Rajnath Singh to fly sortie in Rafale fighter jet on 8 Oct during France visit

Minister Rajnath Singh will fly by a sortie in a Rafale fighter plane on 8 October from a French airbase in Paris to get first-hands on encounter of the aircraft, official references stated on Thursday.

Rajnath Singh is programmed to move to Paris on 7 October on a three-day visit, essentially to get the first of 36 Rafale fighter planes.

The commemoration to hand over the first Rafale plane will take place on 8 October, the establishment day of the Indian Air Force, the reports suggested.

there were also reports that the defense minister after getting the aircraft would take a sortie in the aircraft.

Topmost army officer of France as well as senior executives of Dassault Aviation, the creators of Rafale, will also be commenced at the handing over convention.

In July 2017, the then IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, flew a Rafale plane at the Saint-Dizier airbase through his appointment to France.

Rajnath Singh to fly sortie in Rafale fighter jet on 8 Oct during France visit

On 9 October, Singh is registered to continue extended talks with topmost defense officers of the French administration on measures to further increase defense and security association among the two countries.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured France in August throughout which both parties resolved to further intensify the previously close defense relations between the two countries.

India had signed an inter-governmental agreement with France in September, 2016, for procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets at a cost of around Rs 58,000 crore.

The experts said the first group of the aircraft will be extended at Ambala air force station, which is rated one of the most strategically established bases of the IAF. The Indo-Pak boundary is about 220 km from there.

The second group of Rafale will be posted at Hasimara base in West Bengal.
Several IAF teams have previously visited France to help Dassault Aviation, the maker of Rafale, include India-specific intensifications on-board the fighter aircraft.

The Indian Air Force(IAF) has contributed approx of Rs 400 crore to produce expected foundation like shelters, hangers and carrying facilities at the two bases. According to the contract, the transportation of the jets was to be developed in 67 months from the date the agreement was signed.

My Family Sacrificed Their Lives So I could have Mine, Says Priyanka Chopra

During the promotions of her upcoming movie The Sky Is Pink, Priyanka Chopra stressed on the importance of families. She also shared how she has a strong mother-daughter relationship similar to the one shown in the movie.

As Priyanka Chopra Jonas promotes her comeback movie The Sky is Pink in full swing, she’s giving us a glimpse of her thought process about how she really felt connected to the script. The actress draws parallels between the characters in the movie with those in her own family.

Recently, she compared how the on-screen couple (played by her and Farhan Akhtar), were much like her parents who sacrificed their lives and stood by her.

The movie has taken inspiration from the life of Aisha Chaudhary, a young motivational speaker, who lost her life at 18 due to being born with immune deficient disorder. Priyanka plays the role of her mother Aditi Chaudhary. Explaining how her parents too remained by her side, she said in an interview with PTI,“My parents were like that with me. where we somehow become solitary from our families.” She added, “This is the kind of family film that reminds you, how important family is and how important the support of your family is. I found that just so beautiful, especially in the world of today.”

Zaira Wasim plays the role of Aisha. Describing her character of Aditi as a “a ferocious mom who was best friends with her daughter,” Priyanka says that she shares the same relationship with her mother Madhu Chopra and the two often go out for parties or concerts just to hang out together. She has been my best person. Seeing that in Aditi to me was as if I was playing what my mother has been to me.”

Directed by Shonali Bose, The Sky is Pink releases on October 11, 2019.

It May be Dangerous to Send GIFs on WhatsApp From Your Android Phone

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A hacker can take control of the phone’s data by running a malicious code on the device.

WhatsApp is in the news for all the wrong reasons, after a security researcher has found a bug that lets hackers take get access to your phone. Android phones, to be specific. The vulnerability is specific to how WhatsApp handles GIF image files, which WhatsApp users send with aplomb.

This vulnerability can be used by a hacker by simply pushing a GIF file with the malicious code to a victim’s Android phone, either via a message or email or even a third-part app. When the WhatsApp user downloads the GIF on their Android phone and then opens it again within the gallery on WhatsApp, the code also allows a ‘remote code execution’ attack runs on the phone allowing the hacker to gain access to the WhatsApp user’s Android phone. This has been discovered by a security researcher called Awakened, a self-described technologist and an information security enthusiast.

