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#* Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' to focus on affordability for inclusive development
UNITED NATIONS: As the UN prepares for a global cyber policy by the end of the year, India has said that the ambitious 'Digital India' programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to address the digital divide and focus on affordability for inclusive development.
The stark gap in the digital divide between the developed and developing world needs to receive global attention, said Santosh Jha, Director General, Ministry of External Affairs.
He said that despite significant advances, half of the world's population, mostly from developing and least developed countries, continues to be denied access to Information and Communications Technology.
#* Google says sorry for racist auto-tag in photo app
Google has apologized after its new photo app labelled two black people as “gorillas”.
The photo service, launched in May, automatically tags uploaded pictures using its own artificial intelligence software.
“Google Photos, y’all fucked up. My friend’s not a gorilla,” Jacky Alciné tweeted on Sunday after a photo of him and a friend was mislabelled as “gorillas” by the app.
Shortly after, Alciné was contacted by Yonatan Zunger, the chief architect of social at Google.
“Big thanks for helping us fix this: it makes a real difference,” Zunger tweeted to Alciné.
He went on to say that problems in image recognition can be caused by obscured faces and “different contrast processing needed for different skin tones and lighting”.
“We used to have a problem with people (of all races) being tagged as dogs, for similar reasons,” he said. “We’re also working on longer-term fixes around both linguistics (words to be careful about in photos of people) and image recognition itself (e.g., better recognition of dark-skinned faces). Lots of work being done and lots still to be done, but we’re very much on it.”
#* World Bank to lend $650 million for Indian rail project
The World Bank said on Wednesday it had cleared a $650 million loan for a huge Indian freight rail corridor that will span 1,840 kms (1,140 miles) across the northern heartland of the country.
Construction of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor will help speed up the carrying of goods between Ludhiana in the west of India and Kolkata in the east, and is part of a series of new freight lines the World Bank says India needs to ease congestion on its network.
"The Indian Railways urgently needs to add freight routes to meet the growing freight traffic in India, which is projected to increase more than 7 percent annually," Ben L. J. Eijbergen, the Task Team Leader for the project, said in a statement.
The loan is the third from the World Bank to help fund the freight corridor. Last year the bank approved a $1.1 billion outlay and in 2011 $975 million.
India's railways, built mostly by the British before independence in 1947, are among the most extensive in the world but have struggled to expand to keep up with demand.
This has hit freight carriers hard as they are forced to carry their goods by road, which is far more inefficient and expensive, to make room for passenger trains on the congested lines. The railway's share of freight has fallen from 90 percent of cargo in 1950 to about one-third today.
#* Bhardwaj embarrasses Congress, says Rahul Gandhi 'out of touch with ground reality'
In an embarrassment for the Congress, former Union law minister and Karnataka governor Hans Raj Bhardwaj has slammed his own party, calling it too weak to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
According to a report in The Indian Express, Bhardwaj said that Congress party and its vice president Rahul Gandhi were out of touch with the ground reality.
The veteran leader also questioned senior Congress leaders for threatening to disrupt the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament over former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi controversy, involving External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
This comes at a time when the Congress has launched a continued offensive against Narendra Modi government. The party has alleged instances of quid pro quo between Swaraj and Lalit Modi. It has also questioned the links between Raje and the former IPL boss.
The party has demanded that the two top leaders of the BJP must quit, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must break his silence over the issue.
#* World Bank to lend $650 million for Indian rail project
The World Bank said on Wednesday it had cleared a $650 million loan for a huge Indian freight rail corridor that will span 1,840 kms (1,140 miles) across the northern heartland of the country.
Construction of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor will help speed up the carrying of goods between Ludhiana in the west of India and Kolkata in the east, and is part of a series of new freight lines the World Bank says India needs to ease congestion on its network.
"The Indian Railways urgently needs to add freight routes to meet the growing freight traffic in India, which is projected to increase more than 7 percent annually," Ben L. J. Eijbergen, the Task Team Leader for the project, said in a statement.
The loan is the third from the World Bank to help fund the freight corridor. Last year the bank approved a $1.1 billion outlay and in 2011 $975 million.
India's railways, built mostly by the British before independence in 1947, are among the most extensive in the world but have struggled to expand to keep up with demand.
#* Fitch lowers India's economic growth projections
Global rating agency Fitch has lowered India's economic growth projections to 7.8 per cent for the current fiscal from 8 per cent on pick up in demand.
Fitch, however, said it expects that India's GDP growth rate this year to surpass China's for the first time since 1999, forecasting an acceleration to 8.1 per cent in 2016-17 before settling back to 8.0 per cent in 2017-18.
"The implementation of structural reforms and resulting pick-up in investment remain key themes for India's growth outlook, and recent data confirm the strengthening demand," Fitch said.
While maintaining the expectation for an increase in growth, Fitch lowered its real GDP growth forecasts for India to 7.8 per cent and 8.1 per cent from 8.0 per cent and 8.3 per cent for FY16 and FY17, respectively.
"The extent and pace at which reforms translate into higher rates of growth continues to be dependent on implementation, and there are signs that acceleration may be slower than previously expected," it said.
