Popular video conferencing platform Zoom has added an authentication feature called Single Sign-On (SSO) to keep the classrooms secure amid the pandemic. Using SSO feature, users will be able to log in one time, under one set of credentials, to get access to all the applications, data, and services they need. Zoom already has an SSO […]
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that the NEET result will be declared soon to prevent any further delay in the new session. It is one of the highest competitive exams which opens opportunities for students to get into medical colleges. The exam was conducted amid precautions on September 13 after Supreme Court rejected a […]
As a mark of respect to Cabinet Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who passed away on Thursday evening, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday announced that the National Flag will be flown at half-mast on Friday in Delhi and capitals of all states and UTs where it is regularly flown, and also on […]
American poet Louise Gluck won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. According to the 7-member Nobel Committee, the Prize was given to Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Born in New York in 1943, Glück is a professor of English at Yale University. She made […]
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer A Doudna of the United States won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping ‘scissors’. “Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on […]
Apple has sent invites for a ‘special Apple event’ on October 13, which is likely to be the launch event of iPhone 12. Generally, the Apple invites contain hints about what to expect, but this invite just shows a series of circles, and the words “Hi, Speed”. The virtual event will be beamed from the […]
Workers in India are facing increased burnout due to lack of separation between work and personal life as well as concerns of contracting Covid-19, according to Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index report released on Wednesday. Surveying over 6,000 information and first-line workers across eight countries including Australia, Japan, India and Singapore, the Microsoft study found […]
Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their research on black holes. The physicists were selected “for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole,” the Nobel Committee said. Andrea Ghez is just […]
As a part of Unlock-5, Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Tuesday released the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for cinema halls and theatres, which are reopening from October 15. According to the new guidelines, cinema halls are allowed to operate with 50% occupancy so as to maintain adequate physical distance between people. “Seats not to […]
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize 2020 for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. The head of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announced the winners in Stockholm. The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver […]