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Order on Online Webinars May Have Been Withdrawn But Reflects Anti-Education Mindset The official fear of a different point of view, a different perspective, will rob Indian educational institutions of their lifeblood. Representative image of a virtual conference on an online platform. Photo: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA) Rights08/Mar/2021 Almost a month after the Ministry of Education circulated an office memorandum citing new  Ministry of External Affairs rules mandating government clearance for online conferences or seminars on subjects relating to India’s ‘internal affairs�...

February 11, 2021 Seize the moment: The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered innumerable grassroots and inclusive innovations the world over   -  ISTOCK.COM Seize the moment: The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered innumerable grassroots and inclusive innovations the world over   -  ISTOCK.COM× Along with supplies to last a lockdown, people came up with ideas for the way forward — from contactless beds to interactive soaps to encourage hand hygiene among children. A global competition became the platform for such inclusive innovations. A report * While it was in late 2019 that UNDP launched its...

University of Limerick has long been a leader on gender equality among Irish higher education institutions, with the highest percentage of female professors at 33%, and as one of the first two universities in Ireland to be granted the Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) Bronze award in 2015 for advancing gender equality. Since then, five individual departments at UL have also received the Athena SWAN award. Gender equality is represented by senior leadership at UL, with eight out of its twelve Executive Committee members being female; having a female Chancellor for the second ...

‘Indian engineers will have global outlook, be sensitive to local problems’ By IANS|   Updated: 29th December 2020 6:46 am IST New Delhi, Dec 28 : The 18th convocation function of the Visveshvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, was held on Monday. On this occasion the Central government expressed its commitment to boost engineering and engineering education. According to the Union Ministry of Education, engineering has strategic importance in India’s economic development. The government in its various initiatives, has encouraged engineering and multi-skill development throu...

India-Born Aerospace Engineer Moots Novel Technology To Reverse Global Warming by Anand Parthasarthy - Dec 18, 2020 09:17 AM Dr Narayanan Menon Komerath. Snapshot Dr Narayanan Menon Komerath has been awarded a US patent for his invention ‘Glitter Belt’ that will help reduce solar radiation reaching the earth, which in turn will decrease global warming over vast stretches. India-born US based aerospace engineer and long-time Georgia Tech professor, Dr Narayanan Menon Komerath has suggested a novel — but very doable — way of reducing solar radiation reaching the earth, helpi...