As Google Earth turns 15, it is not only helping billions of people better understand their world bit also supporting students in rural classrooms in India

Current Affairs : Days in the wake of reporting new highlights, WhatsApp has turned out enlivened stickers for clients. The packs As Google Earth turns 15, the universes greatest openly available vault of geographic symbolism isn’t just helping billions of individuals better comprehend their reality bit likewise supporting understudies in rustic homerooms in India.

Propelled in 2005, Google Earth joins elevated photography, satellite symbolism, 3D geology, geographic information, and Street View into a woven artwork individuals can investigate and make a move to make positive change.

As per Rebecca Moore, Director, Google Earth, Earth Engine and Outreach, the India Literacy Project (ILP) is utilizing the administration to manufacture intelligent substance for rustic study halls, improving proficiency for 745,000 understudies across India.

“ILP has impacted the world forever and geology wake up with new instruments and media content that catch the creative mind of youthful personalities,” said Padmaja Sathyamoorthy who works at the ILP.

“The undertaking grows understudies’ points of view. It’s not just about taking in an educational plan from a course reading. I trust it makes an oddity and an affection for discovering that will endure forever,” she said in a Google blog entry on Thursday.

In February, Google Earth View is an assortment of thousands of Earth’s most dazzling scenes as observed from space, included over a 1,000 new pictures to its storehouse, which currently has more than 2,500 winged animals eye see pictures of Earth’s most lovely places over the seven landmasses.

Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport and more than 35 distinctive Indian scenes from Gujarat, Maharashtra and different states were a piece of the new arrangement of high-goal satellite pictures.

Moore said that if Google Maps is tied in with finding your direction, Google Earth is tied in with getting lost.

“With Google Earth, you can see our planet like a space explorer from space, at that point travel anyplace on it in seconds with a tick or tap. Considerably after a whole evening time investigating urban areas, scenes and stories on Google Earth, you’ll have scarcely started to expose what’s underneath,” she included.

Google Earth VR, which was discharged in 2016, allowed individuals to see the Earth from another point of view.

Writers have since quite a while ago utilized the rich symbolism in Google Earth to make all the more captivating stories.

“Vox Video utilized Google Earth Studio to recount to the narrative of how the Event Horizon telescope gathered 54-million-year-old photons to take the first historically speaking image of a dark gap,” said Moore.

As a large number of individuals battled during the Covid-19 pandemic, Google Earth helped mankind.

During Golden Week in Japan, the vast majority visit the places where they grew up, however this year that was beyond the realm of imagination due to COVID-19.

“To support yearning to go home locals, a gathering from Morioka city built up a visit in Google Earth that let individuals for all intents and purposes take the projectile train to Morioka station and visit cherished areas in the city,” educated Moore.are now showing up close by the typical sticker packs on the application. “Enlivened stickers are accessible now,” WhatsApp said in a tweet.

The enlivened stickers are accessible for clients of both Android and iOS stages alongside the work area variant.

Clients can discover the stickers choice toward the finish of the screen. Snap on the in addition to symbol when you discover it as that will take to you to the Stickers Store. The Sticker Store incorporates a few sticker packs that you can add to your WhatsApp talks just by downloading them. To download these packs, click on the download symbol and furthermore review the stickers by tapping on them.

These stickers appear in the work area application once the sticker is downloaded on versatile.

These energized stickers will play only once in the talk, and don’t circle uncertainly. On the off chance that you need to trigger their activity, you should look here and there to play it.

Prior, WhatsApp Business, the correspondence stage’s business form, propelled two new ways for clients to interface with organizations QR Codes and Catalog sharing. Individuals just can examine the QR code a business shows on its retail facade, item bundling or receipt to start a visit.

Examining a QR code will open a visit with a discretionary pre-populated message made by the business to begin the discussion. With the application’s informing devices, organizations can rapidly send data, for example, their index to get the discussion moving. To begin utilizing QR codes, organizations can follow these snappy advances.

Universally, in excess of 50 million WhatsApp Business application clients utilize the office consistently.

WhatsApp is additionally growing its Catalog highlight, which it propelled in India in January.

Index is a versatile customer facing facade for organizations to show and offer merchandise or items they are selling, for individuals to effortlessly peruse and find.

