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Finland becomes the first nation to get the youngest prime minister of the world. 34-year old Sanna Marin is all set to swear in as Finland’s Prime Minster. And she will head a coalition government with four parties headed by women politicians and three of them are under 35.

Young women coalition partners of Finland

Sanna Marin (34)

A Master in Administrative Sciences from the University of Tampere, Sanna Marin boasts of rich experience in politics. She was the first Vice President of the Social Democratic Youth between 2010 and 2012. She was elected as the City Council of Tampere in 2012 and member of the Parliament of Finland in 2015. Today she is the youngest price minister in the world.

Li Andersson (32)

Born on 1987, Li Andersson has been leading the Left Alliance party since 2016. Earlier she was the head of The Left Youth of Finland from 2011 to 2015. She holds a bachelor degree in Social Services and has studied international law at Abo Akademi University. Presently she’s specializing in international human rights law and refugee law.

Maria Ohisalo (34)

Maria Ohisalo hails from Helsinki and is leader of the Green League party. A sports enthusiast, she graduated from the Makelanrinne Sports Gymnasium in 2004 and went to pursue Master’s degree in social science followed by a doctorate in sociology. She joined the Green League party in 2008 and became its head in 2019.

KatriKulmuni (32)

Katri Kulmuni holds a Master’s degree in social science from the University of Lapland. She’s the leader of Centre Party of Finland and has been a member of Parliament of Finland since 2015. She became Minister of Economic Affairs in June 2019 and elevated to Deputy Prime Minister of Finland … Read the rest

National News & Politics

Congress Writes To Its State Presidents To Protest The Citizenship Bill Today

HT News December 11, 2019

Congress will hold protest against the passage of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the Lok Sabha. It has urged its leaders and workers to hold protests across the country on Wednesday.

Congress General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal said that the people were aware that the Congress was opposing the CAB that was likely to be taken up in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The party needed to enlighten the public at large on the party’s stand and mobilized support in favour of party’s decision. He also wrote a letter to party state Presidents.

Letter of Mr Venugopal

He requested the party leaders and workers to undertake dharna pradarshan (protest) against the Bill in state headquarters by involving the senior leaders and frontal organisations.

The letter came out after former Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi criticised the CAB calling it an attack on the constitution of India. Mr Gandhi said that anyone supporting the bill was destroying the foundation of nation.

The CAB passed in the Lok Sabha sought to give nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan despite vehement opposition from major opposition parties. He also termed the bill anti-Muslim.

Parties that opposed CAB

The Congress, the TMC, Revolutionary Socialist Party, DravidaMunnetraKazhgam (DMK), All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), AIUDF, BSP, Samajwadi Party, AamAadmi Party and YSR Congress opposed CAB citing various grounds. But the bill was passed with 311 voting in its favour and 80 against the bill.

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Fashion & Lifestyle

South Africa’s ZozibiniTunzi Crowned Miss Universe 2019 But India’s Vartika Singh Had To Contend With Top 20 Placement

HT News December 10, 2019

ZozibiniTunzi of South Africa was crowned Miss Universe 2019 at massive competition at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. The 26-year old became the third Miss Universe from South Africa after Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters being declared the winner in 2017.

The news was broken to the world through Miss Universe’s official Instagram account. Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray from the Philippines presented The Miss Universe 2019 ZozibiniTunzi with the crown.

Miss Universe competition

ZozibiniTunzi beat more than 90 contestants from the globe to became Miss Universe 2019. Miss India was also one of the contestants. The televised event hosted by American comic-turned-TV personality Steve Harvey.

Miss Puerto Rico Madison Anderson was the first runner-up and the second position was secured by Ashley Alvidrez of Mexico. Contestants from Columbia and Thailand were also in the top 5 participants.

Miss India Vartika Singh secured a place in the top 20 of the world’s biggest beauty pageant but she crashed out.

What did Tunzi say after being crowned?

She said that she grew up in the world women of her skin and hare weren’t considered to be beautiful. She said that she wanted the children to look at her and saw her face. She further said that she wanted the children saw their faces reflected in her.

Tunzi said that the Miss Universe platform had become amazing as it was getting voice people were passionate about. She said that she had voice but it was Miss Universe platform that allowed to amplify her voice.

Source: https://cnn.it/2RCKZ9R

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Technology

18 New McLaren Models Will Enter India Market By 2025

HT News December 10, 2019

The British sportscar and supercar manufacturer McLaren Automotive has plans to come to India under its expansion plans. The car maker is looking for new markets including Russia, India and Central/Easter Europe.

McLaren Automotive statement

The car major announced 18 new cars at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and revealed its expansion plans for 2025 called Track25. McLaren first launched Track22 plan at Geneva Motor Show in 2016. It said that that Track25 is the update of the Track22 plan.

