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Wire and cable market in India to expand at 15.61 pc CAGR by ’20edit
Industry experts forecast the global electric wire and cable in India market to expand at a CAGR of 15.61 per cent during 2016-2020. Electrical wire and cable manufacturers in India are required to comply with various safety rules and regulations for the installation of power cable systems. These regulations are scripted and decided by regulatory bodies such as American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
IEEESeminar on ‘Recent Innovations in Wireless Communications, Networking’ heldedit
A two day All India seminar on ‘Recent Innovations in Wireless Communications and Networking’ was organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib in collaboration with The Institute of Engineers(India), Punjab and Chandigarh State Centre.
The Institute of Engineers(India)Industry News: Information and Communications
ArtificiaI Intelligence Is The Key To Unlocking Big Dataedit
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing and penetrating swiftly into many areas, from smart personal assistants to self-driving cars. Though traditionally AI is portrayed as robots with human-like attributes, it can basically incorporate anything from autonomous weapons to Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson.
Artificial IntelligenceIoTIoT and Big Data Can Be A Match Made In Heavenedit
There’s a closer relationship between big data and the Internet of Things [IoT] than most people realize and even though there’s a lot of hype surrounding the two technologies, these can have an additional advantage for enterprises beyond just data generation.
IoTIndia should focus on IoT, says C-DAC chiefedit
By R. Ravikanth Reddy
Rajat Moona, Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, said India made tremendous growth in information technology and the focus should now be to accelerate into the advanced electronics field of Internet of Things (IoT).
IoTInternet of Things: a promising future for sensorsedit
IOT and wearables is a huge market enabler for sensors, more particularly the advanced MEMS sensors. The sensors such as Inertial, pressure, temperature, (bio-)chemical and gas sensors, microphones, fingerprint and iris recognition will see huge growth as IOT gets implemented.
IoTIIT Kharagpur Scientists Develop Security Technology for IoTsedit
Times of India By Somdatta Basu
IoT today is significantly used in healthcare, logistics, transportation, fin-tech, telecom, smart cars etc. Through IoT, doctors can remotely monitor the pacemaker is a patient’s heart and modify its pace. So can a route be redefined for a truck already on road carrying cold storage to reduce power consumption or that of smart cars being guided of road traffic? In nutshell your world is at the control of your fingertips.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndustry News: Education
Gross Enrolment Ratio For Higher Education Increases To 24.5% Says MHRDedit
In a press release, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) informed that the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) for Higher Education in India increased to 24.5 percent during 2015-16. This is a positive step toward increasing the rate of literacy in the country. Only a decade ago, that is during the period 2004-5, the GER for higher education in India was only 10 percent. The ministry said that the quantum jump in GER over the last decade was an indication of improvement in registration of students in higher educational institutes.
Higher EducationReversing the brain drain: India as an emerging education hubedit
Until recently, India had been only recognised as a major source market for international universities, but the past few years have also seen an impressive growth rate of foreign students coming into the country. From a mere 6,988 in 2000, India has gathered momentum to include 33,156 students by 2014, a majority of them from the bowels of Asia.
Higher EducationEngineering colleges to have online complaints redressal mechanismedit
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which regulates technical education in the country, has asked all the institutions, affiliated to it, “to urgently put in place an online mechanism, if not presently existing, for registering and disposing of grievances”.
EngineeringWe plan to grade schools, train teachers better: Education Secyedit
Sweeping changes are needed to bring professionalism among teachers — and an entrance test to filter out the best teachers will be an answer to many of the ails plaguing the education sector. In an interview with Moneycontrol’s Tarun Sharma, Anil Swarup, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy in Human Resource Development, said that schools will also be graded soon based on education and infrastructure.
EducationBack To Basics: Education & Languageedit
Today, with the advent of technology, there is good access to an extensive range of professions. The new generation appears to be brighter than the previous generations, which has witnessed the years of telegrams. However, the ongoing fallacies in the education system in the formative years may result in building weak mindsets. By the time parents begin to analyse the problem, the damage may have already been done.
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More wind power projects to go under the hammer next financial yearedit
“Transparency which is the hallmark of the Modi government, has brought down the tariff of wind power. There will be more and more such projects on the block,” Power, Coal, Mines and New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said.
Renewable EnergyAs solar shines, time to balance generationedit
Last week, the winning bid for a solar project in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, offered a levelized tariff of about Rs3.3 per unit (with first year tariff at Rs2.97). That’s 24% cheaper than the Rs4.34 per unit offered by the winner of the Bhadla solar park project in Rajasthan in January 2016.
Solar EnergyIndia wind power tariff follows solar route, falls to record lowedit
By Mayank Aggarwal and Utpal Bhaskar
Wind power tariffs fell to a record low in a 1 gigawatt (GW) tender by state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), potentially placing India at the tipping point on the renewable energy front. Solar power tariffs had hit new lows at an auction earlier this month.
Renewable Energy