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Income tax department developing a mobile app to fill tax returns.

“We are developing a mobile app which can be used by users for filing their income tax returns. There are some security related issues, which we will resolve soon,” Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairperson Anita Kapoor said on Saturday after inaugurating ‘Taxpayers’ Lounge’ at the India International Trade Fair (IITF) here.

Filing tax returns via online mode has seen a sharp increase in recent years.

Talking about direct tax collections, Ms Kapoor said, “Collections are doing well and we are keeping our fingers crossed. The December collection of advance tax will actually give us a good idea.”

Rs. 7.98 lakh crore will be collected as direct tax in the current financial year.

The panel has clear terms of reference. They are expected to give their first report in January. They can give it earlier if they deem it proper. They have sufficient time,” she said.

Filling tax returns through mobile is an easy and a convenient way for the taxpayers.

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MUMBAI: Doctors of Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel developed a mobile app, “TNM” to make the Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment easier.

TNM stands for Tumour, node and metastasis, will help the doctors, mainly in interior areas and poor nations; diagnose the severity of cancer immediately.

According to Dr Rajendra Badwe, director of Tata Memorial Hospital, the app will help bring about standardization of cancer medicine practice across the country.

Every resident doctor who joins Tata Memorial Hospital is given a TNM Handbook to correctly identify the stage of cancer in the patient they are treating,” said Tata Memorial Hospital director Dr Rajendra Badwe.

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It is not possible for the doctors to remember various permutations and combinations among 65 types of cancers.

“Having the handbook helps young doctors. Now, the need to carry the handbook has been eliminated as most people carry smartphones,” said Dr Palak Popat, who was one of the developers.

 “The app, once downloaded, can be accessed offline. It is an interactive app where the doctor can feed the required information and within 30 seconds can get the stage of cancer,” Dr Meenakshi Thakur, one of the three radiologists who designed the app, added.

The app will soon get a feature which will be really useful for patients and their relatives.

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NEW DELHI: A mobile app “CPGRAMS” was introduced for the people to register governance-related grievances by Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh.

“A Quick Response (QR) code has been provided on the portal which can be scanned on to the smart phone after which the grievance can be sent from the phone directly on to CPGRAMS”, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh said.

The app will be helpful for the people as almost everyone use mobile app as mobile phones are the easiest way of communication now-a-days.

“This is another step towards translating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘ART of Governance’ as spelt out by him, with A for Accountability, R – Responsibility and T- Transparency, forming the bedrock of the government,” the minister said.

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Through CPGRAMS, people are getting a platform for the redressal of their grievances.

Singh said the goal is that the administration should be citizen-centric, transparent and responsive. “More than six lakh public grievances have been settled since the NDA government assumed office,” he said.

“DARPG is also carrying out analysis of the grievances and a systematic response is being worked out on how best to address the grievances”, he said.

With this app, people can also track the grievance status.

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A new app that uses sensors to monitor air quality launched in London to avoid air pollution.

The app makes use of hourly data from sensors all over London to monitor nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide level.

“The mobile app also offers advice to cyclists, runners, parents, and those wishing to eat outdoors, with a red warning signifying that activities attempted outdoors will damage your health,” ‘Sky News’ reported.

The Plume Air Report app is designed to make people “breathe better,” it was first introduced in France to beat high pollution levels.

This app is to help you breathe better by providing you information on how to avoid pollution.

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“What we’ve built is digital tools to help people breathe better, by informing them on what it is that they’re breathing,” said Romain Lacombe, founder of Plume Labs which developed the mobile app. “This means we can put a pollution forecast in the hands of everyone,” Lacombe said.

The app is available on Android, and for iOS.

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Delhi police to introduce three more new mobile apps each for Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Special Police Unit for Women and Children (SPUWAC) and Vigilance wing.

“We have initiated the process and are currently in the process of developing and then carrying out the trial runs. The launch would take at least two to three months after which public access could be made possible,” said the Delhi Police officer.

The officer said that these apps are well structured so that detailed complaints would mostly come for actionable calls.

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“The app will alert the complainants and save them the effort of going to the police station and filing a complaint or to find out the mandate of the EOW. The cyber crime cases also come there and financial matters often have the scope of mediation with digital documentation would further facilitate,” said the officer.

