NEET 2020: Pulwama attack accused, Jaish module associate seeks permission to appear for exam

NEET 2020 exams are set to be conducted from September 13 and the authorities with the National Eligibility cum Entrance Exam have received an application from a Kashmiri youth, who is an accused in the Pulwama terror attack. 

According to media reports, the applicant, identified as Waiz Ul Islam was named as one of the 19 accused by NIA in its chargesheet for the Pulwama terror attack which claimed the lives of 40 CRPF soldiers. Islam has now sought permission from the NIA Special Court in Jammu, to appear for the upcoming NEET 2020 exams.

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Waiz Ul Islam had appeared via video conference before the court to make his appeal, a report with India Today said, adding the NIA is all set to oppose the application when the case comes up for hearing on September 3. 

Giving out reasons for the rejection of Islam's application for the NEET exam, the NIA said Waiz was a terror associate to the Jaish module, playing a key role in ordering explosives from e-commerce sites for the 2019 terror attack.

The accused has chosen Srinagar as his exam center, where he has to appear with other students for the competitive exam, an official told media.

Islam was arrested in March by the NIA. While Waiz had no terror links or even faint connection with radical elements, offline or online, the evidence against him was too strong.

With Waiz's parents gone for Hajj, the Jaish module managed to brainwash the student to let them stay in their accommodation.

Waiz led the way for the group driving a scooter while the Jaish terrorists followed in a car. Anxious of letting them in his house, he arranged for their stay in a neighbours' house, who had also gone for Hajj with Waiz's parents.

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Sources said the boy would purchase goods and deliver it to the Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ismail alias Adnan himself at the Budgam-Pulwama border, considering he was the central commander of Jaish. Adnan himself is related to Maulana Masood Azhar.

With no past antecedents, the youth's arrest is a shot in the arm for NIA which has been looking for evidence in the case.

He told interrogators that he was instructed on what to order online and subsequently deliver the "goods" to the module. He did not know the extent of the Pulwama conspiracy. An officer said "it was need to know basis."

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The world's fastest human calculator is 21-year-old Nilkanth from Hyderabad

Usually people have to use a calculator to solve mathematical puzzles or do long calculations. But there are also people who can do big and tough calculations even without a calculator. One such young man is Neelkantha bhanu prakash from Hyderabad. Neelkanth has recently won the title of the world's brightest human calculator.

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The Mind Sports Olympiad 2020 was held in London a few days ago. In it, Nilkanth Bhanu Prakash has won a gold medal for India. Nilkanth has come first in this competition. Held in London, the competition was attended by 13 countries. Nilkanth Bhanu Prakash graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Nilkanth claims that this is the first time that India has won a gold medal in the Mental Calculation World Championship. According to Neelkanth, he has also broken the records of Scott Flensberg and Shakuntala Devi. Neelkanth is 21 years old and holds the world record for the fastest calculation to his name.

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Neelkanth Bhanu Prakash teaches children through online classes. He says he wants to create a math lab. Wants to increase its reach to thousands of children through it. Math wants to increase their interest in mathematics by teaching children mathematics through labs. He states that 3 out of every 4 children studying in government schools in India have difficulty in understanding mathematics.

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In 40 days, More than 69 Lakh Register on Govt Gateway for Occupations, However Just 1.49 Lakh Get Utilized

More than seven lakh individuals had enlisted on an administration gateway, which was propelled by the Modi government a month ago, between August 14 and August 21, be that as it may, 691 landed positions. The AM (Aatmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping) gateway that was propelled by the Center on July 11 has seen enrollment of more than 69 lakh people in only 40 days. 

According to information by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, only 2 percent of the 3.7 lakh competitors who enrolled on the entry have really been utilized, The Indian Express announced. 

In addition, around 69 lakh transient laborers had enrolled on the gateway, yet just 1.49 lakh were extended employment opportunities. In any case, no one but 7,700 could join work. 

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The Ministry said that the entry isn't only for transient laborers. The rundown incorporates independently employed tailors, circuit testers, field-experts, sewing machine administrators, messenger conveyance chiefs, medical attendants, accounts heads, manual cleaners and deals partners. 

As indicated by the information, there is lack of laborers in states that had seen a mass migration of transient specialists, for example, Karnataka, Delhi, Haryana, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. 

