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Telecom Secretary: IoT will Create 10-15 Million New Jobs in Indiaedit
Aruna Sundararajan, the Secretary of Telecom Department was speaking at the second edition of IoT India Congress 2017 in Bangalore. The field is particularly exciting for India as it will create 15 million new job opportunities. Most of these opportunities will be created by budding tech startups.
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Cummins College of engineering for Women (CCeW), Puneedit
For collaboration with industry, CCEW has signed MOU with Persis-tent, KPIT, Emerson, Ericsson and John Deere for various collaborative activities. Cummins company has declared CCEW as their signature project. Under this project Cummins supports CCEW in the development of student, faculty and infrastructure development.
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The Futuristic Vision is Now Becoming a Realityedit
IoT will give us more insights: IoT applications that are able to gather huge amounts of data from different sources, which is then analysed in real-time on high-performance cloud platforms and shared, will become indispensable for people and businesses.
Internet of ThingsIndia Has an Advantage Over Other Countries When it Comes to Deploy Digital Solutions: IBMedit
According to Harriet Green, General Manager, Watson Internet of Things (IoT), Customer Engagement and Education, IBM, the capabilities that the vast Indian developers’ community is mastering is unparalleled and by 2021, the country will have the largest developers’ community -bigger than the US and China.
Internet of ThingsAnalysing privacy in a data-centric worldedit
From monitoring traffic to tracking epidemic spread to trading stocks, time is of the essence. A few seconds’ delay in understanding information could cost money and life. Big data needs to be fast and smart. This speed and efficiency have become a double-edged sword for privacy. Smart data vision, IOT and data-led world are ringing alarm bells for privacy.
Internet of ThingsCalling start-ups to showcase cutting-edge solutions in IoT, AI, Blockchain, AR/VRedit
By Priyanka Kohli
The startup and impact enterprise space in India is growing fast, with India ranking third in the number of startups only behind the US and Britain. Venture funds, incubators, accelerators, corporates and relevant ecosystem players including the Government have been showing keen interest to encourage growth of startups.
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Full autonomy on cards for top higher educational institutesedit
By Yogima Sharma
India’s top-tier educational institutions could soon get full autonomy under a major structural reforms blueprint that seeks to do away with outdated regulations and assure quality higher education.
Higher EducationLet’s Get Career Readyedit
The gap between academic success and employability can be achieved through four key points — skill development, concept-based learning, course curriculum and employability training programmes
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New quality standards for solar modules put India’s sunshine sector on the right growth pathedit
In a move to catapult India’s young solar industry into greater prominence by eliminating quality concerns, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on August 30, 2017 issued an order notifying new standard specifications governing six Solar PV products – PV modules, films, wafers, power converters, solar inverters and storage battery.
Solar EnergyIndia to reach 20 GW of installed solar capacity by FY18-end: reportedit
By Mayank Aggarwal
According to the latest edition of India Solar Map 2017, which was released on Tuesday, India will reach a total of 20 GW of installed solar capacity by 2017-18 end. It also said that India installed 7.5 GW in the last four quarters (Q4 2016-Q3 2017) and the total utility scale solar capacity reached 16.2GW by September.
Solar EnergyCoal supply to power plants to be normal from early Oct: Goyaledit
On whether the government would restore the coal cess, which got subsumed into GST, Goyal said the coal cess was introduced with the twin objectives of to fund and promote renewable energy and for fair pricing of thermal power generation. Goyal, who is also the railway minister, said 100 percent electrification of the Railways is his priority so that Rs 16,000 crore spent on diesel every year by the national transporter can be saved.
Renewable EnergyIndia records highest-ever renewable energy generationedit
By Bilal Abdi
India generated 10.2 Billion Units (BUs) of electricity from green energy sources including solar, wind, biomass and small hydro — 26 per cent more than 8.1 BUs of renewable energy generated in the same month last year and 17 per cent more than 8.6 Bus generated in the previous month (May 2017), research and ratings agency India Ratings said in a report.
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