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Access to “SWAYAM”, National Online Education Platform has tripled
On March 28, 2020, the Ministry of HRD (Human Resources Department) announced that the access to the National Online Education Platform called the SWAYAM has tripled since Lock Down. Highlights The Ministry of HRD has been trying to make sure the students can continue their education from home during the lockdown. The response has been ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: AICTE • e-education • Education • Google • IGNOU • lock down • Ministry of HRD • Online education • SWAYAM • Swayam platform
Google adds new feature in ‘Discover’ to enable users to report misleading articles
Technological Major Google introduced a unique feed named ‘Discover’ which provides curated articles to Google Pixel and Google app users based on their interests. In its latest update to the app, this new feature has been introduced which enables the users to report misleading articles on the ‘Discover’ feed. Users can now report misleading content ..
Topics: Fake news • Google • News
Karan Bajwa appointed as Managing Director of Google Cloud in India
Karan Bajwa has been recently appointed as the Managing Director of Google Cloud in India. Prior to this appointment, he was serving as the Head of IBM’s India operations. He has also worked in Microsoft for nine years before that. In this new role, Karan Bajwa will be responsible for monitoring all revenue and market ..
Topics: Google • Google Cloud Platform • Google India
Google to develop website to help with coronavirus test
The US President Donald Trump recently announced that tech giant Google is engaged in the process of developing a website to help with coronavirus test. He also revealed that more than 1700 engineers are working on the project to develop the website. It will determine whether a test is necessary and will also enable testing at a ..
Topics: Coronavirus • Donald Trump • Google
Delhi Cloud Region
Google had announced plans to open a Cloud Region in Delhi. This is to be the second such establishment in India. About Cloud Regions Cloud regions are real life geographical locations where the resources for the cloud services are located. In case of Google, Cloud regions are composed of several zones. The resources can be ..
Topics: Cloud computing • Cloud Region • Delhi • Google • Mumbai