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The animated stickers are available for users of both Android and iOS platforms along with the desktop version

           
Current Affairs : Days in the wake of declaring new highlights, WhatsApp has turned out energized stickers for clients. The packs are presently showing up nearby the typical sticker packs on the application. “Energized stickers are accessible now,” WhatsApp said in a tweet.

The vivified stickers are accessible for clients of both Android and iOS stages alongside the work area rendition.

Clients can discover the stickers choice toward the finish of the screen. Snap on the in addition to symbol when you discover it as that will take to you to the Stickers Store. The Sticker Store incorporates a few sticker packs that you can add to your WhatsApp talks just by downloading them. To download these packs, click on the download symbol and furthermore see the stickers by tapping on them.

These stickers appear in the work area application once the sticker is downloaded on versatile.

These vivified stickers will play only once in the visit, and don’t circle uncertainly. In the event that you need to trigger their movement, you should look here and there to play it.

Prior, WhatsApp Business, the correspondence stage’s business form, propelled two new ways for clients to interface with organizations QR Codes and Catalog sharing. Individuals just can examine the QR code a business shows on its customer facing facade, item bundling or receipt to start a visit.

Filtering a QR code will open a visit with a discretionary pre-populated message made by the business to begin the discussion. With the application’s informing devices, organizations can rapidly send data, for example, their index to get the discussion moving. To begin utilizing QR codes, organizations can follow these brisk advances.

Comprehensively, in excess of 50 million WhatsApp Business application clients utilize the office consistently.

WhatsApp is additionally extending its Catalog include, which it propelled in India in January.

Inventory is a versatile retail facade for organizations to show and offer merchandise or items they are selling, for individuals to handily peruse and find.

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Sri Lanka is reeling under a major economic crisis and has requested several countries and international donors, including India to provide debt relief

sday said it was holding converses with Sri Lanka over its solicitation for delay of reimbursement of obligation.

“The issue has advanced and specialized level conversations are by and by in progress,” Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said.

He was reacting to an inquiry on the issue at an online media preparation.

Sri Lanka is reeling under a significant monetary emergency and has mentioned a few nations and global givers, including India to give obligation alleviation.

Gotten some information about reports of Chinese agent to Nepal Hou Yanqi meeting a few heads in Nepal and whether she was interfering in the nation’s political strife, Srivastava would not remark.

I have no remark to offer on the inward political circumstance of Nepal, he said.

Answering to an inquiry on the Enrica Lexie case, Srivastava said there was no postponement with respect to the Ministry of External Affairs in advising the Supreme Court and the Kerala government about the decision of a worldwide council on it.

The council in its judgment said that two Italian marines who shot dead two Indian anglers can’t be attempted in an Indian court.

It, be that as it may, maintained the lead of the Indian specialists following the episode in 2012.

India denounced two Italian marines, Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, on board the MV Enrica Lexie, an Italian hailed oil big hauler, of shooting dead the two Indian anglers who were on a fishing vessel off Kerala in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

The episode had occurred off the Kerala coast on February 15, 2012.

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Sisodia was addressing the ‘Invest India Exclusive Investment Forum’ via a webinar on Thursday, attended by leading retail and e-commerce players

Current Affairs : Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday welcomed retailers and online business players to put resources into the national capital.

“Vice president Minister and Finance Minister of Delhi featured the plenty of chances offered by the state capital for retail and internet business firms to put resources into its economy,” said an official statement from the workplace of the vice president serve.

Sisodia was tending to the ‘Contribute India Exclusive Investment Forum’ through an online course on Thursday, went to by driving retail and internet business players.

“The point of the discussion sorted out by Invest India, the National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency of the Government of India, was to bring the state government and likely financial specialists on a typical stage to share thoughts and to exhibit positive arrangements, prepared foundation and different subtleties of the mechanical biological system of Delhi,” the official statement said. Vikas Anand, MD DSIIDC, likewise went to the gathering with Sisodia.

As per the public statement, Sisodia said the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy keep going long. Delhi is outfitting to restore its economy regardless of confronting numerous difficulties in the repercussions of the COVID19 pandemic. The Invest India Exclusive Investment Forum was an incredible begin to open a channel for venture and coordinated effort with intrigued firms.

