The latest 2019 World Airport Star Ratings are announced

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The latest World Airport Star Ratings were announced during the World Airport Awards ceremony in London on 27th March 2019, with Certification presented to Salalah International Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, Hamad International Airport, Platov International Airport, Delhi International Airport, Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, Haikou Meilan International Airport and Milan Malpensa Airport.

The latest 2019 World Airport Star Ratings are announced Source:Skytrax

Salalah International Airport in Oman was confirmed as a 5-Star Regional Airport. As the primary entry point to the Indian Ocean resort on the Omani south coast, the airport’s key appeal is the excellent efficiency of passenger processes from aircraft to arrival and check-in to gate.

Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi is certified as a 4-Star Airport. As a major International and domestic facility Delhi caters well to a wide range of passenger types, across full-service, leisure and low-cost markets.

Dhanbad best city for 4G availability in India, Srinagar grabs 3rd spot

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According to the London Based wireless coverage mapping company Dhanba dof Jharkhand tops the list of 50 India cities in terms 4G availabilty by 95.3%.

The to list includes:

1. Dhanbad,Jharkhand(95.3%)
2. Ranchi,Jharkhand(95%)
3. Srinagar,Jammu and Kashmir(94.9%)
4. Raipur,Chhattisgarh(94.8%)
5. Patna,Bihar(94.5%)

THE EU APPROVED A BAN ON SINGLE-USE PLASTICS

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The European parliament voted Wednesday to support plans for the elimination of most uses of single-use plastic, ranging from cutlery and straws to coffee stirrers and plastic plates.

THE EU APPROVED A BAN ON SINGLE-USE PLASTICS Source:Futurism

In October 2018, the EU voted on the proposal that was overwhelmingly backed by the European Parliament. This week’s vote could lead to EU member states implementing a ban by 2021.

Largest Tesla Battery Storage Installation In Asia For Japanese Railway

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The 4.2 MW / 7 MWh facility uses 42 Tesla Powerpack battery storage units, which were installed in just 2 days following their arrival onsite.For the customer is Kintetsu Railway, whose electrified trains operate on 500 km (311 miles) of track.

This is Tesla's largest energy storage project in Asia to date.Source:Green Tech Media

The Tesla batteries can provide enough electricity for stranded trains to operate for up to 30 minutes — enough for them to exit those tunnels and perhaps reach the nearest station, according to ArsTechnica.

REC deal makes PFC $80 billion lending behemoth

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PFC becomes India’s second largest state-owned Financial Firm after SBI by aquiring Rural Electrification Corporation Limited(REC ltd),Power Finance Corp(PFC) is also the 3rd hishest profit maker in the country

Power Finance Corp paid ober 14,500 cr(Rs) to the union govt to but over 52.63% stake in Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd

The ACM AM Turing award, often referred to as the 'Nobel Prize of Computing,' carries a one million USD prize. The award is named after Alan Turing,The founder of Turing Machine(Benedict Cumberbatch does his character in the movie The Imitation Game.

FinTech Conclave 2019

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NITI Aayog had organised a day-long FinTech Conclave 2019 in New Delhi.The objective of the conclave was to shape India’s continued ascendancy in FinTech

The conclave looked into various dimensions of the future of the FinTech, particularly the areas of:

1. Digital Onboarding of Customers and Merchants for Financial Inclusion
2. Building Financial Products for Bharat.
3. Emerging Areas of FinTech. Fast-tracking investment in FinTech industry.
4. Financial Inclusion of MSMEs.

Turing Award: 'Godfathers of AI' receive highest honour in computer science

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Turning Awards by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the field of Computer Science announced,The Winners are:

• Yoshua Bengio
• Geoffrey Hinton
• Yann LeCun

Turing Award: 'Godfathers of AI' receive highest honour in computer science. (Image: Twitter)

The ACM AM Turing award, often referred to as the 'Nobel Prize of Computing,' carries a one million USD prize. The award is named after Alan Turing,The founder of Turing Machine(Benedict Cumberbatch reprises his role in the movie The Imitation Game.

Cabinet okays additional NCLAT posts

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Six additional posts of judicial and technical members will be created in the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), with the Cabinet approving a proposal on Wednesday.

The Hindu Explains: What is significant about Mission Shakti?

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India's DRDO developed anti-satellite system A-SAT destroyed a Live Satellite in the Low Earth Orbit,which made India the 4th natio after The US,Russia and China to have sucah a wepon in their possession.

Mission Sakthi

It is said that over 100 scientists worked round the clock to achieve this milestone.

