To encourage and provide a platform to creative young writers, UNESCO New Delhi in partnership with Takhte, launched a collection of 100 essays by young minds ‘Inside the Millennial Mind 2019-2020’ on 20 January, 2020 at the UNESCO house, New Delhi. The book was launched by Eric Falt, UNESCO New Delhi Director along with Takhte founder Goldie Kasturia and members of the …
Antibiotic resistance has emerged as a major global threat to human and animal health, food security and development. It is expected to cause at least 10 million deaths annually by 2050, more than cancer and diabetes combined causalities. “Risk Management and Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance – PREVENT IT” project, the three year project Erasmus+ offers innovative perspective in addressing antibiotic …
Dr Deepak Padmanabhan, a researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an innovative new algorithm that will help make artificial intelligence (AI) fairer and less biased when processing data. Dr Padmanabhan has been leading an international project, working with experts at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Savitha Abraham and Sowmya Sundaram), to tackle the discrimination problem within clustering algorithms. …
upGrad, a provider of online programs for working professional, has introduced freshly curated content with its new video series to be launched soon on the upGrad App. The new app will be available on Google Play and YouTube. The videos entail tailor-made content focused on the brand’s key narrativelifelong learning. Divided into 100 episodes of 5 minutes each, upGrad aims …
The celebration of student voice was the theme of the ‘Kids Education Revolution (KER)’ national summit by Mumbai-based nonprofit, Teach For India (TFI) , this time held in Delhi from Feb 7-9. It began by KER night that saw talks by student activists, a panel discussion, street play, poetry recitation around the theme. Ridhima Pandey, dubbed as India’s Greta Thunberg led …
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations for class X will commence from February 15 and finish by March 20. What is special about this year’s CBSE exam for class X is the introduction of two-level mathematics question paper—Basic and Standard. The paper is scheduled on March 12. CBSE, country’s national school administered by MHRD having over 22145 schools affiliated …
