China bullies us but eye is on US

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Political News

1. China bullies us but eye is on US

JUNE,27,2020

In the same week that Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in a deadly brawl, one of China’s submarines cruised through the waters near Japan, prompting a scramble of aircraft and ships to track its furtive movement. Chinese fighter jets and at least one bomber buzzed Taiwan’s territorial airspace almost daily.

With the world distracted by the corona virus pandemic, China’s military has encroached upon its neighbors’ territories on several fronts throughout the spring and now into summer, flexing its military might in ways that have raised alarms across Asia and in Washington.

2. Pak PM Imran Khan draws flak for calling Osama Bin Laden a ‘martyr’.

June,26,2020

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has draws flak for calling the slain al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden a ‘shaheed’ or martyr, leading parliamentarians to seek an apology.

Speaking in parliament on Thursday amid rising criticism of his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Khan connected the issue to the US criticize of Pakistan’s role in the war on terror. ‘They came into our country and Killed Osama Bin Laden, martyred him, all the world criticized us instead.’ Khan said Pakistan supported the war on terror but US continued to blame Pakistan.

3. Trump’s restrictive policy on immigration will be detrimental to US economy: US India Business Council.

June,25,2020

The temporary suspension of H-1B and other non-Immigrant visas b US President Donald Trump along with other restrictive policies on immigration is detrimental to the United states and its economy, president of a top American business advocacy group has said.

It (the proclamation) is unfortunate, Nisha Desai Biswal, president of US India Business Council (USIBC) told PTI in an interview.

4. Boris Johnson terms India-China standoff very serious, worrying situation.

June,24,2020

Prime Minister of British Boris Johnson has called on India and China to engage in dialogue to sort out their border issues as he described the escalation in eastern Ladakh as a very serious and worrying situation which the UK is closely monitoring.

The first official statement of Johnson came during his weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of commons here on Wednesday.

5. Kim Jon Un Prime Minister of North Korea cancelled the military action against South Korea.

June,23,2020

Kim Jon Un leader of North Korea has announced a meeting for ruling party’s Central Military Commission and decided to cancelled military action plans toward South Korea.

The video call on Tuesday also discussed documents outlining measures for ‘further bolstering the war deterrent of the country’, KCNA reported.

The committee members look at the prevailing situation before cancelling the military plan, Political tension between rival Koreas have been rising over Pyongyang.

6. After face-off with India, China embroiled in maritime dispute with Japan.

June,22,2020

Japan has begun the legal process of complete integration of an island chain over which it has a dispute with China. The development came just a week after the violent clash between Indian and Chinese troops over the Line of Actual Control. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in that clash in Ladakh’s Galwan valley.

The Ishigaki city council in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture passed a bill to change the name of an administrative area covering the disputed uninhabited island chain to Ton Oshiro Senkaku from Ton Oshiro, starting October 1, according to media reports. The island group lies 1,31 Km southwest of Tokyo.

7. In a blow to Indian, Donald Trump says H-1B suspension coming any day now.

June,21,2020

President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed reports of an impending suspension of non-immigrant work visas such as H-1B and L-1, which most impact Indians hoping to work here, and said an announcement is expected ‘tomorrow or the next day.’

‘We’re going to be announcing something tomorrow or the next day on visas,’ Trump said to a Fox News interviewer when asked about his plans to suspend their visas. cultures

Health News

1.Covid-19 Captivating epidemic: WHO reports largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases

22,June,2020

The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest 24-hour number of coronavirus cases, with more than 183,000 new cases. The United Nations health agency said that Brazil prolonged 54,771 cases and the U.S. after 36,617. More than 15,400 arrived in India. The case count may reflect several factors, including extensive testing as well as extensive infection. WHO reported 8,708,008 cases - 183,020 - with a daily increase of 4,743 with 461,715 deaths worldwide in the last 24 hours.

After three months of lockout in Spain, officials Abolished a national state of emergency, This allowed 47 million residents to travel freely around the country for the first time since March 14. The country also dropped a 14-day quarantine for Britain and visitors to 26 European countries that allow visa-free travel.

 2.Patanjali launches ayurvedic medicine for coronavirus, claims 100% recovery within 3-7 days

23,June,2020

 

Patanjali on Tuesday launched ‘Coronil and Swasari’, what it claims is the Ayurvedic cure for treating COVID-19, which they said has been shown 100 per cent favourable results during clinical trials on affected patients, at Patanjali Yogpeeth here.

The efficacy of Patanjali’s medicine on Covid cure has not been corroborated by any independent medical body as of yet. The World Health Organization (WHO) had recently said that while several drug trials are ongoing, there is currently no proof that any drug can cure or prevent COVID-19. The organisation had added that it was coordinating efforts to develop and evaluate medicines to treat COVID-19.

