IIT

IIT Kanpur has got the fifth position and IIT Kharagpur has been ranked sixth in this national ranking. IIT Roorkee has been ranked seventh and IIT Guwahati at number eight. Jawaharlal Nehru University has come at the ninth position and Banaras Hindu University at the tenth position.

"New initiatives of this kind separate the leaders from followers, and I am delighted to hear about the outlines and philosophy of the programmes. I hope these programmes would help students and working professionals add value to their respective fields," said Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, while inaugurating the new programmes.

While some of the courses are in the offline in-person setting, many other colleges have opted for online courses in view of the pandemic. The courses range from designing to public policy and have no age bar to them. Most of the courses can also be accessed by students and working professionals as they have not been made exclusively for the enrolled students of IITs.

The programme has been curated with a focus on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and development. The course will be offered by IIT’s School of Public Policy (SPP). The programme will focus on various important aspects of student life such as developing critical thinking, analytical abilities, and different ethical practices.

This year, IIT-K has been ranked as the 277th position in the list of world's best university compared to the 350th position in the last edition. "No other Indian University has been able to achieve such a significant growth in this year's rankings. Amongst the best universities in India, IIT-K has been ranked number 4, improving its performance by a rank.

According to Prof Vinod Tare, advisor to the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), the development comes in the backdrop of mass graves being discovered on the banks of the Ganga in Rae Bareli, Unnao, Kanpur, Fatehpur and Kannauj, and fears about possible contamination of water and soil if the bodies were of Covid-19 patients.

The manufacturing challenge task force will be led by Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Professor In-charge, Innovation & Incubation, IIT Kanpur, Srikant Sastri, President, TiE Delhi-NCR, and Rahul Patel, Head of Strategic Initiatives, SIIC, IIT Kanpur. The SIIC had, last year, supported its incubated companies to develop indigenous products like Swasa N-95 mask and Noccarc V310 ventilator.

IIT Madras has postponed its end semester exams which were to be held on May 10 and Anna University has postponed its online retest scheduled for May 3. Madras University has also cancelled its examinations following the surge in Covid cases and the second wave of the pandemic.

Using computational tools, the IITM team studied its two close variants -- SARS-CoV and NL63. 'SARS-CoV' can be considered a asibling' of the subfamily beta coronavirus aSARS-CoV-2', while the aNL63' belongs to sub-family alpha coronavirus and can be considered as a acousin' of SARS-CoV-2.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Avanish Kumar Awasthi said that according to the instructions issued by the government, the responsibility of developing the oxygen audit system has been entrusted to IIT-Kanpur which will prepare the software and provide it to the government along with technical details.