February 23, 2017

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News for other PEI

Young Engineer Award for NRL Employeeedit

Business Standard

The award comprising of a trophy and citation was presented to Sikhamoni by Dr. S.R. NirmalaAsstt. Professor, Deptt. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gauhati University in presence of Chief Guest -Dr. N.C Bora, CMD GNRC Group of Hospitals and other distinguished senior engineers at a function held to mark the 13th Foundation Day of the Forum on 2002-17 at the Institution of Engineers ( India) Assam Centre, Panbazar, Guwahati.

The Institution of Engineers (India)
Hydraulic systems are the backbone of equipment and machineryedit

The Avenue Mail

A One Day Seminar on “Basics Of Industrial Hydraulics (for Maintenance Supervisors and Field Engineers)” was organized at The Institution of Engineers (India) Jamshedpur Local Centre on Wednesday.

The Institution of Engineers (India)

Industry News: Information and Communications

Affordable Healthcare Conclave – a call for startups to solve India’s really hard problems. Are you ready?edit

YourStory

By Madanmohan Rao

India has a wide range of seemingly insurmountable obstacles in providing affordable healthcare to its vast population, but some solutions and successes have emerged. Scaling them up and coming up with more indigenous innovations, along with robust technology, are some ways ahead.

 

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Cloud, automation, sustainability and tools are trends driving ITedit

The Economic Times

In a chat with ET Now, Anand Deshpande, MD & CEO, Persistent SystemsBSE -1.01 %, Kavi Arya, Pl, e-Yantra Project, IIT Bombay and Pari Natarajan, Co-founder &CEO, Zinnov, discuss the big picture in the IT Sector and how echnology trends are creating a disruption in the business model and the talent also have to keep up with it.

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5 Emerging Enterprise Tech Trends For 2017edit

CXO Today

The growth of the Internet of Things will obviously continue to accelerate but as issues of security and efficient rendering of high quality information begin to outweigh mere deployment, we will see a push for greater intelligence at the edge nodes of the IoT. That intelligence will take multiple forms – from algorithms and software at the edge that reduce the amount of data transmission to and analysis in the cloud, to security at the “front line” that reduces the attack surface of the IoT.

IoT
Internet of Things: The Next Big Thing for Airlinesedit

CXO Today

How mind-blowing the Internet of Things (IoT) can be. Its potential business value in the air transport industry isn’t even fully comprehensible in these nascent days of the IoT phenomenon. But one thing’s for sure, the air transport industry needs to be at the forefront of this revolution in connectivity.

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Nasscom, ITAC-Japan collaborate to boost Indian Internet of Things ecosystemedit

Financial Express

In a move towards developing the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in India, IT industry’s representative organisation Nasscom on Wednesday signed an MoU with the IoT Acceleration Consortium (ITAC)-Japan.IoT

Industry News: Education

The silent crisis: Why Indian IT engineers are staring at a future of no jobsedit

Money Control

Indian IT (information technology) industry might like to put all the blame on Donald Trump for its woes – single-digit growth, retrenchment and reduced hiring from campuses. But the ‘Trump effect’ masks the crisis that is silently brewing.

Engineering
Education gives real strength:Mathematician tells C’garh youthedit

The Hans India

Eminent mathematician Anand Kumar has exhorted the youth in Maoist areas to shun the gun and embrace pen to script a new tale of peace and prosperity through real empowerment which, he believes, only education can ensure. Kumar was addressing students at the Education City in Jawanga village of Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Dantewada district at a programme yesterday. State Chief Minister Raman Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subhash Chandra were also present on the occasion.

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Narendra Modi government clears proposal to double solar power capacity to 40,000 MWedit

Financial Express

While India is mostly dependent on thermal power to meet its electricity generation needs, it has also given nuclear power the requisite boost from time to time. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the enhancement of capacity from 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW. “The enhanced capacity would ensure setting up of at least 50 solar parks each with a capacity of 500 MW and above in various parts of the country,” said a statement from the government.Solar Energy
Renewable energy mission needs a robust grid networkedit

Mint

A successful power transmission network for India will require a robust and flexible grid infrastructure within India and with neighbouring countries

Renewable Energy
New solar model to carry on harvestingedit

The Economic Times

The final year automobile engineering students of Rajiv Gandhi Government Polytechnic here, have developed a low cost-lightweight, environment-friendly manually operated solar paddy harvester (MOSPH) suitable for small farmers.

Solar Energy
Wind power reverse auction today, may witness aggressive biddingedit
Mint

By Shailaja Sharma

India’s first reverse auction for wind power by state-run Solar Energy Corp. of India (SECI) on Thursday is likely to see aggressive bidding from wind power firms for the 1 gigawatt (GW) tender, according to companies and consultants.

Renewable Energy
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