WhatsApp told The Next Web in a statement that there were no reports of any attacks on users exploiting this vulnerability, and that “this issue affects the user on the sender side, meaning the issue could in theory occur when the user takes action to send a GIF. The issue would impact their own device.”

TikTok Star Sonali Phogat Is BJP’s Pick For Haryana’s Adampur Seat

The Bharatiya Janata Party has chosen TikTok sensation and TV star Sonali Phogat for the Jat-dominated Adampur elections in Haryana. Ms Phogat, who has over 1 lakh supporters on the video-sharing application, will participate against Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who is the son of three-time chief minister Bhajan Lal.

On TikTok, Ms Phogat frequently uploads the videos of her lip-syncing for Bollywood tunes. Her new videos are viral on the social media.so, BJP has roped in Phogat to contest her in the elections.

While she has many supporters online, participating in the election campaign on Congress turf will be a new difficulty for the apprentice activist.

Adampur constituency, resided along the Haryana-Rajasthan boundary, is controlled by the Bishnoi family.

Bhajan Lal has acquired the Adampur seat eight times since 1969. His partner, Jasma Devi, and son Kuldeep Bishnoi acquired the seat once respectively in 1987 and 1998.

Mr Bishnoi’s Gurgaon resort worth Rs. 150 crore was seized by the Income Tax department in August as a benami asset. His wife Renuka Bishnoi symbolizes the Hansi seat in the state Assembly, but has been rejected the Congress candidate this year.

The pair had won the 2014 Assembly polls as the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) competitors. The party was later united with the Congress in 2016.

Their son, Bhavya Bishnoi, had unsuccessfully participated in the Lok Sabha polls from the Hisar congressional seat as a Congress campaigner.

Polls to the 90-member Haryana Assembly will take place on October 21 and results will be announced on October 24.

“Oh So Orange” Google Pixel 4 shown in renders

In the latest Pixel 4 leak, we have official renders of the device in the new “Oh So Orange” colorway. The orange shade is subtle and has hints of pink which appears more muted than previous encounters of the device.

The new render also shows the side profile of the orange Pixel 4 which features a black colored frame and light pink power button.

Previously the orange Pixel 4 was spotted on a billboard ad in New York. Just yesterday, two other Pixel 4 and 4 XL renders showed us the Just Black and Clearly White versions which are the other two colors expected at launch.

The official announcement from Google for the Pixel 4 series is scheduled for October 15 but with all the leaks recently there’s hardly any room for surprises.

A journey towards plastic-free society in Hyderabad

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Responding to the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for achieving a plastic free India,

Gram Panchayats and Mandal Parishads in the state launched fight against

Hyderabad: Responding to the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for achieving a plastic free India, Gram Panchayats and Mandal Parishads in the state launched fight against the use of single use plastic in rural areas on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary on Wednesday. A campaign would be held to achieve a total ban on the plastic in the state. Awareness on the need to dump plastic use and plastic waste management activities would be taken to prepare the people for the total ban.

P Chidambaram Requests Bail, Told Chief Justice Will Decide On Hearing

INX Media case: P Chidambaram was denied bail by the Delhi High Court on Wednesday. The court had said that he might influence witnesses if released.
Mr Chidambaram, 74, has been in Delhi’s Tihar jail since September 5, after the Central Bureau of Investigation finished questioning him in the case. He was arrested on August 21.

Senior lawyer and Congress leader Kapil Sibal, representing Mr Chidambaram, mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a bench headed by justice NV Ramana.

The three-judge bench said Mr Chidambaram’s request would be sent to Chief Justice Gogoi for taking a call on listing of the matter.

While the CBI is investigating corruption allegations against the Congress leader, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is inquiring into money laundering allegations in the case.

when he was the country’s Finance Minister.

The Delhi High Court had said on Monday that there is no chance of Mr Chidambaram tampering evidence. “But since the investigation is at an advanced stage and Chidambaram being an influential person, the possibility of influencing witnesses could not be ruled out,” the court had said.

