Rahul picks Wayanad as second Lok Sabha seat, Left promises to defeat him

The Congress strategy in fielding Gandhi from Wayanad is to galvanise its workers and support base in southern India

Elections 2019: The Congress on Sunday confirmed their party chief Rahul Gandhi, in addition to Amethi in UP, would contest from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala. The news enthused Congress workers in Kerala, who burst crackers and distributed sweets. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah said Gandhi is running away as he could lose from Amethi. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Prakash Karat said the Left parties would work to defeat the Congress chief.

The Congress strategy in fielding Gandhi from Wayanad is to galvanise its workers and support base in southern India. It is also consistent with its efforts to both maximise its seats, or put up a good fight even in tough battlegrounds, as Congress hopes to recover from the abysmal 44 seats it won in the 2014 polls.

As part of this strategy, senior leaders are contesting key seats. Digvijaya Singh is contesting from Bhopal and there is speculation that Ahmed Patel could contest from Bharuch in Gujarat and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra against Narendra Modi in Varanasi.

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In Kerala, Congress leaders such as Ramesh Chennithala have taken to term the Wayanad move as a “twenty-twenty” match, or a clean sweep for the party in all of Kerala’s 20 Lok Sabha seats.

The Left parties, which until now argued for “pooling of all anti-BJP votes”, are disappointed. The Congress and Left pre-poll seat adjustment has failed in West Bengal. The Left’s chances of winning more than a couple of seats in Bengal are slim, and with minorities in Kerala likely to turn to Congress, the Left Democratic Front could struggle in its last bastion….

PSLV-C45 lifts off with EMISAT, 28 foreign satellites

PSLV-C45 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota carrying EMISAT and 28 customer satellites on board

Current Affairs: India’s latest observation satellite EMISAT took off smoothly on Monday morning with Isro placing payloads in three orbits and conducting space experiments for the first time.

The launch vehicle PSLV-C45 blasted off from the Isro spaceport, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota at 09:27 am today. The rocket is carrying an electronic intelligence satellite Emisat for the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and 28 third-party satellites. This is the first mission of the PSLV in which its PSLV-QL variant (4 XL Strap-on motors) is being flown. The mission marks several firsts to the credit of the space agency as it would manoeuvre satellites in various orbits and orbital experiments including on maritime satellite applications.

The primary satellite in the rocket is EMISAT, a satellite based on Isro’s Indian Mini Satellite -2 (IMS-2) bus platform. It is an electronic intelligence satellite for DRDO. The mission would witness the Isro placing payloads three orbits and conducting space experiments.

The principal “first-time” innovation this time is the multiple orbits involved in the mission. The main satellite EMISAT and the 28 customer satellites will be ed into two different orbits, and later, the fourth stage engine of the rocket will be taken to a third orbit in space. A new variant of the rocket PSLV-QL equipped with four Strap-On motors in the first stage is used for the launch.

This is the 47th mission for Isro’s PSLV programme.

So after injecting the 436 kg primary satellite EMISAT, intended for electromagnetic spectrum measurement, at around 17 minutes from lift off in a 749 km orbit, they would restart the fourth stage again. During this initiative, all the other 28 customer satellites would be released by lowering the fourth state to around 504 kms orbit. Again, the fourth stage would be reignited and further lowered to 485 kms orbit to serve as an orbital platform for carrying out space borne experimentations for the first time in Isro’s history…

Not linked your PAN with Aadhaar yet?Here’s how you link both the cards

This is the sixth time the government has extended the deadline for individuals to link their Permanent Account Number (PAN) to Aadhaar.

The government Sunday extended the deadline for linking PAN with biometric ID Aadhaar by 6 months till September 30, an official statement said. This is the sixth time the government has extended the deadline for individuals to link their Permanent Account Number (PAN) to Aadhaar. You will not be able to file income tax returns if you fail to link Aadhaar and PAN.There are several ways to link Aadhaar with PAN, both online and offline.

