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INSOFE, INDIA and Case Western Reserve University, USA announce the launch of a 1* of its kind MS in Core Engineering Disciplines and Data Science

Posted on February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 by City Today News (City today.media)

Bangalore February 29, 2020: Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, School of Engineering joined hands with Intermational School of Engineering (INSOFE) to offer Masters degrees with dual specializations (Core and Data Science/AI)

The program starts with 15 credits of Data Science education at INSOFE. Once these credits are completed, the remaining credits of course work will be delivered at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Major benefits of the program

*Upon successful completion, the student gets a fully accredited Master’s Degree by the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH and hence will be able to benefit from 3 years of OPT (Subject to approval by USCIS).

*The programs are designed such that any engineering student can choose any discipline provided they have the right mathematical background.

*The students once selected through the interview process become eligible for GRE/TOEFL waiver and $15,000 tuition fee waiver

Speaking on the occasion Dr. Venkataraman Ragu Balakrishnan, Dean of the Case School of Engineeringsaid “The Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University recognizes the importance of Data Science’s role in the industry and across the engineering disciplines. Our dual specialisation master’s degree programs provide a rigorous curriculum based in Data Sciences and designed to help our graduates stand out in their field. I offer my sincerest welcome to the new students joining our programs through our partnership with INSOFE.

Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru, President and Co-Founder, INSOFE said “As practicing Deep Learning has become accessible, organizations are working on complex problems and solving important issues using Data Science. Hence engineers who understand their domain and data science are the need of the hour.

Mr. Alex Walton, Head Of Analytics at Arcadis said “The civil engineering and construction sector is being rapidly disrupted by digital technologies. The sector now has the highest growth in investor capital, with tech giants like Google (Sidewalk Labs) also starting to enter the market. The traditional design process will become heavily automated during this decade. This opens up the possibilities of a) using algorithms to test 1000s of complex design options for any asset (we call this Generative Design) and b) using data analytics to better the customer experience any civil asset (building, road, railway, airport). Most of all, and this is our focus at Arcadis, this creates opportunities for using analytics to improve our cities, our environment and quality of life. Students with a combination of civil engineering and analytics have a great opportunity to thrive in the coming decade.”

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Head of Education USA, INSOFE and CEO, Soothsayer Analytics, USA based Data Science & A.I. Consulting Company, said “This Master’s program will give a unique opportunity to the youth from India to excel in Global marketplace by having unparallel education in Data Science and improve employment opportunities for the youth and position India as a top destination for such talent” Mr Agarwal thanked the media persons for the presence and support. About INSOFE INSOFE is a world-class research, consulting and graduate education institution with a focus on Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning. Extending the horizon beyond a perception that Data Science is a specialization in computer science, we recognize the discipline as a fundamental alternative that practices deductive Science with Data. We work hard to bake a Data Science way of solving problems in many domains like healthcare, supply chain, financial markets, and robotics. We are passionate about teaching applied engineering in a technology-intensive industry. We cascade this learning through our work with CXOS, Non-tech leaders, tech leaders, and executives. We believe it will change the world for good. INSOFE specializes in Creating innovative academic programs in applications of data science in various domains. Researching the changing roles within the enterprise due to the proliferation of Data Science • Create & offer suitable intervention driven hands-on programs for each of these roles. Conducting research, building IP, innovating products and consulting with companies to help solve some extremely challenging real-world problems. Our unique aspects • 15 Full-time Faculty • 7 Adjunct Faculty • 40+ Data Scientists 6000+ Alumni About Case Western Reserve University With more than 125 years of experience, the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University is rooted in collaborative research and experiential learning. Students inquire, discover and create alongside distinguished faculty, and build a global professional network while attending classes in one of the most culturally robust communities in Cleveland. Ranks Among Top Private research Institutions in USA. Accredited by Higher Learning Commission Founded in 1826 17 Noble Laureates 12,000 Students from 81 Different Countries 20000+ Alumni.

