2010 Trends – A Roadmap for the Future

2010 Trends – A Roadmap for the Future: The trends map has 16 lines representing everything from society & culture to news & media. There are also 5 time zones representing 2010-2050, so everything that falls outside the central zone (zone 1) is obviously a prediction.  The key mega trends on the map are: Ageing; Power shift Eastwards; Globalisation; Localisation; Digitalisation; Personalisation; Volatility; Individualism; Environmental change; Sustainability; Debt; and Urbanisation. Some of the predictions include:  All televised sport becomes short-format; Epidemic of new disorders caused by uncensored use of digital devices; Turkey, Iran and Mexico become key powers; Online communities gather offline to start physical communities; The robot population surpasses the human population; Brain holidays; Communications free resorts; People attending online funerals; and The appearance of laboratory grown meat in supermarkets. https://goo.gl/tZsUsT

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Good, Bad, Ugly & Interesting News -- 24th June 2017

Good, Bad, Ugly & Interesting News

24^th June 2017

Source: Times of India

GOOD  News

NEET shield: 85% medical seat quota for TN board students

CBSE agrees to re-evaluate exam papers of students

Passports from now on will be printed both in English and Hindi. Passport fee has been reduced by 10% for applicants below eight years and those above 60 years

The Supreme Court has come out in favour of amendment to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act to make the law “meaningful“ by allowing women to abort terminally ill fetuses beyond the current limit of 20 weeks

Centre pledges Rs 58k crore to 30 Smart Cities, 4 TN towns, Pondy make the cut

For the third straight year, Tamil Nadu topped the country in attracting tourists, both foreign and domestic, in 2016

The office of the inspector general of registration granted sub registrars permission to re-register unapproved plots which were registered as 'house sites' before October 21, 2016

India is ranked No.2 for fintech innovation afrer US. --  CapGemini report

Bad News

TN got just 10% (Rs.29,615 crore) of Rs 2.42L crore promised at GIM, admits minister

Punjab has become the first state in the country to take the Excise Act amendment route to make way for booze sale near highways after the SC barred liquor vends within 500-metre radius of highways on December 15, 2016

According to a UN agency report, Tamil Nadu and Kerala may top the country in literacy rates, but account for the highest proportion of its literate child workers ­ most of them labouring in cities

In Texas, an eight-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub while her mother was busy texting on Facebook

NRI deposits hit a two-year low with liquidity surplus in India

Over the next three fiscals, India's cement sector will reverse a six-year trend when incremental demand will outpace incremental supply. While incremental demand is seen doubling to 48 MT compared with the past three fiscals, incremental supply is seen moderating by a fifth to 31 MT from 39 MT

Ugly News

A frenzied mob, raising pro-Pakistan slogans, lynched a senior police officer outside Srinagar's Jamia Masjid on Shab-e-Qadr, the holiest night for Muslims during Ramzan

Interesting News

The capital cities of 11 states -- Kerala, Gujarat, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Himachal, Andhra J&K, Mizoram, Sikkim and Chhattisgarh were among 30 urban areas which were selected to be developed as smart cities

Pinkathon set to raise cancer awareness in Chennai for 4th year

Govt. has set a target of Rs 1L cr for knitwear biz by 2020

The number of child workers fell from 1.2 crore in 2001 to 1.01 crore in 2011 across the country

Coimbatore-based Ganga Hospital on Friday became the first in the country to have full-time air ambulance service attached to it

Village boy from Punjab tops NEET, wants to fight cancer

Punjab's cotton belt or the Malwa region is often called India's cancer capital given the high incidence of the killer disease here

The world's most powerful person and Marora, a tiny village in Haryana's most backward district, now have something in common. The name Trump. The re-naming has been done  as a publicity exercise to draw the world's attention to Marora.

A fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests

Trump wants a solar wall on Mexico border

Mountain Scene, a newspaper in New Zeal and's resort town Queenstown has decided to take a stand against drunken driving by filling its front page with the names, ages and alcohol readings for about 100 people convicted of the offence

People could soon travel from London to Edinburgh, a distance of approximately 670 kilometres, in eight minutes, claims Hyper Chariot, a company that has announced its intention to build an extremely ambitious transport system that would be capable of reaching speeds of 4,000 mph (approx. 6,400 kmph), and could also be emission-free and 100% solar-powered

In Netherlands, KPN, the national phone company is developing a smart way to stop kids from texting while cycling -a growing cause of teenage accidents. This new app will block internet and phone signals to a cyclist's smartphone while they are in the saddle.

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The UK Parliament was hit by a cyber-attack leaving MPs unable to access their emails remotely.

Honda Motor had to shut down its Sayama plant in Japan on Monday after it was found that WannaCry ransomware had hit its computer network.

The Delhi Metro has introduced its own smart watches Watch2Pay (to be priced at Rs. 6000),, that  will enable commuters' faster entry and exit at metro stations. The watches, made in partnership with an Austrian company, will have a sim card inside for recharging, but won't require mobile network to function.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have developed a skin patch that could charge mobile devices from users' sweat. The biofuel patch has already been used to power a radio for two days using human sweat. The flexible square patch sticks to the skin and contains enzymes to replace metals normally used in batteries.

