India-Africa summit gives better future

India-Africa summit gives better futureIndia-Africa summit gives better future

"India is proud to host India-Africa Forum Summit 2015. The summit reflects India and Africa's desire to engage more intensively for a better future," Modi tweeted.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed happiness in the country hosting the India-Africa Forum Summit 2015, saying it is a reflection of a desire to engage more intensively for a better future.

Modi had said that several African leaders had joined to engagement of summit and made it successful

"India's relations with Africa are historic. India is a major investor in Africa and trade has been growing remarkably in recent years," he said in another tweet.

Stating that many events were being organised to promote friendship and trade, the prime minister said that Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu) and Africa shared a close bond. "Exhibition 'Memories of Mahatma' talks about Bapu and his connection with Africa," he tweeted.

An India-African business seminar would be organised from October 26 to 29 in Delhi to explore areas of cooperation between the two sides.

Bangalore staring at day-long power cuts

Bangalore staring at day-long power cuts

              The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has not been able to purchase power from other states so far.

Bengaluru, which is facing the worst power crisis of the decade, is gearing up for day-long power cuts on weekends, as the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has not been able to purchase power from other states so far.

As of now, 6 hours of power cuts at irregular intervals have become common in the IT capital of the nation. However, during weekends, as the power consumption is high, the government is planning to impose an 8-10 hours black-out.

Though the government has not made it official, sources in the Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) said they were resorting to day-long power cuts to maintain supply in the coming days.

Karnataka had not experienced this kind of power crisis in the last 10 years. As against an installed capacity of 10,189 MW per day (hydro power, thermal & renewable), the state is generating only around 6,300 MW. The demand is more than 12,000 MW per day from individual and industrial consumers.

Many of the reservoirs generating hydro power are almost empty because of poor monsoon this year. To add to the woes, several units of the Raichur Thermal Power Station and Ballari Thermal Power Station are down because of technical snags.

Instead of finding a solution to the end the crisis, Siddaramaiah and his colleagues are indulging in a mud-slinging match with the Opposition parties contending that they fared worse in handling the issue when in power.

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Zuckerberg, Gates make bid for universal internet access

UNITED NATIONS, United States: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates on Saturday threw their weight and resources behind the goal of bringing internet access to everyone in the world by 2020. 
Zuckerberg, Gates make bid for universal internet access
The pledge is part of a United Nations effort to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, a goal set on Friday during a special summit at the global body. 

The internet became commonplace in developed countries in the 1990s, but UN officials estimate that half the world does not have reliable access — especially women and girls, whose education is vital to development. 

"When people have access to the tools and knowledge of the Internet, they have access to opportunities that make life better for all of us," said a declaration signed by Zuckerberg and Bill and Melinda Gates, who have devoted their wealth to philanthropy. 



"The Internet belongs to everyone. It should be accessible by everyone," the declaration said. 

Zuckerberg, writing on Facebook, said that for every 10 people connected to the Internet, one is lifted out of poverty. 

"If we connect the more than four billion people not yet online, we have a historic opportunity to lift the entire world in the coming decades," he wrote. 

Other signatories included Jimmy Wales, co-founder of free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and U2 frontman Bono on behalf of his One anti-poverty campaign. 

Jamie Drummond, global executive director of One, called on every country to come up with an "urgent plan" to meet the Internet access goals. 

The campaigners did not announce funding on their own, but the United Nations has said that meeting the new global goals will cost between $3.5 and $5 trillion per year. 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Saturday launched its own roadmap, which put a top priority on improving the health and education for girls. 

Releasing the report, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said that more than $25 billion has been committed so far to meeting the goals, led by $3.3 billion from the United States and large pledges from Canada, Germany and Sweden.

Melinda Gates, speaking to reporters in advance of the launch, said that the health and education of girls was critical to anti-poverty efforts and that the issue had not been sufficiently emphasized in the UN's previous Millennium Development Goals. 

"When we look at investing our own money or asking governments to invest their money... we have to make sure that those investments make a difference," she said. 

