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Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir e-inaugurated 607 vocational labs, education portal and GIS Portal. Samagra Shiksha developed these labs and portals to strengthen the education system in J&K. J-K Lt Governor e-inaugurates 607 labs and education portals | Photo Credit: Representative Image
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday e-inaugurated 607 vocational labs, education portal and GIS Portal developed by Samagra Shiksha in a bid to strengthen the vocational education ecosystem in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking on the occasion, the Lt Governor observed that important features of New Educational Policy have been initiated in Jammu and Kashmir which will pave a strong foundation for job-oriented education for the youth.
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“Neither am I right-wing or left-wing, nor is my technology or product,” Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder and chief executive of the Koo app, said, terming the labels as basically “a lot of people’s perception”.
“As a company, we don’t want to be political, we are a private company interested in technology and product,” said the 39-year-old, whose first outing as a startup entrepreneur was when he set up mobility app TaxiForSure, before selling it to rival Ola.
“We are actually going after 600 million people who have internet access today (but) don’t have a place to share thoughts and opinions,” Radhakrishna said.
Koo app downloads surge as tensions escalate between Twitter and Govt
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In the last seven days alone, Twitter s homegrown rival Koo app has seen a ten-fold increase in downloads leading to a cumulative three million lifetime downloads in India alone.
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Indian microblogging app Koo is witnessing a record surge in its popularity as tensions escalate between larger rival Twitter and the Indian government on allegations that certain accounts on the American platform were stoking unrest over the controversial farm laws.
In the last seven days alone, the year-old app has seen a ten-fold increase in downloads leading to a cumulative three million lifetime downloads within the country alone, it said. Founded by serial entrepreneur Aprameya Radhakrishna who sold his earlier venture TaxiforSure to larger rival Ola along with Mayank Bidawatka, Koo has been making waves for its focus on snagging local language users onto its platform.