June 2019
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News for the IET

5G world will need new cybersecurity approachedit

Deccan Herald (Print)

The discussion was conducted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and moderated by S Raghotham, Assistant Editor, Deccan Herald. “You probably will have no cybersecurity, unless you slow down and force a lot of debate to happen about it.

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Masterclass on Design Thinking and Systematic Innovationedit

SME Channels (Print)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology India has signed a memorandum of understanding with KPMG and Innomantra to develop and conduct master classes on Design Thinking and Systematic Innovation for academia and technology leaders. The content and frameworks of the sessions has been created by KPMG and Innomantra; the IET using its world class framework endorses this programme and will co-certify it with KPMG and Innomantra.

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IET inks MoU with SSF for STEM-C program for underprivileged communitiesedit

Times Tech BussinessFortnight Business News This Week

The Institution of Engineering and Technology India (IET), one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saraswati Seva Foundation (SSF), a non- profit organisation committed to serve the under-privileged communities using knowledge tools and networks to support a sustainable foundation of the society. The MoU aims to deliver STEM-C programme to up-skill teachers and students in schools located in India that specifically cater to underprivileged children.

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Women mustn’t fear a career as an engineer – you can really make it in a thriving industryedit

The India Times Post 

Nadia Lee is one of the only 12 per cent of UK engineers are female[/caption] The sector is vital to the UK economy, contributing 26 per cent of GDP. But figures from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) show an annual shortfall of 59,000 engineers. Girls now outperform boys in all STEM A-levels — science, technology, engineering and maths — except chemistry.

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Hydrogen could replace natural gas to heat homes and slash carbon emissions, new report claimsedit

Renewable Energy Magazine 

The findings are detailed in a new Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) led report. Experts from five professional engineering institutions were tasked by government to assess the engineering risks and uncertainties around using hydrogen in homes, businesses and industry as a future low carbon fuel.

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Are you skilled enough for the digital era?edit

Hindustan Times 

And the best part is that they develop skills on the latest technologies without devoting alternate years to learn the emerging technologies. For freshers, there are multiple courses offered by IET and NASSCOM. For professionals, there are training offered by several organisations for product management and programme management.

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Future-Proofing Indian Telecom – Content Delivery Networksedit

Communications Today

A record-breaking 18.6 million people logged into the live streaming service Hotstar to watch the IPL cricket finals earlier this month. How did Hotstar handle such an incredible load on their system? They leveraged content-delivery network or CDN technology to improve latency speeds and quality of service. Twitch, the largest live streaming platform, relies on its own CDN to manage the viewing experience for millions of concurrent users.

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Future-Proofing Indian Telecom – Content Delivery Networksedit

Broadcast And Cable Sat

A record-breaking 18.6 million people logged into the live streaming service Hotstar to watch the IPL cricket finals earlier this month. How did Hotstar handle such an incredible load on their system? They leveraged content-delivery network or CDN technology to improve latency speeds and quality of service. Twitch, the largest live streaming platform, relies on its own CDN to manage the viewing experience for millions of concurrent users.

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Making India a Leader in IoTedit

Telecom Today 

Authored by Mr. Rishi Bhatnagar, President, Aeris Communication and Chair, IET IoT Panel India has always topped the charts when it comes to IoT opportunities and continues to be the forerunner in the number of connected devices and boasts of a 35% CAGR for IoT industry till 2023. However, what will it take for us to be the leaders in IoT

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Making India a Leader in IoTedit

Digital Terminal 

Authored by Mr. Rishi Bhatnagar, President, Aeris Communication and Chair, IET IoT Panel India has always topped the charts when it comes to IoT opportunities and continues to be the forerunner in the number of connected devices and boasts of a 35% CAGR for IoT industry till 2023. However, what will it take for us to be the leaders in IoT?

Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar: Chairman of IET India IoT panel
The great Huawei conundrum – Why India cant afford to fall behind in 5G technology on speculative fearsedit

The Financial Express 

Adopting a reactive approach to 5Gsecurity will only delay us further. In addition to the numerous use cases of 5G (connected cars, sliced networks, remote health care, manufacturing, etc) that stand to be significantly influenced by the presence of security threats and pervasive attacks, the network topologies that are finding relevance in a 5Gera accompany their own unique set of security issues.

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Integrating IoT with agriculture can revolutionise the landscape in Indiaedit

First Post

India is witnessing the IoT revolution and is being deployed across various verticals including agriculture. With the advancement in technology at hand, the opportunities for IoT to revolutionise the agricultural sector is magnanimous. According to IoT India Congress 2018, Indian IoT market is expected to grow from $3 billion to $9 billion by 2020 across sectors such as telecom, health, vehicles, homes, entire cities and manufacturing floors and computers. The pace of India’s digital revolution is proof that the role of IoT in India is indispensable.

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Stratics Networks Celebrates Pride Month With $10,000 Scholarship for LGBTQ Youth Entering STEM Studiesedit

IT News Online 

A 2018 study by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) found that close to 30% of LGBTQ youth avoided careers in STEM and STEM related areas because of fears of discrimination. Gender stereotyping in this area is still an unfortunate reality in many workplaces and it is a barrier to entering science and technology based sectors at a time when we need bright young minds more than ever.

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PoP 91 Innovation Challenge launched by IoT India Congress 2019edit

SME Channels Times Tech Enterprise IT World

IoT India Congress 2019, launches the PoP 91 Innovation Challenge, a unique contest that aims to find actual and implementable solutions for real-world industry problems through Internet of Things.  The IET, the organiser of this event asked more than 100 industry practitioners about their biggest problems that they want solved.

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News for other PEI

This AIenabled robotic arm can pack boxes quicklyedit

News D 

Researchers formed a team to deal with multiple aspects of the robot packing problem in an integrated way through hardware, 3D perception and robust motion, according to the study presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

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Disaster preparedness programme held at IEIedit

State Times 

State Disaster Management Authority, in collaboration with State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI), J&K State Centre, conducted one day sensitisation programme on Disaster Preparedness at Auditorium of IEI at Sonwarbagh Srinagar.

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Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Mysuru Local Centreedit

Star of Mysore 

The newspaper has feature rich articles and dedicated pages targeted at readers across the demographic spectrum of Mysuru city. With a readership of over 2,50,000 Star of Mysore has been the best connection between its readers and their leaders; between advertisers and customers; between Mysuru and Mysureans. (The Institution of Engineers)

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Should make space tech useful for common manedit

The Times of India 

The lecture was organized by Rotary Club of Cochin East in association with the Institution of Engineers (India) and Kerala Brahmana Sabha. Late G Viswanathan, who passed away in 2013, was associated with all the three organizations in various capacities. The inaugural GV memorial lecture in 2014 was delivered by diplomat Venu Rajamony.

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Faculty Development Programme on Robotics & Artificial Intelligenceedit

The Hans India 

This FDP will be a 5day handson training programme, which is sponsored by the MEITy under the Ministry of ICT of the Government of India, is being organised jointly by the Electronics & ICT Academy at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna and the Department of ECE along with the Professional chapters of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE at VNRVJIET.

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International Yoga day Celebrationsedit

Sia Sat 

The Institution of Engineers (India), Telangana State Centre organized International Yoga Day2019. The Chief Guest, Er Sekhar Gandhi, MIE, Rector, Centre for Yogic Management and Research on 21st June, 2019.The Chief Guest graced the occasion and made a Power Point Presentation about the Yoga Practices to the elite audience.

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Biz Scanedit

Navhind Times 

The Institution of Engineers (India), Goa State Centre in association with Indian Concrete Institute, Goa Centre had organised a two-day all India seminar on “Safety Aspects at Construction Sites” at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao recently. The seminar arrangements were made by Anwar Khan, convenor of the programme under the guidance of Chandrashekhar Prabhudessai, chairman of IEI Goa State Centre.

Institution of Engineers (IEI)
5-day Faculty Development Programme conductededit

The Hans India 

This FDP will be a 5-day hands-on training programme, which is sponsored by the MEITy under the Ministry of ICT of the Government of India, is being organised jointly by the Electronics & ICT Academy at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna and the Department of ECE along with the Professional chapters of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE at VNRVJIET.

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Seminar on Dal Lake Conservation heldedit

The North Lines 

A daylong seminar was organised by The Institution of Engineers in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Lakes and Waterways Development Authority to discuss the various issues pertaining to Dal Lake conservation and its dwellers here today.

Institution of Engineers (IEI)
Hyderabad: 5day Faculty Development Programme conductededit

The Hans India 

This FDP will be a 5day handson training programme, which is sponsored by the MEITy under the Ministry of ICT of the Government of India, is being organised jointly by the Electronics & ICT Academy at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna and the Department of ECE along with the Professional chapters of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE at VNRVJIET.

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Internet of Things is an emerging area of the modern technologyedit

Star of Mysore

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day2019 was celebrated in the premises of the Institution of Engineers India (IEI), Mysuru Local Centre, recently. The theme of the day was Bridging the Standardisation Gap.

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Hyderabad: Faculty development programme at VNRVJIETedit

Telangana Today

The programme, which began on Monday, is a fiveday hands on training programme and is being organised jointly by the Electronics and ICT Academy at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna, and the Department of ECE along with the chapters of IEEE, ISTE, and IETE at VNRVJIET.

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World Environment Dayedit

The New Indian Express 

Sandeep Sancheti, vice chancellor of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, presided over the event. A tree-planting and seed ball-throwing event was held in SRM Rural Health Hospital in Mamandoor. The Institution of Engineers, Kalpakkam and Indian Association of Nuclear and Allied Scientist, Kalpakkam, sponsored gifts for the first three prizes in each category.

Institution of Engineers (IEI)
Master Of The Gameedit

Business World 

Recognising his contribution to the power sector development, Sobti has been honoured with the CBIP Special Recognition 2018 for Excellent Contribution in Power Sector Development by the Central Board of Irrigation and Power, the Personalities Award by the Institution of Engineers (India) and the India Pride Award for Excellence among central PSUs.

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IIT Mandi Students to be Honoured with IEEE Awardedit

College Dekho 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), in USA which is the largest global technical professional organisation headquartered in New York, is composed of Scientists, Engineers and other professionals, who have interests in the sector of electrical and computer sciences, engineering, and other related disciplines. It is dedicated for fostering technological excellence and innovation for humanitarian benefits.

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Spreading awareness on sustainable environmentedit

Millennium Post 

The Institution of Engineers, Kalpakkam and Indian Association of Nuclear and Allied Scientist, Kalpakkam sponsored gifts for the first three prizes in each category. Workshop on seed ball making was conducted by Dr Parthiban created a lot of buzzes. Dr Lineaus Martin, Director of Campus life, demonstrated the ways to create and maintain terrace gardening. And the Institute of Hotel Management conducted a workshop on fireless cooking.

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IIT Mandi students to be honoured with prestigious IEEE Award in USedit

Jagran Josh IITs have been known for the excellence in the field of technical education in the country. The students of IITs have been exceptional in their fields and they have been recognised for their achievements. In a recent development, IIT Mandi has been in news because the students of the institute are going to receive the prestigious IEEE Award in US. The news has been a welcome one for the students of the institute as the award has global recognition.

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Institute of Engineers and Sinchan Sahayog marks World Environment Day 2019edit

Nagpur today 

Dr. R L Shrivastava Chairman of the Centre welcomed the Chief Guest and briefed on various initiatives undertaken by IEI NLC. Dr. Ramesh Daryapurkar, Convener for the programme elaborated significance of World Environment Day to the audience and also explained why NGOs role was picked up as a theme for this years celebration.

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Big tech firms cut employees access to Huawei, muddying 5G rolloutedit

Live Mint 

A separate standards body, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), put restrictions on Huawei engineers ability to participate in peer reviews for its publications, drawing criticism from some in Chinas industry and elsewhere.

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CSIO organizes poster presentation sessionedit

The Times of India 

A poster presentation session on society driven technological innovation and research (STIR2019) was organized at CSIO by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Student Branch AcSIRCSIO to deliberate cutting edge science and technology and networking.

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New AI tool can tell babies cries apartedit

The Times of India

The method, described in the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), promises to be useful to parents at home as well as in healthcare settings, as doctors may use it to discern cries among sick children.

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Plantation drives, speeches mark celebrations of World Environment Dayedit

Daily Excelsior

In connection with the World Environment Day, Tourism Department organized an awareness programme at Mansar on the theme ‘Zero Pollution Emission’. On the occasion, a Lake walk was organized which was flagged off by OP Bhagat, Director Tourism, Jammu in the presence of OP Sharma Vidyarthi, Director State Forest Research Institute.

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4 Ways How Sustainable Technologies Can Help Protect Our Oceans IEEEedit

CIOL 

The oceans energy generation potential is tremendous and could help lead us to a more sustainable planet. An overview in Proceedings of the IEEE covers three emerging technologies focused on the ocean: wave energy converters, ocean thermal energy converters and tidal current systems.

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National artificial intelligence unit stuck for lack of anchor departmentedit

Business Standard 

Other members of the Global AI Council include Element AI, IEEE, IBM, Future of Life Institute, and ministers from the UK, Colombia, and the United Arab Emirates, according to VentureBeat. This situation is similar across several other ongoing deliberations on setting standards for AI, where India has little to no representation.

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5G and what it means for cyber securityedit

Mobility 

Han Guangjie, IEEE Senior Member and professor at Hohai University, seconds this point: -Check and update the loT device firmware. If loT devices have exploitable vulnerabilities, manufacturers often identify and fix problems before the hacker can access the device’s environment.

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Science publisher IEEE lifts ban on Huawei reviewersedit

Business Standard 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has said that it has lifted restrictions on employees of Huawei and its affiliates to edit and peer review IEEEs research papers. The move came after the New York based international technical organisation decided on Wednesday to bar Huawei staff from participating the research paper peer review process because of the US Department of Commerces export control restrictions on Huawei, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday

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New prosthetic foot to help tackle tough terrainedit

Business Standard 

A better prosthetic limb could improve not just mobility but overall quality of life as well, according to the study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. One area of particular interest is making prosthetic limbs that can better handle rough ground

IEEE
China Computer Federation to cut ties with division of IEEEedit

CGTN

The CCF said on Thursday it would suspend dealings with the publications division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a day after the latter confirmed it will bar Huawei staff from participating in certain aspects of the peer review process for its research papers.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

The future of Artificial Intelligenceedit

BW CIO World 

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence has been a prediction for decades by our ancestors. It was earlier associated with robots only but now, with the advancements in technology, AI is not only associated with robots but even with services of industries such as entertainment, healthcare, education and more. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Powering Business Transformation With Cloud: An MSME Perspectiveedit

Bloomberg Quint 

Chitale Dairy monitors animal health and habits using Internet of Things sensors and keeps a tab on their daily milk yield with the help of a highspeed, highavailability network. The dairy helps farmers keep their precious livestock healthy and productive with the help of cloudpowered big data analytics, automated todo lists, and ITenabled breeding management.

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Manufacturing sector faced most cyber threats in Jan-Maredit

The Hindu Business Line 

The manufacturing sector faced most of the cyber security threats detected by Quick Heal’s enterprise arm, Seqrite, between January and March 2019. The sector faced 27.56 per cent of the total cyber security threats. According to Seqrite, the other industries that faced high threat from attacks include professional services (22.59 per cent) and education (14.64 per cent).

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Indian Army develops talking hands for communicationedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Lt Thakur said the project was portable and user calibrated, and the smartphone app makes it user friendly. The flexible codes and hardware would enable the glove for further development. He added that it took two months to develop the project. Apart from talking hands, other projects such as fabrication of GoKart using electric drive, a hybrid bike, and internet of things (IoT) colour based product sorting machine drew the appreciation of senior officials at the ceremony.

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How Artificial Intelligence can play critical role in clearing itedit

The Financial Express 

With the human dependence on space technology increasing at a great speed, the traffic to space has become as congested as traffic on the roads than ever before. Whenever a junk is created in space, it becomes a high speed projectile (whatever may be the size due to high speeds involved) with a destructive capability.

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Fiberisation to make India a digital leader tomorrow: Swiss business tycoonedit

The Economic Times 

By Muntazir Abbas

5G is an interesting initiative. Increase in consumption of data due to IoT, mobiles etc., people will need more data available. To produce more data faster needs a strong backbone is needed that can be built on fibre. And yes, 5G will allow connecting the last mile regions with highquality communication lines.

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Computer scientists predict lightning and thunder with the help of artificial intelligenceedit

Express Computer 

Together with Germanys National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst, computer science professor Jens Dittrich and his doctoral student Christian Schn from Saarland University are now working on a system that is supposed to predict local thunderstorms more precisely than before. It is based on satellite images and artificial intelligence. In order to investigate this approach in more detail, the researchers will receive 270,000 euros from the Federal Ministry of Transport.

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Budget 2019: Key things technology companies expect from Finance Ministeredit

The Financial Express

Union Budget 2019 India: The Information Technology (IT) industry is currently going through a transition phase, as numerous new technologies in the form of artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, data science, machine learning, big data, data analytics, robotics, Internet of Things, blockchain etc are changing the rules of game for incumbent IT players.

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Blockchain is expected to be as impactful as Internetedit

Express Computer 

By Moumita Deb Choudhury

This makes it a unique, feature rich, and enterprise ready private blockchain core. Combining FusionCore with sensors, IoT and machine learning, Empirical Data today helps organisations grow their business, enhance their customer experience and bring the best services and innovative products to the market.

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As per various reports, cybercriminals target the BFSI sector the most.edit

Money Control 

The BFSI segment in India has seen growing instances of cyberattacks in recent months. Whats more, not only has the number of attacks increased, but its very nature has become harder to detect and prevent.

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Are bots boring Indians prefer human interaction, personalised experienceedit

Business Standard 

While Indian consumers are impressed with the potential for automation at smart stores, the study said that 1824 years old Gen Z are less convinced that technological innovations will improve their lives.

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New AI enabled tool may help detect heart attacksedit

Business Standard

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based system that can better predict heart attacks and other cardiac events as compared to conventional risk models. Risk determination is an imperfect science, and popular existing models like the Framingham Risk Score have limitations, as they do not directly consider the condition of the coronary arteries.

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IoT In Logistics Market Detailed Analytical Overview by 2022edit

Weekday Times 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network which connects objects via embedded electronics, sensors, and network connectivity. IoT in logistics Market is a multibillion dollar market. It is enabling companies to take critical business decisions, optimize their production, reduce production cost and minimize the raw material cost.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Fight Climate Change And Make The World Betteredit

India Times 

“Technology alone is not enough,” they write, led by University of Pennsylvania’s David Rolnick “Technologies that would reduce climate change have been available for years, but have largely not been adopted at scale by society. While we hope that ML will be useful in reducing the costs associated with climate action, humanity also must decide to act.”

