Telangana Information Technology Association develops exclusive township for techies

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Telangana Information Technology Association develops exclusive township for techies

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Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA), which has developed a township, exclusively for software employees, has come up with another innovative facility. It has developed a new farmhouse township in the name of ‘Digitown 2.0.’

Hyderabad: Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA), which has developed a township, exclusively for software employees, has come up with another innovative facility. It has developed a new farmhouse township in the name of ‘Digitown 2.0.’ The model house in the township, which is near to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) and Outer Ring Road (ORR), was inaugurated on Monday.

Hyderabad is growing as the hub for IT industry. Techies who came here for employment from different parts of the country have told TITA that they have a bit of confusion over having an own house in the city. They requested TITA president Sundeep Makthala to suggest a proper place with good transport facility, airport connectivity and a good place that is convenient to go to Bangalore, in case of any emergency.

By that time, there was a proposal to develop a special township, exclusively for IT employees. So, taking into consideration, the suggestions from the IT employees, TITA has decided to develop a township at Thimmapur near Muchhintal on Bangalore Highway. They have developed Digitown in 33 acres with more than 200 plots and inaugurated last year. It got a very huge response from IT employees. Some techies have asked for farmhouse rather than just a home. So, Digitown 2.0 has been planned near Madduru, which has connectivity to International Airport and Outer Ring Road. Sundeep explained that techies can book plots of 140 and 267, as per their requirement.

Underground electric cables, 24 hours Wi-Fi, CCTV camera surveillance and other infrastructure has been developed in 50 acres. International meditation centre, namely Kanha Shantivanam, Myhome city and Chinna Jeeyar Swamy’s spiritual centre also have connectivity to this venture, as per the requirement of techies. TITA global president Makthala said that the model display house is ready and those who are interested can have a look at it.

“Support India’s Objectives, But Concerned About Kashmir Situation”: US

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“Support India’s Objectives, But Concerned About Kashmir Situation”: US

The US on Tuesday said while it supports India’s development agenda behind scrapping special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution, it was concerned over the current situation in the Valley.

It said it was closely monitoring the situation in Jammu and Kashmir following India’s decision to scrap special status and divide the state into two Union Territories on August 5.

The Indian government has argued that its decision on Article 370 was driven by a desire to increase economic development, reduce corruption and uniformly apply all national laws in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in regard to women and minorities, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice G Wells told Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“While we support these objectives, the US State Department remains concerned about the situation in the Kashmir Valley, where daily life for the nearly eight million residents has been severely impacted since August 5,” Ms Wells said in a statement submitted to the Congressional subcommittee a day before the hearing on “Human Rights in South Asia: Views from the State Department and the Region”.

The US State Department, she said, has closely monitored the situation in Jammu and Kashmir following India’s decision on August 5.

“While conditions in Jammu and Ladakh have improved, the Valley has not returned to normal,” Ms Wells said, adding the State Department has raised concerns with the Indian government regarding detentions of residents and political leaders, including three former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir.

“We have urged Indian authorities to respect human rights and restore full access to services, including internet and mobile networks,” she said.

Postpaid mobile service has been restored in the Valley, but internet access remains intermittent, Ms Wells said.

She said both foreign and local journalists have extensively covered developments in Jammu and Kashmir, but many have faced challenges in access and reporting due to security restrictions.

“While exact figures are difficult to ascertain, we understand several thousand people have been detained over the past two months, although many have subsequently been released,” the top US diplomat said.

According to government sources, hundreds remain in detention – many without charges – under the Public Safety Act, which allows for administrative detention of up to two years, Ms Wells said.

Welcoming actions by India to improve the situation and address local grievances, she said the Home Ministry recently said statehood will eventually be restored to Jammu and Kashmir, reaffirming what Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in his Independence Day speech on August 15.

The US, she said, also encourages the Indian government to follow through on its commitment to hold assembly elections in the state at the earliest opportunity. Some local political leaders were released earlier this month, a trend Ms Wells said she hopes will continue.

Government offices, primary schools, and colleges are open, although student attendance remains low, she said.

The Indian Supreme Court, Ms Wells said, is planning to hear petitions related to Kashmir on November 14 and the Jammu and Kashmir High Court is reviewing cases.

“While these steps are positive, they are incremental, and we continue to press India to restore everyday services, including SMS and internet communications, as swiftly as possible,” she said.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s Warning to Pakistan on Infiltration Attempt

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s Warning to Pakistan on Infiltration Attempt

The Indian Army has given a befitting reply to Pakistan on attempts to infiltrate and such actions will continue if the latter doesn’t stop such acts, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday.

