The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA held its 56th annual convocation virtually on May 8. 605 students from the PhD, PGP, PGP-FABM and PGPX programmes were conferred degrees Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairperson, Board of Governors (BoGs), IIMA and Professor Errol D’Souza, Director, IIMA graced the occasion, as other members of the Board, faculty, staff, alumni, graduating students and their …

A special team at IIT Kanpur’s Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC), set-up to come up with an immediate and viable solution on oxygen production, has launched Mission Bharat O2, an open manufacturing challenge for bedside oxygen concentrators and oxygen plants for MSMEs. The aim is to build an efficient mechanism to support brilliant, innovative minds of India to bring more than …

Setanta College, Ireland has associated with Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS), Karnataka to launch Master of Science in Performance Coaching programme at the high-performance training centre, located in Karnataka, India. Setanta College with campus locations in both Ireland and the UK has EU accreditation and Inspire Institute of Sport is a state-of-the-art facility by JSW Group. Dr. Liam Hennessy, Setanta …

After the NEP 2020 brought spotlight on Yoga, efforts are on to build solutions and alliances to  bring yoga into education curriculum. In this quest, two new age platforms have come together to forge an alliance to build on each other’s strength and roll out yoga curriculum for school children.  SARVA, an online yoga-based wellness ecosystem, has inked a partnership …

National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) in partnership with Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) have virtually launched the ‘Infant Toddler and Caregiver-friendly Neighbourhoods (ITCN) Training and Capacity Building Programme’ on 13th April 2021. The Programme is designed to help build capacities of city officials and young professionals for developing young children and family-friendly neighbourhoods within cities in India. The programme is a continuation …

In almost a rerun of 2020, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has decided not to hold class X examinations this year in wake of a severe second wave of covid infections hitting large parts of the country towards the end of March.  The class X exam was scheduled from May 4.  Talking about the results, the board said the …