The seven booklets will focus on: 1. Parents, Mothers & Women; 2. Children, Adolescents and Youth; 3. Employees, Professionals, Self-Employed & Workers; 4. Differently-abled; 5. COVID-19 Affected Families; 6. Medical & Essential Services Providers; 7. Elderly (60 Years and Above). National Book Trust which is the national body for book publishing and book promotion under the Ministry of HRD, is …
The union HRD ministry had launched a week long ‘Bharat Padhe Online’ campaign for Crowd sourcing of Ideas for Improving Online Education ecosystem of India on 10th April and will close on April 16. The campaign objective was to invite all the best brains in India to share suggestions/solutions directly with HRD Ministry to overcome constraints of online education while promoting …
To bring the scientific and factual aspects of COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on to public domain, a multi-institutional, multi-lingual science communication initiative, called `CovidGyan’ is providing informative/educative service The initiative, which has resulted in a portal is the brainchild of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). Several other prominent partners have …
India’s Arogya Setu app which helps significantly in contact tracing and curbing the spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic has crossed over five crore downloads. It further got a push after Prime Minister Modi made an appeal to the citizens for downloading of the app during his ‘lockdown 2.0’ address to the nation today. The Government on April 2 had launched …
Tata Sky and Airtel DTH operators have agreed to to air some SWAYAM PRABHA channels on their DTH platform. DD-DTH, Dish TV and Jio TV App were already providing these channels to their subscribers. Now a student anywhere in India can request, DTH ‘Service Provider’ for these channels without any extra cost as these are free to air channels. The …
In a bid to support universities, engineering colleges and the teacher-student fraternity across India in these trying times of the Covid-19 global pandemic, Manipal Group’s Coempt Edu Teck Pvt. Ltd — as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility — is offering students a 3-month free access (beginning April) to engineering e-learning courseware covering over 165 subjects and more than 700 practical e-lab …