Featuring how Delhi offers an incredible potential speculation environment for private firms, Sisodia stated, “Delhi is a city of chances. Our state GDP has multiplied in the previous 7 years and we have a for every capita salary of Rs 3,89,000 which is multiple times the national normal. We additionally have a powerful people-driven government under the administration of CM Arvind Kejriwal. The most elevated development on every financial marker had been made conceivable because of the fair and dynamic govt. which has been reappointed for the third time with a greater part,” said Sisodia.

Sisodia, worrying on the assortment of Trade and Service Sector Opportunities for venture offered by the Delhi Government, he stated, “In opposition to popular conclusion, Delhi has a considerable land bank for interest in divisions like Tourism and Hospitality, Automobile Parts, Handloom and Handicrafts; Gems, Jewelry and Perfumes, Packaged Foods, Leather Goods and Garments, Steel Fabrication, E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology. The up and coming modern centers in Ranikhera Mundka, Baprola and Kanjhawala alongside the Mundka North Warehousing Cluster has abundant limit accessible and makes Delhi a perfect goal for organizations hoping to set up retail or sourcing activities.”

Sisodia likewise tweeted later in the day, “At the truly necessary @investindia discussion, introduced the case for #Delhi as a city of expectation and openings, as it has consistently been.”

“The gathering was gone to by speculators from 30 nations over the globe. 20 industry segments, including clothes, cars, web based business human services, active apparel; from nations over the world like USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, Switzerland and Australia took an interest in the online class,” the public statement included.

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Paswan welcomed the decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) for five more months

Current Affairs : Association Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has repeated that ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ (ONORC) plan would probably begin working across India by January one year from now, in front of its March 31 cutoff time.

Paswan, who drives the Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ministry, said on Thursday said the administration is attempting to incorporate every single residual State/UTs locally available of ONORC by January 2021. He said that previous numerous States/UTs featured the moves identified with moderate system availability.

In such manner, he educated that he has disagreed with the division of media communications (DoT) and there is a proposition to give a free net association with each gram panchayat for one year length.

While collaborating with correspondents through video conferencing, the Minister said the fair amount of foodgrains and entire chana under the ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ plan will currently be circulated till August 31, 2020.

He invited the choice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the expansion of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) for five additional months till November 2020.

Paswan stated, the Prime Minister began the two greatest food grains dispersion plot PMGKAY and ANBA for poor and penniless people, with the goal that nobody dozes hungry at the hour of Covid-19 pandemic.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last year in September inaugurated a 50 kilowatt ‘Gandhi Solar Park’ at the Headquarters of the United Nations

Current Affairs : UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has commended India for its work in the field of sustainable power source.

Talking at International Energy Agency Clean Energy Transition Summit, the UN Secretary General expressed that “sun powered closeouts have seen ubiquity in the midst of the stature of the pandemic” and noticed that “India fills in as genuine model”.

The Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York tweeted a 13-second video of the UN Secretary General and stated: “Secretary General Antonio Guterres talking at the #IEASummit said – “The seeds of progress are there. Sustainable power source is the main vitality source expected to develop in 2020. Sun based sales have seen prominence in the midst of the tallness of the pandemic. India fills in as a genuine model”.

Leader Narendra Modi had a year ago in September initiated a 50 kilowatt ‘Gandhi Solar Park’ at the Headquarters of the United Nations.

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A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking restriction on the access of the general public/devotees in this year’s Amarnath Yatra due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic

Current Affairs : A request has been moved in the Supreme Court looking for limitation on the entrance of the overall population/fans in the current year’s Amarnath Yatra because of the progressing Covid-19 pandemic. The candidates have additionally looked for bearing to the Center to give ‘live darshan’ of the place of worship through web and TV.

The request, by the Amarnath Barfani Langar association, said that in the current circumstance, where the Center and the legislatures of different states have been battling the flare-up of Covid-19, the candidates have “proposed to the Shrine Board to have a Live Darshan of the Lord Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine, which will arrive at crores of individuals. This is all the more so when the whole nation has been embracing an eplatform, including the courts. This will likewise empower the love, pooja, and darshan to contact a few people while they are in their homes”.

