From Live Mint
....MUCH MORENew Delhi: India climbed 14 rungs in the World Bank’s latest ease of doing business rankings to stand at 63 among 190 countries, becoming one of the top 10 most improved countries for the third consecutive time.
- India saw the biggest jump in ranking in the ‘resolving insolvency’ category from 108th to 52nd
- From 2020, the World Bank will include two more cities—Bengaluru and Kolkata—in its ease of doing business survey
The sharp rise in India’s ranking underscores the reformist credentials of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government and may help the country attract multinational companies looking for alternative investment destinations to China amid Beijing’s ongoing trade war with the US....
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Also India, from Sputnik:
India Eyes Obtaining World's Largest Facial Recognition System to Clamp Down on ahhh... Criminals
The Indian government envisions a future in which police from across the country’s 29 states and seven union territories will have access to a single, centralised database.
India is inching closer to efficiently nabbing criminals and containing crime through the installation of the world’s largest facial recognition system, as a tender submission date to obtain the National Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) is just 20 days away.
With this, the Indian government envisions a future in which police from across the country’s 29 states and seven union territories will have access to a single, centralised database.....MUCH MORE
“This is an effort to modernise the police force, the gathering of information, criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organisations and units across the country", said NCRB’s 172-page document.The beneficiaries of the facial recognition system are likely to be the Indian Home Ministry and the NCRB. However, it would be a major relief for the police force which would then be equipped with “a robust system for identifying criminals, missing children/persons, unidentified dead bodies and unknown traced children/persons across the country”.
The NCRB’s report on Tuesday pointed out the crime rate in India rose by 3.6 percent in 2017.
In April 2018, one police unit in India’s capital city New Delhi identified almost 3,000 missing children in just four days during a trial of a facial recognition system.
According to the Indian Home Ministry, India has just 150 police officers for every 100,000 citizens, whereas, United Nations stipulates 222 police officers for every 100,000 citizens. In recent years, the authorities have turned to facial recognition technology to make up for the shortfall....
