Category: Education
** Mumbai: Dr Grace Pinto presented ‘Shiksha Bhushan’ award
The Hindi Academy hosted the Mathrubhumi Bhushan award-giving ceremony at the Jal Bhushan Convention Center in the governors official headquarters here on Wednesday at Malabar Hill.
Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari presented the awards to the veterans of the armed forces in various fields, including the Mathrubhumi Bhushan, Shiksha Bhushan, Sahitya Bhushan and the Social Service Bhushan.
** Vijayawada’s Andhra Loyola College bags national award
Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education has announced a national award for Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada for environmental best practices and conducting Swachh programmes.
** Geological museum and lab for Dhanbad’s premiere college
Newly established facility at P.K. Roy Memorial will strengthen the infrastructure and fetch a better NAAC ratings.
A state-of-art Geological Museum and Microscopic Lab established in the Geology department of Dhanbad’s P.K. Roy Memorial College was inaugurated on Friday by Anjani Kumar Srivastava, vice chancellor of Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal.
** 11-year-old Indian-American girl declared one of brightest students in world
Natasha Peri, an 11-year-old Indian-American girl has been judged as one of the brightest students in the world by a top US university for her exceptional performance in the SAT and ACT standardised tests.
** On a mission to take ‘Dev Bhasha’ to people: UP man conducts free online Sanskrit-speaking classes
Around 25 years back, Class V student Hasan Khan would spend hours with his friends at the local Hanuman temple in his Mahoba village in UP’s Bundelkhand region, listening to the Ramayan verses. He recited the ‘chaupais’ and ‘shlokas’
** Two-wheeler ambulance, a concept of engineering students and design of Dassault
Having learnt about it, senior students joined the project and the college managing director had approached Dassault Systemes in France for help in designing the ambulance.
** Awarding Australian Alumni
13 recipients were awarded with over AUD 150,000 during the event.
The 13 recipients shared their projects from various fields, including environment, technology, agriculture, communication, gender, clean energy and more. Of the selected, four represented Chennai-based teams – Madhavi Shankar for communication app SpaceBasic, Venkateswaran Palat Krishnan for STEM Challenge Pilot, Ashok Jalagam for an Automated Millet Finder, and Lakshmi Venugopal for an Indo-Australian Platform on Environmental Education and Research (IA-PEER). The remaining recipients were posted in Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi.
** Bihar youth seeks AI’s help to spread climate awareness
A keen observer of global climate-related occurrences since his school days, he is set to launch a podcast in Bhojpuri dialect called ‘Dharti Maiya’.
Bihar-born Siddhant Sarang, 21, is an undergraduate student of history at Delhi University’s Satyawati College. A keen observer of global climate-related occurrences since his school days, he is set to launch a podcast in Bhojpuri dialect called ‘Dharti Maiya’
** Bengal scientists develop world’s hardest self-healing material
Researchers from the IISER,Calcutta, and the IIT, Kharagpur, have synthesised an organic crystalline material with a unique internal molecular structure.
Nirmalya Ghosh, C Malla Reddy, Surojit Bhunia, Susobhan Das, Ishita Ghosh and Saikat Mondal.