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Wacom Launches 4K Cintiq Pro 24 & 4K Cintiq Pro 32

  Working towards its commitment to inspire & equip people to make the world a more creative place, Wacom today launched its 4K Cintiq Pro 24 & 4K Cintiq Pro 32 in the Indian market. Designed diligently to aid creative professionals & set new standards in film & 3D animation, in industry design, digital art, game development & a broad range of human communication & expression, the 4K Cintiq Pro 24 & 32 will offer new high performance large-sized display built for cutting-edge creative & design applications including augmented & virtual reality.

Besides the large screen to create & design, the Cintiq Pro 32 & Cintiq Pro 24 help provide a true-to-life visual experience with the brilliant 4K display & up to 98% & 99% RGB color accuracy respectively.

Users will also experience higher level of productivity with these devices given setting like time saving onscreen or the multi touch gestures. The devices are designed to cater to connectivity & security. The Cintiq Pro 24 & the Cintiq Pro 32 have 4 X USB3 ports, and 1 X USB-C port. Along with that the devices also have an HDMI2.0

USB3 ports & 1 X USB-C port. Along with that the devices also have an HDMI2.0 port, a DisplayPort & 2 X USB-A ports, of which, one is reserved for the ExpressKeyTM remote. In order to assist creativity,
 
 
 
the Cintiq Pro 24 & 32can be optionally converted to an “All-in-One” PC with Cintiq Pro Engine.The Cintiq Pro 24 & the Cintiq Pro 32 come with an ExpressKeyTM Remote for utmost efficiency & comfort. A set of 17 customizable buttons & Touch Ring allow for instant one-touch access to timesaving shortcuts in all your favorite creative applications. Users can place the ExpressKey™ Remote anywhere it’s most convenient while drawing, on screen, in your hand or beside your keyboard. User can also connect up to 5 ExpressKey™ Remotes at one time, one for each of your creative software applications, to optimize their workflow.

Designed to provide a more comfortable & natural pen on screen experience, Wacom Pro Pen 2 features 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity, tilt-response & virtually lag-free tracking. A protective case with three nibs & a nib removal hole is included. For a freer movement, the pen offers more natural support, requires no batteries or charging and has reduced parallax. With the help of new pressure & tilt sensitivity of the Pro Pen 2 & the textured screen, the designers are sure to get a realistic artistic control & feel.

The 4K Cintiq Pro 24 series will be available in 2 options, Pen only priced at INR 202,099 & Pen & Touch priced at INR 223,399. The Cintiq Pro 32 model is available with Pen & Touch feature, priced at INR 275,999.

 Health Round Up

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Singing Sensations Darshan Raval & Hema Sardesai To Drive Menstrual Hygiene Awareness

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Singing Sensations Darshan Raval & Hema Sardesai are all set to drive menstrual hygiene awareness. Join the run for Menstrual Hygiene Awareness with singing sensations Darshan Raval & Hema Sardesai.Darshan Raval’s music reaches straight to your heart, puts you in a trance & lives with you ever after. His voice has been featured on songs in blockbuster movies such as Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Teraa Suroor, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha & Loveyatri. He has also sung the title song of Amazon Prime special 4 More Shots.

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Hema Sardesai is a popular Indian playback singer & lyricist. Hema Sardesai hails from the coastal state of Goa, in India & was born in Mumbai. She shot to fame in 1990’s with songs from movies like Sapnay, Biwi No. 1 & Jaanam Samjha Karo. This time Darshal Raval & Hema Sardesai will be seen driving menstrual hygiene awareness in Lucknow & Goa.
Run4Niine, India’s largest nationwide run to end taboos around menstruation is taking place on 8th Mar, 2019 to mark International Women’s Day.

Runs will take place across 20+ states in several 100 cities in India. India’s Pad Man Akshay Kumar will be joining the Run4Niine race in Lucknow & he shared a video encouraging people to join him for the runs: https://youtu.be/in4L1OdRDkwThe nationwide runs are organized by the Niine Sanitary Napkins. Run4Niine participants can run, walk, jog & wheel across their cities united by one vision, breaking the stigma around periods to bridge the gap between the 18% of women using sanitary pads & the 82% who resort tounhygienic & unsafe alternatives such as old cloths, rags, hay & even ash.

