The Indian Institute of Management, Shillong hosted the commencement ceremony to welcome 309 post-graduate programmes (PGP) in management (2022–24), 5 Ph.D., and 11 Ph.D. Working Professionals. IIM Shillong held its recipients, visitors, and invitees in person for the first time at this session since the lockdown two years prior. The guests of honour at the ceremony were, Dr. Anurag Batra, …
A book titled ‘Dreams and Journeys’ put together by Vodafone Idea Foundation and CSC,covers inspiring stories of beneficiaries whose lives have been transformed through learning financial concepts on investments, financial planning, and digital financial tools through storytelling content format, featuring games and quizzes from the ‘Jaadu Ginni Ka’ programme. The flagship program on financial literacy ‘Jaadu Ginni Ka’ is being …
“In a country like India, with a large young population, it is imperative to build processes and policies that help raise a well-informed, intelligent, and perceptive future generation.” —Sumanta Datta, MD of Oxford University Press, India Despite concerns around misinformation and false claims, social media users around the world continue to believe that the information they read and share on …
discusses applied plant biotechnology among a host technological interventions in the field of AYUSH sciences IIT Madras Department of Biotechnology has organized a six-day continuing Medical Education (CME) program on ‘Technological interventions to standardize the indigenous system of medicine in India’ called AYURTECH 2022-CME, from 20th to 25th June 2022. This CME program is being sponsored by the Ministry of …
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), the nodal agency under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Government of India, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on June 20 announced the launch of project NIPUN- National Initiative for Promoting upskilling of Construction Workers. The project aims to train more than one lakh construction workers through fresh skilling and …
Researchers led by Prof. Indra Sekhar Sen, from the Department of Earth Science of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have developed an enzyme-substrate medium-based E.coli.water testing kit that is highly sensitive and can detect the presence or absence of a single E.coli in drinking water. This E.coli water testing kit is low cost and field trials were successfully …
