Cyclone Amphan: Yellow alert in Coastal Karnataka
Mangaluru, May 17: The rise of the cyclone Amphan due to the depression in the Bay of Bengal has, in turn, given rise to fear among the people in the coasts.
The Indian Meteorological Department is expecting the cyclone to intensify on May 18. As a result, yellow alert has been declared along the Karnataka coastline. The experts have said that the entry of the cyclone will impact the pre-monsoon showers too.
There is a trough in the Arabian Sea and the southern hinterlands and the coastal regions are expected to get thundershowers and heavy rain.
The rain preceding the pre-monsoon showers between March and May has entered the coast, said the Department. As per the reports from March 1 to May 15, Dakshina Kannada has received 139 mm rain as against the normal 113 mm – an increase by 23%.
Last year, the pre-monsoon showers had entered the state coast as late as June 14. The last two years, the pre-monsoon rainfall has been excellent, with the coast receiving 3% and 24% additional rain in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Delay in pre-monsoon rain?
The depression and the trough are expected to continue the excellent showers in the coastal belt.
The Meteorological Department had forecast the onset of the pre-monsoon showers by May-end in the Kerala coast. The cyclone due to the depression, however, has led to a delay in the onset to Kerala coast till June 4, before entering Karnataka, said Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) scientist Sunil Gavaskar.
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FM Sitharaman launches 'VijAIpatha' labs in govt schools in Karnataka
Hampi (PTI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday launched Cyient AI Labs (CyAILS) -- 'VijAIpatha', aimed at democratising access to Artificial Intelligence, STEM and Robotics education in government schools here.
In a series of posts on 'X', the minister's office shared pictures of the initiative launched at a girl's government school in Hosapete taluk and said that under the pilot phase, five world-class AI, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and Robotics laboratories are being established in government schools.
Each lab will be equipped with high-performance computers, AI-ready software, robotics kits, IoT devices, sensors and secure broadband connectivity.
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"Aligned with NEP 2020, Digital India and Hon'ble Prime Minister @narendramodi's mission of Viksit Bharat 2047, the programme integrates CBSE's AI curriculum and strengthens technology-enabled learning in public education," it said.
Focusing on rural and semi-urban India, the initiative introduces future technologies at the school level, helping build early digital fluency, computational thinking and innovation capacity among students, the minister's office said.
"Benefiting over 2,000 students and training more than 200 teachers, 'VijAIpatha' is a scalable CSR model fostering innovation, career readiness and grassroots digital empowerment," it added.
According to the office, the initiative has been designed as a scalable, replicable and sustainable model that can be adopted across districts and states in collaboration with government education departments, positioning it as a benchmark CSR model for a national AI education rollout.