Four potentially hazardous asteroids flew past the Earth barely hours after being spotted

As many as four dangerous asteroids went beyond the Earth on Tuesday. Three out of four of these astronomical rocks were hardly found a few hours before rushing past the Earth-Moon system, a media organization reported. One asteroid called 2019 SM8 was witnessed by space researchers at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona on Monday, which traveled by our planet moments later, according to NASA.

The asteroid 2019 SM8 at its most intimate was approximately 99,000 miles away from our planet, which is less than half of the average range between the Moon and our planet, a findings by Space.com stated. According to NASA’s assessment, this odd asteroid was about 16 feet in diameter, which is roughly the size of an SUV.

About an hour later, another asteroid was found, however, this astronomical rock named asteroid 2019 SE8 escaped from a little distance. This odd asteroid flew from a range of nearly 674,000 miles from the Earth and therefore did not determine to be a threat. In terms of dimension, this asteroid was approximately bigger than the earlier one. It was supposed to be around 47 feet in size.

though none of these asteroids had enough possibility of operating our planet, however, these stones are organized by NASA as potentially dangerous asteroids as they pretend a warning in their planned course when their orbits bisect that of our planet.

Four potentially hazardous asteroids flew past the Earth barely hours after being spotted

In history, some essential space researchers and administrators have aimed out concerns regarding asteroids hitting the Earth. In August, Space X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had aimed out on Twitter that the Earth directly has no defense against ‘killer’ asteroids. Replying to a tweet regarding the asteroid Apophis — dubbed as the ‘God of Chaos’ that is required to scrape behind Earth in 2029, Musk showed out that there is, currently, no defense arrangement to preserve our planet.

Earlier to Musk, a well-known astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson had also reminded about the Apophis 99942 beating the Earth, producing a major tsunami that can clean out the whole west shore of North America.

Researchers have said that the asteroid which washed away dinosaurs is considered to have been equivalent to 10 billion atomic bombs that were handled in World War II. The influence of that large asteroid had triggered extensive tsunamis and let to wildfires that were thousands of miles away.

60-year-old building collapsed in Hyderabad, none hurt

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60-year-old building collapsed in Hyderabad, none hurt

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A two-storey building collapsed at Chaknawadi of Goshamahal No casualties have been reported as the people residing in it vacated it in the morning

A two-storey building out of one which is constructed 60 years ago was collapsed late on Wednesday at Goshamahal due to the incessant rainfall.

No casualties have been reported as the people residing on the ground floor vacated it in the morning. The first floor of the building touched to the ground after the ground floor collapsed around 7 pm. The residents of Chaknawadi said that construction work is being carried out at either side of the building which is said to have weakened the walls of the old building. The disaster response teams of GHMC rushed to the spot and said that the building will be razed completely today.

Rohit Equals Don Bradman’s Average With 4th Test Century

Rohit Sharma headlined the opening day of the first Test against South Africa with a stunning century in Vizag on Wednesday. With his first Test century as an opener and 4th overall, Rohit Sharma achieved an average of 98.22 in Tests in India.

In 15 innings, Rohit has scored 884 runs, including four hundreds and five fifties. Interestingly, Rohit Sharma’s average is the joint-best among all batsmen with 10-plus innings, sharing the top spot with none other than the legendary Don Bradman, who also averaged 98.22 at home in 50 innings.

Moreover, Rohit Sharma joined Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul and Prithvi Shaw to become the 4th Indian to score a century when opening for the first time in Tests.

Rohit Sharma also became the first Indian to score a century each, across formats, as an opener.

Rohit Sharma is now the seventh batsman in the world to score a century in Tests, ODIs and T20Is as an opener, after Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Martin Guptill, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Ahmed Shehzad, Shane Watson, and Tamim Iqbal.

“I believe it suits my play,” the centurion answered after rain forced early stumps on Day 1 in Vizag.

“Simply wear the pads and run in to bat. I don’t wish the waiting play,” he added.

“You understand the bowlers who are bowling with the new ball, so the game plan is more comfortable for you… At No. 6, the ball is reversing, field position is complex and you need to keep all those elements in mind,” Rohit Sharma said.

As far as the test match is regarded, Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat against South Africa. Rohit Sharma (115*) and Mayank Agarwal (84*) took the hosts to 202/0 at stumps on Day 1.