Cyber Crime Offenders of Younger Age Group Rising: National Crime Records Bureau

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Data between 2008 and 2011 depicted that around 60 percent of the people arrested for cyber crimes belonged to the age group of 18 to 30 years. The cyber crimes include activities such as forgery, obscene publications as well as hacking. 

The NCRB data revealed that from 2008 to 2011, 1184 people were arrested in context with the cyber crimes and that this number was on the rise. Additional Deputy Commissioner (Economic Offences Wing) SD Mishra explained that most of the offenders came from the younger generation age group and that these people were aware of various means and methods which can be used for exploiting the cyber space. 

Hacking

The records, in the meanwhile, also revealed that the cases of hacking increased considerably from 2008 to 2011. There is an increase from 56 cases of hacking to 826 cases. Almost half of the people arrested in hacking cases belonged to the age group of 18 to 30 years. 
It is important to note that there is no special mention of hacking in the IT Act, 2000. But it is derived under the Section 66 of Computer Related offences, where there is a mention of maximum sentence of 3 years. 

Obscene Publications

The cases under the obscene publications reached to 496 in the year 2011 and 63.6 percent offenders came from 18-30 years of age group. The offence under obscene publication also has the sentence of three years imprisonment. It is important to mention here that the cases of obscene publications have increased tremendously, but still there hasn’t been any case of child pornography. 

Forgery

The cases of forgery increased by more than 400 percent between 2008 and 2011. There was an increase in number of such reported cases over the time because of rising awareness. The number of reported cases in forgery increased, especially in case of financial losses. Most of such cases dealt with credit card frauds as well as Internet banking. 

Cyber Security Arms

In those cases, where the involvement of unique data storage system as well as certain encryption code is required, the law enforcement agencies often make use of private security firms like Pyramid Cyber Security & Forensics. 

The Managing Director of Pyramid Cyber Security & Forensics Alok Gupta explained that in such cases there is a need of cooperation between the countries. He also referred to a cyber security agency known as IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership against Cyber Crime). IMPACT is the Non-Profit organisation which has 195 countries as its members. IMPACT acts like the cyber security arm of UN and also helps in dealing with the cyber threats. 

Cyber Security can be under threat because of mobile devices, cloud adoption as well as malware without the signatures.

Ilya Segalovich, the Co-Founder of Yandex Died at the Age of 48 Years

Ilya Segalovich, the co-founder of Yandex, the largest search engine of Russia, died on 27 July 2013 at a London hospital due to brain cancer. He was 48 years of age. Ilya Segalovich was earlier diagnosed with stomach cancer and cured positively due to chemical therapy. Eventually he was diagnosed with brain cancer. 

Life Sketch of Ilya Segalovich

• Ilya Segalovich was born on 13 September 1964.
• He was the co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. Yandex was found in the year 1997. Yandex enjoys 62 percent of the search engine market in Russia, in comparison to 25.6 percent of Google. 
• He remained the CTO as well as Director of Yandex since 2000 till his date of death. 
• The name of Yandex was proposed by Ilya Segalovich. He derived the idea of the name from the phrase- Yet Another Index.
• He started off his career in 1990 by working on the information retrieval technologies at Arkadia Company. He was the head of the software team there. 
• From the year 1993 to 2000, he was the leader of the retrieval systems department at CompTek International. 
• Finally, in the year 2000, he left CompTek International and established Yandex as the standalone company. 
• He was also the co-founder as well as supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. 
• He had a degree in geophysics from S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute.

Who: Ilya Segalovich

Where: London hospital

What: Died

When: 27 July 2013

Why: due to brain cancer

Cambodian Election 2013: Hun Sen's ruling Party claimed Victory

The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) which is led by Prime Minister Hun Sen had won at least 68 seats in the Lower house comparing with the 55 seats for the main opposition. The National Election Committee (NEC) gave a list of results from each polling station but no tally for parliamentary seats.

It is important here to note that the Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power in Cambodia for nearly three decades (28 years).

India’s First Hydrogen-Powered Fuel Cell Bus Developed by ISRO and Tata Motors

Tata Motors Limited (TML) and Indian Space Research Organisation, in collaboration, developed the first Hydrogen-powered automobile bus of India, after various years of research. The first hydrogen fuel-fitted bus of India was put on demonstration at the ISRO facility- Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre in Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu on 28 July 2013. 

