Manipur Students Federation (MSF), Pangal Students organisation (PSO), All Manipur Art and Culture Students Union (AMACSU) and Manipur Nat Kanba Lup (MNKL) jointly organized a one Day Moral Education Awareness Programme on Wednesday at Human Resource Development School, Ghari. The programme was attended by Kh Serajjudin, President MSF, MA Wakil Alsari President PSO, Th Udoi…
The Indian government will be launching its ambitious project ‘Digital India’ on the first day of July. Around 400 eminent entrepreneurs will be attending the launch. Chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani is also invited for the event. Other corporates that may attend the launch are CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Chairman of Tata Group,…
The Government’s ambitious “Digital India” plan aims to digitally connect all of India’s villages and gram panchayats by broadband internet, promote e-governance and transform India into a connected knowledge economy. By the year 2019, the ‘Digital India’ program of the Government of India (GOI), envisages that 250,000 Indian villages will enjoy broadband connectivity, and universal…
Education in India is getting a whole new dimension with the advent of some revolutionary online educational startups. Narendra Modi’s campaign ‘Skill Up’ is luring more organizations to invest in the online education startup space. India’s online education arena is close to $3 billion today, making it the next big thing in India. Analysts envisage…
Elearning startup Sigrid Education has raised an undisclosed amount in an early stage funding from Oliphans Capital. This is Oliphans’s eighth investment in the startup space. With the latest funding, the startup will focus on creating and introducing courses in 50 most prominent test-prep and K12 curriculum areas in the coming 6 months. Also, Sigrid…
Simplilearn, a start-up, which provides professional certification courses, has acquired Silicon Valley-based digital marketing training company Market Motive for $10 million (Rs. 63 crore). Market Move was co-founded by Google’s digital marketing evangelist, Avinash Kaushik. The acquisition will help Simplilearn expand its presence in the U.S. and provide digital marketing courses to working professionals and…
The HRD Ministry has asked IGNOU to restart the online education programme e-GyanKosh, which was stopped in 2013 allegedly by Vice Chancellor M Aslam who is now facing a probe into administrative irregularities and closing down of certain programmes. Asking the varsity to “reactive” the eGyanKosh repository, joint secretary in the Ministry S P Goyal…
Bengaluru based online education marketplace Cakart.in, has raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding led by Sunil Maheshwari (Co-Founder and CEO of Mango Technologies) and other unnamed investors. The proceeds will be utilize or geographical expansion and to scale up its education products. Founded in 2009 by IIT Mumbai alumnus Puru Mishra and NIT gold…
Delhi-based Earth Education Valley Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates the online education platform EduKart.com, has raised $1 million from United Finsec, Yuvraj Singh’s YouWeCan Ventures and early stage fund 500 Startups. EduKart will use the funds to further upgrade its marketplace by increasing the portfolio of courses available online, the company said in a…
A team of 6 potential trainers underwent the pilot training of the IRHR Curriculum for Grassroots Beneficiaries. This curriculum is a specially designed and lighter version of the full IRHR Curriculum created by APC. It is tailored towards the needs and requirements of the rural and peri-urban beneficiaries in India. Niki Shah, Rajat Kumar, Rishi…