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DoT, MeitY eye EU Toolbox to address 5Grelated concernsedit

The Economic Times 

There is also a Cybersecurity Act in the EU that is coming into play and the Indian government has also shown a keen interest in it. Cybersecurity Act, which provides a framework for certification, was proposed in the 2017 in EU. This is expected to ensure safe and trustworthy digital platforms.

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Do You Want to Transform your Business Try Intelligent Automation!edit

Analytics Insight 

Automation is totally transformed the way businesses are being performed in nearly every sector of the economy. No matter what industry, todays savvy business owners are operating, a constant business goal to stay a step ahead of the competition.

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Data storage rules out of contentious ecommerce policyedit

Money Control 

The draft national ecommerce policy released in February this year also dealt with data protection. In light of the increasing importance of data protection and privacy, the National Ecommerce Policy aims to regulate crossborder data flow, while enabling sharing of anonymised community data (data collected by Internet of Things devices installed in public spaces like traffic signals or automated entry gates), said the draft document.

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Artificial Intelligence could be a boon for Alzheimers patients: Heres what you need to knowedit

Times Now News 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can prove to be essential for healthcare providers to detect and manage Alzheimer’s disease or a related form of dementia, from which 44 million people suffer worldwide. In the study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, the team introduced supervised Machine Learning (ML) as a modern approach and new value-added complementary tool in cognitive brain health assessment and related patient care and management.

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AI, IoT fuel new chip designs, and India is at the centre of itedit

The Times of India 

The semiconductor world and companies like Google are looking at India talent to create the new kinds of chips they need in todays digital era Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are all accelerating efforts to design chips (Internet of things)

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After shedding over 1 lakh employees in last 2 years, telcos may hire 33,100 in H1 FY20edit

Money Control 

However, industry revenue is expected to rise in FY20 and recruiters say that hiring will happen across levels. Few areas where employee strength could increase include content, digital marketing, machinetomachine (M2M), internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), among others.

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10 things you should know about IoTedit

CIOL 

Things not people: While the full form is Internet of Things, its focus is on things rather than people. That means things on their own may transmit the relevant data on a continuous basis via the Internet on a central server. Sensors may be placed on any device. In a forest any device may transmit data related to wildlife, weather etc.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence to detect fraud set to triple by 2021: Surveyedit

Times Now News 

As cyber criminals find new ways to exploit technology, a new survey has said that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for fraud detection globally would triple by 2021.

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Smart, automated homes: The way forward for sustainable livingedit

Express Computer 

Smart home concept comprises of various technologies and features that are interconnected to one another by Internet of Things (IoT). The devices in a smart home are smart, in the sense that they utilize microprocessors, software and sensors that run autonomously and are capable of performing multiple actions. The concept of a smart home allows all interconnected devices to communicate with each other.

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Lucrative and Exciting Career in Artificial Intelligence & Data Sciencesedit

CIOL 

This is precisely the right time to plan a career in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the right Institute. Top reasons for choosing a career and Institution are: Growing adoption of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Analytics

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AI, IoT fuel new chip designs, and India is at the centre of itedit

The Times of India 

Put all of that together, and what we have is a picture of something dramatically new happening in chip design, and India, alongside the US, being at the centre of it. That new is an effort to integrate new digital technologies such as AI, machine learning, and internet-of things (IoT) with silicon. The more tightly software and hardware features are integrated, the better the applications run.

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63% Indian IT decision makers see cyber security as major M&A hurdle: studyedit

Business Standard 

About 53 per cent of Indian IT decision makers say they find unaccounted IoT (internet of things) and OT (operational technology) devices after completing the integration of a new acquisition. Many deals face a race to get across the finish line. Fifty four per cent of Indian respondents strongly agree that their IT team is given adequate time to review a targets cybersecurity standards, processes and protocols before completing an acquisition, the report revealed.

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52% Indians believe smart devices spying on themedit

The Hans India 

While 85 per cent of people own a smartphone, 54 per cent believe the technology is spying on them. According to the survey, around a third fear that with the rapid advancement of technology either they would be socially isolated (34 per cent), human interactions would be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (34 per cent) or there would be excessive dependence on technology (32 per cent).

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Upskill to the cloud, all are moving thereedit

The Times of India

There’s also the private cloud, where existing in-house IT infrastructure take on characteristics of the public cloud, and that again is being widely adopted. Many of the traditional IT infrastructure vendors — such as HP and IBM, as also new ones like Nutanix — provide private cloud solutions.

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RBI Increases Focus On Cybersecurity As Indias Digital Payment Craze Peaksedit

Analytics India Mag 

Despite high internet usage and smartphone penetration, India has lagged behind in implementing cybersecurity best practices. This includes the security of websites and government databases. The negative effects of this has been held off by the lack of intent for individuals to exploit the weaknesses.

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Internet Connected Devices Are Huge Threat For Children Say Researchersedit

News 18 

Forget screen addiction as there is a new threat to keeping children safe in the digital era: Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to researchers, children need protection when using programmable Internet computing devices in a digital world where everyday objects contain sensors and stream data to and from the Internet.

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India may increase IT resources in this countryedit

Gadgets Now 

The aim of the visit by the delegation was to promote unique strengths in emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and big data analytics, and encourage collaboration with the Indian IT industry in the areas of IoT ecosystem, industry 4.0 and smart cities, said the business chamber FICCI, which organized the trip.

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How Mastercard is using artificial intelligence to stop fraud and reduce false declinesedit

The Economic Times

Two areas where technology has struggled to tackle a related and growing challenge has been around the rise of fraudulent transactions and customers experiencing false declines, which is a frustrating and embarrassing occurrence. How are you using technology, and especially, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to stop fraud and reduce false declines

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Heres how artificial intelligence will benefit pharma sectoredit

The Financial Express 

Data in pharma industry includes electronic health records, biomedical signal data, patient statistics, imaging data, discovery related literature, experimental data, genomic data, proteomic data, and records on clinical studies.

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Healthcare startups digitizing medical services in Indiaedit

The Asian Age 

Additionally, the company has implemented its newage proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tool, which is able to report accurate stock projections to medical establishments. In this way, these establishments are able to save up to 30 per cent in their procurement cost, helping them to make healthcare affordable and within reach for those in need.

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Deepfakes: Do You Believe Everything You Seeedit

The Quint 

Deepfake technology is becoming more and more common with each passing day and given the spread of Artificial Intelligence, its getting easier and more accessible at the same time. The technology is not only becoming more sophisticated, its getting more easily accessible as well. Creating deepfakes now is as easy as processing thousands of photos of a subject through a software.

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Creating a smart way to manage wasteedit

The Hindu Business Line 

He realised that almost three-fourths of the complaints through the app related to uncleared garbage or overflowing garbage bins. That was the trigger for his venture, Antariksh, whose aim is to use IoT in waste management and involve all the players in the ecosystem – citizens, conservancy workers and conservancy administrators – in a smart way of clearing garbage.

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Connected devices now prevalent in 40% households across the globe, says studyedit

Live Mint 

By Nandita Mathur

About 40% of households across the globe now have at least one IoT (internet of things) device, bringing with it increased cybersecurity risks, according to a research by Avast, digital security products company, in collaboration with Stanford University.

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Budget should have nuance and bold movesedit

The Economic Times 

The impending fourth industrial revolution, particularly involving the potent alliance of technologies and solutions such as artificial intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things (IOT), is expected to catalyze a stream of innovation across the country impacting every sector and touching the lives of every Indian, particularly given the fact that nearly 650 million Indians now possess mobiles and that more than 800 million people are expected to possess smart phones by the year 2022.

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Govts stress on infrastructure and EVs: President Ram Nath Kovindedit

The Economic Times 

Addressing the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, the President said massive work to create infrastructure is underway, and electric vehicles are being promoted to reduce pollution

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Challenges faced by the CIOs in the Integration of IoT in their operationsedit

Express Computer 

In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent buildings, a wide range of lowvoltage building systems including voice, data, WiFi, distributed antenna systems (DAS), security, audiovisual (AV), lighting, building automation and more are converging onto a common cabling infrastructure and communicating with each other via Internet Protocol (IP).

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Billions of IoT Devices to Produce 79.4 Zettabytes of Data in 2025, Says IDCedit

Analytics Insight 

With the growth of IoT devices, the quantity of generated data also increases. These data are further divided into small and large datasets. Small and storming data imply a single metric of the health of a machine while large datasets are produced through video surveillance cameras employing computer vision.

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Opinion | Software robots and importance of risk managementedit

Live Mint 

Robotic process automation, or RPA, has emerged as a potent productivity-enhancement innovation that is being embraced globally by virtually all industry sectors. This is hardly surprising since a software robot (also known as a bot) can work around the clock at a fraction of an employee’s cost.

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NITI Aayogs strategy for AIedit

Telangana Today 

The proposal for a national strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) was first made by the Finance Minister in his 201819 budget mandating NITI Aayog to establish the National Programme on AI, with a view to guiding the research and development in new and emerging technologies

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How is Digital Transformation Challenging the Security Changes?edit

Analytics Insight 

To initiate a digital transformation project, there is an urgent need for organizations to bring together the three pillars of management which include people, process and technology both in the planning and strategy phase, by offering them an opportunity to see where technologies like data analytics, internet of things (IoT), mobile and social can make a difference.

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AI to Introduce Senses like Touch and Visionedit

Analytics Insight 

Robots that have been customized to see or feel can’t utilize these signals quite reciprocally. To better connect this tactile gap, scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have thought of a predictive artificial intelligence (AI) that can figure out how to see by touching, and figure out how to feel by seeing.

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AI Can Detect PTSD & Depression Just By Hearing Sound Of Someones Voiceedit

India Times 

Thats why researchers at New York University have been working on a solution. They say they now have something that can take the guesswork out of PTSD diagnosis. Its an artificial intelligence that can make that diagnosis, simply by listening to the patient talk.

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A new miniature robot could assist in taking micro ultrasound imagesedit

Business Standard 

An artificial intelligence system (AI) ensures the smooth capsule can position itself correctly against the gut wall to get the best quality microultra sound images. The feasibility study also showed should the capsule get dislodged, the AI system can navigate it back to the required location.

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Optimising Data Centres a Must to Shape the Smart Cities of Tomorrowedit

Open Source For You 

Smart cities are a key component of our digital future, bringing together technologies such as the IoT, Big Data, AI and self-driving cars to change the way we live and do business in major urban centres. Their motto is to bring interactive and intelligent technologies into the urban space, which has multiple networks of sensors with huge data flows.

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New industrial policy to be announced soon: Presidentedit

Business Standard 

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Commerce and Industry ministry, in August 2017 had floated a draft industrial policy with an aim to create jobs for the next two decades, promote foreign technology transfer and attract USD 100 billion FDI annually.

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IoT Starter Kit – Functional innovation for CIOsedit

CIO 

From a smart coffee maker to a smart large-scale industrial unit – the internet of things (IoT) will digitally transform everything. According to research firm Gartner, 25 billion connected things will be in use by 2021.

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How Business Processes are Evolving with the IoTedit

Open Source For You

Global industries are learning and experimenting with the IoT. They can utilise IoT technologies more effectively when they understand the technology and the business processes structured around it. It is important for businesses to understand how they can use the IoT to collect sensor data intelligently from various users and process this data in the cloud architecture.

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Digital Transformation’s Role in Security Trends of 2019edit

BW CIO World 

Cyber Exposure is the Game Changer To tackle the security trends of 2019 and well into the future, organizations need a holistic security solution that provides breadth of visibility into cybersecurity risk across the modern attack surface, including IT, Cloud, IoT and OT; and deep analytics that translate vulnerability data into business insights for the C-suite and Board of Directors.

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Artificial Intelligence for Audit Proceduresedit

Analytics Insight

Artificial intelligence is a developing innovation that guarantees to be a gamechanger for different enterprises. Artificial intelligence is as of now being integrated into zones as differed as driverless cars, home energy systems and investment portfolio management. Bookkeeping and auditing will likewise be influenced.

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Internet of Things (IoT) security product market worth will reach US$ 50 Billion by 2027edit

CRN 

In its recent study, Future Market Insights (FMI) estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) security product market revenues will grow from US$ 12 billion in 2017 to US$ 50 billion in 2027. FMI attributes potential growth prospects of the market to an upsurge in cyberattacks with the increased adoption of web based services and recent developments smart infrastructures.

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Indias data usage per smartphone highest in world at 9.8GB/month: Reportedit

Live Mint 

The findings come at a time when the government is in the process of finalising a roadmap for the rollout of 5G services, the nextgeneration technology for wireless communications that is expected to improve data speeds and propel the Internet of Things.

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How CTOs are combining blockchain with IoT, ML & AI to grow businesses in diverse sectorsedit

BW CIO World 

The newedge technologies like IoT, blockchain and AI have come a long way since inception. Although each technology has grown in their own definitive range, IT leaders are striving to reach a confluence for these technologies. While IoT has sensors with billions of connected devices, AI is the reasoning part that analyses and makes decisions and blockchain is responsible for creating a secure, indelible record of transactions and data exchanges.

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How businesses are implementing automation and analytics to reach their productive bestedit

Express Computer 

Now, with the rise in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics, companies are being able to automate processes across the board and obtain accurate insights from several data points at a fraction of the time. As per a report by PwC, it is estimated that, by 2030, AI will contribute close to USD 15.7 Trillion to the global economy

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Data Analytics Outsourcing Market in India is Worth $27 Billion: Study by AIM & Praxis Business Schooledit

Business Standard

I believe Data Science is poised for tremendous growth for the following three reasons: one, the data explosion that is yet to happen we are probably at the tip of the iceberg with IoT and social media yet to achieve their full potential; two, continued improvements in machine learning software and algorithms which will make data science increasingly easier to use and more useful to apply.

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As digital attacks surge, banks resort to cyber drillsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

With increasing incidence of digital frauds and malware attacks in financial transactions, banks are now queuing up for cyber drills to check their preparedness to tackle such problems. “There has been a perceptible increase in interest among banks to undergo mock cyber drills,” AS Ramasastry, Director, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an arm of the Reserve Bank of India, told Business Line.

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Artificial Intelligence needs to become less and less artificialedit

MINT 

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is everywhere and it’s here to stay. It now powers so many real-world applications, ranging from facial recognition to language translators and assistants like Siri and Alexa. Along with these consumer applications, companies across sectors are increasingly harnessing AI’s power for productivity growth and innovation.

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A more robust Digital India 2.0 to be unveiled soonedit

DNA 

Digital Inclusion will be about digital literacy mission, expansion of common service centers (CSCs), strengthening and expanding of digital villages, while Digital Economy will be about electronics manufacturing, BPO 2.0 (work from home), national center for Artificial Intelligence and others.

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A digi-manifestoedit

Business Standard

The adoption of cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, analytics among others is leading to re-calibration of workforce requirements in every sector of the economy. As a result, there is a demand for a workforce that is not only geared up for the new digital world, but also has the ability to constantly up-skill, re-skill and change gears as need be.

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5G is not Just Fast Internet, But Will be an Enabler of Manyedit

News 18 

With that, the scope for AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) is also going to see a massive disruption. The definition of value added services would completely change wherein telcos could offer way more than before in a differentiated manner. Embedded communication solutions would also benefit from 5G especially IoT (Internet of Things), robotics, eheatlh and more.

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MIT-Developed Cryptographic System Is Helping Better Protect Your Dataedit

The India Saga 

In a paper presented at the recent IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, MIT researchers detail a system that, for the first time, automatically generates optimized cryptography code thats usually written by hand. Deployed in early 2018, the system is now being widely used by Google and other tech firms.

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Why is AI still out of reach for Indiaedit

The Economic Times 

Moreover, serious research work in India in the field of AI is limited to less than 50 researchers with concentration mostly in institutes such as the IITs, IIITs and IISc. These dismal findings were revealed in the Global AI Talent Report 2018 and further highlighted by Niti Aayog the policy think tank of the government of India in its discussion paper, National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in June 2018.

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Opinion | Rising machine intelligence is a doubleedged swordedit

Live Mint 

There has been a growing chorus of alarm about the existential threat of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Eminent personalities such as Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk have come out in public to state that if we continue to blindly develop machine intelligence, we will inevitably get to a point where machine intelligence will exceed that of humans.

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Nasscom and global Internet body join hands for global research in IoTedit

Business Standard 

The teams began research on the DNS and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) last year, he added. India, with a base of 560 million Internet users and still growing, also leads the world in the adoption of a new set of Internet addresses, called IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6). Most upcoming IoT devices are expected to have addresses belonging to IPv6

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IoT security product market will reach $50 billion by 2027: Future Market Insightsedit

Tech Observer 

The Internet of Things (IoT) security product market revenues will grow from $12 billion in 2017 to $50 billion in 2027, said a report from Future Market Insights (FMI). FMI attributes potential growth prospects of the market to an upsurge in cyber-attacks with the increased adoption of web-based services and recent developments ‘smart’ infrastructures

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AI needs edge computing to make everyday devices smarteredit

The Print 

Artificial intelligence can do amazing things, but it’s still rare because the math takes enormous computing power and loads of electricity. This means driverless cars must be something akin to data centers on wheels, with dozens of processors that can get hot enough to boil water. Edge computing promises to make AI work inside the thousands of smaller gadgets and machines in people’s homes and offices.

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36% firms can enforce data loss prevention in Cloud: Reportedit

Business Standard 

Only 36 per cent organisations said they could enforce data loss prevention in the Cloud and 33 per cent said they could control the collaboration settings that determine how their data is shared, a report by global cyber security firm McAfee said on Tuesday.

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Why businesses are walking on the edge of revolutionedit

CIOL

While the increased focus on solutions like the internet of things and big data analytics are helping businesses anticipate customer needs and provide faster service there are still risks stalling greater adoption of such technologies, primarily the lack of interoperability with existing IT systems and data security.

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Karnataka proposes revised IT policy to reinforce states innovation hub tagedit

The Economic Times

It is also planning to collaborate for Global Innovation Alliances (GIAs) We have already identified new engagements with countries like Estonia, Canada and Switzerland and are in the process of chalking out softlanding exchange for startups in countries like Germany and Netherlands, said Gupta.

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Digital payments to more than double to $235.2 billion by 2023: AssochamPwC studyedit

Business Today

This is courtesy factors such as the rise of digital commerce, innovations in payments technology using Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), realtime payments and the introduction of mobile point of sale (POS) devices, all of which are pushing down the cost of acceptance infrastructure.

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Bettering robothuman synergyedit

Telangana Today

Shah and her colleagues, including project lead and graduate student Przemyslaw Pem Lasota, will be presenting their research at Robotics: Science and Systems conference in Germany this month. According to Lasota, algorithms that predict trajectories based on distance alone are prone to ambiguity in situations such as temporary stops, in which a person pauses before continuing on their path.

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AI has become so simple and affordable that anyone can use itedit

The Times of India

This has reduced the response time from 25-30 seconds to an instant response, and has increased customer ratings from 60% to 85%. Polly has also been used to customise voices and languages, offering two English options with Indian accents, named Aditi and Raveena, making it all more natural and friendly.

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The Present State of Artificial Intelligenceedit

Analytics Insight 

According to the State of the AI report, artificial intelligence adoption rates have significantly increased in a year. One out of seven enormous organizations have embraced AI in two years, 66% of huge organizations will have live AI initiatives. In 2019, AI crosses the chasm from early adopters to the early majority.

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How AI and ML are strengthening data for the BFSI sectoredit

Money Control 

Data Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) when put together are building a powerful platform for advanced statistical analysis of structured and unstructured data. This will provide the solution for the problem of identifying statistically important relationships among alternative and traditional time series data sets which are the foundation of meaningful trading and investment decisions.

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Digital trends shaping IoT adoption in Indiaedit

CIO 

ReportDigital twin, fog and edge computing, AR, VR and MR, 5G and IoT are projected to play a crucial role in making India a frontrunner in IoT adoption.

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Artificial Intelligence: A new challenge to online journalismedit

BW CIO World 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans or even better than them. Among various industries, AI is spreading its horizons in Journalism as well. Journalism, that is also known as the Fourth Estate of the democracy can face AI related consequences in the near future.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Water Conflicts up to an Year in Advanceedit

News 18 

Artificial intelligence can predict where conflicts over scarce water will break out up to a year in advance and allow action to prevent them, researchers said on Friday. An early warning tool that tracks water supplies worldwide and mixes in social, economic and demographic data to flag up potential crises is being developed by the Netherlands based Water, Peace and Security partnership (WPS).

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Artificial intelligence can help diagnose rare diseasesedit

ELE Times 

“Patients want a prompt and accurate diagnosis. Artificial intelligence supports physicians and scientists in shortening the journey,” says Dr. Christine Mundlos, Deputy Managing Director of the alliance of patients with chronic rare diseases (ACHSE) e.V. “This also improves the quality of life of those affected to some extent.”

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Are You ‘Connected’ To Home?edit

The Times of India 

will not have to check every room before you leave your home to ensure all lights and appliances are switched off; or when your shower is ready at the right temperature as soon as you turn the key to enter the house. From motion-sensing lights to smart geysers and virtual assistants, smart home appliances have come a long way. These appliances are achieving their full potential today through a disruptive technology called the Internet of Things (IoT).

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A new AI CoE on the block: An answer to Indian enterprises data dilemmaedit

The Economic Times 

Everybody is talking about AI and its adoption but in reality, Indian enterprises have not adopted AI in a comprehensive way. Skills, infrastructure and tools are still lacking to enable adoption of Artificial Intelligence in a phased manner. India still ranks at 19 in the AI readiness index.

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Indian innovators working to make AI diagnoses foolproofedit

Hindustan Times 

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are driving growth in medical imaging, with deep-learning applications being integrated with radiology for faster and higher-precision diagnosis. Algorithms mine raw data sets within seconds to classify and detect aberrations by reading images at efficiencies that humans can’t match.

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Artificial Intelligence In Indian Financial Sector: Challenges And Opportunity For Millennialsedit

BW People 

India is among the top Fintech markets globally and the Indian financial services sector is emerging as a great place for creative analytical thinkers and data scientists. There are many business challenges that can be resolved only with advanced analytics and AI. Specifically to the lending industry, a critical question is how to assess the ‘Willingness and Ability to Pay’ of a new to credit applicant.

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Top Trending Technologies of 2019edit

Analytics India Mag 

Emerging technologies are not just emerging anymore, they have arrived and created quite a stir! Internet of Things, Machine learning, Augmented and Virtual reality, Natural Language Processing are few. However, their rapid growth, consistent presence, and great potential have led them to pass the stage of emerging technologies.

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Digital payments to more than double to $135.2 bn by 2023edit

Live Mint 

The rise of digital commerce, innovation in payments technology using AI, blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT) and realtime payments and the introduction of mobile point of sale (POS) devices have also contributed to growth.

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AI to Predict Psychosis from Speechedit

The Economic Times 

Washington Scientists using AI have discovered a hidden clue in people’s language that can accurately predict whether they are likely to develop psychosis in future. The method more precisely quantifies the semantic richness of people’s conversational language, a known indicator for psychosis.

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Smart: The future of manufacturingedit

Express Computer 

In a session on IIoT and emerging technologies, Dr Rajeev Papneja, Chief Growth Officer, ESDS Software Solution, while citing an industry report, said that the IoT market is expected to reach an estimated valuation of US$ 14.4 trillion. Of this, 25 per cent will be aimed at reducing timetomarket. While referring to a book on Chinas reindustrialisation, Papneja affirmed that these trends will lead to reindustrialisation in India as well.

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Internet of Things (IoT) offers a significant untapped potential in India: EY and FICCI reportedit

CIOL 

Centralized cloud-based infrastructure shall remain the underpinning for majority of IoT applications, providing low-cost and scalable computing, storage and geographical coverage. Artificial Intelligence will evolve to become more pervasive and available on all devices from mobile phones to high-end servers and accelerate progress in manufacturing, smart homes and smart cities.

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In relief to telcos, Trai told to review reserve price for 5G spectrumedit

Live Mint 

By Navadha Pandey

The government is in the process of finalizing a road map to roll out 5G services, the nextgeneration technology for wireless communications expected to improve data speed and propel Internet of Things. It is expected to yield industry altering changes, especially in sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare and education.

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How APIs are transforming businesses in India to get future smartedit

Business Today 

By Kanishka Gupta

The huge amount of data collected and made available is giving analysts answers to varied and granular questions. APIs are opening new pathways to information and insights, sparking innovative analytics, powering the mobile applications of every business and being used heavily in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices to connect to the cloud.

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For 5G rollout, optic fibre deployment is essential: Cisco chairmanedit

The Economic Times 

By Muntazir Abbas

India is one of the largest telecom markets in the world and I expect India to be one of the early adopters of 5G. Several leading providers are already working towards this. The value of 5G in India is even higher than in advanced countries as it enables India to jump straight to smart infrastructure that comes at a lower cost but with faster delivery.

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Opinion | Why it is unlikely that AI would be a threat to humansedit

Live Mint 

The other day, we came across a quote by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, stating that Artificial Intelligence is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation. While a lot of concerns like this have been voiced regarding AI becoming dangerous to humans in the future, and while we dont know yet whether that will be true or not, from the way things are proceeding currently, it can be said that it is least likely that AI will probably destroy humans.

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Decoding AI for the Indian Defence Forceedit

BW CIO World 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a designing machine which has the ability to think. The very idea of creating such machines is to make the lives of humans easier. Keeping this thought in mind, the Indian Army may take help of AI to predict the servicing of the arms and also to ensure the life and the potential features of their military pieces of equipment. Robots and Artificial Intelligence are a combination of technology and cognitive intelligence representation.

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Chief Data Officers are prioritizing the right things, but higher strategic focus is required: Gartner surveyedit

Money Control 

A majority of CDO respondents rated machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) as critical at 76 percent and 67 percent, respectively. Sixtyfive percent of respondents were using or piloting ML, while 53 percent were using or piloting AI. Less than 20 percent of CDOs surveyed were using or piloting smart contracts (18 percent) or blockchain (16 percent).

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Artificial intelligence enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economyedit

CNBC TV18 

Much as robots have transformed entire swaths of the manufacturing economy, artificial intelligence and automation are now changing information work, letting humans offload cognitive labor to computers. In journalism, for instance, data mining systems alert reporters to potential news stories, while newsbots offer new ways for audiences to explore information.

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Artificial Intelligence Transforming Healthcare Landscapeedit

E Health Elets Online 

Assam developing new partnerships with private sector to enhance patient care, says J V N Subramanyam, MD, National Health Mission (Artificial Intelligence).

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AI has become so simple and affordable that anyone can use itedit

The Times of India 

During the past 50 years, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) were fields that were only accessible to an exclusive circle of researchers and scientists. That is now changing, as packages of AI and ML services, frameworks, and tools are today available to all sorts of companies and organisations, including those that dont have dedicated research groups in this field.

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5G Puts the Spotlight on Network Securityedit

The Economic Times 

The upcoming 5G technology has put the spotlight on the importance of securing the networks and preventing data leaks. Unlike the previous cellular technologies, 5G is not just about faster broadband speeds or richer functions for an individual user but promises a `hyper connected society with billions of connected devices or Internet of Things (IoT), as it is generally referred to.

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Smart cities are ideal breeding grounds for IoT growth in India and across the worldedit

Consultancy 

As Internet of Things continues to permeate various aspects of daily life and market functions alike, analysts are now examining the value of the technology for developing solutions. In India, these applications are being assessed primarily in the context of smart cities, according to KPMG.

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RBIs Vision 2021: Preparing digital payments for exponential growthedit

Money Control 

Security aspects of mobile payments. RBI is looking to update its mobile banking guidelines with specific standards, minimum requirements, best practices and risk mitigation measures. The updated guidelines should look into the possibility of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, internet of things and wearable device technology being utilised for payment services.

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Many 5G usecases to be trialed in India in 2019; commercial deployments in 2020: TechM executiveedit

The Economic Times 

Our focus is on skillbased hiring, especially in digital technologies like artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, blockchain, 5G, Internet of Things, cyber security. We plan to have fresher hiring and training onsite to ramp up local workforce and diversity in different geographies.

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EngineeringR&D beats business process managementedit

The Times of India 

R&D spend in automotive is focused on electronics, software and autonomous vehicles; semiconductor firms are focused on AI, IoT and cloud; healthcare firms in personalised medicine, AI in drug discovery; consumer electronics in connected and smart devices; industrial in predictive asset maintenance; aerospace in predictive maintenance and inflight connectivity; banking/insurance in payments technology and telematics based insurance; and retail in transformation of instore shopping.

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Cybercriminals topmost source of distrust in India: Surveyedit

The Economic Times 

Cybercriminals remain the number one source of distrust in the Internet in India where 79 per cent of people say social media companies contribute to their distrust up from 74 per cent in 2018. Cybercriminals remain the number one source of distrust in the Internet in India where 79 per cent of people say social media companies contribute to their distrust up from 74 per cent in 2018.

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Cloud Computing: What 2019 Will Bringedit

Analytics Insight 

Cloud computing has been hugely beneficial to many companies across most industries. This technology has helped businesses reduce their cost, which helps contribute so much to their efforts in increasing efficiency. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Celebrating Blockchainedit

Millennium Post 

Technology is always going to attract investors and developers. That said, India should actively promote technological conclaves so that Modis flagship Make in India gets the boost it lacked in his first term. Technological conclaves for one aid in attracting a pool of investors to a platform populated by developers and technoenthusiasts.

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AI has become so simple and affordable that anyone can use itedit

The Times of India 

Policybazaar.com, one of India’s largest insurance marketplaces, has integrated Amazon Polly, a service used to turn text into lifelike speech, with its in-house IVR (interactive voice response) to process over 100,000 calls every month. This has reduced the response time from 25-30 seconds to an instant response, and has increased customer ratings from 60% to 85%. Polly has also been used to customise voices and languages, offering two English options with Indian accents, named Aditi and Raveena, making it all more natural and friendly.

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A to I of artificial intelligenceedit

The Hindu 

Infosys founder NR Narayana Mur­ thy, who was present in the audience, said, “The ability to define purpose and goal is truly what distinguishes a human being from a machine…” “I think you just made a brilliant point,” Kartik replied. “We keep asking as AI can match what humans are do­ ing, what is left for humans to do? Well­ defined tasks are very easy for AI sys­tems to do.

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5G mobile services expected to create over $27 billion business opportunity for India by 2026: Nitin Bansal of Ericsson Indiaedit

Business Today 

Bansal: We are the first with commercial live networks in the US, and have already deployed operational 5G networks based on commercial equipment in Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia. We have publicly announced 5G deals with 18 operators globally. From an India market perspective, we brought the first live demonstration of 5G to India in late 2017. In 2018, we signed MoUs with Bharti Airtel and BSNL to work together to create a roadmap for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) deployments in India.

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Five ways in which Artificial Intelligence is transforming data storage industryedit

Financial Express

We are in the midst of an explosion of data. Today, the world is creating more data than ever before in history. As per the Digital 2019 report by HootSuite, the average internet user is online for an average of 6 hours and 42 minutes each day. A study from Domo estimates that by 2020, every person on earth will create 1.7MB of data every second. As the volume of data multiplies, it also throws up the need for far more sophisticated ways of managing data.

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Smart Cities: What Future Cities Infused With AI May Look Like By 2035edit

India Times 

A report by McKinsey Global Institute estimates that as many as 800 million jobs worldwide could be lost to automation and/or robots. Kai Fu Lee who is credited as an AI expert and VC in an interview claimed as many as 40 per cent of the current jobs will be affected due to the incoming AIRobotics wave. At the head of this disruption will be jobs of people who drive for a living since AI in transportation is a major focus area for companies. Lee estimates, these jobs will be disrupted in the next 1525 years (between 2034 and 2044).

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What to expect from the 5G spectrum auction this yearedit

Live Mint 

7 hours ago DoT has asked the Trai to consider auctioning more spectrum for 5G services than … What to expect from the 5G spectrum auction this year … 5G Spectrum AuctionDoTTelecom Industry … The government expects companies to submit higher bids for spectrum as it is their lifeline, but telecom operators will … (Internet of things)

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Pioneering AI in sports techedit

Express Computer 

Chennaibased sports intelligence and technology company, Roanuz Softwares, makes applications and services using practical artificial intelligence. Founded by Anto Binish Kaspar, Cricket API is a successful product of Roanuz that served more than 1 billion requests in its first year. More than 350 applications use Cricket API at present. The company is now strengthening its hold in the industry with the launch of the World Cup specific API. We have processed over 1.2 million balls until now. This means that the API has been fed with approximately 5million records as input and was taking around 1,500 milliseconds to respond. With the new intelligent World Cup bot this time is expected to dwindle to a mere 300 milliseconds, ...AISports

Multicloud Infrastructures Can Drive Digital Transformation for Agribusiness, According to Proagricas New Reportedit

IT News Online 

Futureproofing Technologies such as the Internet of Things (IOT), AI and machine learning are finally being made more available to the majority of users. This is especially the case for the cloud, where the newest advances are usable far in advance compared to localized onpremise software.

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Indian market is moving towards Hyperscale Data Centresedit

Egov Eletsonline 

We increasingly support data centre infrastructure with customised solutions that can digitally transform businesses and also maintain the scalability and flexibility. Our solutions ensure a robust and rationalised IT Infrastructure, as well as technological components that fit with our clients requirements. Edge computing, 5G, Big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT) are impacting the future data centres in a big way. They call for increased bandwidth requirement, critical network cabling and multilayered operational security in the facilities.

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How AI Is Becoming The Most Reliable Therapist In Mental Healthedit

Analytics India Mag 

To deal with this global challenge, it is not only humans that are fighting, but technology has also formed an alliance with humans to fight mental disorder, offering hope for reversing the decline in mental wellness. Over the past few years, AI has already marked its presence in the healthcare sector. Now, as the healthcare industry is embracing artificial intelligence, AI is all set to make a difference in mental health treatment.

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Future of India Japan relationship is AI, IoT, 5Gedit

Bwcio Businessworld 

Yet, he said, Japan would focus more on collaborations in Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and 5G as this is the future of our relationship.He emphasized that Japan was committed to Indias development efforts especially in the areas like infrastructure, Northeast development, and projects like Ganga Rejuvenation Project, womens empowerment project, Swachh Bharat project, forest, and disaster management, among others.

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Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: Towards Intelligent Manufacturingedit

CIOL 

AI Enabled machines communication Additionally, equipment in the manufacturing industry is increasingly being controlled through distributed systems known as MachinetoMachine (M2M). M2M technology uses sensors to record the data that is fed through these networks. Through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), this data then provides important inputs to the variety of machines that are being used to perform a number of different tasks. Several manufacturing spaces today are making use of AI sensors in their gas turbines to adjust fuel valves to facilitate lower emission levels.

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AI will be a game changer for pharma sector: Amitabh Mishra, President and Global CTO, Emcure Pharmaceuticalsedit

The Economic Times 

Testing new drugs is a slow, expensive, and manual process. Artificial intelligence has the potential to disrupt every stage of the clinical trials process from matching eligible patients to studies to monitoring adherence and data collection. A candidate AI business case for us is the reduction of trial cycle times, the goal being the reduction of cycle times from, say, 12 months to six. RPA, too, has a lot of potential for the pharma domain. Financial decisionmaking at pharmaceuticals is highly manual

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AI tool detects rare diseases from portraits, health dataedit

The Economic Times 

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that uses portrait photos in combination with genetic and patient data to efficiently and reliably diagnose rare diseases. Every year, around half a million children worldwide are born with a rare hereditary disease. Obtaining a definitive diagnosis can be difficult and time consuming.

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AI can give radiologists an edge in identifying brain aneurysmsedit

Express Computer 

Doctors could soon get some help from an artificial intelligence tool when diagnosing brain aneurysms bulges in blood vessels in the brain that can leak or burst open, potentially leading to stroke, brain damage or death.

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IoT: An enabler for connected governmentedit

Express Computer 

The vision of any Connected Government in digital era is to develop connected and intelligent IoT based systems to contribute to governments economy, improving citizen satisfaction, safe society, environment sustainability, city management and global need.

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How to prevent smart meters from being hackededit

Express Computer 

Smart electricity meters are useful because they allow energy utilities to efficiently track energy use and allocate energy production. But because theyre connected to a grid, they can also serve as back doors for malicious hackers. (Internet of Things)

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Cyber Security Approach Should Not Be FearDriven, Says NCSC Chiefedit

Analytics Insight 

With the rising frequency and scope of cyber attacks, it has become crucial that companies and government as well dont operate over fearbased cybersecurity approach. According to the UKs National Cyber Security Centre Chief Ciaran Martin, the feardriven cybersecurity approach wont be helpful for users and it can neither prevent attacks.

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Consumers failing to embrace AI benefitsedit

The Asian Age 

Consumers lack trust in artificial intelligence (AI) and dont understand the extent to which it can make their interactions with businesses better and more efficient, according to new research from Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering digital transformation at the worlds leading enterprises.

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Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics an asset for Insurance industryedit

UNI India 

Artificial Intelligence and data analytics is an asset for Insurance industry, said the Insurance Ombudsman. Confederation of Indian Industry Northern region organised the 3rd edition of CII

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Opinion | How to make smart bots work very effectivelyedit

Live Mint 

Chatbots, or conversational AI (artificial intelligence), have found quick adoption in enterprises as they help keep customer communication channels open 24/7. Enterprises can also provide customer delight by offering instantaneous responses. Unfortunately, success with conversation agents for enterprises has been limited.

