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Google and MeitY Startup Hub, an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), on Wednesday announced a cohort of 100 Indian early to mid-stage startups, to help these startups build high-quality global apps and games as part of the Appscale Academy. As part of the six-month programme, the 100 startups will be trained through a customised curriculum designed to help them drive high-quality apps for a global market. Also Read: Everyone Is Cheating On Wordle After New York Times Bought It: Report “Startups and developers are key drivers of India’s digital transformation journey. We at MeitY value our partnership with Google, and it gives me immense delight to further boost this spirit of innovation with the Appscale Academy Programme,” said Bhuvnesh Kumar, Joint Secretary, MeitY. Startups of the Appscale Academy cohort are solving for some of India’s critical needs through creative homegrown solutions. These include BitClass (a live learning … [Read more...] about Google Joins Hands With Indian Govt To Help These Startups Build Apps For World

Click here to read the full article. Jalmer Caceres needed to come up with a 10-page script exploring the importance of work for his application to Indeed’s Rising Voices program — time was running out. Then he thought back to a day in the summer of 1990 when the city of Los Angeles was held spellbound by a baseball game that, inning-by-inning, crept toward a no-hitter. The story for his short film “Empty Bases” just poured out of him. The film opens with live-in caretaker Blanca on the phone, remotely sharing the experience of watching the historic game on TV with her children. Blanca is the full-time live-in caretaker for a woman with dementia; when she’s at work, she connects with her children by talking baseball over the phone. When Blanca is called away to perform a series of tasks for her elderly employer, it’s unclear whether she’ll be able to return to the phone to share the game’s climactic ending with her kids. “The stakes are incredibly high … [Read more...] about How a No-Hitter Helped a Filmmaker Score With ‘Empty Bases’

One of the problems with many tech company founders, entrepreneurs and salespeople is that they start off convincing too soon. When that happens, rather than "buying in" to what you're saying, too often, the people you're speaking to smile politely and pull away. That's because when you start off trying to convince or persuade people of something before you gained their attention, you take away their freedom to choose to listen to you and replace it with having to listen to you. And that's something people increasingly resist. To reverse that, you want to be compelling to open people's minds so that you'll then gain the opportunity to convince them to take action. The key to doing that is to tap into the universal states of mind that will cause people to buy into what you're saying, then try it, then continue to act by doing. To practice what I'm preaching, rather than convince you , let me see if I can compel you to open your mind and want to hear more. To do that, I'd … [Read more...] about Achieving the User Experience Trifecta: From “Buy-In” to “Trying” to “Doing”

With federal government resources only designed to last for six months, refugees who arrive in the United States are expected to quickly achieve self-sufficiency. That requires settling into a foreign community, establishing English language skills, and also finding a job. Unfortunately, with legal, language, and recertification barriers cited as common constraints, these individuals often struggle to access the labor market. In a report released last year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees highlighted the importance of "employment and employability to successful integration" into the society of the host country. For refugees, "successful economic adjustment remains one of the most pressing challenges," the report said. That said, with President Joe Biden 's commitments to welcome an additional 75,000 Afghan and 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, the United States is in increasing need of programs to connect newcomers with stable, well-paying jobs. Biden, along … [Read more...] about More than 100 major U.S. companies commit to hire and train more refugees

If you’ve ever wondered whether a life without work would be blissful, well, Lorie Kloda can confirm that it pretty much is. Kloda really likes her job as a university librarian in Montreal, but she still really liked not doing it for a year. During a paid sabbatical that ended this spring, she deleted the work-communication apps from her phone and regularly forgot what day of the week it was; she read, went to museums, picked up tennis. She stopped getting the Sunday scaries . It took a few months for Kloda to feel completely untethered from work. But in the U.S., a paid, voluntary break from a job that lasts longer than two weeks is generally considered unusual. Vacation days are nice—and Americans should get more of them —but truly helping people to be more than just their job would mean thinking on a bigger timescale. It would mean giving people a regular opportunity to subtract work from their life and see what remains—in other words, granting sabbaticals to everyone who … [Read more...] about What Is Life Like When We Subtract Work From It?

