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Haryana to establish Automated Testing Stations to reduce pollution

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Haryana Government is establishing six Automated Testing Stations (ATS) in the state which will help to reduce Air Pollution and improve the overall sustainability of transportation, Chief Secretary, Sanjeev Kaushal said in a meeting to review the enforcement of the ban on 10/15 years old vehicles and the mandatory use of Smog Guns.

Kaushal directed

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Commissioners of Faridabad and Gurugram to assess the gap of anti-smog guns and submit its report with on one month. Besides this, the officers concerned of Gurugram and Faridabad must ensure that all construction and demolition projects must deploy and ensure frequent and effective use of adequate number of anti-smog guns, in proportion of the total area of construction for the project as at least 1 for a total construction area between 5000-10000 sqm, at least 2 for a total construction area between 10001 – 15000 sqm, at least 3 for a total construction area between 15001 – 20000 sqm and at least 4 for a total construction area above 20,000 sqm.

20 years of Panjab Digital Library: 6.5 crore manuscripts & counting

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

For years, Sikh studies scholar Madanjit Kaurs vast collection lay stacked in a storeroom in her Mohali house. Little did she realise that the guard had

been selling the priceless heritage she had collected over years, bit by bit. As age caught up, she worried about what would happen to the treasure trove of knowledge. Around this time, she came to know of the Panjab Digital Library (PDL), which had been digitising manuscripts. Realising that if whatever remained of her books, manuscripts, coins, photographs and paintings was digitised in time, all knowledge might not be lost.

PDL turns 20 this month and has digitally preserved over 65 million pages, a monumental achievement towards safeguarding Punjabs memory for future generations. Among those whose collections have been digitised are poet Harnam Singh Shan, Dr Gurdev Singh Sidhu, Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, photographer SB Durga, Giani Gurdit Singh, Bhai Sikander Singh, Kulwant Singh Musafir and many more.

Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar pens book on cyber crime

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Uttarakhand director general of Police Ashok Kumar’s book on cybercrime – ‘Cyber Encounters-Cops Adventures with Online Criminals – was launched at an event in IIT-Delhi.

An Ips officer of 1989-batch and alumnus of IIT-Delhi, Kumar’s book gives an account of actual cybercrime related to fake identity on Social Media, ransomware, card cloning, sextortion and phishing among others.
The book was co-authored by former DRDO scientist OP Manocha and its foreword is written by iconic actor Amitabh Bachchan. At the event, Kumar highlighted the challenges faced by law enforcement agencies in combating

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cybercrime and the need for increased awareness and capacity building in the field.

With the second phase of the caste based census underway in Bihar, the people of the state are starting to analyse its positives and negatives.

The ‘intellectual community’ believes that it has some loopholes like the sub-castes in

the Extremely Backward Class (EBC), Other Backward Castes (OBC), Dalit and Muslim communities will be counted but there is no provision to count sub-castes in upper castes.

It has created suspicions in the minds of the people about the intentions of the , or this loophole being used for political purposes.

The first phase of the caste based census was completed in March this year where every house had a unique house code. The second phase kicked off from April 15 and will end in one month.

In the second phase, Bihar government employees will go to every house and ask 17 questions printed on one sheet. The same will also be uploaded digitally as well so that anyone can access it from the Internet.

The employees will ask the name of the family head, his/her father’s name, age, sex, marital status, religion, caste, sub-caste (In case of EBC, OBC, minority) followed by code, educational qualification, profession, residential status (Staying in own house or rent), temporary Migration status, owning computer, laptop, motor vehicles, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture land, residential land and income from all sources.