McLaren cars in the world

Presently it owns 86 outlets in 31 markets across the globe and it plans to increase its dealership to 100 units by 2025. Also, it announced to convert all its cars into hybrid within seven years. The car maker also promised new augmented driving features including lighter, superfast-charging and high-power battery system for performance applications that will reduce the electric-range around a race track to over 30 minutes.

Also, the company is investing £50 million in developing and manufacturing the future of lightweight technology at its McLaren Composites Technology Centre (MCTC).

But the biggest thing is the launch of the successor of McLaren P1, the world’s first ever petrol-electric hybrid-hypercar, as part of Track25 plan. The company launched McLaren P1 five years ago.

Future of McLaren cars

The company plans enhancing its production to 6,000 cars a year under the Track25 plan. It would be almost 75% increase over its present output. As now, all its cars are hand-assembled at the McLaren Production Centre in Working, England.

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News & Politics

Highlights The Fiery Debate Of Citizenship Amendment Bill

HT News December 10, 2019

Lok Sabha passed the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill in the midnight on Monday after spending 7 hours in heated debate and with 311 voting in favour and 80 against the bill. The bill will be tabled in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

During the debate, Union Home Minister Amit Shah assured the country that the CAB was no even 0.001% against the minorities residing in India. He even questioned the intention of Congress in opposing the bill and blamed Congress for dividing the country on religious lines in 1947. He stressed that the CAB would make it easy for non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan to become Indian citizens.

Highlights of the CAB debate

• PM Narendra Modi congratulated the Lok Sabha for passing the CAB and said that it was in centuries-old ethos of assimilation and belief in humanitarian values.

• Amit Shah said that CAB couldn’t be linked to National Register of Citizens (NRC) brought to identify illegal immigrants in India.

• Rejecting the claim that the centre was trying to make a Hindu Pakistan, Amit Shah said that Muslims had grown from 9.8% to 14% India but in Pakistan, minorities were reduced from 23% to 3.7%.

• Some north-eastern states have been excluded from CAB due to specific reasons.

• Shiv-Sena was earlier opposed to the bill but later decided to support CAB in Lok Sabha.

• Congress posed the bitter objection and opposition to the bill. It claimed that CAB was against the spirit of the constitution. Shashi Tharoor even said that BJP’s thinking was similar to that of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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Technology

Pre-Book The Much Awaited Smartphone Vivo V17 At Rs. 22,990

HT News December 10, 2019

Vivo launched its latest flagship phone V17 in India on Monday. Considering the look, features and price of the phone, it can be said that Vivo is targeting the young-generation. Distinguished with its punch-hole design and gradient back finish, the phone promises enhanced user experience.

Price

The Vivo V17 is priced at Rs. 22,990 for single 8GB RAM + 128GB ROM. Available in Midnight Ocean (Black) and Glacier Ice (White) colours, the Smartphone will be available for sale from December 17. But it already up for pre-booking.

Specifications

The Vivo V17 comes with dual-SIM (Nano) support and run Android 9 Pie with FuntouchOS 9.2. But its most distinguished feature is its 6.44-inch full-HD+ (1080×2400 pixels) E3 Super AMOLED iView Display with 20:9 aspect ratio and hole-punch design.

Under the hood, the Vivo V17 packs an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoC, along with 8GB of RAM.

Connectivity options on the Vivo V17 are 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It also comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor.

Camera

Vivo V17 sports a 48-megapixel primary sensor with an f/1.8 lens, 8-megapixel secondary sensor with an f/2.2 lens, 2-megapixel tertiary sensor with an f/2.4 bokeh lens, and a 2-megapixel sensor with an f/2.4 macro lens. For selfies, the Vivo V17 provides a 32-megapixel selfie camera with an f/2.45 lens.

Battery

Vivo V17 is powered by a 4,500mAh battery that supports 18W Dual-Engine fast charging technology.

Weight& Dimensions

Dimensions of the Vivo V17 are 159.01×74.17×8.54mm and it weighs only 176 grams.

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Technology

WhatsApp Adds Call Waiting And Privacy Features: Here’re The Details

HT News December 9, 2019

WhatsApp has added an extremely useful feature to its Android app. It is call-waiting and its advantage is that it provides more freedom to the users. But it isn’t the same call-waiting that you get with regular mobile networks. The feature was made available for iPhone app last month.

How does call waiting on WhatsApp work?

Prior to update, WhatsApp allows only call at a time. If you receive a call in the middle of a call, the incoming call was automatically disconnected and marked as missed call. But the update has changed the setting to allow users to either decline the incoming call or accept the incoming call by ending the ongoing call.