There are several ways to link Aadhaar with PAN, both online and offline.

Here’s how to do it: 

Through SMS facility:

Send SMS to 567678 or 56161 in the following format:

UIDPAN<SPACE><12 digit Aadhaar><Space><10 digit PAN>

Example:

UIDPAN 111133333321 AAAAAEEEEE

Through online:

If you have an account at the Income Tax department’s e-filing portal, you can simply login at portal.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. Go to profile settings — you will see an option of linking your Aadhaar with PAN.

Fill in your Aadhaar details and click on submit

After filling your Aadhaar details and verifying the same, you will get a message saying the status of your request will be sent to your registered mobile number and e-mail ID…

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LS polls 2019: We’ve taken measures to set up chowkidar in space, says Modi

Modi came down heavily on opposition parties who he said ‘belittled’ the space achievement

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his government had taken measures to set up a ‘chowkidar’ in space and asked people to vote for a government that can take concrete decisions and not just raise slogans.

Launching his campaign in eastern India with a rally in Jeypore area of Odisha’s Koraput district, the prime minister said the NDA government wouldn’t have been able to do any development work in the country without the support of the people. He sought blessings from his supporters for the 2019 lok Sabha elections and asserted that the NDA government has left no stone unturned to bring about development in the state.

“The NDA government has been working hard to develop road and rail infrastructure in the state. There is no dearth of funds when it comes to development work in the country. “In the last five years, the government has been able to build homes for eight lakh families, light up 3,000 houses and provide gas connections to 40 lakh homes,” Modi stated.

Referring to Mission Shakti, when India demonstrated anti-satellite (ASAT) missile capability by shooting down a live satellite, he said the government has taken measures to set up a ‘chowkidar’ (watchman ) in space. He came down heavily on opposition parties who he said “belittled” the space achievement. “Those that are criticising the anti-satellite technology will be given a befitting reply in the elections,” he claimed, urging people to vote for a government that can take concrete decisions, not the one that only raises slogans.

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Rail Vikas Nigam IPO opens today: Why analysts suggest subscribing to it

RVNL, which is a project executing agency working for and behalf on Ministry of Railways, has an order book of Rs 77,500 crore.

Markets News: The Rs 482 crore initial public offering (IPO) of state-run Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL) will open on Friday and close on April 3. The price band has been fixed at Rs 17 – Rs 19 per share. The issue is entirely an offer for sale (OFS) of 25.35 crore shares (12.2 per cent of post-dilution equity) by Government of India. Of the total issue, 0.3 per cent, or 6,57,280 shares, are reserved for the employees of RVNL. Retail investors and employees will be offered a discount of Rs 0.5/share.

SHOULD YOU SUBSCRIBE?

Most analysts have assigned ‘subscribe’ rating to the IPO, given its robust executable order book, growth prospects, government focus on rail infrastructure spend and attractive valuation.

In the recent past, two Indian Railway entities – IRCON International (IRCON) and RITES (RITES) – debuted at the bourses. Of these, only RITES is trading above the IPO price, while the former is trading at 16 per cent discount (as of Thursday’s close) to the IPO price.

“RITES predominantly is a consulting arm of Indian Railways, while IRCON is normally into project execution and can execute projects across the spectrum. Though both IRCON and RITES are not perfect peers to RVNL but can be considered as proxy peers as they majorly cater to Indian Railways,” wrote analysts at Choice Research in the IPO note…

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Google gives Mumbai lad Abdullah Khan Rs 1.2 crore job

21-year-old engineering student from Mumbai, Abdullah Khan was spotted by Google on a website that hosts online programming challenges

If you thought landing a job at top global companies like Google, Facebook was only possible through IITs or IIMs in India, the story of this 21-year-old Mumbai youth will make you rethink. A final year engineering student of Shree LR Tiwari Engineering College, Abdullah Khan has been hired by Google at a package of Rs 1.2 crore per year, according to a report in the Times of India. Khan will join Google’s site reliability engineering team in September.

