Free NEET app to help students
A new initiative by Affinity Education will help talented and aspiring NEET aspirants by provide free coaching. Not only will this, but aspirants get expert guidance by medical professionals.
The aim is to provide quality guidance and teaching to all aspirants of NEET. The opportunity will be freely available on the app. It will be available on different platforms. Th app was introduced on July 1, 2021 (Doctors Day) with the motto of introducing a one-stop solution for budding doctors on Doctor’s Day.
Free coaching is an attempt to reduce the stress and financial burden medical students have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. All the lectures and complete study material will be made available online for all the registered students without any cost. Also, experienced medical professionals will connect to guide students through webinars on this platform.
The other facility of app includes free live classes and recorded sessions to prepare for NEET. Apart from this, daily Mock Tests, live updates, College comparison, application processing window, medical admission are key features of the app.
Accolades for mumbai teens
Two Mumbai-based teens Aasimm Khan and Sidharth Jain, have won the Imagine Cup Junior AI award, an initiative of Microsoft, for developing a non-invasive screening for skin cancer by using Artificial Intelligence.
Both Aasimm (17 years) and Sidharth (17 years) represented OMOTEC (On My Own Technology), under the banner “Team GForce”.
An indigenous RISC-V processor
The Altair announced its collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) — to add the Shakti processor. The processor — India's first indigenous RISC-V processor — is the result of an initiative backed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Pratap Subrahmanyam Centre for Digital Intelligence and Secure Hardware Architecture to promote indigenous development of products that offer best-in-class security and visibility for users adopting the RISC-V technology. For more information visit: https://www.altair.com/embed/.
PG programme in Data Analytics
The Imarticus Learning has introduced a PG programme in Data Analytics for working professionals seeking a career upgrade without quitting their current jobs. Created in extensive collaboration with the Data Science and Analytics Industry, the programme is designed to help learners acquire the exact skillsets sought by Data Science and Analytics hiring managers.
Comprising industry-aligned curriculum and real-business problems for effective learning, the course offers extensive placement preparations and guaranteed interview opportunities. With content curated for graduates as well as working professionals, the course provides in-depth exposure to the latest technologies and skills that data analysts require.
The programme, available both in the classroom and online mode, offers weekday batches for recent graduates and weekend batches for working professionals with up to 5 years of experience.
Priced at Rs 2.15 lakh, the course offers payment options. While the recent graduates can complete the programme in six months, working professional’s weekend batch is scheduled over nine months.
Modernising organisational content
The Newgen Software, a global provider of digital transformation platform, has announced that it has launched OmniDocs 11.0, an upgraded version of its contextual content services platform.
The latest version of the content services platform provides a revamped user interface/user experience (UI/UX) for quick and intuitive access to content, enabling faster information retrieval and effective task completion. The update also features an improved dashboard mechanism that helps simplify users’ data and present it in manageable, visual chunks. In addition, users can now properly validate data fields through third-party services with an option to enable selective visibility.
IIT Guwahati to collaborate with NESAC
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is going to collaborate with North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) to carry out several initiatives jointly for development of the North-east and create skilled professionals in the field.
Some of the initiatives that would be taken up under this partnership include internship programs, joint degree programs, short-term training programs, student exchange programs and joint projects, among others. A multi-disciplinary approach would be adopted to study ways to tackle disasters.
Highlighting the unique aspects of this collaboration, Professor TG Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, said, “This is a historic day. On this day we make our long-standing intellectual relationship also in to a formal one. The opportunity is limitless — to work together and achieve new heights in research, innovation and capacity development for North-east. Joint certificate programmes, visiting Professorship for teaching few suitable courses along with IITG faculty are few of the initiatives that both institutes could take forward.”