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SECTOR | 19 Jun 2025

Professor M Satish Kumar appointed 1st dean of Queen's University Belfast's GIFT City campus

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Queen's University Belfast's GIFT City campus to welcome first cohort of students in early 2026

IIT Madras, STL launch multi-core fibre testbed at TTDF Symposium

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SECTOR | 19 Jun 2025

Shah to visit security camps, review anti-Naxal ops to Chhattisgarh

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit a security camp and chair a meeting to review ongoing anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh during his two-day trip to the state starting from June 22, Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma said on Thursday. He will also lay foundation stones for a National Forensic Science University (NFSU) and a state forensic lab in Nava Raipur Atal Nagar on the first day of his visit (Sunday), Sharma told reporters here. The state government has allotted 40 acres of land for NFSU, which will be built by the Centre at a cost of around Rs 400 crore. The state forensic lab will come up adjacent to the NFSU campus on six to seven acres of land, said the Deputy CM, who holds the home portfolio. The next day (Monday), Shah will visit a camp of security forces (in Bastar region), he added. During the visit, Shah will chair a meeting in Raipur to review ongoing anti-Naxal operations and meet with family members of Additional Superintendent of Police Akash Rao...

Education

SECTOR | 19 Jun 2025

AI chatbots that reason emit more carbon than ones with simple reply: Study

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A study found that carbon emissions from chat-based generative AI can be six times higher when responding to complex prompts, like abstract algebra or philosophy, compared to simpler prompts, such as high school history. "The environmental impact of questioning trained (large-language models) is strongly determined by their reasoning approach, with explicit reasoning processes significantly driving up energy consumption and carbon emissions," first author Maximilian Dauner, a researcher at Hochschule Mnchen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, said. "We found that reasoning-enabled models produced up to 50 times more (carbon dioxide) emissions than concise response models," Dauner added. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Communication, evaluated how 14 large-language models (which power chatbots), including DeepSeek and Cogito, process information before responding to 1,000 benchmark questions -- 500 multiple-choice and 500 subjective. Each model responded to 100

Education

SECTOR | 19 Jun 2025

Delhi to launch 3.21 crore artificial rain project: How it will be done

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Backed by IIT-Kanpur and IMD, the 3.21 crore project aims to trigger artificial rain over Delhi using cloud seeding technology to reduce PM levels and build evidence for future urban use

Education

SECTOR | 17 Jun 2025

JECRC University Unveils a New Template for Inclusive Campus Hiring with 35% Female Placements in 2025

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DU UG 2025 admissions portal opens: Register via CSAS using CUET marks

Business Standard | 17 Jun 2025 2 more

Education

SECTOR | 17 Jun 2025

India cannot afford to be divided over languages, says VP Dhankhar

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India, an aspirational nation in the world, cannot afford to be divided on the issue of languages, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Tuesday and appealed to to the people to consider the future well-being of the country and "get over this storm." Also, he made a strong pitch for implementing the National Education Policy 2020 in letter and spirit, as it was a "game changer" in the education sector that could spur further development of the country. Speaking at the Pondicherry University here, Dhankhar who is the chancellor of the varsity, without naming anyone, lamented that there was opposition to languages. "India is the most aspirational nation in the world as a result of phenomenal development in the last decade," the Vice President said and asked "how can we be divided on languages?" No country in the world was so rich as India when it came to languages. Sanskrit has global importance and this language along with Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Marathi, Pali,...

Education

SECTOR | 17 Jun 2025

'Nothing wrong has happened': Akal Takht head granthi on influencer killing

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Kanchan Kumari, known as Kamal Kaur Bhabhi, was strangled and found dead in a car at Bathinda's Adesh University; two arrested, prime accused Amritpal Singh Mehron fled to UAE, say police

Education

SECTOR | 17 Jun 2025

UP BEd JEE results 2025 to be out today at bujhansi.ac.in; Details here

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Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, is set to announce the UP BEd JEE 2025 results today at bujhansi.ac.in. Candidates can access the results using their login details

Education

SECTOR | 17 Jun 2025

Judge extends order halting Trump's block on Harvard's foreign students

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President Donald Trump's order to block incoming foreign students from attending Harvard University will remain on hold temporarily following a hearing Monday, when a lawyer for the Ivy League school said its students were being used as pawns. US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston extended a temporary restraining order on Trump's proclamation until June 23 while she weighs Harvard's request for a preliminary injunction. Burroughs made the decision at a hearing over Harvard's request, which Trump's Republican administration opposed. Burroughs granted the initial restraining order June 5, and it had been set to expire Thursday. Trump moved to block foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard earlier this month, citing concerns over national security. It followed a previous attempt by the Department of Homeland Security to revoke Harvard's ability to host foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Burroughs has temporarily blocked that action, too,

Education

SECTOR | 16 Jun 2025

This new blood test could spot cancer up to 3 years before symptoms

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A Johns Hopkins University study shows that a simple blood test may detect cancer long before symptoms emerge, potentially transforming early treatment and survival rates