Robotics, cloud application are the key areas in IT, says Tech Mahindra official

Robotics, cloud application are the key areas in IT, says Tech Mahindra official

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

Free joint replacement surgeries for retired teachers from rural areas under Guru Namana programme 

Free joint replacement surgeries for retired teachers from rural areas under Guru Namana programme 

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

BRICS summit to provide useful opportunity to identify future areas of cooperation, review institutional development: PM Modi

BRICS summit to provide useful opportunity to identify future areas of cooperation, review institutional development: PM Modi

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

NDRF teams start rescue operations in flood-hit areas of Punjab’s Gurdaspur

NDRF teams start rescue operations in flood-hit areas of Punjab’s Gurdaspur

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

Gen. Pande visits forward areas along LoC

Gen. Pande visits forward areas along LoC

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

Bengal panchayat polls | BJP fact-finding team to visit violence-hit areas

Bengal panchayat polls | BJP fact-finding team to visit violence-hit areas

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 stage dharna

Residents of flood-prone areas in Bhadrachalam stage dharna

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

PGI mulls drones to deliver organs in remote Himachal Pradesh areas – ET HealthWorld

PGI mulls drones to deliver organs in remote Himachal Pradesh areas – ET HealthWorld

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

Citizens divided over preschools in residential areas

Citizens divided over preschools in residential areas

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

Drone Technology: Uttarakhand successfully conducts trial of delivering medicines by drone in remotest areas, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Drone Technology: Uttarakhand successfully conducts trial of delivering medicines by drone in remotest areas, Health News, ET HealthWorld

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