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Technology: To cut costs and face reverses, Cognizant to fire 3,500 employees

May 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: American Information Technology major Cognizant, once a bellwether in the sector with revenues of nearly USD 20 billion in 2022, became the latest IT company to join the layoff bandwagon as it announced to fire some 3,500 employees and close or curtail office spaces to save cost. The New Jersey-based […]

Business

Green signal: The US to issue over a million visas to Indians this year

April 22, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The USA is set to create a record by issuing over 10 lakh visas to Indians in 2023, an official said on Friday, adding the Biden administration will process all of the student visas for Indians whose school starts this fall. According to the media reports, US Assistant Secretary of […]

Astro Science

ISRO launched two Singaporean satellites into space on PSLV-C55

April 22, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 22: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the two Singapur-made satellites on the Indian-made space module PSLV-C55 on Saturday. The mission launched from the SDSC-SHAR Sriharikota in Indian standard time at 14:19 hours. The satellite is launched under the contract of the new Space India Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian […]

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Education

UNM Foundation of Torrent Group: Students will get scholarships for postgraduate studies in USA

April 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

UNM Foundation of Torrent Group intends to support meritorious students from economically challenged backgrounds desiring to study at universities of USA under Shardashish Scholarship Programme. Applications are invited from students who wish to get scholarship to pursue their post-graduate studies at USA. For details and guidelines regarding the application procedure, eligibility criteria please log in […]

Business

Trade: At over $128 bn, the US became India’s biggest trading partner in FY23

April 17, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With increasing, strengthening, and deepening economic ties between the two countries, the USA emerged as India’s biggest trading partner in 2022-23, according to the provisional data of the Union Commerce Ministry. The bilateral trade between India and the US increased by 7.65 percent to USD 128.55 in 2022-23, compared to USD […]

Education

Public holiday on Jyotiba Phule’s birth anniversary

April 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 11: The government of Rajasthan has declared a public holiday on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule. The women and child development minister Mamta Bhupesh, the Rashtriya Phule Bridge Team of Rajasthan, and various social organisations had come forward and demanded to declare a public […]

Business

Adani Engineering students win national award in Robotics

April 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 11 April 2023: Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (AIIE) embarked on an extraordinary journey of seven months when four of its students, Kushal Mehta, Tathya Kariya, Jisha Naik, and Mohammad Arsh Vahora, enrolled in the e-Yantra Robotics Competition – a robotics outreach program hosted by IIT Bombay and sponsored by the Ministry of Education. […]

Education

11-year-old girl created an app that detects eye diseases

March 30, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, March 30: The 11-year-old girl named Leena Refeeq who developed the artificially intelligent application that will detect significant eye diseases with nearly 70 percent accuracy. Leena, an 11-year-old Dubai-based Malyali girl, used a social media platform to tell the world about her creation. On LinkedIn, while revelling about her creation, she wrote, […]

Business

IIM Ahmedabad : Final Placement process for the MBA Class of 2023 was completed

March 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad: The Final Placement process for the MBA Class of 2023 of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management at IIM Ahmedabad was successfully completed. Firms from multiple domains participated across the three clusters in Final placements, with all students placed across 23 cohorts. Placement Process The placement process was conducted in two stages. The […]

Education

Heatwave: Goa announced to shut down schools before 12 p.m.

March 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi : The education department in Goa was directed to shut down all schools before 12 p.m. for the coming two days of Thursday and Friday because of the heatwave. The Indian Meteorological Department has given a warning to the Goa government about a heatwave after forecasting the temperature, which is likely to rise […]