Primary features of the Hydrogen-powered automobile bus

• The Hydrogen-powered automobile bus is the CNG kind of a bus. 
• Atop the bus, the Hydrogen in bottles at high pressure is stored, which would lead to zero pollution. 
• These hydrogen bottles or cells were a by-product of the cryogenic technology and ISRO had been working on the development of this since past few years. 
• The technology used in Hydrogen-powered automobile bus is not exactly like the cryogenic technology. It is actually the liquid hydrogen handling, where ISRO has expertise. 
• The bus would lead to zero pollution because the product of cold combustion would be just water. 

Since past 30 years, ISRO has had rich technology in production, storage as well as handling of the gaseous and liquid hydrogen. The team at ISRO generated technical specifications for various elements as well as general specifications of this bus. 

It is important to note that ISRO and TML had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the year 2006 in order to design as well as develop the automobile bus which uses hydrogen as the fuel through the fuel cell route. 

The entire project is a team work of Tata Motors and ISRO specialists along with the contribution from PESO (Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organisation) and DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research).

Baroda Rajasthan Kshetriya Gramin Bank Notified for Recruitment of 500 Posts

Baroda Rajasthan Kshetriya Gramin bank invited applications of the eligible candidates for recruitment for the post of Officer Jr. Management Scale-I and Office Assistant (Multipurpose) posts. A total of 500 vacancies is available including the both designations.

Important Dates

Payment of Application Fee: 30 July 2013

Start Date of Online Application: 30 July 2013

Last Date of Online Application: 14 August 2013

Posts

Officer Jr. Management Scale-I: 150 Posts

Office Assistant (Multipurpose): 350 Posts

Age as on 01 June 2012

For Officer Jr. Management Scale-I: The candidate must be between 18-28 Years.

For Office Assistant (Multipurpose): The candidate must be between 18-28 Years

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange launched political party in Australia

42 Year old Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 25 July 2013 officially launched his political party to contest Australian elections this year. 

As per Assange, his party which he named Wikileaks Party would be fielding seven candidates including Assange for upper house Senate seats in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

It is important here to note that the two Indian-origin persons are among the seven candidates who will contest elections on a Wikileaks Party ticket in Senate polls in Australia. Indian-origin academician Binoy Kampmark, who was born in Malaysia and has Bengali heritage, will stand for the Upper House election from Victori whereas Suresh Rajan, who is based out of Kerala, will stand for the party in Western Australia. 

The idea behind contesting election is to be an independent scrutineer of government activity. Julian Assange, will be contesting elections from Victoria. As per him major issue in the coming days would be the ruling Labour party's policy on asylum seekers. The foremost action of his party will be to demand full details of the government's asylum seeker arrangement with Papua New Guinea be made public. 

 The core value of Wikileaks Party's is transparency, accountability and justice are the template against which we will examine any important issues for Australians: tax reform, asylum-seekers, climate change policy and more.
Australia will be going into polls in November 2013 where the ruling Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Labour party is up against Tony Abbott-led conservatives. 

Julian Assange is holed up at Ecuador's embassy in London since June 2012 where he demanded refuge during his legal battle for exile from Britain to Sweden.

INSAT-3D, the Advanced Meteorological Satellite of India Launched Successfully

INSAT-3D, the advanced meteorological satellite of India was launched successfully by the European rocket, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket, from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana on 26 July 2013. The satellite will give a push to the weather forecasting as well as help in facilitating disaster warning services. 

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket of European space consortium launched the Alphasat satellites as well as INSAT-3D. Alphasat is the largest-ever telecommunication satellite of Europe. This satellite is the result of large-scale public-private partnership between Inmarsat as well as European Space Agency. 

Features of INSAT-3D

• The new satellite, INSAT-3D will be operational for next seven years, i.e., up to 2020. 
• The aim of the satellite is to make a crucial difference to the disaster warning systems as well as weather forecasting of India. 
• INSAT-3D will also provide monitoring of the ocean as well as land areas, apart from providing meteorological observation.
• INSAT-3D will facilitate new dimension to the weather monitoring because of its atmospheric sounding system. The atmospheric sounding system provides the vertical profiles of integrated ozone, humidity as well as temperature, from top of the atmosphere. 
• It is important to note that the imaging system and mechanism of INSAT-3D has a lot of improvement in comparison to INSAT-3A as well as KALPANA. 
• The satellite has the lift-off mass of 2060 kg.
• It will facilitate continuity to the previous missions as well as also help in increasing the capability of providing meteorological and search and rescue services.
• INSAT-3D carries the newly developed 19 channel sounder, which is the first payload of this kind to be flown to the ISRO satellite mission.
• INSAT-3D has the facility of Search and Rescue payload which catches as well as relays the alert signals that originate from distress signal of maritime, aviation and land based users to the Indian Mission Control Centre located at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore.

