Category: Education

** Destiny-maker of the deprived

Reeta Kaushik of Kushinagar symbolises a revolution in learning.

Born in the Musahar community — the most marginalised and deprived section, Reeta stands out as an educator across many villages of Kushinagar and Gorakhpur. She is credited with educating over 25,000 girls and youths through her organisation.

“I am my own inspiration,” she says, recalling how she fought social norms to bring about a change in not just her own life but also that of many others in her community and outside it. A rickshaw puller’s daughter, Reeta battled casteism, child marriage and illiteracy at each step. “In my family, education was never a priority, least so for girls.”

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** MP to be first to offer MBBS course in Hindi

BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh is set to become the first state in India to impart medical education in Hindi medium.Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced on Sunday, “This year, MP will become the first state to start the MBBS course in Hindi.

The books for the MBBS education in Hindi are being readied and the new Hindi based system will commence. It will soon be followed in engineering education and other professional courses. This new system will help remove inferiority complex among our students from middle class and lower economic class who come from Hindi speaking backgrounds.”

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** Irish Sanskrit scholar awarded Padma Shri

 President Ramnath Kovind on Monday presented Rutger Kortenhorst, a Sanskrit teacher at John Scottus Senior School in Dublin, Ireland, with the Padma Shri Award for Literature and Education.

Kortenhorst, a Sanskrit enthusiast and researcher, has been a pioneer in propagating Sanskrit in Ireland.

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** India and Maldives sign agreement to cooperate in the field of Education

Indian External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar and Maldives External Affairs Minister Abdulla Shahid signed an agreement on Saturday, March 26, to ensure cooperation from both the countries in the field of education.

The agreement aims towards paving the way for connectivity between India’s National Knowledge Network and the Maldives’ Higher Education Network. Details below

source/content: timesnownews.com

** IIT Madras, TCS to launch M. Tech course in Industrial AI

It will be offered online; first cohort of students will be from TCS

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are jointly launching an M. Tech programme in Industrial Artificial Intelligence.

The 18-month course will be offered online and focus on industrial analytics. It aims at upskilling employees in corporates in the application of AI to industrial problems. The TCS will provide the first cohort of students.

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** IIT Madras launches brain centre to aid project mapping human brains at cellular level

A state-of-the-art brain centre that will work on mapping the human brain at cellular and connectivity levels, with a focus on high-resolution brain imaging, was launched by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras on Saturday.

The centre, named after Sudha Gopalakrishnan, wife of Infosys co-founder and IIT Madras alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan, aims to become a world-renowned research centre, generating unprecedented human brain data, scientific output and technology tools, officials said.

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** IIT Madras Incubation Cell partners with RBI Innovation Hub to support fintech start-ups

The Incubation Cell of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Innovation Hub to create a supportive ecosystem for start-ups in the field of financial technology (fintech).

Associating with RBI Innovation Hub, IIT Madras Incubation Cell will offer support and innovative solutions to the start-ups to accelerate their growth.

RBI Innovation Hub will be responsible for selecting the start-ups that will be co-incubated. These fintech companies will get operational and strategic guidance, mentoring and training by leadership and domain experts of RBI Innovation Hub and IIT Madras Incubation Cell.

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** IIT Kharagpur and NMDC join hands for drone-based mineral exploration

Summary

-The two parties signed the MoU for drone-based mineral exploration over a virtual platform

-NMDC will be the first central public sector enterprise to conduct drone-based geophysical surveys in India

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Mineral Development Corporation Limited (NMDC) to conduct drone-based mineral exploration.

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** Meet Dr Soma of Moscow, he’s been helping evacuate Indian students from Ukraine

In the last 25 years since Madurai-born Somasundaram Subramanian became a doctor, he has built extensive contacts with educational institutions across the former Soviet republic and European Union.

Now, he wants to help students who wish to resettle and continue their studies

The Moscow-based cancer surgeon, educationist and philanthropist began working the phone lines to help evacuate Indian students and other citizens caught in the war zone.

He has worked extensively across the region these last 30 years, especially through the various non-profits he has initiated to fight cancer such as the Eurasian Federation of Oncology (EAFO) in Europe, the EAFO Educational Research Centre in Russia and the Eurasian Cancer Research Council (ECRC) in India.

He has founded the Eurasian Global Peace Mission which aims to offer emergency aid to anyone still left behind in Ukraine as well as resettlement support to students and expats of all nationalities, including Russians who have been expelled from some institutions in the Western nations. Affected persons can register on the website. Soma intends to help students to relocate to other institutions to continue their studies.

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** Scientist, team get ₹9 cr. grant for skin research

An international team of scientists led by Tamal Das, faculty member at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-Hyderabad, have received ₹9 crore grant from Human Frontier Science Program to investigate how single layer of skin cells develops into multi-layered epidermal tissue in a growing embryo, forming the skin and lining the organs in the body.

The research would start soon. Mr Das is the principal investigator of the project. His collaborators are Friedhelm Serwane of University of Munich, Germany, and Dapeng Bi of Northeastern University, USA.