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Looking forward to fifth generationedit

Millennium Post 

A smooth implementation of 5G following successful trials will give India the bedrock to catapult its progress. In the era of IoT (Internet of Things), 5G is an upgrade that will expedite the proliferation of IoT devices, inducing technology in almost everything as per the scope of IoT while transforming society into a data hub of all sorts. The future is exciting indeed

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AI adds teeth to security efforts against faste volving cyberattacksedit

Live Mint 

This example shows that tech companies are stepping up their security efforts to battle the fast evolving threat landscape more effectively. Artificial intelligence (AI) and ML are at the heart of these efforts as they can detect advanced and previously unknown malware faster than traditional antivirus solutions.

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IDC: India software revenue to grow 13.7% to $6 bnedit

Infotech Lead

Indian organizations would attempt at maximizing their investments in analytics, cloud, and artificial intelligence through appropriate monetization mechanisms. This is slated to act as a catalyst in driving digital transformation across organizations,” said Ranganath Sadasiva, director, Enterprise Solutions, IDC India, said. IDC predicts 11 percent growth in the application development and deployment software categories in 2019.

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China gives green light for local 5G rollout amid tech tensions with USedit

Live Mint

5G technology will establish a highspeed, mobile, safe and widespread newgeneration information infrastructure. The technology is expected to bring new opportunities and buoy the growth of Chinas digital economy (Artificial Intelligence)

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Availability, Affordability, Practicality: The Indian Telcos Battle for 5G Spectrumedit

News 18

From limited spectrum availability, to high base spectrum pricing and a possible lack in demand for 5G services, Indian telecom operators are in for a bumpy ride. From limited spectrum availability, to high base spectrum pricing and a possible lack in demand for 5G services, Indian telecom operators are in for a bumpy ride. (Artificial Intelligence)

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55% of parents are at risk of endangering their kids safety online, OLX India survey revealsedit

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This new study confirms OLXs Internet Behaviour Survey released earlier in the year on Safer Internet Day (5th February). The survey in February revealed that a majority of Internet users neglect cybersecurity best practices in their own personal lives, and do not monitor the content their kids view online. 57% respondents showed negligence towards their own safety both online and offline, while 60% admitted to not monitoring the content their kids viewed online.

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Tech-based solutions for farmersedit

Telangana Today

Out of many issues faced by farmers, one of them is the safe handling of water pumps and regulating water flow according to the crop sowed. For many years, this has been done manually by the farmers and has led to many issues like electric shock, high and/or low water supply among other things. In order to help farmers irrigate their farms by use of technology, Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Dinnepu started Agwick technologies, an agri-tech startup incubated at National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) Hyderabad.

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IIITHyderabad, BDL set up CoE for AI in Missile Techedit

Telangana Today

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad and Bharat Dynamics Ltd (BDL) announced on Wednesday the establishment of Centre of Excellence (CoE) for artificial intelligence (AI) in Missile Tech. Formally launched by IIITH director Prof P J Narayanan and BDL CMD Commodore Siddharth Mishra (Retd), the CoE will take up projects relating to AI activities in missiles, manufacturing, inspection and allied areas.

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How organisations can extract optimal value from their security investmentsedit

The Financial Express

Today’s rapidly-evolving digital world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Everything as a Service (XaaS) requires a different approach to cybersecurity. Analytics can enable real-time detection of security events and decisioning on how to handle them, automating manual processes and routine decisions.

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ETtech Top 5: Udaans credit foray, Personal finance for millennials & moreedit

The Economic Times

Cybersecurity specialists also pointed out that the committee could have set out more concrete recommendations on fraud prevention in digital transactions. It has suggested setting up of a fraud detection registry, periodic publishing of fraud data and preventing payment applications from running on insecure devices.

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Consolidation In The Indian Banking Spaceedit

Business World

The growth story of Indian banks during digitization and the latest tax reforms has been an inspiration to other industries in the country. Technological trends, acquisitions & mergers and branch expansion to rural areas are some of the key steps to take banking to newer heights according to a panel at the 11th BW MAGNA Awards 2019.

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Carbon Black Threat Report Details Cyberattacks Targeting the Healthcare Industryedit

 

Report highlights input from 20 leading healthcare CISOs who offer their perspective on evolving cyberattacks, ransomware and the biggest concerns to their organisations Reading, UK 5th June 2019 Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK), a leader in cloud endpoint protection, today released a seminal report on the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry.

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There is a severe cybersecurity skills shortage: Rajesh Mauryaedit

The Financial Express 

India Inc, cybersecurity, cybersecurity jobs, cybersecurity courses, cybersecurity skills, digital leadership, Capgemini, Digital Transformation, The enterprise branch is undergoing intense digital transformation and we are seeing application consumption models rapidly move to the cloud.

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The Most Artificial Intelligence Disruptive Industries Over the Next Five Yearsedit

Analytics Insight 

Today, companies across all industries are leveraging Artificial Intelligence as its offering great potential to streamline business processes, lessen operational costs and automate dreary tasks. Since the progression of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Internet of Things (IoT) could empower further market growth in the AI space, the global market for this emerging technology is predicted to touch $190.61 billion by 2025.

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Plugging into Indias broadband revolutionedit

Live Mint 

Bigger cities, however, will have a different consumption story. With intracity fibre coverage leading to improved penetration, wired broadband would not just offer an enhanced content viewing experience, but also open doors for internet of things, or IoT. Home security is going to become a big business going forward, riding on fibre.

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Opinion | The needle in the digital haystackedit

Live Mint 

If you factor in data that will in the near future be generated by Internet of Things (IoT), the cameras that surround us and look down at us from the sky and the smart devices that weve increasingly welcomed into our homes, the volume of data that law enforcement will have to wade through is truly staggering.

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Is AI Going To Be The Next Wolf Of Wall Streetedit

Analytics India Mag 

In this article, we are going to have a look at how artificial intelligence is making a significant transformation in the investment sector and how it is changing the way stocks are picked.AI Outworking Human In Stock Picking

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IoT to impact multiple verticals; capacity building the keyedit

Geospatial World 

For automobile, 46% of all value that is going to be created is actually going to come from IoT and connectivity. For healthcare, it is 35%. For most of the other sectors, it is at least 15%, says Indraneel Banerjee, Partner, McKinsey & Company, in an exclusive interview with Geospatial World

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AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom activate LTEM roamingedit

Telecom Lead

Telecom operators AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have activated LTEM roaming across their respective IoT networks.5G and IoT connection forecast. The activation of LTEM roaming across IoT networks enables IoT Low Power devices to efficiently operate on multiple networks across North America and Europe.

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India Will Conduct 5G Trials In 100 Days, 5G Spectrum Auction Soon; But Will Telcos Agreeedit

Trak 

Hence, Govt. is eager to initiate the auction now, as 5G is the next big thing in the telecom world. Once 5G network comes to India, then consumers will not only have access to high speed Internet, but also be able to connect with IoT enabled devices, and access the exciting world of interconnected machines such as TV, cars, fridge, smartphones, watches and more.

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In the name of Cyber Security..edit

Express Computer 

Thats why companies that provide bank or nonbanking finance (NBFC) are the main targets for these hackers. Whether it is a malware attack in Irans Atomic Dispute Department or loot in Bangladeshi Bank or Cosmos Bank, it looks like happened in some Hollywood movies, and then someone will question whether it is really possible And really, are cybercriminals so intelligent The answer is yes.

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Ignore digital armageddon, these are the biggest concerns of AIedit

The Economic Times 

Many people view artificial intelligence as selfaware computers, evil robots, and digital armageddon. But according to two pioneers of the field, AI is often misunderstood and the fears related to it are pedestrian.

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How AI and ML Can Up An Organisations RPA Gameedit

Analytics India Mag 

Talking about data, it is difficult to extract insights from unstructured data and that is why most companies struggle. While on the other hand, Artificial intelligence over the years has been a vital part in making the most out of data. And in this scenario, insights from sources like emails, annual statements, contracts, or other types of documents need to be extracted, and this can be done using AI and ML.

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About 100 mn people make ePayments once a month, claims Nandan Nilekani-led paneledit

The Economic Times 

The number of people who use digital payments at least once in a month stands at 100 million currently, according to the Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments. This could be one of the first official acknowledgements of the total number of digitally transacting active users in India.

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Future of selfservice is customerled automationedit

The Financial Express 

There is often a lot of discussion about how enterprises continue to invest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to save time and money, but we often overlook the next generation of customers being equally amenable to conducting their personal experiences the same way, said Anthony Mullen, senior research director at Gartner.

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Banking on artificial intelligence: In hiring drive, Bots are calling the shots nowedit

The Economic Times 

Be that as it may, Amazon.com scrapped its artificial intelligence based recruiting system after it found the AI system biased against women, according to an October 2018 report by Reuters. The AI system was drawing on data from the past, where more men had made it into the company than women.

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AI on the futureedit

The Telegraph 

Artificial intelligence will lead to an estimated two lakh jobs in the near future; this is a good time to take up the study of AI and machine learning By Omkar RaiRight skilling is the most critical factor for success in technology adoption. And given the rapid adoption of AI in industry, about two lakh jobs in the sector are expected to be created by 2020.

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5G coming to India: The spoilers and moreedit

Gadgets Now 

5G refers to highspeed, low latency nextgeneration communication technology. How fast A peak data rate of 20 Giga bits per sec (GBit/s) and user experience data rate of 100 Mbit/s. According to a paper by the Department of Telecom, 5G could have a cumulative economic impact of $1 trillion in India by 2035. 5G is expected make possible smart factories (industrial IoT), connected cars, smart healthcare, smart cities and such.

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Why enterprises should emphasize on digital transformationedit

The Economic Times 

To meet changing customer demands, many CIOs are aligning with key executives, making organizational changes, reskilling employees, setting up innovation labs and experimenting with emerging technologies to meet strategic mandates issued by their CEOs and boards.

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India Among Top 9 In Worldwide Rankings In Terms Of AI Specialistsedit

Analytics India Mag 

The top rank in this list have many academic institutes with programs on artificial intelligence. They therefore have a much greater number of people skilled to do research in the field. India, on the contrary, lacks the opportunities in formal education in data science but is slowly trying to encourage the adoption of AI in education institutes.

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How Maharashtra Govt Is Tapping Into AI To Position Mumbai As A Global FinTech Hubedit

Analytics India Mag 

Talking about the technology side, the FinTech sector itself is a combination of technology and the financial services sector. Most startups and established companies, alike, are looking at incorporating some element of artificial intelligence, machine learning in all their services.

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Growth In Intellectual Property Is Indicative Of Technological Progress And Improved Economic Activityedit

Cellit 

Over the past few years, start-ups have contributed to the IT-BPM industry by building new innovative products and services. As per the report, in the period from 2015-18, Indian start-ups have filed nearly 200 patents in the US, majority of which focused on emerging technology areas including Image Processing, AI, Cyber Security, Vehicle Technology and IoT.

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Digging Deeper | Is AI really a threat to humanityedit

Money Control 

When coupled with the advances in the area of Internet of Things (IoT), we reach a point where digital assistants not just follow instructions, but operate also as a perfect butler, reminding you of things, cleaning up after you, and preceding your arrival by keeping your house and appliances in exactly the condition you prefer.

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Can AI be a game changer technology for Real Estateedit

Express Computer 

Artificial Intelligence is changing our lives at an incredible pace. From selfdriven cars to the world of Alexa and Siri, AI is all set to augment the quality of human lives and experiences.

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Smart City Mission: IoT making things smoother for citiesedit

The Financial Express 

The bottomline is that IoT helps track usage trends and gain insights into urban living, allowing governance bodies to come up with policies that address citizen needs with focus and efficiency. Since the corpus of smart city funds is much larger than their traditional municipal budgets, it is the tier-II and tier-III cities that are turning out to be the biggest beneficiaries of SCM, making use of IoT to improve urban systems.

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AI to double innovation rate in India by 2021: Studyedit

Telangana Today 

The session will be addressed by data scientists and AI experts from companies such as Flipkart, Reliance Jio and InMobi that are leading the way in transforming their businesses and the industry with technology, Microsoft said. To meet the AI skills required by business leaders, Microsoft had announced the launch of its AI Business School earlier this year.

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10 Industries Redefined by Big Data Analytics | Analyticsedit

Analytics Insight

Analytics, data science, and big data have helped a number of cities to pilot the smart cities initiative where data collection, analytics and the IoT combine to create joined-up public services and utilities spanning the entire city. For example, a sensor network has been rolled out across all 80 of the council’s neighborhood recycling centres to help streamline collection services, so wagons can prioritize the fullest recycling centres and skip those with almost nothing in them.

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Industry 4.0: Embracing digital twin technology can push India’s manufacturing sector to a historic highedit

The Times of India 

What exactly does digital twin mean? It is a concept where digital replicas of physical assets and systems are created. This process is the convergence of our physical and virtual worlds where all industrial devices and products get their own digital imprint. Digital twin models will incorporate all the other important technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data. These cost-effective systems lead to better access, management and maintenance of assets using quality data.

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Future Of Medicine Powered By Cloudedit

Business World 

Imagine a hospital stores crores of digital images of different test and scan of patients on a daily basis. Study says, presently, only medical imaging makes for about 90% of healthcare data. With the growing adoption of IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), edge computing and diagnostic technologies, you can be assured that the data pool is only going to grow at a whopping rate.

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The mix of AI, RPA is turning business process automation smartedit

ET CIO 

“There are no use cases which will go all the way across yet,” says Gartner analyst Moutusi Sau, referring to RPA adoption in the financial services industry. “There have been some chatbot engines out there, and AI decisioning tools, but you cannot build momentum on one particular solution.

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Tata Communications pioneers an IoT ecosystem with first-of-its-kind IoT Marketplace in Indiaedit

CIOL 

The IoT Marketplace will bring together IoT practitioners and enterprise customers on a single platform; setting the ground for customers to tailor their IoT solutions and drive innovation within their business, while enabling vendors and partners on the platform to discover new market opportunities.

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Strong faith on Artificial Intelligenceedit

The Financial Express 

In India, a NITI Aayog paper last year had identified five focus areas where the gains could drive not just growth but greater inclusion-healthcare, agriculture, education, urban-/smart-city infrastructure, and transportation and mobility. The Microsoft-IDC study showed that to move ahead on their AI journeys, business have to create the right organizational culture.

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NITI Aayog 2.0: Restructured Or Not, The Indian Think Tank Is Set To Ride The TsuNaMo Waveedit

Analytics India Mag 

From working closely with numerous tech behemoths to keeping their ears on the ground to understand the grassroots reality in a diverse country like India, the NITI Aayog has had their hands full with their work with technologies like artificial intelligence, internet of things, machine learning and data analytics, among others.

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New AI Algorithm Can Now Guess What You Look Like Based Just On Your Voiceedit

Analytics India Mag 

The authors of this paper, trained a neural network using millions of videos on the internet. During training, our model learns voiceface correlations that allow it to produce images that capture various physical attributes of the speakers such as age, gender and ethnicity.

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India Makes A Remarkable Growth in Artificial Intelligenceedit

Analytics India Mag 

It is normal that AI could broadly help in the social and economic advancement of the nation. Alongside this, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology additionally settled four panels on numerous parts of artificial intelligence. Strikingly, this has likewise introduced solid enthusiasm for some technical professions to seek after an artificial intelligence course.

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End user base is well aware and talk a lot about cloud security in India: Rajpreet Kaur, Principal Analyst, Gartneredit

Money Control 

Rajpreet Kaur, Principal Analyst, Gartner gives insights on the ways of safeguarding cloud infrastructure from advanced cyber threats. She also touched upon cyber-attacks that are unique to cloud along with the point of keeping cybersecurity a priority in a company’s cloud strategy.

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Current telecom infrastructure growth rate may play spoilsport to India’s 5G partyedit

ET Telecom 

“There would be an increase in consumption of data due to the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferation. In order to produce more data faster, a strong backbone is needed that can be built on fiber,” the Swiss company’s executive added.

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Benefits of Blockchain in IoTedit

Geospatial World 

It’s so rare to come across an outstanding combination like Blockchain and the Internet of things. ‘A kickass fusion’ is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about it. Well, I will start, as I always do, by offering a brief explanation of how blockchain and the internet of things work so that we’re all on the same page

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Need to focus on gridconnected storage policy for investment in battery technology: Expertsedit

Business Standard 

The experts and industry players were on the same page for India taking lead over other countries in setting up storage manufacturing base in the country unlike solar modules wherein over 65 per cent of manufacturing is being done in China and other nations as per industry estimates. (E mobility)

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Go Green Mantraedit

The Times of India 

Indian auto sector is reeling under the debate about full transformation to electric vehicles. Most cos feel it’s too premature to shift gears and that they need more time to stabilise after the BS-VI changeover. World over though, the share of EV sales of the biggest auto markets is still less than 5%. Countries like China, US, UK, Germany and S Korea, many of them early EV converts, are still predominantly petrol/diesel markets

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Delhi Government Announces Pilot Project for Using Electric Vehicles for Delivering Online Ordersedit

News 18 

The Delhi government has announced its first electric vehicles (EVs) freight pilot under which up to 1,000 such vehicles are aimed to be deployed in the city over the next 12 months for delivering online orders. Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot made an announcement in this regard on the occasion of inauguration of Urban Mobility Lab workshop to promote innovation in clean and sustainable mobility in Delhi.

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725 Kilometers On A Single Charge Heres The Lightyear Oneedit

Drive Spark 

All the cars in the world combined, drive about 9.5 trillion kilometers per year and most of them are combustion cars. Even though the world is aiming for battery electric vehicles to change that, the team at Lightyear has been gunning for a purely solarrun vehicle since more than half a decade now. he added.

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How has the logistics and transport industry changed over the years with technologyedit

Deccan Chronicle 

Transport and logistics industry is the one of the leading segments investing heavily in IoT. To make transportation and logistics industry a more effective and efficient system, IoT has made it all possible from effective road safety issues to monitoring of the system in fleet management.

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How an e-motor racing team is plugging into AI for that extra surgeedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Professional services firm Genpact has embedded artificial intelligence (AI) into the race series to help turn data into a competitive edge for Envision Virgin Racing’s drivers. AI assesses massive amounts of data to unearth patterns which analyse systems, test numerous possibilities and recommend a course of action. Genpact’s data scientists have uncovered competitive insights from alternative data that enhance the team’s race strategy.

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The Niti Aayog mandate has the potential to make India an evehicle hubedit

Down To Earth 

Down to Earth speaks to Manu Sharma, general manager of Hero Electric about the recent Niti Aayog announcement to run allelectric vehicles on Indian roads by 2030Recently, premier governmental think tank, Niti Aayog asked two and threewheeler makers to suggest within two weeks, concrete steps towards a transition to electric mobility.

