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Iran starts mass-producing indigenous Sa’eqeh fighter jet

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Iran has started mass-producing the Sa’eqeh fighter jet, a spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has announced.

In an exclusive interview with IRNA Wednesday, Hossein Chitforoush said Sa’eqeh fighter jets would satisfy the needs of the IRIAF for the time being and “it would be altered and modified in line with the requirements of IRIAF”.

The fighter jet is at the disposal of IRIAF at the present and is patrolling the Iranian skies, Tehran Times reported citing the spokesman.

China mourns victims of Paris terrorist attack

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Chinese government and its citizens today denounced terrorism and mourned the victims of a military-style Islamist attack on a French satirical paper in Paris by two heavily armed men that killed 12 people.

“We are deeply shocked at the attack and strongly condemn it,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said, “We mourn?the victims and express our sympathies to the bereaved families and the injured.”

“China firmly opposes all forms of terrorism and supports French efforts to protect domestic security,” Hong added.

Congress will again back AAP if needed: Dikshit

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The Congress was ready to support an AAP government again in the event of a hung assembly in the capital, former chief minister Sheila Dikshit said Thursday.

“It is logical that we would want a stable government, and if the need arises, the AAP will be our choice to keep communal forces at bay,” Dikshit told IANS.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal was quick to react, saying “it means the Congress has already conceded and people should vote for the AAP instead of the Congress.”

Punjab offers incentives to curb stubble burning

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To curb the menace of straw burning in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday announced incentives of Rs.1 lakh and Rs.1 crore as financial grants to villages and districts which were free from stubble burning across the state.

Pointing out that burning of paddy straw was a health hazard and added to air pollution, he said that the incentive was being offered to motivate people.

NRI doctors from US to support healthy India vision

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In a bid to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a healthy India, a NRI doctors association Thursday launched an initiative to improve the health infrastructure in India.

The association named American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) will collaborate with the Indian healthcare agencies also to raise awareness on head injury, trauma and hepatitis.

The announcement came after the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the annual conference of NRIs organized by the Indian government, kicked off at Gandhinagar.

AirAsia jet’s tail to be lifted to find black box: Official

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Rescuers plan to start lifting the AirAsia jet’s tail from the seabed in the Java Sea using a balloon tomorrow, a top Indonesian official said today, raising hopes of retrieving the black box crucial to solve the mystery of the fatal crash.

Divers braved high waves to reach the Airbus A320-200’s tail, expected to contain the crucial data recorders that could unravel the mystery of the December 28 crash, but failed to penetrate the wreckage due to strong currents and poor visibility.

Boxing legend Ali released from hospital in time to celebrate upcoming 73rd birthday

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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has been released from an undisclosed hospital, in time to celebrate his 73rd birthday on January 17, after being admitted on account of a severe urinary tract infection. Family spokesperson Bob Gunnell said that former three-time heavy weight champion was back home and looking forward to celebrate his 73rd birthday on 17 January with his family and friends, adding that he was back in his daily routine, Sport24 reported. Initially, it was believed that Ali had been diagnosed with a mild case of pneumonia.

Janata Parivar to take on government: Sharad Yadav

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The Janata Parivar parties Thursday met here and discussed their strategy to take on the government on various issues including it taking the ordinance route on important bills.

“Many of us met here. Meetings are on to discuss issues concerning us and we will take on the government on various issues,” Janata Dal-United Sharad Yadav told IANS.

Six parties of the Janata Parivar had decided in December to merge in January to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party.

SL voting ends with high turn out; Rajapaksa faces tough test

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Sri Lankans today voted in large numbers in the bitterly contested presidential election in which incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa is seeking a record third term against his friend-turned-foe Maithripala Sirisena, with an unusually high voter turnout in Tamil and Muslim areas.

Election officials estimated more than 65-70 per cent voting in most places in the first seven hours of voting.

There were no major reports of violence, although private monitoring group the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said some voters had been prevented from voting that ended at 4 pm local time.

Rushdie calls Charlie Hebdo attack ”deadly mutation in the heart of Islam”

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Condemning the terror attack at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, British Indian author Salman Rushdie has said that the attack was a sign of the “deadly mutation in the heart of Islam.”

When religion combines with modern weaponry, it poses a real threat to “our freedoms,” he wrote, reported The Independent.

He expressed solidarity with the magazine by urging people to defend the art of satire, “which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.”

Palestine to join International Criminal Court in April: UN chief

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted the request by Palestine to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying the ICC admission will take place April 1, a move that could lead to possible war crime complaints against Israel, according to a UN source.

The world organisation Friday confirmed receiving documents presented by the permanent observer of Palestine to the UN, Riyad Mansour, relating to the accession of Palestine to 16 multilateral treaties in respect of which the secretary-general is the depositary, including the Rome Statute of the ICC.

Salgaocar in Federation Cup semis

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Two late second-half goals from Scottish striker Darryl Duffy and Gurjinder Kumar carried Salgaocar to the Federation Cup semi final as they knocked out Pune FC 3-1 in a hard fought match at the Tilak Maidan in Margao Wednesday.

In a Group A game, Royal Wahingdoh held Goan giants Dempo 1-1 in an inconsequential tie here at the Nehru Stadium where Romeo Fernandez nullified a strike from Liberian Bekay Bawar to equalize for Dempo.

The Group B encounter saw Ivorian Douhou Pierre give Salgaocar the lead before Ryuji Sueoka, the Japanese medio, equalised for Pune at the hour mark.

LaFerrari to dazzle at Mumbai Super Car Show

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A rare treat of top cars awaits super car aficionados at the Parx Super Car Show scheduled here over the weekend, which will include the showstopper LaFerrari that can zoom at a dizzying 350 km per hour.