For the others, too, it was in tune with Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi’s efforts reducing public inconvenience and better monitoring of performance, he added.

New apps will be added to the apps that are currently running including an integrated app called “Suraksha” and many more.

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National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to introduce mobile app for the public to file complaints against those who are involved in rash driving or violating traffic rules.

This will take a month or two to create it. It will be soon available for the citizens so that they can even take a photograph of the vehicle, which is speeding or violating any structures relating to transport and press a button to register a complaint against that vehicle, Mr. Chandra said.

“All the complaints will get registered in the ledger pertaining to that vehicle whereupon the police/transport department can take further action about it,” he added.

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“In the days to come, I hope to be able to introduce reforms to bring about better management, control, policing of our highways network, I feel with more physical intermediation we should be able to bring about something like patrolling to improve the physical management on roads and I think that will have a significant improvement on road safety,” he said.

NHAI was working towards building up complete information of bank of each and every highway, known as the Road Asset Management System (RAMS).

“Within the next one year we should have information of the entire 1,00,000 kms of highway network on its every aspect, including the encroachment on both sides, quality of the road, width of the road, width of the right of way, issues concerning with junctions and so on,” he added.

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One of the first things you’ll notice when you visit the Solar2D website is the Solar2D banner. That’s because Solar2D is a special product that helps you to develop mobile applications 10 times speedier.

You can incorporate complex functionalities with only few lines of code. It also allows you to see progressions immediately by utilizing the Simulator.

Let us discuss in brief about the advantages of Solar2D:

1) Single code base

You are not required to hire various designers and use diverse development situations for every gadget in Solar2D. You make a solitary code base that functions admirably well with Android, iOS, Nook and kindle with platform specific conditions.

A solitary cross platform application is the end product. Solar2D app also scales your content automatically across several devices.

2) Importance on design

Solar2D has features to include interactivity and graphic content into your apps and games. While working with Solar2D, instead of feeling like a developer, you will feel like a designer as it has a huge range of designing options.

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3) Community

Solar2D gives you an opportunity for developers like you to join under the Solar2D’s growing community of developers. It has a mutual code repository where developers can share their knowledge and code snippets.

It has 347 studios to help developers all over the world and there are third party tools with which you can redesign your app as well.

4) Quicker Monetization

Solar2D allows you to monetize easily and faster as it provides you integrated support for banner ads, apps s and a number of currencies.

5) Dominant APIs

Gaming APIs can be added easily to your app with only a few lines of human-friendly code. Even kids can create a chart with Solar2D as it is easy to use.

6) FPS

While comparing with other SDKs, Solar2D has a faster frame per second (FPS) making your application seem smooth and consistent with no slacking. It is the best platform for game development as it changes easily for several screen resolutions.

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7) Lua programming

Solar2D is based on this and it is one of the simplest programming languages to learn. It is cross-platform as it is written in ANSI C and has a relatively simple C API.

8) Rights to source code

Everything which you make with Solar2D is your own property written in Lua, despite the fact that the Solar2D game engine is a closed source. It gives you a chance to hold full rights to the Lua code that you used to develop your project.

Thus, with such advantages, Solar2D is one of the best cross-platform game engines available.

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Union Minister for Railway Suresh Prabhu to launch a new platform ‘JUMBO Bonanza of UTS on mobile’ under ‘Digital India’ programme.

People using Windows or Android Smartphone can use the Unreserved Ticketing system (UTS) app.

Passenger should maintain a Railway Wallet (R-Wallet) to avail the facility.

“On Friday, Prabhu will inaugurate the mobile app for passengers of the Central Railway division of Mumbai. It has already been launched in the Western Railway division of Mumbai from Churchgate to Dahanu. With add-on facilities for commuters, the new paperless mobile ticketing application UTS (Unreserved Ticketing System) will enable them to even renew their monthly passes on their mobiles,” said a CR official.

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Passengers can book their tickets via mobile phone and t can print the tickets at ATVMs installed at the source stations.

