Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: The IIT Centre of Excellence (CoE)  has developed the Lucknow-based Future Crime Research Foundation.

It is working to develop a first-of-its-kind AlI-powered big data search engine to aid policing.

The search engine, according to officials, intends to make the investigation and policing process more efficient.

It will integrate data from all the key stakeholders to create a search engine that will help in predictive policing, crime mapping and analysis apart from the other services, they said.

Colombo, Mar 3 (AP) Sri Lanka's already dire economic crisis has deepened as oil prices hover near USD 110 a barrel. Vehicles are stranded with empty tanks, power cuts are depriving students of study time for exams and shopping mall air conditioners are being switched off to conserve energy.

The South Asian island nation already was so short of hard currency that authorities had restricted imports of cars and fertilizer. It's now having to scrape into dwindling reserves to pay for ever more costly oil needed to keep the economy running.

Gurugram, Mar 2 (PTI) A man allegedly lured a 16-year-old girl of his village under the Farrukhnagar police station area on the pretext of giving her a ride in his car and raped her in the vehicle, police said on Wednesday.

Accused Sanjay alias Chhota called out the girl sleeping in her room from the window and took her away in his car and dropped her before a school gate in the village, police said.

New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) Citing the academic journal Science, Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said the official number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the country is suspect.

The reputed journal estimates that the Covid toll in India between "1-6-2020 and 1-7-2021 was 3,200,000 - eight times the official death toll of 400,000", Chidambaram said on Twitter.

"Of these deaths, 2,700,000 occurred in the months of April, May and June 2021," he added.

New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Make in India is the need of the hour and appealed to the industry to reduce dependence on imports and boost domestic manufacturing.

He urged the industry to take challenges and make efforts to cut imports of goods that can be manufactured in India.

"Today, the world is looking at India as a manufacturing powerhouse," Modi said while addressing DPIIT's webinar on 'Make in India for the World'.

Kanpur: A lineman got electrocuted nearly a week ago (February 27). He reportedly succumbs to his injuries on Wednesday.

 A video statement was given before his death and accused his seniors of keeping the line running on the electricity pole even after convincing him of carrying a shutdown

The relatives of the deceased have accused the officers of putting the lineman on the front of the casualty.

Lakhan Dwivedi, who lived in the Barra area, was a lineman in the electricity department. On February 27, his engineers had mounted him on a pole to fix a fault.

Kanpur: Taking cognizance of the alleged EVM tampering matter, Kanpur Nagar DM issued a clarification.

He said, "On 1 March, two persons tried to enter the outer wall of the Bilhaur Strong room, who were caught by the CRPF personnel and handed over to the local police for questioning."

"The security incharge then wanted to check the footage from the CCTV operator, who was then present with the CRPF personnel to show him the footage," the DM said.

New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) With the Russia-Ukraine war roiling financial markets globally, the government may defer the mega IPO of LIC and wait for an opportune time to get the maximum value of its holding in the state-owned insurance behemoth, sources said.

"It's a full blown war now so we will have to assess the situation for going ahead with the LIC IPO," a government source said.

New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Russia will investigate the death of the 21-year-old Indian medical student in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Russian Ambassador-designate Denis Alipov said on Wednesday.

Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, a fourth-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, was killed in intense shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday.

Following the incident, India asked the envoys of both Russia and Ukraine to ensure "urgent safe passage" to Indian nationals who are still in Kharkiv and other conflict zones.

Jaunpur (UP), Mar 2 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday threw a broadside at the BJP terming it the "biggest liar party" and accused it of halving farmers' income even though they came to power with the promise of doubling it.

At an election meeting in Jaunpur, he promised to relax the age limit for government jobs and announce vacancies in the police force if the alliance led by his party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh.