The Jobs was originally piloted in Bangladesh and subsequently launched in Indonesia, under the brand Kormo Jobs. The platform is now available in India, too

Current Affairs : In 2019, Google introduced ‘Jobs’ Spot on its digital payment app ‘Google Pay’ to help job seekers in India find entry-level jobs. The Jobs was originally piloted in Bangladesh and subsequently launched in Indonesia, under the brand Kormo Jobs. It has since grown into a job platform that can help job seekers and businesses of all sizes. The platform is now available in India, too. It is available as an Android app and Google has also rebranded its Jobs Spot on Google Pay to Kormo Jobs for consistent experience.

How the Google Kormo app works:

The Kormo app is limited to Android devices, therefore, it is available only on Google Play Store to download and use. Here are the steps on how to use the Kormo Android app:

Step 1: Download the Kormo Jobs app from Play Store

Step 2: Open the app and select language. The app is available in 11 languages, including English, Hindi, Gujrati, Bangla and Marathi

Step 3: Sign-in using Google account. The app does not support any other method for sign-in or sign-up

Step 4: Select the type of jobs based on your skillset and preference

Step 5: Select location or allow the app to use location service to find jobs near you. You can change the location setting later, too.

Step 6: Update your profile. You can upload resume, add work experience, education details, references, and language to improve your profile

Step 7: Based on your profile and location preferences, the app shows the jobs and its detailed description

Step 8: Click on the job listing to read more about the job requirements, last date to apply and other details

Step 9: Once you find a relevant job, tap on ‘Apply’ button to share your details and profile with the company for future process

Step 10: You can check all the jobs listing you have applied for through your profile dashboard, under ‘Job Activity’ category

Besides listing available jobs, the Kormo app also offer content to learn new skills. Scroll down on the app’s home page to find ‘Learn new skills’ option and tap on view more to get complete list of available resources that may help one learn a new skill or upskill the existing one.

 

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Chrome has steadily gained market share, but its dominance is unlikely to last forever

Current Affairs : There was only a little wave over the technosphere when Microsoft (MS) declared it would resign its Internet Explorer (IE) program, closing down all help by August 2021. MS likewise expressed that the IE replacement, the MS Edge program, would move totally onto Google’s open-source Chromium stage.

 

Neither IE nor Edge are well known any longer. Scarcely 1.3 percent of the world’s surfers (work area in addition to versatile) utilized IE in July 2020, and critics would associate that numerous with those IE windows were opened coincidentally. MS Edge just has about 2.2 percent piece of the pie.

 

Google’s Chrome, (additionally dependent on Chromium and incorporated with the Android working framework), is by a long shot the most mainstream of programs, with 66 percent piece of the pie over all stages. Apple fans favor Safari (16.65 percent). Nerds utilize Mozilla’s Firefox (4.26 percent), or Opera (2.05 percent), or Vivaldi (0.04 percent). Both Opera and Vivaldi are based on head of Chromium, so Google’s strength of this space is much more outrageous than it sees first look.

 

This is an ocean change from the turn of the century. In 1998, Microsoft needed to protect itself against antitrust charges when it incorporated the IE program with its Windows working frameworks and offered it for nothing. In 1998, when MS denied being a monopolist regardless of the mind-boggling predominance of the work area class, the cell phone wasn’t so much as a sparkle in Steve Jobs’ eyes. In September that year, two school children would consolidate a web search tool organization called Google.

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Mumbai and neighbouring Thane, Raigad and Palghar districts are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next 24 hours with gusty winds, a senior IMD official said

Current Affairs : Mumbai and neighbouring Thane, Raigad and Palghar districts are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next 24 hours with gusty winds, a senior IMD official said on Friday.

 

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) official added that an “orange warning” (indicating heavy to very heavy rainfall) has been issued for the Vidarbha region for the next 48 hours.

 

 

Palghar, Thane, Mumbai, Raigad, Rtn likely to recv hvy to vry hvy RF in nxt 24 hrs, gusty winds. Ghat areas of M Mah similar pattern with possibilities of isol extremely hvy RF towards Northside.

 

“Similar trend tomorrow too. Vidarbha:Orange Warnings for 48 hrs, KS Hosalikar, Deputy Director General IMD (Mumbai), tweeted.

 

Earlier, Mumbai and Thane received widespread moderate to heavy rainfall over the 24-hour period ended at 8:30 am on Friday.

 

According to the IMD, the Matheran observatory in adjoining Raigad district recorded 122.20 mm rainfall during the same period.

 

The Alibaug weather station in Raigad district recorded 49 mm rain, while Ratnagiri district in the coastal Konkan region received 83.6 mm rainfall, the IMD said.

 

The Dahanu observatory in Palghar district recorded 67.4 mm rainfall, it said.

 

The Colaba weather bureau, representative of Mumbais island city, recorded 63.2 mm rainfall, while the Santacruz observatory, representative of Mumbai’s suburbs, reported 31. 6 mm rainfall, it said.