It has been a year since unprecedented violence took place in West Bengal after the Assembly election results were announced. Why Bengal has been suffering violence (both West Bengal and Bangladesh)? What was the original demographic composition of Bengal and how it has changed; and how this has affected the socio-political milieu in this region? This multi-part series would attempt to trace the origin of socio-political trends in the larger Bengal region (state of West Bengal and Bangladesh) over the last several decades. These trends are related to the evolution of Bengal over the last 4000 years. It’s a long journey and unfortunately most part of it has been forgotten. Bengal experienced a very significant dichotomy in 19th century that appears to be a mirror image of what we are witnessing today in West Bengal and Bangladesh. This dichotomy was a simultaneous deep spread of Hindu nationalism and Muslim fundamentalism in Bengal. Both these traits were always present in Bengal’s … [Read more...] about The Bengal Conundrum: How Islamic Fundamentalism in Bengal Had Sown Seeds of Partition

Casandra Tania (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta   ● Sat, June 25 2022 Sea turtles have roamed the oceans for the last 110 million years. Having existed for so long, however, does not mean that sea turtles live stress-free lives. In fact, current sea turtle populations are greatly threatened by several human activities, such as unselective fisheries, direct take, predation, light pollution, illegal trade, habitat loss and climate change, to name a few. Most of these threats are induced by humans and have caused sea turtle populations to plummet in the last few decades. Globally, all seven species of sea turtles are either classified as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, meaning that the populations have been reduced by at least 50 percent, 70 percent or 90 percent over the last three generations. If the pressures continue with no intervention, sea turtles might be wiped out from the face … [Read more...] about Conserving sea turtles, conserving our future

Thousands came from all over the land to march through central London. Rail workers, cleaners, mums with placards, dads with pushchairs – a sea of people who deserve better. Led from the front by a line of women – general secretaries and other trade union and community leaders – the most touching moment of the Demand Better rally on Saturday was seeing two care workers hugging on stage. Yvonne Thomas, 55, had come from a 14-hour shift as a care worker, and was returning to one next day. Fellow GMB organiser Patricia Gumbira, 52, took to the stage at the Parliament Square rally at her friend’s side. The women hugged in front of thousands as the crowd cheered. “I would not have missed today for anything,” Yvonne said. “This is our voice. I’m here to demand better for our children and future generations. And I will never ever stop fighting for care workers.” Rail workers, cleaners, mums with placards, dads with pushchairs all gathered at the march ( Image: Getty … [Read more...] about Cost of living march was a sea of people who deserve better vowing to ‘turn the tables’

Telecoms giant BT is to give 59,000 frontline workers a £1,500 special bonus in recognition of their efforts during the pandemic. The group said its key workers will receive £1,000 in cash in June, with £500 to be awarded in shares under its employee share scheme after three years. The payout - costing BT £110million - is equivalent to around 5% of average employee salary, according to the group. BT chief executive Philip Jansen said staff have been "true heroes" in keeping the nation connected over the past year. "Our frontline colleagues and key workers have been true heroes, keeping everyone connected in this most difficult time," he said. "BT has delivered for our customers through the dedication of all our people, but inevitably the pandemic hit our financial performance, like that of most companies. The telecoms industry has played an important role during the pandemic, with millions of people working - and learning - from home ( Image: Getty Images) "In … [Read more...] about BT to give £1,500 Covid bonus to 59,000 employees who have worked throughout crisis

In my previous post , I discussed the commoditization of healthcare — how increased competition in the marketplace has caused medical facilities to re-evaluate their brand and reconsider their prominence in their communities. Increased competition can be a win for consumers — one that results in greater cost transparency and improved service. But it might also result in a more impersonal healthcare experience, which means that patients need to bear more of the responsibility for their own health outcomes. In this post, I am going to shift the focus away from facilities and toward what "healthcare as a commodity" means for consumers. Pizza and the Free Market When a community has a pizza parlor, pizza-philes tend to be generally satisfied. Maybe they serve New York-style and you like Chicago-style, maybe the price is a little higher than you'd like to pay, maybe the service isn't as attentive as you'd like — but it's pizza, and you didn't have to make it at home. But when a … [Read more...] about Healthcare Executive: What Consumers Should Know About Finding Care