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IIT-Madras to set up Joint Research Centre with Swinburne University, Melbourne

Opportunity India Desk Oct 13, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) will collaborate with Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, to set up a Joint Research Centre for the creation of enterprise eco-systems (C2E2). The collaboration will combine the expertise in emerging science and technologies to expand research capacity and capability of both Institutions. The centre has been sanctioned $300,000 for a three-year period, ...

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IIT Mandi started six new postgraduate programs in last one year

Opportunity India Desk Oct 11, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi has introduced six new courses in the past one year. With these new courses, the institute has inched closer to its target of having 60% postgraduate students in its student strength. The programs launched between August 2017 and August 2018 include M.Sc. in Physics, M.Tech. in Power Electronics and ...

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IIT-Madras to collaborate with Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency

Opportunity India Desk Oct 10, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras will collaborate with Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) for enhancing data-driven governance in the State. Through this engagement, the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC DSAI ) at IIT-Madras has agreed to support Tamil Nadu government on various data science and ICT-related challenges. The collaboration ...

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30 women entrepreneurs to be trained by IIT-Bombay for start-ups

Opportunity India Desk Oct 09, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment (WEE) under a new programme will train a group of 30 women entrepreneurs for start-ups. The Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT-B has partnered with WEE to launch a 'Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Mentorship Program'. The programme has been launched with support ...

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IIT-Kharagpur collaborates with French doctoral network to promote research

Opportunity India Desk Oct 08, 2018 - 1 min read

IIT-Kharagpur (KGP) has collaborated with REDOC SPI, a French network of doctoral schools, to strengthen institutional collaboration in doctoral education and research. The initiative will promote interaction and collaboration between IIT KGP and the doctoral schools (or equivalent structures) of REseau DOCtoral en Sciences Pour l’Ingénieur (REDOC SPI) through visits and exchange programmes. It will also encourage joint ...

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IIT Kharagpur to set up an 'Academy of Leadership' to develop innovative programmes

Opportunity India Desk Oct 04, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is going to set up an Academy of Leadership. The academy is being set up with an aim to develop innovative programmes combining the core curricula in science and engineering disciplines with philosophy and liberal arts. Partha S Ghosh, an alumnus and a management consultant of IIT KGP, has donated ...

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Indian universities should give emphasis on innovation: PM Modi

Opportunity India Desk Oct 01, 2018 - 1 min read

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the country's universities and institutions of higher education need to give equal emphasis to innovation as they give to knowledge. He asserted that without innovation life would become a burden. Modi emphasised on the importance of character building over literacy and called for 'wholesome' education in India. The ...

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IIT Kharagpur develops supply of purified drinking water project

Opportunity India Desk Sep 26, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has developed a community supported supply of purified drinking water project at Porapara in West Midnapore district, West Bengal. Dr Somnath Ghosal of the Rural Development Centre of IIT Kharagpur started a fully-automated multi-filtered UV treated drinking water facility. This facility can provide around 1000 litres of purified drinking ...

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IIT Madras, ONGC sign deal to boost operational lifecycle of offshore platforms

Opportunity India Desk Sep 21, 2018 - 1 min read

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has announced a collaboration with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) for boosting the operational life cycle of the latter's existing platforms and for reducing running and operating cost by optimum use of offshore survey requirements. IIT-M will develop a database management system for more than 280 platforms of ...

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Samsung is planning to stop TV manufacturing in India

Opportunity India Desk Sep 03, 2018 - 1 min read

South Korean electronics giant Samsung is likely to stop production of TV in India. The company is planning to start importing TV units from Vietnam. Samsung’s move comes months after the government imposed an import duty on “open cell”, one of the most critical parts in TV panels. The government had imposed a 10% duty ...

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