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SECTOR | 19 Oct 2025

IIM Bangalore secures 100% summer placement with consulting leading at 46%

Business Line

This year, the campus saw 46% placements in management consulting, up from 38%

Education

SECTOR | 17 Oct 2025

India's logistics cost to reduce to single digit by December: Gadkari

Business Standard

Logistics cost in India will come down to single digit by December this year, helped by rapid expansion of expressways and economic corridors, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. Addressing ASSOCHAM Annual Conference 2025, Gadkari further said a recent report prepared by IIT Chennai, IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore has revealed that India's construction of expressways and economic corridors has helped reduce the country's logistics cost to 10 per cent from 16 per cent earlier. "India's logistics cost will come down to 9 per cent by December, which will help India become more competitive. I am sure that 100 per cent it is going to give benefit to our industry, our exports will be more competitive," he said. Logistics cost is 12 per cent in the US, 12 per cent in European countries and 8 to 10 per cent in China. Talking about India's automobile sector, the minister said, "Within five years, our target is to make India's automobile industry the number 1 in the world." "When I t

India's logistics cost to reduce to single digit by December: Gadkari

Business Line | 17 Oct 2025

Education

SECTOR | 17 Oct 2025

IIM Kozhikode, BEL ink MoU for leadership development and management excellence

Business Line

The MoU envisions a series of customised Professional Post Graduate Diploma programmes designed by IIM Kozhikode to nurture a capable and future-ready talent pool within BEL

Education

SECTOR | 16 Oct 2025

Anti-Biotics To Combat 'Superbugs': NIT Rourkela Researchers Develop Plant-Based Antibacterial Agents

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The researchers used extracts from marigold, mango, and eucalyptus leaves and petals to convert zinc salts into zinc oxide nanocrystals, which were twice as effective in killing bacteria.

Education

SECTOR | 16 Oct 2025

India sees 94% jump in reported Pocso cases from 2017 to 2022: Report

Business Standard

India has shown a 94 per cent rise in reported sexual offences against children under POCSO between 2017 and 2022, from 33,210 to 64,469 cases, but despite the rising numbers, the prosecution rate remains above 90 per cent, signalling stronger enforcement and reporting mechanisms, according to a new report. The Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the University of New South Wales, this week launched the findings from its latest Into the Light Index 2025, describing the situation as a "human tragedy of global proportions". According to the Into the Light Index 2025, India has shown a 94 per cent rise in reported sexual offences against children under POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) between 2017 and 2022, from 33,210 to 64,469 cases. "Despite rising numbers, the country's prosecution rate remains above 90 per cent, signalling stronger enforcement and reporting mechanisms. India stands out in South Asia for the dep

Govt signs MoUs to set up 3 new Dr Ambedkar Chairs in universities

Business Standard | 16 Oct 2025

Education

SECTOR | 16 Oct 2025

How a Meerut boy's search for housing abroad led to a global venture

Business Standard

From struggling to find housing in the UK to building University Living, Saurabh Arora shares his journey with Business Standard on creating a global student platform

Education

SECTOR | 16 Oct 2025

IIIT-Delhi's 'Ratatouille' uses AI to reimagine the science of cooking

Business Standard

What happens when artificial intelligence meets the art of cooking? At IIIT-Delhi, professor Ganesh Bagler has been exploring that intersection for more than a decade, giving birth to what he calls 'computational gastronomy' -- a pioneering field that uses data science and AI to decode and recreate the science of taste. "It all started as a curiosity-driven classroom exercise when I was teaching at IIT Jodhpur," Bagler recalled in an interview with PTI. "We were studying patterns in global cuisines -- Indian, Italian, Mexican -- and I realised that no one really looked at food through the lens of data and computation. That's how the journey began, around 10 years ago. Since then, Bagler's lab at IIIT-Delhi has been at the forefront of blending two seemingly contrasting worlds -- the artistic, cultural side of cooking and the quantitative precision of data science. No one had tried to merge these two domains before, he said. Over the years, Bagler and his team have built structure

Education

SECTOR | 15 Oct 2025

NIT Rourkela researchers use medicinal plants extracts to fight antibiotic resistance

Business Line

The overuse of traditional antibiotics has resulted in the rise of "superbugs" that have become resistant to these treatments

Education

SECTOR | 15 Oct 2025

US Seizes Bitcoin Worth $15 Billion In Pig-Butchering' Case

NDTV Profit

Such scams likely stole more than $75 billion from victims globally between January 2020 and February 2024, according to a study by a University of Texas at Austin finance professor last year.

Education

SECTOR | 14 Oct 2025

'Not An Innovator's Business To Become Profitable': Nirmala Sitharaman To IIT Students

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Further, Sitharaman emphasised that innovators should not worry about non-core business concerns, including regulatory compliance or immediate profitability.