September 2019

More documents

Recommendations

Info

20 September 2019 TECH www.theasianindependent.co.uk Did Vikram lose control and crash land on the moon? Chennai, Did India s first moon lander Vikram crash on to the lunar surface resulting in the sudden snapping of the communication link with the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter? All was going well with the 1,471 kg Vikram that began its descent at about 1.38 a.m. on Saturday from an altitude of 30 km at a velocity of 1,680 metres per second. Announcing the snapping of communication links, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said that the performance of the lander was as per the plan till it was 2.1 km from the moon surface. The communication link got snapped after that, he added. In an official statement, the ISRO said: This is Mission Control Centre. Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance was observed up to an altitude of 2.1 km. Subsequently communication from lander to the ground stations was lost. Data is being analysed. On the screen at ISRO s telemetry, tracking and command network (Istrac) centre, it was seen that Vikram slightly How embryo develops at molecular level decoded Washington : Researchers in the US have created the first detailed map of the changes at the molecular level in cells that lead to embryonic development. The research, published in the journal Science, used the latest technology from the emerging field of single cell biology the study of all chemical processes happening at the cellular level to profile more than 80,000 cells in the embryo of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. "Over the past few years, new single cell genomics methods have revolutionised the study of animal development," said John I Murray from the University of Pennsylvania in the US. "Our study takes advantage of the fact that the C. elegans embryo has a very small number of cells produced by a known and completely reproducible pattern of cell divisions. Using single cell genomics methods, we were able to identify over 87 per cent of embryonic cells from gastrulation (when there are about 50 cells present) through the end of embryogenesis," he added. The worm hatches with only 558 cells in its body, and like every multicellular organism, each of its cells is derived from division from a single fertilized egg. changed from its planned path and then the communication link got snapped. The lander was smoothly coming down with the ISRO officials applauding at regular intervals and their faces beaming with pride. The lander successfully completed its rough braking phase with its descent speed going down well. So what went wrong at the last moment? According to an ISRO official, the lander could have lost its control when its thrusters were switched off during its descent and crash-landed snapping the communication links. Meanwhile all is not lost as far as the Rs 978 crore Berlin : Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei on Friday launched its latest Kirin 990 (5G) flagship chipset with an integrated 5G modem at the IFA 2019 here. Kirin 990 (5G) is the world s first 5G SoC, and it will enable end-users to access superb 5G connectivity experience one step ahead in the first year of 5G commercialization. To meet users requirements for enhanced 5G experiences in the 5G era, Kirin 990 (5G) has been fully upgraded in terms of performance and power efficiency, AI computing, and ISP, extending mobile phone experiences to a new level, Richard Yu, Huawei s consumer business CEO said in a statement. Kirin 990 (5G) is the first full-frequency 5G SoC to support both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) architectures as well as TDD/FDD full frequency bands, enabling it to accommodate hardware requirements under diverse networks and networking modes. It is the first flagship SoC that packs a dual-core NPU built on the Da Vinci architecture, which comprise large and tiny NPU cores. The large cores achieve Chandrayaan-2 mission is concerned. Only 5 per cent of the mission has been lost Vikram the lander and Pragyan the rover while the remaining 95 per cent that is the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is orbiting the moon successfully, an ISRO official told IANS who did not want to be identified. With a mission life of one year, the Orbiter can take several pictures of the moon and send it to the ISRO. The Orbiter can also take pictures of the lander to know its status, he added. The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft comprised three segments the Orbiter (weighing 2,379 kg, eight payloads), Vikram (1,471 kg, four payloads) and Pragyan (27 kg, two payloads). On July 22, the Rs 978 crore Chandrayaan-2 was launched into the space by India s heavy lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mk III) in a text book style. After five earth-bound orbit raising activities, Chandrayaan-2 was inserted into lunar orbit. On September 2, Vikram separated from the orbiter. Huawei announces Kirin 990 (5G) chip at IFA 2019 high performance and power efficiency in heavy computing scenarios, while the tiny core structure, first in the industry, empowers ultra-low power consumption applications, fully tapping into the intelligent computing power brought by the innovative NPU architecture. For gaming experiences, Kirin 990 (5G) supports an upgraded Kirin Gaming+ 2.0 that enables efficient collaboration between hardware infrastructure and solutions, offering industry-leading smooth and fast gaming experience. The Kirin 990 5G features better dualimage signal processor (DISP) for better photo-taking capabilities than on the Kirin 980. Compared to the Snapdragon 855, Huawei claims that the Kirin 990 5G offers a 10 per cent and 9 per cent single-core and multi-core performance advantage, The company has launched its new processor just a few days after South Korean tech giant Samsung launched a 5G chipset of its own, the Exynos 980. Indian-origin researcher finds 419mn Facebook users exposed data San Francisco : Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member at Hague-based non-profit organisation GDI Foundation, has discovered a massive database containing over 419 million phone numbers of Facebook users on an unsecured server which were available for anyone to access. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of UK users and more than 50 million records of users in Vietnam, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. According to Jain, he found profiles with phone numbers associated with several celebrities. Jain found the database and contacted TechCrunch after he was unable to find the owner. After a review of the data, neither could we. But after we contacted the web host, the database was pulled offline, said the report. This latest data breach exposed millions of users phone numbers just from their Facebook IDs, putting them at risk of spam calls and SIM-swapping or SIM jacking where a mobile number is transferred to a new SIM card. This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people s ability to find others using their phone numbers, a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Engadget. After the web host was contacted, the Facebook users database was pulled offline. Some of the records also had the user s name, gender and location by country. There have been several incidents after the Cambridge Analytica episode involving 87 million users where Facebook acknowledged series of privacy lapses, including the latest admission that it mishandled millions of users passwords on Instagram and unintentionally uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million of its new users. 26-foot-long dinosaur roamed the earth 72 million years ago, nearly complete skeleton found TOKYO : Japanese scientists have identified a new species of dinosaur from a nearly complete skeleton that was the largest ever discovered in the country, measuring eight metres (26 feet) long. After analysing hundreds of bones dating back 72 million years, the team led Hokkaido University concluded the skeleton once belonged to a new species of hadrosaurid dinosaur, herbivorous beast that roamed the Earth in the late Cretaceous period. A partial tail was first found in northern Japan in 2013 and later excavations revealed the entire skeleton. The team named the dinosaur "Kamuysaurus japonicus," which means "Japanese dragon god," according to a statement issued by the university. They believe the dinosaur was an adult aged nine years old and would have weighed either four tonnes or 5.3 tonnes depending on whether it walked on two legs or four. The discovery was published in British peer-reviewed journal "Scientific Reports". "The fact a new dinosaur was discovered in Japan means there was once an independent world of dinosaurs in Japan or in East Asia, and an independent evolution process," said team leader Yoshitsugu Kobayashi. Kamuysaurus japonicus probably lived in coastal areas, a rare habitat for dinosaurs at that time and the fossils also provide valuable insights into their environment. The research raises the possibility that some species of dinosaurs "preferred to inhabit areas near the ocean, suggesting the coastline environment was an important factor in the diversification" of the dinosaurs in their early evolution, the university said.
www.theasianindependent.co.uk NEWS September 2019 21 If alive today Dr Ambedkar would have been speaking for the rights of the people in Kashmir Quote and misquote related to Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar have become part of political discourse particularly since the abrogation of article 370 ( which is technically not correct as the article is not yet abrogated, special status is abrogated using the same article). Many people are quoting Baba Saheb in Kashmir as if he and Shayama Prasad Mukherjee, the leader of the Jan Sangh were on the same ideological wavelength. Baba Saheb Ambedkar wrote extensively on issues concerning us and his two work : Thought on Pakistan and Pakistan or partition of India, show him a great statesman, rising above the narrow confine of nationality and religion while dealing the issue of Hindu and Muslim in a very balanced way. These two books are often used by experts for selective quoting of Baba Saheb. The Sangh Parivar quotes him copiously on his views on Muslims and Islam while the others quote him when he speak about Hindutva or Hinduism. In this note, I wish to clarify that I dont want to quote him here again but certain facts about Dr Ambedkar must be kept in mind. The first and foremost of that was the interest and welfare of the Dalit community and ensuring its fair representation everywhere. In fact, we always discuss the subcontinental history from the binary of Hindu and Muslims, basically, Hindu upper castes and Muslim upper castes or landed peasantry. Why shouldn t the others issues be discussed. So Dr Ambedkar s concern those times were about the Dallit and ensuring their human rights and he articulated them at every opportunity. That made him put for the case of strong centre because he felt that If the laws have to implemented, it is Wolverhampton cash and carry boss banned for 8 years Boss of Wolverhampton cash and carry banned for eight years after consistently failing to provide evidence that excise duty owed on alcohol had been paid. Rajinder Singh Bains (46), of Wolverhampton, was appointed sole director of Midland Wines (UK) Ltd in June 2013. The company was a wholesaler of wine, food and tobacco, supplying retailers and members of the public. However, only a year later, Rajinder Bains caused the company to trade in a manner which led to the tax authorities suffering excise duty losses. Over an 18-month period between July 2014 and January 2016, HMRC assessed that Midland Wines owed almost £260,000 in excise duty. HMRC contacted Rajinder Bains about the essential that centre has to play the lead and guiding force as states might have their prejudices. I am not going to quote what Dr Ambedkar said about Kashmir because the portion being quoted from two important work, has his own concern. We may agree with them or disagree but my point is not with what he said but what he would have said today. Now, I want people