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SECTOR | 02 May 2025

IIT-Kanpur Tasked With Developing AI To Clean Yamuna, Ease Congestion

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New Delhi, May 2 (PTI) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said he has tasked IIT-Kanpur with building AI technology for cleaning Yamuna, easing congestion, and targeting other urban challenges.

Education

SECTOR | 02 May 2025

IIM Kozhikode ranked 2nd among IIMs, 22nd in Asia Pacific in Executive MBA

Business Line

This marks a significant leap of 10 places in the global bandfrom 171-180 in 2024 to 161-170 this year

Education

SECTOR | 02 May 2025

Donald Trump speaks to graduating students at Alabama amid protests

Business Standard

President Donald Trump was addressing graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday, a visit that drew hundreds of protesters to an off-campus rally. Trump's remarks in Tuscaloosa are the Republican president's first address to graduates in his second term and come as he has been celebrating the first 100 days of his administration. The previously scheduled visit came shortly after he announced a shake-up to his national security team, with Mike Waltz being tapped for United Nations ambassador and Secretary of State Marco Rubio taking over Waltz's national security adviser role on an interim basis. What a nice looking group this is, Trump said to open his speech. There's nowhere I'd rather be than Tuscaloosa. Alabama, where Trump won a commanding 64 per cent of the vote in 2024, is where he has staged a number of his trademark large rallies over the past decade. It is also where Trump showed early signs of strength in his first presidential campaign when he began...

Education

SECTOR | 30 Apr 2025

IIT-BHU signs MoU with Saras institute to offer foundation course in AI

Business Standard

Through this MoU, Saras will offer its foundational eight-week AI course as an open elective for IIT-BHU students

Education

SECTOR | 30 Apr 2025

IIT-Madras develops 30-min test to detect pre-eclampsia early in pregnancy

Business Standard

The portable device uses advanced fiber optic tech to detect key biomarkers in a drop of blood, enabling early diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women

Education

SECTOR | 30 Apr 2025

China lashes out at US as tensions escalate over space observatory in Chile

Business Standard

China struck a defiant stance on Tuesday in response to American concerns about Beijing's efforts to expand its influence in the resource-rich South American nation of Chile, escalating tensions over a Chinese astronomical venture in Chile's arid north. At a press conference Tuesday in Chile's capital of Santiago, China's ambassador to Chile, Niu Qingbao, lambasted the United States for interfering in Chile's sovereign right to independently choose its partners and spreading "disinformation about the project. The astronomy project stems from a 2023 agreement between China's state-run National Astronomical Observatory and Chile's Catholic University of the North to work on a powerful space observatory in the country's vast northern Atacama Desert. The proposed high-resolution telescope would be able to observe near-Earth objects, which are classified as asteroids or comets. But the project quickly became entangled in China's spiralling rivalry with the Trump administration. Worries

Harvard vows reforms after internal reports on antisemitism, anti-Arab bias

Business Standard | 30 Apr 2025

Education

SECTOR | 29 Apr 2025

Assam HS Result 2025: Education Minister Confirms Official Date Of AHSEC Class 12 Results; Check Details

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This year, more than 3 lakh students appeared for the HS examination, which were conducted between February-March.

Education

SECTOR | 29 Apr 2025

Trump govt launches discrimination probe against Harvard Law Review

Business Standard

The Trump administration on Monday announced federal officials are launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, saying authorities have received reports of race-based discrimination "permeating the operations" of the journal. The investigations come as Harvard fights a freeze on USD 2.2 billion in federal grants the Trump administration imposed after the university refused to comply with demands to limit activism on campus. A letter sent to the university earlier this month called for the institution to clarify its campus speech policies that limit the time, place and manner of protests and other activities. It also demanded academic departments at Harvard that "fuel antisemitic harassment" be reviewed and changed to address bias and improve viewpoint diversity. Monday marked the first time that both sides met in court over the funding fight. The investigations by the US Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services were...

FDA review of Novavax Covid-19 vaccine sparks uncertainty about other shots

Business Standard | 29 Apr 2025

Education

SECTOR | 27 Apr 2025

India's robust constitutional framework helps manage global turbulence, say jurists

Business Line

The experts were speaking as part of a panel discussion on the topic of Concurrent List Constitutionalism' in the event organised by SASTRA Deemed University Law School at Chennai

Education

SECTOR | 27 Apr 2025

Health policy worked in silos before 2017, govt made it holistic: JP Nadda

Business Standard

Union health minister J P Nadda on Saturday said the policy on health was working in silos before 2017 and used to take care of only the curative part. However, the Union government came out with a healthcare policy which was inclusive and holistic, he said after inaugurating a centre for nephrology and urology at Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre here. "Before 2017, we had a policy of health which was working in silos. It was a policy which took care of the curative part. The number of hospitals, dispensaries and institutes we made, it was all curative. But in 2017, we came out with a policy which was holistic, inclusive, which had preventive, promotive, curative, palliative, rehabilitative and gyratic parts," said Nadda. This policy incorporates everything from the first to the last breath, Nadda added. "Under the National Quality Assurance Standards (NWAS) currently there are 30,000 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs and the government's target is to create 1.75 lakh of...