State Scan: Several noteworthy events took place last week across India
Telangana: Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan inaugurated the 81st All India Industrial Exhibition ‘Numaish 2022’ organised by the Exhibition Society in Hyderabad. The exhibition will be held from January 1 to February 15 and about 2,000 stalls have been allotted to various exhibitors, including State and Central government departments, Public Sector Undertakings, Corporates, and Multinational companies. […]
Telangana: Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan inaugurated the 81st All India Industrial Exhibition ‘Numaish 2022’ organised by the Exhibition Society in Hyderabad.
The exhibition will be held from January 1 to February 15 and about 2,000 stalls have been allotted to various exhibitors, including State and Central government departments, Public Sector Undertakings, Corporates, and Multinational companies.
Hyderabad: Popular carnival ‘Numaish’ is back despite Omicron scare.
To encourage budding artists and enhance their skills, competitions artisan events will be conducted and prizes would be given to the winners. Covid-19 protocol of “No mask, no entry” will be followed in the exhibition including social distancing, sanitisation, etc.
The seventh Nizam of Hyderabad State, Mir Osman Ali Khan, inaugurated the first ‘Numaish’. Enthused by the good response, it was decided to make it an annual.
Andhra Pradesh: Andhra University has embarked on a massive program of digitisation of the entire collection of palm leaf books available in the varsity library.
The decision of digitisation was taken to pass on the stories, poems, sciences and myths to future generations. The digitisation programme is being done at the VS Krishna Library under the varsity.
As per information from the varsity, stories, poems, sciences, myths, etc., were written on palm leaf books in the early days. Andhra University has thousands of palm leaf books. As many as five lakh books on many fields are now available at AU’s VS Krishna Library.
In addition to these, there are many valuable, rare palm-leaf manuscripts. These are stored in a special section and are being protected and measures are being taken to prevent damage.
Maharashtra: One weekend afternoon, a tribal boy Vijay Tadavi was busy in a hilly forest, collecting fallen tree branches or twigs for firewood at his tiny dwelling, with the mighty Narmada River.
Suddenly, he heard the chug of a boat engine and a saw a white ‘floating ambulance’ moving towards his small hamlet.
As the boat moored at a safe spot, several villagers hurried down to greet and cheer a medical team and queued up to get their life-saver Covid-19 vaccination jabs, fresh out of an iced vaccine pack with 10 vials, each with 10 doses.
This is a cruise with a difference that helps protect the lives of thousands — living in out-of-bounds villages or tribal hamlets near its banks — from the scourge of the pandemic. The unique service is carried out by dedicated ‘Boat Ambulances’ in Nandurbar tribal.
Jammu and Kashmir: As the renewed ceasefire between India and Pakistan along the borders in Jammu and Kashmir completes one year next month, troops of the two countries exchanged sweets to mark the New Year along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district.
Considering the ongoing ceasefire along the border, this gesture is aimed at further enhancing peace and harmony in the union territory.
Armies of India and Pakistan exchange sweets on new year on J&K LoC in Poonch and Mendhar.
India and Pakistan agreed for a renewed ceasefire along the borders in February last year. People appreciate the efforts of the Indian Army to maintain peace in the villages along LoC.
This gesture is one of the many such efforts made towards achieving peace and development and these positive endeavours by the Indian Army will further the cause towards prolonged peace along the LoC.
Madhya Pradesh: The Indian Army with the help of National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has established a Quantum and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Military College of Telecommunication Engineering in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow to spearhead research and training in this key developing field.
Key thrust areas are Quantum Key Distribution, Quantum Communication, Quantum Computing and Post Quantum Cryptography.
Research undertaken by the Indian Army in the field of Quantum Technology will help leapfrog into next-generation communication and transform the current system of cryptography in the Indian Armed Forces to Post Quantum Cryptography.
Indian Army has established an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Centre at the same institution with over 140 deployments in forward areas and active support of the industry and academia.
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