THIRTY INNOVATION-led start-ups were recognized and felicitated on June 3 under the 10th year of the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme, which provides the much needed handholding and business development support to upcoming start-ups. The innovation awards were given away by Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog. This program started as a unique public private partnership initiated in …

On June 1, one more suicide took place in Kota, sixth this year. While the issue of coaching menace and suicides in Kota for the past two months have entered prime time TV debates and received lot of press, it is ironical that just a day after JEE Advanced results were announced, ‘the most successful’ coaching institute advertised full pages …

If relationships are strong, then it is considered that the chemistry between two people is working.  Chemistry is in everything that we do.  It is in each one of us. There is no Life Science without Chemistry. Everybody is made of chemicals. Chemical reactions occur when we breathe, eat, sleep. It is in the food we eat, clothes we wear, …

Thirty innovation-led start-ups were recognized and felicitated on June 3 under the 10th year of the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme, which provides the much needed handholding and business development support to upcoming start-ups. The innovation awards were given away by Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog. This program started as a unique public private partnership initiated in 2007 …

ALISON.com set up in 2007, is regarded as the pioneering MOOC platform of the world and has over 7 million registered learners, a million of them from India. Mike Feerick, Founder and CEO of ALISON.com was in Delhi recently to understand local needs and also enter into an alliance with Bhopal-based education & training network AISECT. Autar Nehru had a …

Government has an ambitious plan to scale up skill training in the country and has decided to cover at least 1.5 crore people during 2016-2017. A   Central Board for Skills Certification will be set up by September 2016 to infuse quality into India’s skill development ecosystem. These decisions were taken up in the  first meeting of the Governing Council of …