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Entrepreneurship Cell SFIT presents the most awaited competition of the year !! PRAGATI 2019 is a national level technical innovation and business plan Competition offering a platform for students with different innovative project to compete against each other for investment. Aspiring entrepreneurs can transform their simple ideas into a market ready business plan and present it in front of a wide range of investors. For Details, visit   http://pragati.ecellsfit.com Some Snapshots:      All Photos Courtesy: Mr. Sunil Pansare (In-Charge HOD - Mechanical Department, SFIT)

(Image created and uploaded by SFIT Library) T he word  “Shodh”  originates from Sanskrit and stands for “research and discovery”.  “Gangotri”     is one of the largest glacier in the Himalayas and source of origination of Ganges, the holiest, longest and largest of rivers in India. The Ganges is the symbol of age-long culture, civilization, ever-aging, ever-flowing, ever-loving and loved by its people. Under the initiative called  “ShodhGangotri” , research scholars / research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit electronic version of approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D programme. The repository on one hand, would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand it would avoid duplication of research. Synopsis in “ShodhGangotri” would later be mapped to full-text theses in  "ShodhGanga" . As such, once ...

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Geetha Manjunath turned entrepreneur in the backdrop of a tragedy. In 2017, a cousin she was really close to succumbed to breast cancer at a relatively young age. Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in women and the second most common worldwide.  Manjunath, who has a PhD in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science, applied her scientific mind to the issue. Ubiquitous screening and early detection vastly reduces fatality from cancer. Manjunath had been part of  ..  Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.comhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/how-startups-are-leveraging-deep-tech-knowledge-to-power-ahead/printarticle/68443288.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

India’s largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), is actively working on a number of decentralized projects leveraging R3’s blockchain platform and  Microsoft Azure blockchain  workbench. Per the company, the blockchain venture was initiated to accelerate the adoption of distributed ledger technology across a wide range of industries. TCS Delves Deep Into Blockchain As  reported by ANI , IT giant TCS is developing five blockchain architectures, each offering a different solution ranging from digital identity to tokenization. The platforms will also facilitate solutions such as track-and-trace, asset monetization, and assets in common. The Indian IT heavyweight divulged that the platforms will leverage R3’s blockchain platform, Codra Enterprise, and be hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud. TCS, the world’s ninth-largest IT company by market cap, intends to develop advanced cross-industry blockchain platforms that would make it easy to deploy s...

MUMBAI: From online tests to reducing the use of paper to recycling answer sheets, colleges across Mumbai are doing their bit to turn their campuses into environment-friendly spaces. At Kalyan’s BK Birla College, question papers are designed and assessed online. “Very soon, all our internal examinations too will be computer-based,” said Naresh Chandra, principal of the college. He added that the college will soon rope in an agency to set up an online examination system. “Autonomy gives us this freedom and we want to use the power to bring about a positive change,” said Chandra. Two years ago, St Andrew’s College in Bandra had hired an agency to help them recycle all types of paper. “Earlier, we used to find ways of recycling paper ourselves but with the help of the agency we also found ways to reduce usage of paper and they help recycle whatever paper is generated on campus,” said Marie Fernandes, principal of the college. In 2016, St Andrew’s College had conducted a gre...

HIRING SEASON Major information technology firms offer ₹40L package a year MUMBAI: After a two-year slump, the city’s engineering colleges are seeing a rise in offers and pay packages from information technology (IT) companies, with some even touching ₹40 lakh. While IT firms such as Accenture, Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Infotech, Capgemini and Infosys are hiring students in bulk, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro opted for a pan-India centralised recruitment process. “We are witnessing a surge in demand for IT and computer science graduates compared to last year. There has been an unusual growth in packages, which wasn’t seen in the past decade,” said Gopakumaran Thampi, principal, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (TSEC), Bandra. Here’s an example: Accenture made 178 offers at the KJ Somaiya College of Engineering this year, up from 130 and 140 offers in 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. The recruitment figure for the company was much higher – 301 – in 2015-16...