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SECTOR | 29 Sep 2025

Beyond lithium:Offgrid's zinc batteries promises long-duration storage

Business Line

Born out of IIT Kanpur, Offgrid seeks to use zinc batteries for industrial net-zero applications

Education

SECTOR | 28 Sep 2025

Trump's move to consolidate power draws comparisons to fading democracies

Business Standard

In 2007, eight years after becoming Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez revoked the license of the country's oldest private television station. Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump suggested revoking the licenses of US television stations he believes are overly critical of him. Since he returned to office in January, Trump's remaking of the federal government into an instrument of his personal will has drawn comparisons to elected strongmen in other countries who used the levers of government to consolidate power, punish their enemies and stifle dissent. But those familiar with other countries where that has happened, including Hungary and Turkey, say there is one striking difference: Trump appears to be moving more rapidly, and more overtly, than others did. The only difference is the speed with which it is happening, said David Smilde, who lived in Venezuela during Chavez's rise and is now a professor at Tulane University. Political enemies of the president ..

Education

SECTOR | 28 Sep 2025

AI use grows in Indian B-Schools, but only 7% faculty are experts: Survey

Business Standard

Only 51 per cent of faculty members are confident of a favourable impact of AI adoption on business school students, and only 7 per cent are expert users, even as the Indian B-Schools are increasingly adopting generative AI in teaching, research and curriculum design, according to a new survey. The survey conducted by MBAUniverse.com among 235 faculty members from India's top B-schools, including IIMs, IITs, ISB, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI and NMIMS, offered a detailed look at how generative AI is shaping management education. According to the survey, 51 per cent of faculty report a favourable impact of AI on student learning, while over half expect AI's role in teaching, curriculum and research to increase in the next 12 months. Intermediate users make up 55 per cent of faculty, with 7 per cent identifying as experts, signalling huge opportunities for structured capacity-building programs. "The findings reveal that faculty are using AI most in research and teaching, while applications in ..

Education

SECTOR | 28 Sep 2025

V-Guard announces winners of the Big Idea 2025 competition

Business Line

In the Business Plan category, IIM Jammu was named the runner-up, and IIM Lucknow secured the second runner-up position

Education

SECTOR | 26 Sep 2025

NCERT to grant equivalence for Class 10, 12 certificates across all boards

Business Standard

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) will grant equivalence to Class 10 and 12 certificates awarded by various school education boards in India for admissions in higher education institutions and recruitment for government jobs, officials said on Friday. The notification has been published in the e-Gazette by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education. This notification supersedes the earlier one dated November 15, 2021, which entrusted this responsibility to the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). "NCERT will discharge this responsibility through the National Assessment Centre, Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH), established under the National Education Policy 2020. Under the new arrangement, NCERT will discharge its responsibility through the National Assessment Centre, Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH), whi

Education

SECTOR | 26 Sep 2025

'Ganga's Worst Drought In 1,300 Years': IIT Study Sounds Warning Bell For 60 Crore Citizens

NDTV Profit

Ganga has faced frequent and prolonged droughts in the last three decades, with the 2004-2010 drought ranking as the most severe in over a millennium.

Education

SECTOR | 26 Sep 2025

India's first maritime simulation centre inaugurated at AMET University

Business Line

The Centre features Full Mission Simulators for Deck and Engine operations, Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems and advanced Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) laboratories

Education

SECTOR | 26 Sep 2025

IIT Madras, Hero MotoCorp signs MoU to drive research, employee skilling

Business Line

IIT Madras will offer degree programs, including MTech and PhD, tailored for HMCL employees

IIT Madras, Hero MotoCorp join hands for research, mobility solutions

Business Standard | 26 Sep 2025

Education

SECTOR | 24 Sep 2025

India nominates IIT-Madras as a UN Centre of Excellence for AI

Business Line

Krishnan was speaking at an event co-hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Kenya, and supported by the UN ODET

Education

SECTOR | 24 Sep 2025

IIT Kharagpur researchers flag how weather changes affect people

Business Standard

A new study by a team of researchers of IIT Kharagpur has warned that extreme weather events are not only becoming more frequent and intense but also affecting people very differently depending on where they live and how old they are. An IIT Kharagpur spokesperson said on Wednesday that by combining detailed climate projections with demographic data, the study compared the recent past (19912020) with the near future (20212050) under various warming and population growth scenarios. The research team, led by Prof Rajib Maity of Civil Engineering department, looked at how heat waves or cold waves can overlap with heavy rain or dry extremes. Its findings highlight stark insights as heat-related extremes concurrent with floods or droughts are projected to rise sharply worldwide, and Asia and Africa are set to be the hardest hit, with children and working-age adults facing the greatest risk. The study further flagged that sub-Saharan Africa will experience the highest youth exposure to .