He said this during a function held here for the inauguration of 1400-ft Col Chewang Rinchen bridge in eastern Ladakh over the Shyok river, the highest-altitude permanent bridge in the country.

In his address, he also asserted that after the abrogation of sections of Article 370 and Article 35A, the Ladakh region will now only “draw friends” and “leave no scope for enemies”. “However, our neighbor Pakistan… Our armed forces have never been offensive on the Pakistani side. We have never done the first firing,” Singh said.

“But, by supporting terror activities, attempts have been made from the other side to destabilize, weaken and compromise the integrity of India,” he said. And, Indian armed forces have given a “befitting reply” to them, he said.

Singh said India has good relations with China and the latter spoke nothing regarding Kashmir during meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and considers Kashmir as an internal issue of India.

Stating that the boundary differences with China are of perception, Singh said both nations share cordial relations and the issue has been handled with great maturity and responsibility.

“India shares cordial relations with China. There are perceptional differences between both the countries on the boundary issue, but the matter has been handled with great maturity and responsibly. Both the countries have not allowed the situation to escalate or go out of hand,” Singh said.

His statement came a day after Army chief General Bipin Rawat said three terror camps have been destroyed by the Indian Army in retaliation to unprovoked ceasefire violation from the Pakistani side at the Tangadhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

The bridge built by the Borders Road Organisation (BRO) between Durbuk and Daulat Beg Oldie, and roughly 45km from the Line of Actual Control with China, will reduce travel time by about half, officials said.

Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat, Northern Command chief Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, and other senior officers were present on the occasion. The bridge has been named after the late Colonel Chewang Rinchen, a decorated officer of the Indian Army who hailed from Ladakh.

“I congratulate BRO for constructing a strategic bridge on road to DBO within 15 working months. BRO is at the forefront of development of the road communication in remote and most difficult areas,” Singh said after the inauguration of the bridge.

The bridge falls at the fag end of the recently completed road connecting Leh with the Karakoram Pass and will allow ease of troop movement to the Daulat Beg Oldi sector in eastern Ladakh. BRO Chief Engineer Nitin Sharma said the bridge was built in a record period of 15 working months after the foundation was laid in 2017.

“It was built with innovative micropile technology used for the first time in Asia,” he said. The bridge is situated at a height of 14600 feet above sea level at 150th-kilometer milestone on 260km-long Leh-BDO road, he said adding it can withstand 70 tonnes of load.

Man hacked to death on road at Punjagutta

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Man hacked to death on road at Punjagutta

Unidentified assailants hacked a man to death on Sunday morning here at Punjagutta in the city. It is learned that the assailants chased the man and hacked him brutally. The victim identified as Riyasath Ali died on the spot. Meanwhile, the assailants fled the spot after the incident. The incident has sent shock waves among the residents as it took place near Punjagutta police station.

The police inspected the spot along with the dog squad and collected details. It is learned that Ali was attacked in an act of revenge to murder by the assailants whose gangmate is believed to have murdered by Ali. The body was shifted to Gandhi Hospital for post-mortem. It is a third such incident that took place at Punjagutta this year where an auto driver hacked to death at Nagarjuna circle and a businessman from Vijayawada murdered on the road in the same area.

India To Sign Kartarpur Pact Wednesday, Urges Pak To Reconsider $20 Fee

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India To Sign Kartarpur Pact Wednesday, Urges Pak To Reconsider $20 Fee

India is ready to sign an agreement with Pakistan on Wednesday for allowing Sikh pilgrims to visit the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in the neighboring country through a much-awaited corridor set to open next month, the Ministry of External Affairs said today. It expressed “disappointment” at Pakistan’s decision to charge a $20 fee, but said that India will go ahead with the agreement for now.

Differences over the fee had resulted in a delay in launching online registration for the first pilgrimage to the Sikh religious site on November 9. The imposition of the $20 fee on every pilgrim, translating to approximately Rs. 1,400 in Indian currency, will help Pakistan rake in over Rs. 21 crore every month.

Last month, India and Pakistan agreed on visa-free travel of Indian pilgrims to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib through the four-kilometer Kartarpur border corridor. Through this, pilgrims will only have to carry their passports to visit the holy site located in the neighboring country.

