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Smart Cities: The Social, Economic And Innovation Growth Centersedit
While technology plays a very vital role in bringing the smartness, it is imperative to build the underlying physical infrastructure and culture to live in the city happily
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Industry News: Information and Communications
Karnataka Govt and IT Industry: Dialogue for Future, and Continued Engagement to Strengthen Ecosystemedit
The state government of Karnataka took a further step to solidify its position as the leader in the science, information and biotechnology sectors in the country. A dialogue and interaction with all industry and government stakeholders was held, organised by the department of IT, BT, and S&T of the Government of Karnataka, to discuss the ecosystem challenges and opportunities in the IT and related sectors, as well as to strengthen industry-government relationship and to chart the future path for the state.
IT IndustryIndia poised to play big role in AI revolution: Microsoftedit
Microsoft believes that India will have a great role in the Artificial Intelligence revolution and Anant Maheshwari, Microsoft India president pointed out that India is already third in the list of countries with AI skill sets.
Artificial Intelligence8 hottest trends in Indian startup ecosystem that will rule 2019edit
In around a decade, the Indian startup ecosystem has scaled to become 3rd largest start hub in the World followed by the US and China. No doubt the success of consumer internet companies have played and continue to play a big role in that. The ecosystem has seen a cycle of boom, bust and exits with a promise that India has the ability to return capital to investors, proved to an extent by Flipkart’s sell out.
Start-up EcosystemHow India can harness ‘globotics’ revolution in artificial intelligenceedit
The revolutionary development in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and its dramatic consequences, is a global economic upheaval and one that will both provide opportunities for and challenge India dramatically.
Artificial IntelligenceIndustry News: Future of Mobility
Government to set-up 300 EV charging station on highwaysedit
After running a pilot project of 225 electric vehicle charging stations in Bangalore, the government will now set-up 300 charging stations on the highways mainly on golden triangle and Bombay -Pune highways, said A. R. Sihag, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises here on Wednesday.
EV ChargingFAME II fund allocation to increase six-fold to Rs 5,500 croreedit
The Indian government has planned to increase the allocation of funds for the phase two of the FAME – Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles – India scheme by six-fold. This will include an investment of about Rs 5,500 crore over five years, which will provide subsidies for all types of electric vehicles (EVs) including two-, three- and four-wheelers, to promote environment-friendly vehicles and keep pollution in check.
Electric VehiclesIndia will have 7 crore EVs by 2030edit
India has a significant market potential for electric vehicles (EVs). Although the nation is still in the infancy of adoption of EVs, with the changes in the technology landscape as well as clear vision set by the Indian government, India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) estimates that over seven crore electric vehicles could be sold in India till 2030.
Electric VehiclesIndustry News: Future of Work
An economy of emotions vs. emotional economy at workedit
In a landscape faced with changing trends, emerging skills and evolving employee expectations, the need to be able to tap into the right talent pools is increasing. Besides this, with gigantic leaps in technology becoming the norm, there is also a growing need to be able to stay human and to augment ourselves without losing our inherent humanness.
Changing Work EnvironmentIndustry News: Education
Career options after Engineering: What should you do after engineering?edit
If you are confused about which career option to choose Engineering, then you should consider these popular Engineering fields and the various engaging career options as listed here.
EngineeringWhich Branches of Engineering has the highest demand?edit
Every branch of Engineering has got its own importance in the developmental process and balancing of the society. Industries all around are looking for Engineering graduates to carry out the work in different specialised areas. Here the importance of different Engineering branches comes in.
EngineeringIndia’s education sector needs a quantum shiftedit
The latest Annual Status Of Education Report 2018 (Rural) or ASER 2018 holds a mirror to a country that is aspiring to be a knowledge power. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said on 26 September 2014 that there is no dearth of talent in India and “Mars success should be made an opportunity to make the world aware of Indian talent”, the ASER report shows Indian children have a huge learning deficit.
EducationIndustry News: Skilling
Why is vocational training important to raise employment for the youth?edit
As skill-based training is important to raise employment of the young generation, ICICI academy took an initiative to impart vocational training based on livelihood and have successfully trained about 15,000 students in Jaipur.
Vocational Training