“The whole country and the world was waiting for medicine or vaccine for corona. We are proud to announce that the first Ayurvedic, clinically controlled trial based evidence and research-based medicine has been prepared by the combined efforts of Patanjali Research Centre and NIMS,” Yoga Guru Ramdev said at the press conference here adding that it has shown “100 per cent recovery rate within 3-7 days.”

 3.Covid-19 vaccine in final stage of clinical trials

25,June,2020

The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc.’s experimental vaccine is the first to enter the final stages of clinical trials to assess how well it works in protecting people from becoming infected by the virus that causes the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), which has infected 9.4 million and killed 480,000 globally since late December.

The vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 which has been licenced to AstraZeneca next stage in the UK will be given to 10,260 adults and children The vaccine is also being trialled in South Africa and Brazil, with Serum Institute of India (SII) investing $100 million to mass-produce one billion doses for India and other low-and-middle-income countries. The vaccine is made from the ChAdOx1 virus, which is a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) that causes infections in chimpanzees; it has been genetically changed so it can’t cause infection in humans.

4.Severe Covid-19 can damage the brain: Study

26,June,2020

A  study of preliminary patients hospitalised with Covid-19 has found this disease can damage the brain, causing complications such as stroke, inflammation, psychosis and dementia-like symptoms in some severe cases.

4.1 Some patients with severe Covid-19 have brain complications

4.2 Most common effect is stroke

4.3 Some show signs of confusion or behavioural changes

The findings are the first detailed look at a range of neurological complications of Covid-19, the researchers said, and underline a need for larger studies to find the mechanisms behind them and assist the search for treatments.

 5.Anti-coronavirus fabric launched to fight Covid-19 spread

28,June,2020

Every Indian is familiar with the famous ‘90s catchphrase, ‘coming home to Siyaram’s’, the textile brand that was most well-known for suiting up Indian men long before high-street and high-end brands took over the fashion scene. And now the men’s fashion textile brand has launched its anti-corona range of fabric. Siyaram’s announced the range, tested by WHO (World Health Organisation) approved labs, to fight against the spread of pandemic on Thursday.

 The new anti-corona fabric provides a protection from the virus and is developed in association with HealthGuard, an Australia-based company which has been working in non-invasive healthcare for 25

years. The company’s statement says that they are dedicated to research and development of safe and innovative biotech solutions, the company said in a statement.

The new fabric guarantees 99.94 per cent effectiveness against coronavirus and has non-leaching properties compared to other metal based chemistry products, making the treated layer of fabric to not dissolve in water, it added. The fabric is also made from natural, sustainable and biodegradable materials, and the non-leaching properties ensure that the fabric has a smooth and soft feel.

Business News

1.Facebook adds labels for some posts as advertisers pull back

-27 JUNE 2020

Facebook rolled out measures Friday to add more context to problematic political posts on its sites, as the social network grappled with a growing outcry from some of its largest advertisers over the issues of hateful speech. Therefore 5 famous brands boycotting Facebook ads over hate speech.

Here is a list of some the major ads who are limiting or stopping their ads on Facebook.

·       Unilever, $42.4 million in ads

·       Honda America, $6 million

·       Coca-Cola, $22.1 million

·       Levi Strauss & Co., $2.8 million

·       Verizon, $22.9 million

2.Scandal-hit Wirecard files for insolvency

-26 JUNE 2020

Wirecard AG filed for insolvency, the culmination of a stunning accounting scandal that led to the arrest of its COE and left German payment-processing firm scrambling to find over $2 billion missing from its balance sheet.

Wirecard management cited over-indebtedness as the reason behind the decision to seek court protection in Munich, according to a statement. The company also said it’s considering whether the insolvency proceeding should b applied to its subsidiaries.

3.Google to pay some publishers in Australia, Brazil, Germany for content

-25 JUNE 2020

Alphabet’s Google on Thursday took a step to resolving its spat with publishers, saying it would pay some media group in Australia, Brazil and Germany for high-quality content and expect to do more deals with others.

The U.S. internet giant has for years tried to fend off demands for payment from news publishers worldwide in return for using their content, with European media groups among their fiercest critics.

“today, we are announcing a licensing programme to pay publishers for high-quality content for a news experience launching later this Years,” Brad Bender, Google’s vice-president for news, said in a blogpost.

4.Global trade set to shrink 18.5% in June, better than WTO’s worst predictions

-24 JUNE 2020

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday said it expects global trade to drop around 18.5% in the second quarter of 2020, adding that restrictions being gradually lifted to certain the Covid-19 suggest that trade may have possibly bottomed out in the second quarter of 2020.the volume of merchandise 3% year-on- year in the first quarter.

