A Center of Competence was officially inaugurated by Prof. Abhay Karandikar, DST Secretary, Prof. K. N. Satyanarayana, Director, IIT Tirupati, Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India at IIT Tirupati on 17th March 2025. Esri India and IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation (IITTNiF) had earlier signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the Center of Competence (CoC) to drive geospatial education, research, …

The initial project covers Environment and Land Management Ministry for Management and Innovation in Public Services of Brazil (MGI) and the Bengaluru-based International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) announce a groundbreaking partnership to potentialise digital transformation’s societal impact. The initiative aims to gradually drive the digital government to be a digital economy enabler leveraging digital public infrastructures (DPIs) and …

The Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education, launched PM-YUVA 3.0 -Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors, an Author Mentorship programme to train young and budding authors (below 30 years of age) in order to promote reading, writing and book culture in the country, and project India and Indian writings globally on 11th March, 2025. In view of the significant …

Celebrating 25 years of impact, Akshara Foundation, a Bangalore-based Public charitable trust committed to ensuring ‘Every Child in School and Learning Well,’ launched the 2024-25 Gram Panchayat Level Maths Contests Report that reveals interesting gender-based trends in performance across grades 4, 5, and 6.  The report unveiled on March 10 found girls consistently outperformed boys in the higher performance bands, …

The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) on March 6 organized a Breakout session, on “National Centres of Excellence for Skilling”, announced in the Union Budget 2025-26. The breakout session was one of the eleven such sessions which were held in the follow up to the post-budget webinar on “Investing in People”, which was conducted on March 5 for which Department of Higher …

Nayanta University, a new private university coming up in Pune is set to begin classes in August 2025. Established under the Maharashtra State Private University Act, Nayanta aims to redefine the future of higher education in India by offering a transformative, fully residential undergraduate program designed to prepare students for leadership in an increasingly complex world. Backed by a distinguished group …