North East

The Chinese Consul General in Kolkata, Zha Liyou, attended a prayer meet to send out a message of love, solidarity and healing to the people of China, reeling from the outbreak of coronavirus. The prayer meet organized by Rakshak Foundation at Press Club on March 2nd 2020 was attended by spiritual leaders and religions, such as                     Dr. Arunjyoti Bikkhu, Buddhist Monk, Sisters from the Apostolic Carmel, Rev. Archbishop, Samuel Pavana Raju, from the Catholic Church, Brahmakumari Manisha along with other well wishers such as Mr. Satnam Singh Ahluwalia, Founder, United Interfaith Foundation, Mr. Owaiz Aslam, Founder, Indian Pluralism Foundation and…

The CII – Indian Women Network, West Bengal Chapter, organized a session on Parental Journeys: The New Family today in Kolkata. The session, comprising of 2 panel discussions, is scheduled to start from 1600 hrs. The CII- IWN West Bengal Chapter considers it necessary that substantive brainstorming is done on this very relevant subject of single parenthood and the way forward to ensure that socially, culturally, psychologically and legally such a status of being a ‘single parent’ becomes easy and also assimilation and inclusiveness in the society is taken forward. Such a discussion dovetails with CII-IWN, WB’s agenda of encouraging leadership and capacity…

The Kolkata based Vedic Maths Forum India announces its partnership with Directorate of Education, U.T Administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to teach over 10,000 students of standard IX of the Government Schools in Vedic Mathematics over a period of a month.Children studying in the Government Schools in the Union Territory and the department of education struggle with Mathematics a lot. They find basic mathematical calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication tables very difficult as most of the students are first generation going to schools without any support from their parents at home.The children suffer from Maths…

National Skill Development Corporation has announced its partnership with Salesforce, the global leader in customer relationship management. It will help to enhance NSDC’s skill development and capacity building initiatives through Salesforce’s Trailhead with free online learning platform that empowers anyone to skill up and increase one’s job prospects in the digital economy.  The explosion of technological innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating a massive demand for new-age skills. By 2022, more than 120 million workers will need reskilling due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. According to the World Economic Forum, on average, an Indian worker today needs about 100 days for…

 XLRI- Xavier School of Management has successfully achieved 100% placements for the outgoing batch of 2018-20 of its flagship programs: Two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Management – Human Resource Management and Two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Business Management with all 359 candidates securing offers through the final recruitment process within two days. The Final Recruitment process saw participation from 108 recruiters with 362 domestic and international offers, inclusive of 24 new finals recruiters.  Fr. J Christie, Director, XLRI - Xavier School of Management commented, “We are happy to announce that this year’s placement season has once again witnessed remarkable success in spite of the longish economic slowdown. Interest in XLRI’s students has been…

A recent report suggested that money from the Nirbhaya Fund has hardly been utilised in several states. After witnessing the horrifying gangrape and murder of a woman veterinarian in Telangana, States have decide to implement more women safety measures, one of which is conducting sex education an sensitization programmes in schools. Another incident that surfaced was the whatsapp messages circulated among boys of an elite school in Mumbai where terms like, “gangbang”, “homophobia” was used and women were termed “trash”.  Dr Srishti Saha, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Fortis Hospital Anandapur explains why sex education and gender sensitization among youth is…

BML Munjal University (BMU), the Hero Group’s not-for-profit university, today announced the launch of specializations for MBA courses – Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering & Operations and Supply Chain. The students will have the option to choose an area of specialization in the second semester. The specializations are aimed at making students ready for future technologies and the dynamic business and industrial environment. In addition, the University is accepting applications for the MBA Program for 2020- 22 batches. The applicants will have to fill in the online common application form available at www.bmu.edu.in/apply-page/, by January 30, 2020. The two new…