More nitrogen may help offset effect of climate change on wheat: study

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Scientists at IIT-Khanpur found out that wheat yields improves with the increasing levels of nitrogen application despite the eleavted C02 level

Carbon dioxide enrichment had a positive effect on various growth parameters and yield attributes of wheat. Elevated carbon dioxide tended to increase crop growth rate and the fraction of leaf biomass and leaf nitrogen, especially for the nitrogen management using chemical fertilizer. Elevated carbon dioxide led to 17 per cent increase in wheat grain yield above ambient as averaged over the nitrogen fertilized treatments. Elevated carbon dioxide also resulted in higher nitrogen use efficiency.

The researchers have published their findings in the European Journal of Agronomy. Apart from Dr.Swain, the team included Swati Hazra andPratapBhanu Singh Bhadoria from the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur, India.

Poverty down from 55% to 28% in a decade till 2015-16, study shows

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According to a new version of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) India have reduced the it's poverty leve from 55% to 28% in a span of 10 years, A total of 271million people have moved out from the poverty level since then.

The MPI measures acute poverty and people experiencing multiple deprivations, for example, those who are both undernourished and do not have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and clean fuel.

In India, a total of 271 million (27.10 crore) people moved out of poverty during these ten years, it said. Source:The Indian Express

The sharp reduction happened in the UPA years (Congress -led UPA was in power from 2004-05 till 2013-14), the average GDP groth during UPA period was 7.6%.

NOTE: India still had 364 million poor in 2015-16, the largest for any country, although it is down from 635 million in 2005-06.The report, covering 105 countries, dedicates a chapter to India because of this remarkable progress. However, India still had 364 million poor in 2015-16, the largest for any country, although it is down from 635 million in 2005-06.

Health ministry notifies new rules for drugs and clinical trials

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The Union Ministry of Health and Welfare released new Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 inorder to reduce the time taken to approve a new drug, thus reducing an Indian made drug's approval period to a maximum of 30 days and that of forign drugs to a maximum of 90 days.

“In case of injury to clinical trial subject, medical management will be provided as long as required as per the opinion of the investigator or till such time it is established that the injury is not related to the clinical trial,” Drugs Controller General of India S Eswara Reddy said.

Croatia honours President Kovind with highest civilian award

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President Ram Nath Kovind was honoured with Croatia's highest civilian award "The Grand Order of the King of Tomislav".

Mr.Kovind was on a 8 day visit to the 3 countries including Croatia,Bolivia and Chile to strengthen the bilateral tie between Inida and the Three countries.

The civilian order is awarded to heads of state for their important contribution towards the development of state relations between Croatia and their respective countries.Kovind is the first-ever Indian head of state to visit Croatia.

RBI imposes Rs 2 crore fine on PNB for flouting SWIFT rules

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"In the matter of violations of regulatory directions by Punjab National Bank observed during assessment of implementation of SWIFT- related operational controls, the Reserve Bank of India, (imposes) an aggregate penalty of Rs 20 million... on Punjab National Bank,"Said PNB.

SWIFT is a Global messaging software used for transaction betwee financial entities of different countries,the fine comes in the backdrop of the massive $2Billion fraud by misusing the SWIFT messaging software by the Punjab National Bank.

SBI, Union Bank of India, Dena Bank and IDBI - had also informed exchanges about monetary penalty slapped on them by the RBI for non-compliance with various directions. by charging 3 Crores on Union Bank,2 Crores on Dena Bank and 1 Crore each on SBI and IDBI.

BoB to develop agri-digital platform 'Baroda Kisan', inks MoUs with 6 firms

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The Public Lendor Bank of Baroda said that they're to develop an agri-digital platform exclusively for the requirements of the farmers.

BoB have signed an MoU with Six Firms:Skymet Weather Services, Weather Risk Management Services, BigHaat, Agrostar India, EM3 Agri Services and Poorti Agri Services for this project.

Bank of Baroda is an Indian state-owned International banking and financial services company Source:Shutterstock

This will be excuted by IT Centre of Excellence(ITCoE) of Bank of Baroda i partners with IBM India.

EU lawmakers approve copyright reforms that could have a big impact on Google, Facebook

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The law is aimed at bringing EU copyright rules into the 21st century to help artists and publishers whose works have been dispersed online.

Social media apps are seen in this photo illustration in front of a European Union flag. Source:CNBC

Article 11: The article is dubbed as “link tax”. It mandates Internet giants like Google,Facebook,Twitter,etc.. to pay news organisations to use their headlines.

Article 13: The article is dubbed as “upload filter”. It mandates online platforms like YouTube,Google,Facebook,Twitter,etc.. to restrict users from sharing unlicensed.

