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Parl passes IIIT Bill giving national importance tag to 5 new institutes

Parliament passed a bill to declare five newly established Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) as institutions of national importance

IIIT-Bhubaneswar students make ventilation device to ease breathing issues

IIIT Bhubaneswar students developed a new low-cost device to aid COVID-19 patients. They have designed a hyperbaric chamber, first of its kind ventilation device to ease breathing. 'Swasner', the device to let patients breathe more conveniently.Developers believe 'Swasner' will reduce deaths due to a lack of ventilators in the country. Shaped as a bubble enclosure for the head, the device works on the principle of hyperbaric oxygen therapy which is mainly used for treating diving-related illness and other medical complications."Every patient walking out of the hospital, healthy and alive adds a feather to our cap and blesses us with ability to do more than we are doing now, and hence we are looking forward to improvising the conditions of all the patients & health warriors out there with or resolute and wavering methodologies," said Dr Pranab Nanda Patra, MD. Medicine.The team has developed a prototype and tested in a hospital in Cuttack, and working towards a more improved and .

IIT Guwahati, Duke-NUS use data science to assess Covid-19 impact in India

The study is based on rise in active cases in recent times, along with the daily infection-rate (DIR) values for each state

No tuition fee hike in IITs, IIITs for academic year 2020-21: HRD minister

"On similar lines, I have requested the IIITs run in the public-private partnership mode not to increase the tuition fee for the coming academic year for any of their courses," the HRD minister added.

Centre-Canara Bank to raise Rs 20,000 cr to give loans to IITs, IIMs

The financing model is such that the Centre will pay interest on the amount borrowed by the institutes

After IIMs, now IIITs may soon get degree granting powers

After the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), now the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) may also join the bandwagon for availing degree granting powers. With the IIIT Bill still impending in the Lok Sabha, the ministry of human resources development (MHRD) is reportedly working towards an ordinance to expedite empowering the institutes with degree granting ability.While spokespersons of some of the IIITs that Business Standard reached out to were unavailable for comment, sources said that with several of the institutes likely to see their first batch graduate this year, a degree awarding power was timely. This was being done through the government planning an ordinance that would instantly grant such powers to the 15 functional IIITs out of the total 20 planned on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode.The MHRD is learnt to have even moved the ordinance proposal to the ministry of law, after which it is likely to be taken to the Cabinet and eventually to the ..