-1990s, however were moved up to Bison standard, even as progressive variations were drafted until the 1980s. “India is the last nation on the planet with a genuine airforce to in any case fly the MiG 21s,” Pushpinder Singh, establishing supervisor of th...

Nearly 50% of India is currently facing drought: IIT Gandhinagar scientists The continuing drought will further burden the already depleting groundwater resources of the country About  50 percent  of the nation is presently confronting  draught  less than 16 percent falling in the “outstanding” or “outrageous” class, as per IIT Gandhinagar researchers dealing with India’s ongoing dry season expectation framework. This continuous dry spell will represent a great deal of difficulties in water accessibility this late spring, Vimal Mishra, partner teacher at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here, told  PTI . The constant observing framework kept running by his group, which incorporates PhD understudy Amardeep Tiwari, gathers climate and precipitation information from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), which is then used to reproduce soil dampness and different variables that add to dry spell. The aftereffects of the reproductions, a...

Linking PAN with bank mandatory for refunds from March: I-T to taxpayers Till now, the department used to issue refunds to taxpayers either in their bank accounts or through account payee cheques, in a case-to-case basis depending on the category of taxpayers The  Income Tax Department  will “just” issue discounts through the e-mode into financial balances of citizens starting one month from now and they should connect PAN with their records, the  taxman  said in its most recent open correspondence. The office said discounts will be sent to ledgers as it will issue “just e-discounts from March 1, 2019.” Connection your  PAN  (lasting record number) with your ledger toget your discount specifically, quickly and safely, the office said in an open warning issued Wednesday. It included the financial balance could be either reserve funds, current, money or overdraft. Till now, the office used to issue discounts to citizens either in their fin...

Going TikTok: Indians hooked on to Chinese video app ahead of LS polls 2019 TikTok allows users to create and share short videos with various special effects. It is becoming hugely popular in rural India, home to most of the country’s 1.3 billion people. TikTok ‘s video-just interface makes it less detailed and simpler to utilize contrasted with stages, for example, Facebook or Twitter, making it a greater fascination in provincial India A video cut shot on a meager housetop of what resembles a low-ascent loft square demonstrates a youthful Indian man influencing while lip-adjusting a melody adulating Prime Minister  Narendra Modi . Depicting himself as a glad Indian with the online personality “garrytomar”, he is wearing ear-studs and demonstrates a beaded jewelry under a somewhat unfastened shirt in the 15-second clasp. “Modi has without any help trounced everybody … Modi is a tempest, all of you currently know,” goes the Hindi tune, posted on Chinese video ve...

Lok Sabha Elections: Twitter plans to liaise with EC, boost hiring in India India has stepped up scrutiny of social media firms to curb the propagation of so-called fake news Twitter  Inc intends to help procuring in India and delegate an officer to liaise with the Election Commission (EC), a senior official said on Tuesday, reacting to worries about political abuse of web based life in front of the current year’s general races. Talking multi day after an  Indian parliamentary board  of trustees advised the organization to connect more with the Election Commission to help guarantee a free and reasonable vote, Twitter’s worldwide head of open arrangement, Colin Crowell, revealed to Reuters the decision was a best need for the organization. Crowell said he had told the board that “we will absolutely have a procedure and instrument set up to address issues that will emerge amid the race time frame”. The organization was set up to meet a demand to employ an of...

Relief to e-wallets: RBI extends KYC compliance norms by six months The earlier deadline was February 28 In an alleviation to e-wallet organizations, the  Reserve Bank of India  Monday stretched out by a half year the due date for consistence with Know Your Customer (KYC) standards, for prepaid installment instrument (PPI) backers. The prior due date was February 28. “In light of solicitations got from different partners to expand the above course of events by virtue of challenges in embraced  Aadhaar e-KYC  and time important to set up elective frameworks for finishing the KYC procedure, it has been chosen to permit PPI backers extra time of a half year for fruition of the KYC procedure,” the RBI said in an announcement. PPIs are instruments that encourage buy of merchandise and ventures, including monetary administrations and settlement offices, against the esteem put away on such instruments. E-wallet  organizations were gotten in a tough ...

