It’s not august 15th! And we are not “happy” it is just Independence Day. A nation cannot be free until its women are free. So are we happy? Are we free? Declaring holiday alone is not enough. Freedom is for everyone, is for rich, for poor, for students, for teachers, for parents, for doctors, for…
CHENNAI: As concerned about the growing number of engineering seats across the country , The All India Council For Technical Education is planning to cut down seats by sis lakh. “We would like to bring it down to between 10 lakh and 11 lakh (one million and 1.1 million) from a little over 16.7 lakh…
In just a day, the uptake for Apple’s iOS 9 jumped to almost 11 percent, according to the latest stats from analytics firm Mixpanel. Rolled out Wednesday across the world, Apple’s latest mobile software reached an adoption rate of 10.9 percent as of Thursday morning, according to the firm’s findings. Mixpanel bases its data on an analysis of…
Heart patients are likely to benefit from a revolutionary new technology that would offer a wider window for transplant once the precious organ is retrieved from the donor. The rare system is set to double the survival time of a heart from the present four hours to nearly nine hours. The phenomenon will ease travel-time…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It may not lessen the societal stigma faced by transgenders, but in a first, the state government has decided to institute a scholarship for students from the community to fund their studies. The scholarship instituted by the Social Justice Department is touted to be the first-of-its kind in the country. Students in five categories,…
If private equity and venture capital firms are looking to fund startups, the nation’s second largest lender by assets, ICICI Bank, has gone a step ahead by tying up with 22 educational institutions to fund ideas of students. But this comes with a catch: the bank will own the intellectual property rights (IPR) of the…
Online education platforms are rapidly gaining in popularity as more and more people revel in the idea of learning just about anything – from sciences to the arts, all from the comfort of their own homes. Khan Academy, the non-profit educational organization that works towards providing a word-class education to everyone, has announced that it…
Bangalore: Search engine giant Google and online education company Udacity on Monday launched IT courses in India, branching outside the US to tap the country’s millions of software developers scrambling for jobs. The pair teamed with Indian conglomerate Tata to offer online technical training courses, focusing on teaching software developers to build apps for Android,…
With Apple inviting a Microsoft executive on stage during their event recently, it seems there’s no end to the instances of blindsiding of disbelief in technology these days. The newest development is this: Microsoft is working on an operating system that is actually based on Linux. After you’ve had a chance to digest that sentence…
Teenage sensation Dutee Chand. Image courtesy: Facebook Promising Indian sprinter Duttee Chand, who recently won a landmark gender case against the world athletics governing body IAAF, may head to Chula Vista High Performance Training Centre in the United States in her bid to make the cut for Rio Olympics 2016. The 19-year-old Railways sprinter on…
