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Jan 21, 2021

Bhawana Kanth to Become the 1st Woman Fighter Pilot to Take Part in Republic Day Parade

Flight lieutenant Bhawana Kanth will become the first woman fighter pilot to take part in the Republic Day parade.
Kanth, currently posted at a Rajasthan airbase and commissioned on a MiG-21 Bison fighter plane, will be a part of the Indian Air Force's (IAF's) tableau that will showcase mock-ups of the light combat aircraft, light combat helicopter and the Sukhoi-30 fighter plane.
She was among the first women fighter pilots, along with Avani Chaturvedi and Mohana Singh, to be inducted into the IAF in 2016.

SSI Innovations Launches Medical Robotics Surgery System in India

Medical robotic technology firm SS Innovations launched its SSI multi-arm novel tele-robotic assistance surgical system in the country at a price of Rs. 4-5 crore.
As per SSI Chairman and CEO Sudhir P Srivastava, robotics shall be the future of surgery, and his vision is to create a technologically advanced system that will be cost-effective, easy to use, and can be applied to all surgical specialities.
Compared to conventional surgery, robotic surgery results in smaller incisions, that reduces pain, scarring and leads to quicker recovery.
The MANTRA (multi-arm novel tele-robotic assistance) system was utilized for the first in human pilot study at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, where the surgeons successfully completed 18 complex Urology, Gynaecology and General Surgery procedures in less than a month.

Jan 20, 2021

Varsity Launches Scholarship for Children of Police Personnel

Ajinkya DY Patil University has launched a scholarship programme exclusively for the ward of policemen. ADYPU believes that the endeavours of the policemen during the Covid-19 crisis should not go unrecognised.
As a token of gratitude, ADYPU has introduced a scholarship programme Yashwant Dyanarthi Shishyavratti in the name of the grandfather of Chairman Dr Ajeenkya DY Patil.
For every admission, ADYPU will offer up to 50% scholarship to the ward/child of Police personnel. ADYPU is committed to providing 100% scholarships to students who have scored more than 95% marks in their class 12 exams.
In recognition of this, ADYPU has signed an MOU with several police departments including Pune Rural Police, Solapur Police and Kolhapur Police and in talks with many more.

IIT Roorkee Organises One-of-a-kind Online Spoken Sanskrit Course

IIT Roorkee and Samskrita Bharati jointly organised a one-of-a-kind online spoken Sanskrit course which received enthusiastic participation of over 5000 delegates from 32 countries.
This initiative titled 'Subhashitam Samskritam' was organised online by Sanskrit Club, IIT Roorkee and Samskrita Bharati, a non-governmental organisation.
The valedictory ceremony witnessed the august presence of Padma Bhushan awardee and former Chief Election Commissioner Dr. N Gopalaswami as Chief Guest and Dr. P Nandakumar, the course designer and International Coordinator, Samskrita Bharati as Special Guest. Shri BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Roorkee presided over the function.

Jan 19, 2021

Tech Programme exclusively for women by Newton School

Newton School has introduced a tech programme exclusively for women which will help them in skill-building and re-entering the workforce.
The course that begins mid-January will not only help women to re-join the workforce after maternity leave but also enable them to switch their careers and join the tech industry.
Newton School is an online edtech platform that trains people to be highly skilled software developers and gets them placed in top companies as frontend, backend, and full-stack software developers among other roles.
The first batch will have a strength of 100 students. The course is expected to run multiple batches in the coming months and will follow the Pay after Placement model just like other courses being offered by the start-up.
The tech programme introduced by the Newton School, founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneurs and college friends will allow women to learn industry skills without any financial burden.

Jan 18, 2021

Bihar Police Nod to Appoint Transgenders

Bihar Police has given a nod to appointment of transgender in the force. For every 500 appointments, a transgender would be appointed. The state police is likely to issue an advertisement regarding recruitment to 10,000 posts of constables soon.
A resolution passed by the state home department on January 14 said the state police had taken a policy decision on the employment of transgender on the pattern of other government departments.
As per the 2011 Census, the state has a population of 10.41 crore and out of them, 40,827 people are transgender — 39 transgender per one lakh population. "As per proportional representation based on population of transgender, Bihar Police can employ 51 transgender as there are sanctioned strength of 1,30,243 police persons. It means 40 constables and 11 sub-inspectors can be appointed from among transgender," said the home department resolution.
The transgender would not be given any relaxation in terms of physical and academic tests during selection. They will be part of the district police force.

ITBP Troops Launch Smart Schools in Chhattisgarh

Troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have launched an internet tools-based learning centre for school-going children in the Naxal violence-affected district of Chhattisgarh. The 'smart' school is located in Hadeli village of Kondagaon district and has about 50 children who are taught by the force personnel with the help of YouTube videos and other online education portals. Kondagaon district headquarters, in the southern part of the central Indian state, is over 210-km from state capital Raipur.
These classes are organised daily by using internet-enabled phones of the jawans.
The troops of the 41st ITBP battalion, posted in the district as part of the anti-Maoist operations grid, are also learning the local Halbi dialect from these children. The ITBP was raised in 1962 in the aftermath of the Chinese aggression and its primary task is to guard the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.

Jan 17, 2021

IIT Guwahati Researchers Find New Clues to How and Why Stars Die

IIT Guwahati researchers, in collaboration with researchers from Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany, and Northwestern University, USA, have revealed important clues to understand the death of massive stars and have also revealed the problems with the existing models.
They found that all three species of the neutrinos from the supernovae are important contrary to the common treatments with only two flavours.
The results of this crucial work have been published and have garnered worldwide attention from the astrophysics community.
The research has been carried out by Dr. Sovan Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, along with his research scholar, Madhurima Chakraborty, in collaboration with Dr. Francesco Capozzi, Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany, and Dr. Manibrata Sen, Postdoctoral fellow, Northwestern University, USA.

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