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Bengaluru: For the first National Space Day, which will fall on August 23, to commemorate the safe landing of the Vikram Lander near the southern polar region of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be organising Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon. Following the Vikram landing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that «National Space Day» will be celebrated on August 23 every year. Announcing the hackathon on July 4, chairman of ISRO, S Somanath said 12 problem statements in the areas of geospatial domain, space science, image processing, and AI/ML areas are identified for the hackathon and declared open for undergraduate/ postgraduate/PhD students across the country.

ISRO Chairman S. Somanath emphasized the necessity of international collaboration in developing planetary protection systems against asteroids, asserting that no single country can undertake this task alone.

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If you aspire to work for HSBC and have spent hours wooing and being wooed by the bank at recruitment events, been through its recruitment process, and attended some induction events, only to be unexpectedly rejected, you will not be happy. You will be even less happy if HSBC accidentally sends you an email saying it's a shame that you voluntarily withdrew your application.

The Supreme Court is taking up an e-cigarette case

Kashasha, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1962. Among boarding school kids, laughter rather than sickness spread. The school's three females were the first to break out into uncontrollably loud laughter on January 31st, starting the chain reaction that quickly spread to many others, as per the reports of the 'metro.co.uk'.

South Korea's government has announced it will abandon its plan to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors to resolve the country’s long medical impasse

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Pariksha pe Charcha' initiative might soon be recreated for a virtual platform, with the NCERT working on a proposal to develop a portal to host his speeches and allow students to capture selfies with him in an interactive 2D/3D environment. The move comes against the backdrop of a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations with the opposition raising questions on credibility of the examination processes in the country. The Opposition has taken swipes at Modi, demanding that he should hold one such interaction on medical enrance exam NEET issue as well. The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released an Expression of Interest (EoI) document this week to identify vendors for developing the Virtual Exhibition for Pariksha Pe Charcha.

Michigan University have now got an option of suing the US Government over activities by ICE agents which involved them getting duped of thousands of dollars in tuition fees. This was made possible following a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, who have ruled in favor of the students who had been arrested by ICE agents for studying at University of Farmington in Farmington Hills.

Mint spoke to three senior teachers at Unacademy who, along with about 60 others, were informed of their salary cuts in mid-June over a video call . The firm that had recruited faculty members at a frenetic pace in 2022, is now facing a sluggish student admission numbers. "So far 7,000 students enrolled in Kota this academic year, versus 10,000 last year," said a senior Unacademy faculty member who has taught in the coaching centre for more than two years.

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have dropped. For the class of 2024, the annual pay is in the range of ₹15-16 lakh, according to separated studies by Deloitte and TeamLease. Compensation for graduates from top 10 engineering institutes, of which eight are IITs, as ranked by the National Institutional Ranking Framework has declined marginally for the class of 2024, according to Deloitte campus workforce trends 2024 study. «They can expect a median compensation of ₹16.3 lakh per annum in 2024 as per our study,» said Neelesh Gupta, partner, Deloitte India. Annual pay is down to a median ₹15-16 lakh compared with ₹18-20 lakh in 2023 at old IITs, as per a TeamLease Services study conducted in May shared with ET.

Temporary residents and recent immigrants are driving up Canada’s unemployment rate, as record numbers of newcomers welcomed to the country to fill labor shortages are now struggling to find work. The unemployment rate for temporary residents – including foreign workers, international students and asylum seekers – was 11% in June, according to Bloomberg calculations. Using comparable data, the unemployment rate for all workers was just 6.2% last month. Immigrants who’ve landed in the last five years are also having a hard time finding a job, with their unemployment rate reaching 12.6% in June.

A relatively slow cooling in the overall Canadian labour market combined with surging levels of unemployment among Canada’s youth is a trend that experts say could leave the country’s youngest workers with “economic scarring.”

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IIT-Madras, Archan Bhattacharya, from Sonarpur near Kolkata, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly stabbing and grievously injuring a neighbour of a family friend, along with the neighbour's wife and son. The attack was reportedly in retaliation for the killing of a stray dog, according to Monotosh Chakraborty in a TOI report. Archan, who travelled from Chennai, has been charged with multiple offences, including attempted murder. The injured family members are receiving treatment at MR Bangur Hospital in Kolkata. Investigators revealed that the dispute arose between the families of Gobindo Adhikari and Subhash Debnath, who have been long-time neighbours in the Chouhati area of Sonarpur. The conflict centred around the Debnath family's practice of feeding stray dogs, which the Adhikari family claimed led to the animals entering their house. In May, the Adhikaris allegedly beat one of the stray dogs, which succumbed to its injuries a few days later.

Georgia State professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory is known for bringing celebrities like Steve Harvey and Ludacris into her law class

BJP leader Uma Bharti on Tuesday said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi behaved like an undisciplined student leader when he made his maiden speech as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and must remember that he was now a «middle-aged man.» Hindus have been victims of violence, she said, commenting on the Congress leader's remarks in Parliament which drew strong protests from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. «Hindus have either been victims of violence or have faced violence,» Bharti, a former Union minister, said in a post on X. Rahul Gandhi's behaviour and speech in Parliament did not behove an opposition leader but was like «that of an unruly ('uchshrankhal') student leader» in college, she added.

A new poll finds Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college

In some ways the youngest generation of American adults has opportunity that older generations never did, but that’s often not the case when considering finances.