The student, the report says, was spotted by the tech giant on a website that hosts online programming challenges. Khan then had to go through a few rounds of online interviews and a final screening at Google’s office in London.

The offer took Khan by surprise as he had not expected any such thing while participating in competitions on that site. “I used to participate as it was fun. I did not even know that firms check programmers’ profiles on such sites,” he told TOI. Apart from Rs 54.5 lakh base salary, the six-figure package includes 15 per cent bonus and stock options worth Rs 58.9 lakh over four years.

In 2018 a few engineering students from India landed jobs at Google with staggering pay packages. Aditya Paliwal, then a student of integrated MTech at International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B), had received a job at Google’s Artificial Intelligence research wing with a pay package of Rs 1.2 crore per annum. IIT-Hyderabad student K Sneha Reddy had also landed a job at Google with a similar pay package.

Perfect disrupter: Rahul’s’ basic income promise may spell bad news for BJP

Even if 4-5 per cent of voters go in favour of the Congress, it will be a big disaster for the BJP, say experts

The fundamental resistance Congress gathering’s guarantee to give sizable money presents to India’s least fortunate families whenever casted a ballot to influence could re-stimulate its battle to expel Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the general decision beginning in about fourteen days.

Modi’s decision Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has held the preferred standpoint in the run-up to the race, helped by a rush of patriotism after military conflicts with old opponent Pakistan a month ago. Surveyors state Congress may have pegged back a portion of that advantage with its declaration, however it was uncertain to what degree.

Bhawesh Jha, originator of CNX, one of India’s biggest surveying organizations, assessed that numerous voters in generally poor and crowded states including Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh – where Congress won power in nearby decisions toward the end of last year – could be influenced by the gifts.

“Regardless of whether 4-5 percent of voters go for the Congress, it will be a major debacle for the BJP,” Jha told Reuters, including that it would especially help Congress where it is in an immediate challenge with the decision party. “I figure this could be a distinct advantage.”

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Mission Shakti: India’s anti-satellite test sends a stark message to China

Foreign ministry said that India wasn’t engaging in an arms race, but asserted that “with this test, India joins an exclusive group of space-faring nations consisting of USA, Russia and China

One month after an ageing Indian Air Force jet was shot down in a dogfight with neighboring Pakistan, New Delhi has demneighbouring new weapons capability aimed at another, more powerful geopolitical rival: China.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used a national address to announce India had “established itself as a space power” by sending an indigenously designed ballistic-missile interceptor up 300 kilometers (190 miles) to destroy a satellite orbiting the Earth. The move — with political overtones just weeks ahead of a national election — sends a stark message to India’s nuclear-armed rivals, China and Pakistan, and changes Asia’s strategic calculus by proving India has the ability to knock out enemy satellites.

The development suggests India, which has long struggled with a lethargic military-procurement process and outdated defense technology, is getting closer to sitting alongside China, Russia and the U.S. as countries with the ability to disrupt enemy communications networks. The move comes weeks after India sparred with arch-foe Pakistan in the skies over Kashmir, a disputed border region where China also has territorial claims.

“Essentially, India is saying that we are a strong and capable military power — it’s not specific to any one country, but it is a message to all of India’s adversaries,” said Ajey Lele, a retired Indian Air Force group captain who’s now a senior fellow at the Ministry of Defence-funded Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. “If somebody wants to do something to our satellites, we have the capability to do this to your satellites…

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Nyay scheme will ‘remonetise’ what Modi ‘demonetised’, says Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi said the ‘Nyay’ scheme has the twin objectives of giving money to the 20 per cent poorest families in India and remonetising the economy “damaged” by demonetisation

Lok sabha elections 2019: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on thursday said the ‘Nyay’ scheme can remonetise what Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetised and declared that his party’s anti-poverty programme has thrown the BJP into total disarray In an exclusive interview to PTI before the seventeenth election starting Apr eleven, Gandhi said the ‘Nyay’ scheme has the dual objectives of giving cash to the twenty per cent poorest families in india and remonetising the economy “damaged” by demonetisation.

