Select Table of Contents: March 18, 2016

Name of the Journal / Magazine	Vol. No.	Iss. No.	Table of Contents
ABHIGYAN: QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE	33	3
BUSINESS TODAY	25	5	[The best companies to work for: AT-People Strong Survey, in association with Naukri.com]
BUSINESSWORLD	35	14
CARRERS360	VIII	3	[Budget 2016: What's in it for education India's 100 best universities 2016 Entrance fever: reducing pressure Law Programmes: Environmental law]
COORDINATES	XII	2	[GNSS Education: Issues and Challenges Few Institutions / Universities Human Resources Innovation and new values by Universities Surveyors are GNSS Experts Enabler of a virtuous value chain Industry academia interaction]
CSI COMMUNICATIONS	39	12	[Digital Forensics - an enabler An intelligent prototype to lay the road to secure next generation networks Introduction, goals and challenges in Digital Forensic Process Practitioner Workbench: the secure shell - SSH Research Front: Purity of clusters: kernel K-means and beyond Security corner: Digital Forensics in cloud computing Environments: current challenges and solutions for effective forensic investigation]
CURRENT SCIENCE	110	4	[Advancements in biotechnology Dietary spices against hepatocellular carcinoma Indian language families and their mutual influence]
DATAQUEST	XXXIV	4	[Big Data: Demystifying big data]
DIGIT FAST TRACK	11	3
DIGIT: YOUR TECHNOLOGY NAVIGATOR	16	3
DRDO NEWSLETTER	36	2	[DRDO at Indian Science Congress 2016]
EDUCATION WORLD: THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE	XVIII	3
ELECTRONICS FOR YOU	48	3	[Creating Magic with gestures Top 5 Do-It-Yourself: Infrared Sensor Based Power Saver Android Smartphone as Barcode/QR Scanner IoT Wi-Fi Temperature Logging System 4-Channel Multi-mode Audio Amplifier Introduction to Smart Wi-Fi]
ELECTRONICS OUTLOOK	19	1
EXAMINER,THE	167	11
FORTUNE INDIA	6	6	[India's Most Profitable PSU's Walgreens' Quest for Global Dominance TCS Reloaded]
FRONTLINE	33	5	[Fascism in the air]
INDIA FORBES	8	6	[GenNext INDIA INC's Future Leaders The ride of his life: by combining his passion for bikes with a head for business, Sudarshan Venu, 26, is driving TCS Motor into faster, cooler terrains]
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION A: INORGANIC,BIO-INORGANIC,PHYSICAL,THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL	55A	2
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B:ORGANIC INCLUDING MEDICINAL	55B	2
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED PHYSICS	54	2
INVENTI IMPACT ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION	2016	1
INVENTI IMPACT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE	2016	1
INVENTI IMPACT CLOUD COMPUTING	2016	1
INVENTI IMPACT FUZZY SYSTEMS	2016	1
INVENTI IMPACT HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION	2016	1	[WozARd: A Wizard of Oz Method for Wearable Augmented Reality Interaction—A Pilot Study The Importance of Human–computer Interaction in Radiology E-learning Solving the Challenges of Pervasive Computing Modeling and Discovering Human Behavior from Smartphone Sensing Life-log Data for Identification Purpose Diffusion of the “Internet of Things” on the World of Skilled Work and Resulting Consequences for the Man–machine Interaction]
INVENTI IMPACT MACHINE VISION	2016	1	[Multimodal Registration and Fusion for 3D Thermal Imaging Image Analysis Implementation for Evaluation of External Potato Damage Research on Workpiece Sorting System Based on Machine Vision Mechanism A Master-slave Calibration Algorithm with Fish-eye Correction]
INVENTI IMPACT MICROWAVE	2016	1
INVENTI IMPACT SIGNAL PROCESSING	2016	1
IUP JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT,THE	XIV	1
IUP JOURNAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS,THE			[Special Issue: Select Papers presented at the National Conference on "Advances in Microelectronics, Instrumentation and Communication" held at BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India on November 20-22, 2015.]
JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH	75	2
ONE INDIA ONE PEOPLE	19	6
OPEN SOURCE FOR YOU	4	6	[HBase: The database for Hadoop Apache CouchDB: It's time to relax MySQL Cluster: A high Availability DBMS Setting up and optimizing Apache Cassandra An interview with Nitin Mishra, Senior VP, Products and Solutions, Netmagic]
PC QUEST			[100+free and open source software to succeed in the digital era How face and voice recognition technology can transform PDS in rural India 5 popular apps to handle finances Nine free tools to manage social media for your business 8 ways IT is empowering teachers 6 plugins that help solve image problems in wordpress Three quick steps to set up an enterprise cloud network]
PC QUEST
POOL
PRAMANA: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS	86	2	[Proceeding of UNICOS -2014 International Workshop on Unification and Cosmology after Hiigs Discovery and BICEP2]
RESONANCE: JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION	21	2
SCIENCE REPORTER	53	3	[Landmark Discovery: Scientists see gravitational waves from black holes Interview with Prof. M.S.Swaminathan Embryo editing Food and Intelligence Quizzes, crossword and puzzles New elements Zika Virus Liver Health]
SMALL MEDIUM ENTREPRENEUR	5	1
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS	24	1
UNIVERSITY NEWS	54	9	[Challenges of Open and Distance Education in India Issues and concerns in the ambit of inclusive classrooms comprising locomotor disability Reforms in higher education in the context of Uttarakhand Improving education to handle affluence for the sake of Mother Earth Changing agriculture from subsistence farming to commercial farming - convocation address]
VOICE AND DATA	23	2	[Why Telcos must make convergent charging the new engine for growth The Smart City Bandwagon Internet Performance is key How smart cities can make India superpower When smart cities meet big data]
WEEK,THE	34	11

