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SECTOR | 17 Oct 2025

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

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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

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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.

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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

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SECTOR | 16 Oct 2025

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

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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

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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

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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

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SECTOR | 15 Oct 2025

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

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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.

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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.

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SECTOR | 14 Oct 2025

Over a dozen projects underway as DU undertakes 1,912 cr campus revamp

Business Standard

Delhi University is witnessing one of its largest infrastructure overhauls, with more than a dozen major construction projects underway at an estimated cost of Rs 1,912.15 crore, according to officials. The projects include new campuses, academic blocks, hostels, libraries and a cultural centre aimed at strengthening academic and residential facilities for students. A senior DU official said the initiative reflects the university's commitment to "placing students at the heart of development." Several projects are nearing completion, while others will be ready in the coming years. At the Dhaka campus in North-West Delhi, an Institution of Eminence Hostel is being built at a cost of Rs 332.83 crore to accommodate 1,436 students in a nine-storey, gender-inclusive residential block. The Computer Centre and Faculty of Technology buildings are also in the final stages of completion. The Surajmal Vihar (East Campus) project includes a new Law Academic Block at an estimated cost of Rs 373

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SECTOR | 14 Oct 2025

IIT-Madras Pravartak, BodhBridge launch free entrepreneurship training programmes

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The first batch will commence on 1st November 2025. The last date to register for the programmes is 28 October 2025