“What the PM has done over the past 5 years is to get rid of all cash from the economy with unsuccessful policies like conclusion and a poorly dead Gabbar Singh Tax (GST). Informal sectors are badly hit.”

“The aim of the ‘Nyay’ scheme is two-fold. 1st is to ensure a minimum income to the bottom 20 per cent families. The second is to remonetise the economy that has been demonetised by Modiji,” Gandhi said.

“There is another side to line the theme ‘Nyay’. Why have we have a tendency to chosen to decision this theme ‘Justice’? because over the last 5 years, man Narendra Modi has simply snatched from the poor and given nothing back…

Huawei P30 Pro unveiled: Key things to know about ‘best camera smartphone’

Huawei P30 Pro is organization’s first cell phone to flaunt a periscope zooming focal point fit for 5x optical zoom, 10x half and half zoom and up to 50x computerized zoom

Technology News: Chinese cell phone producer Huawei on March 26 declared the P30-arrangement cell phones in a worldwide divulging occasion from Paris. The arrangement incorporates two gadgets – the Huawei P30 Pro and the Huawei P30 – both flaunting OLED screen, triple camera module on the back (barring time-of-flight 3D sensor in the P30 Pro), and in-show unique mark sensor.

Taking forward the imaging capacities that the P-arrangement represents, the premium P30 Pro has been appraised the best camera cell phone with a general score of 112 by camera benchmark organization DxOMark.

Huawei P30 Pro camera specifications and features

The P30 Pro is Huawei’s first to flaunt a periscope zooming focal point fit for 5x optical zoom, 10x half and half zoom and up to 50x advanced zoom. The telephone flaunts a 40-megapixel essential sensor of f/1.6 opening on the back, mated with a 20MP ultra-wide point focal point, 8MP zooming focal point, and a ToF sensor for 3D mapping. The telephone’s essential sensor and the zooming focal point are upheld by optical picture adjustment and the back camera module underpins computerized reasoning based adjustment for without shake photography and videography. On the front, the telephone has a 32MP selfie camera of f/2.0 opening….

Huawei P30 camera specifications

The Huawei P30 rear camera, on the other hand, has a 40MP primary sensor of f/1.8 aperture, 8MP telephoto lens capable of 3x optical zoom, and a 16MP ultra-wide lens of f/2.2 aperture. It also has a 32MP selfie camera of f/2.0 aperture on the front…

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Rahul’s income plan for poor may cost more than Budget 2019’s subsidy bill

Congress’ proposed minimum income guarantee scheme will reportedly require Rs 3.5 trillion at its peak

If fully implemented, Rahul Gandhi’s proposed minimum income guarantee scheme, or NYAY, would cost more than Interim Budget 2019’s total subsidy expenditure of Rs 3.34 trillion. Its envisaged annual outlay, at a reported Rs 3.5 trillion, would amount to about 1.7 per cent of the Budget’s estimated GDP for 2019-2020 at Rs 210.07 trillion — or about half of the fiscal deficit for 2019-2020 at 3.4 per cent of GDP.

Congress President Gandhi on Monday said that if his party were to come to power at the Centre, it would provide a minimum income of Rs 6,000 per month to 20 per cent poorest households.(Economy News)

At its peak, the cost of the Congress’ proposed scheme would be nearly six times the 2019-2020 Budget Estimates for the outlay on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (MGNREGA) at Rs 60,000 crore. In January 2019, the government made an additional allocation of over Rs 6,000 crore to MGNREGA, taking the total allocation to Rs 61,084 crore, which was highest ever in a financial year. Congress reportedly intends to continue MGNREGA even if the minimum income plan is implemented.

It would also amount to over 4.5 times the cost of the Rs 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme. Under the latter, Rs 6,000 per year would be disbursed in three instalments to around 125 million small and marginal farmers who hold cultivable land of up to two hectares.