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On The Moveedit

Business Today 

By Rukmini Rao

Using IoT technology to track battery strength, Yulu replaces the lowcharge twowheelers with charged ones from the nearest available charging station. This not only eliminates the time taken for charging but also the downtime of each vehicle. The company has created Yulu Zones every 200 metres in highdensity areas to ensure adequate availability and also track demand and supply.

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New fuel pumps should marry younger EVs for a longer lifeedit

The Economic Times 

But oil firms are trying hard to hide the crease on their foreheads. They are betting a massive policy push to popularize electric vehicles (EVs) will not materialize, EVs will remain unaffordable, and the facilities needed to charge EVs will never gain scale.

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How start-ups can turbocharge the EV revolutionedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Kapil Shelke, CEO and Founder of Pune-based Tork Motors, which calls itself ‘India’s first electric motorcycle manufacturing start-up with proprietary drive train technology’ said: “It is (the government mandate) definitely a great opportunity for start-ups like us because we have spent a good amount of years building this robust technology.

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Delhi govt launches Urban Mobility Labedit

Millennium Post 

The lab was launched by the Transport, Minister Kailash Gahlot, and Vice Chairperson, Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC), Jasmine Shah, in the presence of several stakeholders from government, industry and civil society. Delhi government is committed to reduce vehicular pollution through the introduction of electric vehicles in Delhi, Kailash Gahlot, minister of transport, the government of NCT of Delhi said.

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Delhi government, Rocky Mountain Institute launch electric vehicle pilot for freight transportedit

CNBC TV18 

Over 30 companies have participated in this last-mile urban delivery project with the goal of inducting up to 1,000 electric vehicles in the city under the pilot over the next 12 months. A joint initiative by the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDC-Delhi) and Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), the project will document and analyse the performance of electric vehicles for urban deliveries.

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Auto firms have neither any wishlist, nor any suggestion for Budget 2019edit

Business Standard 

As the Union government prepares to present the Budget, industry, which is usually vocal before the Budget, is quiet. Facing subdued sales, the automobile industry is worried about recent government regulations such as shifting to electric vehicles. Unlike every year, most chief executive officers of auto companies have neither any wishlist, nor any suggestion.

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A multi-year roadmap with milestones is the keyedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said migration to electric vehicles (EVs) needs to be planned to ensure that the entire ecosystem is ready through a multi-year road map, echoing views of industry leaders who have called for a calibrated approach towards electric mobility.

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Opinion: Support from govt will help nurture a culture of electric mobilityedit

Live Mint 

With our entry in the EV market, we hope to usher a transition in consumer behaviour. We believe that a customers acceptance of electric vehicles signifies a huge step forward for the industry as a whole. In this context, Hyundais vision is aligned with the Indian governments vision for future mobility.

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GST cut on Electric Vehicles likely; industry fights proposal to go all electric by 2030edit

The New Indian Express 

The GST Council will consider reduction of tax on Electric Vehicles (EV), Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur informed Lok Sabha on Monday. The matter has been placed before the GST Council and will be considered. As of now, it is pending before the council, Thakur said while replying to a question from BJP member Varun Gandhi during the Question Hour.

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EMobility Alone Will Not Cut Down Urban Congestion and Emissionsedit

The Wire 

Electric vehicles are essential for a green mobility transformation, but they are not a onestop solution to carbon intensive transport. EVs might not help in greenhouse gas reduction unless India substantially revamps its energy mix.

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Electrifying vision, sobering realityedit

The Financial Express 

Indeed, this talk o fa sharply advanced EV schedule will also play havoc with manufacturers’ plans to switch from the existing BS-IV emission norms to BS-VI, since it is possible a large number of buyers will prefer to wait to buy EVs instead.

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Despite push, India has a lot of ground to cover on shift to electric carsedit

Live Mint 

At the same time, the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is expected to cut Indias hefty oil import bill. The governments focus on cleaning up the toxic air can be seen through its ambitious aim to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. India has a renewable energy capacity of 74.79 GW with solar and wind power making up 25.21 GW and 35.14 GW respectively.

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Why the govt is pushing EVs to fight climate changeedit

MINT

By Malyaban Gosh

NITI Aayog, the government think tank tasked with devising a mass electric energy-based transport system in India, has devised a plan to stop the registration of internal combustion engine (ICE)-driven three-wheelers by 2023 and twowheelers under 150cc by 2025

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Ride-hailing enters new growth lane as bike mobility takes offedit

The Times of India 

While the two startups are betting on the self-drive model, another player, Rapido, is building a bike taxi business, which will compete with Ola and Uber once there is regulatory clarity in the segment. (EV)

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Electric vehicles up to 67% less emission intensive than conventional carsedit

The Economic Times 

WoodMac said in a report that an EV can only displace up to half of the GHG emissions of an ICE gasoline car based on the existing electricity generation mix in developing economies.

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2 wheeler makers object to EV transition timelineedit

The Indian Express 

The Aayog asked the twoand three-wheeler makers to suggest within two weeks concrete steps towards transition to electric mobility keeping in mind 2025 deadline. Strongly objecting to NITI Aayog’s proposal to transition to electric vehicles (EVs) for three-wheelers and two-wheelers, Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor Monday said the policy has not been made with adequate study and diligence.

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TERI suggests city specific mobility approachedit

The Economic Times 

Within the context of the fourpronged strategy, Niti Aayogs recent proposal for permitting sale of only electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030 is an ambitious target, which may impose substantive costs on users, TERI said.

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No Charges For Registration Of Electric Vehicles Government Want To Boost EV Salesedit

Drive Spark 

Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Motor Company, said, The auto industry globally is still a long way away from all of this, as is India. To force an unrealistic deadline for mass adoption of electric two and three wheelers, will not just create consumer discontent, it risks derailing auto manufacturing in India that supports 4 million jobs.

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Indians Shifting to Hybrids on Green Policies, Carmakers Pushedit

The Economic Times 

Indian consumers are increasingly looking to buy a hybrid or an electric vehicle over conventional power train driven ones on the back of supportive environmental policies big brand bets and shift in buyers mindset shows a report by global consultancy firm Deloitte.

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GST rate slashed to 12% on EV chargers; industry sees it as sentiment boosteredit

The Economic Times 

The industry players are hoping for GST reduction on electric vehicle to 5 per cent from current 12 per cent. The proposal for GST rate cut on electric vehicles has been sent to fitment committee.

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Govts stress on infrastructure and EVs: President Ram Nath Kovindedit

The Economic Times 

Addressing the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, the President said massive work to create infrastructure is underway, and electric vehicles are being promoted to reduce pollution

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Govt refuses to budge on electric vehicle deadline for 2 and 3wheelersedit

Business Standard 

Makers of electric vehicles (EVs) and officials of the NITI Aayog and the government took part in the meeting. The government is firm that extending the deadline is difficult, and tried to impress upon electric vehicle makers that unless they acted, the Courts would step and the big players would be left with little choice.

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Ride-hailing enters new growth lane as bike mobility takes offedit

The Times of India 

Vogo’s model may not seem as convenient as Bounce’s, but it helps prevent theft and abandonment. Currently, Bounce operates only in Bangalore, whereas Vogo also has a presence in Hyderabad. While the two startups are betting on the self-drive model, another player, Rapido, is building a bike taxi business, which will compete with Ola and Uber once there is regulatory clarity in the segment.

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NITI Aayog gives scooter, bike makers 2 weeks to draw up EV plan: Reportedit

Business Standard 

During Fridays meeting government officials argued that switching to EVs is of national importance so India does not miss out on the global drive towards environmentally cleaner vehicles, one of sources said. But industry executives responded that a premature switch with no established supply chain, charging infrastructure or skilled labour in India, could result in India losing its leadership position in scooters and motorbikes, the second source said.

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How can the budget help ensure sustainable growth for auto industryedit

The Financial Express 

Electric and hybrid vehicles: The governments commitment towards electric vehicles (EVs) is a positive sign for the industry, and the revision in import duty (announced earlier this year, in January 2019) to support the local assembly of EVs augurs well for the industry.

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Expecting a boom in e-vehicles industry, ITIs move to skill youth in the segmentedit

The Hindu Business Line 

At a NITI Aayog-called meeting of the twoand three-wheeler industry last week, the government think-tank asked the latter to come up with EV conversion plans within two weeks. Earlier, a NITI Aayog-led panel recommended that taxi aggregators such as Uber and Ola should convert 40 per cent of their fleet to electric by April 2026.

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Automakers run into collision with Centre’s electric vehicle planedit

Business Standard 

Even as the NITI Aayog has given the industry two weeks to come up with a plan on how it wants to proceed on the matter, companies such as Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor have objected to banning twoand three-wheelers and asked for at least four months to come up with a comprehensive plan that takes into account all aspects of e-mobility.

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Government likely to shun NITI Aayog EVonly proposaledit

The New Indian Express 

The proposal of government think tank NITI Aayog to fully transit from internal combustion engines (ICE) towards electric vehicles (EV) by 2030 has come up with resistance from within the government.

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Bescom to use solar power for evehiclesedit

The New Indian Express 

While Bangalore Electricity Supply Company works on solar power and electric vehicle charging as two separate projects, they are for the first time combining the two to see how solar power generated at the agencys corporate office can charge electric vehicles.

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Auto, realty companies may not get relief at GST Council meet todayedit

Business Standard 

Issues related to the tax structure for solar projects, reduction in tax rate on electric vehicles, and more are expected to be discussed during Sitharamans first Council meeting.

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Government proposes no registration charges for electric vehiclesedit

Business Today 

The government has decided to waive registration charges for electric vehicles, a draft notification said Wednesday. The move, aimed at promoting electric vehicles (EVs) in India, comes at a time when the country plans high penetration of such vehicles by 2030.

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Eight charging stations for electric vehicles on Bluru highwayedit

The Times of India 

As part of its overarching plan to boost ecofriendly modes of transportation, Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (Cesc), Mysuru has decided to set up eight stations where motorists can charge their electric vehicles along the Bengaluru highway. Cesc is hoping to complete the project before the end of the 201920 financial year.

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Are we ready for a battery powered futureedit

The New Indian Express 

Electronic vehicles will be well received by the environmentally conscious market. However, maintaining it will be critical and expensive. We dont want to repeat the mistake of not maintaining it well, like with the previous Volvo premium AC bus initiative. Another note is that only 10 per cent of the leadacid batteries can be reused. Others go waste and require safe disposal.

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Road ministry plans to ease EVs’ licensingedit

Business Standard 

Electric vehicles (EVs) might soon find it easier to get licences than their traditional counterparts. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has proposed a set of non-fiscal benefits, such as creating an ecosystem for them in public transport and shared mobility by allowing easier permits.

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GST on electric vehicles may be reduced to 5%edit

The Economic Times 

Lower duties are expected to encourage global manufacturers to invest in Indias planned shift to electric vehicles in order to try and bring down pollution levels. India may cut the goods and services tax (GST) on electric vehicles to 5% from 12% to provide a stimulus to the sector thats a high priority for the Narendra Modi government.

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A long haul aheadedit

The Financial Express 

He Government Recently Notified the second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles in India (FAME-2) scheme (in effect from April 1 for three years). It envisages incentives for purchase of electric buses, PVs and three-wheelers for commercial usage, along with privately-owned electric two-wheelers.

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Electricity must power all vehicles in India after 2030, says Niti Aayogedit

The Times of India 

The government’s think tank Niti Aayog has proposed that only electric vehicles should be sold after 2030, expanding the scope of the clean fuel technology beyond two and three-wheelers. Earlier, a panel headed by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant had suggested that only electric-powered three-wheelers and two-wheelers with engine capacity of up to 150 cc should be sold from 2025.

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Call to impose green cess on polluting vehiclesedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Electric vehicle makers’ body SMEV on Monday called for imposition of ‘green cess’ on polluting vehicles besides putting EVs in priority lending sector to accelerate creation of a robust ecosystem. In its Budget wish list, the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles also asked the government for a dedicated allocation for ‘clean air’ campaign.

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After 2030, Niti wants only electric vehicles to be soldedit

The Times of India

The government’s think tank Niti Aayog has proposed that only electric vehicles should be sold after 2030, expanding the scope of the clean fuel technology beyond twoand three-wheelers. Earlier, a panel headed by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant had suggested that only electric-powered three-wheelers and two-wheelers with engine capacity of up to 150 cc should be sold from 2025.

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Nitis new road map: Only electric vehicles to be sold after 2030edit

The Times of India

The governments think tank NITI Aayog has proposed that only electric vehicles should be sold after 2030, expanding the scope of the clean fuel technology beyond two and threewheelers.

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BESCOM Planning For 650 EV Charging Stations in Karnatakaedit

Saur Energy

BESCOM has revealed that it plans to install 650 EV charging stations in the state of Karnataka, with 100 stations planned for Bengaluru. The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) has revealed that it plans to install 650 Electric Vehicle charging stations in the state of Karnataka, with 100 stations planned for Bengaluru.

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India Wont Be Able to Convert TwoWheelers into Electric By 2025edit

The Quint 

The Indian government first decided to switch all its fourwheelers to electric by 2030, which was met with hue and cry from all corners of the industry with experts saying itll be impossible. So, the countrys regime decides to tone down the target, slowly realising things will be harder than first imagined. (Electric Vehicles)

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Drive Int A Clean Futureedit

The Times of India 

The initial cost of investment for an electric vehicle vis-à-vis conventional petrol/diesel vehicle, as well as a lack of charging stations are some of the key challenges confronting mass adoption of EVs in the country today. “EVs are a sunrise industry and there are some teething troubles.

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Road map for e-vehicles after talks with auto cosedit

The Times of India 

Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that the government will announce the roadmap for electric mobility after consulting the automobile industry. The automobile industry has been opposing the recommendation of an inter-ministerial panel to allow sale of only electric two-wheelers (with engine capacity up to 150cc) and electric three-wheelers from 2025.

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Govt likely to give nod to changes in motor vehicles billedit

Live Mint 

The bill will also have provisions to promote alternative technology and innovation in line with the Union governments focus on promotion of electric vehicles as one of the ways to curb vehicular pollution, the official said.

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Bescom plans 650 evehicle charging stations across Karnataka; 100 in Bengaluruedit

The Times of India 

The 100 stations will be in addition to the 112 that are expected to become operational by August this year. With 8,980 evehicles, Bengaluru currently has more than 57% of such vehicles registered in the state. Records show there has been a nearly 40% jump in the number of registered electric vehicles in the city between 2018 and 2019.

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AI to soon transform auto insurance biz in Indiaedit

The Economic Times 

To make the auto insurance process more efficient, Indian insurance company ICICI Lombard has recently joined hands with Microsoft to offer countrys first artificial intelligence (AI) enabled car insurance claiming feature.

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Government plans 50-100% subsidy for electric vehicle charging infrastructureedit

CNBC TV18

In February, the government announced an outlay of Rs 10,000 crore for Phase 2 of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, or FAME 2 scheme, to boost electric mobility and increase the number of electric vehicles in commercial fleets.

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Dream or nightmare: Why India should postpone its electric vehicle plans for ten yearsedit

The Economic Times 

Most discussions on electric vehicles (EVs) focus on benefits and sidestep serious questions. For example, do we know if a faster adoption of EVs would be in Indias interest Is the currently used EV technology robust enough Will EVs make us dependent on China

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Advanced lead battery tech could make EV charging cheaperedit

Auto Car Professional 

Thats the thinking in the US, where industry and government are teamingup to explore if banks of highcapacity lead cells sited at conventional fuel stations could make life easier for EV owners. Tesla is already reported to have looked at the idea.

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Governments renewed EV push bothers auto industryedit

Fortune 

A slew of measures and statements to hasten the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) on the road has got the auto industry worked up. But, the writing on the wall just got clearer. Governments renewed EV push bothers auto industry

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Dream or nightmare Why India should postpone its electric vehicle plans for ten yearsedit

The Times of India 

Most discussions on electric vehicles (EVs) focus on benefits and sidestep serious questions. For example, do we know if a faster adoption of EVs would be in Indias interest Is the currently used EV technology robust enough Will EVs make us dependent on China

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Delhi Gets First EV Charging Station By BSES; Here Is How You Can Use Itedit

India Times 

The initiation will further see a total of 50 charging points setup across Delhi within this fiscal year. Consumers can use it to charge their electric vehicles after booking a slot and paying for it online. This charging station, the first of 50 in 20192020 with over 150 planned with multiple partnerships, will bolster decentralised energy management and battery storage which are key governance components of Delhis sustainability roadmap, said Jain.

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Future of transport! IITMadras students to present Hyperloop concept to Elon Muskedit

The Financial Express 

Avishkar Hyperloop, a student team of IITMadras (IITM), has been shortlisted to present its hyperloop concept to EV player and Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.Hyperloop is a technology that has the potential to revolutionise the transportation industry. P2P startup RupeeCircle will be sponsoring the IIT team as a financial partner to later help present its concept to Musk.

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Delhi gets first echarging station, 50 more in a yearedit

The Indian Express

Amal Sinha, CEO, BSES, said, We are gearing up to push the case of electrical vehicles and charging in the capital. He added that BRPL is engaging with stakeholders and domain experts for the purpose. Through an app called ElectreeFi Mobile, consumers can locate the nearest EV charging station, make a booking in advance and pay online via credit/debit cards and ewallets

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Auto component industry seeks stable road map for EV transitionedit

Business Standard 

The Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) said on Tuesday the government should adopt a pragmatic approach to create a stable and longterm road map for a smooth transition to electric vehicles.

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Industry leaders share concerns over unrealistic EV deadlineedit

Auto Car Professional

Similarly, Venu Srinivasan said: “Automakers everywhere are supportive of the overall goal of introducing electric vehicles (EVs) and easing consumers into electric mobility. As a result, we (TVS Motor Co) have been doing serious development work to ensure we can offer a mass-market EV product that delivers on safety and high performance. This is necessary to co-opt consumers into making a switch, so it’s driven by consumer willingness and, therefore, adopted easily and widely.

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UP invites companies to set up EV charging stations across key cities and expresswaysedit

The Financial Express 

The state of Uttar Pradesh has become the first in India to formally invite EoIs (expression of interest) from companies to set up electric vehicle charging stations. This is the first proposal after the Union Power Ministry issued guidelines over setting up of such EV charging stations in December 2018 to promote the use of battery electric autorickshaws. In March this year, the New Delhi government approved the plan to set up 131 public charging stations in the capital. Also, private firms like Magenta Power are working on EV charging corridor on MumbaiPune highway besides other projects.

