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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday visited the IIT-Madras and interacted with start-ups from the prestigious institution. The IIT-Madras was established with assistance from his country. Steinmeier took time to interact with start-ups that have designed solar-electric hybrid three wheelers, an innovative wheelchair for people with disability and elderly; 3D printers with special focus on carbon fiber products; and compact underwater robots that can conduct environmental survey. The start-ups, who had designed their products at the IIT-Madras Incubation Cell, gave a demonstrations to the German president. Sources said he was "impressed" with the start-ups and lauded them for their contribution to science and technology. Later, Steinmeier visited the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) inside the IIT Research Park. IIT-Madras was established in 1959 after the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru signed an agreement with Germany to set up a higher tec...
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Justin Trudeau in India LIVE UPDATES: The Canadian Prime Minister and his family are in India on a week-long visit. We get you the latest updates on the events the Canadian PM will be attending, as well as his visits to historical places such as the Taj Mahal, Jama Masjid, Sabarmati Ashram and the Golden Temple. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in India on a week-long visit. Trudeau and his family arrived at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on February 17, 2018. On the agenda is a meeting with Prime Minister Modi on February 23 where talks related to civil nuclear cooperation, space, defence, energy and education are expected to take place. The visit is aimed at further strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries in key areas of mutual interest trade and investment, a statement from External Affairs Minis...
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Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor A Ganapathy, arrested on charges of demanding and accepting Rs 30 lakh as bribe from an aspirant for the post of an assistant professor, was remanded in judicial custody till February 16 by a special court here on Sunday. Dharmaraj, a Professor at the university who was arrested for allegedly brokering the deal, was also sent to judicial custody. Ganapathy was arrested by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) on Saturday for allegedly accepting Rs 30 lakh as bribe from one Suresh for the post of assistant professor. Following a 12-hour search and interrogation at their offices and residences, Ganapathy and Dharmaraj were taken to the Government Hospital for a medical check-up last night and produced before the judge of Special Court of Prevention of Corruption Act John Mino, in the early hours today. The judge ordered the remand of both the accused till February 16. While being taken to court, Ganapathy told reporters that it was...
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The Palestinian Foreign Ministry earlier slammed the plan to expand Israeli settlements and called for international institutions to confront the move. Israel has intensified the construction of settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported. According to the report, 15 new settlement housing units as well as new roads are planned to be built in the area, to the west, south and east of the Ahia settlement in the Palestinian village of Jalud. More agricultural lands are reportedly being bulldozed in the area to clear the construction site. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian official in charge of monitoring the Israeli settlement policy in the northern part of the West Bank, told Ma'an that the new settlement expansion in Ahia included the bulldozing of lands and the construction of infrastructure in the settlement of Amihai, 1 kilometer to the southwest of Ahia. According to Israel’s Channel 10, the plan is part of the so-called "Greater Jerusal...
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Awadhe Warriors put behind the absence of their star player Saina Nehwal and took 4-3 lead against defending champions Chennai Smashers on the first day of the third edition of the Premier Badminton League (PBL), with the much-anticipated tournament making its debut in Guwahati. The Warriors won both men’s singles and mixed doubles to take a 4-0 advantage. Parupalli Kashyap won his singles against Daniel S Farid 15-12, 15-8 in the Warriors’ trump match. However, Chennai Smashers came back in the men’s doubles and their trump match of women’s singles to save themselves embarrassment and earn three points. PV Sindhu thrashed Nehwal’s replacement SU Rao 15-10, 15-9 to win their trump match. Here are the key highlights of the opening day:
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New Delhi: In an appalling incident, a pregnant woman was punched repeatedly in the stomach, her head was banged against the wall for touching the bucket of an upper cast Thakur. According to sources, the incident occurred on the morning of October 15, when Savitri Devi, a Dalit woman accidentally ‘touched’ a bucket belonging to Anju, an upper caste Thakur while collecting garbage from homes in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district. The wire with reference to Indian Express, has quoted Savitri’s neighbour Kusuma Devi, as saying ‘Anju stormed towards her, punched her repeatedly in the stomach and banged her head on a wall. She kept accusing Savitri of ‘defiling’ her bucket by touching it.” Later, according to Kusuma Devi, Anju’s son Rohit joined his mother in beating Savitri with sticks. Savitri was rushed to the district hospital by her husband, Dilip Kumar. The hospital gave no treatment to her, saying that there was no external bleeding and she was fine. However Savitri’s condition...
