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Nov 09, 2020

Punjab Engineering College Enters 100th Year

The Punjab Engineering College missed on being an IIT twice in the 1960s — first in 1963 and then in 1965. As PEC entered its 100th year, director Sanghi shared some unknown facts of the college's journey. He called it many a slip between the cup and the lip because it was how India missed having sixth IIT at Chandigarh.
It was in late 1950s, Sanghi said, when no one challenged the establishment of IIT-Kharagpur through an act of parliament. It was time to establish the other three IITs as suggested by Sarkar Committee Report, one each in North, South and West. It was decided to set them up at Kanpur, Chennai (then Madras) and Mumbai (then Bombay). Since IITs were to be at a level higher than any other engineering college in the country, foreign help was sought and received.

Nov 08, 2020

Punjab Launches Mission to Achieve 100 pc School Results

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh launched the 'Mission Shat Pratishat' for 2020-21, aimed at empowering schools to achieve 100 per cent results despite the COVID-19 pandemic. At the virtual event, which connected him to teachers, students and their parents from more than 4,000 schools and ministers, MLAs, officials and non-teaching staff, the chief minister also announced the creation of 8,393 pre-primary school teachers posts and said they would be filled up soon by the education department, according to a government release.
Pointing to the challenges in education in view of the COVID-19 situation, Singh said the mission is aimed at further strengthening the digital education infrastructure in schools through e-books, EDUSAT lectures, e-content, online classes, broadcast of lectures through television and video lectures prepared by the teachers.

Fellowship Program for International Postdoctoral Researchers

The Council for Higher Education in Israel and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities has launched an excellence fellowship programme for international postdoctoral researchers. Under the programme, postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to engage in innovative research in one of the Israel-based universities.
Fellows will participate in various activities, such as day trips, seminars, workshops and social events during their fellowship. A total of 20 fellowships will be granted to incoming post doctorate students. At least 15 fellowships will be allocated in sciences, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and up to five fellowships will be allocated in the humanities and the social sciences stream. The fellowships will be awarded for two years for 1,60,000 NIS (approx. Rs. 34.67 lakh).
An applicant must be an international candidate with a PhD from a recognised higher education institution outside of Israel less than four years from the time of application, or who will receive a PhD from a recognised higher education institution outside of Israel prior to the commencement of the fellowship.

Nov 07, 2020

IIT-Kharagpur to Set-up Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge System

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will set-up a Centre of Excellence for the Indian Knowledge System, the Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' announced while inaugurating the international webinar titled 'Bharata Tirtha' organised by the institute.
IIT-Kharagpur has attempted to introspect on the spirit of India, her challenges in the present times, and taken the right measures through an initiative like Bharata Tirtha and research. The first challenge in front of us is that we need to make our coming generation aware of the glorious past of the Vishwaguru and its spirit.
During his address, Pokhriyal also emphasised education through the mother tongue and rejuvenation of Sanskrit to ease the educational process for the diverse people of India and draw from the rich educational heritage of India.

IIT-Guwahati Researchers among World's Top Scientists

Twenty-two faculty members and researchers of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, feature in the list of world's top two per cent scientists.
The list prepared by experts at Stanford University, USA, has names of over 1,00,000 scientists, whose published research manuscripts have accelerated progress in their respective fields and influenced productivity of other researchers as well, read a statement issued by IIT-Guwahati.
The institute's Director TG Sitharam and other faculty members were listed and ranked for their research publications for the year 2019 and their lifetime contribution to their respective fields of research.
IIT-Guwahati faculty members featuring in the list are from the departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biosciences and Bioengineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Electronics.

$665 mn needed to Avert Measles, Polio Outbreak

UNICEF and the World Health Organisation issued an urgent call for funding to avert measles and polio epidemics as Covid-19 continues to disrupt immunisation services worldwide, leaving millions of vulnerable children at heightened risk of preventable childhood diseases.
The two organisations estimate that US$655 million (US$400 million for polio and US$255 million for measles) are needed to address dangerous immunity gaps in non GAVI (Global Vaccine Alliance) countries and target age groups.
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on health services and in particular immunisation services, worldwide.
In recent years, there has been a global resurgence of measles with ongoing outbreaks in all parts of the world. Vaccination coverage gaps have been further exacerbated in 2020 by Covid.

Nov 06, 2020

NMDC and IIT Hyderabad Launch Incubation and Fellowship Program

National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in association with IIT Hyderabad has launched an Incubation and Fellowship program.
This initiative titled, NICE Program (NMDC Innovation and Incubation Centre) is a joint program between NMDC and i-TIC Foundation, a startup support system at IIT Hyderabad that aims to support deep-tech startups by providing them incubation and fellowship support.
The objective of NICE is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in the country and to support the Startup India movement.

Nov 03, 2020

Assam Builds 119 High Schools in Tea Gardens

The Assam government has started construction of 119 high schools in tea gardens. So far, these areas had only primary and middle schools. The Tea Tribes comprise 17 per cent of the state's population.
In more than 70 years after Independence, it is for the first time that high schools will be established in the tea gardens of Assam. It marks a new beginning for the development of education and culture in the tea gardens of Assam.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for the new schools.
According to officials, Rs. 1.20 crore would be spent for constructing each model high school.

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