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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
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Delhi's air becomes more dangerous during Diwali

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Indian National Captial -- New Delhi’s -- air pollution hit dangerous levels as the country celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and firecrackers, stated report of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Diwali is festival of fireworks and firecrackers. It was celebrated on Sunday.  The World Health Organization recommends that PM2.5 is kept below 10 as an annual average. It says exposure to average annual concentrations of PM2.5 of 35 or above is associated with a 15% higher long-term mortality risk. During Diwali, various parts of Delhi, PM2.5 levels increased to 1,238 on Sunday, compared with 435 the same day of the festival a year earlier. 
Air pollution in Delhi
 It is the 11th worst polluted city in the world, with an annual average PM2.5 measurement of 122.  Average air-quality index reading for Delhi in October 2015 was considered “poor” according to the CPCB ’s air quality index bulletin. A CPCB official claimed that burning of solid waste and crops particularly in Haryana, Punjab and Eastern Uttar Pradesh also increased pollution along with vehicular emissions and dust from construction sites in Delhi are major contributors to the city’s smog. Another CPCB official stated that the capital’s problem was accentuated on  Sunday by relatively low winds and lower temperatures, meaning that pollutants weren’t dispersed.

"Firecrackers and fireworks set off during the Diwali celebrations “may have added” to the city’s pollution levels, said Dr Pankaj Chandra, an environment expert. “We need to make people aware that their activities should not release more emission when our air is already so polluted,” he said.
Diwali celebration firecrackers

The United Nations Children’s Fund in a report entitled “Clean the Air for Children,” released Sunday, said that nearly 20% of the world’s children who live in India risked developing life-long health complications due to air pollution and in some cases even death.

“Children are uniquely vulnerable to air pollution – due both to their physiology as well as to the type and degree of their exposure,” said the report. That is because they breathe twice as fast as adults, taking in more air and pollutants which can adversely affect their growth and immune system. The report said that outdoor air pollution in India exceeds nearly six times that of limits considered safe internationally, while more than half of the country’s population still burns solid fuels for cooking and heating, often the causes of ill health and early death in children.
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