Sushma’s veiled attack on Pakistan at OIC, says terror camps must go

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Nasheman News : In an obvious attack on Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that states which shelter and fund terrorists must be told to dismantle terror camps on their soil.

“If we want to save humanity, then we must tell the states whioh provide shelter and funding to terrorists to dismantle the infrastructure of the terrorist camps and stop providing funding and shelter to terror organisations based in that country,” she said.

Sushma Swaraj is attending the conference as a “Guest of Honour” from India. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi kept away from the OIC meet due to her presence.

Sushma Swaraj’s remarks, without naming Pakistan, came three days after India targeted a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in Pakistan following the Pulwama suicide bombing in Kashmir which killed 40 CRPF personnel. 

The Pakistan-based JeM claimed responsibility for the attack. 

Sushma Swaraj said the menace of terror cannot be defeated solely through “military, intelligence or diplomatic” means but must be won by “strength of our values and message of religion”. 

“This is not a clash of civilization and culture but a contest between ideas and ideals. 

“Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion, and a misguided belief in its power to succeed,” she said. 

The Minister also spoke about India’s ancient civilizational values, its ethos of pluralism and its eternal message of peace.

“God is one but learned men describe Him in many ways,” she said. 

Pakistan court rejects plea to stop Indian pilot’s release

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Nasheman News :  The Islamabad High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed against the release of Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman who was captured by Pakistan two days earlier.

The pilot was seized after his MIG-21 Bison fighter jet was shot down during a dogfight near the Line of Control (LoC).

Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the case earlier in the day ahead of the pilot’s release, Samaa TV reported. 

Justice Minallah told the petitioner the decision to release the pilot was made by Prime Minister Imran Khan during a Parliament session on Thursday and no parliamentarian raised any objections.

“So this is a policy matter and we must respect Parliament,” the judge said.

Khan had announced that Pakistan will release the pilot as a “gesture of goodwill”. 

Man harasses couple, crowd joins him

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Molestation

BENGALURU: A married couple had a nightmarish experience on Tuesday night when an allegedly drunk man molested the woman, assaulted her husband for objecting to his moves, and mobilised a crowd against them, saying “outsiders” like them brought a bad name to the city.

The couple approached the police after a BMTC bus driver and conductor came to their rescue. The assailant has been arrested.The incident occurred at a traffic signal near Raghavendra Mutt signal in second phase, JP Nagar. Deepa (34) was riding pillion with her husband Rohit (names changed), when the accused Kiran S (31), a salesman, came on his two-wheeler and stopped next to them.

Kiran allegedly started staring at Deepa, which she initially ignored. But when he continued to do so, she told him to look elsewhere. An infuriated Kiran started verbally abusing her. When she asked him to watch his words, Kiran allegedly got off his two-wheeler and pushed Deepa off her bike. Rohit then rushed to his wife’s rescue.

Deepa told the police that Kiran started hitting her husband with his helmet and also touched her inappropriately. When she pushed him away, he allegedly slapped her, scratched her face and kicked Rohit in his abdomen.

The commotion attracted a crowd, and Kiran reportedly said something to them in Kannada, prompting them to start abusing the couple over their “outsider” status.Rohit is from Maharashtra, while Deepa, although born in Mangaluru, was brought up in another state. Neither of them understands Kannada.

Kiran, a resident of seventh phase, JP Nagar, even called his friends, who threatened the couple further, before the two were rescued by the driver and conductor of a passing BMTC bus. They then complained to Jayanagar police.

Kiran too followed them to file a counter-complaint. “But we verified the facts and found that Kiran was at fault. We have arrested him for outraging the modesty of woman, assault and sent him to jail,” an investigating officer said.

Amit Shah questions Pak PM’s silence on Pulwama attacks

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BJP President Amit Shah Friday slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for not condemning the Pulwama terror attack and asked how can India trust him. 

Speaking at the India Today Conclave, Shah said the Modi government has been able to create “fear” in the minds of those behind terrorism with its action against Pakistan-based terrorists.

“I believe the track record of our government has been the best in dealing with terror since Independence… Maximum number of terrorists have been eliminated under BJP government led by Modi,” he said. 

Questioning Khan’s silence on the Pulwama attack, he said, “The Pakistan PM should have criticised the Pulwama attacks at least once. How can we expect anything from him, or trust him. Maybe the situation is not in his control. At least he could have done lip service”. 