Yearly, around 3 lakh lovers visit the Himalayan cavern holy place, and in the event that this is permitted, at that point it might prompt spread of the malady, contended the supplication.

The request has additionally battled however the holy place board has not allowed to start the yearly journey, yet few bhandara associations had been approached to arrive at the scene by June 28 and requested to start administration (seva) from July 3 onwards till August 3. This move demonstrates that there might be a few intends to give imperative consent for the yearly journey, consequently the candidate moved the peak court looking for bearing to the Center to confine access to the overall population/enthusiasts.

Aside from the Center, Jammu and Kashmir organization and the place of worship board have likewise been made respondents in the request.

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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has received an invitation to speak at The Oxford Union Debate next year

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Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has gotten an encouragement to talk at The Oxford Union Debate one year from now, party sources said.

This is the second time that the Oxford Union, considered the most renowned understudy society on the planet, has welcomed Banerjee to talk at the discussion after 2017.

“She has gotten the greeting on Wednesday. In all likelihood she will go to it,” a senior TMC pioneer said.

The Oxford Union Society intends to sort out the discussion in the main portion of 2021 and has looked for her dates, the pioneer said.

Established in 1823, the Oxford Union had before facilitated a few world pioneers and legends from different fields, as speakers.

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Ambassador Juster also highlighted working towards new areas of collaboration, especially in the energy sector

Current Affairs : An organized commerce understanding (FTA) among India and the US can open the monetary potential between the two nations doing combating the coronavirus pandemic, said Ken Juster, America’s represetative to India, on Thursday.

“As India has come out of the lockdown time frame, India has clarified choice not to take an interest in a territorial concurrence with the Chinese and different nations in Asia. A portion of that has been increased by ongoing questions on the outskirt territory and in my view to secure monetary potential is to do it an unhindered commerce understanding (FTA),” Juster revealed to India Global Week 2020, a business culmination held basically.

“It guarantees that we (US) are the biggest market for exchange and venture. India administration organization can keep on offering support to US we can cooperate in human services. I do stress now and again that we don’t have large enough vision for an exchange relationship,” Juster said.

Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India’s envoy to the United States, stated: “Respective exchange has been developing at more than 10 percent yearly. Vitality and protection are significant parts. Almost certainly, the genuine potential is yet to be reached.”

Sandhu commented that India and the US work in extending the financial organization, as it is a significant need.

“There are difficulties and openings and together we can use the chances,” he included.

Minister Juster likewise featured moving in the direction of new regions of coordinated effort, particularly in the vitality division.

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In a letter to the HRD ministry, Principal Secretary of Dept of Higher Education and School Education Dept urged it to re-examine matter in interest of the physical/mental well-being of students

Current Affairs : The West Bengal higher education

department on Thursday objected to the advisory of the central government, asking universities and other academic institutions to compulsorily conduct final-year examinations by September-end

In a letter to the HRD ministry, Principal Secretary of Department of Higher Education and School Education Department, Manish Jain, urged it to re-examine the matter in the interest of the physical/mental well-being of students amid the present COVID-19 situation.

Jain said the state should be allowed to implement its own decision by not making the revised MHRD guidelines mandatory.

“Mentioning statements like final-term examinations should be compulsorily conducted as per the revised guidelines of UGC, by the Ministry of HRD vide its letter dated 6th July, is only against the spirit of the federal structure enshrined in the Constitution, as education is placed in the concurrent list, and the state was never consulted by UGC despite sending a request for consultation with respect to framing of such guidelines…” the letter said.

With the current trend of rise in COVID-19 cases since April, “we are not sure whether the situation will be conducive for the conduct of offline examinations by September in a vast country like India,” it said.

Considering a vast section of students are still deprived of net connectivity as well, it will not be appropriate to hold online exams, Jain said.

In view of the “unforeseen, uncertain and challenging situation when educational institutions are being used as quarantine centres” and due to restrictions on rail movement and cyclone Amphan damages, West Bengal had issued an advisory for universities, giving due weightage to internal assessment and performance of candidates in previous semester to ensure transparency, the letter said.

“The students, their parents and other stakeholders have overwhelmingly appreciated the advisory,” Jain added.

According to a revised guideline issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC), students unable to appear in final-year exams in September will get another chance, and universities will conduct special exams “as and when feasible.

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