 

The Thane Belapur Industries Association weather station recorded 60 mm rainfall during the period, the IMD added.

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The mutant form of Covid-19 reported from Malaysia as being 10 times more infectious is not a concern for India as it is widely prevalent here and isn’t any more virulent than the Wuhan strain

Current Affairs :

His statement that it was “saw as multiple times more irresistible and is effectively spread by an individual too spreader” made a shudder however researchers here dissipated feelings of trepidation and said there is nothing to stress over.

 

As per virologist Upasana Ray, the transformation may have quite recently been accounted for in Malaysia however isn’t new for anything.

 

“We saw it occurring in April and it inevitably commanded numerous nations. It is new for Malaysia however is nota new change,” the senior researcher at Kolkata’s CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology told PTI.

 

While a few reports guarantee the change is equipped for improving the infectivity of the infection, this isn’t entrenched and furthermore doesn’t really show more destructiveness or hurtfulness of the ailment.

 

Beam said even a profoundly irresistible and contagious variation of the infection may really have a lesser capacity to cause sickness in people.

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Florists and small-time flower sellers in Kerala are crying foul over Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s directive to all to see that flowers from neighbouring states are not used for Onam celebrations

Current Affairs : Flower vendors and little league bloom merchants in Kerala are crying foul over Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s order to all to see that blossoms from neighboring states are not utilized for Onam festivities.

 

The collect celebration spread more than 10 days will start on Saturday and end on September 2.

 

During the merriments, blossoms are greatly looked for after to cause botanical floor coverings for beautification, to be it at homes or workplaces.

 

Vijayan coordinated that individuals should utilize blossoms accessible in their neighborhoods and not depend on those from neighboring states.

 

“There are around 6,000 flower specialists in the state. It involves our employment, particularly during Onam. We are presently informed that there is another mandate. We wish to ask ‘if blossoms are an issue, is Kerala not depending on different states for foods grown from the ground?’ This isn’t satisfactory,” a gathering of flower specialists complained.

 

By chance, one of the greatest blossom markets in Tamil Nadu is at Thovala, situated around 20 km from the Kerala fringe. The economy of the Tamil Nadu town is intensely subject to bloom deals during the Onam season in Kerala.

 

“What are we expected to do? We know just this business of blossoms, which we have been into for three decades. Covid-19 has hit us downright awful. For over a quarter of a year, we remained inside. Onam is one celebration we were all hanging tight for. This isn’t reasonable, this boycott request ought not be actualized,” said a lady selling blossoms in the state capital.

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Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and CM Pramod Sawant expressed hope that Lord Ganesha would keep Covid-19 pandemic at bay in Goa, in their greetings to the people on the occasion of Ganesha Chaturthi

Current Affairs : Lead representative Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday communicated the expectation that Lord Ganesha would keep the Covid-19 pandemic under control in Goa, in their welcome to the individuals on the event of Ganesha Chaturthi.

“It is accepted that when the icon of Lord Ganesha is taken out for submersion, it likewise removes with it the different deterrents from our lives. May the gifts of Lord Ganesha be upon the individuals of Goa with the goal that the hindrances of the Covid scourge and its contrary impacts are vanquished by the individuals. He is the image of devotion, dependability and security,” Koshyari said in his welcome.

Maharashtra Governor Koshyari assumed control over extra charge of Goa on Wednesday, after the exchange of occupant Governor Satya Pal Malik to Meghalaya prior this week.

 

Sawant in his welcome additionally wanted that Lord Ganesha would diminish the individuals of the distresses and torment which have went with the Covid-19 pandemic, in which 126 people have lost their lives in Goa, which has announced 13,099 affirmed cases.

“The security rules are recommended so as to praise a problem free and safe Chaturthi. I appeal to the Almighty to remove all the distresses, agony and stress caused because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Let every one of us pledge for our own just as the security of others,” Sawant said.

On August 9, the Goa government had given SOPs for the celebration (booked to be hung on August 22) which had encouraged individuals not to take part in open festivals of the occasion quite far and abstain from visiting companions and family members on the event. Ganesha Chaturthi is the state’s most well known Hindu celebration.

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Hundreds of people have been shifted to safer places in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district in Telangana following heavy rains, even as relief works got underway in other affected areas of the state

Current Affairs : Many individuals have been

 

moved to more secure places in Bhadradri-Kothagudem locale in Telangana following substantial downpours, even as help works got in progress on Friday in other influenced territories of the state.

 

The water level in Godavari stream in the sanctuary town of Bhadrachalam (in Bhadradri-Kothagudem region) was streaming over the risk level of 53 feet and remained at 54.90 feet at 1 pm, authorities said.

 

As indicated by legitimate information, Karakagudem in Bhadradri-Kothagudem region and Venkatapuram in Mulugu locale got (from 8.30 AM on August 20 to 7 AM on August 21) substantial precipitation of 172.8 mm and 127 mm separately.

 

A few different territories in the state got overwhelming to direct rains.

