Start-up Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC) of IIT Kanpur, one of the oldest technology business incubators with many successes under its belt, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Training and Employment, Uttar Pradesh to train principals of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across Uttar Pradesh on new-age innovation technologies. The program aims at fostering capacity building …

Adityam Dutta, a researcher at Lovely Professional University, has developed a new health drink to enhance people’s immunity. The immunity boosting drink is made with natural extracts of lemongrass and provides relief from many lifestyle ailments like headache, high blood pressure, convulsions, pain and swelling, vomiting, cough, joint pain (rheumatism), fever, common cold, diabetes and exhaustion. Naturally grown lemongrass contains …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras has launched a ‘Centre for Research on Start-Ups and Risk Financing’ (CREST) to provide academic and thought leadership in innovation, entrepreneurship and risk capital. It would also create a unique world-class data repository on Indian start-ups and ventures to address a major hurdle for engaging in high-quality research. This information resource would be made accessible …

To prepare school students with 21st century skills of critical thinking, communication and confidence, GlobalGyan Academy of Management Education, has launched its Youth Leadership Programs, Laksh and Laksh Junior. The programs offered to students of Grades 5 to 7 (Laksh Junior) and Grades 8 to 10 (Laksh) are designed to build the life-skills that are essential for their future. Students participate in a …

Realizing the need to provide mental health support for young individuals, a group of Grade 11 students from Shiv Nadar School (a not-for-profit initiative of the Shiv Nadar Foundation in K-12 private education) has developed an AI chat-bot that provides a platform to teenagers to discuss their mental health issues, while also providing them non-clinical support to deal with stress …

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, established in 1936) a Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956, an institution of excellence in social and developmental studies in India, has in a statement said that it has initiated fact finding on a student’s  Master’s Dissertation adding, “the Institute doesn’t endorse the …