The users would see two buttons “Decline” and “End & Accept” on receiving incoming calls in the middle of outgoing calls. They can simply choose the decline the call and continue with the online callers or end the ongoing calls and connect to the incoming callers depending on their needs. It is available on both the beta as well as stable Android channels. The changelog also has group privacy settings and fingerprint unlock feature.

What are privacy settings?

WhatsApp allows its users to control from being added to unknown groups. Also, the users can enable finger print lock to prevent others from reading their WhatsApp messages. Las month, WhatsApp rolled call waiting feature and a redesigned chat screen with Braille keyboard to send messages using VoiceOver mode. Users can download these features from Google Play store.

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News & Politics

Congress And JDS Hopeful Of Making A Coalition In Karnataka After Bypoll Results

HT News December 9, 2019

Fate of BS Yediyurappa led BJP government in Karnataka will be decided by the result of 15 assembly seats. Bypolls for these seats were held on December 5 and the result is expected by today evening.

Why were the bypolls held in Karnataka?

15 MLAs of Congress-JDS coalition resigned in support of BJP thus bringing the coalition government to an end and paving way for BJP government. Out of the 15 assembly seats, 12 belong to Congress and 3 to the JDS. The bypolls are crucial for ruling BJP as well as for the opposition.

What is the present political equation in Karnataka?

With the result, the strength of Karnataka assembly would be 224 but the BJP has only 105 MLAs. It would need 7 MLAs to get majority in the new house. Congress has 66 MLAs and JDS has 35 seats. If the BJP fails to win 7 seats, its government would come in minority. Also, the opposition parties could again form a coalition to keep the BJP out of power.

What is the future of Karnataka government?

The BJP claims to win 13 out of 15 seats but in case, it fails to win the required number of seats, it could go out of power. Also, the Congress and JDS could come together to form a coalition to run the government. The opposition parties believe that they will defeat the BJP in the bypolls and again make a coalition on the lines of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress experiment in Maharashtra.

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National Viral

Chandrayaan-3 Would Cost ISRO Rs. 75 Crores

HT News December 8, 2019

Chandrayaan-3 is now official and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has started working on the ambitious project. It has sought Rs. 75 crores for this mission but the fund would be in addition to the existing budget of ISRO.

ISRO needs Rs. 60 crores for the expenditure for buying machinery, equipment and other capital expenditure for Chandrayaan-3 mission. Also, it needs Rs. 15 crores for meeting the revenue expenditure head. ISRO needs this money quick because it is preparing for the Moon landing mission next November.

ISRO’s budget for 2019-20

ISRO has demanded Rs. 666 crores over and above the funds granted in the original 2019-20 budget.The Rs. 75 crores are 11% of the Rs. 666 crores. Rest of the funds would be utilized for the following programmes.

Rs. 8.6 crores for the proposed human spaceflight programme expected to be implemented in 2022.
Rs. 12 crores for development of small satellite launch vehicle.
Rs. 120 crores for development of launchpad for small satellite launch vehicle.

But the largest demand for funds has been raised by UR Rao Satellite Centre and Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Together they need Rs. 516 crores for assembling and testing facilities and development of the spaceport respectively.

Government confirms ISRO’s demand

Sources in the central government have confirmed that ISRO has demanded more funds to meet its expenditure. The Department of Economic Affairs deals with ISRO has started the process of clearing the fund. And the department has assured that ISRO would get fund for both the projects.

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Today's Special

Live News Updates: Fire In A Delhi Home Leaves 43 People Dead; Unnao Rape Victim Cremated After Assurance Of Justice

HT News December 8, 2019

Fire broke out in a home in Delhi kills 43 people

43 people died in a fire broke in a home in Anaj Mandi on Rani Jhansi Road. It happened on the small hours of Sunday 8th December but people came to know about the fire at 05:22 AM after which the fire brigade was called. 30 fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the fire. The firemen controlled the flames and rescued 50 people. The injured persons were sent to Lok Nayak Hospital for treatment. The rescue work was still going on at the time writing the news.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee gave her condolences for the people burnt in Delhi fire. She tweeted that she felt sad about the death and pray for the quick recovery of those injured in the incident.

Unnao rape and murder victim cremated on Sunday

Sister of Unnao rape victim said that they won’t cremate the victim until CM Adityanath Yogi came to meet them. She maintained that she wanted to talk to CM Yogi. She asked for a government job for herself and death penalty for the accused. But the family of the victim agreed to create the victim after the Lucknow commissioner and senior police officers assured them of justice. The victim was cremated on Sunday 8th December.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav sat on protest outside the assembly a day before on 7th December. He said that justice couldn’t be delivered until CM, state home secretary and DGP resigned. He also said that SP would organize condolence meet in every district.

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