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Indian American Krithik Ramesh top prize at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

India awaits results from world's biggest election In 2014 Narendra Modi and his party swept to power with 282 seats in the 545-seat parliament

Krithik Ramesh, 16, of of Greenwood Village, Colorado, received top honors with the Gordon E. Moore Award of $75,000 on Friday, May 17, 2019, at the 2019 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the Public and the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. He used augmented reality, machine learning and computer vision to help orthopedic surgeons achieve greater accuracy for screw placement during spinal surgery. (Credit: Chris Ayers/Society for Science & the Public)

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HOENIX, May 17, 2019 – Krithik Ramesh, 16, of Greenwood Village, Colorado, was awarded first place for developing a machine learning technology for orthopedic surgeons at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a program of Society for Science & the Public. Intel ISEF is the world’s largest international precollege science competition. The competition featured over 1,800 young scientists selected from 423 affiliate fairs in more than 80 countries, regions and territories.

Using machine learning and computer vision, the project helps orthopedic surgeons achieve greater accuracy for screw placement during spinal surgery. Based on Ramesh’s tests, this method has the potential to decrease operating time by at least 30 minutes, reduce physical therapy recovery time by four weeks and diminish the negative side effects associated with traditional medical imaging. Ramesh received the $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award, named in honor of Continued on Page 9

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, who leads the Bharatiya Janata Party, campaigning in Varanasi last month. Exit polls suggest he will return to power for five more years. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) by Simon Sturdee

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EW DELHI, India | AFP | 5/22/2019 - Results were due Thursday from India's acrimonious election, with exit polls pointing to a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi but the opposition clinging to hopes of a surprise win. After an exercise not short of

staggering statistics, the roughly 600 million votes cast in the world's biggest and purportedly most expensive election were set to be counted in just one day. If there is a clear trend, this should be evident by around midday (0630 GMT). But if the result is close India's 1.3 billion people may have to wait a lot longer to know the outcome.

In 2014 Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power with 282 seats in the 545-seat parliament, the first time a single party had won a majority in 30 years. It then cobbled together an alliance with 334 seats, and exit polls suggested the coalition this Continued on Page 2

India claims new first for world's fastest cruise missile

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EW DELHI, India | AFP | 5/22/2019 - India said the world's fastest cruise missile passed another key test Wednesday when it successfully hit a land target after being fired from a fighter jet. India is developing the supersonic BrahMos missile -- which has a top speed of 3,450 kilometres (2,140 miles) per hour -- with Russia, and according to media reports wants to soon start selling it abroad. The missile is one-and-a-half times faster than the old Concorde supersonic jet.

The Indian defence ministry said a specially converted Su-30 MKI fighter jet successfully fired the 2.5-tonne missile, which has a range of about 300 kilometres (185 miles). "The launch from the aircraft was smooth and the missile followed the desired trajectory before directly hitting the land target," a ministry statement said. It did not say where the test was staged or give other details apart from saying "very complex" mechanical, electrical and software modifications were made to the Russian-origin

fighter jet. The first test on a sea target was staged in November 2017. India said then it was the first country "to have successfully fired an air launched 2.8 Mach surface attack missile of this category on a sea target". "The BrahMos missile provides Indian Air Force a much desired capability to strike from large standoff ranges on any target at sea or on land with pinpoint accuracy by day or night and in all weather conditions," the ministry said.

The Indian Air Force released this picture taken at an undisclosed location in 2017 showing a Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft carrying a BrahMos air to surface cruise missile The Indian Air Force released this picture taken at an undisclosed location in 2017 showing a Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft carrying a BrahMos air to surface cruise missile. (AFP Photo) Continued on Page 11

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