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For sustainability?edit
One is that the GST on telecom services will be 18% a big hike of 3% from the current level of 15%. The other justification is that the USO levy of 5% included in the licence fee could be drastically reduced to say, 1%, since, as part of the settlement, the government could take undertaking from the TSPs for rural rollout.
T V Ramachandran: Hon. fellow of the IET (London)Course Cruisingedit
Accredited by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the programme is an expansion of their BEng Aerospace Electronic Engineering programme. It will not only provide rigorous guidance on electronic engineering, but also educate its learners on the fundamentals of aerospace engineering.
The IETTelecom companies push for better standards, policy for IoT playedit
By Tina Gurnaney
With India starting to emerge as a major player for many of the technologies around Internet of Things (IoT), the industry is pushing for orchestration of standards, infrastructure and policy framework in order to generate new business models.
Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar: Chairman of IET India IoT panelThe IET IoT PanelNews for other PEI
Talk Wateredit
The Institution of Engineers India is organising a talk on ‘domestic waste water treatment’ at 6 pm. The speaker for the event is A Abdul Rahman.
Institution of Engineers (India)Self-Driving Cars Platform And Their Trendsedit
In the first part of this article we covered SENSORIS innovation platform, and the steps needed to make a self-driving car possible. In this part we shall cover lidar and the rest. Lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging, consists of a coneor puck-shaped device that projects lasers that bounce off objects to create a high-resolution map of the environment in real time.
IEEEArtificial intelligence Getting Real, Localedit
Nvidia is one of the most well-known GPU makers, who has been powering many data centres for years. Last year, it launched Tesla P100—a GPU with an architecture focused on accelerating AI and deep learning. Apparently, Nvidia spent more than $2 billion on R&D to produce the new chip, which has a total of 15 billion transistors—around thrice as many as the company’s previous chips.
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Analytics Is The Primary Enabler To Business Growth: Studyedit
The impact of digitization on the enterprise has only just begun: Disruptive initiatives such as IoT, digital transformation, and the consumerization of B2B generate enormous amounts of data. And unfortunately, while enterprises have spent billions to address infrastructure, workflow, and transactional frameworks, many have not scaled their analytics solutions to derive insights and actionable intelligence from the growing onslaught of data.
AnalyticsIoT80% Smart City funds for just 2.7% of city areaedit
The residual Rs 670 crore for the pan-city component will be spent entirely on ICT and Internet of Things (IOT) projects. It would include a Rs 150-crore IT connectivity project for a Command and Control Centre, 200 WiFi hotspots, sensors for monitoring environment and visibility, and public announcement systems.
IoTSmart CityIT layoffs: Karnataka IT minister to hear out industryedit
The Karnataka government is keen on coming out with a policy addressing various issues in the Information Technology sector including “forced resignation” adopted by the firms, but not before listening to the problems faced by IT industry leaders and employees, state IT Minister Priyank Kharge said today.
IT SectorRobots At Work: Are We Ready For A Robot To Take Our Jobs?edit
By Shweta Modgil
The debate of the AI and automation invasion on lower and mid-level IT jobs is never-ending. The latest report being that of Wipro achieving productivity worth 12,000 people over 140 customer engagements in 1,800 HOLMES bots in IT services. It can’t be denied that the world is changing fast in adapting to machines.
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AI, data analytics: IT cos look for new skill sets in prospective employeesedit
By Ayan Pramanik and Kiran Rathee
Nasscom says the industry is witnessing an increasing demand for services using new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things, machine learning and big data analytics.
Skill DevelopmentFuture economy demands realignment of IT courses: AISECT Directoredit
By Tanya Jain
In an exclusive interview with Dataquest, Mr. Siddharth Chaturvedi, Director, AISECT talks about their endeavors to entourage a plethora of opportunities for professionals and how education can overcome the mist of unemployment doing the rounds in the industry. He also discussed about where the Indian engineers lack and what is backing the unemployment quotient for them.
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India’s pursuit of energy transformationedit
India has gained global attention for its ambitious clean energy targets. In 2014, it revised the domestic RE target to 175 GW of installed capacity by 2022. In 2015, in its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC), India made a global pledge to achieve 40% cumulative installed capacity from fossil-fuel-free resources by 2030.
Renewable EnergyIndia’s renewable energy exceeds conventional energyedit
India is staying true to its ambitious renewable energy targets by showing a steady growth in renewable energy installations in the country, which, as of April 2017, account for 17.5 percent of the total energy source
Renewable EnergyGST is likely to increase solar power project costs by at least 10%edit
The GST regime will cause a tectonic shift in India’s taxation history. I foresee transparency in the business chain which will enable significant value creation for the Indian economy. While this might require a shift in mind-sets of companies – from the way they do business, to the fact that all channels will have to be digitalised at every stage – the goal is perfection in execution to achieve transformation.
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