The interest for work among transient laborers has ascended by 80 percent in only seven days (3.78 lakh from 2.97 lakh during August 14-21), be that as it may, there is simply 9.87 percent expansion in their business (7,009 to 7,700 — during this period). The quantity of enrolled individuals on the entry also has expanded by 11.98 percent - 61.67 to 69 lakh in the week finishing August 21. 

'Our gifted youth will have the option to assume a significant job in quickening the advancement excursion of India. To quicken confidence and Skill India Mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to interface the young in the nation with new work openings, our AM entry will clearly offer force to our persistent endeavors to connect gracefully and request in the market. Our gifted workforce will guarantee expanded profitability and better results for our ventures, " Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, disclosed to The Indian Express. 

Social insurance, coordinations, banking, money related administrations and protection (BFSI), retail and development are top areas extending about 73.4 percent of employment opportunities on the entrance.The AM gateway information show that under the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan, propelled in 116 areas by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June, ladies establish just 5.4 percent of employment searchers. 

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The gateway has 514 organizations enrolled, out of which 443 have posted 2.92 lakh occupations. In any case, just 1.49 lakh have been offered to applicants, according to the information. Of the complete occupations posted on the entryway, more than 77 percent are in Karnataka, Delhi, Haryana, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, shows the information. 

The quantity of dynamic organizations that have posted at any rate one employment on AM has somewhat expanded to 443 from 419 in the week that finished on August 21. For prepared/gifted specialists is concerned, 42.3 percent of individuals who had enrolled on the entry are from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Delhi.

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Blackberry is returning again, will make a big appearance in 2021 with a leader console flagship keyboard phone

Blackberry will be, harking back to the cell phone showcase as it licenses its name to OnwardMobility. The primary telephone will be a lead 5G cell phone with a conventional QWERTY console. 

Blackberry's arrival to the cell phone advertise in 2016 wasn't as fruitful as its first stretch. Authorized to TCL, it raised some intriguing Android cell phones with physical consoles and improved security. Be that as it may, the telephones didn't sufficiently advance and TCL retreated from the arrangement. Blackberry, however, is coming back to the cell phone advertise again and it will attempt to follow the cutting edge patterns of the cell phone industry. 

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As per a report from PCMag, another organization by the name of OnwardMobility will utilize Blackberry's permit to manufacture cell phones. Like the past TCL bargain, Onward Mobility will utilize Blackberry's name and Intellectual Property to fabricate cell phones for the US and European markets. None of the insights about details and valuing is out yet. All things considered, the principal telephone from this arrangement will turn out in 2021. 

"We truly observe a requirement for a 5G BlackBerry, Android cell phone with a physical console and being a leader gadget," said Peter Franklin, CEO of OnwardMobility to PCMag. The organization has no involvement with the cell phone business already however its staff has involvement with the cell phone business. 

As a component of the arrangement, Blackberry will offer its security answers for the gadgets while OnwardMobility deals with the equipment part. The organization will construct its telephones through FIH, which thus is a piece of Foxconn. Subsequently, you can be guaranteed of the equipment quality as the firm makes HMD Global's Nokia cell phones. 

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At first, the new Blackberry cell phones will just turn out in the US and European markets. OnwardMobility has no plans right now to stretch out past these business sectors. This is not normal for the TCL bargain where the telephones were sold in a few unfamiliar markets, including India. Be that as it may, the new arrangement has various goals with its item situation technique. 

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Almost 11,000 lightning strikes lead to flames seething across California

Teams worked in brutal warmth Wednesday to beat back fierce blazes that lighted across Northern California, sending a large number of individuals from their homes into smoky air, quickly stopping traffic on an interstate and killing a pilot on a firefighting crucial. 

Many flames were consuming across California, including 23 significant flames or gatherings of flames that Gov. Gavin Newsom accused on 'this uncommon climate that we're encountering and these lightning strikes.' He said the state has recorded about 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours and is aware of 367 flames. 

Debris and smoke filled the air in San Francisco, which is encircled by rapidly spreading fires consuming toward the north, east and south. The LNU Lightning fire is comprised of a few flames in five provinces north of San Francisco, remembering for Vacaville, a city of around 100,000 individuals between San Francisco and Sacramento.

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The fire had devoured 72 square miles (186 square kilometers). It hopped Interstate 80 Wednesday evening, quickly blocking traffic in the two headings. Police and firemen went entryway to-entryway before sunrise in a wild eyed scramble to caution occupants to clear as flares infringed on Vacaville. At any rate 50 structures were decimated, including a few homes, and 50 were harmed. 

