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In the Finale, participants will unveil their concepts, substantiating their technical viability and real-world application With over 100 teams from higher educational institutions poised to engage in presenting their ideas and solutions in the cybersecurity domain, the stage is set for KAVACH 2023, a national hackathon organised jointly by the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, AICTE, Bureau of Police Research and Development, and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (Ministry of Home Affairs) to kick-start its journey. The initiative aims to unearth innovative ideas and technological solutions to address the challenges confronting law enforcement agencies and ordinary citizens in the realm of cybersecurity.  The hackathon will be launched across five strategic nodal centres: Bhopal's IES College of Technology, Bangalore's AMC Engineering College, Bhubaneswar's Centurion University of Technology and Management, New Panvel's Pillai College of Engineering...

Numbers and codes are Kautilya Katariya's breakfast. ( Screenshot from YouTube/ Programming With Mosh ) Believe it or not, Kautilya Katariya exists as the world's younger coder at the age of seven. Kautilya Katariya is Inhuman in his Feat Kautilya Katariya is not your ordinary kid in the neighborhood. Kids of his age might be playing hide-and-seek or tag outside, and even immersing themselves in computer video games. Kautilya, however, has a strange interest for his young age. Katariya is an Indian child prodigy who already has a grasp in computer programming. He became the world's recognized youngest coder last year when he was still a six-year-old genius. The Guinness Book of World Record hailed him as the youngest child to receive an AI certification from the IBM, Eye Rys reported. Now in his seventh year as a computer wizard, Katariya still continues to impress a lot of people with his 'inhuman' intelligence in doing coding works. At first, you might think of ...

India finds itself at a unique advantage when compared to other nations due to its young population. However, a young population is both an opportunity as well as a problem depending on how the advantage is utilised to boost the economy. The rapidly growing population indicates the urgent need for skill development in order to enable the growing population to have meaningful employment. An education that places an emphasis on imparting skills over rote learning and memorisation is necessary to ensure that the youth are gainfully employed. For India to maintain its stature of being the largest provider of skilled programmers and technologists, we will have to ensure that its populace is skilled accordingly so as to remain competitive in the global arena. What follows are five important skills that will continue to be in high demand in the Indian job market in the years to come. CODING Coding or programming in languages such as Javascript or Python has consistently been a ski...