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Electric Vehicles May Soon Make Up 40% Of Cab Aggregator Fleetsedit

India Times 

India has new plans to increase the electric vehicles operating in the country. The target this time, are cab aggregators like Ola and Uber, as the centre seeks to direct them to have 40% of their fleet as electric. Once confirmed, the deadline for this will reportedly be April 2026. (Electric Vehicles)

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CII, SIAM urge government to hold talks before finalizing EV policyedit

Live Mint 

According to SIAM, the auto industrys turnover is close to half of the manufacturing GDP, supports 37 million jobs and contributes 11% of the GST revenues of the countryRead Full StoryTopicsElectric vehicles

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Bajaj Auto, TVS say plan to switch to EVs by 2025 unreal, may impact jobsedit

Business Standard 

Ask why cars arent being targeted, say Indias automanufacturing sector which supports four million jobs risks being derailedTwo and threewheeler makers have asked the government not to force unrealistic deadlines for the mass switch over to electric vehicles. (Electric Vehicles)

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Govt. cautioned against rushing into electric vehiclesedit

The Hindu 

A day after industry bodies SIAM and CII called for a practical approach in formulating electric vehicle-related policies, two-wheeler makers Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor on Monday said “unrealistic” and “ill-timed” decisions will derail auto manufacturing in the country.

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Venu Srinivasan: “Unrealistic deadline for mass adoption of e-2Ws, 3Ws risks derailing industry.”edit

Auto Car Professional 

Captains of industry are reacting to the recent news that the Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee of the National Mission for Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage, the high-level panel is looking to mandate sales of only electric three-wheelers from April 1, 2023 and April 1, 2025 for electric two-wheelers (below 150cc).

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Towards green mobilityedit

Millennium Post 

The Draft Delhi Electric Policy 2018 is the first step. This has to be followed by the construction of charging stations which are again preceded by India’s plan to come up with indigenous standards for charging stations for its emerging electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem.

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India wants to make 40% cabs electric by 2026 to meet climate change goalsedit

The Next Web 

What’s more, the government might introduce a rule that all vehicles sold for commercial purposes after April 2026 should be electric. The rule will also apply to new motorcycles and scooters used by eCommerce companies from April 2023. Last month, Food delivery startup Zomato partnered with eBikeGo – an electric bike rental and delivery platform – to increase the number of electric vehicles in its fleet.

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India Plans to Order Taxi Aggregators Like Uber, Ola to Go Electricedit

The Times of India 

India plans to order taxi aggregators like Uber and Ola to convert 40% of their fleet to electric by April 2026, according to a source and records of government meetings to discuss new rules for clean mobility.

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Electric vehicle firms prefer gradual shift to electric mobilityedit

The New Indian Express 

Electric vehicle manufacturers are caught in a quandary. The Indian Government wants to turn Green and try and phase out all petrol or diesel burning sub150 cc twowheelers with electric vehicles within the next five years or so.

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How much does lithium cost The industry cant seem to agreeedit

Reuters 

Opaque pricing for lithium, the powerhouse metal fueling the electric vehicle revolution, is expected to be top of mind this week as the industrys leaders gather in Santiago, with calls rising for more transparency to attract much needed expansion funding. (Electric Vehicles)

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E-vehicles set to zip around Bengaluru, but govt yet to form rulesedit

Deccan Herald 

The planned introduction of at least 10,000 electric mopeds and scooters over the next 18 months by city-based micro mobility companies has caught government on the back foot even as it scrambles to develop new regulations to deal with the influx of vehicles.

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Need a relook at tax on hybrid vehicles in India: Toyotaedit

Business Standard 

Toyota has maintained that while the future of ecofriendly mobility lies in electric vehicles, road towards full electric vehicles (EVs) will have to be bridged through hybrids which needs support from the government.

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CII says govt must hold industry consultations before finalizing Electric Vehicle planedit

The Economic Times 

Constructive Disruptions driven by market forces coupled with enabling policies is the kernel of any innovation and we are hopeful that the same is adopted as India readies itself for the advent of new technologies in mobility including electric vehicles, said Vikram Kirloskar, President, CII. The government has just announced a Mission on Transformation Mobility and Transmission to be led by NITI Aayog.

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Auto cos, CII oppose early transition to e-vehiclesedit

The Times of India 

The auto industry has hit out at the government for trying an early transition to electric vehicles, saying it will disrupt the pace of growth and hit business. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) received support from the broader industry association — Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) — which said that mandating a particular technology, such as electric, should not be the only way to achieve green mobility.

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Scooter sharing startups struggles with small talent pooledit

The Indian Wire 

Vogo, Bounce, Yulu and Drivezy, the on demand scooter sharing startups, are chasing to hire from one another as they struggle with a limited talent of pool. The chase inclined towards people with experience around Internetofthings (IoT) based supply chain, design and manufacturing. These are specialised skills as the technology itself is relatively new.

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Cybersecurity challenges in transport, automotive organizationsedit

Manila Times 

As vehicles become increasingly connected and autonomous vehicle technology becomes a reality, internet of things (IoT)focused cyberattacks in the transport and automotive sector are becoming alarmingly widespread.

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Time to Change the Power Playedit

The Economic Times

Already, 100 GW of additional power capacity is estimated to be required in less than a decade to drive electric vehicles. It amounts to nearly a third of current generation capacity. And the way ahead is to prioritise and policy induce electric buses and other modes of emobility in public transport, especially in dense urban centres.

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Government plans to order taxi aggregators to go electricedit

MINT

India plans to order taxi aggregators like Uber and Ola to convert 40% of their fleet of cars to electric by April 2026, according to a person in know of the matter and records of government meetings to discuss new rules for clean mobility. Uber and Ola, both backed by SoftBank Group, would need to start converting their fleet as early as next year to achieve 2.5% electrification by 2021, 5% by 2022, 10% by 2023 before hiking it to 40%, according to the person and the records reviewed by Reuters.

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EV firms prefer gradual shift to electric mobilityedit

The Morning Standard

Electric vehicle manufacturers are caught in a quandary. The Indian Government wants to tur n ‘Green’ and try and phase out all petrol or diesel burning sub-150 cc two-wheelers with electric vehicles within the next five years or so

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BMTC working on plan to buy 300 electric busesedit

The Economic Times

Although the entry of electric buses into the Indian market is recent, several companies, including Ashok LeylandNSE 1.88 %, Olectra Greentech, Tata and JBM Auto, have started manufacturing electric vehicles.

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EESL, Ahmedabad Municipal Corp enter 10-year deal to build EV infraedit

Business Standard

With a long-term goal to boost electric mobility in public transport, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) have partnered to establish infrastructure for electric vehicles (EV) in the urban area over a 10-year period.

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Ahmedabad gets ready for e-vehicles boom by signing MoU for charging stationsedit

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Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture firmunder the Union power ministry and the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) entered into a partnership Wednesday to build 100 charging stationsfor e-vehicles (EVs) in the city over 10 years. EESL will work with the AMC to “fast-track adoption of e-mobility in Ahmedabad by installing around 100 public charging stations and promoting electric vehicles (EVs) on rental and purchase basis”, it said in a release.

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Blu Smart all-electric mobility platform launched in Delhi-NCRedit

Autocar India

On the eve of World Environment Day, Gensol Mobility, a subsidiary of Ahmedabad-based renewable energy services provider, Gensol Group, launched its all-electric ‘Blu Smart’ mobility platform in Delhi-NCR, in association with Mahindra Electric. The service, which is the first of its kind in India, bundles together services like ride hailing, car sharing and shared charging into a single platform.

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BMW, Jaguar to jointly develop e-car partsedit

The Hindu Business Line

BMW and Jaguar Land Rover on Wednesday said they will jointly develop electric motors, transmissions and power electronics, unveiling yet another industry alliance designed to lower the costs of developing electric cars. Both carmakers are under pressure to roll out zero-emission vehicles to meet stringent anti-pollution rules, but have struggled to maintain profit margins faced with the rising costs of making electric, connected and autonomous cars.

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Centre seeks proposals for 5,000 electric busesedit

The Economic Times

The central government on Tuesday called proposals from state transport departments for the deployment of 5,000 electric buses, to be supported under the Fame-II scheme.

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Kerala seeks University of Birmingham expertise for introducing electric vehiclesedit

ETAuto

A team of Kerala government officials visited the University of Birmingham on Wednesday to discover how research experts might work with policy-makers to help introduce electric vehicles in the state.

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Modi Governments Big Electric Vehicle Push: All the Cities in India With Electric Bus Serviceedit

News 18 

As per a report on CNBCTV18, government sources have informed that the Nitin Gadkari led Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has started working on a draft notification proposing to ban all the IC engine powered twowheelers and threewheelers in India starting 2025 for twowheelers and 2023 for threewheelers. (Electric Vehicles)

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Industry experts divided over governments electric vehicle pushedit

CNBC TV18 

Indias efforts to promote electric vehicles have entered the fast lane. In a bid to tackle air pollution, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is learnt to have started working on a draft notification proposing the sale of only electric threewheelers from April 2023 and sale of only electric twowheelers under 150cc from April 2025 onwards. (Electric Vehicles)

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Government to waive registration fee for EVs, will persuade states also to give tax breaksedit

ET Auto 

The Union government has decided to waive off registration fee for electric vehicles and also plans to convince state governments to either waive off or reduce the road tax to promote green vehicles.

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For clean air, focus on energy efficiencyedit

The Hindu Business Line

E-mobility too has significant potential in helping India achieve its climate change goals and the government’s ongoing electric mobility programme envisages six million electric and hybrid vehicles on roads by 2020. This will have a significant impact on combating vehicular emission and help reduce it by 1.3 per cent by 2020.

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IITDelhi In Search of Foreign Scientists for EV Research Centre CARTedit

Saur Energy 

IITDelhi is on the lookout for international experts in the field of electric vehicles to boost its Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART).V Ramgopal Rao, IITDelhi director, said they are eyeing to recruit professionals from countries like the US in the newlyformed department along with industry experts.

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Kerala to quit petrol and diesel vehicles; Travel guide to Britainedit

Malayalam Samyam 

Kerala is one of the first states to bring a comprehensive electric vehicle (EV) policy in the country. On October 4, 2018, British High Commissioner of the State welcomed the Chief Secretary and discussed with Chief Secretaries and other officers and expressed desire to participate in the Kerala Government’s plan to develop EV ecosystem in Kerala.

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How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?edit

Qrius

Human drivers aren’t the only ones who need common sense; its lack in artificial intelligence (AI) systems will likely be the major obstacle to the wide deployment of fully autonomous cars. Even the best of today’s self-driving cars are challenged by the object-in-the-road problem. Perceiving ‘obstacles’ that no human would ever stop for, these vehicles are liable to slam on the brakes unexpectedly, catching other motorists off-guard.

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AI set to drive Uber’s India plansedit

Business Standard 

Ride-hailing app Uber’s calls, routed through the Internet, will be used to train its internal artificial intelligence (AI) engines in local Indian languages, Business Standard has learnt. Uber began rolling out the in-app calling feature through voice over internet protocol (VoIP) in October last year. It was introduced in India early this year and was hailed as being a security measure that provided greater anonymity and privacy to both the rider and the driver.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Unlike a human recruiter, we can control the robots behaviour in detailedit

CNBC TV18 

When the Future of Work series was conceived, the intent was to handpick individuals whose work is futuristic or who are experts in future gazing what the evolution of work could look like. I also hoped I could interview a robot someday and came pretty close. Meet Sweden based Furhat, the social robot that can serve customers, provide companionship, train employees or teach a language. (Future of Work)

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The 3 Drivers Of Work In Future Technology, Mobility & Communityedit

BW People 

With the advent of technology and constantly evolving management practices, the traditional Indian offices have evolved too. Everything related to a workspace has been disrupted by various experiments – from closed cabins to cubicles to an open floor with everyone working together. In a modern workspace, colleagues become friends, companies become sample audience for pilot studies and an office becomes a plug and play environment.

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Tax sops for job creation, greater push towards skilling the need of the houredit

The Hindu Business Line 

Currently, a majority of the Indian workforce is in the unorganised sector so there is also demand to make the sector more organised. “Lowering the regulatory norms can help in bringing more workforce into the organised sector. There is a 18 per cent GST on HR staffing so we would expect it to be lower.

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Robots on track to wipe out a tenth of manufacturing jobs by 2030: Reportedit

Business Standard 

While automation should boost the economy as a whole, it is likely to create greater inequality as employment losses are concentrated in certain industries and countries.

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How robots hurt jobs in emerging economiesedit

Live Mint 

Automation can spur productivity in emerging economies but lead to displeasure and insecurity in the short run, says study Automation, a growing part of daily life, can make work easier but has also raised concerns about potential disruption and job loss. According to one World Bank estimate, twothirds of jobs in developing countries could be lost to automation.

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20 m jobs may be lost to robotsedit

The Hindu Business Line 

Robots are on track to wipe out almost a tenth of the world’s manufacturing jobs with the brunt borne by lower-income areas in developed nations, Oxford Economics says. While automation should boost the economy as a whole, it is likely to create greater inequality as employment losses are concentrated in certain industries and countries.

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You could soon be reporting to AI at workedit

The Times of India

For decades, people have fearfully imagined armies of hyper efficient robots invading offices and factories, gobbling up jobs once done by humans. But in all of the worry about the potential of artificial intelligence to replace rank and file workers, we may have overlooked the possibility it will replace the bosses, too.

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How has technology transformed HR functionsedit

CIOL 

Future is about integrating tech and touch in people practices as the workforce composition is changing rapidly with the millennials, gig workers and work from anywhere /anytime flexibility, while Artificial intelligence seems to be buzzing now as HR professionals we should never deprioritize Human intelligence i.e. empathy driven People practices, in short, its time to accelerate Tech and Touch integration

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For many entry-level jobs, tech cos are hiring teensedit

The Times of India 

Infosys has been conducting an annual two-week ‘Spark Catch Them Young’ programme for high school students in which it introduces 8th and 9th grade students of government and private schools to digital technologies such as cloud, AI, big data, IoT and blockchain.

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Artificial intelligence wont take your job (but it might replace your boss)edit

Yahoo News

Big data and artificial intelligence concept. Machine learning and cyber mind domination concept in form of women face outline outline with circuit board and binary data flow on blue background.

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Age Of AI-Based Recruitmentedit

The Times of India 

These tools help organisations deal with a large pool of applications much more efficiently than when all these tasks are done solely by humans,” says Chockalingam Valliappa, vice chairman, Sona College of Technology and founder of HireMee, an AI-proctored online assessment platform for jobs.

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87% of IT Decision Makers Plan to Increase Their Analytics Workforce in the Next One Yearedit

Business Standard 

Founded in 2012, Analytics India Magazine has since been dedicated to passionately championing and promoting the analytics ecosystem in India. It chronicles the technological progress in the space of analytics, artificial intelligence, data science, big data by highlighting the innovations, players in the field, challenges shaping the future, through the promotion and discussion of ideas and thoughts by smart, ardent, action oriented individuals who want to change the world.

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How upskilling can make the return to work easieredit

Live Mint 

By Sweta Taneja

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is disrupting almost every industry, resulting in increased demand for new skills. By 2022, about 54% of all employees across the world would need significant re and upskilling, says the Future of Jobs Report 2018 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2018.

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Right time to plan a career in Artificial Intelligence, Data Sciencesedit

The Hans India 

Growing adoption of Artificial Intelligence and big data analytics: New technologies are now making it easier to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on a very large and diverse datasets. This is evident as the report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows; many companies are using some form of advanced analytics on Big Data, for Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics and Data Mining tasks.

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India needs better math talent to lead today’s AI-driven worldedit

The Times of India 

India invented the zero, but math is seen to have suffered a decline here for several reasons. The first is a global phenomenon. In the 1970s, there was a big separation between pure and applied math, says Nalini Anantharaman, chair of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in the University of Strasbourg, France, and last year’s winner of the Infosys Prize in Mathematics.

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In some companies, artificial intelligence is replacing the bossedit

The Indian Express 

An icon in the Cogito artificial intelligence program and what it means, at the MetLife call center in Warwick. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)By Kevin RooseWhen Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps one eye on the bottomright corner of his screen.

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From Upskilling to Multi skilling The Tech Training Landscape has Evolvededit

CIOL 

Then there is the matter of the intrinsically connected nature of all emerging technologies. Cloud and mobility are linked to data and analytics which are connected to IoT & Edge and AI and Machine Learning and so on. Organizations now need the professionals who can work across disciplines and harness the power of more than one technology to deliver true path breaking innovation.

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Digital Transformation (DX) As A Strategy To Retain Topnotch Talentsedit

BW People 

The latest technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Robotics, Predictive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, and Blockchain are a proven boon to the businesses that make sluggish growth by sticking to outdated techniques and practices. According to Gartner, adopting digital initiatives topped the priority list of CIOs in 2019.

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Augmented Intelligence & not just AI: Right fit for hiringedit

People Matters 

If you are thinking of AI as a solution that can fully automate the recruitment process and eliminate manual intervention, think again. The right fit for effective staffing processes in not just artificial intelligence, but rather Augmented Intelligence.

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Hiring challenges in digital age and what employers are doing to fill skill gapsedit

The Financial Express 

Todays digital reality poses many challenges for organisations, including reskilling their workforce. In an attempt to fill the skills gap, employers tend to replace their resident workforce and recruit outside the organisation to find workers with the skill sets required to remain competitive.

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These are the most common AI use cases in HR and recruitingedit

The Economic Times 

Gartner has identified the three most common use cases. HR and recruitment leaders have begun using applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve HR efficiency and enhance employee experience. Gartner has identified the three most common use cases.

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Level up or go home: India faces a skillgap challenge for 5G, emerging techedit

The Economic Times 

India has a challenge of being fully ready for 5G as well as for other emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning owing to the imbalance in talent and needs of the industry, suggested Raghav Gupta, director India & APAC at Coursera, an American online learning platform.

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What business leaders should do to succeed in innovation economyedit

The Financial Express 

Innovation economy is light on assets and heavy on knowledge. Data is overtaking experience in making decisions and directing strategy. ML, IoT, blockchain are becoming vital for producing innovations. CEOs have to ensure that the organisation is equipped with the tools for acquiring, crunching and applying data intelligence and that every employee can work in a highly automated environment.

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Upskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolutionedit

The Financial Express 

The growing skills gap is most noticeable in roles that relate directly to tomorrows major technologies, including AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile applications that are the driving force behind heightened customer expectations. India may have to forgo as much as $1.97 trillion in GDP growth promised by investment in intelligent technologies over the next decade if the country fails to bridge the skill gap.

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LinkedIn Says Blockchain is the Top Growing Skill in Singaporeedit

Analytics Insight 

No doubt the demand for and the supply of skills identified with blockchain has grown in Singapore to the point where it is ruling the market. This news comes by means of another LinkedIn report covering the Asia-Pacific region.

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Can MBAs deal with AI, ML, IoTedit

The Times of India 

With technology making inroads in every aspect of our lives, there is a skill gap that is pointing at the need for MBAs to get well versed in data science, Al, IOT. However, the gap appears tentative as management schools have upped the ante in offering such skills in the MBA curriculum in recent years, says Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIM Kozhikode.