The primary users of the Satellite Aided Search and Rescue service in India include Directorate General of Shipping, Defence Services, fishermen, Indian Coast Guard as well as Airports Authority of India.

The alert services include a wide area of Indian Ocean region, as well as covers Sri Lanka, Tanzania, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Seychelles, Bhutan and Maldives.

The information of oceanographic, hydrological as well as meteorological data from the uninhabited locations over the coverage area from Data Collection Platforms (DCPs) such as Agro Met Stations, Automatic Rain Gauge and Automatic Weather Station, as well as remote locations will be collected by the Data Relay Transponder (DRT). 

The ISRO as well as India Meteorological Department have already established over 1800 DCPs.

India and China focussed on Additional Confidence Building Measures

India and China focussed on additional confidence building measures in the two-day talks between the representatives of the two countries that ended in New Delhi on 24 July 2013. The two nations reviewed the recent developments in the border areas to enhance peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control.

India and China discussed additional confidence building measures between them. They consulted on measures to improve the functioning of the working mechanism and to make it more efficient. Finally the two delegations further discussed the possibility of introducing an additional route for the Kailash Mansarovar yatra.

The meeting on working mechanism for consultation and coordination on India-China border affairs was led by Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs Gautam Bambawale and senior officials of the Defence and Home Ministries from the Indian side. The Chinese side was represented by a composite delegation of its officials. The next meeting will be held in China at a mutually convenient date and time.

Tour de France 2013: Chris Froome won 100th Edition of the Race

Chris Froome from Britain on 21 July 2013 has won the 100th edition of the Tour de France.

It was Britain's second successive victory in the race. Earlier in year 2012 Sir Bradley Wiggin, Froome's Team Sky colleague became the first Briton to win Tour de France. 

Facts and Figures of the Race

• Marcel Kittel claimed the final stage in the twilight, with Manxman Mark Cavendish third in a hotly-contested sprint along the Champs Elysees.
• The second half of the race, heavy on climbing, with five mountain stages, took the riders to the top of Mont Ventoux and on two ascents of the legendary Alpe d'Huez.
• The final stage ended as the first, with German sprinter Marcel Kittel in front.
• Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider was third, as Germany's Kittel won a fourth stage in this year's race and Andre Greipel finished second, with more than 35000 spectators lining the streets in the French capital.

About Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. 

The race was first organized in 1903 to increase paper sales for the magazine L'Auto; it is currently run by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The race has been held annually since its first edition in 1903 except for when it was stopped for the two World Wars. 

The Tour is a UCI World Tour event, which means that the teams that compete in the race are mostly UCI ProTeams, with the exception of the teams that the organizers invite.

The modern editions of the Tour de France consist of 21 day-long segments (stages) over a 23-day period and cover around 3200 kilometres (2,000 mi).[10] The race alternates between clockwise and anticlockwise circuits of France. The number of teams usually varies between 20 and 22, with nine riders in each.

Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced the Ramon Magsaysay Awards for the year 2013

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on 24 July 2013 announced the Ramon Magsaysay Awards for the year 2013 to three individuals and two organizations for changing their societies for the better.

Afghanistan's first woman governor Habiba Sarabi and a Myanmar civil society organiser Lahpai Seng Raw, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the year 2013.

A Brief insight into the list of the Awardees

1. Habiba Sarabi of Afghanistan honoured for helping build a functioning local government and pushing for education and women's rights in Afghanistan's Bamyan Province despite discrimination and poverty. 
2. Lahpai Seng Raw of Myanmanr honoured for helping the rehabilitate work in damaged communities amid armed conflict. 
3. Ernesto Domingo, a 76-year-old Physician honored for dedicating his career to pushing for the poor's access to Health services and for groundbreaking and successful advocacy of neonatal Hepatitis vaccination that has saved millions of lives in the Philippines.
4. The Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission), Indonesia's independent anti-corruption Government body, was honored for a 100-percent conviction rate in the 169 cases it fought between 2004 and 2010, during which it recovered more than US 80 million dollars in stolen assets.
5. The Nepalese group Shakti Samuha (Power Group), formed by survivors of human trafficking, has recognised for helping fellow victims by setting up halfway homes and emergency shelters.

About the Ramon Magsaysay Award

The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, named after a popular Philippines President who was killed in a plane crash, was established in 1957 to honor people or groups who change communities in Asia for the better.

Every year the award is presented in a ceremony conducted on 31 August in Manila and the winners are honoured with US 50000 dollars prize money.

More than 300 people and groups, including the US Peace Corps and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, have been recognized since 1958.

