[Nasheman news] New Delhi Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was released from Pakistan’s custody on Friday, reached Delhi around midnight from Amritsar.

An enthusiastic crowd had gathered outside the Palam airport to welcome him.

He would be taken straight to Army’s Research and Referral Hospital here for thorough medical check up, sources said.

Abhinandan was captured by Pakistan Army on February 27 in the Pakistan administered Kashmir after his MiG 21 was hit, and he ejected.

He was chased by a mob and later rescued by the Pakistan Army.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had announced on Thursday that Abhinandan would be released on Friday without any preconditions as a “gesture of peace”.

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

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.

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 8^th 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.

Nasheman News :The joint services press conference scheduled for Thursday has been postponed as following Pakistan’s decision to release captured Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.

The conference, scheduled for 5 p.m., will now take place at 7 p.m.

The Ministry of Defence had announced the first tri-service media briefing where operational details were to be made public for the first time by India. 

Source said India was about to share the visuals of evidence about the aerial engagement that took place on Wednesday leading to the shooting down of a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-16 by an IAF MiG-21. An Indian MiG also went down and Varathaman was captured.

Details of the air strike on Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror camp at Jaba Top in Balakot were also to be shared as well as evidence about the PAF dropping shells in Indian territory, claiming the target was a military installation, sources added. 

 Malyalam Film ‘Ee. Ma. Yau’ Bags Prestigious Critics Award

 In what could be a favorable move for cinema of Malayalam, Ee. Ma. Yau, a morbid satire by auteur filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery has garnered over half the votes polled by 23 film critics from all over India to bag the prestigious FCCI “Best Indian Film of 2018” Citation Award. 

In earlier years, this citation instituted by the Film Critics Circle of India to encourage the production of cinema of high artistic & aesthetic value had been awarded to Village Rockstars (Assamese), Thithi (Kannada) & Court (Marathi / Gujarati / Hindi / English); in 2018, 2017 & 2016, respectively.

 In this year’s nomination list, Rahi Anil Barve’s Tumbbad (Hindi), Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Jonaki (Bengali / English) & Rima Das’ Bulbul Can Sing (Assamese) were the 3 other films that found a place. Also recommended were Andhadhun, Ashwatthama, Badhaai Ho, Bhayanakam, Ek Je Chhilo Raja, Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon, Love Sonia, Maassab, Manto, Mulk, Olu, Pariyerum Perumal, Poomaram, Raazi, Soni, Sudani from Nigeria, Vada Chennai & Uronchandi; in the preliminary round.

 Pellissery’s Ee Ma Yau had earlier bagged major awards at the Kerala State Film Awards & at IFFI & IFFK. He made his debut as a filmmaker with the critically acclaimed Nayakan in the year 2010 & followed it up with City of God in the year 2011, Amen in the year 2013, Double Barrel in the year 2015 & Angamaly Diaries in the year 2017.

[Nasheman news] San Francisco BlackBerry has sued Twitter on patent infringement, accusing the open communication platform of illegally using its mobile messaging technology.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for Central California, seeks compensation for lost revenue and unspecified enhanced damages, CNET reported late Wednesday.

BlackBerry has alleged Twitter infringed on six of its patents, like push notifications, silencing notifications for a message thread and mobile advertising techniques.

“The lawsuit accuses the micro-blogging site of co-opting BlackBerry’s technology for use in several services, including the main Twitter app and Twitter Ads,” said the report.

Twitter was yet to comment on the lawsuit.

Software major BlackBerry in 2018 sued Facebook and its subsidiaries — photo sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp.

The suit alleged that Facebook has infringed on some of BlackBerry’s patents including security features, mobile notifications, and combining gaming with messaging.

“Blackberry’s suit sadly reflects the current state of its messaging business. Having abandoned its efforts to innovate, Blackberry is now looking to tax the innovation of others. We intend to fight,” Facebook had replied.

BlackBerry also sued Snap, for allegedly infringing its patented messaging technology in the Snapchat app.

In the fresh lawsuit against Twitter, BlackBerry alleged Twitter “has succeeded in diverting consumers away from BlackBerry’s products and services”.

[Nasheman news] Hyderabad Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff and cricketer Yuvaraj Singh were among several celebrities who have been served notice by the Cyberabad Police in its investigation of the QNet multi-level marketing cases.

Boman Irani, Vivek Oberoi, Pooja Hegde and Telugu actor Allu Sirish also figured in the list of 500 persons who were asked to appear before the Economic Offences Wing to explain their association with Hong Kong-based Q-Net and Vihaan Direct Selling Pvt Ltd, which are facing the charges of cheating, police sources said on Wednesday.

The companies allegedly duped over 20 lakh investors. The volume of cheating through illegal money circulation scheme is estimated about Rs 20,000 crore.

The celebrities allegedly endorsed and promoted the companies involved. Some of them also worked as their brand ambassadors.

Promoters, shareholders, directors and CEOs of the companies were among those served notice under Section 161 of Criminal Procedure Code, asking them to appear before Economic Offences Wing of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate, one of the three police commissionerates covering Hyderabad, Secunderabad, information technology hub Cyberabad and surroundings.

