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Shanghai world’s first district with 5G coverage, broadband gigabit network

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Shanghai world’s first district with 5G coverage, broadband gigabit network 5G is the next generation of cellular technology with download speeds that are 10 to 100 times faster than 4G LTE networks Technology :  Shanghai guaranteed on Saturday that it has turned into the world’s first area utilizing both  5G  inclusion and broadband gigabit arrange as China looks to set up a lead over the US and different nations in the race to create cutting edge cell portable interchanges. 5G is the up and coming age of cell innovation with download speeds that are 10 to multiple times quicker than 4G LTE systems. Shanghai has created what it professes to be the principal area flaunting both 5G inclusion and a broadband gigabit arrange, the state-run China Daily detailed. Preliminary keeps running of the  5G  organize, sponsored by state-run telecom transporter China Mobile, authoritatively began the administration in Shanghai’s Hongkou on Saturday, where 5G...

Present method of counting VVPAT slips most suitable: EC to Supreme Court

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Present method of counting VVPAT slips most suitable: EC to Supreme Court The Election Commission Friday told the Supreme Court that the present method of counting the VVPAT slips is the most suitable. Elections :  The Election Commission Friday told the Supreme Court that the present technique for checking the VVPAT slips is the most appropriate. The survey board advocated the current arrangement of irregular checking of the VVPAT slips from one surveying stall for each get together section. The Election Commission, which was asked on March 25 by the peak court to give its view on expanding the quantity of irregular example overviews from one corner for every get together fragment, said in future decisions, it might consider any proposals which result in further improving the holding of surveys in free and reasonable way. “It is presented that with the approaching decisions issues brought up in the moment petitions are matters that have just been considered, cont...

Apple violated Qualcomm patent; judge for import ban on China-made iPhones

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Apple violated Qualcomm patent; judge for import ban on China-made iPhones The original complaint linked that patent only to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, but it was unclear which models would be affected by this decision Technology : Apple  Inc. encroaches a Qualcomm Inc. patent and some imported iPhones ought to be hindered from the U.S. accordingly, a U.S. exchange judge said in one of two cases before the U.S. Universal Trade Commission. ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara said she would prescribe an import prohibition on certain model iPhones, which are made in China, as per a notice posted on the Washington office’s electronic docket. The judge found no infringement of two other Qualcomm licenses for the situation. The judge’s discoveries are liable to survey by the full commission, which has the ability to square imports of items that encroach U.S. licenses. A ultimate choice is normal by July. Qualcomm bounced as much as much as 2.6 percent in New York and were ex...

Come with a plan,’ UN chief tells world leaders over grim climate report

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Come with a plan,’ UN chief tells world leaders over grim climate report The UN chief said he has convened the ‘Climate Action Summit’ on September 23 and he is telling leaders, “in September, please do not come with a speech; come with a plan’ Internationals : UN  boss Antonio Guterres has advised world pioneers to concoct concrete, practical designs to help atmosphere activity as ozone harming substance fixations are driving worldwide temperatures towards progressively risky dimensions affecting a huge number of individuals. ‘The State of the Global Climate’ report was propelled Thursday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and presents a dismal image of the quickening physical signs and financial effects of the environmental change over the world. Secretary-General Guterres emphasized his call for activity, underlining that the disturbing finish of the report that environmental change is quickening, “demonstrates what we have been stating: environmental...

No decision on allowing Indian pilgrims to visit Sharda temple in PoK: Pak

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No decision on allowing Indian pilgrims to visit Sharda temple in PoK: Pak Reports had earlier said Pakistani government has approved a proposal to establish a corridor that will allow Hindu pilgrims from India to visit the ancient Hindu temple and cultural site International : Pakistan on Thursday said no choice has been taken so far on the opening of the Sharda sanctuary passage for  Hindu  pioneers from India in  Pakistan -involved Kashmir ( POK ) and declared that there ought to be “a positive air” for making such strides. Prior in the week, citing sources in Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Express Tribune detailed that the Pakistani government has endorsed a proposition to set up a passageway that will enable Hindu travelers from  India  to visit the old Hindu sanctuary and social site. Tending to a week after week press instructions in Islamabad, Foreign Office representative Mohammad Faisal dismissed the report, saying, “To t...

All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra

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All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra As per the Election Commission’s (EC) directions to set up polling stations entirely managed by women, such booths will be set up in all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state ELECTIONS :  An all-ladies surveying stall will be set up in each Lok Sabha supporters of Maharashtra amid the following month’s surveys in an offered to urge increasingly female voters to practice their establishment. According to the Election Commission’s (EC) bearings to set up surveying stations totally overseen by ladies, such corners will be set up in each of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of the express, a discharge issued by the race office here said. “Each one of those sent at such surveying stations – police, decision officers and different workers – will be ladies. These corners, an activity towards sex uniformity and including ladies’ interest in the discretionary procedure, will be called as ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’,” it said. Acco...

