IIT-G selected for Google computer education programme
Guwahati: IIT-Guwahati has been selected by Google for its ‘Computer Science for High School’ (CS4HS) award programme for the year 2015. The programme will be coordinated by Proffessor J K Deka of Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Institute, a statement said on Thursday.”Under this award programme, plans are on to organise several workshops in different places of North East Region of India. Expenditure for the workshop will be borne from the award. Colleges/universities of the region interested in hosting this workshop for the concerned teachers may contact us for further details. The first of these workshops would be held in Boko” said Prof Deka. To cater to the need for instructors to train the young minds in their early stages, Google started the programme ‘Computer Science for High School (CS4HS)’ in 2009 and the programme has sustained CS teacher professional development and provided earlier access to computer science education to hundreds of learning communities worldwide. (UNI)
Suspected JMB terrorist involved in Burdwan blast arrested
Agartala: A suspected Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorist, who confessed to having been involved in the Burdwan blast in West Bengal, was on Thursday arrested from Tripura’s Sipahijala district, about 50 km from here. Police said Jahangir Hussain (32) was arrested from Himmatpur village under Jatarpur police station bordering Bangladesh following a tip-off from the state intelligence wing. A contingent of police raided a house in the village in the morning and arrested Hussain (32), a Bangladeshi and suspected to be involved with the Oct 2, 2014 Burdwan blast. Officer-in-charge of Jatrapur police station Kamalkrishna Koloi said Hussain had married the daughter of the houseowner and was staying there for about last one year. The village is near a BSF border outpost. “During preliminary investigation, Hussain admitted that he is a citizen of Chittagong in Bangladesh and was involved with the Burdwan blast,” Koloi said. Hussain was today produced before the court of Sonamura sub-divisional judicial magistrate Bipasha Kilikdar and remanded to seven days police custody. (PTI)
