J&K Gets India`s First Cable-Stayed Rail Bridge
The Indian Railways has shared new images of the country`s first cable-stayed bridge on the Anji river in Jammu and Kashmir`s Reasi district.
Highlights
- The Indian Railways has shared new images of the country`s first cable-stayed bridge on the Anji river in Jammu and Kashmir`s Reasi district.
- The under-construction Anji Khad bridge, a part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project, will connect Katra and Reasi areas through rail links.
- The bridge will stand at 331 meters above the river bed – above the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
- The bridge`s total length is 473.25 meters, and 96 cables support it.
- The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link is one of the foremost challenging projects undertaken within the Indian subcontinent.
- The bridge has been designed to face up to storms and powerful winds.
- Given the complex geology of the high-altitude region, constructing the bridge is highly challenging. The Railways has divided the 272-km rail link into three subsections.
### IBM has opened a Cybersecurity hub in Bengaluru
IBM has opened a cybersecurity hub in Bengaluru to address the concerns of its clients in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
Highlights
- International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has launched a cybersecurity hub in Bengaluru to deal with the concerns of its clients across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
- The multi-million dollar IBM Security Command Center will be located at the IBM office in Bengaluru in Karnataka. It`s the primary of its kind facility within the region.
- The IBM global analysis report for 2022 states that Asia emerged because the top-most targeted region for cyberattacks, representing 26% of attacks analyzed in 2021.
The Cybersecurity Hub:
- This cybersecurity hub will deliver training in cybersecurity response techniques, to organizations of all kinds, through highly realistic, simulated cyberattacks to organize everyone, from C-Suite to technical staff.
- The new cyber security hub is among IBM`s sole two such centers globally. The opposite one is found within the US.
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