There is need to prepare STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and STEAM teachers to better withstand the situation in schools today, Jan DeWaters, Associate Professor, Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Clarkson University, New York, has said. She was speaking on ‘Addressing the need for STEM teachers in U.S. high-needs schools’ at the … Read more
Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists stage a protest against the alleged sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at Kolkata RG Kar Hospital, in Kolkata on August 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Stepping up the attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress in West … Read more
Minister for Youth Empowerment, Sports and Tribal Welfare B. Nagendra speaking at a district-level conference of guarantee schemes beneficiaries in Ballari on Monday. | Photo Credit: SRIDHAR KAVALI Terming the guarantee schemes being implemented by his government as powerful tools in the empowerment of common people, Minister for Youth Empowerment, Sports and Tribal Welfare and … Read more
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is bracing for a season of Opposition protests. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have announced, separately, a spate of agitations in the run-up to the government’s mass contact programme and the Keraleeyam gala in November-December. Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said both programmes were thinly … Read more
Allotment orders were distributed to candidates who were admitted to undergraduate law programmes offered by the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University on Monday. Of the 8,134 candidates who had applied for admission to the 5-year integrated honours degree course in the School of Excellence in Law, as many as 247 were found ineligible and 7,887 candidates … Read more
New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) announced on Thursday that it has successfully integrated more than 100 health programmes and health applications as part of its flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). Apart from having done integration of 33 health applications from the private healthcare providers, some of the major government run applications … Read more
The AIADMK will hold public meetings for six days next month across the State to mark the birth anniversary of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the party’s interim general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami said the meetings would be held from March 5 – 7 and 10 – 12. He would … Read more
Officers of the Women Development and Child Welfare (WD&CW) Department, in association with various NGOs, will organise meetings and workshops on protection of the girl child on the occasion of the National Girl Child Day on January 24. “The programmes will be conducted in all districts,” A.P. State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (APSCPCR) … Read more
Mumbai: With an aim to broaden access to Pfizer’s innovative drugs to patients, the company launched ‘Pfizer PAP India’—a mobile application designed to ease and fast-track enrollment to Pfizer’s Patient Access Programmes (PAP). The mobile application, available on both iOS and Android platforms, is designed to support patients who would like to be a part … Read more