Honda Cars India on Thursday announced that it will export its 5th generation City to left-hand drive countries from India.
Month: January 2021
** Citroen C5 Aircross production under way, unveil in February
Citroen, a part of the Stellantis group formed by the merger of two global auto majors FCA and Groupe PSA, on Thursday said it has started the commercial production of its C5 Aircross SUV in India from its manufacturing facility at Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu.
** In a first, CRPF awards 3 SPs of Chhattisgarh for outstanding coordination, ops synergy
Abhishek Pallava (Dantewada SP), Kanhaiya Lal Dhruv (Sukma SP) and Kamal Lochan Kashyap (Bijapur SP) are the officers bestowed with the award of CRPF DG’s Commendation Disc & Certificate.
** UK tycoon Kirit Pathak dies after crash
Kirit Pathak, whose family firm sold the ubiquitous Patak’s Mango Pickle which made bland English food edible for Indians, has died, aged 68, following a car crash in Dubai.
** ‘Mooktijoddha’ team from Bangladesh in R-Day parade of many firsts
** Sandalwood museum to be inaugurated today
The country’s first sandalwood museum showcasing different variety of the species will be inaugurated on Monday.
District in charge Minister S.T. Somashekar will inaugurate the museum which is at Sri Gandha Koti on the Aranya Bhavan campus in Ashokapuram at 10 a.m.
** IISc. researchers develop software platform for ‘smart’ video tracking
Anveshak’ can be used to track an object across a 1,000-camera network.
A key feature of the platform is that it allows a tracking model or algorithm to focus only on feeds from certain cameras along an expected route, and tune out other feeds. It can also automatically increase or decrease the search radius or “spotlight” based on the object’s last known position.
The platform enables the tracking to continue uninterrupted even if the resources ‒ the type and number of computers that analyse the feeds ‒ are limited, the rel
** 65-year-old makes it to India Book of Records in swimming
The 65-year-old Gangadhar G. Kadekar, a former employee of the Regional Transport Office, made it to the India Book of Records by swimming a distance of 1.4 km in 73.7 minutes by chaining his legs in the ‘Padmasana’ pose in the sea in Padukare in Udupi district on Sunday.
** Award for Fr. Stan Swamy
Human rights activist Father Stan Swamy has been named the recipient of the Mukundan C. Menon Award for 2020.
The award was instituted in 2006 by National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO), an NGO, in memory of human rights activist Mukundan C. Menon.