For a girl, "for every year she is educated, she increases her income by 20 percent when she goes out to get a job," Gates said. 

Gates said that family planning was also "hugely important" to fighting poverty by ensuring that parents can adequately provide for children.

PM Modi's tech drive at Tesla Motors

SAN JOSE (California): With renewable and alternative sources of energy high on his priority list, Prime Minster Narendra Modi on Saturday paid a visit to the headquarters of Tesla Motors at Pao Alto to get a feel on what could drive the automobiles in the future.

Soon after his arrival here and an interaction with the Indian-American community, the Prime Minister left for the facility of Tesla that was was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that electric cars can be better than gasoline-powered cars.

Modi, who had landed at the Norman Y. Minte San Jose International Airport, was driven around the facility in a battery-powered cart after which he also posed for some photos standing next to a gleaming red car manufactured by the company with chief executive Elon Musk.

"Prime Minister Modi and I talked about electricity generation and how there are ways to skip ahead with it as with cellphones," Musk, the company's principal engineer, inventor and investor, said later.PM Modi's tech drive at Tesla Motors

Google unveils new logo at turning point in company's history

Search giant says the new design will soon be seen across all its products just a month after a major restructuring of the company gave rise to Alphabet

First they changed their name, now they’ve changed their logo. Google 

introduced a new sans-serif and slightly toned-down four-colour logo on Tuesday in the biggest redesign since 1999.

Google said the new design would soon be seen across all its products. Google’s homepage introduced the redesign with an animation that wiped away the old logo and drew the new one.

“Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years – from the range of our products to the evolution of their look and feel. And today we’re changing things up once again,” the company said in a blogpost.

The company said the redesign was meant to reflect the way that people interact with Google products across many different platforms,  and devices.

“It doesn’t simply tell you that you’re using Google, but also shows you how Google is working for you. For example, new elements like a colorful Google mic help you identify and interact with Google whether you’re talking, tapping or typing. Meanwhile, we’re bidding adieu to the little blue ‘g’ icon and replacing it with a four-color ‘G’ that matches the logo.”

The logo has undergone many, mainly small, changes in its history. The colours have changed, 3D letters have been flattened, and an exclamation point came and went in 1999.

The move comes just a month after a major restructuring of the company was unveiled. Google is now owned by AlphabetGoogle unveils new logo at turning point in company's history, a holding company created by founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to separate their money-making search engine company from the loss-making, “moon shot” projects like robot cars, medical research and internet-delivering balloons.

Should Facebook, Twitter reconsider autoplay feature?

Many users were confronted with the video without choosing to when it was shared into their feeds -- where the killer is seen shooting at his two colleagues -- thanks to autoplay feature.

LONDON: British MPs have urged social networking sites Twitter and Facebook to reconsider autoplaying videos following an incident where a US reporter along with her cameraman were shot to death while doing a live broadcast, a media report said. 

Many users were confronted with the video without choosing to when it was shared into their feeds -- where the killer is seen shooting at his two colleagues -- thanks to autoplay feature, BBC reported. 

A parliamentary group has suggested that the firms should ensure that users are warned about graphic content before it plays. 

The chair of the cross-party Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (Pictfor), Matt Warman, said that both social media sites should automatically sift for such content. 

"Social media, just like traditional media, should consider how shocking other content can be, and make sure consumers are warned appropriately," Warman said. 

"For victims, friends and families it's important to make sure that users know what they're about to see and have a reasonable opportunity to stop it," Warman, a Conservative Party member, added. 

He said that while users can change their own settings to stop videos auto-playing, Facebook and Twitter "need to be aware that one size does not fit all." 

"Many people who are ordinarily happy that videos play will have seen shocking footage by accident, without warning of its graphic nature," he added. 

Shortly after the murders of two US journalists as they carried out a live broadcast on August 26, it emerged that the suspected gunman had posted his own footage on both Twitter and Facebook.

Those posts were then retweeted and shared by other users.

Should Facebook, Twitter reconsider autoplay feature?