Kamal Haasan meets Election Commission for registration of his Makkal Needhi Maiam party
The Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan on Wednesday met Election Commission officials to formally register his party.
After the meeting, the actor-turned politician told reporters he expected his party, which was launched in February, would get registered soon.
“I came here for a formal meeting. They (EC) asked certain questions. They are not having any major objections,” he said.
To a query, 63-year-old Haasan said the poll panel officials told him that his party’s registration would be done soon. He, however, said the EC officials did not specify any time frame for it.
Chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian quits
NEW DELHI: Chief economic advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian has decided to quit from his post "on account of pressing family commitments", Union minister Arun Jaitley said in a blog post titled "Thank You Arvind". Subramanian will return to the United States (US), Jaitley added.
Subramanian had joined the government as the economic advisor on October 16, 2014 for a period of three years. In 2017, his term was extended for a year.
Jaitley further said that "on the expiry of the three year I (Jaitley) had requested him to continue for some more time. Even at that stage, he told me that he was torn between family commitment and his current job which he considered the best and most fulfilling he has ever done."
In his post, Jaitley credited him for conceptualising "JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhar, Mobile) as a database for availing public benefits." He said that Subramanian’s interaction with the government, Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and with other Departments was both formal and informal and his instantaneous communications with interlocutors had increased his effectiveness.
TS police launch Cop Connect
- App to provide real time info to over 60,000 officers State-wide
- The Telangana police have launched a mobile-based messenger application dedicated to provide real time information to over 60,000 police officers across the State.
- ‘Cop Connect’, the mobile-based application launched by the Director General of Police M. Mahender Reddy here on Monday, will also support the police department in improving quality of service delivered to public.
- The app has been developed based on police’s internal communication strategy, which will enable the entire workforce to pro-actively engage and pass real time information in seconds.
‘i-Hariyali’ APP- A NOVEL INITIATIVE OF PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 19 KS Rajput: The Punjab Government has launched a novel initiative in the form of ‘i-Hariyali’ app as part of the strategy formulated under Mission Tandarust Punjab to ensure clean, green, healthy and robust Punjab with the active participation of the masses. The main characteristic of the app is that any resident of the state can book a sapling of his/her choice sitting at home with the click of a button.
Another unique feature of the app is that this facility can be availed of by every resident of the state to book sapling of his choice from a nearby government nursery. The app can be downloaded from mobile play store absolutely free of cost. The rationale behind this app is to inspire more and more people to plant maximum saplings during the current monsoon season so as to save the environment from pollution hazards. A condition of proper upkeep and care of the saplings has also been imposed.
General Feature:
- PEOPLE TO GET SAPLINGS OF THEIR CHOICE AT DOORSTEP FREE OF COST WITH JUST A CLICK
- SAPLINGS CAN BE BOOKED FROM NEARBY GOVERNMENT NURSERY
- INDIVIDUAL CONCERNED TO GET CONTACT NUMBER OF NURSERY EMPLOYEE THROUGH MOBILE MESSAGE AFTER BOOKING
- EVERY CITIZEN TO GET MAXIMUM 25 SAPLINGS THROUGH APP
US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'
The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable."
Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded.
Anukreethy Vas From Tamil Nadu Crowned Femina Miss India 2018
MUMBAI: Anukreethy Vas, a 19-year-old Tamil Nadu college student, has been crowned Femina Miss India 2018 in a grand ceremony in Mumbai hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar and actor Ayushmann Khurrana.
Anukreethy Vas, who was previously crowned fbb Colours Femina Miss Tamil Nadu, beat 30 contestants to bag the top honour in front of a judges panel that included Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar, who awarded Anukreethy Vas her crown.
Meenakshi Chaudhary from Haryana was the first runner-up while Shreya Rao Kamavarapu from Andhra Pradesh secured the second runner-up position.
The judges panel included cricketers Irfan Pathan and KL Rahul and Bollywood actors like Malaika Arora, Bobby Deol and Kunal Kapoor.
World's most powerful supercomputer unveiled
US scientists have unveiled the world's most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer that can complete over 200,000 trillion calculations per second - providing unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI).
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)supercomputer called Summit will be eight times more powerful than its previous top-ranked system, Titan.
For certain scientific applications, Summit will also be capable of more than three billion billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops.
Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die
A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital’s computers read her vital signs and estimated a 9.3 percent chance she would die during her stay.
Then came Google’s turn. A new type of algorithm created by the company read up on the woman -- 175,639 data points -- and rendered its assessment of her death risk: 19.9 percent. She passed away in a matter of days.
The harrowing account of the unidentified woman’s death was published by Google in May in research highlighting the health-care potential of neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence software that’s particularly good at using data to automatically learn and improve. Google had created a tool that could forecast a host of patient outcomes, including how long people may stay in hospitals, their odds of re-admission and chances they will soon die.
Indian researchers find insulin clue to Huntington’s
New Delhi: A study by researchers at Department of Genetics at Delhi University South Campus has indicated that it was possible to restrict the progression of Huntington’s disease by increasing insulin signaling in the brain neuronal cells.
The study conducted in fruit flies (Drosophila) has found that increasing the level of insulin signaling enriched the cellular pool of proteins that are essential for cellular functioning and survival and this, in turn, restored the cellular transcription machinery, which collapses due to the disease, and thus stopped the disease from progressing”.
Dr. Surajit Sarkar, who led the study, told India Science Wire that “the study was a follow up to investigations which had revealed that insulin signaling pathway, which is a critical controller of cellular metabolism and energy homeostasis, was severely compromised in Huntington’s and other polyglutamine disorders like SCA3.”
Huntington’s presently has no treatment or cure. The afflicted individuals lose their ability to walk, talk, think, and reason. This disease begins between the age 30 and 45, and every individual with the gene for the disease will eventually develop the disease. It is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder which means that if one parent carriers the defective Huntington’s gene, the offspring have a 50/50 chance of inheriting the disease.
South Korea and US agree to suspend planning of Ulchi-Freedom Guardian military drill, says Seoul
Seoul: South Korean and US officials confirmed the suspension of scheduled joint military drills on Tuesday, making good on a pledge by President Donald Trump during his summit with North Korea's leader.
Seoul, which has a large number of US troops on its soil to help protect it from its hostile northern neighbour, said the suspension would affect the large-scale Ulchi-Freedom Guardian exercises slated for August.
"South Korea and the US plan to continue discussions for further measures," said the South's defense ministry in a statement, adding that "no decisions have been reached for other ensuing drills."