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Industry News: Information and Communications
Leadership vacuum puts brakes on automationedit
By Shruthi HM
While the Indian IT sector continues to lay off employees in its shift towards automation, a dearth for leadership, coupled with reservations about data security, is hindering the digital disruption. For engineers, this means there won’t be a spur in the job market within the automated systems companies are putting in place.
AutomationInternational Labour Day: Is Automation really a risk to our job future?edit
Big data, data analytics, data scientists, machine learning, and IoT are new-age professions that have created a strong and relevant niche for themselves in a short period. Not only has it opened new avenues for developing workforce skills, its demand across a wide array of applications for business practices is consistently growing.
Automation300,000 obeying devices: Hajime is conquering the Internet of Things worldedit
Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its investigation into the activity of Hajime — a mysterious evolving Internet of Things (IoT) malware that builds a huge peer-to-peer botnet.
Cyber SecurityIoTHow Cloud Computing is Impacting the Way Developers Codeedit
By Adeesh Sharma
We are increasingly witnessing the democratization of coding. Developers are looking to quickly create applications with microservices, APIs, containers, machine learning, mobile backends and chatbots using modern DevOps processes. They need rich and robust platform capabilities including big data and analytics, integration, management and monitoring, mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Could ComputingIoTIndustry News: Education
Employability of engineers a concern: IIT Headsedit
By Sreeradha Dasgupta Basu and Prachi Verma
There is indeed a real concern about employability because of the large number of engineering graduates that India produces every year, outdated curriculum, poor teaching infrastructure and shortage of good faculty, particularly in institutes lower down the order.
EngineeringHigher education, low regulationedit
The University Grants Commission (UGC) notification, that higher educational institutions once selected for being developed into world-class universities, shall be freed of regulatory clutches, is a public admission that regulation is a major stumbling block in promoting excellence in education.
Higher EducationUncategorized
Centre seeks guarantee for solar, wind plants connected to gridedit
By Jyoti Mukul
Buoyed by the bidding success of Rewa Ultra Mega Solar, the Union government wants state governments to offer guarantees to grid connected wind and solar projects. The guarantee is one of the three tiers of payment security mechanism which is in place for the Rewa project in Madhya Pradesh and is now been planned for adoption by other states.
Renewable EnergyBrazilian company WEG to set up wind turbine manufacturing facility in Indiaedit
By M Ramesh
WEG, a Brazilian company, has announced the launch of a wind turbine plant in India. The manufacturing facility will come up at Hosur, Tamil Nadu, where WEG has been producing motors and generators since 2011. India knocked of Spain to take the fourth rank in countries with wind power capacity, and is likely to take over Germany to claim No.3 spot.
Renewable EnergyGlobal pension funds eye deals in solar poweredit
Some of the world’s biggest pension funds, seeking longterm returns on green investments, are scouting for deals in India’s solar power sector, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is targeting $100 billion investment in the next five years.
Solar Energy