Lok Sabha Poll 2019

Lok Sabha Poll 2019: Prime Minister Modi thlawhna chu Odisha ah check a ni a, hei vang hian Election Commission chuan a checktu IAS Officer hi a suspend nghal. Amah hi 1996 batch, Karnataka cadre IAS officer a ni.

Thawhlehni khan Sambalpur ah Prime Minister chuanna Helicopter (Chopper) chu Odisha State a Election General Observer Mohammed Mohsin chuan Election Commission leh Special Protection Group (SPG) te nen sawiho na leh phalna awm lo in a check a, hei vang hian PM hi Minute 15 lai tih khawtlai a ni.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik helicopter pawh Election Commission flying squad te chuan Rourkela ah Thawhlehni tho hian an lo check a niin,  Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan chuanna chopper pawh hemi ni vek hian check a ni tho bawk. An ni ho check tute erawh an suspend thu hriat a nilo.
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One driver on two phones lands two vehicles in one swimming pool

Talking on your cell phone while driving simply not dangerous enough for you? Texting while steering with your knees just doesn't hold enough risk? Why not do both together!?

That's what an Australian tow truck driver (with a car attached to his flatbed) figured he'd try over the last week, texting on one phone while chatting away on another. Naturally, this ended with disastrous results, as driver Nicholas Sparks (no relation to this guy) crashed into another car being driven by a 68-year-old woman, then smashed through a fence, careened off a house, and finally rolled into a swimming pool.

The sheer stupidity of the event notwithstanding, the mechanics of how one would actually pull this off -- while driving a tow truck! -- boggle the mind. It isn't clear whether Sparks was using a hands-free system to talk on the phone, but if not he likely would have had to have one hand on the voice phone, the text phone held between his knees, and his other hand tapping out his text message. Presumably one knee would have been available to steer the truck. I guess he couldn't have been using his teeth since he was actually talking on one of the phones and thus his mouth would have to have been engaged otherwise.

The driver was charged with three traffic violations, including reckless driving.

The sad thing is that driving while using a cell phone is already illegal in Australia, which leads one to wonder how effective laws like this can ever be. Are we simply experiencing growing pains as people slowly come to realize the dangers of driving while engaged with their mobile devices? It took decades -- and increasingly harsh laws -- to make seatbelt wearing commonplace, and that battle still rages over such issues as compulsory helmets for motorcyclists, while personal liberties advocates essentially claim a birthright to do whatever they want behind the wheel.

"Invisible flash" could eliminate bright camera bulb pops

Smile, you're on not-so-candid camera.

The bright and sudden pop of a flash bulb means photos are being snapped, and while it's (arguably) fun to have your picture taken, the harsh glare of a flash bulb often leaves subjects squinting and annoyed.

But what else can you do if natural light isn't an option?

Enter the so-called "invisible flash" or "dark flash," which utilizes light waves outside the visible spectrum to illuminate your subject. Infrared and ultraviolet light is pulsed, with visible light frequencies filtered out, and a special camera sensor captures the invisible-to-the-naked-eye frequencies to create a finished image.

The resulting image isn't perfect -- the pictures are described as having the character of night-vision shots --so the new system, developed by two researchers at New York University, grabs color information from a flash-free picture which is snapped after the UV-illuminated shot is taken. Detail from the first shot and color data from the second are then combined in software, with what is called a "remarkably natural end result."

The system isn't perfect. Not all objects reflect UV or IR light, so the camera can't pick them up properly. The New Scientist story linked above notes that freckles present a particular challenge for the system. (I guess that's one way to clear up your skin in photographs, without resorting to Photoshop.)

Still, the prospect of taking shots in low light without the harsh glare and distraction of a flash bulb pop is a tantalizing one, even if the results are imperfect. The paparazzi, renowned for sneaky night-time shots, must be positively drooling over the possibility.