India ranks 76th on WEF’s global Energy Transition index; Sweden on top

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WEF said India is amongst the countries with high pollution levels and has a relatively high CO2 intensity in its energy system,Inida has moved up two positions to 76th while the list's been topped by Sweden.

Top 5 Contries i the index are

1. Sweden
2. Switzerland
3. Norway
4. Finland
5. Denmark

China's ranked lower than India at 82nd position.The top BRICS contry in the list is Brazil at 46th fllowed by India at 76th.

Indian Navy nuclear, biological, chemical training facility launched

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The Indian Navy's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) a.k.a "Abhedya" was inaugurated at INS Shivaji in Lonavala by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba on Monday(25th March 2019).

The NBCTF, christened "Abhedya", Sanksrit for impenetrable, will help train personnel of naval ships fitted with nuclear, biological and chemical detection and protection systems.

INS Shivaji which is the Indian Navy’s premier technical training facility is celebrating its platinum jubilee year in 2019-20

Apple TV app announced, curates content from over 150 streaming apps

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Available across iPhone, iPad and Apple TV 4K in over 100 countries, this new Apple TV app is claimed to be one place to easily discover shows from over 150 streaming apps. Source:Techradar

Apple along with Apple News+,Apple Card have unvield Apple Tv which lets user to get all in one subscription(ie; users can get a content available in all of his devices for an amount of $9.99/month.

Apple TV app will have all the new released movies, and the massive iTunes movie catalogue with over 1,00,000 titles, plus users' personal library built in.

Kenyan science teacher Peter Tabichi wins global prize

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Brother Peter Tabichi has been praised as an "exceptional teacher" who gives away most of his salary Source:BBC

A science teacher from rural Kenya Peter Tabichi, who gives away most of his salary to support poorer pupils, has won a $1m prize (£760,000) for the world's best teacher.

Peter Tabichi won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.Peter Tabichi would give away 80% of his salary to his pupil who could not afford book,uniforms,etc...

Inside Mahesh Babu’s wax statue launch

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Mahesh Babu Monday unveiled his wax statue in Hyderabad. The statue will be installed at Madame Tussauds in Singapore.

The statue will be installed at Madame Tussauds in Singapore. Source:The Indian Express

Amid infighting within ranks, Milind Deora appointed new Mumbai Congress chief

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Former Union minister Milind Deora was on Monday appointed the new Mumbai Congress Committee chief, replacing Sanjay Nirupam.

Deora, the son of former oil minister Murli Deora, is considered close to the Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

BAJAJ AND PIAGGIO AUTO RICKSHAWS IN UK AS OLA STARTS SERVICE IN LIVERPOOL

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The Indian Raid hailing start-up begins it's operation in Liverpool,UK partnering with Piaggio and Bajaj.

Source:Overdrive

It's the 5th city in UK where Ola is opearating since it's inceptio to UK on August 2018, beginig with Cardiff later expanding to Bristol, Bath and Exeter in 2018 itself.

Ola will also be benefitted by being the only app that can be used by both black cabs and private hire vehicles. Also Ola wo't be peaking it's fares either.

Navy gets a new chief in Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, first chopper pilot to head top office

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Admiral Kharambir Singh enrolled into the Indian Navy o July 1980 and became a helicopter pilot on 1982 and has extensive experience in flying the HAL Chetak and Kamov Ka-25 helicopters.

Vice Admiral Karambir Singh is at present the Flag Officer Commanding in Chief (FOC-in-C) of the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam. (File) Source:The Indian Express

Admiral Kharambir Singh will be succeeding Admiral Sunil Lanba on May 30th 2019. Kharambir Sigh over crowned the Andaman & Nicobar Command Vice Admiral Bimal Verma for the post since Bimal Verma although Vimal Berma's the most senior he lack some of the cruicial elements required for a chief.

It’s ‘time to #EndTB’, says UN on World Tuberculosis Day

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According to the World Health Organization(WHO) TB remains as the most dedliest infectious kiler effecting over 30,000 per year taking live of more than 4,500.

A woman with tuberculosis in Pakistan went undiagnosed for five years because she could not afford the $2 transportation cost from her village to the Civil Hospital in Tharparkar. Source:UN News

The Theme of this year's Tuberculosis Day's "It's time to end TB.",WHO Director-Generalsaid Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Kazakhstan renames capital Nur-Sultan

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Kazakhstan decided this in honor of it's longterm leader Nursultan Nazarbayev who resigned this week.

Astana - now Nur-Sultan - is a showcase of modernist architecture. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Source:The Guardian

The capital's previous name was Astana, which was ordered to change into Nur-Sultan by the newly appointed leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

Nursultan Nazarbayev would continue as chair of the country’s powerful security council and the leader of the Nur Otan party,which is the dominant in the parliment.