Artificial intelligence could start World War III -- Jack Ma

Mark Zuckerberg sets a new mission for Facebook  to "Bring the world closer together.

Source: Inshorts, https://www.inshorts.com

Good, Bad, Ugly & Interesting News -- 23rd June 2017

Good, Bad, Ugly & Interesting News

23^rd June 2017

Source: Times of India

GOOD  News

In Tamil Nadu, Traffic violators could lose licence for 6 months. Driving Drunk, Or While Using Phone In TN Will Attract Penalty

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act that seeks to protect the interests of homebuyers is likely to be implemented across the TN state from 23^rd June. While the central act covers projects of more than eight units, Tamil Nadu may place five or more units constructed on excess of 500sqm under the purview of RERA. This will bring more housing projects under the ambit of the act. Developers failing to deliver bldg projects on time may face jail

Madras univ adds 20% arts & science seats which means close to 5,000 seats will open up in colleges

No toxins in milk sample sent by TN: Pune lab report

University of Madras makes plagiarism software must in the evaluation process of PhD programmes

Madras University will soon have a system where the progress of PhD students can be tracked online

The much-awaited Porur flyover will be opened by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on 25^th Jun 2017. Conceived during the DMK government in 2010, the flyover was constructed at a cost of `54 crore

Gun licences without UIDs invalid: Police

India once again broke a global space record by launching the world's lightest satellite weighing a mere 64g,India called Kalamsat, designed and developed not by professional space scientists and engineers, but an 18-year-old student, Rifath Sharook, and his team from Pallapatti in Karur from Tamil Nadu

With use of one rocket for multiple satellites, ISRO -- Indian Space Research Organisation is actually helping reduce space debris

State Bank of India (SBI) has sought the provision of spectrum as a collateral as it expressed doubts over ability of the mobile companies to service their loan

IT cos will add up to 1.5L jobs this year: NASSCOM

Apple's first batch of `Assembled in India' iPhone SE has made its debut in select stores in Bengaluru priced at Rs 27,200 for a 32GB and Rs 37,200 for a 128 GB model

Bad News

GST errors not to attract fine for first three months

Savings pick up pace as post offices switch to core banking.

GST could lead to lower rate -- RBI governor

From 1^st July, services set to get costlier post GST as service tax at 15% is getting replaced with GST at 18%

The world's population will rise to 8.6 billion by 2030, from the current 7.6 billion, the latest projections by the UN population division suggest. India's population, currently 1.34 billion, is projected to rise to 1.51 billion by 2030 and further to1.66 billion by 2050

Tata Power has offered to sell 51% stake in its 4,000MW Mundra power project for a token amount of Re 1to its consumer states such as Gujarat as the project has become unviable, with Rs 6,457 crore of accumulated losses wiping out paid-up equity of Rs 6,083 crore

Nearly 75 per cent of the world's population will be study affected by deadly heatwaves by 2100 if carbon gas emissions continue to rise at current rates

Ugly News

11 die in Indore hosp as `oxygen supply snaps'

Essar Steel and Bhushan with combined loans of Rs 85,000 crore face bankruptcy proceedings

Interesting News

No cars, ACs for Uttarakhand govt till schools get chairs -- high court
 
Nigeria will overtake the US as the third most populous country in 2047. The population numbers are projected at 387 million and 385 million respectively.

Space debris is the collection of defunct man-made objects in space ­ old satellites, spent  rocket stages and  fragments  from  disintegration   and   collisions. The  space debris can really be dangerous as they travel at a speed of up to 30,000km an hour, which turns even tiny pieces of junk into deadly shrapnel that can damage satellites, space shuttles and even space stations..

Older people can boost their brain power by having more sex. More frequent sexual activity has been linked to improved brain function in the elderly, according to a new study by the University of Oxford and the University of Coventry

Cosmetic procedures are of increasing interest to millennial men with reasons cited as to appear younger was wanting to feel better about themselves, followed by the desire to appear less tired or stressed, and then to please their partners

According to NASSCOM, the IT industry is expected to log 1011% growth in the domestic market and 7-8% for exports in 2017-18

In 2016-17, the revenues of the IT-BPM industry grew to $154 billion from $143 billion 2015-16

Small savings deposits in India jumped by 10% to Rs 7.19 lakh crore from 6.53 lakh crore despite demonetisation. Post-office deposits, form 65% of all small saving deposits in the country

Lyricist Vairamuthu to erect a statue for Balachander

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Google's voice-assisted smart speaker Google Home has outsmarted Amazon's voice-assistant Alexa in a 3,000 question quiz as a part of a research held by New York-based digital agency 360i.

Google has announced that it will stop scanning the inboxes of Gmail's free users for keywords that help to target ads later this year. Users will continue to see promoted messages in the free version of Gmail, but the ads will be targeted using personal information from sources like the user's search history, location, and YouTube.

Amazon has filed a patent for a multi-storey warehouse for its delivery drones which resembles a beehive in shape. The patent states that the warehouses will be built within densely populated urban areas. The warehouse will have multiple windows for drones to fly in and out of the building.

Users testing Google's upcoming Android O have suggested that the latest Android operating system could be named 'Oatmeal Cookie'.

Source: Inshorts, https://www.inshorts.com