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IIT to be set up in Dubai as a part of India-UAE trade deal

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IIT to be set up in Dubai

New Delhi

India has recently made an announcement to set up the Indian Institute of Technology in Dubai. The development has been announced as a part of the India-UAE trade deal signed on February 18, 2022. This is for the first time that a premier Indian education institute will be set up in a foreign country.

In the bilateral meeting between representatives of two countries, a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was signed on February 18. Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal signed an India-UAE trade deal with the UAE delegation, led by Minister of Economy Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri & Minister of State for Foreign Trade Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi.

There are a total of 23 IITs in India offering various undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate programmes, which are located across the country. The top IITs in India are IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Madras.

Karnataka universities urged to defer degree exams due to Covid-19

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Karnataka universities

Bengaluru, Karnataka

The Karnataka state government has requested the Vice Chancellors of universities in Karnataka to consider postponing the semester examinations of degree courses by a month, in view of the third Covid-19 wave.

In an official press statement, the Additional Chief Secretary of Department of Higher Education G Kumar Naik said that the Vice Chancellors of all universities have been requested to take a decision on deferring the examinations in view of the incomplete syllabus.He further informed that the portions remained incomplete as physical classes had to be suspended considering the third Covid-19 wave.

Naik said,”Some of the universities had already announced the schedule of semester examinations but the Commissioner of Department of Collegiate and Technical Education (DCTE) had written a letter asking to postpone the examinations by a month in order to enable students to better prepare.”

 

IIT Jodhpur initiates “Campus RAKSHAK” to help In safe reopening of colleges

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IIT Jodhpur

New Delhi

Researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur have come up with a framework for educational institutions called “Campus RAKSHAK”. The framework integrates various applications and tools together, to prevent possible spread of COVID-19 and ensure safe reopening of campuses.

The institute has collaborated with several other institutions like IISc Bangalore, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, Algorithmic Biologics Pvt Ltd, HeathBadge Private Limited and Prthvi.AI to build, integrate and test to ensure safety on campuses.

Two prototypes of Campus RAKSHAK have already been tested simultaneously at IIT Jodhpur and IIIT Hyderabad, and the team is in talks to devise an affordable and flexible pricing model, product, marketing and sales strategy to reach out to campuses across the country.

Campus RAKSHAK has four components — Tapestry Pooling, Go Corona Go App, Simulators and Health badge. These form a single platform that monitor, predict, and recommend mitigation strategies for campuses against CoViD-19.

Delhi government introduces 11 new Specialised Schools of Excellence

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Delhi government introduces

New Delhi

The Delhi government introduced 11 new Specialised Schools of Excellence (SoSEs) this year. With this, the total tally of such schools becomes 31, as per Delhi government officials. The city government established SoSEs to equip students with world-class facilities and instructors for cutting-edge curriculum and learning in specialised fields.

“Following the extremely successful first year, 11 new Specialised Schools of Excellence (SoSEs) have been added to the list and now their numbers have increased to 31,” said a senior Delhi government official.

He further added, “These schools provide specialised education in five areas, which include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), humanities, performing and visual arts, high-end 21st century skills and Armed Forces Preparatory School.”

Explaining about the admission process “The process of admission for the new session has started in these schools. Students can apply for admission in class 9 in their preferred domain till February 28. Along with this, admissions will also be taken in Class 11 in STEM and Armed Forces Preparatory School (AFPS) this year,” the official added further.

The official added, “Students willing to take admissions can reach out to the admission help desk set up at their nearest SoSE.”

K Umamheshwar Rao assumes charge as NIT Rourkela director

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K Umamheshwar Rao

Rourkela, Odisha

The National Institute of Technology, Rourkela got a new director as K Umamheshwar Rao assumed office as the director on February 18, 2022. He succeeds Simanchalo Panigrahi, who had been appointed as interim director of the institute in October 2021. Prior to his appointment at NIT Rourkela, he served as the director of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.

A graduate in Mining Engineering from Osmania University, K Umamaheshwar Rao worked in various mining industries for around three years.He further pursued his MTech in Mining Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University and acquired his PHD at the Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University. He has also served as a faculty at IIT Kharagpur for almost three decades.

IIT Delhi’s research team designs new strategy for development of drug molecules

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New Delhi

Achieving a new feat, a research group of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has designed and demonstrated a new strategy for developing potential drug molecules for treatment of various diseases.

The group is led by Professor V Haridas from the Department of Chemistry. Prof Haridas has collaborated with virologist Prof Guruprasad Medigeshi from the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), and biochemist Prof Bishwajit Kundu from the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, IIT Delhi for the research work.

“Drugs are mostly organic molecules that interact with molecules present in the human body. The molecules in the body are bigger in size and are typically called macromolecules. These molecules are either proteins or nucleic acids,” the researchers stated. They have utilized tools of Organic Chemistry and Biophysics to design molecules that target protein interface. They have also adopted the macromolecular mimicry approach, that mimics the molecular interface using uniquely shaped small molecules.