City college sets an example by recycling 100 kg waste daily

Compost pits at Vivekanand Education Society campus. (Prashant Wayande)

Six kilometers away from Deonar dumping ground, an educational institution has set an example for residents in the vicinity by sending zero waste to the landfill.

The civic body has recognised two campuses of the Vivekanand Education Society (VES), Chembur, as the first educational institutions in the city to recycle wet, dry and electronic waste, which is part of its solid waste disposal programme under the guidance of United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

The campuses, spread across four acres each, produce 100 kg wet and dry waste every day. Nearly 70 kg of biodegradable waste is segregated for composting, while the remaining 30 kg of dry waste is collected by NGO Shri Mukhti Sanghatna for recycling.

“The dry waste from the VES campus is collected by a vehicle (not dumper trucks) provided by the municipal corporation, while the wet waste is degraded at the campus itself. The combination of both makes the institution a zero waste campus,” Harshad Kale, assistant municipal commissioner, M ward, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.

“We have been inviting residents of M ward to see the project and replicate it in smaller ways at their households,” he said.

In addition to horticultural waste such as garden clippings and dried leaves, a large amount of biodegradable waste comes from the canteens. The dry waste is collected from nine higher education institutes spread across the two campuses, schools, a junior college and their sports academy.

Dr Jayashree Phadnis, principal, VES, said, “The fire at Deonar dumping ground made it difficult for students and teachers to attend college. Awareness about treating our own waste is key to solving the solid waste management problems. Inspired by the project, staff members have begun composting wet waste.”

The institute has spent Rs18,000 for the project that was started under the guidance of NGO Stree Mukhti Sanghatna in 2014. Three tons of organic manure has been generated so far. “The waste fed into each of the two compost pits (6ftx4ft) in a month is 1,800 kg. The quantity of compost produced every month is close to 130 kg that is used at football fields, gardens and potted plants,” said Sunita Patil, coordinator, Stree Mukhti Sanghatna.

Electronic waste such as battery cells and other devices are collected and sold to scrap dealers every six months and the money is used to maintain the compost pits and provide water to the open grounds.

Patil added that the dry waste collected from the institute includes paper, plastic, fiber and glass. “The BMC van drops the dry waste at our Chembur office where it is segregated into eight categories and returned to industries or sent for recycling,” she said.

“The daily news on Deonar dumping ground and hazardous chemical in the air around Chembur is a big concern. The best way to make the city care about the environment is through students and projects like these that will ensure a safer future for them,” said Mahesh Tejwani, president, VES.

Source: Hindustan Times dated 14 March 2016

Neighbourhood apps: The ‘Quora’ for local queries

Neighbourhood apps: The ‘Quora’ for local queries

PRASHANT PITTI, founder, NearGroup

Most of us are unaware of who lives in our neighbourhood and in times of need, we travel long distances without asking our neighbours ... We think these (neighbourhood apps) could be mother of all apps in the future

NEW DELHI: Eight years in Indirapuram has made Rajiv Kaura, 47, an expert on the area. He can tell you who is a good doctor, where to get a new maid and which shops are better.

And for the past few months he has been giving such advice to hundreds of people in his neighbourhood, not directly, but on his smartphone, through a neighbourhood network app. NearGroup, Omni, NearCircles are some options.

“Most of the questions come from people who are new to the place”, Kaura says, “The issues range from advice on higher education to civic amenities.”

Shilpa Abhilash, a ward councillor of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) gets more complaints through the smartphone than manually. “It is easy because we don’t have to rely on officials,” she says.

“Most of us are unaware of who lives in our neighbourhood and in times of need, we travel distances,” says Prashant Pitti, founder of NearGroup, which has about 20,000 users in the NCR region.

Pitti ,who is a marathon runner, got the idea of the app from his troubles in finding a running mate. The former HSBC executive in the US had Nextdoor, a US-based app launched in 2011 and now a unicorn, to model his idea upon.

