As president, Mehta will oversee Rotary’s top priority of ending polio worldwide Shekhar Mehta, business leader and philanthropist who is the Chairman and founder Skyline Group, on June 30 assumed the office of Rotary International for a period of one year. Mehta, a member of the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar will be the 111th president of the 116-year-old service organization with 1.2 million Rotary members globally. He is also …

Divyasampark iHUB, a section 8 company, a joint initiative of IIT Roorkee and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and one of the 25 high-tech hubs being erected with the support of the government, has been inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. Divyasampark I-Hub Roorkee for Devices Materials and Technology Foundation is  intended to serve as a cyber-physical …

IIT Roorkee held a first of its kind award ceremony on 26 June  to commemorate the efforts put in by its students in continuing the placement and internship drive despite the challenges hurled by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid-blues made placements one of the most challenging tasks for higher education institutions, even for the most esteemed institutions such as IIT …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras is launching a new initiative to showcase its research to the broad scientific community and policymakers. It will highlight the major research initiatives being pursued in emerging areas of global interest. While the first webinar under the ‘IITM Research Initiatives Spotlight’ (IRIS) is scheduled to be conducted on 1st July 2021 on the topic of …

The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and WhatsApp on June 24 announced an alliance to launch the Digital Skill Champions Program that aims to train India’s youth on digital skills, in order to make them employment ready. Through this program, school and university students would be coached to imbibe digital and online skills that would culminate with WhatsApp and NSDC awarding ‘Digital …

Godrej Interio, one of India’s leading furniture solutions brand from Godrej Group, in a statement on its recent survey says that children studying from home are facing long-term mental and physical health concerns due to bad posture. The study ‘Taking care of children as they learn from home’ by Godrej Interio’s Workplace and Ergonomics Research Cell attempted to study the …