They have developed a ‘universal privileged scaffold approach’, which could be converted to a specific inhibitor for a given Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI), which makes the drug design approach relatively easier.The researchers say that the new drug designing strategy demonstrated by them could also be adopted to treat retroviral infections.

Delhi University conducts COVID-19 vaccination drive for students, staff

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DU conducts COVID-19 vaccination drive

New Delhi

The Delhi University is conducting a COVID-19 vaccination drive for its teaching and non-teaching employees and students.

According to an official statement by the Chief Medical Officer of the University, “All teaching and non-teaching employees above 60 years who are eligible for precautionary doses as well as students of Delhi University (DU) and its constituent colleges are requested to get vaccinated.”

The vaccination drive is being conducted at WUS Health Centre at North Campus and in West Delhi. While the vaccine doses can be received at the West Delhi Health Centre from Monday to Saturday, the vaccine will be available at North Campus centre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 am to 4pm.

NEET-MDS 2022 exam postponed, internship completion date extended

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NEET-MDS 2022 exam postponed

New Delhi

The National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has extended the date for NEET-MDS 2022. Earlier the exam was scheduled to be conducted on March 6. According to the notification, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also extended the cut-off date for completion of the internship to July 31, 2022. Students need to complete the internship for eligibility in NEET-MDS 2022.

The new schedule for NEET MDS 2022 and the reopening of the online application window will be posted on the NBEMS website soon.

According to the official notification, the online application window for submission of applications for NEET-MDS 2022 which has been closed on January 24, 2022, shall now be reopened in due course, in order to enable desirous candidates to apply for NEET-MDS 2022 in view of the revised cut-off date for internship completion.

The United Doctors Front Association had earlier requested the extension of the NEET-MDS 2022 exam, and also to extend the date of completion of a compulsory rotating internship for eligibility for admission to MDS courses later than March 31, 2022.

Ministry of Education approves continuation of RUSA scheme till 2026

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Ministry of Education approves

New Delhi

The Ministry of Education has approved the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) scheme for continuation till 2026. The scheme is centrally funded and mainly believes in the idea that sometimes the most important lessons of life are learned outside the classroom.

In this new phase of the scheme, around 1600 projects are to be covered. The proposal includes an expenditure of Rs 12,929.16 crore, out of which the central share is Rs 8,120.97 crores and the state share is Rs 4,808.19 crores.

A senior ministry official commented, “The new phase of RUSA targets to reach out the unserved, underserved areas, remote and rural areas, difficult geographies, aspirational districts, tier-2 cities and areas with low GER, to benefit the most disadvantaged areas and SEDGs (Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups).”

He further added, “The new phase of the scheme has been designed to implement some of the recommendations and aims of the New Education Policy, which suggests some key changes to the current higher education system to revamp and re-energize it and thereby deliver quality higher education, with equity and inclusion.”

The official elaborated that states will also be supported for the creation of new model degree colleges. “State universities will be supported for multi-disciplinary education and research. Grants will be provided for strengthening both accredited and non-accredited universities and colleges for undertaking various activities including teaching-learning in Indian languages.”

 

IIT Madras research team proposes drought mitigation project for a Tamil Nadu village

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IIT-Madras

New Delhi

A research team of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has proposed implementing a rapid groundwater recharge technology for combined flood and drought mitigation near Ayankulam village in Thisayanvilai taluk of Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu. A proposal for this project has been submitted to the Tirunelveli District Administration on their request by the IIT Madras.

“An open agricultural well in Ayankulam was widely reported to recharge an estimated 1,500-2,500 litres of water every second for several weeks without overflowing. The recharge water for this well was from the excess overflow of an adjacent minor irrigation tank due to the record monsoon rains in November-December 2021,” an official statement by IIT Madras stated. .

The institute in the statement also added that the well became a local attraction and was called a “miracle well” since typical wells would fill and overflow in a matter of hours at such recharge rates. “Local villagers have been practicing this ad-hoc method of well recharge during episodic intense monsoon years for several decades. They also claimed that this practice increased the local water table in a 10-15 [km] radius from the well,” IIT Madras said.

A team is led by Dr Venkatraman Srinivasan, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras. They visited the site between December 2 and December 3, 2021 to investigate this phenomenon and explore the potential of this well and possibly other wells in the region for use as rapid aquifer recharge during monsoon floods for storage and withdrawal during the dry summer months.

The IIT Madras team suggested implementing a ‘Rapid Recharge Technology,’ which, when developed, can bring several potential benefits to the region, including mitigate floods and droughts, create a subsurface dam for water storage without evaporation loss, distribute water automatically and equitably throughout the region, filter and clean water when managed appropriately, and prevent and reverse saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers.

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