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Industry News: Information and Communications
Blockchain: Pushing Traditional Model Of “Trust” To Evolveedit
The IoT requires us all to solve a lot of new challenges. Providing technologies that allow for secure, fast transactions between the participants in that new world is just one of those obstacles. The traditional model of having a mediator between service and user must evolve.
BlockchainIoTAutomation, natural way to progressedit
Today’s hottest sector are robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. Mind you, it’s much more than just a buzzword. Our day-to-day life is undergoing an overhauling.
Artificial IntelligenceAutomationArtificial intelligence will not only take away jobs but also create themedit
By Devangshu Datta
AI is bound to open up new opportunities, just like the automobile, the telephone and the internet did.
Artificial IntelligenceJobsIoT to ‘liberate’ cyberattacks: security firmedit
By Jay Shankar
A spate of cybercrimes is driving the IoT security market, which is expected to touch $29 billion by 2020, according to a report by Markets and Markets. The global IoT security market is slated to grow 55% until 2019, a report by research firm Technavio stated.
Cyber SecurityIoTIndustry News: Education
Supreme Court: All deemed-to-be universities should get AICTE nodedit
By Rashmi Belur
Deemed-to-be universities across the nation offering technical and engineering courses should henceforth get sanction from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). All these years, such universities had been reporting to the University Grants Commission (UGC).
EngineeringRedefining Higher Education In Digital Eraedit
Today, the significance of the internet and subsequent digital innovations that touch each of us almost every day is undeniable. In this VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) world of business, there is hardly any function that has remained isolated from a digital revolution that has disrupted almost all legacy processes. And if this is the case, one must question how our higher education institutions have reacted or acted to reflect this change in society.
Higher Education300 engineering colleges may shut down by Dec-end: What students must knowedit
Over 300 private engineering colleges may be asked not to undertake admission process for the academic session of 2018-2019. According to HRD sources, the institutes would be asked to close operations as engineering colleges. These institutions had less than 30 per cent enrolment for five consecutive years.
EngineeringIIT-M experimenting with dual education modeledit
The Indian Institute of Technology – Madras is experimenting with a new concept called ‘dual education model,’ where industry will partner with the academia in classroom learning.
EngineeringNew robot to help online students learn betteredit
Scientists have developed an innovative robot that can help online students more engaged and connected to the instructor and students in the classroom.
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Renewable energy can become India’s sustainability model for world: Swedenedit
India has the “intellectual capacity” and potential to be a model for the rest of the world in tackling environmental issues, especially through the use of renewable energy sources, Sweden’s envoy for climate change has said. Lars Ronnas, Swedish Ambassador for Climate Change, on his first visit to India, also asserted that there are “very strong interests” in his country for bilateral cooperation in this field.
Renewable EnergyIndia’s biggest floating solar power plant to be inaugurated in Keralaqedit
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): Kerala Electricity Minister M M Mani will inaugurate the largest floating solar power plant in the country at the Banasura Sagar dam in Wayanad on Monday. “The floating solar power plant that floats on the surface of the water has a capacity of 500 kilowatts. This is the country’s largest floating solar plant,” an official release from Kerala State Electricity Board said.
Solar EnergyLow solar tariffs impacting sector’s health: Industryedit
India’s solar power generation capacity to go up by 5GW in 2016: report India’s solar power generation capacity to go up by 5GW in 2016: report India’s solar power generation capacity to go up by 5GW in 2016: report Chhattisgarh aims at Rs 10,000 cr investment in solar energy Rock-bottom solar power tariffs might spell good news for consumers and the environment alike, but for developers, it is now a matter of concern.
Solar EnergyAn uncertain energy futureedit
The Government Faces a renewable energy trilemma. It has set itself a target of quadrupling the generation capacity of solar energy by 2022 and shifting the production of new automotive vehicles from the internal combustion model to electric vehicles (EV) by 2030. In parallel, it wants the clean energy industry to develop within the framework of its “Make in India” agenda.
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