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Microsoft launches AI digital labs in India, to train 1.5 lakh students
Tech giant Microsoft Thursday said it will launch AI digital labs in the country in collaboration with 10 higher educational institutions, including BITS Pilani and ISB. As part of the three-year programme, Microsoft will support the select institutions with infrastructure, curriculum and content, access to cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services as well as developer support, Microsoft said in a statement. This collaboration with colleges and universities will ramp up institutional setup along with educator capability, and provide relevant educational choices for students, helping them acquire the required skills, it added. "As AI becomes mainstream, organisations will require talent with skill sets that are very different from what exist now. Educators and institutions are integral to the skilling revolution taking root in the country," Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari said. With the right technology infrastructure, curriculum and training, students can be empowered
Education pioneer AglaSem starts Rs 12 lakh scholarship for class 4 to 12 students
Aglasem.com is among the nation's biggest online education platform, which provides updated, authentic, and free guidance to students all over the country.After excelling in the online education market for more than seven years, it has launched AglaSem Talent Search Examination (ATSE). It is an online scholarship test for which students from class 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 can apply.ATSE started as an idea to financially assist students for better education and came to reality after a struggle of over five years. Now that it has been launched, it is set to change the standard of scholarship tests in Indian by allowing students to appear for the online test from anywhere. To take the test, the students just need:* One laptop or system with a good internet connection.* The system must have a webcam facility.* Latest web browser.* Mobile phone to get OTP to access the test.Some of the highlights of the scholarship test include the cash prize of over 12 lakh rupees, which will be ..
Odisha to introduce uniform syllabus in universities
The Odisha government will introduce a uniform syllabus for undergraduate courses in all universities from the 2019-2020 academic session, a minister said on Thursday.
Shah to attend International Yoga Day event in Haryana
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said the state-level function of International Yoga Day on June 21 would be held in Rohtak where Union Home Minister Amit Shah would be the chief guest.
Fadnavis has agreed to reinstate internal SSC marks: Aaditya
Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray Thursday said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has agreed to reinstate the internal assessment marks of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) students from this academic year. Talking to reporters here, Aaditya, who is celebrating his 29th birthday on Thursday, said Fadnavis has also agreed to make special provision for more seats/division in colleges only for this year to accommodate SSC students, who otherwise wouldn't get admissions due to the "fiasco" of scrapping of the internal marks. The internal evaluation of 20 marks had been discontinued last year. The system existed between 2008 and 2018. Aaditya held a meeting with Fadnavis at the latter's official residence here late Wednesday night. He said he also discussed with the chief minister the implementation of drought relief measures and steps to provide relief to women farm labourers and students. Aaditya refused to respond to the questions regarding speculations of his plunge ..
Anupam speaks about cinema, India at Oxford Union
Speaking at the Oxford Union in England, veteran actor Anupam Kher has said that it was a learning experience for him to speak about his ups, downs of life, cinema and India.
SC to hear students' plea on NEET questions tomorrow
The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea filed by a group of students alleging that some questions in this year's National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) were out of the NCERT syllabus.A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi on Thursday agreed to hear the case after the lawyer for the students mentioned the matter for urgent hearing.The petition claimed that four questions in the NEET UG 2019 were wrongly set and were out of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus.The National Testing Agency (NTA) had announced the results of the examination on June 5.
JGU launches Young Global Business Leader programme
As technology and shifting battles of globalisation transform the workplace, the OP Jindal Global University has launched a new one-year certificate programme for developing graduates into global business leaders, the program will skill up fresh graduates for the future.
Winners of talent search prog return from their ISRO exposure
Twenty winners of Tata Steel's Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS) programme from Odisha have completed a week-long exposure trip to the space application centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Ahmedabad. YATS, an initiative for high school students in Odisha, is organised in association with Pathani Samanta Planetarium, under the state's science and technology department, a company release said. "Through special initiatives like the YATS, the company motivates and encourages youngsters to think beyond textbooks and celebrate the power of imagination," it said. The theme for 2018-19 was 'Imagine space exploration, 50 years from now' and included an open-quiz for students from classes 6-10 and an essay competition for students from classes 9-10. After due evaluation, the top two entries from each district were invited to participate in the grand finale held here in December 2018. The winning group of 12 girls and 8 boys from across Odisha visited ...
Tripura takes IIT-Kanpur help to build data bank of schools
The Tripura government has roped in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Kanpur to prepare a data bank of state-run and state-aided schools, as part of its efforts to monitor the education system in the state, an official said. The bank, comprising information on the status of teachers, non-teaching staff and government programme implementation in primary and secondary schools, will be key to improve the overall education infrastructure, he said. The cost of the project - Data Intelligence Solution - will be borne by private companies under their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, the education department official said. "A minister or a high-ranking officer will be able to access the data bank online," he explained. The project, which has been successfully implemented in Jharkhand, is also making its way to Bihar among other states, the official added.
'Lakshya' students excel in MHT-CET (2019)
The State Common Entrance Test Cell (Maharashtra State) has declared the results for MHT-CET examinations today. A total of 4,13,284 candidates registered for the MHT-CET conducted in May 2019. A total of 3,92,354 students appeared in this highly competitive entrance test for state-based colleges in different fields including engineering, pharmacy, agriculture and fisheries.This coveted entrance test was successfully conducted online by the State Common Entrance Test Cell in 19 shifts spread across 10 days from 2nd May to 13th May at 166 locations. In spite of such colossal participation from students across the state for MHT-CET, the students of Lakshya have simply outperformed with exceptional scores.Priyant Jain of MT Educare's Lakshya has top-scored with a phenomenal 99.987 percentile. Priyant was coached for a two-year full-time classroom program at the Ghatkopar centre of Lakshya."The credit for this exceptional performance of mine goes to my beloved teachers at Lakshya. I had ..
