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Professor Anju Seth becomes first woman director of IIM Calcutta

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Education, Gender Inequality, Women Empowerment / By / November 20, 2018

Professor Anju Seth, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, has become the first woman director of the institute.  Professor Seth has most recently held the position of Pamplin Professor of Management at Virginia Tech, USA. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she was Professor of Business Administration at University of Illinois. She completed her Ph.D. from the University …

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IIT Roorkee Researchers Create Fluorescent Carbon Nanodots For Detecting Cancer

Leave a Comment / Education, Health, Information, Innovation / By / November 15, 2018

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have created fluorescent carbon nanodots that can serve as “theranostic” (therapeutic and diagnostic) agents for cancer.  Led by P Gopinath, a team of IIT Roorkee researchers has extracted these nanosized carbon materials from the leaves of the rosy periwinkle plant.   P Gopinath said, “Such events of real-time …

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Report sees climate risk from rise in Indian AC units

Leave a Comment / Education, Environment, Information, research / By / November 15, 2018

Refrigerants used for cooling are the major contributors to global warming. By 2022, India is expected to have a fourth of the world’s air conditioning units, and the risks to climate from this could be immense, according to a report. The refrigerants used for cooling are the major contributors to global warming, and if left …

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#ChildrenForThePlanet: 12-YO Pune Boy’s Innovation Can Rid Our Oceans of Plastic

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Eco-Friendly, Education, Environment, Information, Innovation, No Plastic, Pollution / By / November 13, 2018

  ERVIS, Kazi’s first ever innovation, is a prototype ocean cleaner ship that can suck out plastic from the surface of the ocean. There are two kinds of people in the world. The ones who create problems and the ones who solve them. I want to be in the latter category. With these words, Haaziq …

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Gender gap in Indian formal sector worse than global average, LinkedIn data shows

Leave a Comment / Education, Gender Inequality, Information, research / By / November 8, 2018

Every industry sector in India employs more men than women. Moreover, the gender gap among Indian professionals is worse than the global average in every sector.   Of the 115, only two industries have almost equal proportion of men and women: Primary and Secondary Education has 46% men, while Human Resources has 51%. The gender …

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