Rain drizzle, wet set

Rain drizzle, wet set

Rain lashes several parts of Himachal

The incursion of moist southwesterly flow from the Bay of Bengal in northeastern India is likely to cause fairly widespread rainfall or snow and thunderstorms over Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram are also likely to experience fairly widespread rain and thunderstorms. Scattered rainfall and thunderstorms are likely over Nagaland and Manipur. Eastern parts like Bihar, Sub-himalayan West Bengal and Odisha will also receive isolated rain and thunderstorms.

Rain to  lash several parts of Himachal Pradesh.

Met department said, maximum temperatures declined by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius as precipitation occurred at many places during the past 24 hours.

Weathermen have warned of thunderstorm accompanied by hailstorm and gusty winds for plains, low and mid hills today.

A fresh Western Disturbance (WD) that has started to affect north India is likely to bring scattered rain or snow and thunderstorms over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The TWC met team has also highlighted the possibility of hailstorms in the region.

The plains of north India will also experience wet weather conditions. Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh may witness isolated rainfall and thunderstorms. Dust storms are likely over Rajasthan due to the incursion of southwesterly winds

Down south, the trough that persists across Telangana to Kanayakumari is expected to bring fairly widespread rain and thunderstorms over Kerala. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will also experience isolated rainfall due to similar weather conditions.

Maximum temperatures of 40°C or more are likely over Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu.

Meanwhile, air quality will remain poor or very poor across the country, especially in major cities like Delhi.

Weather on Friday  beyond

The persisting incursion of southwesterly winds in the northeastern and eastern parts of India will continue to bring fairly widespread rain or snow and thunderstorms over Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim. Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura may also experience fairly widespread rainfall along with thunderstorms. Similarly, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram will also possibly get scattered rainfall and thunderstorms.

Other eastern parts of India like Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal will also experience isolated rainfall and thunderstorms owing to similar weather conditions.

The prevailing Western Disturbance (WD) over north India will continue to cause scattered rain, snow and thunderstorms over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Hailstorms are possible in these regions as well.

Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh will get isolated rainfall and thunderstorms during this forecast period. dust storms are likely over Rajasthan due to the incursion of southwesterly winds

Fairly widespread rain and thunderstorms is likely over Kerala due to the persisting trough. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar islands will get isolated rainfall along with thunderstorms.

Maximum temperatures of 40°C or more are likely over Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu.

Meanwhile, air quality will be poor or very poor across the country, especially in major cities like Delhi.

Kashmir on alert

Two Indian airbases in Kashmir have been placed on high alert in response to a warning of planned terrorist attacks, reports say. One of the sites houses jets that participated in aerial combat with Pakistan in February.

Fresh intelligence data shows that terrorists plan to target two military sites on the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, New Delhi-based ANI reported on Friday, citing government sources.

The installations mentioned are Srinagar and Awantipora airbases, both in western Jammu and Kashmir State, bordering Pakistan. Security forces in and around the bases have been reportedly put on high alert.

The report did not specify the type of anticipated attacks or the terrorist groups involved.

International cybercrime nabbed

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EU security wonderful efforts to bring to books the ring pins of cyber crime operating in East Europe.

Police in 6 countries have dismantled a cybercrime ring based in Eastern Europe that stole $100 million from thousands of victims worldwide. The GozNym malware was delivered via email to unsuspecting users.

cybercrime network that operated from Eastern Europe and fleeced victims — including small businesses and charities — of some $100 million has been “dismantled” by police from the US, Georgia, Ukraine, Germany, Bulgaria and Moldova. European law enforcement agency Europol announced the operation’s success on Thursday.

Film De De Pyaar De released

Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Rakul Preet Kaur witnessed promoting their upcoming movie De De Pyaar De in National Capital

Today, the star cast of movie De De Pyaar De came to promote the movie in Delhi. The event was held at Le Meridien, New Delhi. The movie is produced by Bhushan Kumar and Luv Ranjan and stars Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Rakul Preet Kaur. The Movie will be released on 17th May 2019.

The upcoming movie De De Pyaar De is a romantic comedy with a twist where Ajay Devgn being a middle-aged divorce who falls in love with a woman almost half his age. The film surrounds itself in a love triangle. The film is written by Bhushan Kumar and Luv Ranjan and directed by Akiv Ali in his directorial debut.

Present at the event, Ajay Devgn said ” Film is full family entertainer. A lot of things that has been said in the film stand true for such situation. The shooting of the movie has been done in London and Manali. The movie gives a very strong message of spreading love with a lot of humour.”