The super cars on show will include some of the best, fastest and most expensive mean machines of Audi, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Porsche, Ferrari, Bentley, BMW, Rolls Royce and many more at the daylong expo at Mahalaxmi Race Course Saturday, following by a grand road parade Sunday.

Anti-conversion bill if ‘secular parties’ support: Amit Shah

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Showing keenness on a general consensus the issue of stopping forceful religious conversion, BJP President Amit Shah today said a bill can be brought in parliament for the purpose if “so called” secular parties extend support.

“Our stand on religious conversion is quite clear. BJP is in favour of a halt to forcible conversion. There needs to be a consensus on the issue,” Shah told reporters here while winding up his two-day Odisha visit.

Amit Shash distances from Sakshi Maharaj’s statement

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Seeking to distance from party MP Sakshi Maharaj asking Hindu women to have four children, BJP President Amit Shah today said it was the former’s personal remark and not party’s stand.

“It is his (Maharaj’s) own view .. his personal remark. it is not the stand of the party,” Shah told reporters while responding to a volley of questions at the end of his two-day visit to Odisha.

Asked whether action would be taken against Maharaj for making such remark, the BJP president said it was for the disciplinary committee of the party to deal with the matter.

Conducive atmosphere for smooth running of Parl missing: Kurien

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Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha PJ Kurien on Wednesday lamented that “conducive” atmosphere for smooth functioning of Parliament was missing and asked government and opposition to behave “responsibly” to end frequent disruptions of proceedings and resultant stalemate.

Addressing an event here, Kurien said government and opposition were duty bound in nation-building and the former has a “greater responsibility” in running Parliament.

“Government should accept constrictive criticism in its stride…The conducive atmosphere for smooth functioning of Parliament is missing,” he said.

German government websites under hacking attack

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The internet pages of the German government and Chancellor Angela Merkel were attacked by hackers Wednesday, said a government spokesman.

Websites including bundeskanzlerin.de and bundesregierung.de were temporarily paralysed by the hacker attack, confirmed German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, calling it “a quite severe attack”, Xinhua reported.

The spokesman did not give further details, but added the government has made counter-measures and informed the German Federal Office for Information Security to conduct analysis of the attack.

Sohail Khan makes surprise entry to Pak’s 15-man squad for WC, Gul dropped

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As the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced Pakistan”s 15-man squad for the World Cup, pace bowler Sohail Khan was the surprise inclusion in the list for the tournament, which will be jointly held by Australia and New Zealand from February 14. While Sohail Khan, who played his last international cricket in 2011, has been included, pace spearhead Umal Gul and middle-order batsman Fawad Alam have been left out of the squad, the Dawn reported. Veteran batsman Younus Khan has also been included in the squad for the ICC’s pinnacle tournament.

Brain signals that help people focus identified

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In a first, researchers from McGill University have identified a network of neurons in a particular area of the brain that helps people focus whether they are driving a car or performing a surgery.

The neurons in the lateral prefrontal cortex interact with one another to promptly filter visual information while at the same time ignoring distractions.

It is a discovery with potentially far reaching implications for people who suffer from diseases such as autism, ADHD and schizophrenia.

One and only HIV cured ‘Berlin patient’ gives first-person account

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The first and only man cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown, has spoken out, giving the first person account of his battle with 12 years of illness.

Long known only as the “Berlin Patient,” Brown is the first person in the world to be cured of the infection following a stem cell transplant in 2007. He recalls his many years of illness, a series of difficult decisions, and his long road to recovery in the first-person account, “I Am the Berlin Patient: A Personal Reflection.”

Drug overdose epidemic to recede soon: Study

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The drug overdose epidemic will peak at about 50,000 annual deaths in 2017 before declining to a non-epidemic state of approximately 6,000 deaths in the year 2035, says a US-based study.

This is the first to apply Farr’s Law on the rise and fall of epidemics to an outbreak that is not, strictly speaking, infectious in origin, the researchers noted.

First swine flu death of the year in Delhi, 8 new cases

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The national capital Wednesday reported the first swine flu death of the year with a 42-year-old woman from Uttam Nagar succumbing to the HINI virus at a private hospital here.

“The woman had died yesterday evening while undergoing treatment at a private hospital but her death was reported today,” said Charan Singh, Additional Director in-charge of Public Health, Health department.

Also, eight fresh cases of swine flu were reported today taking the total figure to 22 so far this year.

Google received more than 345 mn requests to remove pirated content in 2014

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Google has reportedly received requests to take down more than 345 links to pirated content by copyright holders in the year 2014, a report said.

With more and more people leaning on the search engine giant to use brute force to fight privacy, the figures have seen a 75 percent jump from the previous year, reported The Verge.

Google now gets more than one million takedown requests each day and honours most of them.

The company got merely 177 takedown requests in 2007, a number that dipped to 62 in 2008, just before beginning its rapid ascent to current heights.

Recipe for Earth-like planets found

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The same basic ingredients and mixing process that went to make Earth could go in to building exoplanets around distant stars, astronomers have found.

The “test kitchen” of Earth has given us a detailed recipe, but it was not clear whether other planetary systems would follow the same formula, researchers said.

“Our solar system is not as unique as we might have thought,” said lead author Courtney Dressing of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA).

“It looks like rocky exoplanets use the same basic ingredients,” said Dressing.

NASA’s ‘Disk Detectives’ find a million potential space habitats

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In less than a year, citizen scientists using NASA-sponsored website DiskDetective.org have logged one million classifications of potential debris disks and disks surrounding young stellar objects (YSO).

A YSO disk is less than five million years old, contains large quantities of gas and is often found in or near young star clusters.

This data will help provide a crucial set of targets for future planet-hunting missions.