The All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE has come up with short term courses to train core engineering faculty members under quality improvement programs in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, data science. AI and data science is the second most sought after course in Tamilnadu colleges this year. In Tamilnadu several certification
Indian pugilist Amit Pangal has secured the prestigious Paris Olympic quota in the men’s 51 kg category on Sunday. He triumphed over Liu Chuang of China at the World Boxing Qualifiers in Bangkok, with a commanding 5-nil quarter-final victory. Amit is the fifth Indian boxer to qualify for the Paris Olympics, following Nishant Dev, Nikhat
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that the maximum temperature and heatwave conditions prevailing over Northwest India including Delhi are gradually decreasing. It said that some isolated pockets in Northwest and Central parts of the country as well as Odisha will experience heatwave to severe heatwave conditions today. Talking exclusively to Akashvani News, IMD
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding seven meetings today including on heatwave and post-cyclone situations. He chaired a meeting to review the aftermath of the Cyclone Remal, especially in the northeastern parts of the country. Then, Mr. Modi will hold a meeting to review the heatwave situation in the country. He will also hold a
Counting of votes for Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim is progressing smoothly. Polling for the 60 seats in Arunachal Pradesh and for 32 seats in Sikkim was held on 19th of April, simultaneously with the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. The trends show the BJP is set to retain power in
Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa scored a massive victory over world number two Fabiano Caruana of United States and made his way to the top 10 of world rankings after the end of fifth round of Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger. Hikaru Nakamura of the United States got the better of off-colour world champion Ding Liren
The ICC T20 World Cup 2024 being jointly hosted by the USA and the West Indies, got underway in USA today. Co hosts USA defeated Canada by seven wickets in the opening match at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. After being asked for bat first, Canada scored 194 for 5 in the stipulated 20 overs.
India today departed humanitarian assistance to Cuba. In a social media post, the External Affairs Ministry’s Spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal said that a consignment of 90 tonnes of nine ‘Made in India’ Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) left Mundra port for Cuba. He said that the APIs will support the manufacture of essential medicines. Mr. Jaiswal stressed
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary KC Venugopal convened a virtual meeting of all party leaders in New Delhi today to chalk out future strategies ahead of the counting. The meeting was attended by the party’s Lok Sabha candidates, Congress Legislature Party leaders and party’s Pradesh Congress Committee presidents.
In Odisha, the death toll in the explosion of a stockpile of firecrackers at Puri has reached 11 with three more persons undergoing treatment succumbing to their injuries today. At least 30 people were injured in the explosion that happened during Lord Jagannath’s Chandan Yatra on Wednesday night. The 19 injured are undergoing treatment in