Lucknow Jan 25 PTI For the 61 winners of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar PMRBP 2021 and 2022 the award was special in ways more than one as they got digital certificates that use blockchain-driven technology developed by IIT Kanpur under the National Blockchain Project As Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a first awarded the children certificates digitally Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Abhay Karandikar on Tuesday said this technology can be used to grant all degrees and certificates in the future The digital certificates will be stored on digital wallets installed on the mobile devices of the recipients These certificates cannot be forged are globally verifiable selectively disclosable and sensitive to user content according to Karandikar In a tweet on Monday he had said that IIT Kanpur had awarded digital degrees to its students for the first time using the in-house developed blockchain and self sovereign identity technology Modi who was the chief guest of the premier institutes convocation ceremony on December 28 last year had launched the blockchain-based digital degrees on the occasion The technology is being implemented by CRUBN a firm offering blockchain solutions It was founded by 4 IITians - Nilesh Vasita Ras Dwivedi and Tanmay Yadav from IIT Kanpur and Mukul Verma from IIT Bombay - under the mentorship of Padma Shri Prof Manindra Agrawal and Prof Sandeep K Shukla joint coordinators of the National Blockchain Project under the National Security Council Secretariat When asked how he views the digital push Karandikar told PTI The need to do online verification of degrees and other educational certificates has increased more than ever since the rise of COVID-19 To make this process easy and seamless a solution using blockchain and self sovereign identity SSI allows students to manage and store their digital degrees in digital wallets installed on their devices SSI is a way of implementing digital identity that allows users to have complete control and ownership of their credentials along with the ability to share them as and when they want SSI leverages blockchain to enhance digital trust in the ecosystem It can be easily integrated with Aadhaar and DigiLocker according to Karandikar PTI NAV CJ CJ

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Delhi police on Monday arrested a 22-year-old civil defence volunteer, identified as Mukul Verma, for allegedly snatching the gold chain of a woman in South Delhi. Rakesh Verma, a goldsmith, who allegedly melted the chain, was also arrested, said police.

New Delhi Sep 21 PTI A 22-year-old civil defence volunteer was arrested for allegedly snatching a womans gold chain in south Delhis Neb Sarai police said on TuesdayThe accused Mukul Verma had been working as a civil defence volunteer for the last seven months in Sangam ViharCivil defence volunteers work under the command of district magistrates in DelhiA goldsmith Rakesh Verma 42 to whom the accused had sold the snatched gold chain has also been held they saidAccording to police the incident took place on September 17 The bike-borne accused snatched the gold chain of the woman who was walking on the road at around 230 pm on that dayThe woman however gave her written complaint to the police on Monday a police officer saidThe victim could not note down the complete registration number of the offending vehicle at the time of the incident but managed to recollect last few digits of it which along with CCTV camera footage helped the police to identify the owner of the bike a senior police officer saidDeputy Commissioner of Police South Atul Kumar Thakur said During the course of investigation raids were conducted in several place in Delhi and Ghaziabad and the accused was arrested on Monday During questioning Mukesh disclosed that he had sold the chain to Rakesh based in Sangam Vihar he saidWhen Rakesh was interrogated he told the police that he had melted the snatched gold chain he addedPolice has taken the melted gold metal into its custody and seized the bike used in the commission of offence They added that Mukul was earlier involved in three cases of theftPTI AMP SRY

New Delhi Sep 21 PTI A 22-year-old civil defence volunteer was arrested for allegedly snatching gold chain of a woman in south Delhis Neb Sarai police said on TuesdayThe accused Mukul Verma had been working as a civil defence volunteer for the last seven months in Sangam ViharA goldsmith Rakesh Verma 42 to whom the accused had sold the snatched gold chain has also been held they saidAccording to police the incident took place on September 17 The bike-borne accused snatched the gold chain of the woman who was walking on the road at around 230 pm on that dayThe woman however gave her written complaint to the police on Monday a police officer saidThe victim could not note down the complete registration number of the offending vehicle at the time of the incident but managed to recollect last few digits of it which along with CCTV camera footage helped the police to identify the owner of the bike a senior police officer saidDeputy Commissioner of Police South Atul Kumar Thakur said During the course of investigation raids were conducted in several place in Delhi and Ghaziabad and the accused was arrested on Monday During questioning Mukesh disclosed that he had sold the chain to Rakesh based in Sangam Vihar he saidWhen Rakesh was interrogated he told the police that he had melted the snatched gold chain he addedPolice has taken the melted gold metal into its custody and seized the bike used in the commission of offencePTI AMP SRY