The two nations also decided that 5,000 pilgrims can visit the shrine every day, and additional pilgrims will be allowed on special occasions, subject to the expansion of facilities on the Pakistani side.

The $20 fee had caused some heartburn in India, with both Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal demanding its withdrawal.

In a video shared on social media, Harsimrat Badal stated it was “highly shameful” for Imran Khan to think that the service fee will raise his country’s economy. “How will a poor devotee pay this amount? Pakistan has made a trade out of faith. Imran Khan’s announcement that this fee will increase the economy is highly shameful,” she was heard saying in the clip.

Amarinder Singh claimed that imposing such a fee will prevent less fortunate pilgrims from realizing their long-cherished dream of visiting the final resting place of Sikh guru Guru Nanak. “Let these people not be deprived of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of ‘khulle darshan’ of the historic Gurdwara,” he tweeted.

On Sunday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had ruled out the possibility of any delay in the opening of the Kartarpur corridor. “Pakistan is all set to open its doors for Sikhs from across the globe as the construction work on the Kartarpur project enters its final stages. It will be opened to the public on November 9, 2019,” Mr Khan said in a Facebook post, indicating that it will be ready in time for the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.

His government, however, refused to budge on the matter of the $20 fee.

Facebook rolls out dark mode beta for web interface

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Facebook rolls out dark mode beta for web interface

Months after announcing its plans to give a design overhaul at the F8 Conference in May, Facebook has finally begun rolling out the dark mode in beta for its web interface for some users, the media reported.

Several users have said that they got prompted by the social networking giant to try out the new interface.

The decision is also accessible under the quick settings available from the top right avatar, Android Police reported on Sunday.

According to few screenshots posted on Twitter, the dark mode changes the platform`s traditionally white interface into dark grey and has a new layout as part of the redesign too.

Of course, the new design is not universally liked, and it even has issues with text readability in a few dark mode screens. But that`s the price of any early release, the report added.

Mysterious facts about The “Taj Mahal”

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Mysterious facts about The “Taj Mahal”
  • The Taj Mahal is regarded as one of the famous monuments in India.
  • This monument is a structure that contains burial chambers (tombs) for the departed, they can be large or small and are often created in honor of prominent people.
  • The Taj Mahal resides in Agra, a city in the Uttar Pradesh State of northern India.
  • It was constructed as the final resting place for Mumtaz Mahal, the third wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
  • The name Taj Mahal signifies “crown of palaces”.
  • The building of the Taj Mahal took around 20 years, working from the year 1632 and finishing around the year 1653.
  • The Taj Mahal is constructed of white marble.
  • the significant feature of the Taj Mahal is a massive white dome that is usually termed an ‘onion dome’ of its shape. It has a length of approximately 35 meters (115 feet) and is enclosed by 4 smaller domes.
  • The full length of the greatest monument is 171 meters (561 feet).
  • The Taj Mahal is recognized to be one of India’s most prized works of art, as well as a prominent landmark and a tourist attraction that draws millions of visitors every year.
  • The Taj Mahal includes a large field, a reflecting pool, a mosque, and other monuments.

TikTok Star And Haryana BJP Candidate Sonali Phogat Casts Her Vote

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TikTok Star And Haryana BJP Candidate Sonali Phogat Casts Her Vote

BJP candidate from Adampur Sonali Phogat voted at a polling booth in Haryana’s Hisar on Monday. After casting her vote, a beaming Mr. Phogat flashed her inked finger in front of media persons.

Ms. Phogat, who became famous with her TikTok videos, is contesting the assembly election in Haryana, representing the BJP in Adampur. She is up against senior Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi, a three-time sitting legislator from the constituency and son of former Chief Minister late Bhajan Lal.

On October 4, Ms. Phogat filed her nomination for the assembly polls. She also asserted that the support of the BJP leaders and her fans will ensure her victory.

Polling for 90 seats in the state began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.

The electoral fate of 1,169 candidates will be sealed in Electronic Voting Machines by people who will vote in the assembly elections.

In Haryana, 19,578 polling stations have been set up for citizens to cast their votes.

The assembly polls will witness a multi-cornered contest among the BJP, the Congress, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the recently formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP). Votes will be counted on October 24.

In the 2014 elections, BJP had won 47 seats and formed the government on its strength while the Congress managed just 15 seats. The INLD finished second with 19 seats.