40 CRPF personnel were killed on February 14 in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying security forces. 

The BJP President also said that the return of pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was a diplomatic victory.

“Creating situation for return of pilot Abhinandan in such a short span of time is our diplomatic victory,” he said.

Varthaman’s MiG 21 was shot and he bailed out after bringing down one Pakistani F-16 fighter during a dogfight to repel a Pakistani attack on Wednesday morning. He has been in Pakistan since then. 

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan announced in Parliament on Thursday that Varthaman would be released on Friday as a “peace gesture”.

Coming down hard on Opposition parties which alleged the government was “politicising” the sacrifices of the armed forces, Shah said their joint resolution post the air strikes gave ammunition to Pakistan.

“The opposition’s accusation against the BJP that it was politicising the sacrifices of our forces has given happiness to Pakistan,” Shah said. 

“The message has gone that now it is the Modi govt at the helm which is resolute in implementing its policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and has the political will to act,” he said.

Criticising former PM Manmohan Singh’s call for restraint to India and Pakistan, Shah asked how he could compare a country, which has been sponsoring terrorism, with India. 

He also criticised Singh for his government’s “lack of response” after the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008.

“Now with its action against Pakistan-based terrorists Modi government has been able to create fear in the minds of those behind terrorism that they will face grave consequences for their actions.

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IAF pilot reaches Wagah

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Nasheman News : Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman reached the Pakistani side of the border on Friday evening from Lahore ahead of his release from Pakistani captivity.

Informed sources said that Abhinandan was accompanied by Indian High Commission officials from Islamabad. He will enter India after completing formalities at Wagah.

The IAF pilot was captured in Pakistan on February 27 after his MIG-21 Bison fighter jet was shot down during a dogfight near the Line of Control (LoC).


Masood Azhar “Is In Pakistan,” Admits Foreign Minister Amid Pulwama Outrage

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Masood Azhar is “unwell”, so much that he “can’t even leave his house”, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in an interview.

This is the first official acknowledgement of India’s allegation that Masood Azhar operates from Pakistan
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Terror mastermind Masood Azhar, whose Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out the Pulwama attack in which 40 Indian soldiers were killed, is in Pakistan, its Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has confirmed. This is the first official acknowledgement of India’s allegation that Masood Azhar operates from Pakistan.  

Masood Azhar is “unwell”, so much that he “can’t even leave his house”, Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

“He is in Pakistan, according to my information. He is very unwell. He is unwell to the extent that he cannot leave his house because he is really unwell. That’s the information I have,” the Pakistani Foreign Minister said.

Asked why not arrest him, “ill or not”, given India’s allegations of his role in terror attacks, Mr Qureshi repeated Pakistan’s much-repeated line of “evidence” that stands legal scrutiny.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s admission is significant at a time global pressure is building on Pakistan to act against terror groups operating on its soil (File Photo)

“If they (India) give us evidence which is acceptable to the courts of Pakistan – after all we will have to justify, they will go to court – and if they have solid, inalienable evidence, share it with us so that we can convince the people and convince the independent judiciary of Pakistan,” said the minister.

“We need to satisfy the legal process,” he said.

India has been pushing for the UN listing of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, a move torpedoed multiple times by China, which calls itself an all-weather ally of Pakistan.

Masood Azhar’s Jaish-e-Mohammed was behind the 2001 attack on Parliament, the Pathankot air force base attack of 2016, the attack on an army camp in Kashmir’s Uri in 2016 and the suicide attack in Pulwama in which over 40 Central Reserve Police Force soldiers were killed on February 14.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement that pilot Abhinandan Varthaman would be released cleared the way for de-escalation (File Photo)

Amid grief and anger over the Pulwama terror attack, India renewed its call for a UN global terrorist tag on Masood Azhar. On Tuesday, India sent fighter planes to Pakistan for the first time in nearly 50 years, to target a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror training facility in Balakot. Pakistan’s subsequent attempt at airstrikes targeting Indian military facilities across the Line of Control led to the worst escalation between the neighbours in decades. Pakistan captured an Indian pilot who had ejected from his falling jet after an aerial duel with one of the Pakistani warplanes trying to target Indian facilities.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement that pilot Abhinandan Varthamanwould be released cleared the way for de-escalation.