India successfully tests ASAT missile, joins space superpower club

The tracking and interception capabilities that went into Mission Shakti have been available with the DRDO for over a decade

Current Affairs: On Wednesday morning, 300 kilometers over the Odisha coast, a ballistic rocket guard interceptor created by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) struck a satellite in a low earth circle, crushing it into pieces. Head administrator Narendra Modi declared the accomplishment of the test, codenamed Mission Shakti, on TV and Twitter. Proclaiming that “there can’t be a more prominent snapshot of pride for any Indian”, he stated: “In the voyage of each country, there are minutes that bring most extreme pride and historically affect ages to come. One such minute is today. India has effectively tried the counter satellite (ASAT) rocket.”

The Prime Minister said India had enrolled its name among the space superpowers. “Up until this point, just three nations were in this club – America, Russia and China. Presently India has turned into the fourth nation to build up this capacity,” he said.

The following and capture attempt abilities that went into Mission Shakti have been accessible with the DRDO for over 10 years. It started building up these after China’s fruitful ASAT test in 2007. On March 18, 2008, at that point DRDO boss, Dr VK Saraswat (presently a NITI Aayog part), had informed the media in New Delhi that blocking an approaching rocket terminated from 2,000 kilometers away required a similar innovation required for shooting down a satellite. Asserting that the DRDO effectively had that capacity in 2008, Saraswat had stated: “We have worked, starting at now, ABM (ballistic missile destroying rocket) frameworks with interceptors to draw in 2,000 kilometer-class of targets.”

I-T, CRPF personnel carry out raids at Karnataka minister Puttaraju’s house

‘I’m not stopped by the assaults, which are race related. I might want to know which BJP pioneer’s home in Karnataka has been struck,’ Puttaraju, who is in-control pastor of Mandya locale, said

Current Affairs: In a pre-dawn swoop Thursday, Income Tax officials along with CRPF personnel carried out raids at the residences of Karnataka Minor Irrigation Minister C S Puttaraju and his nephew.

Speaking to a private news channel, JD(S) leader Puttaraju said three teams of Income Tax officials and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel carried out raids at his Chinnakurli residence in Mandya and his nephew’s house in Mysuru.

The development came a day after, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy raised fears about possible raids on Congress and JD(S) functionaries in the state. He had claimed that CRPF personnel were brought from various parts of the country to carry out the raids in the state.

Raids on Congress and JD(S) leaders can take place early Thursday morning using CRPF jawans instead of taking the help of the Karnataka Police in order to maintain secrecy, Kumaraswamy had claimed on Wednesday.

“Three teams of I-T officials and CRPF soldiers comprising eight soldiers carried out raids at my Chinnakurli residence in Mandya and my nephew’s residence in Mysuru,” Puttaraju told the channel.

The minister said he was not afraid of the raids and instead, it had instilled confidence in him.”I’m not deterred by the raids, which are election-related. I would like to know which BJP leader’s house in Karnataka has been raided,”

Puttaraju, who is in-charge minister of Mandya district, said. The JD(S) has assigned him to oversee the electioneering of HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy, who is fighting his maiden election from the Mandya Lok Sabha seat…

How A-SAT can destroy enemy’s ability to use space technology against India

This capacity will deny any enemy, the utilization of satellites and other space-creates, as a stage for any hostile tasks against India

Current Affairs: India on Wednesday advanced into a tip top club of “room super powers” as its enemy of satellite rocket A-SAT shot down a live satellite on a low earth circle, at a separation of 30 km, in only three minutes. So far just three nations – the US, Russia and China – had this innovation.

‘Mission Shakti’ is an achievement in innovation and the nation has exhibited its ability to prohibit and capture a satellite in space dependent on indigenous innovation, said specialists. An External Affairs Ministry proclamation said the objective satellite was one of India’s current satellites working in lower circle.