Tabu said, ” I really enjoyed working the movie as the script is written beautifully.Everyday on sets was fun. I am very lucky that I am getting such a variety of roles, what else an actor can ask for.”

Rakul spoke about her role in the movie, ” I am portraying the role of Ayesha. She is young, free spirited and works as a bartender. I don’t feel romancing with a man older than your is wrong. The person’s heart matters the most age is just a number.”

Manning jailed on probe of Julian

A judge sentenced ex-U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning again to jail for refusing to testify over leaking 700K documents to Wikileaks. She could serve up to 18 months. She already served 7 years in prison for espionage.

Manning told reporters outside the courtroom that she will persist in defying the federal subpoena “forever, indefinitely.”
Her remarks to media Chelsea Manning. Where are the defenders of liberty and decency? 

The new grand jury subpoena appears to be related to the US prosecution of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was arrested last month and is currently awaiting his extradition hearing in the UK. Assange is officially accused of conspiring with Manning to hack into Pentagon computers, while acknowledging the hack never actually happened.
A federal judge has ordered Chelsea Manning to be jailed again for refusing to testify in a grand jury probe of Julian Assange, threatening the whistleblower with fines if the defiance continues. Manning says she would rather die.
“I would rather starve to death than to change my opinion in this regard. And when I say that, I mean that quite literally," Manning said during a hearing at a federal courthouse in Virginia on Thursday.
The US Army intelligence specialist has already spent seven years behind bars for handing over classified military and diplomatic files to WikiLeaks in 2010, and another 62 days in jail until last week for refusing to testify before another grand jury,
when asked, Chelsea Manning why the government is even going ahead with this process knowing that she'll never betray her principles to testify.
She explained that the government's "goal here is really to re litigate the court-martial" for which she already served 7 years.
Manning faces a fine of $500 a day if she continues to refuse cooperation after 30 days in jail. The fine will go up to $1,000 a day after two months.
“I have never heard of jailing a witness for this long,” former FBI agent and whistleblower Colleen Rowley

PM Conte holds talks with Haftar

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte held talks with Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar during a surprise visit to Rome on Thursday, calling for an end to his month-long assault on Tripoli. “We want a ceasefire and we feel that the political path is the only solution,” Conte told reporters.

A joint statement, Italy and France stressed the importance of an immediate ceasefire in Libya and called for “the resumption of dialogue within the framework of the United Nations command to allow Libyan citizens to decide their future through democratic elections.”

“Improving the situation of the civilian population is a priority and requires a humanitarian truce. The political process must be based on the principles and rules agreed at the Paris, Palermo and Abu Dhabi conferences, and we assume that all parties are unequivocally distancing themselves from terrorist groups,” the statement said.

The sources said that Libyan Army Commander General Khalifa Haftar is expected to leave Rome for Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Maaron, according to the Italian news agency AKI.

Haftar’s bid to unseat UN-backed premier Fayez al-Serraj and take control of the Libyan capital has reached a military and political impasse after a month of fighting, AFP said.

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Haftar in the middle of next week to discuss how to resume peace talks in the country, Reuters quoted a French presidential source as saying on Thursday.

Macron last week called for a ceasefire in the month-long battle for Libya’s capital Tripoli after meeting Serraj.

F-16 pilot safely ejects

An F-16 fighter jet being flown in routine training exercises crashed into a warehouse just outside March Air Reserve Base in Southern California on Thursday, but the pilot safely ejected and no injuries were reported, a base spokesperson said.

The Los Angeles Times, citing a base fire official, reported that the crash ignited a small fire, and a photo of the accident scene posted on local television station KCAL-TV showed a gaping hole in the roof of a large grey building.

The warplane went down at about 3:30PM and slammed into a warehouse at the end of the base runway, base spokesperson Major Perry Covington told Reuters by telephone.

“The pilot did eject and the pilot is OK, and there are no other injuries at this time,” he said, adding he did not believe anyone was inside the warehouse when the crash occurred.

The sprawling installation, located in Riverside County, California, about 105 kilometres (65 miles) east of Los Angeles, is home to the Air Force Reserve 452nd Air Mobility Wing. There are normally between 2,000 and 6,000 Air Force reservists and other personnel on base at any given time, Covington said.

A section of Interstate 215, a major north-south route running through the base, was closed in both directions after the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol. The CHP urged motorists to avoid the area.