Miscellaneous

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Union government is developing a Common Alert Protocol (CAP) system to warn people about impending thunderstorm and lightning strikes, which account for the second highest number of natural disaster deaths in India, a top official has said. K J Ramesh, the director general of meteorology, India Meteorological Department (IMD), said predicting thunderstorm and lightning might be ...

French security expert Robert Baptiste has been in the limelight for highlighting the weakness in the Aadhaar data security. His twitter handle is Elliot Alderson. Now he has made a tweet and tagged PM Modi. In this tweet, Narendra Modi’s Twitter account has been tagged by saying, ‘Your website has a security problem. An unknown source has uploaded a text ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The University Grants Commission (UGC) has removed 4,305 journals from its list of approved journals based on “careful scrutiny and analysis”, Minister of State for HRD Satya Pal Singh informed the Rajya Sabha. The UGC currently recognises three categories of journals — journals indexed in “Web of Science or Scopus”, those recommended by the Standing Committee and ...

A 13-year-old Indian kid living in Dubai is now the owner of the software company. This thing will surely surprise you. But this is absolutely true. At the age when children are busy in school homework and playing games, Aadithyan Rajesh is running a software company at that age. Surprisingly, Aadithyan had made his first mobile application at just 9 ...

A research team of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur have come up with new data “confirming” that the Antarctic Ozone hole is on a “healing” path, a statement issued by the institute said Friday. Researchers of the Center of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Law Science (CORAL) of IIT Kharagpur have collected data from 1979 to 2017, which shows though ...

Low-cost carrier Indigo has effectively started charging for the web check-in service under a newly revised policy that came into effect from November 14, 2018. Passengers using the web check-in facility can no longer select seats that don’t carry any overheads. The new policy came to light after a passenger raised the issue on Twitter. “As per our revised policy, ...

Marking its 20th anniversary, Intel India Thursday announced the inauguration of its latest state-of-the-art design house at its campus in Bengaluru, built with an investment of approximately Rs 1,100 crore. The newest facility located at Intel’s 44-acre campus on Sarjapur Ring Road, has 620,000 sq. ft. of space including 100,000 sq. ft. of world-class lab infrastructure, the company said in ...

Air pollution is a serious health issue in the country especially in the northern parts during winter seasons. The air pollution in the northern region is attributed to dust, burning of crops in certain states, burning of garbage construction and prevailing climatic conditions. This air pollution has serious impacts on the health of children aged people and people suffering from ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Bomb disposal team of Counter Explosive Device Unit of Headquarter Central Command, Lucknow, has successfully disposed off 555 unexploded bombs & ordnances which were buried underground for the past 14 years at Jaspur in District Udham Singh Nagar under provisions of Aid to Civil Authority. The extremely challenging task of safe extraction and final disposal of ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Kerala Government to pay within eight weeks a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to former ISRO scientist S Nambi Narayanan whose life got ruined after he was falsely implicated in the 1994 ISRO spy scandal. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra set up a three-member panel ...