The global trade watchdog said that world trade fell sharply in the first half of the year, as the covid-19 pandemic upended the global economy. However, rapid government responses helped temper the contraction, and WTO economist now believe that while trade volume will register a steep decline in 2020, they are unlikely to reach the worst-case scenario projected in April.

5.Coronavirus doing almost double the debt damage as financial crash- Moody’s

-22 JUNE 2020

The coronavirus will push debt levels in the world’s richest nations up by almost 20% points on average this year, credit rating agency Moody’s said on Monday, almost double the damage seen during the financial crash.

A new report by Moody’s looked at 14 countries from the United States and Japan to Italy an British an assessed how coronavirus- induced economic slowdowns would scar their finances.

“we estimate that on average in this group, government debt/GDP ratios will rise by around 19% points, nearly twice as much as in 2009 during the great financial crisis”.

6.US chicken, shuts Pepsi plant bans for fight Coronavirus: China

-21 JUNE 2020

China banned imports from a top us poultry producer and ordered a Beijing Pepsi factory to close Sunday as authorities clamped down on food production and distribution amid a new coronavirus cluster in the capital.

Health officials also reported 22 new virus cases in Beijing, where they tested more than two million residents as they seek to contain a wave of new infections linked to a wholesale market in capital.

US food and drinks giant PepsiCo was also ordered to shut down one of its snack-making plants in Beijing after several employees tested positive, company spokeswomen fan Zhimin said.

Technical News

1.Covid saliva test green opportunities car data fail and more: best of the week's  news 

-28 JUNE 2020

staff pick the news from the past week that caught their eye and reflect on what these latest developments in engineering and technology mean to them for the full story just click on the headline.

Jonathan Wilson online managing editor 

mass saliva testing proposed as a way to take cities out lockdown 

the coronavirus pandemic has created enormous logistical challenges especially for health-service professionals. the sheer number of cases requiring immediate hospital treatment was already for bidding enough without then also having to consider how to roll out and execute preventative measures.

 2.view from India: edge always smart and

-27 JUNE 2020

multi device connectivity has thrown up challenges and opportunities. Worldwide ,55 billion internet of things (lot) device will soon be connected. in order to support these devices and their applications computation will move to the edge of the network.

edge computing brings its own challenges. firstly, people work silos and fragmented have to be integrated such as in the case of wired and wireless systems. The rapid growth of lot devices and application means that the touch -point and endpoint will also increase in number and these access points don't necessarily have the required just a couple of minutes to hack an lot device. There is a growing need for edge data centers.

lot devices constantly give out data either the cloud or its customer-centric ,is generated from device usage tradition networking technologies may not be equipped handle the quantum and diversity of data and so , consequently the existing infrastructure of data centers need to be speedier and operations need to be realigned while the processing to power call for expansion to keep pace  with the data deluge.

3.scotland tests for covid-19 in sewage works 

-26 JUNE 2020

sewage is being tested for traces of Covid-19 in a trial aimed at helping monitor the spread of coronavirus across Scotland .

 as part of the trial, samples form wastewater at treatment work in each of the country's 14 NHS health board areas will be analyzed by Scottish Environment protection Agency (sepa) scientists.

 the scientists are expanding on work started by Scottish water and academic partners from the university of Edinburgh’s Roslin institute to monitor the levels of fragments of Covid -19 Ribonucleic acid (RNA) in wastewater.

 experts hope the data could help understand trends in the prevalence and distribution of the virus in Scotland. this is combined with community testing and hospital admissions data

 4.UK bids for stake in collapsed satellite operator one web

 -25 JUNE 2020

according to reports the UK government has agreed to put hundreds of millions of pounds towards the purchase of a stake in satellite operator One web after being shut out from the EU's Galileo satellite navigation project.

the purchase of a UK-owned satellite navigation system could provide valuable high-precision information for defense and national infrastructure purposes as well as location services for consumers and businesses

5.Apple breaks up with intel to switch to custom arm chips for Macs

-24 JUNE 2020

Apple has confirmed the it will replace intel processors in its mac computer with custom arm - based processors which it is already using in iPhone and iPad.

the announcement was made at apple's worldwide developers conference (WWDC), which was for the first time an entirely virtual event with no in-person attendance.

form the beginning the Mac has always embraced big changes to stay at the forefront of personal computing .today we're announcing our transition to apple silicon making this a historic day for the mac", said Apple CEO Tim cook ."with its powerful features and industry leading performance Apple silicon will make the Mac stronger and more capable than several i’ve never been more excited about the future of the Macs.