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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - September 2021

Sep 2021

Sep 03, 2021

The World University Rankings 2022

  • The Times Higher Education (THE) announced the results of The World University Rankings 2022 with the UK's University of Oxford, which led the way in the global search for a Covid-19 vaccine – retaining top spot for an impressive sixth consecutive year. A record 1,662 universities from 99 countries and regions appear in the table with Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji and Palestine all represented for the first time.
  • The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is India's best-ranked institution, maintaining its position in the 301-350 band for a third consecutive year. As a result, India is home to 35 of the world's top 1000 universities, its second-highest total ever in the rankings (36 in The World University Rankings 2020). IIT Ropar was ranked in the top 351-400 bracket, while IIT Indore was in the 401-450 bracket.

Sep 02, 2021

IIT Ropar Develop's World's First 'Plant Based' Smart Air Purifier

  • Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Ropar and Kanpur and Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have jointly launched a living-plant based air purifier named "Ubreathe Life". This air purifier will boost the air purification process in indoor spaces, such as hospitals, schools, offices and homes. It is the world's first, state-of-the-art 'Smart Bio-Filter' that can make breathing fresh.
  • The Ubreathe Life technology works through the air-purifying natural leafy plants. The room air interacts with leaves and goes to the soil-root zone where maximum pollutants are purified.
  • It has been developed by the IIT Ropar incubated startup, Urban Air Laboratory. The specific plants tested for air-purification include Peace Lily, Snake Plant, Spider plant etc. and all have given good results in purifying indoor-air, the company has claimed.
  • The purifier effectively improves indoor air quality by removing particulate, gaseous and biological contaminants while increasing the oxygen levels in the indoor space through specific plants, UV disinfection and a stack of Pre-filter, Charcoal filter and HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter fitted in a specially designed wooden box, the company has said about the air purifier's functioning mechanism.

Sep 01, 2021

IIT Madras Announces Online platform 'e-Source'

  • The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is working on developing an innovative digital model to address the problem of e-waste (electronic wastes). The digital platform, named as 'e-Source,' will act as an exchange platform, to serve as an online marketplace for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).
  • The e-Source platform will link various stakeholders (buyers and sellers) of used and waste electronic equipment and components, both in the formal and informal economy.
  • The initiative is being led by the Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS), a centre set up at IIT Madras in 2010 at the initiative of the German and Indian governments.
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