“The test was completely effective and accomplished all parameters according to plans. The test required a very high level of exactness and specialized ability. The centrality of the test is that India has tried and effectively shown its ability to prohibit and catch a satellite in space dependent on total indigenous innovation,” it said. “The capacity accomplished through the A-SAT test gives solid discouragement against dangers to our developing space-based resources from long range rockets, and multiplication in the sorts and quantities of rockets,” it said.

In a meeting, previous Isro Chairman, G Madhavan Nair said that China, USA and Russia have effectively exhibited their ability. India has directed the satellite test with all security insurances. “This is a leap forward in innovation,” he included…

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IPL 2019 Match 5 highlights: CSK beat DC by 6 wickets in last-over thriller

Shikhar Dhawan scored 50 years to take DC to 147 for 6 on a dead Kotla track, for CSK, Watson and Raina answered with animosity and Dhoni dealt with the rest with Jadhav

In Match 5 of VIVO Indian Premier League 2019 (IPL 2019), Chennai Super Kings (CSK) beat Delhi Capitals (DC) by 6 wickets in a last over spine chiller at Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Tuesday. In the last over when CSK required 2 runs, Kasigo Rabada bowled splendidly as he took the wicket of Kedar Jadhav off the principal ball while bowled two progressive DOT balls to Dwayne Bravo before the batsman hit the triumphant keep running with two balls to save.

IPL 2019, Match 5: DC vs CSK Highlights

Prior, Shikhar Dhawan scored a meticulous 50 years in Delhi Capitals’ shoddy 147 for 6 against Chennai Super Kings on a dormant Kotla track in an IPL experience here Tuesday.

The senior opener indeed assumed the job of sheet stay in his 51 off 47 balls that had seven limits however sadly neglected to quicken amid the last overs. This left the home group no less than 30 runs shy of a battling score.

From an agreeable 120 for 2 with the hazardous Rishabh Pant at the wrinkle, CSK caught the energy, affecting a center request breakdown. Capitals lost four wickets for seven keeps running in simply 1.5 overs. From 118 for 2 after 15 overs, the last five overs yielded just 29 runs.

With the ball ceasing and coming, Capitals batsmen discovered Dwayne Bravo’s (3/33 of every 4 overs) varieties hard to deal with. Ravindra Jadeja (1/23 of every 4 overs) additionally made life troublesome for the Capitals in the center overs and Harbhajan Singh (0/30 out of 4 overs) likewise bowled upwards of 10 spot balls…

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Modi’s address Mission Shakti updates: India successfully tests anti-satellite weapon

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter that he would address the nation around noon and make a very important announcement. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the address

Head administrator Narendra Modi on Wednesday reported that India had shown hostile to satellite rocket ability by shooting down a live satellite. Tending to the country, the head administrator said India’s activity was not coordinated against any nation.

Shooting down a low earth circle satellite is an uncommon accomplishment for the nation, he said. The satellite was circling at a height of 300 km, he stated, portraying India as a space control.

Mission Shakti, which was driven by the Defense Research and Development Organization, was gone for reinforcing India’s general security, he said PM Modi said “India joins USA, Russia and China with the ability to hit Low Earth Orbit satellite with an A-SAT rocket”. Modi said India’s rationale in being a space control was to spread the message of harmony, not war.

Modi said Mission Shakti is exceptional for 2 reasons:

(1) India is just the fourth nation to gain such a specific and current capacity.

(2) The whole exertion is indigenous.

The leader had publicized his location to the country on Twitter, considering it an essential message.”Do watch the location on TV, radio or internet based life,” he stated, setting off theory the nation over on what the theme was probably going to be.