India has handed over a dossier to Pakistan with “specific details of Jaish’s complicity in Pulwama terror attack and the presence of JeM terror camps and its leadership in Pakistan,” officials say. The dossier gives details of the route taken by terrorists from Balakot, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to Jammu and Kashmir.

Mr Qureshi’s admission is significant at a time global pressure is building on Pakistan to act against terror groups operating on its soil.

Agencies

Every Indian proud of Wg Cdr Abhinandan: Modi

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Nasheman News : Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared on Friday that every Indian was “proud that the brave” Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman who was taken captive by Pakistan hails from Tamil Nadu.

Speaking after laying the foundation stone of a railway line between Rameshwaram and Dhanushkodi, Modi added: “I am proud that India’s first woman Defence Minister is from Tamil Nadu.”

The Indian Air Force pilot is set to be released by Pakistan later in the day.

Modi also flagged off Tejas, described as the fastest train to link Madurai and Chennai in Tamil Nadu. 

“This is one of the most modern trains and is a great example of ‘Make in India’ having been manufactured in the Integral Coach Factory of Chennai,” the Prime Minister said.

The Rameshwaram-Dhanushkodi rail line was damaged in a natural disaster of 1964 “but for over 50 years no attention was paid to this line”, he said. “But better late than never.”

Modi said that in 2014, after a gap of 30 years, a political party got a full majority on its own in Parliament.

“The people’s message was clear: they wanted a government that takes bold and tough decisions,” the Prime Minister said. 

“People wanted honesty, not dynasty. People wanted development, not decay. People wanted progress, not policy paralysis. People wanted opportunities, not obstacles. People wanted security, not stagnation. People wanted inclusive growth, not vote bank politics.”

Modi said his government was “most sensitive” to the safety and well-being of Indian fishermen.

Due to sustained diplomatic efforts, since May 2014, hundreds of fishermen had been released by Sri Lankan authorities, he said.

Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka are separated by a narrow strip of sea.

Bangladesh tells UN it cannot take more Myanmar refugees

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Foreign minister accuses Myanmar of ‘hollow promises’ over 700,000 Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh.7 hours ago

The Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees have been living since they were forced to flee Myanmar in 2017 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Bangladesh has told the United Nations Security Council it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled across the border amid a brutal military crackdown.

Attacks on security posts by Rohingya fighters in Myanmar’s Rakhine state triggered the violence that the UN, the United States, Britain and others describe as ethnic cleansing. Myanmar denies the accusations.

“I regret to inform the council that Bangladeshwould no longer be in a position to accommodate more people from Myanmar,” Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told the UN on Thursday.

Haque accused Myanmar of “hollow promises and various obstructionist approaches” during negotiations on returns.

“Not a single Rohingya has volunteered to return to Rakhine due to the absence of [a] conducive environment there,” Haque said.

Myanmar says it has been ready to accept returning refugees since January, but the Rohingya say they want guarantees over their safety and to be recognised as citizens before they go back to Rakhine.

The UN says conditions are not yet right for their return. The Western powers on the council on Thursday lamented the lack of action from Myanmar’s government.

‘Very disappointed’

“We’re very disappointed … that there hasn’t been more progress on getting the refugees back and that obviously includes creating the conditions where the refugees feel able to go back,” Karen Pierce, Britain’s UN Ambassador, told the council.

Several council members stressed the return of refugees needed to be safe, voluntary, dignified and secure, and pushed for the Myanmar government to allow the UN widespread and unconditional access to Rakhine.

UN envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner-Burgener told the council that the UN access was currently “insufficient”.

“The scale of what has been done to the Rohingya Muslims and the allegations of crimes against humanity really mark this out as one of the most terrible events of this century so far,” she said.

The 15-member UNSC has been split over how to deal with the crisis, with Western powers pitted against Russia and China, an ally of Myanmar.

China’s Deputy UN Ambassador Wu Haitao said it was mainly an issue between Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh “and as such it is up to the two countries to work out a solution”.

Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy agreed.

In December, Britain circulated a draft resolution to council members that diplomats said aims to put a timeline on Myanmar allowing the return of refugees and addressing accountability, but China and Russia have boycotted talks on the draft.

Deputy US Ambassador Jonathan Cohen said: “The international community cannot ignore the world’s largest refugee camp.”

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