The ‘missing link’ that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, rather than charades-like gestures – giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around us, a new study reveals. It was widely believed that, in order to get the first languages off the ground, our …
Trivandrum-based Toonz Media Group is expanding its Education Services Division by launching a brand new e-learning platform named Ri8brain. A first-of-its-kind EdTech initiative, Ri8brain is exclusively dedicated to creative learning. “Ri8brain will mark our foray into e-learning. The unique aspect of this platform is that it is dedicated to learning of creative arts and technology. We live in an era …
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA held its 56th annual convocation virtually on May 8. 605 students from the PhD, PGP, PGP-FABM and PGPX programmes were conferred degrees Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairperson, Board of Governors (BoGs), IIMA and Professor Errol D’Souza, Director, IIMA graced the occasion, as other members of the Board, faculty, staff, alumni, graduating students and their …
A special team at IIT Kanpur’s Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC), set-up to come up with an immediate and viable solution on oxygen production, has launched Mission Bharat O2, an open manufacturing challenge for bedside oxygen concentrators and oxygen plants for MSMEs. The aim is to build an efficient mechanism to support brilliant, innovative minds of India to bring more than …
AnantU’s Anant Centre for Sustainability led by its director Dr. Miniya Chatterji, CEO Sustain Labs with support from Nitish Rane, an MLA from Mumbai, has created two new COVID care facilities in Devgad and Vaibhavwadi in Maharashtra. Converting existing vacant and unused infrastructure into COVID care facilities for patients with mild to moderate symptoms is an idea, which has been …
The E&ICT Academy of IIT Roorkee is launching two online certification programs in Software Development, Cloud Computing, and Data Science in collaboration with online Edtech platform, Great Learning. The fist program is Advanced Certificate Program in Full Stack Software Development of 10 months duration with specialization in either Cloud Computing or Python for Data Science, and Shorter Duration Certificate Programs in …