'The entire sky was red orange and it was coming past that certain point there and it was enormous. I've seen nothing like it and it just took a couple of moments to arrive,' said Karen Hansen. 

She cleared her Vacaville home late Tuesday as flares hurried toward their little ranch, getting together her littler animals however incapable to bring along two adored ponies. They returned Wednesday to discover the house and animal dwellingplace pulverized, yet Hansen was excited to see that her ponies had endure. 

'I'm not vexed about the house. I'm simply upbeat that my ponies and creatures are alive and my little girl,' she said. In eastern San Francisco Inlet, a bunch of 20 separate lightning-started fires called the SCU Lightning complex was undermining around 1,400 structures in tough landscape with thick brush. The flames have burnt 133 square miles (344 square kilometers). 

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Toward the south of San Francisco in San Mateo and Santa Clause Cruz regions, around 22,000 individuals were requested to empty in view of a fire consuming in thick lush parkland that compromised networks, Cal Fire representative Jonathan Cox said. 

In any event 20 homes had consumed, fire authorities said.Around 22 flames are a piece of the mind boggling and most had been consuming in generally far off, thick brush until solid breezes for the time being Tuesday driven them into more populated territories, blending a portion of the flames together.

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Reliance Retail bought a 60 % stake in Netmades for Rs 620 crore

Reliance Retail, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, the country's largest company, has set up Chennai-based Vitalic Health Pvt. Ltd. And has bought a majority stake in its subsidiary NetMeds. The company has bought a 60 per cent stake in NetMeds for about Rs 620 crore.

 Isha Ambani, director of the company, said the stake was bought to provide digital facilities to all. Online pharmacy company NetMeds connects large pharmacists and also delivers drugs door-to-door to customers. In this way, Reliance Industries has become an instant deal maker in a lockdown.

Vitalic Health and its subsidiaries are collectively known as Netmades. Reliance Retail has bought a majority stake in Netmeds. The company is owned by Vitalic Health Pvt. Ltd. has acquired a 100 per cent equity ownership of its subsidiary Trisara, NetMeds and Dadha Pharma with a 60 per cent holding in the equity share capital.

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With this investment, we will be able to deliver medicine to everyone in the country digitally. Netmades joining us has enhanced Reliance Retail's ability to provide good quality and affordable healthcare products and services and help customers deliver daily necessities, ”said Isha Ambani, Director, Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd.

"With the combined strength of Reliance's digital, retail and tech platforms, we will be able to strengthen our supply chain among more customers," said Pradeep Dadha, Founder and CEO, NetMeds Marketplace. "After this agreement, we will be able to provide our service better," he said.

In 2015, Vitalic and its subsidiaries were in the business of pharma distribution, sales and business support services. Anne's subsidiary company NetMeds provides an online pharmacy platform to connect customers with pharmacists and deliver medicines, nutritional health and wellness products.

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For NetMeds, it is a pleasure to join the Reliance family and work together to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible for every Indian, ”said CEO Pradeep Dadha.

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Elon Musk Overtakes Ambani To Become 4th Richest In the World

 Elon Musk, the outspoken tech entrepreneur, has become the fourth richest in the world after shares of Tesla Inc surged over 11 percent on NASDAQ on Monday to hit a record high. Musk, who is also the CEO of the American electric vehicle and clean energy company, holds nearly 21 percent stake in it.

At Monday's closing price of $1835.64 per share, Musk's net worth swelled by $7.8 billion to $84.8 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is just $0.2 billion ahead of French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault, the wealthiest European.

On the other hand, Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in Asia, saw his net worth fall by $776 million on Monday to become the sixth wealthiest person in the world at $78.8 billion. The chairman of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) had a few days ago surpassed Arnault to become the fourth richest person after shares of his company touched a new record high.

Ambani is now $0.6 billion richer than ace investor Warren Buffet.

The top three richest people in the world continue to be Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($188 billion), Microsoft's Bill Gates ($121 billion) and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg ($99 billion). Amid the coronavirus pandemic, shares of tech giants have been rallying, pushing the net worth of the largest stakeholders of these companies.

According to a Bloomberg report, Musk holds the potential to increase his fortune further as his aerospace manufacturing and space transportation services company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (trading as SpaceX), is close to finalizing $2 billion in new funding that would increase its equity valuation to $46 billion. Musk, the founder and CEO of the company, holds 54 percent of its equity.

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