EDUCATION

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Pariksha Pe Charcha: Speak to me #withoutfilter, PM Modi tells students

12:51 pm January 20, 2020

New Delhi: Reaching out to students in their own language, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed 200 of them during a “Pariksha Pe Charcha” and said his conversations with them will be “hashtag without filter”. Assuring students of his complete focus, Modi said they could speak to him openly. “Speak to me hashtag without […]

JNU again extends semester registration date

11:59 am January 16, 2020

New Delhi: Amid registration boycott by a section of students, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) again extended the deadline to register for the next semester till January 17. “The registration deadline for ongoing winter session has been extended up to January 17 without late fees. However, registration will continue till February 9 by paying late […]

IIT-Jodhpur to offer MBA course from this year

10:24 pm January 12, 2020

Jodhpur (RJ): IIT-Jodhpur has announced it will offer MBA course at its new ‘School of Management & Entrepreneurship’ in the academic session beginning in July 2020. The MBA programme will be a “tech-management combo”, the first year of which will be a foundation course, while the second will offer specialisation in different areas. Explaining the […]

IIT researchers develop material to generate power from water in households

6:54 pm December 30, 2019

New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have developed materials that can produce energy from water on a small scale to help households support the concept of decentralisation of energy sources. In the centralised energy generation model, one large plant produces energy for an entire region. In contrast, the decentralised energy model […]

IIT-H developing systems for water treatment, biodiesel

7:15 pm December 23, 2019

Hyderabad: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) are developing algal-bacterial hybrid systems that can reduce wastewater treatment cost and provide practical routes to produce recyclable water and biodiesel. The researchers hope their system would help rural communities in the long run, a press release from the IIT said here on Monday. The immediate […]