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The Russian Defense Ministry has reported about the substantial advances made in fighting against terrorism in Syria. The Russian sappers have deactivated nearly 1,000 of various explosive devices, while hundreds of militants positions had been defeated by the Aerospace Forces. HMEIMIM (Sputnik) — Russian sappers have cleared 33 hectares of the territory in and around the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor in the past 24 hours, destroying more than 960 explosives, Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian reconciliation reported on Thursday. "In the past 24 hours, 33 hectares of the territory of the city and its suburbs, six kilometers of roads, and 35 buildings were demined, 963 explosives were discovered and destroyed," the center said in a statement. According to the document, a total of 741 hectares of territory, 183 kilometers of roads, and 1,522 buildings have been inspected since the start of the Russian demining operation in Deir ez-Zor, 37,517 explosive items have...
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The National Security Agency may restore spying program given the latest amendments. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Senate Intelligence Committee has approved in a 12-3 vote, the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), something that could allow the National Security Agency's (NSA) to relaunch its online surveillance program. The committee's vote took place on Tuesday in a closed session. According to media reports, the lawmakers voted in favor of Senator Mark Warner's amendment, which proposes that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should submit a request to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court if it obtains information on US citizens it wants to look into. READ MORE: Why Draft Liberty Act Won't Curb US Agency Spying Powers The current version of the law, which allows the US intelligence community to target the communications of non-US citizens outside of the United States, expires at the end of the year.
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Illegal hacking methods allegedly used by the FBI to obtain evidence and expose users of an international abuse website have stirred a legitimacy debate in Norway. According to the Norwegian daily Adresseavisen, the FBI used illegal data gathering methods against local users of a cloaked website to reveal their IP addresses and unveil their identities. The illegal hacking reportedly led to dozens of arrests. Earlier this year, seven men were arrested in Norway in connection with an investigation into an international abuse website. Recently, however, it transpired that the scope of the case in Norway alone is broader than initially thought. The country's National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) announced that charges have been brought against 43 Norwegians as a result of the ongoing investigation. The methods used by the FBI were considered illegal in Norway in 2015, the year the website was active. Foreign authorities were not permitted to access computers in Norway ei...
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New Delhi: Germany produced a combination of sublime skills and brute power as they laid bare Colombia's defensive frailties with a clinical 4-0 victory in their pre-quarterfinal match in the FIFA U-17 World Cup here on Monday. Captain and star striker Jann-Fiete Arp (7th and 65th) struck twice while Yann Bisseck (39th) and John Yeboah (49th) scored a goal each to help Germany reach the quarterfinals. Germany, whose best show in the tournament has been a runners-up finish way back in the first edition in 1985, now face the winners of the pre-quarterfinal match between Brazil and Honduras on October 18 in Kochi in the quarterfinals to be played in Kolkata on October 22. If Brazil happen to win their pre-quarterfinals, it will be a mouth-watering quarter-final clash between the colts teams of the two footballing giants. Germany had struggled to get the goals against their opponents in a relatively easier Group C but their strikers had a field day today, taking cracks at will as ...
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Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 16 (ANI): Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, the parents of 14-year-old Aarushi, who was found murdered nine years back in Noida, have finally walked free from the Dasna jail here after the prison authorities received the required court order. Rajesh Talwar's brother Dinesh Talwar and their lawyers Manoj Sisodia and Tanveer Ahmed Mir went to the Dasna Jail to receive them. This comes at least three days after the Allahabad High Court acquitted them of charges of their daughter's murder, setting aside the CBI court's earlier order, in connection with the double murder case that shook the nation in 2008. A high court bench, comprising of Justice B. K. Narayana and Justice A. K. Mishra, had reserved its verdict, in September, in the appeal filed by Aarushi's parents, who were sentenced to life in the jail. The Talwars had been lodged in the Dasna jail since November 2013 in connection with the twin murders. According to reports, as pe...