VIT founder-chancellor G. Viswanathan and Anuj Bhalla, president and global head, integrated cloud and delivery excellence, Tech Mahindra interacting with students at the 14th edition of graVITas at VIT, Vellore campus, on Friday. | Photo Credit: C. VENKATACHALAPATHY Robotics and cloud application are the key growth areas where huge employment opportunities are available for talented … Read more
Retired teachers are specifically chosen for this program due to the low remuneration they receive, which makes it difficult for them to afford high-end treatments such as joint replacements. | Photo Credit: AndreyPopov Nearly 100 retired teachers from rural areas will undergo free joint replacement surgeries under the “Guru Namana” programme by SPARSH Foundation, a … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for his visit to South Africa and Greece, in New Delhi, on August 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 22 left for South Africa to attend the 15th BRICS summit, expressing confidence that it will provide a useful opportunity for its members to identify … Read more
Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Himanshu Aggarwal said that vehicular traffic on Mukerian bridge has been closed after the Mukerian-Gurdaspur road submerged. | Photo Credit: X/@himan47agg_IAS Several teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on August 16 began rescue operations to evacuate people in several areas in Gurdaspur which were inundated following the release of excess … Read more
Army Chief General Manoj Pande visited the forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir to review the operational preparedness, officials said on Saturday. The Army also tweeted pictures from his visit and interaction with some of the troops deployed in the forward areas. “General Manoj Pande COAS visited forward areas … Read more
The four-member team led by former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said it plans to visit north and south Bengal districts. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma A BJP fact-finding team, which arrived in West Bengal on July 12, said it will visit areas hit by poll violence and speak to victims to assess … Read more
Residents of flood-prone areas in Bhadrachalam under the aegis of the CPI(M) town committee staged a dharna in front of the sub-Collector’s office here on Tuesday demanding concrete measures to fortify the flood protection mechanism in Bhadrachalam. The dharna was organised in continuation of the padayatras in flood-prone areas by the CPI(M) cadres to highlight … Read more
Chandigarh: If all goes well, PGI’s department of telemedicine will soon start using drones for transportation of organs, besides delivering medicines at remote and tough terrain of Himachal Pradesh. This will do away with the compulsion to transport retrieved organs within a 20km radius and the need for a green corridor. The aerial radius of … Read more
Parashurama Nayak, a resident of Kodichikkanahalli, East Bengaluru, had to shift his residence to another street after facing repeated traffic jams in front of his house and constant noise of vehicles that ferried children to a preschool next door. “For the past five years, the preschool has been running illegally in a residential building disturbing … Read more
Dehradun (Uttarakhand): The Health Department of Uttarakhand has successfully completed the trial of drone technology to deliver medicines and vaccines in a time-bound manner. To deliver medicines to remote areas of the state, the unique initiative by the health department to provide vaccines to the beneficiaries living in remote districts of the state through information … Read more