A team of undergraduate students (Ananya Pujary, Khushi Gupta and Muskaan Pal ) from the FLAME University, Pune, recently  created an open-access archive of community cookbooks from across India under the ‘Indian Community Cookbook Project’ archive and contains digitized multilingual, region-specific community cookbooks that include handwritten and printed recipes across Indian languages. Further, it also utilizes cultural mapping tools to …

Higher Education and research are key to an enhanced trade partnership between the U.K. and India and is expected to pave the way for a future UK-India free trade agreement. This emerged after the British Prime-Minister Boris Johnson met Prime-Minister Narendra Modi virtually on May 4, after the U.K. prime-minister was forced to cancel his planned visit to Delhi in …

Disabled people across the Global South have faced significant discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving them at greater risk of life-threatening abuse, violence and mental health problems, according to a new study. It also carries a few recommendations that include creating a disability-inclusive recovery, engaging with disability researchers and advocacy groups, mapping disability covid and thinking about long-term sustainable systems …

Udemy, online learning and teaching platform, has announced its top trending skills for the month of April 2021 in the Workplace Learning Trends Report. The highest Topic consumption surges in India for April are – SwiftUI by 179%, Redis by 142% and Software Development by 116%. This list has been compiled based on the trending skills that Udemy for Business analyzes every month. The Udemy for Business team analyzes and shares trends …

Sona College of Technology, Salem (TN) has set up an AI-assisted Open Access platform to make paywalled research publications and journals accessible to the researchers’ community. Since its launch, the platform has seen a 16% – 18% increase in monthly impressions across search engines such as Google. An increase in views corroborates increased downloads and ultimately paves the path for …

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 …