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CoE sends legal notice to local bodies deptedit
However, architects are permitted to prepare building plans for approval without any limit, and they can use their registration number given by the Council of Architecture. The CoE has demanded deletion in the upper limit of 600 square yards, as well as online registration number based on registration number issued by the Institution of Engineers (India).
Institution of Engineers (India)Industry News: Information and Communications
Industrial automation: Focus beyond efficiencyedit
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has kicked in and the verticalised industrial world, where each industry stuck to its core expertise and competed with peers in the same vertical, has suddenly changed. Organisations have started expanding beyond their boundaries by leveraging their expertise, to take up a totally different industry segment
AutomationFourth Industrial RevolutionArtificial Intelligence to power news media? Google partners with Polis for new ‘Journalism AI’ projectedit
To help news industry use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in more innovative ways, Google has announced a partnership with Polis, the international journalism think-tank at London School of Economics and Political Science, to create “Journalism AI”.
Artificial IntelligenceIndustrial IoT Trends 2019: Progress in 5G holds the keys for IIoTedit
Industrial IoT Trends 2019: 2018 has been all about lot of talk of 5G: when would networks be deployed, which operators were testing what, and which region would lead the 5G race? As the costs and complexities of rolling out the next generation standard have crystallised, however, the industry’s attitude has sobered.
5GIIoTIndustry News: Future of Mobility
E-mobility needed for sustainable transportedit
Most Indian cities not only experience increasing traffic congestion, but also are confronted with severe air pollution, which is a matter of concern for all people living in urban areas. In order to address the problem of air pollution, the government, in 2013, promoted the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP), 2020 for achieving national fuel security by promoting hybrid and electric vehicles.
e-mobilityLack of EV policy not to hamper eco-friendly vehicles’ launch in India: Kiaedit
Indian government policies are not clear at the moment. We don’t know the future policy but seeing the global market circumstances, there is a big direction (towards EVs)
EV PolicyIndustry News: Education
Is Higher Education preparing youth rightly for challenges ahead?edit
Why should an engineering student be taught only how to make airplanes, Why can’t a mass-comm student fly drones, and why can’t a hotel management student repair his own microwave oven. It is also about skilling and making. We must be adequately diverse in our approach to education, yet giving the depth at the right time to the right candidate. The basic premise of this approach is to bring sense of responsibility and accountability towards all disciplines and trades amongst student and faculty. Diversity is the key driver in the effort.
Higher EducationTransitioning From Good To Great: What Makes A University Stand Outedit
India’s educational institutions are decades behind embracing this kind of shift in thinking and pedagogy. The sheer challenge and compulsions of demand have taken innovation away from them. For those that are experimenting, the numbers they deal with are miniscule in comparison to what India needs. Indeed, some of the better educational institutions in the private space cater to 2000 or 3000 students only because of the fairly widespread belief that scale and quality are incompatible.
EducationHow Artificial Intelligence is helping universities design a curriculum for future jobs that don’t exist nowedit
Artificial Intelligence is changing the dynamics of the education industry. We are studying for future jobs that don’t exist now. So, how can we design a curriculum to prepare students for those?
AIEngineering CurriculumIs Artificial Intelligence The Way Forward For Education In Indiaedit
Over the past few decades, new technologies have truly transformed every aspect of our world, from scientific and industrial development to day-to-day activities in our personal space. And, whenever a new technology is introduced to the masses, the way people interact with each other and envision their lives has shifted drastically. The truth is, we only realize the redundancies of our current practices after we are introduced to a new technology that makes our daily activities efficient. And, once we adopt new technology, we get set in new ways, unable to imagine how we ever lived without these developments before!
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Delhi govt invites bids for setting up 35 Mw rooftop solar power projectsedit
The Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Management (EEREM) centre, Delhi government’s nodal agency for rooftop solar projects, today launched a tender for setting up 35 Megawatt (Mw) grid-connected rooftop solar projects in the capital under the Mukhyamantri Solar Power Program.
Rooftop Solar ProjectGovt spends half of Rs 5,000 crore renewable energy outlay for current fiscaledit
The government has spent Rs 2,579 crore on renewable energy projects and schemes in the first six months of the current financial year (2018-19), roughly a half of the Rs 5,146 crore outlay for the sector budgeted in this year’s budget, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said in a report.
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State utilities asked to issue solar, wind energy tendersedit
Ministry of new and renewable energy has asked state utilities to issue solar and wind energy tenders, instead of depending on central utilities for meeting their renewable energy needs.
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