R.V College of Engineering, Bangalore will play host to the second edition of the Toyota Hackathon- ‘Code for Safer India’ later this month. Spread over two days (Nov 25-26), the Hackathon organized by Delhi-based Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve, a youth led voluntary organization working in the area of road safety, will see participation from school students from Bengaluru city …
The whole of India was elated and filled with pride with son of the soil Prof Abhijit Banerjee, now an American, sharing this year’s Economic Sciences Nobel Prize with Prof Esther Duflo, his wife and colleague at MIT along with Prof Michael Kremer of Harvard University, for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Banerjee and Dutto are cofounders of …
The 12th edition of Global Skills Summit spread over two-day (Sep 19-20) and organized by FICCI in New Delhi proved a platform of storytelling by the proud medal winners at Worldskills Competition 2019 as they were rewarded and celebrated. The occasion also brought into focus some of the laudable initiatives in skills domain in the country as also food for …
On the 150th birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, AIM, NITI Aayog’s Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) and UNICEF India, including Generation Unlimited, have launched ‘The Gandhian Challenge’. This innovation challenge provides a platform for every child across India to ideate innovative solutions for a sustainable India of their dreams, using Gandhi’s principles. The winners of The Gandhian Challenge will be awarded in New …
To start with Media & Entertainment Skill Sector Council is setting up 14 Authorized WorldSkills India Training Centers (AWSITCs) across nine major cities with a wish to increase the reach in all the states and Union territories. Currently, AWSITCs are being established in Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Shillong and Trivandrum. While announcing the launching of these centres …
With the aim of creating strong strategies and roadmaps to make school examinations less stressful Northwest Accreditation Commission, USA (NWAC) hosted a conference ‘De-stressing Examination’ in partnership with the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE), in New Delhi recently. The conference was inaugurated by Professor Ved Prakash, Ex-Chairman, UGC. The event gave special focus on ‘De-Stressing Examination’ on the lines of …