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62% Indian professionals feel daunted by rapid pace of changing skills: LinkedInedit

Money Control 

Certain skills are becoming less in demand as different skills are needed to succeed, therefore upskilling talent is key for organisations to meet their business goals, said Ruchee Anand, Head of Talent Solutions and Learning Solutions India at LinkedIn.

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Industry 4.0: New industrial policy soon to promote job creation, growth, says President Kovindedit

The Financial Express 

The new policy will replace the industrial policy of 1991 which was prepared in the backdrop of balance of payment crisis. This will be the third industrial policy after the ones released in 1956 and 1991. The proposed policy aims at promoting emerging sectors and modernising existing industries. I

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Gartner identifies three most common AI use cases in HR and recruitingedit

Money Control

HR and recruitment leaders have begun using applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve HR efficiency and enhance employee experience. Gartner has identified the three most common use cases.

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Budget 2019: Corporates may be incentivised to invest in education, skillingedit

Free Press Journal 

For special economic zones (SEZ), the income tax holiday sunset on March 31, 2020 and duty reliefs could also be revisited to accelerate growth of IT exports, as new age tech such as Artificial Intelligence takes centre stage. The scope of safe harbor transactions was increased in 2017 to provide certainty to taxpayers.

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Important To Train Indias Population With Relevant Skill Developmentedit

BW People 

Over the last few years, the world of business has tread into extremely unfamiliar territory: an era of the tremendous velocity of change. The emphasis on efficiencies has never been so profound. Look around you: many of the billiondollar companies that you cant do without like Airbnb, Amazon, Flipkart, Facebook did not exist 20 years ago.

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Why soft skills will be in demand amid automationedit

Live Mint 

Skills such as machine learning, data visualization and statistical analysis have seen a rise in adoption skills deemed relevant to job demands in the future. Automation is driving demand for those who know coding, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The survey says demand for talent with emerging skills is three times that of the rest of the talent base.

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Robots might turn out to be great coworkersedit

The Print 

The idea that automation will drive up unemployment or drive down wages — in other words, that robots will take people’s jobs — has become almost an article of faith for many Americans. Everyone can point to instances of automation reducing demand for certain workers.

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Retraining and Retaining: The effect of Automationedit

Business Standard 

A recent study by LinkedIn mentioned machine learning engineer is the most demanding skill in the job market followed by data scientist, sales development manager, and customer success managers. Career paths such as automation ethicist and interactive chatbot designer will be most look after career paths by organizations soon.

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AI to improve HR efficiency; workforce, talent management to be automatededit

Business Standard 

According to Gartner, Inc., HR and recruitment leaders have begun using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve HR efficiency and enhance employee experience. Gartner, Inc. has identified the three most common use cases: In talent acquisition, voice of the employee and virtual HR assistants. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Employees spend over 25% of their time searching for the information they need to do their jobs: Researchedit

CIOL 

It used to be that competitive salaries, benefits and career development initiatives were enough to find and keep talent. Today, these things are table stakes. To compete and win in the raging battle for talent, companies need to up their game and give employees what they really want: a simple and flexible way to get work done. Technology is a key driver of the modern employee experience. (Future of Work)

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With Technology At Its Forefront, What Will Our Future Workplace Look Likeedit

Mashable 

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, and its growth is so huge that it can be hard to wrap your head around some of the cuttingedge innovation that AI brings along with it. As per the market research firm Tractica, in 2019, the global artificial intelligence software market will see a massive boost in the coming years, with revenues increasing from $9.5 billion in 2018 to around $118.6 billion by 2025

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These are the skills you need if you want to be hirededit

CNBC TV18 

Theres a misconception out there that the future of work will be robots and artificial intelligence will be automating all the jobs, leaving nothing for the majority of the worlds citizens to do.But research says thats not the case.

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Machine learning might be Indias next big employeredit

DNA 

ML is seen as a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an enabler for Big Data Analytics. Applications of machine learning and deep learning range from computer vision to speech recognition and translation to marketing to drug discovery. It is one of the fastest growing fields of AI.

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AI, tech to have short-term impact on jobs at micro leveledit

The Times of India 

Suddenly, there is a lot of debate on whether Industry 4.0 with a strong underpinning of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is going to result in large-scale unemployment. This seems a bit odd because neither technology nor automation are 21st century phenomena.

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Manufacturing, infrastructure to add 58,200 jobs in Apr-Sept FY20edit

Business Standard 

The manufacturing, engineering and infrastructure sector is likely to add of 58,200 new jobs in the April-September of this financial year, a report published Monday said. According to TeamLease Services biannual ‘Employment Outlook’ report for April-September FY20, these industries will witness a 2 per cent increase in net employment.

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Accenture’s growth model for future: To experiment with freelancersedit

Business Standard 

Accenture is looking at experimenting more with the gig economy or freelancers as it develops its future of work model. It has also built in-house tools to help employees train better and choose their reskilling areas, a senior executive said.

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Hiring activity increases 11% in May; IT, BPO, education take the lead: reportedit

Business Today

Hiring activity registered 11 percent jump in May over the corresponding month last year. This uptick has been fuelled by recruitment activity in the software sector, BPO and education according to the Naukri JobSpeak report. The Naukri JobSpeak Index for May 2019 stood at 2,346, while in May 2018 it was 2,106.

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Manufacturing, infra sector to add 58,200 jobs in April September FY20edit

Live Mint

Further, he said, modernisation and the introduction of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in manufacturing will not only witness the sector contributing around 25% of the GDP of the country by 2022 but adding significantly towards job creation as well.

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GST laws and need for automation: Why the companies should gear up and be readyedit

CNBC TV18

This could be further complicated by the timing difference that could arise as a result of processes being followed by corporations, e.g. the prompt issuance of the invoice by the supplier, sending of the invoice copy to the recipient, prompt reporting of the invoice by the supplier, receipt and prompt recording of the invoice it its books by the recipient.

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Educational institutions powering a futureready workforce through AIedit

The Times of India

Several private technical institutes have introduced special courses in cybersecurity, data science, AI, and Internet of Things. The collaboration with Microsoft will help in training the teachers. Students will be benefitted through classroom teaching as well as a number of live projects.

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Digital Badges and the Future of Workedit

IT News Online

Digital badges provide an opportunity for employees to compile metadata on specific skills they’ve acquired, and for employers to take a deeper dive into their candidate pools. Badges are even more successful when they align with industry standards, as one recent effort in the cybersecurity field shows.

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CSR: The Future of Women Workforceedit

The CSR Journal

Meanwhile, a 2016 study by International Labour Organisation (ILO) has predicted that some Asian nations could lose more than 80 percent of their garment, textile, and apparel manufacturing jobs, as sewbots replace humans in factories. This would disproportionately affect young women, who comprise a majority of the 9 million people dependent on jobs in those sectors.

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18 jobs that have or will be totally taken over by technologyedit

Digit

The days of manual telephone switchboards have long passed us. In the olden days, someone working as a switchboard operator would physically connect calls by sliding in phone plugs into the relevant jacks. While switchboard operators still exist in some organisations today, they merely oversee the system which has now become completely computerised.

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Auto cos look to pare EV HR costs by reskillingedit

The Economic Times 

Automobile sales may be falling, but the demand for skilled professionals in the electric vehicles (EV) sector is rising. The likes of Tata Motors Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra and Continental India are feeling the pinch.

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Artificial Intelligence, Data Science jobs see upward trend in Mumbaiedit

India Today 

At the recent campus recruitment drive, many jobs were offered in data science, artificial intelligence, business analytics, machine learning by top firms and startups at Aegis School of Data Science for the students of post graduate program in data science. Business analytics and big data in association with IBM endorses the upward trend and demand of talent in the said fields.

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Artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way we work & thinkedit

DNA  

By Nirupam Banerjee

Artificial intelligence Picture for representational purpose , I stock Artificial intelligence, or AI, is going to be the next big game changer and will revolutionise the way we work, think, and take decisions, said Pranay Agrawal and Srikanth Velamakanni, both alumni of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), who were in city on Sunday to receive the Young Alumni Achievers Award 2019.

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HCL Tech catches them young with ‘Tech Bee’ programmeedit

The Hindu Business Line 

HCL Technologies is catching them young with its “TechBee” recruitment programme for entry-level jobs. It is testing this programme in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, where the firm conducts an entrance test for those who have completed schooling, and gives them a year’s training to make them employable.

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Talent Demand Continues To Rise In Indiaedit

BW People

IT sector has picked up significant pace since the second half of 2018 (JulyDecember 2018 period) and noted a 7 percent growth in talent demand owing to the diversification plans of most corporates. Leading Indian IT firms are diversifying by showcasing innovative ideas in newage technologies like Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

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Internet of Things evolve workplaceedit

UNI India 

The Internet of Things (IoT) sees everyday objects being connected to the internet, allowing them either to be controlled remotely or to collect and share data and communicate without a human being involved.

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Engineers Join the Gig Economyedit

EET India 

There are of course exceptions to this rule, such as mixed signal and sensor design skills applicable to Internet of things and vehicle to everything communications. Engineering schools around the world are as focused on those design skills as are U.S. universities. If such skills end up being overemphasized, those fields could well be oversupplied within a short number of years.

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Creating a skilled pool of Indian coders top priority: AWSedit

The Economic Times 

IT industrys apex body NASSCOM last year highlighted that around 1.4 lakh jobs remain vacant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics segment across various sectors in India, out of the total demand of 5.1 lakh employees in the country.

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7 Ways To Upskill Your Employees For The Upcoming Automation Boomedit

Analytics India Mag 

As the landscape of labor evolves, entry level jobs are at risk of being made obsolete by automation. This puts the focus on companies to upskill their employees to ensure that they stay relevant in a changing career landscape.

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How AI in future workplaces will lead to better productivityedit

The Economic Times 

Up to 76 percent of Chief Operating Officers report that automation has a positive impact on operational efficiency. By building artificial intelligence into building ecosystems organizations can optimize space and building experience.

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Why Engineers Need To Upskill For Cloudedit

BW Education 

Aspiring candidates can also enrol themselves in a course in cloud computing right after a bachelors degree in engineering (IT or Computer Science), Bachelor of Computer Applications, Bachelor of Science or even after their Masters in IT or Computer Science.

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Jobskill mismatchedit

The Statesman 

Even the optimist foresees a substitution of labour with capital on a substantial scale under conditions of dropping employment elasticity in the country. The realist knows that given policymaking mindsets in the country, creation of jobs in the agriculture sector will take a back seat to ambitions in the manufacturing or service sectors.

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Indias ambitious EV target should also be practical: SIAMedit

Auto Car Professional 

The auto industry, under the aegis of SIAM, will continue to closely partner with government in ensuring a planned transformation towards electric vehicles and to build the nation, sustainably, concluded Wadhera.

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How Does AI Add to the World of Hiring?edit

Analytics Insight 

Artificial Intelligence has changed the recruitment world as we know it and all that for a good reason! Finding, connecting, and retaining people is a complicated process. When a recruiter is being thrown resumes, recommendations and cover letters left right and centre, it’s not easy to determine which are really worth their time and investment.

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By 2023, 75% Firms to Hire AI Behaviour Forensic Expertsedit

News Gram 

This is the much talked about turf of Artificial Intelligence that now even handles the preliminary part of action that was needed in response to a trigger. PixabayBy 2023, seventy five per cent of large organisations would hire artificial intelligence (AI) behaviour forensic, privacy and customer trust specialists to reduce brand and reputation risk, Gartner Inc. predicted on Thursday

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Your next employee can be from anywhere in the worldedit

The Times of India

The concept of flexible working is not a new one. It has been around and quite a few HR departments have a policy on putting in flexihours. Now, the concept has moved centre stage with surveys predicting that more than onethird of the entire workforce in major cities worldwide will move to flexible work contracts with their employers.

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75 Percent of All Large Firms to Hire AI Experts in Four Years: Reportedit

News 18

As AI develops further, more firms are gaining trust in algorithms that can avoid aspects such as gender bias and specific data preferences. As AI develops further, more firms are gaining trust in algorithms that can avoid aspects such as gender bias and specific data preferences. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Female Hiring To Be Impacted By Maternity Bill: Reportedit

BWPeople

Hiring outlook in 2019-20 will remain steady and organizations will focus more on replacement hiring followed by new recruitments providing opportunities for the freshers, according to Hiring, Attrition & Compensation Trend 2019-20’ survey by Genius Consultants Ltd.

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MIT Technology Review Explores the Future of Work with Speakers from Microsoft, LinkedIn and WeWork at EmTech Next Conference June 1112edit

IT News Online

With a focus on how emerging technologies are augmenting human capabilities, the conference recently added leaders from Autodesk, LinkedIn, Microsoft and WeWork. Conference attendees will learn how artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will increase the efficiency of the human workforce and expand areas of economic growth, while exploring the implications for leadership in this new era of technology.

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Industry 4.0 can bring more jobs, skilled workforceedit

The Times of India

Ankur Basu, director Advisory (IoT Competency), at an advisory services said, In cities like Indore adaption to smart manufacturing technologies will bring more jobs and skill. People do not understand where to start with but actually they should start and map existing projects with journey for desired results.

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Automation and jobs: The risks women faceedit

The Financial Express

McKinsey Global Institute says 20% of the working women could lose their jobs by 2030 because of automation women workforce, future of work, women employment, artificial intelligence, jobs for women, global trend of women, women labour force (Artificial Intelligence)

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IBM To Advance Skills And Career Of 2 Lakh Women In STEM Fields: IBM HR Headedit

BW People 

Workers at all levels need new skills to meet the everchanging market demands. The intersection of technologies like AI, Machine Learning, Security, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain and Data Analytics is opening up new applications, like the ability to launch new products faster and test them better.

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Digital Age is reshaping workplaces with innovative technologiesedit

BW CIO World

Leveraging technology to construct a conducive environment and an inclusive mindset among the employees is a major challenge faced by HR in 2019. Using advanced digital technology to revolutionize the current workforce management can breathe fresh air into Performance Management.

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Hiring Activity to be Positive in 201920 Providing Opportunities For Freshers: Surveyedit

News 18 

Embracing the importance of artificial intelligence, healthcare sector will create 40 per cent of opportunities in terms of employability, followed by marketing and human resources, the survey revealed.

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Globotics could disrupt lives of millions of skilled workersedit

Down To Earth 

Richard Baldwin, professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and author of The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and Future of Work was in India to speak on ‘The New Protectionism’. He spoke to Down to Earth on the sidelines of his book launch.

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AI to empower workforce and drive objectivityedit

Express Computer 

Corporate India is going through a defining time, with emerging technologies taking over many areas of business. Human resource is one such critical area, which is core to any business and has been going through rounds of revolution and transformation, both in terms of processes and technology. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Heres how to land on your dream IT job: 11 CIO strategies revealededit

The Economic Times 

To filter out 100s of thousands of applications, many companies run Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for initial shortlisting & ranking candidates before a human touch. Therefore its important to note key skills mentioned in the Job Description and ensure that resume has enough keywords to be pickedup by a Robot.

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AI to complement human efforts, not take jobs: IBM leaderedit

The Economic Times 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is complementing human effort and not eliminating jobs, said Vikas Arora, Cloud and Cognitive Software Leader, IBM India and South Asia. AI and other emerging technologies are increasingly becoming mainstream in India and other Asian countries, he said.

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AI to boom innovation and employee productivity in India by 2021, says studyedit

India Today 

To help developers and organisations build expertise in Cloud computing, data sciences, AI and Internet of Things (IoT), Microsoft on Monday also announced the roll out of the Week of AI, a specially curated fiveday workshop series.

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Unemployment trend moves up age brackets, higher in 20-29 age groupedit

The Indian Express 

More rural females also opted for education in the 15-19 age group, with 64.1 per cent share in 2017-18 as against 47.1 per cent in 2004-05. In the 20-24 age group, share of rural females as students went up to 13.8 per cent in 2017-18 from 7.5 per cent in 2004-05.

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Educated People Find It More Difficult To Get A Job In India, Reveals Govt Surveyedit

India Times 

Only 2.1% of illiterate urban men were unemployed in 2017-18, but 9.2% of men with at least secondary education didn’t have a job. The gap was even wider among urban women — 0.8% of those uneducated were jobless whereas 20% women with secondary or higher education were not employed.

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Navigating The Workforce Of Future: How To Manage And Motivate Millennials Betteredit

Business World 

Nurturing, retaining and motivating the Generation Y today is more difficult than ever before. Rise in automation, shifts in technology and innovation headways are forcing business models to adapt to quickly evolving industries, rendering greater value in developing skills that are unique to people.

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Work and Skills What will be the future of skilling and upskillingedit

People Matters 

Last but not the least, whether that be upskilling or reskilling, it warrants for a continuous and sustained effort, and cannot be limited to an annual appraisal or a yearly need assessment exercise. The business context is ever evolving and changing and this requires organizations to constantly be sensitive and in the lookout for economical, scalable and sustainable efforts towards skill developmental efforts.

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IIT Delhi inaugurates electric vehicle research centreedit

Your Story 

Prof. B.K. Panigrahi from the Department of Electrical Engineering, who has been appointed as the first Head of CART, said,The prime focus of CART is to carry out interdisciplinary research in EVs and associated areas. We will strive hard to have collaborative research among academia and industry for the benefit of the present and future societal needs.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ather Energy aims to beat petrol station density with charging pointsedit

The Financial Express 

Express Drives recently interacted with Tarun Mehta, CoFounder & CEO, Ather Energy who gave us an insight into the companys upcoming plans and why he is optimistic on the future of electric vehicles in India. Here is what all Ather Energy has in store.

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Delhi Govt To Likely Announce Incentives For Electric Vehicle Use By Delivery Servicesedit

India Times 

Delhi government is looking for yet another way to boost the use of electric vehicles in the union territory. After appointing several electric buses in the state transport and allotting a fund of Rs 100 crore, a new report indicates that the Delhi government will be launching a scheme to promote EV use by delivery services.

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Auto companies need to accept that like technology, millennials are here to stayedit

People Matters 

Like many other industries, for the commercial vehicles segment as well, the first and foremost challenge is that of skills. While the government of India has announced that by 2030, all vehicles on the road will be electric vehicles but skills around EVs are absent in India.

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Artificial Intelligence will double employee productivity gains in Indiaedit

Financial Express 

Within two years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will more than double the rate of innovation improvements and employee productivity gains in India, according to a survey of business leaders done by Microsoft-IDC Asia/Pacific. While 77% of business leaders polled agreed that AI is instrumental for their organization’s competitiveness, only one-third of organizations in India have embarked on their AI journeys.

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Industry News: Education

Deadline to submit comments on draft NEP to be extended: HRDedit

The Economic Times 

Public inputs have been sought on four broad categories school education, higher education, additional key focus areas and transforming education. To another query on implementation of 25 per cent reservation to economically weaker section (EWS) in private schools, the Minister said this provision has been in place since 2009 but was implemented seriously from 2014 onwards.

