Slow Overseas Equipment Supply, Delay in India’s Destroyer Project

For the slow delivery by the Foreign vendors, Indian Defense, as well as Indian destroyer project has delayed. The first ship was launched on April 20, 2015 and was expected to join the Indian Navy by 2018, with the follow-on ships being delivered bi-annually. However, a delay in the supply of line shafts and gas turbines in Russia and Ukraine have pushed the project back by at least three years.India's ambitious mission-ready deployment of naval assets in the Indian Ocean has hit a hurdle with Russia and Ukraine delaying the supply of critical equipment to be fitted on to four destroyers that the Indian Navy intended to induct by early 2018."There could be a delay of up to three years," India's Ministry of Defense has informed the parliamentary panel.Under Project 15B, India's state-owned Mazgaon Dock Ltd. is constructing four destroyers at a cost of $5 billion with equipment sourced from Russia, Ukraine, and Israel. The delivery of the first warship of the class was expected by early 2018."The delivery of the first three ships of Project 15B scheduled in 2018, 2020 and 2022 needs to be rescheduled due to delay in supply of certain equipment sourced from Russia/Ukraine… and these are now expected to be delivered in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively," the Indian defense ministry said in the report it submitted to a parliamentary panel.The parliamentary panel has asked the government to address these delays with due seriousness and find solutions.The 7,334-ton Project15B warship, a ‘Visakhapatnam-class destroyer' is to be equipped with line shafts manufactured by Russia's Baltic Shipyard while the Zorya gas turbines of the ship are to be sourced from Ukraine.These destroyers will be equipped with 32 Indo-Israeli anti-ship-missile defenses called Barak 8 and 6 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles that can sink ships or strike land targets at approximately 490 kilometers. It will have also heavyweight torpedoes that can destroy enemy submarines from a distance of up to 100 kilometers.

Google's AI may be able to figure out to rate photos what you'll like

Google thinks to rate the photos by their AI to figure out which are better.The assessment uses a deep neural network trained with data labelled by humans. It’s been trained to predict what images a typical user might rate as technically good-looking or aesthetically attractive. It can potentially be used to intelligently photo edit, increase visual quality, or edit out perceived visual errors in an image, according to Google.

YouTube now properly displays vertical videos on iOS

YouTube has finally updated its iOS app so that everyone can view vertical videos as they were meant to be seen: in full screen, rather than turned sideways with black bars on the sides. YouTube announced plans to introduce this feature back in August, and some users have already had it activated. But as of this week, it’s being enabled for everyone.mainly the vertical videos are shows on the mobiles,which previously gets bulky. New update has fix that issue.

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Skull-Faced 'Halloween Asteroid' Returns in 2018

Astronomers will soon get another look at the big, ghoulishly weird space rock that buzzed Earth on Halloween three years ago.The roughly 2,100-foot-wide (640 meters) Halloween asteroid 2015 TB145 gave Earth a close shave on Oct. 31, 2015, coming within just 300,000 miles (480,000 kilometers) of our planet.

A Halloween flyby was quite appropriate, it turned out: Observations made at the time by a variety of instruments revealed that 2015 TB145 looks like an enormous skull, at least from some angles. Astronomers also determined that the asteroid likely completes one rotation every 2.94 hours and that it reflects just 5 or 6 percent of the sunlight that hits it.

Astronomers also determined that the asteroid likely completes one rotation every 2.94 hours and that it reflects just 5 or 6 percent of the sunlight that hits it.

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Winter Solstice 21st Dec: Shortest Day of 2017

The winter solstice today (Dec. 21) is in full stride , which meant the fewest hours of daylight for 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere.

Although the solstice gets an entire day of recognition, it happens in an instant: at 11:28 a.m. EST (16:28 GMT), when the North Pole is at its farthest tilt of 23.5 degrees away from the sun. This position leaves the North Pole beyond the sun's reach, and plunges it into total darkness, according to EarthSky.org.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the sun will shine directly overhead at Noon at exactly 23.5 degrees south of the equator, along the imaginary latitude line known as the Tropic of Capricorn, which runs through Australia, Chile, southern Brazil and northern South Africa. This is when when the sun appears to be at its southernmost point in the sky; as such, the Southern Hemisphere has its longest day of the year, and the Northern Hemisphere has its shortest day of the year, on the December solstice, according to EarthSky.

Pakistan: ‘Defence of Jerusalem is the core principle of Pakistan’s foreign policy’

Tuesday Pakistan told the OIC Ambassadorial Group at the United Nations of the UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) special emergency session on Jerusalem Status, that it will fully support and co-sponsor a resolution calling for the withdrawal of US decision to recognize the holy city as Israel’s capital.

Pakistan says, “Our support to the Palestinian cause and to the defence of Jerusalem (al-Quds al Sharif ) is and has always been a core principle of Pakistan’s foreign policy,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, said in a speech to the 57-member group’s coordination meeting held to strategize its position for the 193-member Assembly’s special session. “Our support remains unwavering,” she also added.

UN: 800,000 Bangladeshi migrants in India

The number of Bangladeshis living in India has come down by 800,000 since 2000 and now stands at 3.1 million, a UN report said.In 2000, 3.9 million migrants from Bangladesh living in India. According to the 2017 International Migration Report(IMR) released here on Monday,the number of migrants from all countries living in India now was 5.2 million, a fall of 1.22 million from 2000.The definition of international migrants used in the report is broad and takes into account anyone living in a country different from their own and includes refugees and economic migrants, both those immigrating officially and those who do so "irregularly," said Bela Hovy, the chief of the Migration Section of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).

According to data from UNDESA's Population Division reports, there had been 4.375 million people from Bangladesh living in India in 1990.There are 35,250 people from India now living in Bangladesh, an increase of 12,439 since 2000 when there were 22,811, according to the data.The data showed that there were about 258,000 fewer people from Pakistan now living in India than in 2000. There are now 1.095 million people originating from Pakistan in India, while there had been 1.353 million in 2000.The number of migrants from India living in Pakistan has also come down during the period by about 288,000, according to the data. There were now 1.873 million people from India living in Pakistan now while there had been 2.161 million in 2000.