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Aaditya Thackeray seeks coordination with Centre on Vande Bharat flights

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Aaditya Thackeray seeks coordination with Centre on Vande Bharat flights Aaditya Thackeray has said Civil Aviation Ministry should coordinate with state govts on repatriation flights under Vande Bharat Mission for effectively reaching out to Indians stranded around world. Current Affairs  : Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray has said the Civil Aviation Ministry should organize with state governments on the repatriation trips under the Vande Bharat Missionfor successfully connecting with Indians abandoned the world over. In a letter, dated June 29, to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Thackeray said most evacuees are in contact with their particular state governments. Thackeray said in his prior correspondence to the Ministry of External Affairs and the overseeing executive of Air India, he had mentioned trips for the Middle East, Australia, Russia alongside different courses. “Albeit a few flights were sorted out, we need a lot more for the...

India accounts for 45.8 million of the world’s ‘missing females’: UN report

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India accounts for 45.8 million of the world’s ‘missing females’: UN report Between 2013 and 2017, about 460,000 girls in India were missing’ at birth each year Current Affairs  : India represents 45.8 million of the world’s 142.6 million “missing females” in the course of recent years, a report by the United Nations said on Tuesday, taking note of that the nation alongside China structure most of such ladies all around. The State of World Population 2020 report discharged on Tuesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the world association’s sexual and conceptive wellbeing office, said that the quantity of missing ladies has dramatically increased in the course of recent years – from 61 million out of 1970 to a combined 142.6 million of every 2020. Of this worldwide figure, India represented 45.8 million missing females starting at 2020 and China represented 72.3 million. Missing females are ladies missing from the populace at given dates because of th...

Global annual spend on PPE can hit $50-80bn; China key player: Jefferies

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Global annual spend on PPE can hit $50-80bn; China key player: Jefferies Post-pandemic, the PPE market could still be three times as big as pre-pandemic levels, Jefferies said        Current Affairs  : With most specialists currently dreading a second rush of the Covid-19 pandemic to hit the world, the worldwide interest for individual defensive gear (PPE, for example, covers, outfits and gloves could see a sharp spike and see the yearly spend on PPE hit $50 – 80 billion, which is a five to eightfold increment from pre-pandemic levels, recommends a May 2020 report from Jefferies. Post-pandemic, the PPE advertise, the Jefferies note says, could even now be multiple times as large as pre-pandemic levels. PPE costs, in this background, will stay raised for years to come, even with a flood in Chinese assembling limit and non-customary players entering the market. It expects stricter medical clinic measures to be executed, which incorporates P...

Cut govt salaries, review RBI role: RSS-linked body writes to PM Modi

Cut govt salaries, review RBI role: RSS-linked body writes to PM Modi Arth Yagna describes itself as an organisation of nationalist professionals. Current Affairs  : The administration should close down 20 services and 100 offices, broaden the merchandise and enterprises duty to liquor and petroleum, and audit the job of the Reserve Bank of India, said a gathering subsidiary to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Arth Yagna, which depicts itself as an association of patriot experts, needs the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act and standards for private companies suspended for a year. It needs compensations cut for all focal and state government representatives by 30 percent till March 2021; simple credit for vagrant specialists influenced in the lockdown to contain the coronavirus and against dumping and non-levy obstructions on China. “The current circumstance, excruciating all things considered, covers phenomen...

MyGate and NoBroker accuse each other of stealing data, file FIRs

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MyGate and NoBroker accuse each other of stealing data, file FIRs Both firms have been backed by Tiger global Current Affairs  : Home security tech fire up MyGate and online land stage NoBroker have blamed each other for taking exclusive client information and recorded first data reports (FIRs) against one another. NoBrokerHood, the coordinated guest, network and installment the board application by NoBroker.com on Monday said it has documented a FIR on June 28, 2020, against MyGate, to report that the last has taken its restrictive client database. The Bengaluru-based firm likewise asserted that MyGate reached NoBrokerHood clients to sell them their administrations. MyGate affirmed that it was NoBroker who took the organization’s information. The firm said it had just given a legitimate notification to NoBroker and its administration and Board through its promoters, on June 12. Later the firm, which is additionally situated in Bengaluru, documented a FIR against No...