Nitin Gadkari congratulates scientists for carrying out ‘Mission Shakti’

Nitin Gadkari: Congratulations to all the scientists for carrying out “Mission Shakti” successfully. India is moving fast towards becoming a world leader, and under PM Modi’s leadership, it is on its way to not only become a ‘super economic power’, but also a ‘super science power’.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Here’s how to change the address in Voter Id card

Need to change your address on your Voter ID card? Here’s your guide to doing it to be able to vote for your favourite candidate/party in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2019 and future elections

Is it true that you are stressed over not having the capacity to cast a ballot in Lok Sabha races 2019 in light of the fact that you are progressing? Indeed, you’re not alone. India’s 900 million voters are relied upon to partake on the planet’s greatest vote based exercise, at the same time, as indicated by an examination distributed by Business Standard, in spite of a mammoth number of voters, India is behind a few nations with regards to the quantity of individuals swinging up to cast a ballot.

India had a record voter turnout of 66.4 percent in 2014. This is still lower than the worldwide middle of 68.03 percent. There could be numerous purposes behind this. One of the reasons for the ‘lost vote’ is that many enlisted voters are progressing or have migrated looking for occupations….

Follow these steps to change the address in your voter id card and you will be able to vote for your favourite candidate/party in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2019and future elections:

Step 1: Visit National Voters’ Service Portal – http://www.nvsp.in

Step 2: Select the option to fill form 6. You will get two options here:

“I request that my name be included in the electoral roll for the above Constituency” –
a. As a first-time voter

b. due to shifting from another constituency

Fill in the state, district and constituency you want to vote from.

Step 3: Fill in all the mandatory details like name, address, phone number, date of birth, etc.

You need to upload a passport size photo, age and address proof document. (List of supported documents will be provided on NVSP website.)

Boeing 737 MAX: What we know of Indonesia crash and what comes next

Investigators looking to uncover the causes must answer one of the biggest questions: Was the plane’s software to blame?

More than 300 Boeing 737 MAX jets have been grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes in the past five months in Ethiopia and Indonesia killed nearly 350 people. Investigators looking to uncover the causes must answer one of the biggest questions: Was the plane’s software to blame?

WHAT WE KNOW

– Boeing has stopped delivery of all new MAX jets. Its shares have fallen 12 percent since the Ethiopian Airlines crash, wiping $28 billion from its market value.

– Boeing maintains its new, fuel-efficient jets are safe, but supported the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decision to ground them.

– Europe and Canada said they would independently certify the safety of the jets, further complicating plans to get the aircraft flying.

– Boeing will mandate on MAX jets a previously optional cockpit warning light, which might have warned of problems that possibly played a role in the recent crashes of Ethiopian and Indonesian planes, sources said.

– Indonesia’s flag carrier Garuda said on Friday it sent a letter to Boeing asking to cancel an order for 49 MAX 8 aircraft, becoming the first airline to confirm plans to cancel an order after the crashes.

– Investigators have found similarities in the ‘angle of attack’ data from both flights. A piece of a stabilizer in the wreckage of the Ethiopian jet with the trim set in an unusual position was similar to that of the Lion Air plane, sources said.

– Investigators who verified data from the black box recorders of the Ethiopian plane have found ‘clear similarities’ with the doomed Lion Air flight, French air accident authority BEA has also said…

Lok Sabha elections: Bankers cold to Modi’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign

This is out of the blue that the IBA has proposed execution connected pay for specific evaluations in PSBs

Executive Narendra Modi, in an ongoing tweet, had encouraged specialists, legal advisors, engineers, instructors, IT experts and brokers to join the Main Bhi Chowkidar crusade. Not every person has slurped up the thought.

The All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC), the biggest association of open part bank (PSB) officers, in a letter to the Prime Minister, has said the legislature ought not anticipate that the financial crew should “join the political battle of #MainBhiChowkidar“ except if issues identified with merger of banks, compensation modification and staff enrollment, among others, are tended to. A duplicate to the letter has been sent to the division of money related administrations (DFS) and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). AIBOC involves around 320,000 officers in PSBs, speaking to around 85 percent of the officers in the banks.

“Without tending to the certified issues of one million bank officers and representatives, alongside the whole financial crew, for which they are bothered against the strategies of your administration, you can’t expect the cooperation of the financial brotherhood to join your political crusade of #MainBhiChowkidar,” the letter said.

