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SECTOR | 30 Apr 2025

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Education

SECTOR | 26 Apr 2025

IIT-Madras Incubation Cell incubates over 100 deep tech start-ups in FY25

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The achievement was through the collaborative efforts of IITM ICalong with its sector-specific incubators - Pravartak, Bioincubator, HTIC MedTech, RTBI, and the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT-M, the institute said

Assam transforming into a land of peace, prosperity: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

Business Standard | 26 Apr 2025

Education

SECTOR | 26 Apr 2025

FIITJEE took 200 cr fees, failed to deliver services, laundered funds: ED

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday alleged that FIIT JEE coaching institute collected more than Rs 200 crore as fee from thousands of students and their parents but "did not" deliver the educational service indicating "serious" financial irregularities and siphoning of funds. The federal probe agency said in a statement that it seized Rs 10 lakh in cash, jewellery worth Rs 4.89 crore after it conducted searches on April 24 as part of a money laundering investigation and covered premises including that of FIIT JEE Director D K Goel, other executives of the company and their offices. The raids covered seven premises in Noida, Delhi and Gurugram. FIIT JEE or its promoters could not be contacted for a comment on the charges made by the ED against them. The ED case, filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), stems from multiple police FIRs got registered by the parents of students and IIT aspirants in Noida, Lucknow, Delhi, Bhopal and some other cities. These

Education

SECTOR | 26 Apr 2025

Trump admin opens investigation into UC Berkeley over foreign funding

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The Trump administration launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday centred on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government. The investigation revives criticism from several years ago about the university's partnership with China's Tsinghua University. It comes after President Donald Trump earlier this week signed a series of executive orders focused on universities that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda. One order called for harder enforcement of Section 117, a federal law requiring colleges to disclose foreign gifts and contracts valued at USD 2,50,000 or more. The Department of Education's Office of General Counsel will investigate "UC Berkeley's apparent failure to fully and accurately disclose significant funding received from foreign sources", Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. UC Berkeley denied the government's claims, saying that for the last two yea