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Call for measured steps noting that it could also affect environment adversely Several eminent scientists in the country have begun a crusade to caution the Government against rushing into auctioning of spectrum for the industry to roll-out 5G technology based services in the country. These scientists are campaigning, writing letters to Government and Parliamentarians and other opinion makers. The list of such concerned scientists includes well-known names such as: 1. Prof V S Ramamurthy, former Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology 2. Dr T Ramasami, also a former Secretary of DST and a former Director-General of CSIR 3. Prof Girish Kumar, Deparment of Electronics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay, who has written a book on EMF radiation hazards 4. Dr L V Krishnan, former Director of Safety Research and Health Physics Programmes at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 5. Dr P C Kesavan, a noted radiobiologist and a former...

New Delhi: The government is set to trim down the list of Institutes of Eminence from 30 to 20 and has called a meeting of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on August 9 for the purpose.  The UGC will be tasked to rank the institutes on certain parameters that was not done by the expert panel, which had prepared the list. An intervention from the Prime Minister’s Office last week fuelled the move.  The empowered expert committee, chaired by former chief election commissioner  ..  Read more at: //economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70426071.cms?from=mdr&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Last week, NDA government succeeded in getting contentious amendments to RTI Act passed by Parliament. Social activist  Aruna Roy , who was at the forefront of the movement to persuade Parliament to enact the original law, speaks to  Anindo Dey  about the development: The government said the RTI Act amendments set right the anomaly of the Information Commissions, which are statutory bodies, being treated on a par with the Election Commission, a constitutional body. What is the problem with this? There is nothing legally which prevents the Information Commissions from being equated with the EC. In fact this was a positive provision passed unanimously by the Parliament, on the recommendation of the standing committee, where NDA members played an important part. Other statutory posts – CVC and Lokpal – have also been treated on a par with constitutional posts to ensure independent functioning. These amendments demonstrate that the government is clearly threatened by i...

The Centre has rolled out a scheme wherein top-rated public and private higher education institutions will help their underperforming counterparts sharpen up their act. Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/top-institutes-to-mentor-weak-counterparts-750376.html

GAYA: Magadh University is to resume the practice of holding written test for PhD degree aspirants. The practice was discarded a few years ago in view of University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation 2009. In 2016, the UGC amended the guidelines, detailing eligibility, duration and relaxation and other criteria. The MU academic council, at its meeting held on Friday, adopted the UGC regulation that stipulates conditions for award of PhD degrees. MU’s officiating VC Prof D P Tiwari presided over the academic council meet. MU’s PRO Prof Sidhnath Prasad said the process for conducting the test and holding classes on research methodology will begin soon. “The result of the test, to be known as RET (research eligibility test), will be valid for one year. The RET shall be for qualifying purpose only. Relaxation of 5% in qualifying marks shall be given to SC/ST and persons with disability. The RET syllabus will consist of 50% of research methodology and 50% subject specific,” he said. As...

Chennai: Engineering admission has dropped to 50%-55% in the last four years and due to the huge vacancies in colleges, the All India Council for Technical Education will not accredit new engineering and pharma colleges for the next two years, AICTE chairman Anil D Sahasrabudhe said on Sunday. x “Colleges with less admissions cannot survive as they are not able to pay salaries and maintain the infrastructure,” he said, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology’s 28 th  convocation. When asked about vacancies, Sahasrabudhe said, “In the last four years, engineering admissions have dropped to 50%- 55% and 2.5 lakh seats have been cut. So, there are huge vacancies in engineering colleges”. Such colleges are reducing intake or shutting down, he added. The council is mulling a common entrance test for engineering, twice a year, and the better of the two scores will be considered for admission. “But many states wanted tim...

Eleven government and two private colleges filled all their seats while 16 private colleges could not get a single student this year after four rounds of online counselling conducted by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee. And 54% seats in 479 colleges remain vacant. Like previous years, 230 colleges filled less than 30% of seats. Of 1,67,101 seats available for counselling, 76,364 were filled. “More than 200 colleges could not fill 30% of seats in the past four years. If the trend continues, the colleges could lose 50% of seats,” said career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi. If colleges have less than 30% admissions for five consecutive years, AICTE cuts seats by 50%. Computer science and civil engineering emerged as most and least preferred streams while mechanical engineering saw a huge drop in demand, with only 36% of seats filled. Colleges in Chennai and Coimbatore regions got more students. As many as 1,519 students from previous rounds participated in th...

In view of increasing complaints from students over withholding of certificates by technical institutions, demanding excess fee, failure to provide amenities etc.,All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) issued revised draft (redressal of grievance of students) regulations, 2019. The fresh regulations will supersede those issued in 2012 and mandates technical institutions to publish prospectus, establish student grievance redressal committee and appoint an ombudsman who will be a retired district judge or a retired vice-chancellor/professor with 10 years of experience. Giving greater emphasis to the prospectus, the AICTE has notified that all technical institutions will not only have to mention the list of courses and seat intake but also tuition fee and refund details. In the prospectus, all institutions will have to mandatorily mention each component of the fee, deposits and other charges payable by the student seeking admission. “The percentage of tuition fee and ...