Creating a skilled pool of Indian coders top priority: AWS
As disruptive technologies begin to touch every part of our daily lives, the world today needs builders who can write Cloud-driven smart algorithms to help companies deliver customer experiences -- be it retail, banking, food, transportation or health sector.
Three girls go missing in Sangareddy in Telangana
Three girls were reported missing in Patancheru area of Sangareddy district in Telangana, police said Wednesday.According to the police, the girls have been identified as Aakula Sravanthi and Gayathri, both 17 years old students, and Shivani (24).Aakula Sravanthi and Gayathri are friends and went missing from their college here."Two girls -- Aakula Sravanthi and Gayathri -- who are friends and studying in intermediate in Patancheru Government Junior College had left from their residences at 10 am to the college. They did return to their homes in the evening. The girls' parents approached us after they did not return to their homes, " the police said.In the other case, 24-year-old Shivani, who works at a software company, left her home in Ranga Reddy area in the morning to her office but did not return late evening, afterwards her parents informed the police.Her friend said that he had dropped her to Patancheru in the evening.The police are further investigating the matters.
All Waqf properties will be geo-tagged and digitised: Naqvi
Properties belonging to All India Waqf Board will be geo-tagged and facilities like school, college, hospital, community centre, common centre and hostel will be constructed on them, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has announced."All Waqf properties will be geo-tagged and digitised. Schools, colleges, hospitals, community centres, common centres and hostels will be built on them," Naqvi told the media reporters on Wednesday.He said that funds to construct these facilities will be provided under Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram.The minister also said that the Centre will extend free coaching to Muslim girls for UPSC, banking and state services exams."Muslim girls will be given free coaching for UPSC, state services and banking services entrance exams preparation. We have talked to a few institutes and the process will begin this year after talking to all of them," Naqvi said.On Tuesday, Naqvi had announced to connect Madrasas with the formal education system ..
Scientific institutions should work for development of nearby villages: HRD Minister
Union Minister for Human Resources and Development (HRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wedbesday made an appeal to the scientific institutions to participate in holistic development of the country, saying that it was their responsibility to work for the development of nearby villages.
Aaditya Thackeray meets Maha CM to discuss SSC results
Shiv Sena leader and Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray Wednesday met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to discuss the results of the SSC (Class X) results. The meeting took place Fadnavis's official bungalow 'Varsha' in south Mumbai. Thackeray met Fadnavis to discuss the dip in pass percentage in SSC results this year, a statement issued by the Shiv Sena said. According to the party, the chief minister agreed to the demand of starting internal evaluation for languages and social sciences from the academic year 2019-20. Similarly, additional divisions for the SSC board students would be started in Class XI, it said. In the results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations declared on Saturday, Maharashtra registered a pass percentage of 77.10 per cent, which was 12.31 per cent less than the previous year. Of the total 16,39,862 students from nine divisions across the state, the number of students who appeared for the SSC exams held in March stood at ...
DU forms committee to see how EWS quota can be implemented
The Delhi University has formed a committee to look how the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota can be implemented for PhD and MPhil admissions. This year, the varsity has effected a 10 per cent increase in seats for the EWS in undergraduate and postgraduate admissions. The EWS category was not reflecting when candidates wanted to apply for MPhil and PhD admissions, leading the students to query the admission official. "A committee has been constituted to look how the EWS criteria can be implemented for MPhil and PhD. The seats for MPhil and PhD are not fixed and vary depending on the number of supervisors we have and the number of candidates who apply," said a varsity official. The university started registrations for postgraduate, MPhil and PhD courses on June 3. Till now, 17,873 students have registered for MPhil and PhD courses and 3,690 have made payments. Out of the total number of payments made, 1,897 aspirants are from the unreserved category, 864 from other backward ...
Cabinet approves bill on reservation in filling vacancies of teachers
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Bill that provides for considering a university/college as one unit, restoring the earlier reservation system based on 200-point roster. A 'department/subject' will no longer be treated as a unit.
Cabinet okays Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers' Cadre) Bill
The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved the introduction of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers' Cadre) Bill in the upcoming session of Parliament, which will allow filling up of more than 7,000 existing vacancies by direct recruitment in accordance with a new quota system, the HRD Ministry said. According to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry, the move is aimed at giving a major push to reforms in the education sector, making it inclusive and keeping in mind the aspirations of the people from different categories. The Bill will replace the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers' Cadre) Ordinance, 2019. The Cabinet decision will address the long standing demands of persons belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes/ Socially and Economically Backward Classes and ensure their rights envisaged under the Constitution, the ministry said, adding it will also ensure providing of 10 per cent reservation to the Economically Weaker ...
Spl recruitment drives being done to recruit women from northeastern states: Delhi Police to LG
Special recruitment drives by the Delhi Police to recruit women belonging to northeastern states are among several initiatives being taken to boost women safety in the city, police officials told Lt Governor Anil Baijal in a meeting Wednesday. Baijal chaired the ninth meeting of a task force on women safety issues at the Raj Niwas here, which was attended by the Delhi chief secretary, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, city police commissioner, and top officials of various agencies. Representatives of various departments shared with the Lt Governor the action taken report on steps taken to ensure women safety in Delhi, the LG House said in a statement. Baijal advised the chief secretary to monitor work on installation of panic buttons in public transport vehicles to ensure its completion in a "time-bound manner". He also advised the secretary (social welfare) to intensify skill development programmes in women and children homes, the statement said. He also directed police .