NASA’s Insight lander starts digging into Martian surface

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NASA’s Insight lander starts digging into Martian surface

NASA’s InSight lander has dug nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) into the surface of Mars with the help of its heat probe called “the mole”, the US space agency has announced. The procedure was done with the robotic arm of the spacecraft, which holds the heat probe. It dug down the ground to determine the amount of heat that is escaping from the interior of the neighboring planet.

Even though the heat probe barely dug 2 centimeters on the red planet’s surface, NASA says that the probe is designed to go as much as 16 feet (5 meters) deep into the Martian surface. The heat probe began digging back in February this year and was only able to be partially buried since then. The US space agency said that the recent movement was a result of its new strategy.

According to scientists, pressing the scoop on InSight’s robotic arm against the mole becomes helpful in digging down through an unexpectedly strong Martian soil. This process is called “pinning” and seems to provide the friction which is required for rigging. Otherwise, it would just bounce in place without having any effect, the agency explained in a statement.

NASA said that since October 8, 2019, the mole has slammed over 220 times on three separate occasions, the process was revealed by NASA in a GIF image.

The space agency’s experts say that there aren’t any rock blocking the mole which was previously thought to be a possibility. NASA says that it may be forced to use the scoop for pinning the mole’s top, directly in the future. However, doing so can be risky because the device is tethered to the instrument.

Seeing the mole’s progress seems to indicate that there’s no rock blocking our path,” HP3 Principal Investigator Tilman Spohn of German Aerospace Center said in the statement. “That’s great news! We’re rooting for our mole to keep going.”

The mole is part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, or HP3, which was provided by the DLR.

An engineer and scientist who led the mole recovery effort, Troy Hudson said, “The mole still has a way to go, but we’re all thrilled to see it digging again. When we initially found this problem, it was overwhelming. But I thought, ‘Maybe there’s an opportunity; let’s keep pushing on.’ And right now, I’m feeling unsteady.”

Recently, NASA’s Mars Orbiter captured the InSight and Curiosity rover on the surface of the neighboring planet. The space agency said that the pictures were taken on September 23, 2019, at an altitude of 169 miles (272 kilometers) above the surface.

Gayle, Malinga and Rabada find no takers in Hundred draft

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Gayle, Malinga and Rabada find no takers in Hundred draft

Rashid Khan was the first pick in the maiden ‘The Hundred‘ draft while Luke Wright was the last pick, with both players going to Trent Rockets who started and ended the event on Sunday (October 20). With only three overseas slots each available for the eight teams, several big-name players had no takers, including the likes of Chris Gayle, Lasith Malinga, and Kagiso Rabada.

There were seven salary brackets – GBP 125,000, 100,000, 75,000, 60,000, 50,000, 40,000 and 30,000 – that made for the seven rounds of two picks each. With all the teams having signed up two local players beforehand, along with one England centrally contracted player apiece, they had to skip that particular price bracket in the draft for the respective selections made before the draft.

D’Arcy Short was Trent Rockets’ other pick in the first round while Southern Brave bagged Andre Russell and David Warner as their first picks. London Spirit and Oval Invincibles had already selected Eoin Morgan and Jason Roy as their local picks under the GBP 125,000 bracket and they opted for Glenn Maxwell and Sunil Narine respectively as their second first-round picks.

Manchester Originals opted for Imran Tahir and Dane Vilas in the first round while Welsh Fire chose the Australian duo of Mitchell Marsh and Steve Smith. Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Aaron Finch found takers in Northern Superchargers during the first round. Birmingham Phoenix, meanwhile, chose Liam Livingstone as their only first-round choice in the draft, having roped in Moeen Ali beforehand.

Lewis Gregory, Liam Dawson, Sam Billings, Phil Salt, Ravi Bopara, and Tom Abell were the England players picked in the GBP 100,000 bracket while Kane Williamson, Mohammad Nabi, Sandeep Lamichhane, Mohammad Amir and Chris Lynn were the overseas selections in the second round. On the other hand, big names like Shakib Al Hasan, Trent Boult, Kieron Pollard, and Dwayne Bravo missed out.

Babar Azam was the major exclusion during the third round along with several other overseas names while Shadab Khan made it to the Southern Bravo team, who stacked their bowling department with plenty of pace options and batting firepower, with Russell, Warner, Archer, and Tymal Mills all part of the lineup. Liam Plunkett and Ryan ten Doeschate, who had a reserve price of GBP 50,000, were both picked by Welsh Fire.

A total of 96 players were selected in the draft while as many as 474 went unsold.

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