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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Dec 05, 2020

IIIT-Delhi to Launch Centre of Excellence on Light Fidelity (LiFi)

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Delhi will soon start a new Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Light Fidelity (LiFi). The CoE will not only design relevant courses on LiFi, but will also facilitate capacity building by supporting research collaborations and exchange of experts between India and the EU. TSDSI and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) are anchoring the activities under this project from India and the EU respectively.
LiFi is communication technology in which light is used to transmit data. The aims of CoE includes developing technology solutions and products to enhance the last mile connectivity using Visible Light Communication (VLC), connect entrepreneurs in India with academic researchers as well as to standardisation bodies, manpower training (academic faculty as well as students and engineers), and development of training and classroom courses on VLC, the IIIT-Delhi informed.
The CoE will also work on the standardisation of these technologies, in the context of 5G and beyond, through TSDSI and lead the way for international standardization of 5G VLC based solutions through 3GPP.

Dec 04, 2020

Yoga to be Introduced as a Subject in Haryana

Haryana Home Minister and AYUSH Minister Anil Vij said that yoga will be introduced as an educational subject in Haryana. He also said that the number of yogashalas in the state would be increased to 2000 to promote yoga.
He said that the first Sunday of each month would be celebrated as Yoga Day and more yoga instructors would be hired as decided at a Haryana Yoga Council meeting.

Dec 03, 2020

Cambridge University Names Chemistry Department after Indian Scientist Yusuf Hamied

Yusuf Hamied, Polish-born Indian scientist and the chairman of Cipla, was honoured as 'generous benefaction' by the University of Cambridge. The Chemistry department of the university will be named after him until 2050.
Dr. Hamied is a former alumnus of Cambridge University and made a transformational gift to his alma mater and ensured that the chemistry of the university will continue to be world-leading in both teaching and research.
In 2018, he endowed one of the world's oldest academic Chairs in Chemistry, now known as the Yusuf Hamied 1702 Chair. His academic mentor and supervisor, Nobel Laureate Lord Alexander Todd, held the Chair during Hamied's time at Cambridge as an undergraduate and PhD student.

Dec 02, 2020

Kalpathi Group Launches ed-tech Firm to Capture Test Prep Market

The Kalpathi Group, a Chennai-based business group with interests ranging from software services to entertainment, announced its foray into the crowded Ed-tech space by launching Veranda Learning Solution, a comprehensive online education platform to bring together the academic rigour and discipline of offline education and the best of the online technology.
Education is nothing new to Kalpathi or the Rs. 4,000-crore Kalpathi Group. In the early 1990s, Kalpathi along with his two brothers Kalpathi S Aghoram and Kalpathi S Ganesh set up SSI as an IT training provider in Chennai which went on to become one of the world's largest education networks for vocational training in the private sector.
SSI later acquired Aptech and grew into a global provider of education, consultancy and software services.

Dec 01, 2020

India Records Largest Reduction in Malaria Cases in South-East Asia

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), India made strong progress in the fight against malaria, recording the largest reduction in cases in South-East Asia from 20 million in 2000 to about 5.6 million last year (2019).
As per the World Malaria Report 2020, in 2019, malaria cases globally numbered about 229 million, an annual estimate that has remained virtually unchanged over the last four years.
Last year, the disease claimed about 409,000 lives, compared to 411,000 in 2018.
Countries in South-East Asia made particularly strong progress, with reductions in cases and deaths of 73 per cent and 74 per cent, respectively. India contributed to the largest drop in cases region-wide – from approximately 20 million to about 6 million.

Digital Learning to be Implemented in Karnataka's Government Colleges

Karnataka government has decided to implement learning management system (LMS)-based digital learning in government higher educational institutions from the academic year 2020-21. 'Karnataka LMS' would be implemented in 430 government first grade colleges, 87 government polytechnics and 14 government engineering colleges.
Karnataka LMS' was launched by Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister C. N. Ashwath Narayan, who is also in-charge of the Higher Education Department. LMS-based digital learning is said to be a novel and a first of its kind initiative of the state government, a boon to the students of Government Higher Education Institutions, especially those from socially and economically disadvantaged sections of society. It is a platform to revolutionise the teaching and learning process by effecting changes in delivery of content, access and assessment.
Multilingual e-content in the form of PPTs, videos, quizzes, assignments and e-study materials congruous with both self-learning and classroom teaching is being developed as per the university-prescribed syllabi of 14 affiliating varsities by the faculty of the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education.

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