Now, a 1 TB chip: Sandisk unveils microSD card with world’s biggest storage The 1TB SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 microSDXC card is up for pre-order on the SanDisk website and will be available at select retailers in April 2019 On the off chance that your top of the line Android telephone enables you to catch astounding pictures however the capacity dependably frustrates,  SanDisk  has quite recently addressed every one of your supplications. At the continuous Mobile World Congress (MWC 2019) in Barcelona, the organization presented the world’s first 1TB microSD card. Gone for the present age of cell phones, which brag numerous cameras and high-goals video catching, yet need adequate in-constructed capacity choices, the  1TB  SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 microSDXC card is professed to highlight higher speed exchange speeds and bigger limit with respect to catching and moving enormous measures of top notch photographs and recordings on cell phones, automatons and ...

Does Samsung expect you to spend $2,000 on a phone? Here’s the real deal Most people are happy with their 6.5-inch slate, but thankfully Samsung and Huawei are here to show us what the future might hold for those with more realistic budgets At the point when organizations swing to contrivances as the feature demonstration in an item dispatch, you know there’s very little truly going on. We can’t fault  Samsung  Electronics Co. furthermore, Huawei Technologies Co. for discharging $2,000 and $2,600 telephones individually. Foldable screens are somewhat cool, I assume. Be that as it may, so are those bizarre and superb idea autos the vehicle business likes to bring out – let me remind you about the Ford Nucleon, the BMW Gina and the Chevy Volt – which now and again transform into practical items. Shockingly, the tech business moves so rapidly that designers don’t frequently inspire an opportunity to take off idea gadgets that are planned to exhibit the future more...

India refuses to join e-commerce talks at WTO, says rules to hurt country The government believes the push for initiating negotiations on substantive obligations related to e-commerce will oblige India to permanently accept the current moratorium on imposing customs duties India won’t join the discussions on web-based business at the  World Trade Organization ( WTO ), with New Delhi pushing the draft online business arrangement back home. This comes when more extravagant countries are batting for worldwide guidelines for the division. Dialogs on the guidelines are set to begin by March. “The thought is to make rules that will fill in as the premise of any later global concurrence on web based business, which will support more extravagant countries inferable from the idea of the created market frameworks and infiltration by online firms in the retail space,” a trade division official said. The draft, brought out on Saturday, cautioned about the threats of monstrous i...

Pulwama attack: UN Secretary General calls on India, Pak to defuse tension Last week, Guterres had “strongly” condemned the terror attack against security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district UN Secretary General  Antonio Guterres  has approached India and Pakistan to take “prompt strides” to deescalate pressure that took off after 40 Indian security staff were executed in an assault by  Jaish-e-Mohammed  in Pulwama. “The Secretary General anxieties the significance for the two sides to practice most extreme limitation and make prompt moves to de-heightening, and his great workplaces are constantly accessible should the two sides ask,” the UN Chief’s representative Stephane Dujarric told columnists here Tuesday at the every day press preparation. Dujarric was gotten some information about a gathering Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN has looked for with the Secretary General and furthermore about Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mah...

Inside Chinese database: Examination shows real-time data of 2.5 mn users Alongside their names, birthdates and places of employment, there were notes on the places that they had most recently visited mosque, hotel, restaurant The Chinese database  Victor Gevers  found online was not only an accumulation of old individual subtleties. It was a gathering of continuous information on more than 2.5 million individuals in western China, refreshed continually with GPS directions of their exact whereabouts. Nearby their names, birthdates and places of work, there were notes on the spots that they had most as of late visited mosque, lodging, eatery. The disclosure by  Gevers , a Dutch cybersecurity analyst who uncovered it on Twitter a week ago, has given an uncommon look into China’s broad observation of Xinjiang, a remote locale home to an ethnic minority populace that is to a great extent Muslim. The territory has been covered with police checkpoints and su...