 

Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar, who visited the flooding Munneru stream at Khammam, said inhabitants of low lying territories in Khammam and Bhadradri-Kothagudem areas have been moved to more secure places and gave food and others, as indicated by an official delivery.

 

He guided the authorities to be on caution and proceed with alleviation activities till the rising waters retreated.

 

In the mean time, help works proceeded in Warangal, where a few zones have been immersed following substantial downpours this week.

 

City Administration Minister K T Rama Rao had declared on Tuesday that a unique month lengthy drive would be led in the city to evacuate all infringements on channels, which were supposedly the purpose behind immersion of streets and flooding in local locations

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With the exception of Mandarin language courses, tie-ups with Chinese institutions are likely to be discontinued

Current Affairs : India is venturing up its controls on Chinese movement in the nation, including additional examination for visas and assessing Beijing’s connections with neighborhood colleges, as relations between the two countries keep on nosing jump.

 

India’s Ministry of External Affairs has been informed that visas for Chinese businesspeople, scholastics, industry specialists, and backing gatherings will require earlier trusted status, said senior authorities who asked not to be recognized, refering to rules for addressing the media. The measures are like those that have for some time been utilized with Pakistan, India’s neighbor and most despised opponent, they said.

 

The exercises of India colleges with tie-ups to Chinese foundations are probably going to be definitely downsized, one authority said. The administration is looking into 54 memoranda of understanding marked between instructive organizations including the Indian Institutes of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and others with connections to the official Chinese language preparing office, known as Hanban, which runs Confucius Institutes over the world.

 

Except for Mandarin language courses, tie-ups with Chinese organizations are probably going to be ended, the authorities said. The organizations are utilized to impact strategy producers, think tanks, ideological groups, corporates and scholastics, they said.

 

India’s Foreign Ministry didn’t promptly react to a solicitation for input.

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Apple and Alphabet have long been deeply office-oriented; Yahoo, Best Buy and Reddit ended up reversing course on their flexible work arrangements in the past decade.

Current Affairs : Some time before the pandemic, savants anticipated that far off work would reshape Silicon Valley. News anecdotes about California tech laborers setting up home workplaces in more reasonable West Coast districts go back to the 1990s. In the latest blast of Bay Area lodging costs, a few new businesses made a sprinkle for their distant just arrangements, and at any rate one offered a “de-area bundle” to boost moves anyplace with lower lodging costs.

 

However far off work has in no way, shape or form been the business’ default. Apple and Alphabet have for some time been profoundly office-situated; Yahoo, Best Buy and Reddit wound up switching seminar on their adaptable work plans in the previous decade. For sure, until the coronavirus changed the terms of working from home, Silicon Valley remained as the 21st century’s prime delineation of the ethics of modern bunching — the possibility that innovativeness, advancement and monetary yield will flourish in places where individuals with comparable information sets are near one another. The tech business’ present outrageous grouping has been credited with boosting profitability, as well. Little miracle that the significant players have structured resplendent, convenience loaded grounds to save laborers on location for whatever number hours as could be allowed.

 

What amount will coronavirus mess with the Valley’s mystery ingredient for development? That is currently an open inquiry as various tech laborers are leaving their motherships. Letters in order, Facebook, Twitter and different fat cats reported designs for critical bits of their workforces to stay far off considerably after workplaces return.

 

Susan Wachter, an educator of land and fund at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, has examined the significance of industry grouping. She accepts that the move to distant work will to a great extent be something beneficial for tech organizations, in that it can make greater limit with respect to them to employ and develop. Lately, the Bay Area’s irrationally high lodging costs (pre-pandemic, the middle one-room rental in San Francisco outperformed $3,700 per month) made an obstruction for new ability and in any event, holding laborers.

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Investors who want to cheer a recovery for China’s largest e-commerce company should keep in mind what it is they’re celebrating

Current Affairs : Alibaba Group’s solid bounce back in both income and benefit last quarter are amazing. Deals climbed 34 percent and working pay hopped 42 percent after insignificant outcomes the quarter previously. Be that as it may, financial specialists ought to know exactly where those numbers are coming from before they praise a recuperation.

 

While fundamentally a web based business organization — representing half of income last money related year — the single-greatest supporter of development in the June time frame was what the Chinese organization calls “new retail.” In the retrogressive universe of online deals, this really alludes to physical organizations, for example, stores. That class, lumped together as “others,” climbed 88 percent from a year earlier.

 

Its real web based business extended only 21 percent. The main time it’s been more awful was the March quarter, when the aftermath from the pandemic brought about development of simply 1.1 percent.

 

Alibaba’s other significant development driver was its exceptional cloud division, which extended 59 percent. By all accounts, this is praiseworthy; in any case, that business keeps on draining cash with working misfortune edges running at 14.4 percent, a similar level as a quarter of a year sooner. Of course, this edge has limited over the previous year, however so far there’s little sign that Alibaba can be relied upon to convey supported economies-of-scale as that class develops, particularly despite solid rivalry from any semblance of Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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