IIT Delhi to start admitting students from outside JEE system: Director
For admission in these new streams, students won t have to go through the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) system which has been the regular admission process for decades
BusinessToday.In | January 27, 2021 | Updated 20:40 IST
IIT-Delhi has around 3,300 PhD candidates and over 60 per cent of all students are studying at masters level
The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi) has plans on turning the institute into a comprehensive university which will have multiple new streams of education. For admission in these new streams, students won t have to go through the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) system which has been the regular admission process for decades.
Even though India inoculated its first one million individuals faster than the US and UK, the country may take up to three years to vaccinate the prioritised 300 million population going by the current rate, experts have estimated. India’s current capacity is about vaccinating 300,000 people per day. Going by the first week’s number, the current rate of vaccination is about
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Hospitals were decked out with flowers and one politician planted a tree as India began on Saturday (local time) its colossal coronavirus vaccine drive, desperately hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 of its people.
India aims to vaccinate around 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by July - a number equal to almost the entire US population - with frontline workers, people over 50 and those deemed high risk first in line.
On day one, around 300,000 people were due to be vaccinated with Covishield, developed by AstraZeneca and made by India s Serum Institute, or the homegrown Covaxin.
India today launched the world s biggest covid jab effort to inoculate 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by July - a target which dwarfs the British population by more than four times.
An army of 150,000 specially trained staff have been deployed to dole out the vaccines across 700 districts after several dry runs to improve their tactics.
On day one around 300,000 people, including medics, over-50s and those deemed high-risk, were given their first of two doses.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proudly announced V-Day on his YouTube channel as India began the monumental task compounded by poverty, shaky infrastructure and public scepticism.