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Is Education 4.0 the future of learningedit

India Today 

Industry 4.0 is defined by Connected Cyberphysical systems, powered by IoT and fueled by data, create a fully interconnected society. In such a hyper connected disruptive world, Education has no option but to adapt to these changes in Industry which are brought by disruptive technologies Hello! Education 4.0.

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Budget 2019: Why transforming education, skill development should be key focus for Modi govt 2.0edit

ABP Live 

Budget 2019: Transforming the Education and Skill Development sectors should be the key policy direction in the upcoming budget. With the changing landscape of manufacturing and services owing to industry 4.0 and increasing automation using cognitive technologies, the expertise and skill requirement has evolved.

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Tryst Of Kid With Codingedit

BW Education 

Learning to code at an early age improves kids logic by 75%. It helps in balancing right and left part of their brain. It helps them to become a creator and as research suggests that by 2020 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics will touch 800 Million jobs and the world will split into creators and consumers, its time to decide whether we want our kids to be creators or consumers of technology.

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Draft education policy lacks vision, say expertsedit

The New Indian Express 

The purpose of education is to address inequalities in society. This draft policy, however, does not mention what it wants to do for the marginalised, SC, ST, etc, but eloquently speaks from the capitalist viewpoint. This was bound to happen because the empanelled members are all from private institutions, he said.

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A campus first recognition towards sustainabilityedit

Careers 360 

AICTE has recently launched the Clean & Smart Campus Award for encouraging cleanliness and promoting Smart use of technology in its approved institute. AICTE aims to recognize the efforts of its stakeholders primarily students, to embrace technologies such as IOT, robotics, cloud and automation to remodel an existing campus into a smart campus.

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Mathematics is on decline in India. Reason: excessive focus on engineeringedit

The Economic Times 

The worlds biggest companies are coming to India for data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) skills. But renowned mathematicians believe the country needs to significantly improve its mathematics capabilities to be able to use these technologies to create really innovative and robust solutions both for itself and the world.

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Future Of Educationedit

The Times of India 

For a very long time, the education system has treated all the students the same. But, one size never fits all, which is why personalised and blended learning formats are the future. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools and apps have made it possible for students to customise the learning experience according to their strengths and weaknesses.

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What Budget 2019 could do to transform the education and skill development sectoredit

The Indian Express 

The education and skill development sectors would need to be enabled to make the required changes so that the persons coming out of the system are not just employable, but can also adapt.

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Budget 2019: FICCI suggests raising fund allocation on educationedit

Zee Biz 

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) suggested to raise fund allocation in several aspects of school and higher education in the upcoming Union Budget 2019. FICCI suggested to raise fund allocation in several aspects of school and higher education in the upcoming Union Budget 2019.

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A Campus first recognition towards sustainabilityedit

Careers 360 

AICTE has recently launched the Clean & Smart Campus Award for encouraging cleanliness and promoting Smart use of technology in its approved institute. AICTE aims to recognize the efforts of its stakeholders primarily students, to embrace technologies such as IOT, robotics, cloud and automation to remodel an existing campus into a smart campus.

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Higher education regulations still anchored to outdated normsedit

The Financial Express 

As Modi 2.0 looks at NEP to inspire its higher education regulation vision, it must also be careful to avoid the risk inherent in some recommendations. The draft National Education Policy (NEP) advises reforms, but these arent bold enough. And some recommendations steer higher education regulation into dangerous terrain.

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National Education Policy drafted with no political interference: K Kasturiranganedit

India Today 

There was no political interference during the drafting of the National Education Policy, chairman of the drafting committee K Kasturirangan said here Friday. Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of a lecture on the New Education Policy organised by the Central University of Rajasthan, he sought to address the concerns of states ruled by parties other than the BJP.

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Are Engineering Students Industry Readyedit

BW Education 

Don’t be surprised by these figures! This is the reality of the engineering students in India. Currently, there are 3242 engineering colleges in India under AICTE offering undergraduate & postgraduate courses from which around 1.5 million students are graduating every year but the gloomy state of engineering education in India have made it very tough for the industry to get the right candidates since they do not possess the required skills to be employed.

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FICCI for higher allocation for education in Union Budgetedit

The Week End Leader 

Industry body FICCI has recommended an increase in fund allocation in several aspects of education in the upcoming Union Budget, including creation of a Rs 1,000 crore State Policy Reform Fund to incentivise states for better implementation of measures such as merit based teacher recruitment and promotions in schools.

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Technology to measure students’ engagementedit

The Times of India 

The technology helps in measuring a child’s engagement through features like live quizzes, live leader board and hot spot, which are inbuilt in the platform. Started by three teachers from Barnala in Punjab, Vamsi Krishna, CEO and co-founder of Vedantu realised lack of educational opportunities, which inspired these teachers to start the website in 2014. (AI, ML)

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Have come a long way on education, but its just the beginningedit

The Times of India 

We have come a long way. But this is just the beginning, not the end, education minister Manish Sisodia said on Thursday while addressing around 1,000 teachers. Education is not just about new buildings or classrooms; it should help improve womens safety, and reduce caste strife and communal tension, he added.

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Opinion | For effective regulation of the countrys education systemedit

Live Mint 

Some of this is in the public domain, but a lot more seems to be happening in group consultations, feedback to the human resource development ministry, etc. The final policy will be richer for all this. I am extracting some of the salient features of the NEP, with the intent to address some of the issues raised in these responses, but specific knowledge of the responses is not necessary to read through these points.

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Emerging Technologies: The changemakers in higher educationedit

Careers 360 

Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) is using emerging technologies like Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence to make its students industry-ready. Prof. Dr. Manikrao Salunkhe, Vice-Chancellor speaks to Rajaram Sukumar about the new initiatives on the campus…Q. How are emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforming higher education system to get more student participation and faculty engagement?

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Rebooting education with AIedit

Telangana Today 

Artificial intelligence is fast making its way into mainstream education. I do not infer as part of the standard technical curriculum. But several schools, colleges, universities and other academic institutions are adopting AI in the process of delivering impactful education to students and their numbers are rapidly increasing.

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Universities to go digital in Odishaedit

Odisha TV

Bhubaneswar: With an aim to digitalize all the 11 universities in Odisha, the State Higher Education department has reportedly submitted a proposal to the State government with an estimated allocation of Rs 5 crore for the entire digitization process.

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Will Budget 2019 bring a renewed focus on Indias education sectoredit

Money Control

Finally, the Indian assessment and accountability systems need a thorough reform. Perhaps, they need to be reimagined as we enter the most technologically infused epoch till date. Here, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a gamechanger for the education sector.

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Rebooting education with AIedit

Telangana Today

Artificial intelligence is fast making its way into mainstream education. I do not infer as part of the standard technical curriculum. But several schools, colleges, universities and other academic institutions are adopting AI in the process of delivering impactful education to students and their numbers are rapidly increasing.

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Rising technical jobs hit Telugu states engineering collegesedit

Deccan Chronicle 

The disintegrated models of technical education, where employment opportunities are high but the cost of education is low, are being opted by students, making engineering colleges in the state struggle to fill their seats.

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Getting higher grades have become challenging with change in NAAC norms: officialsedit

Brighter Kashmir

The Department of Higher Education on Sunday said NAAC has undergone certain changes recently under which obtaining higher grades of A and A ++ and also maintaining earlier grading of Degree Colleges have become a challenge.

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How Machine Learning Will Improve Education in the Futureedit

Analytics Insight 

Technology invades our lives and its predicted that the USA alone will lose about 16% of existing jobs. However, with the help of artificial intelligence, people would get 13.6 million jobs that were almost impossible to imagine even a few years ago. All areas of our life will be connected to technology. One of the most important areas education will also be supported by AI.

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The scope for Indian marketing millennials in artificial intelligenceedit

Afternoon 

Young millennials who are going to start their higher education studies soon might be wondering what career paths they should focus on. And for anyone who is in touch with what is happening in the world and future technology trends, the answer should be obvious. Artificial Intelligence. Literally changing the way our world operates, we’re all dealing with aspects of this tech daily and likely don’t even know it.

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90% Indian Engineers Lack Key Skillsedit

The Economic Times 

Coding Skills & Employability of Indian IT Engineering Grads (2019)

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Learning by doing to transform educationedit

The Hans India 

In times, when schools have started to move towards Artificial intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and many schools have integrated tablets and smart devices, education in rural India is still dependent on the traditional methods of books and blackboards.

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The Liberal Education Envisaged by the Draft NEP Has No Role for Dissentedit

The Wire 

The end goal of liberal education has a free thinking individual at the centre free to think, question and critique. A policy for education that wants to embrace liberal education cannot afford to blank out the complexities involved in such an education for the teacher, the taught, and the content of what is taught. Photo: Reuters

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Draft new education policy is robust, but has its limitationsedit

Live Mint 

At least 115,000 meetings and two committees later, Indias draft National Education Policy (NEP) was finally shared by the ministry of human resource development for public comment, and may soon become a policy. Notwithstanding the delay, the draft policy prepared by a team of nine experts led by space scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan is perhaps the best piece of education reforms initiative in recent years. However, it has its own share of omissions, too.

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The unemployable engineering graduateedit

India Today 

According to NASSCOM, over 80 per cent of all Indian engineering graduates are unemployable. (Image used for representation)One cannot deny the impact that the youth have in society. Touted as the torchbearers of the future and sources of unmatched advancements the youth have a great deal going for them. With the change in economic, educational and occupational scenario, along with an upsurge of advancements, opportunities have been levelled enough to supplement the goal to reach nationwide as well as individual aspirations. Yet, are they really up for the task

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Engineering a changeedit

Deccan Chronicle 

engineering education is being revamped as per the model curriculum of the AICTE. The syllabus of the B. Tech courses is also being revised in tune with the AICTE model Curriculum. engineering education is being revamped as per the model curriculum of the AICTE. The syllabus of the B. Tech courses is also being revised in tune with the AICTE model Curriculum

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‘Education must ensure jobs’edit

Daily Post 

CT University, an Industry driven campus has successfully collaborated with iNurture, to encourage learning and making the students futuristic and industry ready. iNurture is a pioneer in enabling career-ready formal higher education in India. Aligned to the needs of futuristic industry 4.0 technologies, the collaboration has introduced cuttingedge programs in Industry 4.0 technologies like Internet of Thing (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) with R & Python, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analytics, Big Data, diginxt MMS-Full Stack Developer, Digital Marketing, Block Chain and Data Science.

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India Juggling With Engineering Education Issue, Need To Take Concrete Stepsedit

BW Education 

The need of the hour is to retooling, reskilling and reprogramming. This will enable us to create new learning skills by providing unbundled learning and providing a multidisciplinary perspective. Instead of curriculum based education, engineers need to focus more on essential communications, critical thinking and collaborating skills. These skills are the basic ones and can be effective in whatever jobs they switch.

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How medical education became a business, one policy change at a timeedit

The Times of India 

The draft National Education Policys call for abandoning all regulation of fees in professional courses marks the latest in a series of steps that have aggressively pushed commercialisation of medical education over the last decade, say public health activists.

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Will PM Modi reshape Indias education sectoredit

The Financial Express 

Under Modis governance, the current educational reforms include three key initiativesa New Education Policy, expansion in the list of the Institutes of Eminence, and a single regulator for higher education.

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Why is Engineering education in doldrumsedit

The Times of India 

John Dewey, the eminent 20th-century American educator had aptly said: “The real process of education should be the process to think through the applications of real problems.” No wonder, he was the premier provocateur behind introducing the idea of practising democracy as a modicum in education. While this was coined in the early 20th century, it holds pertinence way ahead of its and our times, paving way for modern education to flourish.

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Parents must not push their children towards Engineering and Medicineedit

The Times of India 

Different countries give preference to one English language exam over others. Some of the most popular international entrance exams include IELTS, TOEFL and PTE Academic. However, a computer-based test is a better way to demonstrate your English language proficiency. since it can measure an array of skills and knowledge impartially and accurately to provide valuable insights on the aptitude.

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India Juggling With Engineering Education Issue, Need To Take Concrete Stepsedit

BW Education 

A staid and insipid curriculum is to be blamed, too. While the world of technology is evolving, with workplaces matching to it, the curriculum remains jaded; far from its era of relevance. The emphasis on theoretical knowledge still holds strong, with practical knowledge still being on the back foot.

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Fixing Indias jobs problem: Why a holistic approach is imperative to bridge skills gapedit

CNBC TV18

And, in tandem with this, there needs to be a focus on skilling, reskilling and training. Indias skills journey is way behind that of the countries we want to compete with. China, for example, is a manufacturing powerhouse, in part because of its vocational education and training (VET) that starts at the school level.

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Draft National Education Policy calls for integrating technology into educationedit

The Indian Express

When the National Policy on Education 1986/1992 was formulated, it was difficult to predict the disruptive effect that the internet was about to have, particularly in boosting the development rates, the draft policy states.

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Cut eligibility to 35% to fill seatsedit

Ahmedabad Mirror

Currently, there is cap of 45% marks for students from general category and 40% for reserved category students to participate in the admission process for professional courses. The college managements have asked AICTE to reduce it to pass percentage, which is 35 per cent.

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IT layoffs and its impact on educational institutionsedit

The Hans India

The infusion of Artificial Intelligence and automation has changed the corporate world beyond imagination. Jobs that were being done manually can now be done by a computer, thus doing away with the need for a person to manage it. Underperforming employees and employees who lack the relevant industry skills are laid off from the organisation.

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Best Engineering Colleges: Engineering Excellenceedit

BW Businessworld

Engineering education in the country is facing a crisis of sorts. Majority of the engineering graduates are unemployable. Those passing out of the elite IITs have traditionally chosen to look for greener pastures abroad. With a renewed manufacturing and technology push in India, the country, however, needs its engineering graduates to be Industry 4.0 ready.

 

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How is digital engineering empowering innovationsedit

Geospatial World

The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is buzzing with digital engineering models across the entire project lifecycle. Digital engineering models emphasizes delivering a set of an integrated set of digital technologies, geometric models, data to craft design models in a digitized environment.

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Fixing the education systemedit

The Indian Express 

Education, it may be said, is no rocket science. But, it has taken an astrophysicist and former head of the ISRO, as the head of a committee, to produce a refreshingly new draft education policy. Of course, there will be debates, and controversies. But, having worked for over two decades to improve the foundational skills of children, it is good to see a policy document that recognises the “severe learning crisis” and emphasises in no uncertain terms that it has to be dealt with.

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Why India needs a new education policyedit

Digita Learning Elets

Explaining about the growing demand of technology across the world, Dr Gupta stated, Digitisation and Automation will drastically change the education and employment scenario. In this context, he also referred a study by McKinsey Global Institute that suggests that in coming future few occupations will be fully automated whereas the 60% of all the occupations across the world have a chance of 30% automation.

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Technology To Speed Up Large-Scale Education Reforms In India: Analystsedit

The Economic Times 

India’s education sector will see increased use of newage technologies such as cloud computing to virtual reality, as the government looks to implement large-scale reforms such as Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) scheme. Union Government has earmarked Rs 1 lakh crore as expenditure for RISE scheme.

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Education Is Overrated; Skills Arentedit

Business World 

It is a natural path for Indians to ‘graduate’. This is partly explained by the Government’s stated intent to ‘educate’ everyone, and largely driven by the industry to set this as a minimum qualification for any job. The industry creates the frenzy and the governments feeds it. This sucks us into the vicious cycle.

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Changing Landscape of Business Education in India: Management Education 4.0 aligned to Industry 4.0edit

Careers 360 

Business schools across the globe are likely to witness rebooting of management education in the next few years, the fourth since the first business school was established in Europe opines Dr Atish Chattopadhyay, Director at IFIM Institutions.

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10 key takeaways from Draft National Education Policyedit

Careers 360 

#Single Higher Education Regulator: The committee has recommended for establishment of National Higher Education Regulatory Authority (NHERA) as the sole regulator for higher education in the country including professional education. All existing bodies like AICTE, NCTE, etc. will be transformed into Professional Standard Setting Bodies (PSSBs).

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New Education Policy 2019: Key takeaways from the draft proposal – changes recommended summarizededit

Times Now News 

After years of wait, the Draft New Education Policy 2019 proposal has been submitted by the committee set up to ascertain the changes required in the education system. The committee, headed by by Chairman Dr K Kasturirangan submitted the draft on Friday, making educational reforms a key component of the newly formed government’s 100 day agenda

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Education policy seems more ‘daft’ than ‘draft’edit

Deccan Chronicle 

The policy’s pro-Hindi and anti-English thrust is once again sowing the seeds of discord. As a free nation, we are 72 years old. Before Independence, English was the democratising link language that also united Indians against the British Raj. The usefulness of English as a universal language in the modern world that is changing fast thanks to Artificial Intelligence, the Internet Of Things and robots easing production cannot be overstressed

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Employability Of Engineering Graduates In India: A Challenge Needs To Addressedit

Business World 

Though OBE addresses so many challenges regarding the improvement of teaching-learning process and quality of graduates produced by Institutes, but implementation of OBE alone cannot change the present scenario. If we consider other professional courses like Medical Sciences, Law, Chartered Accountant; they complete duration of internship or apprenticeship before they are professionally enrolled.

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How Artificial Intelligence is making the education system Betteredit

News Patrolling 

If I told you artificial intelligence can make education better, what would you say Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting numerous aspects of our lives. As weve noted previously, AI is present everywhere and the education sector is also experiencing changes because of AI.

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Industry News: Skilling

How India can be a skilled nation by 2030 and why it is importantedit

The Financial Express 

There is need for skilling, reskilling and upskilling of persons to participate in the global knowledge economy driven by emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and data analytics. The skill development ecosystem is at a crossroads.

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Fixing Indias jobs problem: Why a holistic approach is imperative to bridge skills gapedit

CNBC TV18

And, in tandem with this, there needs to be a focus on skilling, reskilling and training. Indias skills journey is way behind that of the countries we want to compete with. China, for example, is a manufacturing powerhouse, in part because of its vocational education and training (VET) that starts at the school level.

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How is digital engineering empowering innovationsedit

Geospatial World

The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is buzzing with digital engineering models across the entire project lifecycle. Digital engineering models emphasizes delivering a set of an integrated set of digital technologies, geometric models, data to craft design models in a digitized environment.

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BDL, IIIT-H set up AI centreedit

The Hindu Business Line

The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Hyderabad) and Bharat Dynamics (BDL) have set up an exclusive Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence in Missile Technology. The CoE will function as an AI Laboratory for the public sector entity, building an understanding of BDL’s products and business within the IIIT-H’s research groups.

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Education in the 4th industrial ageedit

Millennium Post 

The World Economic Forum has already announced the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and recognised the impact of emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing among others.

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