Kerala IT administrator Anvar Sadath gets global recognition
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 1: K. Anvar Sadath, vice chairman and executive director of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology For Education (KITE), has become the first Indian to receive The International Contributions Award.
Sadath heads the implementation of Kerala Hi-tech School project which has almost converted 45,000 class rooms of Classes 8 to 12 to hi-tech ones, besides empowering all teachers to handle the pedagogy-based class room transactions that connect 15,000 schools.
"This honor is in recognition of Sadath's outstanding and continuous contributions to the field of educational communications and technology in the international setting," said Hsin-Te (Chuck) Yeh, Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is also the award co-ordinator of International Division of AECT.
The award is constituted by The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) headquartered at Bloomington, US.
The AECT is the premier professional association for instructional design and educational technology.
The organisation works to provide international leadership by promoting scholarship and best practices in the creation, use and management of technologies for effective teaching and learning.
"The award will be given in the US in October and I am delighted that I have been chosen," Sadath said.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