Platform will bring credibility and transparency to skills assessment, says firm's global head TCS  iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), today launched the Skill Hub, a digital platform providing standardized, industry-relevant and digital content at the Automotive Skill Development Council (ASDC) Annual Conclave 2019, in Delhi. The ‘Skill Hub’ hosted on  TCS  iON’s Digital Learning platform, is a standardized, anytime-anywhere-any device skilling, training, certification and job listing platform. The automotive sector being the first to on-board this hub, will enable ASDC to skill, reskill and upskill candidates at speed and scale. “It (Skill Hub) is an important milestone for the country and we look forward to having both academia and industry leverage this digital platform and make skilling mainstream,” said Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head,  TCS  iON. Skilling can be paid for through government sponsorship programmes, ind...

NEW DELHI, JULY 24:  India Innovation Challenge Design Contest   (IICDC), a national design contest for engineering students should be accessible to students even in remote corners of the country. To ensure that Texas Instruments India (TI India), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education in India,   Department of Science and Technology (DST) and   Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) have come together. The motive is to help strengthen the innovation ecosystem, enhance skills and drive a start-up culture amongst engineering students. The announcement was made at the finals of IICDC 2018, coinciding with the announcement of this year’s top 10 winning teams. Congratulating the IICDC 2018 winners,  Sanjay Srivastava, Director, TI India University Program said , “IICDC’s vision is to give students an opportunity to be innovators and entrepreneurs. ...

  A decision of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to not allow new conventional disciplines with low employment potential from the academic year 2020-21 had evoked mixed response. While officials of the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) of Chhattisgarh Government were of the view that the decision would clean the ‘garbage’ of private engineering colleges, Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University (CSVTU), Bhilai, said the colleges are independent to choose their disciplines. CSVTU Vice-Chancellor Dr M K Verma made it clear that the colleges are in a better position to judge as to which disciplines should be taught to their students.   “The private engineering colleges work on ground level and conduct independent survey to know the market trends before introducing any branches in their respective colleges. CSVTU grants No Objection Certificate (NOC) to the disciplines the colleges apply for. However, the NOC is given on the basis of laborat...

More Source: https://twitter.com/TawdeVinod Modifying the custom of welcoming with bouquets of flowers, introduced a new tradition of 'Book instead of Bouquet', where books are used in place of flower bouquets. To my great honour, this was picked up by PM @narendramodi ji, creating a new trend! #TransformingMaharashtra

St. Francis Institute of Technology (SFIT), Borivali(W), Mumbai, India is organizing the 3 rd  International Conference on "Communication System, Computing and IT Applications 2020" (CSCITA 2020) on April 3 - 4, 2020. This Conference aims at bringing together academia and industry to foster research and provide a platform for future collaborations. The conference will include keynote speeches, invited talks, technical sessions (oral and poster). Original research papers on the tracks related to conference theme are solicited. The conference is technically sponsored by IEEE Bombay Section and University of Mumbai. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore® Digital Library. For more details, please visit:  https://cscita.sfit.ac.in/index.html Conference Tracks Applied Computing & IT Communication & Networking Signal Processing System Software & Process Engineering Important Dates Call for papers opens from: 01 st  ...

Hailing from Lucknow, Abidi joined the chipmaker as a software engineer and is now responsible for deep learning framework software optimisation for Intel’s top of the line Xeon processors. To read the full article, please visit: https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/behind-cutting-edge-artificial-intelligence-work-lucknow-woman-huma-abidi-who-set-out-to-be-a-doctor-5843297/  (Accessed on July 23, 2019)

TCS had issued joining letters to over 30,000 fresh graduates, of which 40% have been onboarded in the first quarter.  Read more at: //economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70336196.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the  2019 version of Scholar Metrics . This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2019. Scholar Metrics include journals from websites that follow our  inclusion guidelines  and selected conferences in Engineering & Computer Science. Publications with fewer than 100 articles in 2014-2018, or publications that received no citations over these years are not included. You can browse publications in specific categories such as  Ceramic Engineering , High Energy & Nuclear Physics , or  Film  as well as broad areas like  Engineering & Computer Science  or  Humanities, Literature & Arts  . You will see the top 20 publications ordered by their five-year h-index and h-me...

Only 15.8% of the total publications produced by Indian researchers feature in the top 10 journals globally, there is dire need to focus on the quality of research in the country IANS Photo IANS Published: 22 Jul 2019, 8:00 PM Engagement:  17 Only 15.8 per cent of the total publications produced by Indian researchers feature in the top 10 journals globally, a government report has revealed. It has emphasised on the dire need to focus on the quality of research in the country. Compared globally, India trails the UK, which has 37.3 per cent research work published in top 10 journals, the US (36.2 per cent), Germany (33.4 per cent) and China (27.6 per cent). As per Scimago Journal Rankings, India ranks fifth in global research publication output. But countries such as the US, China, Germany and the UK continue to dominate the world rankings both in terms of quantitative and qualitative research. "Presently, sizeable numbers of research and tech...