June 21, 2019

News for the IET

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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News for other PEI

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.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

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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Industry News: Future of Mobility

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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Industry News: Future of Work

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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Industry News: Education

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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