As part of PM Narendra Modi’s aim to increase job options for India’s young under the Skill India Mission, the Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela (PMNAM) will take place on December 12th in 197 venues across 25 states and Union Territories. According to a press release issued on Friday, severalContinue Reading
There isn’t a lot that’s overtly Indian about the designs of Cartier and Christian Dior. Yet, when British anthropologist Phyllida Jay began working on her new book, Inspired by India, those French fashion houses are where the road led. She had suspected that might happen. It was part of theContinue Reading
A day after single bench of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court had cancelled the examination conducted recently by the J&K Services Selection Board (JKSSB) for the posts of police sub-inspectors and junior engineers in the Jal Shakti department, a division bench of the high court comprising Justice SindhuContinue Reading
Experts from Canada and the US, along with CEOs of India’s top news publishing businesses, including HT Digital, discussed ways to decode the publisher-platform relationship in Friday’s second Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) Dialogues conducted virtually on Friday. The event saw five panellists brainstorm over various challenges being faced byContinue Reading
The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Friday released the board exam schedule for Class 12 and Class 10, which would begin in February, 2023. As per the schedule, exams for Class 12 will be conducted from February 1 to 11 in 2023. The exam will begin with mathematics paperContinue Reading
Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud Backups, which is now part of the expanded list of data and content categories on iCloud, which will have the encryption layer. Simultaneously, Apple is also enabling iMessage Contact Key Validation for conversation privacy and will also allow users to secure their iCloudContinue Reading
I recall everything about the day January 29, 1990. It was 0845 hours in the emerald jungle of Nagarahole in southwestern India. The ten-meter-tall Randia tree I had carefully selected was 200 meters from the wild tiger resting near its kill. I climbed the rickety bamboo ladder gingerly and foundContinue Reading
iHUB DivyaSampark has inaugurated its second incubation and innovation facility at the Greater Noida Extension Center of IIT Roorkee. Under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NMiCPS) mission, which was declared in the 2019 union budget, iHUB DivyaSampark, Technology Innovation was established. Department of Science & Technology (DST) andContinue Reading
India saw a staggering jump of 15,400% in the number of start-ups in just six years, going from 471 in 2016 to 72,993 in 2022. With more than 100 unicorns, the Indian start-up ecosystem is still expanding. Despite the advancements made, India’s businesses still face enormous obstacles that must beContinue Reading
Switzerland is experiencing a healthy tourism rebound from the pandemic. Overnight stays in 2022 have reached 86.6% of 2019 levels thus far, according to Switzerland Tourism data shared with Bloomberg. Now this country of lakes, scenic train journeys and epic mountains has positioned itself to win over more tourists. StartingContinue Reading