“The ticket can be d using debit or credit or R-wallet. The R-wallet can be loaded from any UTS counter online,” said Chief Public Officer of the WR Sharat Chandrayan.

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Recently, Apple saw an uptrend in its app downloading number. It is estimated that there were about 850 downloads in a second through the app store. This came as excellent news for Apple which paid about $30 billion in the last seven years for their app store.

Latest versions of OS X, WatchOS and Swift have come up making the process faster. They are focusing more on apps which are offering high productivity gains. Creating new terms like the 360-degree view of the customer which will help them in high productivity gains.

Apps are quite intelligent and they demand high investment. According to a survey done by Apple, it is said that 98% of the top notch companies use iOS apps. Each time Apple announces the latest OS, people prefer to switch for the newer features and improvements. Apple always aims at running maximum iOS devices on the latest version.

Apple’s Swift is to be the next big thing for iPhone app developers. This is because Swift is much faster and efficient as compared to Objective-C. Moreover, the language is being made an Open Source language, which will benefit the developers to a great extent.

Prompt programming and quick results are two most important things developers expect from a good programming language. This is what makes a language famous and highly used. Swift is likely to replace Objective-C and even C for programming on the iOS platforms.

Because of numerous features, Swift has become the most sought after programming language for iPhone app developers who are keen on developing newer apps. As per the plans, Apple is optimizing Swift for better performance. It is also working on improving the language. Starting from scratch, it has been working on the complete mobile app development tool chain. Here are certain reasons which will compel you to start using Swift for developing apps for iPhones and iPads.

You can easily read Swift programming language. There are no such keywords or types which will make this language a complex one. In other words, you don’t need to take care much about the semi-colons and other rules. Concentrate more on the logic and get your work done. You don’t need to make use of unnecessary parenthesis for nested functions. All you have to do is separate all the parameters with commas and go ahead with coding.

It is easy to maintain coding done using Swift. When you are coding using C, iPhone app developers need to maintain two files so as to improve efficiency and build time. This adds work as well as maintenance. You are not able to concentrate on the bigger picture. Here you have to manually take care of everything which is quite tedious.

Pointer variables are quite important in Objective C. If a pointer variable is null and you call a function using this pointer, no major action will take place, while in Swift, you only have to remember the optional types and value types and specify them in the methods. This highly simplifies the bug-fixing process.

Swift excels well in memory management. It has the ability to unify the language in the best way. You can manage memory leakage which is quite common in Objective C. The iPhone app developers don’t have to think much when it comes to developing apps. High-performance memory was a huge problem which has been solved greatly with Swift.

Less coding is what developers prefer these days. Swift has got the ability to reduce the amount of coding for simple logics. It includes modern programming practices which you won’t find in Objective-C. There are no special string tokens. The compiler has to concentrate only on the type system.

Speed is a high priority these days when it comes to programming. Dropping the usual C conventions has highly improved the quality of Swift. Swift is nearly on levels with C++ for both the FFT and Mandelbrot algorithms. As per the research done by Primate Labs, the GEMM algorithm performance is quite good and you can trust its quality well.

In this generation, it is more important to create apps which won’t put more loads on the App Store. Moreover, you can make use of Swift to create apps fast and perfectly. This will surely help you come up with new creations. Swift programming language is, without doubt, the future of iOS app development.

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Search engine giant Google, and online education company Udacity, has launched IT courses in India to tap millions of software developers scrambling for jobs.

“The programme is for bridging the gap in creating world-class applications by the Indian developer community. Indian developers made only 2% of the top 1,000 apps on Google Play.,” said Google India managing director Rajan Anandan.

The program costs Rs. 9,800 per month and takes an average of 6 to 9 months, with Udacity refunding 50 percent of the tuition fee after the completion of course.

“Our aim is to democratize education for everyone to help the people to get their dream job. We are happy to launch the Android Nanodegree course in India in partnership with Tata Trusts and Google,” said Sebastian Thrun, Udacity founder and Chief Executive.

In addition to this, three companies have offered 1,000 free scholarships, out of which, Tata Trusts will offer 500 scholarships to the developers of Nano Degree programme.

In India, a large number of engineering and IT specialists have left the country to reach the top in the US corporate world.