“There is a mission behind all this,” Ravi Shanker Prasad said. “We have to be leaders in the digital revolution and Digital India is part of that. The technology has to be low-cost and India-created. It has to transform lives of people.”
Speaking at the ‘Meet The Scientists’ Session of 106th Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional university in Phagwara, Anuj Sinha while addressing the children said it was “not necessary right now for India to send humans to space for work that can be done by machines too.”
The two speakers were Dr Kannan Jegathala Krishnan, whose designation in the conference manual is mentioned as ‘senior research scientist and coordinator’ at World Community Service Centre at Aliyar in Tamil Nadu, and Prof G Nageswara Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University.
Smriti Irani called upon the scientific community to propagate “translation of some of the best science journals and new scientific studies” for their further dissemination in schools “so that love for science can be embedded at a very early stage.”
Pasted on the walls of the BSF shopping complex the poster announces the observation of the 30th anniversary of the ‘Shaheedi Diwas’ (martyrdom day) of Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh on June 6, the day both were executed by hanging in Tihar Jail, New Delhi.
The construction work on corridor has started in Pakistan but the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is yet to start the work on the construction of corridor in its area.
The 25-seater bus, carrying 18 children - aged between 5 and 14 years - and the driver, was on its way to DAV School, Renuka, around 8am when the accident took place.
Darshak Lodhiya, who completed his bachelors in engineering in 2016 from Nirma University, quantitative aptitude seemed to be his strength.
While Zomato has picked up eight postgraduate students from the full-time residential and integrated programmes by offering them an annual salary package of Rs 7.5 lakh, ShopClues has hired three students at an annual pay package of Rs 11 lakh.
Present at the event was India’s ace badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, who said, “Indian youth, I believe have huge potential and we are only rubbing the tip of the iceberg.”
After getting a good response, the idea was emulated in other classes, and in few months all the 800 students of the school started saying ‘Jai Hind’.
When the judge enquired how long would it take for the government to respond, Kodekar said that the agency wouldn’t know as it would be decided by “higher-level officers”.
"Both Amit Chavda and Paresh Dhanani, along with many other senior leaders, have been summoned to Delhi for consultations on the issue of preparing strategy for rural and urban seats for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls," a senior Congress leader told The Sunday Express.
“We have been asked to call block, town and Anchal sabhapatis to the Town Hall in Krishnanagar where our party chief will preside over a meeting. Our chief minister’s development initiatives will be our poll plank,” said Gourishankar Dutta, TMC’s Nadia unit president.
A memorandum issued by the state government Friday stated that all employees should mandatorily be present during the two days. Government offices, including those provided with grants-in-aid by the state government, have bee directed to remain open.
The report recommended surveillance systems inside coaches with recording facilities through the control room. It has also advised to play real-time footage for the motorman to take quick action in case of any emergency.
“The latest data available till December 2018 shows a decrease in the number of deaths due to road accidents. Efforts are on to further reduce such accidents,” said a police officer.
A team, comprising the district Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) who also holds the additional charge of District Inspector of Schools (DIOS) and the tehsildar, has been asked to conduct an inquiry into the allegations and submit a report in three days.
“On the direction of the district magistrate, I have provided a police gunner to the jail superintendent and also one platoon of PAC to the jail for security,” said Senior Superintendent of Police, Bareilly, Muniraj G.
The alleged accused - Om Prakash Kashyap, Santosh Awasthi and S P Tripathi - worked as personal secretaries to Om Prakash Rajbhar, Sandeep Singh and Archana Pandey respectively.
“The villagers told us that Salman was in a relationship with a girl to which her family members objected. This could be a reason for the murder,” Prashant Kapil, in-charge of Sardhana police station, said.
The case has been adjourned for hearing to April 25. However, the respondents have been asked to file reply, if any, within a period of two weeks.
Panchkula Municipal Corporation’s Executive Engineer L C Chauhan had alleged that the payment of Rs 1.93 crore was released to the work-executing agency in his absence and despite the fact that he had pointed out grave discrepancies in the roundabout beautification work.
In the ongoing trial, the scrutiny of the chargesheet has been completed. On December 1 last year, the CBI had filed the chargesheet in this case. Both Hooda and Vora were also given copies of the chargesheet Thursday.
On the other hand, BJP’s State Election Committee met in New Delhi on Thursday with senior leaders like Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Haryana BJP in-charge Anil Jain and president Subhash Barala attending the meeting.