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This collaboration between IIT Bombay and Amazon will fund research projects, PhD fellowships, and community events, such as research symposia. The collaboration will promote artificial intelligence and machine learning. The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) Monday joined hands with e-Commerce company Amazon for creation of the AI-ML initiative. This collaboration will fund research projects, PhD fellowships, and community events, such as research symposia. This initiative will be hosted by the IIT Bombay Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and will promote artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within speech, language and multimodal AI domains. “We at IIT Bombay are committed to our mission of translating knowledge and research into revolutionary technologies,” said Subhasis Chaudhuri, director at IIT Bombay. “Our top research minds have always attracted the attention of companies interested in scientific study. With industry collaborators like...

IIT Madras researchers have developed a cheap and portable, paper-based device to check milk adulteration in just 30 seconds.  IIT Madras develops cheap and portable device to check milk adulteration in 30 seconds By India Today Education Desk: IIT Madras researchers have developed a cost-effective and portable 3D paper-based device that can detect milk adulteration in just 30 seconds. Unlike conventional laboratory-based methods, this new technology can be used at home and requires only a millilitre of the liquid sample to test for adulterants. The device can detect various commonly used adulterating agents such as detergents, soap, hydrogen peroxide, urea, starch, salt, and sodium-hydrogen-carbonate, among others. The research was led by Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras, along with research scholars Subhashis Patari and Driyankan Datta. They co-authored a research paper that has been published in the peer-re...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed this after the centre, as a one-time exception, expressed willingness to give them one chance to clear the exam as recommended by an expert Committee. The court was hearing a plea by medical students who had to return from universities abroad following covid-19 and Ukraine-Russia war.  Undergraduate medical students who had to return from Ukraine and China in their penultimate year of study will get two attempts to clear their final MBBS exams in India. The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed this after the centre, as a one-time exception, expressed willingness to give them one chance to clear the exam as recommended by an expert Committee. Though the centre suggested one chance, the SC bench of Justices B R Gavai and Vikram Nath felt that this may be insufficient and modified it to allow two attempts. “We accept the report of the committee, subject to a minor modification…student being offered a single chance to clear MBBS Final, both Part I and...

KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology , engineering college in Coimbatore offers engineering education without the basic infrastructural facilities. The college was established in the year 2009. According to student complaints, the institution does not have proper labs and equipment to carry out practical learning. Low class infrastructure and lack of facilities are part of the day-to-day life of the students at KPR College. KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology Out-dated computers with obsolete software are present in the labs of the college and even after many complaints, the college management is not ready to repair or change the software, but forces the students to continue learning using them. In some situations when the students are not able to use the systems, the management and the staff are adapting theory-based learning which is intensely affecting the knowledge of the students . Engineering degree requires a lot of practical learning to develop their application-...

A first year woman student of a private nursing college in Oddanchathiram, who jumped from the third floor of the college five days ago, died at a hospital in Dindigul on Sunday. Investigation revealed that the hostler was stressed out as she had some dispute with her room mates. Representative Image The student from Palayapatti was staying at the college hostel and attending classes. She jumped from the third floor of the college building on February 21 and suffered severe injuries. She was immediately rushed to a private hospital for treatment. Oddanchatram judicial magistrate Selva Maheswari and Dindigul superintendent of police V Baskaran were roped in for investigation. Under these circumstances, the girl died in the hospital without responding to treatment. The hospital management shifted the body to Dindigul Government Hospital for postmortem. Tension prevailed on the GH premises after women’s rights activists held a demonstration demanding an inquiry by Dindigul RDO. Subsequent...

The death of a student of Loyola College in an accident near Aragandanallur has caused a great tragedy. Allampadi village is under the Aragandanallur police station limits of Villupuram district. A private charitable organization is functioning in this village. 67 students from Loyola College Chennai visited here. They planned to create awareness among the villagers belonging to the area. In this case, yesterday evening they left Alamabadi charity organization to perform an awareness play in Thalanur village of Vadakarai. More than 30 students boarded a cargo vehicle Student from Loyola College dies in a horrific tragedy close to Villupuram! An unexpected accident A Loyola College student died on the spot. He was 21. More than 20 students traveling in the cargo vehicle were seriously injured. 108 Ambulance was immediately informed. All of them were rescued and admitted to Thirukovilur Government Hospital for treatment. Advanced treatment At present, the injured students are receiving c...

The handbook is usually released every January by the All India Council for Technical Education; it provides guidance to colleges on, among other things, starting new courses; the delay may be due to plans to implement the National Education Policy from this academic year, experts say. Engineering colleges are awaiting the release of the All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) approval process handbook for the academic year 2023-24. The AICTE usually issues the booklet by the end of December or January every year. Anna University is the affiliating body for all engineering colleges in the State The delay in publication has left college heads with no idea about the approval process for technical institutions for the next academic year. Technical institutions are mandated to get the AICTE’s approval annually. A section of college managements believes the Central government’s proposal to implement the National Education Policy 2020 from the next academic year could have delaye...

Chief Minister M K Stalin has announced a compensation of ₹ 2 lakh to the boys' families. Three boys on their way to school were run over by a car and killed in Tamil Nadu's Tirupathur district on Tuesday, police said. The driver of the car has been arrested. Rafique and siblings Vijay and Suriya, all aged under 13 years, were cycling on the service lane along the highway when an SUV hit them.  The driver of the car, a college student, was coming back from a trip to Yelagiri hill with his friends when he lost control of his vehicle and swerved on to the service lane near Vaniyambadi. Senior police officer M S Muthusamy told NDTV the driver was not drunk and has been charged with rash and negligent driving causing death. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin condoled the tragic death of students and announced a relief of ₹ 2 lakh to their families.