Jackson Fernadez, co-founder of Omni, says, “Lot of valuable information lies in the localities. It has now become more like a local Quora.” Launched in November 2015, the application has about 10,000 downloads, mainly from Bangalore. “Indians generally value a neighbour’s recommendations a lot. There is a very high trust factor.”

Some of these apps work similar to dating app Tinder to find people in the user’s locality. Others use the user’s choice of locality and puts her/him in a group registered from the same place.

For Suresh Mylavarapu, the difficulty to connect with the new neighbourhoods overseas, made him develop Nearcircles. Launched in August 2015 the app has more than 10,000 users globally. “It is mostly for discussion on local issues,” he says.

Mylavarapu says the objective is to see these platforms help build offline communities.

However, Ashish Jindal of CodeYeti solutions, which developed such an application in 2014 thinks they are extremely difficult to manage. “Most users stalk people, mainly women. Many female users started complaining,” he says. Unable to raise funding and solve these complaints, he stopped further development.

Fernadez of Omni agrees that when more people join it is a challenge to manage the discussions. The app has a report-abuse option.

NearGroup does multiple verifications including that of the Facebook account to eliminate fake profiles, allows anybody to block anybody, and doesn’t allow people to change their locality for at least for three months. Nearcircles also allows community managers in each area to watch over the activities on the group.

Source: Hindustan Times dated 15 March, 2016 Page 18

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Certificates Lost? DeitY to save You from Hardships

CHENNAI: Digital depository for school and college certificates, announced in the Union Budget, would act as a one-stop shop for storing, retrieving and verifying all educational certificates whenever necessary.

A top scientist with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) told Express that digital libraries would be set up on a pilot basis, which would be soon expanded into a national library.

Experts believed that the digital depository launched as part of the Centre’s Digital India would eliminate the necessity for physically storing education certificates and be a solution to the increasing fake educational certificate scams across various states.

“DeitY would be providing technical assistance to this initiative to be primarily taken by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD)”, the scientist working in the e-governance group of DeitY told Express.

The scientist added, “At present we are planning to set up a digital library on a pilot basis, which we had earlier developed for research purpose and this would be expanded later.

The MHRD had begun collecting necessary data and at subsequent meetings with the officials they would decide the location for the pilot scheme. “This would save a lot of time, particularly when someone lost their certificates and tried to get a duplicate copy from the authorities”, said M Saravanan, an IT employee. Saravanan had lost all his original certificates on his way to Chennai to attend an interview and was made to run from pillar to post at the TN Directorate of Government Examinations Headquarters, Chennai.

Sources from the School Education department said that this might be linked with the Digital Locker facility introduced earlier to ensure safe online storage and easy access of documents anytime. 

“But, this portable locker linked the students’ certificates with their respective personal Aadhaar card identity numbers and despite special camps, several students were left out and yet to receive their cards,” sources added.

Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Certificates-Lost-DeitY-to-save-You-from-Hardships/2016/03/01/article3303985.ece

Get passport in a week by giving four documents

PUNE: The ministry of external affairs has announced two major changes that will fast-track the process for first-time passport applicants and make it more convenient to secure an appointment at the local passport seva kendra.

Citizens will be granted a fresh passport under the normal category in a week if their applications are accompanied by three documents - copies of Aadhaar card, electoral photo identity card (EPIC) and PAN card - besides an affidavit in the format of Annexure-I (declaration of citizenship, family details and no criminal record).

Until now, the process would take a month, with the police verification eating up a lot of time.

Police verification of such applications will be conducted after the passport is issued. There will be no extra charge for the service, a statement issued by the ministry said. The process is subject to online validation of the Aadhaar number while processing and an approval from the granting officer. 



In addition, EPIC and PAN cards may also be validated, if required, through respective databases in real time, before the application is approved. Besides, passports may also be impounded and revoked later, in case of adverse police reports.

The idea of the upgrade is to liberalise the process without compromising on security, explained Anil Kumar Sobti, director of the passport division in the ministry. "There are plenty of inbuilt safeguards in our system which can instantly spot fake identities and forgeries. Most importantly, our system is linked to the Aadhaar database which helps conduct real-time verification of the applicant while s/he is still at the passport seva kendra," he said.

"We are trying to integrate EPIC and PAN cards as well. Additionally, the granting officer interviewing the applicant can use his discretion to extend or withhold the facility. Besides, the option of impounding or revoking the passport post issuance is always available and we have exercised it several times in 2015," Sobti said.

hinges on accurate and complete 

Hailing the change as an applicant-friendly initiative, Pune's regional passport officer Atul Gotsurve said, "A smooth rollout of the facility documentation furnished by the applicant.

"Adverse police reports can be avoided if applicants themselves play a pro-active role in their verification to ensure that it is completed within a month since the passport is issued. We will also institutionalise measures to prevent an increase in such cases."

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Get-passport-in-a-week-by-giving-four-documents/articleshow/50749610.cms