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Energy Conservation Club at Nizam Collegeedit
As part of conducting direct awareness programmes, the Energy Conservation Mission decided to form Energy Conservation Clubs (ECC) in Degree and PG colleges. ECM on Tuesday formed its first Club at Nizam College, which was attended by E Srinivasa Chary, Convener, ECM of Institution of Engineers as Chief guest. The ECM is canvassing among the public duly explaining the need of energy conservation by conducting a number of seminars and workshops at educational institutions.
Institution of EngineersIndustry News: Information and Communications
The start-up revolution goes globaledit
The tech revolution has spread to cities like London and Frankfurt and even further afield to Singapore, Melbourne and Manila. Our own Bengaluru is high up in the world of technological start-ups.
AIIoTStart-upsNeed to work out a roadmap for making India a leader in cyberspace domain: DRDO chairmanedit
Academia, industry and government agencies need to join hands for working out a “roadmap” for making India a leading country in the field of cyberspace, a top defence official said Monday. Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development and Chairman DRDO, G Satheesh Reddy, said this during a day-long conference on ‘Cybersecurity – Challenges and Innovations’, held here.
Cyber Security93 per cent Indian firms still in early stages of cloud adoption, says IDCedit
Most organisations in India have plans to spend maximum of their new Cloud spending on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications over the next year
Cloud TechnologyIoTIndustry News: Future of Mobility
11,000 electric rickshaws are sold in India every month!edit
According to a media report, 11,000 electric rickshaws are sold in India every month and sales are expected to increase around 9% by 2021. India is currently home to around 1.5 million e-rickshaws, which is more than the total number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011.
e-rickshawsISRO shortlists 15 firms for transfer of EV battery techedit
Isro sources its Li ion batteries (1.5 to 100 amps) from BHEL, to which it has transferred the technology, to power its rockets and satellites
EV BatteryIndustry News: Education
Government to promote education sector to increase services’ share in GDP, says Suresh Prabhuedit
The government will work on promoting the growth of the education sector to help increase the share of overall service sector in the country’s economy, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said Tuesday.
Higher EducationBeyond traditional educationedit
The IoT and AI skills will enable students to gain expertise in smart connected devices, including end-device development, Cloud Computing, Network Design & Management, Application Interface Design and Data Management & Analytics on one hand and a comprehensive coverage of essential embedded technologies, current tools and trends on the other.
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Odisha Launches Scheme To Increase Solar Energy Useedit
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday launched a scheme to increase the use of solar energy in the agriculture sector. Under the “Soura Jalanidhi” scheme, 5,000 solar pumps will be given to farmers with up to 90 per cent subsidy. It will create irrigation potential for 2,500 acres in the state.
Solar EnergyChina new solar power capacity down 20 per cent over Jan-Sept, says regulatoredit
The National Energy Administration said at a briefing on Tuesday that newly installed solar generation capacity amounted to 34.54 GW in the first three quarters of this year, down from 43 GW a year earlier
ChinaSolar PowerAmended solar policy to be out by Nov-endedit
The amended solar policy will be notified by the end of November, the electricity department stated at the public hearing held by the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) on Tuesday. Consumers and solar developers present at the meeting held at Ravindra Bhavan in Margao said that the government is not doing enough to ensure that more solar power is generated within the state.
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