UP Board Exam Postponed
Schools and colleges closed till May 15 PRAYAGRAJ: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday postponed board examinations till May 20 and all schools in the state will remain closed till May 15. The new exam schedule will be decided in the first week of May after reviewing the pandemic situation of the state. The decision comes at a time when the Central Board of Secondary Education has cancelled class 10 and postponed class 12 exams, in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases across the country. Uttar Pradesh, specifically, has emerged a hotspot of infections since last week. The
21 Security Men Missing After Gunfight with Maoists
BIJAPUR: In a heart-rendering incident, twenty-one security personnel, including seven from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who were engaged in the gun battle with Maoists have been missing since the confrontation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Saturday. “Search parties have been sent to the forest, where the encounter took place, to look for the missing personnel this morning,” state director general of police DM Awasthi said on Sunday. As the security team reached Tarem, Maoists fired at them, triggering retaliation. Five personnel were killed in the three-hour gunfight; the other side too is believed to have suffered heavy casualties. “We
Craft Utility Ship Inducted in Navy for Transporting Tanks
HYDERABAD: The Indian Navy is keen to exhibit its amphibious warfare capabilities by inducting a landing craft utility ship to be utilized for an array of activities like transporting battle tanks and other heavy weapons systems. The landing craft utility (LCU) mark-IV class ship was commissioned at an event in Andaman and Nicobar Island. The ship was indigenously designed and built under the prime minister’s vision of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ by state-run Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata. They can be deployed for a variety of roles such as search and rescue, disaster relief operations,
Amrit Mahotsav to Kick Start at 75 Locations for 75 Weeks
AHEMDABAD: To mark India’s 75 years of independence, Amrit Mahotsav will be celebrated at 75 districts for 75 weeks from March 12. It is worth mentioning that Dandi March was held in 1930 as part of Mahatma Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience Movement. On the fateful day of March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi embarked on Dandi Yatra against the move by the British regime to impose a tax on salt. After embarking on pad Yatra (foot march) for 21 days, Bapu reached Dandi on April 5 and broke the law as part of the then, Civil Disobedience Movement. Amrit Mahotsav event is
India Needs to Grow its Digital Workforce 9 Times by 2025: AWS Report
NEW DELHI: “Digital skills are rapidly becoming the nerve center of all actions by employees to perform their tasks efficiently. Covid-19 has set the ball rolling for complete digitization and accelerated the pace by which organisations and employees are adapting to changed circumstances and acquiring digital skills. Infact obtaining and utilizing digital skills are fast becoming the need of the hour,” claim findings of a report by Amazon Web Services (AWS) on India’s digital skilled workforce. The report further claims that at present India possesses only 12 percent of employees with proper digital skills and to meet the growing challenges