to think for a moment. Leave aside, all ideological prejudices and think about Dr Ambedkar. Who he was and atleast people like me would always say, the greatest dissenter of independent India, the leader and statesman, a human rights icon for all of us. So, what would have Dr Ambedkar said today on excise duty rules and regulations, as well as the importance of verifying that excise duty had been paid on the goods he was handling, but he failed to take the correct action. Rajinder Bains resigned as a director in early January 2016 before the company entered Creditors Voluntary Liquidation at the end of that month. The appointed liquidators filed a report with the Insolvency Service highlighting the conduct of Rajinder Bains while he was director and the fact that the company had failed to pay the correct amount of tax. In August 2019, the Secretary of State By Vidya Bhushan Rawat social and human rights activist Kashmir ? Would he support suspension of people s political rights ? Would he support arrest of political leaders ? Would he support curtailment of dissenting voices which are nothing compare to what he has written and spoken which can still send shivers in the heart of the brahmanical elite and yet they are forced to chant his bhajans though they may not like his ideological dissent. It is sad that many people are suggesting today that Dr Ambedkar did not want 370 or autonomy of Kashmir. The question is not what happened in the Constitution Assembly debate.Dr accepted an 8-year disqualification undertaking from Rajinder Bains. Effective from 3 September 2019, he cannot, without the permission of the court, be involved in the formation, promotion or management of a company, directly or indirectly. Sue Macleod, Chief Investigator for the Insolvency Service, said: "The length of the disqualification of Rajinder Singh Bains sends a clear message to the business community that failure to pay excise duty that is rightfully owed is serious misconduct and will not be tolerated." From: The Insolvency Service Ambedkar worry was all about the conditions of untouchables in Pakistan particularly in the East Pakistan or what now is Bangladesh where Muslim fundamentalists and Pakistani army that time tortured non Muslims and forcibly converted Hindus, Christians and Dalits in embracing Islam. There was lot of pressure on the government and Ambedkar wanted the central government to look into that affair. I am not exaggerating these factors but they are the reason for which Jogendra Nath Mandal, first law minister of Pakistan, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, had to relinquish his post and leave his Pakistani citizenship and came back to India. Kashmir question is a valid assurance by Government of India to people of Jammu and Kashmir. Article 370 is a strong pillar of that. My simple point is that whether Dr Ambedkar today would have endorsed the way things were done. I can say never. Talking about Kashmir, he always talked that it has three parts. Kashmir valley where the dominance of Muslims exists while in Jammu, it is the Hindus and in Ladakh, it is the Buddhist. He was pragmatic enough about these things that end of the day, no domain want to work under any one. He never wanted a war hence wanted to resolve it. Obviously, Nehru hailing from Kashmir, wanted it as his personal conviction towards secularism. Dr Ambedkar wrote that democracy does not mean rule of the majority alone the minorities have to be included in decision making. Life long, he was fighting for the rights of the depressed classes under minorities. Even in Kashmir, his concern would have been that of the Dalits there but if he were standing today, I can say with full conviction, he would have chosen to stand with the people of the state who have been denied right to speak, communicate and assemble to voice political dissent. There was no question of his standing with those who claim everything is normal after full communication blockade. Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social and human rights activist. He blogs at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com twitter @freetohumanity Email: vbrawat@gmail.com Vital for women to speak up on sexual harassment: PRIYA RAMANI New Delhi : Journalist Priya Ramani on Monday said it was important and necessary for women to speak up about sexual harassment at the workplace and told a court here that she hopes that her disclosures against former Union Minister M.J. Akbar would empower women and help them better understand their rights. Ramani was recording her statement as a witness in a defamation plaint filed against her by Akbar. "I spoke the truth when I disclosed the experience of my first job interview in my Vogue Article and my tweet of October 8. It was important and necessary for women to speak up about sexual harassment at the workplace. Many of us are brought up to believe that silence is a virtue. "In all my disclosures pertaining to Mr Akbar, I spoke the truth in public interest and the public good. It was my hope that the disclosures which were a part of the MeToo movement would empower women and would help them better understand their rights at the workplace," she told Addiditional C h i e f Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal at the Rouse Avenue Court. She said the case has come at a great personal cost to her. "I have nothing to gain of it. I am a well-known journalist, I live a quiet life with my family in Banglore." She also said that it is not easy for any woman to make such disclosures. "By staying silent, I could have avoided the targeting but that would not have been the right thing to do," she added.
Page 1 and 2: Email your CV to info@theasianindep
Page 3 and 4: www.theasianindependent.co.uk ASIA
Page 11 and 12: www.theasianindependent.co.uk Since
Page 13 and 14: www.theasianindependent.co.uk HEALT
Page 15 and 16: www.theasianindependent.co.uk HEALT
Page 17 and 18: www.theasianindependent.co.uk ENTER
Page 19: www.theasianindependent.co.uk TRUEC
Page 23 and 24: www.theasianindependent.co.uk WORLD

September 2019

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?