December 22, 2017

News for the IET

Indian Education Institutions Need To Get Int’l Accreditationedit

The Pioneer  HT Syndication

IET gives international accreditation to the engineering courses all over the world.  Thus far, IET has given international accreditation to 70 plus academic engineering institutions of 127 countries of the world. To harvest the benefits of globalisation in higher education and in job market, international accreditation of BTech course is necessary.

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News for other PEI

NLCIL Bags Prestigious Industry Excellence Awardedit

The Pioneer

NLCIL has been once again bestowed with ‘IEI Industry Excellence Award’ instituted by The Institution of Engineers (India), for its best performance and excellence in engineering operation for the year 2017 under category ‘A’ i.e, organisation having turnover of Rs 5,000 crore and above. The award was presented to NLCIL in the 32nd Indian Engineering Congress 2017, organised by Institution of Engineers (India), and Tamil Nadu State Centre.

The Institution of Engineers (India)

Industry News: Information and Communications

Cybersecurity trends to watch in 2018: Service Now predictionsedit

The Economic Times

The security mission to protect, detect, and respond, has remained the same for everything from IT networks and data storage to payment systems and IoT devices. In the past ten years, a tremendous wave of technology innovation has been developed to help protect and detect.

CyberSecurity
Artificial intelligence can raise incomes 15% in India by 2035edit

The Economic Times

By Swati Verma

AI has the potential to increase India’s annual growth rate of gross value added (GVA) by 1.3 percentage points, lifting the country’s income by 15 per cent in 2035, said the report.

Artificial Intelligence
What will shape smart cities: The age of smart construction set to dawnedit

Financial Express

In the era of ‘Smart Everything,’ the Internet of Things (IoT) is playing a pivotal role in bringing about a fundamental tilt in the lens from which we view the current world order.

IoTSmart Cities
Cognitive Computing Will Redefine IoT Landscapeedit

CXO Today

With billions of interconnected devices throughout the globe and their numbers taking an exponential growth everyday – the real concern is, deriving the necessary and required value from the enormous of data generated by them within a small span of time.

Internet of Things

Industry News: Education

HRD panel framing new education policy seeks three-month extensionedit

Hindustan Times

Headed by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan, the panel was set up by the human resource development ministry in June and it was supposed to submit its report this month

Education

Uncategorized

Wind Power Is Now The Cheapest Energy In Indiaedit

Bloomberg

That was quoted by Actis-backed Spring Energy that bid for 197.5-megawatt capacity and KP Energy that won 30 MW. That’s lower than the lowest solar power tariffs of Rs 2.44 a unit discovered in May and 8 percent lower than wind power prices discovered in earlier national auctions in October, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Renewable Energy
India to achieve target of 100 GW of solar power by 2022edit

The Economic Times

The government is confident of achieving the target of 100 Giga Watt (GW) of solar power capacity by 2022, Power Minister R K Singh said today. As against the target of installing 100 GW of solar power capacity as on December 15, a capacity of 16,676 MW has been installed with another 6,500 MW capacity under installation, he said in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour.

Solar Energy
Green power: Govt proposes Rs 23,450-crore roof top solar schemeedit

The Hindu Business Line

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has proposed SRISTI — Sustainable Rooftop Implementation for Solar Transfiguration of India — the scheme to incentivise the installation of roof top solar projects in India. An official statement said, “The concept, once approved, shall serve as the basis of revised scheme of MNRE for solar rooftop in Phase-II and will replace the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs note that has been submitted to cabinet since April this year.”

Solar Energy
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