NEW DELHI:Video creation platform InVideo on Tuesday said it has raised $15 million (approximately Rs 110.6 crore) in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India.

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Government has issued transfer and posting orders of 34 IAS and two HCS officers with immediate effect.

SEOUL:Samsung Display, a major display panel maker in South Korea, has received approval from the US government to supply certain display products to Huawei Technologies, sources here said on Tuesday, amid Washington's sanctions against the Chinese tech giant.

AYODHYA:Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath plans to develop the temple town of Ayodhya as an eco-friendly tourist point as it expects footfalls to manifold once the grand Ram Temple is functional.

NEW DELHI:The Delhi High Court has declined a petition filed by fourth-year students of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) against fee hike which they dubbed "arbitrary" and "irrational".

SAN FRANCISCO: Fearing a chaos on its platforms around the US presidential election on November 3, Facebook is planning to apply internal tools it has used in 'at-risk' countries like Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

CHANDIGARH:The dream of preserving rich sporting heritage and dominance of Punjab in sports by establishing a sports educational institute of international eminence, has come to fruition as the ultra-tech campus of the first sports university of the state Maharaja Bhupinder Singh Punjab Sports University, Patiala would come into existence on 92.7 acres of land with the cost of around Rs.500 crore.

AMARAVATI:Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed officials to use the best technology, including drones in conducting the comprehensive land survey in the state.

HYDERABAD:Telangana Home Minister Mohammed Mehmood Ali on Friday said the state government will soon recruit 20,000 more people in the state police force to fill the vacancies.

NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday raised the issue of deadly Galwan Valley clash between India and China troops, scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir state's special status, and even the Pulwama attack in order to woo Bihar voters ahead of the Assembly elections.

ROPAR: Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ today dedicated permanent campus of IIT Ropar to the nation. Minister of State for Education, Sanjay Dhotre also graced the occasion. Prof. Sarit K Das, Director, IIT Ropar and Shri Ravinder Kumar, Registrar, IIT Ropar and the other dignitaries also participated in the event.

CHANDIGARH:Punjabi University, Patiala and Punjab Agro Chandigarh, in a joint collaboration, have developed a product, LimoPan, which is a bioengineered nutraceutical derived from kinnow peels. It is a poultry feed supplement with the ability to replace the use of anti-biotics in poultry feed.

CHANDIGARH:The last date for receiving applications for National Awards for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education is extended tell October 31, 2020.

SAN FRANCISCO:The short-form video streaming service Quibi that was launched less than six months ago on Thursday announced to wind down the business and sell its content and technology assets.

PHAGWARA:Pandemic has damaged a lot in the recent times but one thing GNA University will never let it fade away is the spirit of learning. The Faculty of Hospitality @ GNA University along with the students celebrated International Chef’s Day in the virtual mode with a clear motive to offer due reverence to all the chefs working worldwide.

KOCHI:Kochi-based TCM Ltd, a chemical manufacturer till recently, has rolled out on a commercial basis 'Covi-DetecT' brand RT-PCR test kits based on technology developed by IIT-Delhi, the company head said on Wednesday.

AMARAVATI:Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday said that 26,000 vacancies in the Police Department would be filled up in the next four years, that is, 6,500 recruitments per year.

CHANDIGARH:The Punjab Vidhan Sabha today passed seven important bills on the concluding day of the specially convened session chaired by Speaker Rana KP Singh.

AMARVATI: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy directed police officials to unsparingly crack down with an iron fist upon forces attempting to create rift between religions and castes in the state.

PANAJI:The Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Goa Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar over the ongoing porn Whatsapp message controversy, even as the ruling BJP defended him, saying that the party respects women and that efforts were on to defame Kavlekar.

NEW YORK:Reporting sales declines for three straight quarters, IBM has posted $17.6 billion in revenue in the third quarter of this year, compared to $18 billion for the same period last year.

NEW DELHI:The Jindal School of Banking & Finance of O.P. Jindal Global University has launched a unique, industry-relevant undergraduate programme B.A. (Hons.) Finance and Entrepreneurship.

NEW DELHI: EduSkills, a non-profit social enterprise, today announced a partnership with GoDaddy, the company empowering everyday entrepreneurs, as their education partner to help boost entrepreneurship and digital skills development in India. With this partnership, the companies aim to create a talent pool of over 50,000 skilled youth in the country, by offering GoDaddy’s newly created online training and certification program – GoDaddy Academy – and to more than 2000 educators across EduSkills’ 800+ partner universities and Engineering colleges across India. This partnership will help empower students and educators to gain knowledge and expertise needed to thrive in today’s evolving digital world.

MYSURU:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded more enrollment of girls in higher education, especially in professional courses like engineering and medicine.

NEW DELHI: The trial run of Hydrogen-blended CNG (H-CNG) powered city buses will be launched in the national capital next week.

MUMBAI: Tata Communications on Friday reported a seven-fold jump in its consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, at Rs 384.81 crore.

NEW DELHI:Cinemas in several states including Delhi-NCR opened doors to patrons on Friday after seven months the turnout everywhere has been far from impressive, owing to the Covid scare. Industry experts however are happy to resume operations and expect footfalls to improve by the weekend ahead.

KANPUR(UP):Two faculty members of the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU) in Kanpur have developed a 'hepa filter' mask with a face shield that is said to be more effective in the prevention of Covid-19 infection.

NEW DELHI: India's National Informatics Centre (NIC) and global technical professional organisation IEEE have joined hands with Cloud major Oracle to organise a virtual hackathon, Gov-TechThon 2020, to incubate new ideas, boost innovation and use technology in agriculture and allied sectors.

BENGALURU: Congress candidate for Rajarajeshwari Nagar Assembly bypolls, H. Kusuma, the widow of IAS officer D.K. Ravi, filed her nominations on Wednesday and declared assets worth slightly more than Rs 1 crore and liabilities worth Rs 20.48 lakh.

CHANDIGARH:In a major step towards boosting potato farmers’ income, the Punjab Government has decided to allow production of quality seed potato through tissue culture based technology, using aeroponics/net house facilities, along with the certification of seed potato and its successive generations.

CHANDIGARH:  Working on large scale geographical locations as a team, it is essential to keep communication strong and keep everyone aligned with an overall larger goal. CEO, Punjab today held an in-depth review meeting with field officers comprising Election Tehsildars and SVEEP Nodal Officers from the Patiala division (Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib, Sangrur, Ludhiana, Barnala and Patiala). Chaired by Additional CEO, Punjab, it was held to review the performance of Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) activities in the previous quarter (July to September) and to discuss the plan for the next quarter.

NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on a PIL filed by law students seeking age-based control on access to social media.The plea filed by law students Skand Bajpai and Abhyudaya Mishra suggested development of profile verification to remove unlawful content from the social media platforms

NEW DELHI:The small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India find it challenging to bring innovative offerings to market, personalise customer engagements and keep up with demand when meeting customer expectations in the pandemic, a new report said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI:In a bid to help people further save energy at home, Google has launched a new Nest Thermostat -- an easy to use, energy-saving thermostat that people can control from anywhere with the Google Home app.