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Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said that his government is making efforts to develop four more cities, apart from Bhubaneswar, as digital hubs and enabling the youths to equip themselves with AI, cybersecurity and several other emerging technologies. He also said the government is keen to bring development of the IT and electronics sector to Cuttack, Rourkela, Sambalpur and Berhampur. The state government has signed four MoUs for research, running the O-chip programme, strengthening technical collaboration and startup networks in the state, an official said. An MoU was signed between the Department of Electronics & IT and IIT Bhubaneswar for research, pilot projects, policy inputs, and innovation ecosystem development during a two-day programme here, he said. Another agreement was inked between the state-owned Odisha Computer Application Centre and Semiconductor Fabless Accelerator Lab (SFAL) to run the O-chip programme, he said. The programme aims at creating an...

Education

SECTOR | 10 Aug 2025

Operation Sindoor was unlike any conventional mission: Army chief

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In his address at a function at IIT-Madras, he recalled the intricacies of India's decisive military action in May on terror infrastructure in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack

Education

SECTOR | 09 Aug 2025

In a first, IIT-Kharagpur appoints its first 'Dean of Student Well-being'

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Professor Arun Chakraborty will oversee mental-health initiatives, including round-the-clock access, AI tools, "campus mothers" and stress-management workshops

Education

SECTOR | 09 Aug 2025

Suspected gunman, cop dead in shooting near CDC and Emory University

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A suspected gunman and a police officer are dead after law enforcement responded to reports of an active shooter near the adjoining campuses of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University on Friday, authorities said. No civilians are believed to have been injured, but several rounds hit buildings on the CDC's sprawling campus, said Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum. The officer who died received gunfire during the shooting, DeKalb County Police Chief Gregory Padrick said. Officials earlier said that the officer was critically injured at the scene and taken to the hospital. CDC employees circulated photos from inside the buildings that appear to show numerous windows with bullet impacts in them. The shooter was armed with a long gun, and authorities recovered three other firearms at the scene, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the ongoing investigation. The gunma

Meteor that hit a home in Georgia is older than Earth, says scientist

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Education

SECTOR | 08 Aug 2025

Rolls-Royce, IIT Bombay join hands to strengthen innovation, talent

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The MoU will enable knowledge exchange and upskilling, and explore opportunities to collaborate on joint projects in areas of mutual interest, Rolls-Royce said in a statement

Education

SECTOR | 07 Aug 2025

IIT Madras launches School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for deep tech start-ups

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The school will offer a minor stream in entrepreneurship, an MS (Entrepreneurship) degree and also establish programmes contributing to translational research

Education

SECTOR | 07 Aug 2025

Harvard scientists warn of years-long setback from funding freeze

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Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio's research is literally frozen. Collected from millions of US soldiers over two decades using millions of dollars from taxpayers, the epidemiology and nutrition scientist has blood samples stored in liquid nitrogen freezers within the university's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The samples are key to his award-winning research, which seeks a cure to multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. But for months, Ascherio has been unable to work with the samples because he lost $7 million in federal research funding, a casualty of Harvard's fight with the Trump administration. It's like we have been creating a state-of-the-art telescope to explore the universe, and now we don't have money to launch it, said Ascherio. We built everything and now we are ready to use it to make a new discovery that could impact millions of people in the world and then, 'Poof. You're being cut off.' Researchers laid off and science shelved The

Trump admin freezes $584 mn UCLA grants, research projects at risk

Business Standard | 07 Aug 2025 1 more

Education

SECTOR | 06 Aug 2025

Phones in pocket, laptops on lap linked to male infertility: Study

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A joint study by the genetics research unit of Calcutta University's department of zoology and the Institute of Reproductive Medicine (IRM), Kolkata, has found that keeping mobile phones in trouser pockets and keeping laptops on laps for long hours may significantly increase the risk of male infertility and even impotence. The five-year study, launched in 2019, was led by Professor Sujay Ghosh (Calcutta University), with support from Dr Ratna Chattopadhyay (IRM), Dr Samudra Pal (CU), Dr Paranb Paladhi (IRM), and Dr Saurav Dutta (CU). A copy of the findings was made available to PTI on Wednesday. "Male patients who visited IRM for infertility treatment were invited to participate in the study. We excluded cases involving diagnosed female infertility and obstructive male infertility (caused by anatomical defects). The study focused exclusively on cases of idiopathic male infertility (infertility of unknown origin), specifically those with azoospermia (absence of sperm in semen) or...