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NEW YORK: Ratan Naval Tata, prominent engineer, entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist of India, has been awarded the 2022 Hoover Medal by a board representing five engineering organizations: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Established in 1929, the medal commemorates the civic and humanitarian achievement of engineers and is conferred upon an engineer whose professional achievements and personal endeavors have advanced…

Thiruvananthapuram: BIZAP EDU Foundation, a non-profit foundation registered under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and an IAF and ISO certified institution, has invited applications from financially backward students for free studies in Travel and Tourism Diploma Course. The selected students will receive the opportunity to study without paying tuition fees, and all students will be provided with training, stipend, and post-employment during the course period. The Travel and Tourism Diploma Course is open to all individuals who have passed Plus Two, irrespective of age. In addition, the students who do…

Thiruvananthapuram: UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, celebrated Women’s Day on March 8 with a series of programmes at its Thiruvananthapuram campus. The event focused on the United Nations’ Women’s Day theme of the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality” #Transforming Lives – Across Generations – Powered by Technology. The celebrations on March 8 began with a dance and lamp lighting by the special guests Nagaraju Chakilam IPS, IGP and Commissioner of Police, Thiruvananthapuram City, and Dr. Pattathil Dhanya Menon – Cyber Crime investigator /Director, Avanzo Cyber…

Thiruvananthapuram: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, has announced admissions to its new four-year Undergraduate programmes designed and structured in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The programmes aim to prepare and nurture highly motivated, socially conscious, and reflective young citizens capable of self-learning. The programmes consist of four integrated elements — a rigorous disciplinary major, an interdisciplinary component combined with an intensive internship focused on occupational readiness, a set of foundational courses designed to develop capacities to engage effectively with the world, and a whole series of flexible credits…

Hindus are urging the Welsh Government to urgently revisit collective worship in schools and rotate it among diverse religions and the thoughts of non-believers. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that Hindus very much liked the idea of prayer in Wales schools, as long as it included the prayers of diverse religions and denominations practiced in Wales and the United Kingdom and the expression of non-believers. Increasingly diverse Wales needed to understand that we were well into 21st century now. Talking about prayer; Zed, who…

Hindus very much like the idea of prayer in South Carolina’s Charleston County School District (CCSD) Board of Trustees meetings, as long as it includes the prayers of diverse religions and denominations practiced in South Carolina and the nation and the expression of non-believers. Talking about prayer; distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that a reverent petition for help or expression of devotion-love-praise-thanks addressed to an object of worship was important, intensely valuable, significant and uplifting to many of us. Prayer for common good…

Upset Hindus are urging Erie (Pennsylvania) based Ironstone Meadery to apologize and withdraw alcoholic drink mead named after Hindu deity Kali and carrying her image, calling it highly inappropriate. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that inappropriate usage of sacred Hindu deities or concepts or symbols or icons for commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the devotees. Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, indicated that goddess Kali was highly revered in Hinduism and she was meant to…

Addition of enhanced end-to-end financial solutions further strengthens UST’s comprehensive portfolio of services Thiruvananthapuram, 31 January, 2023 – UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has acquired TCB Corporation, a Canadian technology service company that operates under the name of Prodigy Labs, as part of a deal with Prodigy Ventures Inc. (TSXV: PGV) that will be worth up to CAD12.5 million. A leading provider of innovative technology solutions, Prodigy Labs plays an active role helping financial services firm drive comprehensive digital transformation campaigns. The acquisition significantly strengthens UST’s position in…