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- The criminal law amendment ordinance seeks to amend the IPC, the Evidence Act, CrPC and the POCSO Act
- The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved promulgation of an Ordinance to provide death penalty for rapists of girls below 12 years, according to a senior government official.
- The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance provides for stringent punishment of a jail term of minimum 20 years or life imprisonment or death for rape of a girl under 12 years.
- In the case of a gang rape of a girl below 12 years, there will be a punishment of life in jail or a death sentence.
- For the crime of a rape of a girl under 16 years, minimum punishment has been increased from 10 years to 20 years, which is expandable to imprisonment for rest of life.
- Minimum punishment in case of rape of women has also been increased from rigorous imprisonment of 7 years to 10 years, extendable to life imprisonment.
- The Ordinance also provides for speedy investigation and trial which needs to be compulsorily completed within two months.
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- Engineers are quietly giving up on IT as a career choice. The once sought-after sector is losing a chunk to the brick and mortar automobile industry.
- Queries and CVs from engineers, a lot of them with IT experience, are on the rise for auto companies such as MahindraNSE -0.09 % & Mahindra, Ashok Leyland and MarutiNSE -0.58 %, according to a TOI report. The state underscores the predicament Indian IT is facing at present.
- According to industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), the country's IT sector will see single-digit growth for the third-consecutive year and jobless growth for the second year as software exporters continue to struggle with declining business from traditional services.
- IT, for a long time, was the top pick for engineering graduates not only for the prospect of rising faster but also for the possibility of working abroad.But with US visa rules getting tighter and big IT companies streamlining staff, manufacturing is quietly finding a favour among job seekers.
- HR experts, according to the TOI report, say the increasing importance of big data and artificial intelligence in the automobile industry has made this segment interesting for engineers with an IT background.
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- North Korea will suspend nuclear and missile tests effective immediately and abolish a nuclear test site in a bid to pursue economic growth and peace on the Korean peninsula, the North's state media said on 21April, ahead of planned summits with South Korea and the United States.
- North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country no longer needed to conduct nuclear tests or intercontinental ballistic missile tests because it has completed its goal of developing nuclear weapons, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
- North Korea also said it would engage in talks with the international community, paving the way for the summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in planned for next week and a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in late May or early June.
- Trump on 20april welcomed the statement and said he looked forward to a summit with Kim.
- The announcement came after decades of nuclear tension on the Korean peninsula, pressure from the Trump administration, the death of American university student Otto Warmbier and attempts by then-presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to discontinue Pyongyang's nuclear program.
- North Korea has defended its nuclear and missile programs in the face of worldwide condemnation and sanctions as a necessary deterrent against perceived U.S. hostility
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- Using novel bacterial strains, scientists have successfully removed sulphur from fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal. Sulphur is one of the major pollutants emitted during the combustion of fossil fuels.
- Scientists from CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT) in Bhubaneswar used four bacterial strains that use dibenzothiophene (an organic sulphur compound which is a major contaminant of fossil fuel) as an energy source thereby getting rid of the sulphur.
- Bacterial strains-To find novel bacterial strains that can selectively eliminate this organic sulphur, the researchers searched the microbial type culture collection (MTCC) of CSIR-IMTECH (Institute of Microbial Technology) and selected 10 bacterial strains with dsz genes.
- “The dsz genes are central to sustainable bio-desulfurization. The presence of dsz genes and the metabolites which take part in desulfurization were first screened.
- We have also used bio-informatic tools for phylogenetic studies. More studies can reveal new bacterial species for desulfurization of coal,” says Madhabi M. Bhanjadeo, PhD scholar at the institute in an e-mail to The Hindu. Ms. Bhanjadeo is the first author of a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE.
- The selected bacteria were grown in a medium supplemented with dibenzothiophene and other nutrients required for growth.
- They found that four bacteria were able to use almost 99% of the sulphur compound in just 10 days. The four strains are Rhodococcus rhodochrous, Arthrobacter sulfureou, Gordonia rubropertinita and Rhodococcus erythropolis.
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