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Aug 17, 2020

NSE, IIMB Join Hands to Offer Platform for Investor Education

National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) Investor Protection Fund Trust (NSE IPFT) and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) have jointly developed and launched Platform for Investor Education (PIE), an online investor education resource centre.
The PIE was launched in a virtual meet attended by Mr. Nagendraa Parakh, Executive Director of SEBI, Mr. Vikram Limaye MD & CEO of NSE and Professor Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director of IIM Bangalore.
PIE will serve as a unique platform to impart investor education in a simpler way through video, audio and other digital media formats.
The platform would consist of four learning modules comprising videos, audios, podcasts, deep-dives and blog posts.
It will present the content using Animation and Data Visualization Technology to actively engage the potential investors.
The platform will provide an option to access the audio content in multiple languages to cater to a larger set of audience.

Aug 16, 2020

IIT Kharagpur Researchers Develop E-Classroom for Teachers

Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed a software which can be of immense help to teachers who are currently facing challenges as the entire classroom session has shifted to online mode in different educational institutions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prof. Raja Datta of Electronics and Electrical Communication Department with his postgraduate students developed the software, the current version of which can be used within a campus LAN.
Talking about the software 'Deekshak', Datta said that it is now a single session platform where the teacher would concentrate on the screen with the teaching materials while being able to view queries on a live chat box where each student can send in their queries.
Students also have access to a doubt box where they can click to "raise their hand" and wait for the teacher to address it, as is done in a physical classroom.
Teachers can also share documents with the students through the platform and even update notes on the documents in real-time.
'Deekshak' is a low bandwidth web-based software and can be accessed using any computer or even a cell phone.

Aug 15, 2020

Fortis' New Name Parkway

Fortis Healthcare's board gave an in-principle nod to change the name of the company and its subsidiaries to 'Parkway' in relation to the hospital business, to disassociate itself from the erstwhile promoters.
'Parkway' is an internationally acclaimed brand in the field of healthcare, belonging to the IHH Group, the ultimate parent of Northern TK Venture Pte Ltd, which has 31 per cent shareholding. Singh brothers — Shivinder and Malvinder — were the promoters of Fortis Healthcare.

Aug 14, 2020

Jamia and AMU among top-scoring Universities

In a performance assessment carried out of 40 central universities, New Delhi based Jamia Millia Islami (JMI) bagged the top position with 90% points. Arunachal Pradesh's Rajiv Gandhi University ranked 2nd with 83% points and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) ranked 3rd with 78% points.
The ministry of education's assessment of central universities for the year 2019-20 has shown Jamia Millia Islamia to be one of the top-ranking universities in the country. The score is based on a tri-partite agreement between the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the ministry of higher education division.
For the year 2019-20, JMI has secured 95.23% score in an overall assessment, as indicated in a letter sent by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD). This is an indication that the administration and faculty members are highly focussed on achieving the target and have the potential to deliver, Jamia Milllia Islamia administration said in a press statement.
Evaluation is based on parametres such as student intake in UG, PG and PhD, MPhil. with the percentage of female students, students who are admitted from other states, the ratio of foreign students, student-teacher ratio, quality of faculty, etc.

IIT Roorkee Announces Online Programmes In AI, Machine Learning And Data Science

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, or IIT Roorkee, announced two online certificate programmes -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, and Data Science in partnership with Coursera. IIT Roorkee will launch both these programs on Coursera in early 2021.
The six-month certificate programme in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will consist of video lectures, hands-on learning opportunities, team projects, tutorials, and workshops.
In addition to providing the coding knowledge and mathematics necessary for building AI and ML expertise, the program will also teach classical ML techniques and provide hands-on programming experience with Tensorflow for model building, robust ML production, and powerful experimentation.

Aug 12, 2020

Russia Registers the World's First Coronavirus Vaccine

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has become the world's first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess.
The vaccine still has to complete final trials, raising concerns among some experts at the speed of its approval, but the Russian business conglomerate Sistema expects to put it into mass production by the end of the year.
Russian health workers treating COVID-19 patients will be offered the chance of volunteering to be vaccinated in the coming weeks.
Regulatory approval paves the way for the mass inoculation of the Russian population and authorities hope it will allow the economy, which has been battered by fallout from the virus, to return to full capacity.
The vaccine will be marketed under the name 'Sputnik V' on foreign markets.

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