A team of undergraduate students (Ananya Pujary, Khushi Gupta and Muskaan Pal ) from the FLAME University, Pune, recently  created an open-access archive of community cookbooks from across India under the ‘Indian Community Cookbook Project’ archive and contains digitized multilingual, region-specific community cookbooks that include handwritten and printed recipes across Indian languages. Further, it also utilizes cultural mapping tools to …

Alliance University, Bengaluru (esb 2010) held its annual convocation virtually on March 28 owning to covid pandemic safety protocols. Dr. C. N. Ashwath Narayan, Deputy Chief Minister & Minister for Higher Education; IT & BT; and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka was the chief guest for the event. The gathering was also addressed by Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder & Chief …

Rajkot (Gujarat) based Marwadi University (esb 2016) in a statement announced the appointment of well-known technical educationist and administrator, Prof (Dr) Sandeep Sancheti, as its new Vice-Chancellor. He succeeds Dr Y P Kosta, who served as the founding  Vice-Chancellor of MU for the past 5 years. Prof Sancheti has been the Vice-Chancellor of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai for …

Shiv Nadar University Chennai, on Mar 3 announced the appointment of Prof. Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya as the University’s Founding Vice Chancellor. Prof. Bhattacharyya is a widely acclaimed academician and was previously the Director (officiating) at IIT Kharagpur. In a career spanning over three decades, Prof. Bhattacharyya has demonstrated outstanding scholarship in his field, rigor for academic excellence and support for …

Mumbai’s three reputed colleges – K. C. College, H. R. College and Bombay Teachers’ Training College (BTTC) – part of a 70-year old Hyderabad (Sind) National Collegiate Board (H(S)NCB), have come together to form Maharashtra’s second cluster University; named as ‘HSNC University’, established under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shikshan Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme, a funding agency under the Central government. Bhagat Singh …

Probably the first-of-its-kind in the world wherein the first governing body meeting was conducted virtually due to the Covid-19 lockdown situation, Vijaybhoomi University, Karjat today announced its Governing Council after a  virtual meeting under chaired by Sanjay Padode, nominated founding President of Vijaybhoomi University, Karjat, and the Chairman of IFIM Institutions, Bangalore. Sanjay Padode During the meeting, the Governing Body approved …