Time to turn cautious on India Inc, debt levels to triple by next year: S&P Elections may pose additional risks for Indian corporates, it said Worldwide Rating agency  Standard and Poor ‘s (S&P) on Tuesday cautioned that it’s a great opportunity to turn careful on evaluated Indian corporates as their income development is probably going to back off in the following 18 two years. Worldwide dangers, for example, strength of product costs just as interest from the US and China will have a more noteworthy bearing on  Indian organizations  as opposed to residential interest in the following year or two, it advised. India’s focal government decisions may represent extra dangers for Indian corporates. A difference in organization may trigger expansionary government spending which may push up getting costs or even raise swelling,  S&P  said in an announcement. In any case, the execution of organizations appraised by S&P should stay stea...

Israeli private spacecraft shoots for Moon Meaning to wind up the fourth nation to make a delicate arriving on the Moon,  Israel’s non-benefit  SpaceIL  has reported it will dispatch a shuttle from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday on board a  Falcon 9  rocket. The unmanned art, weighing 1,300 pounds and standing around five feet tall, will at that point start an around seven-week voyage to the Moon, from where it will send back pictures of the rough surface and direct trials on the lunar attractive field. The shuttle is classified “Beresheet,” a reference to the principal expressions of the Bible in Hebrew: “In the beginning…” For quite a long time, the Moon was the select space of the superpowers. The Soviet Union landed Luna 2 on the Earth’s closest neighbor in 1959. After three years, the US landed Ranger 4 on the Moon, CNN announced. These were “hard arrivals,” which means the specialty collided with the Moon. The principal “delicate ...

Accept or decline: WhatsApp to give you the option before being added to groups The WhatsApp update will provide you with three options for the group, depending on your privacy settings In a truly necessary refresh,  WhatsApp  is dealing with another component that will give clients the control before being added to another gathering. The Group Invitation highlight will be accessible for everybody in future for any iOS beta client that joined the TestFlight beta program in the following iOS refresh. At present at the beta dimension, the element needs to get numerous different upgrades previously it is taken off for everybody, wabetainfo revealed. The  WhatsApp  refresh will give you three choices for the gathering, contingent upon your security settings: Everybody: You will dependably be included gatherings and won’t get any welcomes. My Contacts: You will be included just by your contacts and will get a welcome to join a gathering not in your c...

Twitter is testing a ‘News Camera’ feature, which is lot like Snapchat The micro-blogging site removed its original ‘Moments’ feature from its Android and iOS apps in October 2018 Micro-Blogging  Website  Twitter  has purportedly been building up a “News Camera” usefulness that would enable clients to add subtitles to photographs, recordings and live communicates – Snapchat-style. “ Twitter ‘s new Snapchat-style camera, codenamed ‘News Camera’ is just around the corner! Posts made by the ‘News Camera’ will be called ‘Minutes’,” tipster Jane Manchun Wong tweeted on Friday. The smaller scale blogging webpage expelled its unique “Minutes” highlight from its Android and iOS applications in October 2018. As tried, clients would need to swipe left from the home screen of the application to dispatch the “News Camera” include on Twitter. “I can affirm that we’re taking a shot at a less demanding approach to share thing like pictures and recordings on  Twi...

Facebook faces US privacy pact that could cost billions US Federal Trade Commission’s consumer-protection staff and the firm are in discussions that could lead to a resolution of the agency’s investigation into whether Facebook violated a 2011 settlement Facebook  Inc. is in chats with US controllers over supposed security infringement that could constrain the web based life goliath to pay billions of dollars in a record-breaking settlement, as indicated by two individuals acquainted with the issue. The US Federal Trade Commission’s buyer assurance staff and the organization are in exchanges that could prompt a goals of the office’s examination concerning whether  Facebook  abused a 2011 settlement with the FTC, said the general population, who declined to be distinguished in light of the fact that the issue is classified. No settlement proposition has been introduced to the organization’s five officials, as per one of the general population. The chiefs ha...