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NEW DELHI: Education budgets were cut by 65 per cent of low and lower-middle-income countries after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic while only 33 per cent of high and upper-middle-income countries did so, according to a report by the World Bank. The report, compiled in collaboration with UNESCO’s Global …

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has notified Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, thereby laying down rules about digital media and OTT. It also focuses more on in house and self-regulation mechanism whereby a robust grievance redressal mechanism has been provided while upholding journalistic …

In a first, the Parliament in Australia cleared the amendment in a law for making giants like Facebook and Google pay to media companies for their news content. What’s the new law? The Parliament on Thursday passed amendments to the popular News Media Bargaining Code as per the agreemen reached …

New York: Offering students more positive encouragement not only reduces disruptive classroom behaviour, but can improve students’ academic and social outcomes, say researchers. The findings, published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, indicated that a behaviour management intervention helped increase student engagement and boosted the teachers’ confidence in their ability …

BENGALURU: Two anganwadi workers, who experienced uneasiness after taking the first vaccine dose in January, were recently diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare condition in which a person’s immune system attacks the nerves. They are aged 35 and 45 and currently being treated at a hospital. The exact cause …

A key member of the Maharashtra government’s Covid task force has accused the Union health ministry of delaying the vaccine rollout among the general public and “putting the lives of people at risk”. The remark comes as the state reported a fresh breakout of cases amid fears of a mutant …

KOCHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Kannur Medical College to deposit Rs 40.72 crore towards compensation for the 92 students who are yet to be compensated for the 2016-17 MBBS admissions that were cancelled for violating norms regarding NEET-based ranking and online, centralized admission system. A bench comprising …

BENGALURU: A team led by IISc researchers has developed a software tool that reveals the severity of lung infections in Covid-19 patients. Called AnamNet, the software tool can ‘read’ chest CT scans of potential Covid-19 patients and estimate the damage caused to the lungs by scanning for specific abnormal features. …

Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Digital health care company Sharecare announces plans to go public via a SPAC at a valuation of $3.9B; the company has raised a total of $425M  —  Digital health care company Sharecare announced its plans Friday to join the public markets through a merger with …

Android 12 Android is undoubtedly the world’s most used operating system. Billions of phones, smart devices, TVs are running the Android operating system. Android was established in the year 1998, has evolved exponentially over time. Various software updates have increased productivity and added a number of features to the system. …