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Monday, August 26, 2019

UGC to decide on proposals to review PhD theses soon

UGC to decide on proposals to review PhD theses soon

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70833071.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst (Accessed on August 26, 2019)

The top Indian colleges and organisations for internships, awarded by AICTE

Online learning platform Internshala together with All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) organized a national event, on Sunday to celebrate Internship Day 2019 .

The initiative was to honor the colleges and organizations with the best boarding culture.

The top three organizations include the Times Internet, Out of the Box Solutions and today's Kalam Foundation, a voluntary organization working to reform education.

According to Internshala, over 15,000 students received boarding opportunities in the last four months.

Varsities, colleges asked to ready fitness plan for students

Varsities, colleges asked to ready fitness plan for students ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70822789.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst (Accessed on August 26, 2019)

IIT Bombay Sets New Trend For Convocations: Students Go Traditional With White Kurta Pyjamas Ceremonial Robes

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay students decided to go traditional during their convocation by ditching the ceremonial black robe along with headgears and wearing white kurta pyjamas on Saturday (10 August), Livemint reports.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) told vice-chancellors of all universities to adopt “ceremonial robes made out of handloom fabrics which would not only give a sense of pride of being Indian but also be more comfortable in hot and humid weather”.

Infosys chairman and co-founder Nandan Nilekani and an alumni of the institute was conferred an honorary doctoral degree by the institute. Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal was the chief guest of the 57 convocation .

2,603 students, 385 PhDs, and two joint PhDs of IIT-B/National University of Singapore and one Cotutelle PhD (Joint Supervision) agreement with the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivieres in Canada were awarded by the minister.

Source: https://swarajyamag.com/insta/iit-bombay-sets-new-trend-for-convocations-students-go-traditional-with-white-kurta-pyjamas-ceremonial-robes (Accessed on August 26, 2019)

Friday, August 23, 2019

Microsoft joins Google, Intel for data protection consortium

Google ditches dessert names, announces Android Q will be officially called Android 10

On Thursday Google announced that new Android version or Android Q will be officially known as Android 10. Yes, for Android Q Google changes its naming strategy and this comes as a surprise for most people. In addition, Google has also changed the look of the Android logo.

Read the full article at:

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/android-os/story/google-ditches-dessert-names-announces-android-q-will-be-officially-called-android-10-1590651-2019-08-23 (Accessed on August 23, 2019)

More than 700 German research institutions strike open-access deal with Springer Nature

BERLIN—A consortium of more than 700 German research institutions and libraries today announced an agreement with publisher Springer Nature to make it simpler for authors to publish their papers open access. The agreement is the largest national open-access deal to date, but it doesn’t allow authors to publish open access in Nature or its sister journals.

The consortium, called Project DEAL, has negotiated for more than 3 years with major publishers to reach “publish and read” agreements. Such agreements give member institutions full access to a publisher’s online content and make papers that their researchers publish freely available worldwide. Charges are based not on subscriptions, but on a fee per published paper.