– VIBGYOR’s Marathahalli Student Nishaad assembled the innovation within four hours, dedicates it to the nation In keeping with its ideology of blending academics and innovation, and to create a ‘World Ready 2030’, VIBGYOR High – Marathahalli has taken the lead with one of its students innovating a contactless hand sanitiser in the times of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Nishaad Chachra of …
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) based incubatee start-up, ispAgro, has developed a functional prototype of a robotic swab sample collection arm which can be remotely controlled for safe and speedy swab sample collection process. The specializes in drone and robotics technology and is one of the many start-ups mentored by IIMK’s business incubator and entrepreneurship development center, LIVE. The …
More than 1.5 billion children and youth are currently out of school or university, representing 87 per cent of the world’s enrolled student population. In addition, over 60 million teachers are no longer in the classroom. Responding to this unprecedented situation, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia has launched the ‘Lockdown Learners’ series of online engagement with students and educators in India …
The National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF), an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has identified several S&T based innovative solutions through the Challenge COVID-19 Competition (C3), a campaign which was running from 31st March to 10th May 2020 for engaging innovative citizens to come up with ideas and innovations to tackle the pandemic. A foot-operated device for …
The prototype has been handed over to the HaridwarMunicipal Corporation for their use Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) has developed a first-of-its-kind continuously operated sterilization system for everyday accessories to reduce the transmission risk of COVID-19. This machine can be used for the disinfection of common-use accessories such as electronic gadgets (mobiles, watches, wireless gadgets) and metallic and …
A multi-country survey by UK-basedInstitute of Risk Management (IRM-UK) on expected lines has found that most organizations have woken up to risk management with the current Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, According to the survey, 32% of organisations said they had not considered a pandemic risk or anything similar before the current global COVID-19 pandemic, and one-fifth of organisations who had …
