The Shinde-Fadnavis government’s decision to appoint a close aide of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Ajay Ashar as the vice president of Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) has created foot in a mouth situation for BJP’s Mumbai President Ashish Shelar. The BJP leader had once questioned Ashar’s interference in matters pertaining... The post appeared first on .

The Shinde-Fadnavis government’s decision to appoint a close aide of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Ajay Ashar as the vice president of Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) has created foot in a mouth situation for BJP’s Mumbai President Ashish Shelar. The BJP leader had once questioned Ashar’s interference in matters pertaining... The post appeared first on .

The Shinde-Fadnavis government’s decision to appoint a close aide of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Ajay Ashar as the vice president of Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) has created foot in a mouth situation for BJP’s Mumbai President Ashish Shelar. The BJP leader had once questioned Ashar’s interference in matters pertaining... The post appeared first on .

The Shinde-Fadnavis government’s decision to appoint a close aide of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Ajay Ashar as the vice president of Maharashtra Institution for Transformation (MITRA) has created foot in a mouth situation for BJP’s Mumbai President Ashish Shelar. The BJP leader had once questioned Ashar’s interference in matters pertaining... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu will launch the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan Ni-kshay 2.0 portal on August 9. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is targeting the eradication of tuberculosis by 2025.

Kolkata Apr 23 PTI Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ICAI is set to host 21st World Congress of Accountants WCOA the kumbh of accountants for the first time in 118 years of its existence ICAI president Debashis Mitra said on Saturday The event will be held from November 18 to 21 after outbidding France About 6000 top accountants from 130 countries will participate in the programme physicallyThe event will take place in newly built Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai he said It is a proud moment for ICAI that it has been able to host the World Congress for the first time in 118 years of its existence We were successful in outbidding France in this round Mitra said The WCOA a forum for thought leadership and global exchange of views is held every four years since it started in 1904 While 6000 delegates from across the globe will directly attend the WCOA another 10000 are expected to join in virtually Mitra said The theme this time would be Building Trust Enabling Sustainability he added PTI BSM KK KK KK

New Delhi Mar 20 PTI Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras and the US-based Northwestern University have developed deep learning algorithms that can greatly enhance the depth perception and 3D effects in videos shot using smartphone camerasAccording to officials such algorithms will prevent mobile phone images from being flat and impart a realistic 3D feel A crucial advantage of the algorithm developed is that it eliminates the need for fancy equipment or an array of lenses to capture videos with depthIt is a common complaint especially among amateur and professional photographers that photographs and videos shot using smartphone cameras have a flat two-dimensional look Apart from the flat look some 3D features such as the Bokeh Effect the aesthetic blurring of the background that are easy with the DSLR camera are challenging in smartphone cameras Kaushik Mitra assistant professor Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Madras told PTIWhile a few mid and high-end smartphone cameras are now programmed to incorporate such effects in still photographs especially in portrait mode it is not yet possible to render them in videos captured using smartphones he addedMitra explained that the advanced professional cameras capture information about both intensity and direction of light in a scene known as Light Field LF to give the perception of depthThe LF capture is achieved through the use of an array of micro lenses that are inserted between the main lens of the camera and the camera sensor Multiple micro lenses cannot be placed on mobile phones because of space constraints Instead algorithms that can post-process the image captured by the existing mobile cameras are being developedArtificial Intelligence and machine learning techniques are used for such image manipulation Our team looked into this issue and has built a deep learning algorithm that converts the stereo images captured using a smartphone into LF images he saidThe research has been published in the Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV 2021The algorithm first captures two videos called stereo pair simultaneously using the two adjacent cameras that are present in many smartphones these days These stereo pairs go through a sequence of steps involving deep learning models The stereo pairs are converted into a 7X7 grid of images mimicking a 7X7 array of cameras thereby producing the LF image Mitra explainedA crucial advantage of the algorithm developed by our team is that it eliminates the need for fancy equipment or an array of lenses to capture videos with depth The Bokeh and other such aesthetic 3D effects can be achieved with a smartphone that is equipped with a dual-camera systemIn addition to providing depth our algorithm enables us to view the same video from not just one point of view but from any of the 7x7 grid of viewpoints he said PTI GJS GJS DIV DIV

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 1 (ANI): Soumen Mitra, retired former Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and Director, Training on the rank of Director General of Police (DGP) for a period of two years with effect from Saturday.

Kolkata Dec 30 PTI The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has said it will oppose the Centres proposal to introduce three non-CA members into ICAIs disciplinary committee arguing that the move will impact fair judgementThe government through the Chartered Accountants Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries Amendment Bill 2021 has proposed the inclusion of two CAs and three non-CAs in the ICAI disciplinary committeeAt present the panel comprises two non-CA nominees and three ICAI membersThe bill has been sent by Lok Sabha to a Parliamentary standing committee for scrutinyWe oppose the proposal and will present our case before the standing committee when we are invited for hearing ICAI vice-president Debasish Mitra told PTI on the sidelines of a programme here on WednesdayHe said that non-CAs wont have the in-depth knowledge of accounting which is a must for fair judgement Mitra also said ICAI would focus on adapting new technologies like artificial intelligence along with forensic auditing and upgrading its code of ethics PTI BSM RBT RBT

Kolkata Dec 24 PTI Amit Mitra the advisor to West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday requested Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to hold an urgent meeting of the GST Council and rescind the seven per cent tax hike in the textiles sector to prevent job loss and closure of small units The union government had notified to increase the tax on natural fibre products from 5 per cent to 12 per cent including apparels in the lower tax bracket with effect from January 1 2022 If the tax is not reversed then the impact will be huge with job loss to 15 lakh people including those engaged in ancillary industry and closure of one lakh small units A lot of units will revert to the informal sector Mitra told reporters in a virtual media meet He accused the Centre of not discussing the issue in the GST council before announcing the hike in tax Mitra who is the former finance minister of the state said that at a time when wholesale inflation in the country is already 14 per cent the additional burden of seven per cent tax on textile will push it up and cause loss of job The sector engages 39 million people He said that the government is hurting 80 per cent of the textile industry to correct the inverse tax issue in the man made textile sector Natural fibre segment constitute 80 per cent of the Rs 54 lakh crore textile sector and its net profit margin is between one and three per cent making them vulnerable to any kind of cost impact The cotton sector is already reeling under 70 per cent inflation he said The government estimate of earning additional Rs 7000 crore from raising tax is mythical as a lot of units will close and many will who had recently come under the GST net will deregister and revert to being in the informal regime PTI BSM KK KK KK