by admin | May 25, 2021 | Branding, Corporate Jobs, Employment, Markets, Online Marketing, Private Jobs, Technology
Bengaluru : Infosys is partnering with the Community College of Rhode Island to set up a digital economy aspirations lab for training students in the US for digital jobs, said the software major on Wednesday.
“Our digital innovation and design centre at Providence in Rhode Island will help bridge the gap for design and human-centric skills and provide digital technologies to our clients,” said the city-based IT firm in a statement here.
The centre offers designers and design graduates training in digital skills, exposure to systems, platforms, strategy and organisation domains to make them employable in a digital world.
The $11-billion IT behemoth has so far hired 100 techies as part of its goal to create 500 jobs in the northeastern state by 2022.
“We have hired 7,600 American workers since spring 2017 as part of our commitment to speed up digital innovation of enterprise clients in the US,” said the statement.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
New Delhi : The Delhi Police on Wednesday opposed before the Supreme Court a bail plea filed by suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) member Fasih Mahmood, who was deported from Saudi Arabia in 2012.
A bench of Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice Navin Sinha asked the Special Cell of Delhi Police to file an affidavit after it was told by the counsel that “the police strongly oppose the bail” plea of Mahmood as it was “not a normal matter”.
The court will now hear the matter in July.
Mahmood was detained in Saudi Arabia in May 2012. He was arrested at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on October 22, 2012.
He has challenged the April 17 Delhi High Court order which had denied him bail in a case relating to setting up of an alleged illegal arms factory here.
Mahmood, a mechanical engineer by profession, was alleged to be an aide of IM co-founder Yasin Bhatkal.
He is suspected to be one of the key members of the IM’s dreaded Darbhanga module which had carried out various terror strikes in the country since 2008.
The police had chargesheeted him for offences under the Indian Penal Code, the Explosive Substances Act and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
Mahmood has denied all the allegations.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Mashqoor Ahmad
Aligarh : Mashqoor Ahmad Usmani from Bihar has been elected as the next students union president of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), varsity officials said on Tuesday.
Usmani, who hails from Darbhanga, polled 9,071 votes and defeated his nearest rival Ajay Singh by 6,719 votes.
Singh is the grandson of former Uttar Pradesh minister and BJP legislator from Barauli Thakur Dalveer Singh. He got 2,353 votes. Abu Baqar stood third with 2,192 votes.
The results were announced after midnight. An official announcement will be made later in the day.
Sajjad Rathar was elected the Vice President and Mohammad Fahad bagged the secretary’s post.
A total of 18,200 students voted on Monday to elect the new leaders.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Najeeb Ahmed
New Delhi : A court on Tuesday rejected the CBI’s plea seeking consent for lie detection test of nine students in connection with the missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed.
Ahmed, 27, an M.Sc First Year student, went missing on October 15 last year after an alleged fight with the members of the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The student body has denied any involvement.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal observed that the students’ reply clearly reflects that they were opposing the application of polygraph test as they were not willing to go for lie detection test.
“Since a polygraph test cannot be done without the consent of the person whose polygraph test has to be done, this application, therefore, cannot be allowed at this stage,” the court said.
The court was hearing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea for recording consent of the accused for a polygraph test in connection with Ahmed’s disappearance.
Student counsel Vishwa Bhushan Arya and Ujjawal Kumar told the court that as per the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the lie-detector test is not authorised by law and must be regarded as illegal unless it is voluntarily accepted.
The court pointed out NHRC guidelines which suggest that the test is prerogative of the individual, not an empowerment of police.
The counsel has requested the court to dismiss the plea terming it as pre-mature and not maintainable and said that summoning the students to record their consent or refusal is nothing but a coercive exercise.
The court directed the CBI not to call the students in future to seek their consent to undergo lie detection test.
It, however, granted liberty to students to opt to volunteer for the polygraph test whenever they feel convenient and directed the CBI to conduct the test following all safeguards under the NHRC guidelines.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Gandhinagar : Gujarat’s chief electoral officer B.B. Swain on Wednesday said the pll panel will be using more than 50 lakh students of tate government schools to receive a pledge from their parents to exercise their voting rights in the forthcoming assembly election.
The commission will also be using the eminent personalities of 33 districts as district election icons for spreading awareness about the election. It will be using a newly developed system called Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) for service voters, he said.
Addressing the media here, Swain said: “As earlier, we have prepared a pledge letter for the parents of the over 50 lakh students of the state, to pledge for exercising heir voting rights. We have developed a two page letter, with one for the pledge and the other for informational purposes for voting awareness.
“The students will take the signed pledged letter, submit it to their schools and it will be forwarded to the commission. The other section will be torn off the perforation and serve as informational help to the voters. This way we will be reaching out to over 50 lakh households of the state.”
The parents will have pledge for the parents to have their names registered with the electoral roll, exercising their voting rights without or under any pressure or temptation, and using the None Of The Above (NOTA) option if they did not chose any candidate. The torn off page will have pictorial depiction of the EVMs and an explanation of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).
The poll panel has assigned renowned cricketer Chaiteshwar Pujara as the state election commission icon as well budding young tennis player Ankita Raina. It has also selected various eminent personalities from all across the state to be district icons to help spread awareness regarding the election.
The service personnel from various fronts like the government, police and military forces were able to exercise their voting rights only through postal ballot till this time, but now the Election Commission has developed a new electronic system for them.
“The Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) is specifically designed for such personnel who are associated with the electoral process and will be occupied in the poll process on the election day. Right now the commission is carrying out the registration of such service voters and it will continue till the date of the filling of the nomination deadline for candidates,” said Swain.
Swain also said that from Thursday, general observers for the first phase of the elections will start arriving in the state and by Nov 21, all the 100 general observers from various cadres of the IAS services, 66 Indian Revenue Services personnel as expenditure observers and 36 Indian Police Service personnel as police observers”, will be here.
He also said that till now, the commission has disposed of eleven cases of the violation of the model code of conduct. “None of them have any significance and all of hem had been filed by individual citizens,” said Swain.
—IANS
