13 digit mobile number coming to India soon, all you need to know - The telecom operator also said that migration of 10-digit M2M numbers to 13 digits mobile number will start latest by October 1, 2018.

New mobile number in India will be soon of 13 digits long and if reports are to be believed the plan will be implemented from July 1, 2018.

According to reports, mobile numbers of the existing subscribers will also be transitioned to the new 13 digits protocol.

“It is decided that 13-digit M2M (Machine-to-machine) numbering plan will be implemented from July 1, 2018,” a source was quoted as saying in a news reports.

A directive by Department of Telecom has already been issued to all the states in this regard and

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has reportedly sent a missive to its partners ZTE Telecom and Nokia Solutions Networks directing them to ensure that network elements including IT and other relevant systems are aligned with 13-digit numbering from M2M SIMs before 1st July 2018.

The telecom operator also said that migration of 10-digit M2M numbers to 13 digits will start latest by October 1, 2018 and shall be completed by December 31, 2018.

According to sources, the decision in this regard was taken in a meeting recently held in Delhi. In the meeting the issues was raised that there are no more options left to issue new 10 digit mobiles numbers following which it was decided to switch to 13 digit pattern.

Interestingly, it will make India the country with the longest mobile numbers as China is the only country having 11 digit mobile numbers, not counting the area code.

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https://www.jagranjosh.com/trending/top-news-headlines-13-digit-mobile-number-coming-to-india-soon-all-you-need-to-know-371085

WhatsApp 'Delete for Everyone' feature has this major loophole

Last year, WhatsApp rolled out this feature to allow its over one billion user base to revoke messages in case they sent those to a wrong person or a group.

If someone has quoted your message on WhatsApp before you delete it, you will still be able to see that message rendering the 'Delete for Everyone' feature ineffective, a media report said.

Last year, WhatsApp rolled out this feature to allow its over one billion user base to revoke messages in case they sent those to a wrong person or a group.

Users can only delete messages for everyone for up to seven minutes after sending.However, tech website The Next Web reported that quoted messages in chats continued to show in quotes even after they were wiped.

It said that this is not a bug and is a part of the the feature.If a user sends a message and deletes it from a group or individual chat within seven minutes, the message will disappear.

However, if within these seven minutes, that message is quoted then the original message will successfully disappear but the deleted text continues to show in the recipient's quote.

Interestingly, there is no mention of how the feature works in cases of quotes in the WhatsApp's FAQ.This comes following the reports in which researchers claimed to discover other shortcomings in WhatsApp's implementation of deleted messages.

In one particular flaw discovered by Spanish tech blog AndroidJefe, it was possible to recover deleted messages from the Android notification history. "Relying on third-party apps, users could browse the notification log to read purged texts," the report said.

The Independent later pointed out that this approach could only recover deleted messages that were read or interacted with.

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https://www.jagranjosh.com/trending/science-technology-whatsapp-delete-for-everyone-feature-has-this-major-loophole-371079

IIT Delhi establishes centre to study air pollution

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi inaugurated a Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA) to help scholars devise solutions to fight air pollution and promote scientific research in the field.

It has been set up with the help of institute's alumnus Arun Duggal, who worked for the most part of his career as a banker at Bank of America and a former chairman of Shriram Capital. It was inaugurated by Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal.

"The centre will be a platform for undertaking multidisciplinary research projects by the faculty of IIT Delhi especially focused to study and resolve clear air issues in Delhi and NCR region. Besides providing scientific information to policymakers this will also give feedback on the effectiveness of various pollution management programmes," said a statement from the institute.

The centre will also be used to strike collaborations between researchers and the industry to manufacture the equipment and also for the air pollution reduction programmes being implemented in China, US, UK, Japan, and South Korea.

"All the solutions and the answers need a holistic reflection coupled with an approach that has a strong community participation.

We are being inundated with all kinds of solutions from zero waste to ozone-based technologies but they have to be sustainable. We are trying to get pilot projects that are diversified and localised. I am hopeful that the centre will help in finding solutions to the mounds of garbage at the landfill sites of Delhi, enumerate viable tech solution for zero waste in a decentralised manner and management of silt that gets segregated from the silt waste," Baijal said at the inauguration.

Terming IIT Delhi faculty and student body as the "most talented", Duggal said: "It is my belief that CERCA will become a leading scientific centre for addressing the air pollution issues not only in India but also in the world."

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https://www.jagranjosh.com/trending/education-iit-delhi-establishes-centre-to-study-air-pollution-370093

Bengaluru: Silt from lakes to make environment-friendly bricks - The cost of each brick can be reduced to almost half of their conventional counterparts and they are one and a half times stronger as well.

Bengaluru: 

A group of young scientists and engineers in the city have come up with an innovative product -concrete bricks made from lake sludge which are totally environment-friendly unlike cement-based ones. 

The cost of each brick can be reduced to almost half of their conventional counterparts and they are one and a half times stronger as well, claims Mohsin Ali Khan, a civil engineer who just graduated from CMRIT and has been instrumental in the innovation along with four of his friends. The team adds that the sludge can also be used as a good fertliliser.  

Research under the guidance of Prof. Phani Kumar Pullela helped the team file three patents - for sewage sludge bricks, ornamental bricks and cementless structural-element pave bricks. Using geopolymer technology, the team has been working and experimenting since 2016 as part of their final project at college.  They have also registered a startup named CO3 Structural Systems which has been recognised by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India.

Speaking to DC, Prof Pullela, head of innovation and entrepreneurship cell at CMRIT said that the team was inspired by design thinking workshops held at the institute which enabled them to come up with innovative solutions. "The team identified the problem at Bellandur and collected silt from the lake which was treated and used for their experiments. As research progressed, their hard work and dedication helped them find patentable ideas. They have developed something dangerous for nature into something that is environment-friendly and that needs to be appreciated," he remarked. 

The company is now working on another project related to utilising mine dust for innovative solutions and is hopeful of setting up a brick factory soon near to the city. The team of friends have also decided to pursue higher education in  due course, in turns. For instance, when Gowtham Reddy B, one among them, returns on completion of his course at Coventry University, Mohsin has already made plans to fly to a varsity to further his education. The other members of the team include Sharath Kumara Devraju, Vinay Kumar Mansali and Mulla Parvez Ahamed and mentors Prof. Karthik N M (Civil Engineering Department) and Prof. Srinivas Reddy (Mechanical Engineering Department). "The company has signed an MoU with CMRIT and CMR University to help us further our research using the laboratory facilities and mentoring from the subject experts," sums up Mohsin.

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https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/200218/bengaluru-silt-from-lakes-to-make-environment-friendly-bricks.html

PhDs from IITs to serve as teachers in rural tech colleges

New Delhi: After doctors, it is now the turn of IITians to serve in rural areas. Over 1200 PhDs and MTech graduates from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will serve as faculty members in engineering colleges in rural areas in 11 states that are considered underdeveloped including Jharkhand, Bihar, MP, UP and others.

Unlike doctors, there is no compulsion for techies to serve in rural colleges and as many as 5000 of them had applied to be a part of the rural teaching programme when the government invited applications for the same last year. This programme is a part of the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) under Ministry of Human Resource Development. TEQIP is a World Bank sponsored programme, which is being managed by MHRD in India. The budget for teachers is Rs. 375 crore for three years.

These fresh-out-of-college techies will serve for three years as Assistant Professors before they venture into some other field, either a job as a teacher or with some private company. The experience that they gain from teaching in these institutes will however be counted if they serve as teachers. They have been appointed on contract basis.

There are 293 PhDs and 932 MTech graduates among those who have been selected to teach in 53 engineering institutes. According to officials, more than one lakh students who are studying in these institutes will be benefitted by the scheme. These teachers would improve teaching learning process in these institutes apart from imbibing a start-up culture among students.

“We are taking this step to ensure quality education in rural areas in states that are underdeveloped, specially those that were considered Bimaru at one point of time. Applications were invited from post graduates and PhDs in premier institutes like IITs, NITs and IISc to serve in rural areas as teachers and we got a very good response from them. Now 1225 have already started teaching in colleges in underdeveloped districts,” said HRD minister Prakash Javadekar.

Source:DNA-1st February,2018
http://epaper2.dnaindia.com/index.php?mod=1&pgnum=1&edcode=820009&pagedate=2018-2-01#