Coal India ups investment to Rs 15,700 cr to boost mechanised transport

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Coal India ups investment to Rs 15,700 cr to boost mechanised transport Plan encompasses 14 additional projects from its earlier count of 35 Current Affairs  : Coal India (CIL) has recognized 14 extra first-mile network (FMC) ventures where it will put Rs 3,400 crore more in the subsequent stage to help motorized vehicle and stacking. This will take its all out interest in the undertaking to Rs 15,700 crore. The state-claimed digger transports 151 million tons (mt) of coal through automated framework and burdens through coal-taking care of plants (CHPs) and storehouses from 19 ventures, which will currently be expanded to 557 mt by 2023-24 through undertakings in stage 1. The undertakings under stage II will begin contributing once the conventions of finish are finished. Under the stage I, the state-possessed digger has focused down on 35 undertakings, each having 4 mt of limit from six of its auxiliaries with a capital of Rs 12,300 crore. Their consolidated underta...

Digital strike: India bans 59 Chinese mobile apps on security threat

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Digital strike: India bans 59 Chinese mobile apps on security threat Experts say now service providers may be told to block IP addresses Current Affairs  : India has restricted 59 Chinese portable applications, including the famous SHAREit, TikTok, UC Browser, and SHEIN, refering to them to be a security danger. The legislature conjured its forces under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act and applicable arrangements under IT Rules 2009 to obstruct these applications, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said on Monday. The move didn’t come as an amazement as it comes in the scenery of stalemate along the Line of Actual control in Ladakh with Chinese soldiers. Other famous applications on the boycott list incorporate Club Factory, Helo, and CamScanner. The service said it had gotten objections about the abuse of some portable applications accessible on the Android and iOS stages “for taking and secretly transmitting client informatio...

Covid-19 crisis: Bharat Biotech’s vaccine gets nod for human trials

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Covid-19 crisis: Bharat Biotech’s vaccine gets nod for human trials The SARS-CoV-2 strain was isolated at National Institute of Virology (Pune), an institute under the ICMR, and transferred to Bharat Biotech. Current Affairs  : Bharat Biotech’s Covid antibody applicant Covaxin is set to experience human clinical preliminaries in July. It was created at the company’s Genome Valley plant in Hyderabad, as a team with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). On Monday, the Hyderabad-based firm said the Drug Controller General of India gave the green light for stage 1 and stage 2 human clinical preliminaries of the indigenously evolved medicate, following accommodation of results produced from pre-clinical (creature) considers. These were intended to show security and resistant reaction. The SARS-CoV-2 strain was secluded at National Institute of Virology (Pune), an establishment under the ICMR, and moved to Bharat Biotech. Bharat Biotech has a biosafety level-3 pl...

Jio adds 6.25 mn users, Vodafone Idea loses 3.5 mn in February: Trai

Jio adds 6.25 mn users, Vodafone Idea loses 3.5 mn in February: Trai Subscribers of Bharti Airtel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) rose by 922,946 and 439,318, respectively. Current Affairs  : The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday said 4.15 million versatile supporters were included February. Dependence Jio included an astounding 6.25 million clients and Vodafone Idea lost 3.5 million clients during that month. Supporters of Bharti Airtel and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) rose by 922,946 and 439,318, separately. In January, the supporter increases in the nation were to the tune of 5 million. The current remote piece of the pie of the telecom area remains with Jio (32.9 percent), Airtel (28.35 percent) and Vodafone Idea (28.05 percent). Continue Reading

AirAsia, GoAir eye revenue growth from charter flights amid Covid-19

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AirAsia, GoAir eye revenue growth from charter flights amid Covid-19 Although limited in number, charters are lucrative for airlines Current Affairs  : Sanction flights are helping aircrafts win money in the midst of questionable travel request and rising fuel costs. GoAir will be working an extra 150 contract trips to bring home Indian residents from West Asia, a carrier representative said on Tuesday. Until Monday, GoAir worked 51 sanction flights conveying 8951 travelers to India. An AirAsia India representative said it has a couple of increasingly residential sanction flights arranged throughout the following scarcely any days under its ‘Umeed Ki Udaan’ activity to help transient laborers’ arrival to their home. The carrier has till now flown 26 contract trips inside India and shipped 4200 travelers. The most popularity for sanctions was to East and North East India, the carrier said. Residential flights continued on May 25 however situate inhabitance is still...

Govt eases air travel norms for persons recovered from coronavirus

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Govt eases air travel norms for persons recovered from coronavirus The ministry said the rule was being updated so that cured people don’t face hardship in travelling by flights Current Affairs  : The Civil Aviation Ministry has changed a standard to empower people recuperated from coronavirus to go via air. According to prior standards gave on May 21 travelers needed to present an assertion that they have not tried positive for Covid-19 in most recent two months. This proviso has now been changed to three weeks. “Covid-19 recuperated people satisfying this condition will be permitted to go after indicating a Covid-19 recouped/released testament from any foundation managing Covid-19 subject,” joint secretary Usha Padhee said in an office update today. Residential air travel continued on May 25 and around 1.9 million travelers have flown till now. The service said the standard was being refreshed with the goal that relieved individuals don’t confront difficulty...

Have not shared any info of Indian users with Chinese govt: TikTok on ban

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Have not shared any info of Indian users with Chinese govt: TikTok on ban The app is not available for downloads on any official app distribution platform in India Current Affairs  : TikTok has not imparted data on Indian clients to China or other outside governments, it said on Tuesday after New Delhi last night prohibited it alongside 58 different applications with Chinese connections. “We have been welcome to meet with concerned government partners for a chance to react and submit explanations,” said Tik Tok India head Nikhil Gandhi in an announcement. TikTok “kept on agreeing to information protection and security prerequisites under Indian law” and had not shared any data of clients in India with “any remote government, including the Chinese government”. The viral application included: “in the event that we are mentioned to later on we would not do as such.” “TikTok has democratized the web by making it accessible in 14 Indian dialects, with a huge number of ...

Facing ad boycotts, Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts, even Trump’s

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Facing ad boycotts, Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts, even Trump’s A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed its new policy would have meant attaching a link on voting information to US President Donald Trump’s post last month about mail-in ballots Current Affairs  : Facebook Inc on Friday said it would begin marking newsworthy substance that abused the internet based life organization’s strategies, and name all posts and promotions about democratic with connections to definitive data, including those from government officials. A Facebook representative affirmed its new arrangement would have implied joining a connection on casting a ballot data to US President Donald Trump’s post a month ago about mail-in voting forms. Adversary Twitter had fastened a reality checking name to that post. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a live-spilled organization townhall that the internet based life monster would likewise restrict promotions that asserted individua...

Apple catches TikTok reading user clipboards; won’t do now, says Chinese app

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Apple catches TikTok reading user clipboards; won’t do now, says Chinese app Chinese short-video making app TikTok has announced it will no longer automatically access user clipboards on Apple iPhones after iOS 14 in Beta exposed the app’s constant reading of user clipboards Current Affairs  : Chinese short-video-production application TikTok has reported it will no longer naturally get to client clipboards on Apple iPhones after iOS 14 in Beta uncovered the application’s steady perusing of client clipboards. TikTok disclosed to The Telegraph that it would quit “sneaking around on clients’ clipboards after iPhone update indicated application continually peruses replicated text”. “A security fix from Apple has abruptly uncovered exactly what number of cell phone applications are perusing clients’ clipboards each time they are on screen,” said the report. In iOS 14 Beta, one of these highlights is another flag ready that informs clients as to whether an application ...

As unemployment and hunger strike, migrant workers start the return journey

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As unemployment and hunger strike, migrant workers start the return journey Several companies in the manufacturing, industrial goods and real estate sector have even chartered aircraft to bring back their skilled and semi-skilled employees Current Affairs  : Craving and sadness drove a huge number of transient laborers from urban communities they had always wanted, dynamic and throbbing with life and action, to languorous towns in Bihar during the lockdown. It’s craving and sadness again that is pushing them back to the urban communities in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana, and the rambling homesteads of Punjab, ignoring the danger of the coronavirus malady that had pushed them to the edge of total collapse. Their managers, a significant number of whom had for all intents and purposes deserted them, are sending them train and even flight passes to take them back as plants buzz back to life, development movement gets, and the planting season has begun. ...