Sources said if the persons served notice fail to appear, they may face legal action.

Cyberabad police had received complaints against the celebrities from many victims. They allegedly received remuneration from the companies for creating the brand image.

According to police, several criminal cases were filed against Vihaan Direct Selling, Bengluru for cheating more than three lakh persons across the country by floating illegal money circulation scheme.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar earlier said Telangana High Court had not given any stay orders on the investigation of criminal cases filed against Vihaan. He also clarified that there is no bar for registering of fresh cases against QNet/Vihaan Direct Selling.

[Nasheman news] DubaiThe International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday assured BCCI that all security concerns at the upcoming ODI World Cup, in the wake of Pulwama terror attack, will be addressed adequately.

According to sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), at the ICC meeting here, Board’s CEO Rahul Johri had raised concerns about security at the World Cup, scheduled to be held in England and Wales.

Johri reportedly expressed satisfaction with the ICC’s security arrangements during the World Cup which starts on May 30.

The BCCI is yet to take a decision on boycotting the World Cup first round match against Pakistan on June 16 as there is a possibility that the two arch-rivals may meet in the knockout stages as well.

There have been demands from several former players and ex-BCCI officials that the Pakistan match should be boycotted following nation wide outrage over the Pulwama terror attack which led to the martyrdom of at least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers.

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly and former star off-spinner Harbhajan Singh are among those who had called for a boycott of the match against Pakistan.

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[Nasheman news] Bengaluru Researchers have discovered “methane hydrates” — a potential fuel of the future — just two meters below the sea floor in the Krishna-Godavari (K-G) basin off the coast of Andhra Pradesh in the Bay of Bengal.

The discovery has been reported by a team of scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa and the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad in the Journal of Earth System Science published by the Indian Academy of Sciences.

“This is the first report on the discovery of an active methane seepage site and the occurrence of shallow methane hydrate deposits in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),” they report.

Methane hydrate, which is formed at low temperature and high pressure, is a solid crystal structure of water within which a large amount of methane gas is trapped.

This is a new and completely untapped reservoir of fossil fuel, because it contains, as its name suggests, a large quantity of methane, which is the main component of natural gas.

Global interest in the genesis of “methane seeps” in the oceans stems from the role of methane in global warming and in methane hydrate exploration.

According to the Indian researchers, the occurrence of methane gas hydrates at very shallow depths in K-G basin “is due to the presence of high methane flux and conducive pressure and temperature conditions, necessary for the stability of methane hydrate”.

“High biogenic methane flux close to the sediment-water interface has resulted in the crystallisation of methane hydrate at shallow depths below the seafloor”, they report.

The discovery was made during an expedition conducted in the K-G basin onboard the Sindhu Sadhana research vessel during January-February last year.

The active methane “seep sites” were detected by analysing the water-column images obtained through a multi-beam echo sounder. “The analysis of the images shows four distinct gas flares in the ridge area,” says the report. “These gas flares are tell-tale signatures of methane ebullition from the seabed.”

The mapping of the water column, coupled with precision sampling of sediment “led to the discovery of active cold seeps, associated biological communities and shallow gas hydrate.”

The diversity, spatial distribution and growth of organisms thriving in such an ecosystem are primarily controlled by fluxes of hydrogen sulfide and methane gas across the sediment-water interface, the report said.

Marine cold seeps and associated ecosystems have been reported from numerous sites across the globe, including the Makran coast of neighboring Pakistan. “Ours is the first report on the discovery of methane gas flares in the water column and associated benthic biotic community at the cold seep sites off K-G Basin,” the researchers report.

“The present discovery has brought India on to the global cold seep map and opened up the opportunity for future research on the possible role of methane emission on global warming, ocean acidification, extreme ecosystem, and bio-prospecting,” they conclude.

“With an estimated trillions of cubic meters of methane gas available in the gas hydrate deposits in the Indian waters, gas hydrates can be the future source of energy for India,” the Ministry of Earth Sciences, which spent Rs 1.43 billion in gas hydrate exploration during 2012-17, says on its website.

[Nasheman news] New Delhi Several airports including Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Amritsar and Chandigarh have been closed for civilian operation, airport sources said on Wednesday.

According to informed sources, the airports’ facilities are currently being used by the Indian Air Force (IAF). 

Consequently, no commercial operation will take place in these airports. Several flights to and from these airports have either been diverted or put on hold.

“Due to airspace restrictions, flights to and from Amritsar, Srinagar, Chandigarh and Jammu are currently on hold. Customers are requested to check flight status before commencing their journey to the airport,” Air Vistara tweeted.

[Nasheman news] New Delhi Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning for the seventh time in connection with its probe into a money laundering case.

ED officials said that Vadra arrived at the agency’s Jamnagar office in central Delhi at 10.40 a.m.

The ED has questioned Vadra, for over 42 hours in connection with the case on February 6,7,9 20, 22 and 26. 

The case relates to the ownership of overseas assets worth 1.9 million pounds in London by Vadra.

On December 7, the ED had raided several of Vadra’s properties in Delhi-NCR and Bengaluru.

Vadra, husband of Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, is on interim bail till March 2.