NEW DELHI: Days before Koyambedu market, a wholesale hub in Chennai, emerged as a major hotspot leading to a spike of over 200 new Covid-19 cases, a team of researchers at IIT-Madras had submitted reports to state government officials based on their work on mobility data mapped from Facebook users. […]
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CHENNAI: GUVI, a startup incubated by IIT Madras and CIIE.CO-IIM Ahmedabad, has raised Rs 6 crore in its pre-series A round of funding from Education Catalyst Fund, an education-focused venture capital fund managed by CBA Capital. An integrated ed-tech platform providing course contents in vernacular languages as well, GUVI has […]
GUWAHATI: A team of researchers of IIT Guwahati has developed affordable antimicrobial (antiviral/antibacterial) spray-based coating for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and 3D printed Ear Guard for comfortable use of face masks by healthcare workers. The Institute has been working to fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The concepts have been developed by […]
KOLKATA |NEW DELHI: Weeks, and in some cases months, after landing lucrative offers on campus, students of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management are suddenly looking at an uncertain future ahead. Institutes say while most companies till now have assured them about honouring job commitments […]
KOLKATA: IIT Roorkee has developed a low-cost portable ventilator that can be useful for COVID-19 patients. Named ‘Prana-Vayu,’ the closed-loop ventilator is developed in collaboration with AIIMS, Rishikesh, and is equipped with state-of-the-art features. The research team from IIT Roorkee included Prof. Akshay Dvivedi and Prof. Arup Kumar Das with […]
NEW DELHI: With the number of COVID-19 cases rising in the country, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur is developing portable ventilators which will be significantly cheaper than the ones available in the market. Professors at IIT Kanpur claim that while invasive ventilators are available at around Rs […]