Pakistan opens its airspace; national carrier PIA resumes flight operations

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Pakistan opens its airspace; national carrier PIA resumes flight operations The tracking and interception capabilities that went into Mission Shakti have been available with the DRDO for over a decade International :  The  Civil Aviation Authority  (CAA) on Tuesday reported the total opening of Pakistan’s airspace, with the national transporter continuing its flights the nation over. Pakistan shut its airspace on February 27 following raising strains with India. On Tuesday, two-path flights from Lahore to Islamabad and flights from Karachi to Multan withdrew by the timetable, said an announcement issued by the national transporter –  Pakistan International Airlines  (PIA) – on Tuesday. Flights have additionally been continued for Bahawalpur, Raheem Yar Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan. Flights from Sialkot will continue from March 28, after important fixes are completed on the Sialkot air terminal runway, it said. Prior in February, the CAA somewhat ...

India successfully tests ASAT missile, joins space superpower club

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India successfully tests ASAT missile, joins space superpower club The tracking and interception capabilities that went into Mission Shakti have been available with the DRDO for over a decade Technology : On Wednesday morning, 300 kilometers over the Odisha coast, a ballistic rocket protection interceptor created by the Defense Research and Development Organization ( DRDO ) struck a satellite in a low earth circle, crushing it into pieces. PM Narendra Modi declared the accomplishment of the test, codenamed Mission Shakti, on TV and Twitter. Pronouncing that “there can’t be a more noteworthy snapshot of pride for any Indian”, he stated: “In the voyage of each country, there are minutes that bring most extreme pride and historically affect ages to come. One such minute is today. India has effectively tried the counter satellite (ASAT) rocket.” The Prime Minister said India had enlisted its name among the space superpowers. “Up until now, just three nations were in this club ...

Centre issue tenders for developing 30,000 MW of renewable project tenders

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Centre issue tenders for developing 30,000 MW of renewable project tenders Of the tenders issued, Andhra Pradesh has already received expression of interest for its 600 MW hybrid power project from close to a dozen companies Economy :  In the hurry to meet the objective of 1.75 lakh MW of sustainable power source limit by 2020, the Center and a few states have issued tenders totalling 30,549 MW. Of this, just 4,000 MW are wind control ventures, 1,800 MW are cross breed (solar+wind) and balance 24,749 MW are sunlight based power ventures. The offers for these activities are expected in next three months. Whenever finished up on time, these activities ought to be appointed by March 2020. The prior due date for 1.75 lakh MW was 2022, however the administration later said it would meet the objective by 2020 and accomplish in excess of 2 lakh MW by 2022. Sun based Energy Corporation of India (SECI), the nodal organization of service of new and sustainable power source (...

Cash, liquor and freebies worth Rs 540 cr seized since poll announcement

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Cash, liquor and freebies worth Rs 540 cr seized since poll announcement Karnataka saw the total seizure of inducements and cash worth Rs 26.53 crore, Maharashtra Rs 19.11 crore and Telangana Rs 8.2 crore Elections :  Suspect money, illicit alcohol and medications worth about Rs 540 crore have been seized the nation over since parliamentary race plan was declared by the  Election Commission  a fortnight back, official information demonstrated Tuesday. Tamil Nadu recorded the greatest seizure of these illicit affectations, suspected to have been directed and used to pay off voters, worth Rs 107.24 crore, trailed by Uttar Pradesh Rs 104.53 crore, Andhra Pradesh Rs 103.4 crore and Punjab Rs 92.8 crore. Karnataka saw the all out seizure of actuations and money worth Rs 26.53 crore, Maharashtra Rs 19.11 crore and Telangana Rs 8.2 crore. An  Election Commission  official said the complete estimation of caught things was Rs 539.99 crore. The surve...

Lok Sabha elections: Why some parties are fielding more women this time

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Lok Sabha elections: Why some parties are fielding more women this time While the overall sex ratio has marginally worsened from the 1960s to the 2000s, the voter sex ratio has improved in India Nadia: Women stand in a queue to cast their vote for Panchayat election at Shantipur polling station in Nadia district of West Bengal on Monday.( PTI Photo) (PTI5_14_2018_000071B) Elections :  To see how some ideological groups appear to have woken up to the requirement for more prominent ladies’  political  portrayal in front of the general races booked for April and May 2019, you have just to take a gander at the millennial female voter. Anju Baa, a 20-year-old ancestral young lady from Rajgampur town in Sundergarh locale in northwestern Odisha, has finished her graduation. She is taken a crack at a PC class and says she will apply for work once her course is finished. Marriage? She shrugs, first comes the activity. At the point when Anju was only an infant, her ...

Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

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Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20% Congress leaders said NYAY gets its inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and woman Elections :  Congress  President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base pay of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals. While the  Narendra Modi  government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the  Congress  has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless. The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that conceived fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s salary to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s salary is beneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said an ...

Hackers strike Asustek computers, over a million users affected: Report

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Hackers strike Asustek computers, over a million users affected: Report Hackers targetan unknown pool of users, who were identified by their network adapters’ MAC addresses. Technology:   Hackers  focused on “many thousands” of Asustek PC proprietors by pushing a secondary passage update programming instrument from the PC producer’s own servers, digital security firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday. Kaspersky said the assault, which occurred among June and November 2018, is conceivably influencing over a million clients everywhere throughout the world. Digital security firm Symantec’s representative Jennifer Duffourg likewise affirmed the product inventory network assault against Asustek clients. “In view of our examination, trojanized refreshes by means of URIs were sent by ASUS’ live update server among June and late October 2018. These updates were carefully marked utilizing two declarations from ASUS,” Duffourg said. The programmers were focusing on an o...

Share facts, not rumours: WhatsApp educating users on spotting fake news

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Share facts, not rumours: WhatsApp educating users on spotting fake news Aimed to educate people, the short online videos (available on YouTube) shows step-by-step tutorial on how to exit a group, block a contact and the significance of the forwarded label Technology :  WhatsApp, a  Facebook -claimed texting stage, on March 25 propelled the second period of its ‘Offer Joy, Not Rumors’ crusade, urging its supporters of utilization the stage with duty. This is one of the means that the organization has attempted to control the spread of phony news before the Lok Sabha Elections 2019. The battle is accessible as short online recordings (accessible on YouTube) appearing by-step instructional exercises on the most proficient method to leave a gathering, obstruct a contact and the criticalness of the sent name. “Proactively working with the Election Committee and neighborhood accomplices for a sheltered race is our best need. Growing our training effort to help ind...

Inflation at 18-month low, gives RBI room to ease monetary policy

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Inflation at 18-month low, gives RBI room to ease monetary policy The consumer food price index contracted 2.51% in December; in November, it had contracted 2.61% Finance  :  Inflation  rates, both discount and retail, fell in December a year ago, as indicated by the administration information discharged on Monday. This, thusly, might provoke the  Reserve Bank of India  (RBI)  Monetary Policy Committee  (MPC) to change its position from aligned fixing to nonpartisan in its audit one month from now. The retail  Inflation  rate declined to a 18-month low of 2.19 percent. The discount Inflation  rate likewise boiled down to 3.8 percent, the most reduced in eight months. Falling fuel and sustenance costs made expansion fall, as per the information. The center retail swelling rate contacted a nine-month low of 5.6 percent. “In the following MPC meet, the position could be modified to impartial,” said Madan Sabnavis, boss f...

Over 30,000 political ads on Facebook since February

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Over 30,000 political ads on Facebook since February Over Rs 6 crore spent on these ads; Twitter data shows no promoted tweet in past seven days from key handles Technology :  A sum of 30,457 commercials identified with legislative issues or issues of national significance have hit the world’s biggest  Social media  network in front of the general decision. The use on these commercials was Rs 6.54 crore, demonstrates the information from  Facebook ‘s Ad Library Report. “This report is a week after week outline of the library and incorporates information for promotions that have been seen by individuals in India. Making this report accessible to the open is a piece of Facebook’s endeavors to expand straightforwardness in promoting,” as indicated by a note on the web based life goliath’s site. The decision  Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP) appears to overwhelm the space. A page called ‘My First Vote For Modi’ represents the biggest number of pro...

Now, AI to predict Cricket matches, assess the luck of the players

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Now, AI to predict Cricket matches, assess the luck of the players IIT Madras and ESPN cricinfo partner to create an engine that leverages rich data collected from over a decade of insights of ball-by-ball updates Technology :   Artificial Intelligence  and information science are as of now making a tremendous effect on different ventures. Presently these innovations are broadly being utilized to investigate the round of cricket too. Game media firm ESPNcricinfo, in association with the Indian Insitute of Technology Madras, revealed a tech stage called ‘Superstats’, which investigates the game. The stage is a blend of details measurements – karma record, forecaster and keen details – that utilization information science out of the blue to give a setting to each occasion in a diversion. IIT-Madras Researchers and Gyan Data Pvt Ltd, an organization hatched at the foundation, worked with cricket specialists from ESPNcricinfo to make Superstats with the assistance...