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Jul 03, 2021

Arun Jaitley Institute, Microsoft Tie Up to Build AI, Emerging Tech Centre

The Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM) and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to build an AI and emerging technologies Centre of Excellence at AJNIFM. The collaboration seeks to explore the role of cloud, AI, and emerging technologies for transforming and shaping the future of public finance management in India.
The Centre of Excellence will serve as a central body for research, AI scenario envisioning, and tech led innovation. AJNIFM and Microsoft will jointly explore use cases of emerging technologies in finance and related areas, across central and state ministries and public sector enterprises.
Microsoft will partner closely with AJNIFM to define the future of public finance management in India, providing the technology, tools, and resources to build a strong ecosystem of partners, upskill government officials and build thought leadership.

J&K Chief Secretary Inaugurates Helpline "Sukoon"

J&K Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta, inaugurated SDRF first Battalion's 24×7 mental health helpline 'SUKOON' at its headquarters. This initiative, launched by SDRF First Battalion Kashmir in collaboration with Mission Youth J&K and Tourism department, will guide the caller to avail services of clinical psychologists, therapists, counsellors and psychiatrists.
'SUKOON' is a mental health helpline initiative (toll-free number 1800-1807159) to offer guidance to persons (or their well-wishers) who are experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, panic attack, PTSD, adjustment disorder, suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, mental health emergency and pandemic induced psychological stress.
First, 200 SDRF and 40 NDRF personnel were trained for Covid care duties and then deployed at Seven hospitals in J&K while the launch of the Sukoon helpline is the second step to support persons facing health issues.

Jul 02, 2021

Report on UDISE 2019-20 for School Education Launched

Union Minister of Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released Unified District Information System for Education Plus report (UDISE+) for 2019-2020. UDISE+ report highlighted some interesting facts, both positive and negative about Indian school education system.
UDISE+, launched in 2018-2019, is the largest Management Information Systems on school education. It covers 1.5 million schools, 8.5 million teachers and 250 million children. It was launched for speeding up data entry, reducing errors, improving data quality and easing its verification. It is an advanced and improved version of UDISE which was launched in 2012-2013 by integrating DISE for elementary education & SEMIS for secondary education.
It helps in measuring education parameters across classes 1 to 12 in government as well as private schools in India. It provides timely and accurate data for an effective planning and decision-making.

IIT-Madras Launches Centre on to Study Climate Change

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has set up a centre to develop innovative adaption strategies to cope with climate change.
The Global water and climate adaptation centre, being established with support from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), was virtually inaugurated.
The institute will host the main hub with a satellite hub at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok.
The German institutes of Technical University of Dresden and RWTH Aachen University are collaborators and the Centre is named ABCD (Aachen-Bangkik-Chennai- Dresden).

Jul 01, 2021

CBSE-NPCI Launches Financial Literacy Curriculum for Students

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) have partnered to introduce a financial literacy curriculum for students of Class VI.
It was launched as part of new elective 'financial literacy' subject which will enable students to understand basic financial concepts at preliminary stage of their education.
This textbook covers crucial topics with respect to financial awareness.
It comprises of teamwork and basic financial concepts of Banking, security & modes of Digital Payments including Cards, UPI, Wallets, and more.
It highlights about the origin of banking, transition from coins to paper money, types of banks and other operations & services carried out by banks.

Jun 30, 2021

China Has Eliminated Malaria

The World Health Organization (WHO) certified China as free of malaria, after a decade long effort drove an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle of transmission between the Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria parasites and humans.
Antimalaria efforts started in the 1950s with programs to distribute antimalarial medicines to people at risk, reduce mosquito breeding grounds, and spray insecticides. China launched a program to identify new malaria drugs in the late 1960s. As part of that effort, pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou screened traditional Chinese medicine concoctions for compounds active against malaria, eventually isolating artemisinin from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua). Artemisinin became the key compound in the front-line drugs now used against malaria and won Tu a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. China was also among the countries pioneering the use of insecticide-treated nets in the 1980s.

Jun 29, 2021

IIT Mandi Launches Full Stack Development Certification Programme

IIT Mandi Post-Graduate Certificate in full stack development launched with the partnership of WileyNXT. The first batch of its professional certification programme in full-stack development has been started. The duration of the exam is of seven-months. The programme is designated for "next-gen developers to help them build end to end full stack solutions based on industry standards and customer needs.
The programme has been designed "to provide extensive hands-on and project-based learning experience, along with capstone projects based on real business scenarios.

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