Team India once again thumped Ireland by a mammoth 143 runs clinching the T20I series 2-0. Spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav once again tormented through the Irish batting line-up picking up 6 for 37 together and bundled out the hosts for 70 in 12.3 overs. Chasing a daunting total of 214, Ireland never seemed to be in the game.

Umesh Yadav, in his T20I comeback game, picked up Paul Stirling and William Porterfield in successive overs. Debutant Siddarth Kaul too picked up his first international wicket in form of James Shannon. Post the quick bowling spell, the wrist spin duo of Chahal and Kuldeep took over and picked wickets in quick succession. Irish middle order tumbled like a pack of cards as most batsmen could not even muster double digits scores.

Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday launched a mobile application — ReUnite — to trace missing and abandoned children in India. “This effort to reunite parents whose children have gone missing is a wonderful use of technology to address real life social challenges,” he said.

The app is multiuser where parents and citizens can upload pictures of children, and provide detailed description like name, birth mark, address, report to the police station, search and identify missing kids.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft have been accused of failing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Apparently, the platforms have been using “dark patterns” in order to manipulate users into accepting privacy policies they don’t necessarily wish to agree with.

According to the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC), Facebook, Google and to some extent Microsoft, are running consumers out of privacy-friendly options on their services in an "unethical" way.

In a recently released 44-page report, NCC explains that these dark patterns include "privacy intrusive default settings, misleading wording, giving users an illusion of control, hiding away privacy-friendly choices, take-it-or-leave-it choices, and choice architectures where choosing the privacy-friendly option requires more effort for the users".

• In a blow to Pakistan, the Financial Action Task Force has placed it on the 'grey list' for failing to curb anti-terror financing despite Islamabad submitting a 26-point action plan and launching a concerted diplomatic effort to avert the decision, officials said on Thursday.
  The decision was taken late on Wednesday night at the global financial watchdog Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) planery session in Paris where finance minister Shamshad Akhtar represented Pakistan, according to official sources.

  The FATF is an inter-governmental body established in 1989 to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.

  The announcement comes a day after Pakistan submitted a comprehensive 26-point action plan to the FATF to choke the funding of militants groups, including Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led JuD and its affiliates, to avoid being blacklisted by it.

  The placement on the 'grey list' could hurt Pakistan's economy as well as its international standing.

Today is noted applied statistician and scientist Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis' 125th anniversary and in honor of this occasion Google has dedicated its today's doodle by Nishant Choksi to him.

He was born on 29 June 1893 in West Bengal and graduated from King's College, Cambridge.

Mr Mahalanobis is known for his pioneering work in statistics and is most often remembered by the "Mahalanobis distance", a way of measurement used in population studies and was one of the members of the first Planning Commission of India. He was also awarded one of the highest civilian awards, the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India. 

India's second five year plan (1956-1961) which laid heavy emphasis on the development of the public sector and rapid industrialization also followed the Mr Mahalanobis model which emphasizes the importance of building a strong domestic consumption goods sector, which was crucial to the nascent Indian economy and had a lasting impact on the nation's development.

Apple and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on 27 June settled a seven-year patent dispute over Apple’s allegations that Samsung violated its patents by “slavishly” copying the design of the iPhone.

Terms of the settlement, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, were not available.

In May, a US jury awarded Apple $539 million, after Samsung had previously paid Apple $399 million to compensate for patent infringement. Samsung would need to make an additional payment to Apple of nearly $140 million if the verdict was upheld.

How much, if anything, Samsung must now pay Apple under the 27 June settlement could not immediately be learned.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the terms of the settlement but said Apple “cares deeply about design” and that “this case has always been about more than money.” A Samsung spokeswoman declined to comment.

ISLAMABAD — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the launch of Pakistan’s indigenously developed 285kg PakTES-1A observatory satellite in July.

Fitted with sensors and cameras, PakTES-1A will remain stationary 610km in space and its position relative to the sun will not change.

Known as the Remote Sensing Satellite (RSS) it can be used to study various features of Earth, determine mineral deposits, and depending on the kinds of sensors and gadgets fitted, the RSS technology can also help study impacts of climate change such as recession of melting glaciers, green house gasses, detect forest fires and even solve problems related to agriculture as well as forestry, besides a whole range of passive and active tasks.

The navigation technology for the satellite was acquired from China back in 2012.

• Saurabh Chaudhary today set a new Junior World record scoring a total of 243.7 in the 10M Air Pistol event

• Saurabh who earned the eighth Gold medal for India today, ended the eight-man final with a score of 243.7 after 24 shots

• Another Indian shooter Anmol finished fourth with a total score of 199.6.