Google Helps Create 2 New Social Media Unicorns In India Google Helps Create 2 New Social Media Unicorns In India Glance, which feeds news and sports scores to phone-lock screens, is said to have reached a valuation of more than $1 billion after completing a funding round led by Google.
Google and its American internet peers are steadily amping up their investment in India
Google investments helped create India s two youngest technology unicorns: a pair of startups that feed personalized news and entertainment to the world s fastest-growing smartphone population.
Glance, which feeds news and sports scores to phone-lock screens, is said to have reached a valuation of more than $1 billion after completing a funding round led by Google. And VerSe Innovation Pvt, the studio behind the popular Dailyhunt news site and TikTok-like Josh app, said it passed that threshold after winning more than $100 million from Alphabet Inc. s search giant and Microsoft Corp.
IIT-K starts course in Geodesy - Measuring the Earth
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Kanpur, Dec 22 : The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has announced the launch of a new course - Diploma of IIT (D-IIT) in Geodesy which is the science of measuring the Earth.
The D-IIT programme will be offered by the department of civil engineering in three broad areas. These include - Geodesy, navigation and mapping and remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS).
The science of Geodesy has applications in monitoring earthquake, volcanic, landslide and weather hazard recognition and response; soil health, water resources, and drought surveillance; climate change including monitoring the polar ice cover; oil spill clean-ups; GPS timing and autonomous vehicle development.
Top 5 scholarship programmes for research students: Here s the list
Top 5 scholarship programmes for research students: Here s the list
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Top 5 scholarship programmes for research students: Here s the list
Many research institutions are there that offer scholarships for students to carry out research in specific fields. Institutes like IITs, IISc, IISERs, NITs, ICAR, etc also offer fellowships and grants to support the research study of scholars in various fields.
What is Research scholarship?
Research scholarship is a broad category of scholarships and fellowships that are given to students for the purpose of research at graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral level.
India’s unplanned lockdown unleashed fresh hell for its Adivasis The lockdown imposed in March took the general public by surprise and several sections of society were reeling from it for months. The Adivasis and other forest-dwelling communities, which at 104 million individuals make up 8.6% of the population, were particularly hard hit. Since the Adivasi communities live in remote areas, information about the disease was not adequately available, to begin with. These communities who have been marginalised in terms of access to healthcare were badly hit as Covid-19 impacts people with compromised health conditions and low immunity. A complete lockdown, restricted entry to forests and closed markets are all factors that have increased their vulnerability as they depend on the forests for their livelihoods and several other purposes. The absence of government support worsens their position, the writer of the article says.
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Dec. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) CTG (NASDAQ:CTG), a leading provider of information technology (IT) solutions and services in North America and Western Europe, today announced the appointment of Raj Rajgopal to the Company s Board of Directors, effective December 20, 2020.
Rajgopal is a seasoned industry executive with over 30 years of experience implementing digital strategies and driving transformational growth. Rajgopal previously served as the President of Virtusa Corporation, where he successfully led the company s transformation from an engineering services firm with revenue of approximately $170 million to a leading digital consulting, digital solutions and IT services organization with 20,000 employees and annual revenues of more than $800 million. During his tenure at Virtusa, Rajgopal supported the company s 28 consecutive quarters of growth and led due diligence efforts on a number of successful acquisitions. Prior to Virtusa, Rajgopal held multi