New Prince of Britain, the Royal Baby, Named George Alexander Louis

His Royal Highness, the new Prince of Britain, also called the Royal Baby was named George Alexander Louis on 24 July 2013. The announcement was made from the Kensington Palace. It was declared that the third-in-line successor to the throne will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. 

Significance of the name- George

• The meaning of the name George is earth worker or farmer.
• It is important to note that the name George was highly speculated because this was also the name of six previous British kings. The queen's father, George VI rallied Britain during the World War II. 
• George was also the 12th most popular name for boys in England as well as Wales in 2011. 
• St. George, a 4th-century Christian martyr, is also the patron saint of England. 

Significance of the name- Louis

• Louis is attributed to Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle as well as the last British Viceroy of India before 1947. 
• It is important to note that Prince Charles, the father of Prince Williams, was closely related with Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was then assassinated by Irish Republican Army in 1979.

It is said that as per the royal standards, the announcement of the name of His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge was too quick. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh had taken one month for naming Prince Charles. 

Prince William and Kate Middleton will soon choose a picture for the first official portrait of the baby.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton Gave Birth to a Baby Boy

Delhi Government to launch Food Security Scheme from 20 August 2013

Delhi government is all set to launch food security programme from 20 August 2013. Delhi will be the first state in India to launch Union government’s food security programme. The state government has completed all preparations in this regard.

Over 32 lakh identified families will start getting benefit under the scheme from the 1 September 2013.In the first phase, BPL and APL families, Jhugi Jhopadi ration card holders and those under Antodaya ration yojana will be covered.

Rickshaw pullers, porters and rag-pickers would also be included in the scheme to make Delhi hunger free.

India topped International Cricket Council's Latest ODI Ranking

India continues to reign at the top of the table in International Cricket Council’s latest ODI ranking released on 25 July 2013. With 122 rating points, India is the number one team followed by Australia with 114 and England with 112 points. The latest ODI rankings were released by the ICC in Dubai.

Among the batsmen, South Africa’s Hashim Amla replaces countryman AB Devilliers at the top. India’s Virat Kohli has maintained his position at number three while skipper Dhoni is at number six.

At the June ICC Board meeting, it was also decided that the annual update to the Test, ODI and T20I rankings should now take place on 1 May each year, rather than 1 August, since this better aligns with the current international calendar.This change has been incorporated in the latest update, and has been backdated to 1 May 2013.

Himachal Government launched Video Chat in Prisons

Himachal Pradesh state government launched video chat facility in all six prisons of the state on 26 July 2013. The video conference facility, first of its kind in the country, would help family and friends save time and money on travelling to prisons to meet the inmates. Even foreigners can avail this facility.

The government has already amended the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), enabling the courts to utilize the video-conference facility between the jails and the courts. This would also help save time and money of the prison department in escorting the prisoners from jails to courts.

The state has already taken many initiatives to reform the prisons. It has declared one barrack each in six jails as open air jail in Kanda, Nahan, Solan, Mandi, Dharamsala and Chamba towns. These jails allow prisoners to go out after serving a stipulated term and earn their livelihood.

Four Indian Americans won Simons Investigators Awards 2013

Four Indian-American Professors Kannan Soundararajan, Rajeev Alur, Salil P Vadhan and Senthil Todadri in fourth week of July 2013 won Simons Investigators Awards 2013. Apart from these, 9 other mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists were also selected for the Simons Investigators Awards for their cutting edge research.

The 2013 awards were announced by the New York-based Simons Foundation, which is a non-profit organisation. Its mission is to advance the lines of research in mathematics and basic sciences. The Simons Investigators program provides a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term study of fundamental questions. The foundation was incorporated in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons.

Name of People Awarded with their field of Study

Field of Study	Name of People awarded in Selected Fields
Physics	Victor Galitski from The University of Maryland Randall Kamien from University of Pennsylvania Joel Moore from University of California, Berkeley Dam Thanh Son from the University of Chicago Senthil Todadri from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Xi Yin from Harvard University
Computer science	Rajeev Alur from University of Pennsylvania Piotr Indyk from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Salil P. Vadhan from Harvard University
Mathematics	Ngô Bao Châu from the University of Chicago Maryam Mirzakhani from Stanford University Kannan Soundararajan from Stanford University Daniel Tataru from University of California, Berkeley

About Simons InvestigatorsSimons Investigators are outstanding theoretical scientists, who receive long-term research support from the Simons Foundation.

Level and Duration of Funding: A Simons Investigator is appointed for an initial period of five years with possible renewal for a further five years. An Investigator will receive research support of $100,000 per year, with an additional $10,000 per year provided to the Investigator’s department. The Investigator’s institution will receive 20 percent for indirect costs.