One of the issues with financiers is the stern resistance to the merger of Vijaya Bank, Dena Bank and Bank of Baroda. AIBOC has just documented a writ appeal against the amalgamation in Delhi High Court. Another sore point is identified with the bipartite settlement for compensation dealings. The IBA had proposed to connect pay rates of more elevated amount officials (grades six and seven) with the exhibitions of banks, which the officers have contradicted….

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IAF inducts Chinook helicopters as US muscles into Russia’s copter monopoly

Chinook, already 50 years old, will be over 100 when it retires in 2060s

Latest News: The Indian Air Force’s (IAF’s) first four Chinook CH-47F helicopters that Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa inducted into the fleet on Monday will swell within a year to a fleet size of 15 choppers.

Senior IAF officers say that this $1.5-billion purchase from US firm Boeing, which was signed in September 2015, will almost certainly be followed by an additional order. Given the Chinook’s utility, both in war and in disaster relief missions in peacetime, more of these helicopters are needed for a country India’s size.

The Chinook Helicopter replaces the Russian Mi-26 in the heavy lift class – the first helicopter category in which America has supplanted Russia’s dominance in India. Later this year, with the induction of Boeing’s Apache AH-64E attack helicopters, Russian Mi-35s will start being retired. Then, if the Sikorsky MH-60 Romeo is chosen as expected as the Navy’s new multi-role helicopter (NMRH), Russia’s Kamov-28s and Kamov-31s will be shut out from a third category.

The Chinook, with its distinctive double rotor, one at each end of the helicopter, is arguably the world’s most recognisable helicopter. It is one of Boeing’s biggest winners, with almost 19 countries flying 900 Chinooks, more than half of those by the US military…

China destroys 30,000 world maps for showing Arunachal as part of India

China guarantees the north-eastern Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh as a feature of South Tibet

Current Affairs: Traditions authorities in China have annihilated 30,000 world maps imprinted in the nation for not referencing Arunachal Pradesh and Taiwan as a major aspect of its domain, as indicated by a media report.

China asserts the north-eastern Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh as a feature of South Tibet. China routinely articles to Indian pioneers visiting Arunachal Pradesh to feature its stand.

India says the State of Arunachal Pradesh is its fundamental and unavoidable part and Indian pioneers visit Arunachal Pradesh occasionally, as they visit different pieces of the nation. The two nations have so far held 21 rounds of converses with determination the fringe question covering 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC).

China likewise guarantees the irritated island of Taiwan as its part. The maps were intended for fare to an unspecified nation, state-run Global Times covered Tuesday.

Very nearly 30,000 “mistaken” world maps, appearing as a different nation and wrong delineation of the Sino-Indian fringe, were wrecked by the traditions experts in Qingdao, it said.

“What China did in the guide advertise was completely authentic and fundamental, since sway and regional honesty are the most essential things to a nation. Both Taiwan and South Tibet are portions of China’s region which is holy and sacred dependent on the worldwide law,” Liu Wenzong, teacher from the bureau of International Law of China Foreign Affairs University said.

Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress pioneers said NYAY gets its motivation from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and lady

Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base salary of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals. While the Narendra Modi government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the Congress has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless.

The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that visualized fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s pay to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s pay is underneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said a board of trustees of gathering pioneers, which included Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, had determined that the fundamental living pay every family needs to endure is Rs 12,000.

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Calling the plan “keep going assault on neediness”, Gandhi said the salary would be exchanged to the ledgers of ladies in every family. The plan would cover rustic also urban poor. The execution will be founded on pilot extends the gathering intends to take up in the initial two years of its legislature, and the plan is probably going to be propelled in the third year.

As indicated by gathering sources, NYAY, or Nyuntam Aay Yojana, could subsume a portion of the current plans, especially maturity benefits. In any case, they denied any designs to scrap its country work ensure plot. The gathering said the financial weight at Rs 3.5 trillion for each annum would be around 1.2 percent of the GDP of India.