Instagram on Tuesday added more weapons to battle cyber-bullying, using artificial intelligence to scan photos for abusive content at the Facebook-owned service. The move comes after Facebook also increased anti-harassment measures, following a survey which said young victims of online abuse feel social media firms aren’t doing enough to fight …

Inflatable sculpture takes over rusting warehouse in U.S. A giant sea monster has taken over a building at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, but only temporarily. The inflatable sculpture titled “Sea Monsters HERE” is at a rusting warehouse called Building 611. It features huge purple tentacles bursting out of windows and reaching …

Musician Nathan Meltzer plays instrument owned by Roman Totenberg The Stradivarius stolen from the late violinist Roman Totenberg and miraculously found more than three decades later has a new life under the chin of a budding 18-year-old virtuoso. On Tuesday in New York, his three daughters presented the multimillion-dollar instrument …

Land Management Agency to dispose assets, says Centre The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the closure of National Jute Manufactures Corporation and its subsidiary Birds Jute & Exports Ltd. “Disposal of fixed assets as well as current assets will be in accordance with the guidelines of DPE dated June 14, 2018 …

Centre appoints Sachin Chaturvedi and Revathy Iyer The government has appointed Sachin Chaturvedi, who heads Delhi-based think tank Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), in place of Nachiket Mor on the central board of the Reserve Bank of India. Revathy Iyer, a former Indian Audit and Accounts Services …

Axis, Yes Bank and Kotak Mahindra among top gainers in the Sensex pack In a relief rally of sorts, benchmark equity indices gained more than 1% on Wednesday, a day after the State Bank of India (SBI) said that it would provide liquidity support to non banking financial companies (NBFCs). …

Focus on easy-to-implement schemes The government on Wednesday released a draft National Electronics Policy under which it is targeting a turnover of $400 billion for the electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) sector. “This shall include targeted production of one billion mobile handsets by 2025, valued at $190 billion (approx. …

‘Central bank has wherewithal to make any intervention’ The current rupee exchange rate situation is different from past instances when the rupee depreciated, since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), this time, has the wherewithal to make any intervention as and when it wants to, former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan …

Association tells govt. to stop prioritising supply to power plants, says others deprived of raw material The Aluminium Association of India (AAI) has written to the government asking it to stop prioritising coal supply to power plants. The exclusion of other industries that required coal was depriving them of the …

While LIC has a direct stake in more than 300 listed companies – with a stake of at least 1% or more – there are at least 24 entities in which it has a stake of over 10%, as per the shareholding data available on the BSE. Most of these …

Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Wednesday passed legislation to pay compensation to victims of the island’s brutal civil war, nearly a decade after the end of the conflict which claimed 1,00,000 lives. The legislature voted 59-43 to approve a broad reparations Bill, which seeks to establish an independent office that will …

Calls for ‘vocational education centres to reform extremists’ Anti-terror efforts in the controversial “reeducation centres” in China’s Xinjiang region will be governed by new standardised rules, as international criticism mounts over the detention of as many as one million in the restive far west. The revised rules, passed on Tuesday, …

PPM says the election was rigged and it has received ‘numerous complaints’ from supporters Maldives’ outgoing President Abdulla Yameen has challenged his recent election defeat, with his Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) on Wednesday filing a legal petition claiming the September 23 presidential election was rigged. According to local media …

Aimed at reducing the rapidly growing human-elephant conflict in areas of Chhattisgarh, where nearly 20 human lives were lost because of attacks by a herd of 19 elephants, the State Forest Department in collaboration with Wildlife SOS has radio-collared a wild elephant to help create an early warning system and …

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that no policemen should enter Puri’s Jagannath temple armed with weapons and wearing shoes. The direction comes on the heels of the October 3 violence near the temple. Source  :  https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/no-weapons-shoes-inside-puri-temple-sc/article25185572.ece

Union Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister, Uma Bharti, on Wednesday likened the government’s initiative to mandate a minimum flow for the Ganga as a “MeToo moment” for Indian rivers. “All rivers in India would say ‘MeToo’ and would want that such standards be imposed for them [to restore their health] …

Almost after a year since the vacancy arose, the Narendra Modi government on Wednesday appointed senior advocate and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta as Solicitor General of India, a key legal position to represent the State or Central governments in courtroom proceedings. His appointment notification was issued by the Department …

Warnings have been issued to fishermen to not venture out into the sea and citizens have been told to stock adequate food, essential items and fuel supplies. Schools and colleges have been ordered shut. Rescue measures “The National Disaster Response Force has deployed 14 teams in Orissa, 4 teams in …

Seek quashing of amendment, circular Retirees and employees who are members of the Employees Pension Scheme, 1995 have filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the Centre and the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), which administers the scheme. They are demanding the quashing of a 2014 amendment and …

‘U.S. is trying to sow discord between the two nations’ China has asked India to counter jointly the growing threat of trade protectionism championed by U.S. President Donald Trump. A statement issued by the Embassy of China in India said that attempts were being made to sow discord between China …