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Ventures in dating, wedding & relationship management in focus at start-up mentoring session

Posted on February 29, 2020 by City Today News (City today.media)

Entrepreneurs gain insights, business intelligence and industry best practices from successful strategist, mentors & entrepreneurs

Bengaluru-based Innoberator’s much-awaited session on ‘Business of Relationship’, a start-up mentoring programme, saw the participation of interesting ventures in dating, wedding and relationship management, with mentors and successful entrepreneurs, led by strategist MJ Srikant offering key insights, business intelligence and industry best practices on balancing relationship with stakeholders, including investors, customers, employees and the market.

Representatives of start-ups like Wyngit and Paktor spoke about their business journey and sought to clear questions on achieving growth and scale from MJ Srikant and Innoberator’s partners Saroj Patro, Anand Padmanaban and Nanjunda Pratap Palecanda.

New ventures face a multitude of challenges such as securing investment, hiring the right talent, developing trust factor with customers and staying relevant to emerge successful. Leveraging his 18 years of rich experience in strategic consultation and end-to-end integrated communications practice covering several business verticals, MJ Srikant explained to the anxious and eager founders of start-ups, the art and science of building relationship with investors, market and customers, which is crucial for the success of any business.

“Evolving a product that can disrupt the market, backed by a convincing communication campaign, encompassing all platforms, is critical to make an impact in the market and win the trust of consumers. At the same time, constantly engaging the investors to create the value that they expect is an important relationship building exercise,” observed MJ Srikant, also Founder of MJSPR, a strategic advisory company.

Nanjunda Pratap Palecanda, pioneer of such mentoring sessions, was of the view that on most occasions, entrepreneurs faced challenges in securing investments, “In some cases, entrepreneurs may become successful in securing investors. But the next biggest challenge is to keep the investors happy, as most of them expect quick return on investments. Considering the current economic scenario, it is advisable for entrepreneurs to opt for bootstrap financing. Once the product is ready for roll out, investments from outside can be considered.”

Saroj Patro, the financial wizard and founder of P2 Advisors LLP, noted that “the business of relationship is worth US$ 7 billion.” Noting that the scope for new business in the relationship was immense, he added, “The demographic dividend offers plenty of opportunities for new business in relationship. We have seen a good number of start-ups in this space, but business maturity is needed for them to succeed in the market.”

Anand Padmanaban said start-ups wouldn’t succeed without a proper business plan and product strategy, “The biggest barrier is whether you have the right product for the market and whether customers are convinced. Bootstrap start-ups with a great product have succeeded. If your product speaks for itself, then, investors will come to you… Therefore, it is important to have a product ready before approaching investors for funding.”

Wedding photographer Rajesh Pandey and Paktor’s creator Swapna Sitharaman shared their personal experiences on the viability

For more information, please Contact:
Mr. Nanjunda Pratap Palecanda,
Partner at Innoberator
M: 9845226516, Website: http://www.innoberator.com

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National STEM Awards 2020: Discovering STEM Talent

Posted on February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 by City Today News (City today.media)

Bengaluru 28 February, 2020. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is a modern day approach to shape India’s future which is fast moving towards being a highly illustrious entity in an increasingly globalised world. However, the country requires to evolve expertise in these fields to compete with the technological revolution. With this clear objective in mind, STEM Learning in association with Rotary JBN, Bengaluru organized India’s biggest and first STEM competition for under- served students of Govt. and Govt- aided schools, the ‘National STEM Awards 2020’. Around 20 states, 200 schools, 400 teachers and 1800 students took part in the competition from all over India, out of which 10 states, 15 schools and 54 students made it to the Finale which was held in the city on 27 February, 2020. Students from 6th to 8th standards participated in the final round, where they had to showcase their skills in categories like Tech Quiz, Science & Mathematics Model Competition and Engineering Tinkering.

Atharva Sawant, Yashraj Dhwri & Kauntey Sawant from JNV Sindhudurg School were declared winners of the Tech Quiz Round; while Khushi, Anjali Sharma & Lovely from GGSS School, Faridabad won the Engineering Tinkering Competition and Muthu Suthis, Madhu Sri & Surya from Vivekananda School, Tirunelveli won the Science & Mathematics Model Competition. Considering that all the students displayed vast talent and zeal, Dr Suresh Mony, Emeritus Jury said the judges found it really difficult to select the winners. He said, “Every child presented something new, something unique. Their innovations were so creative and spell binding that we felt proud to be in the midst of such young talent. “

STEM Learning has been advocating for improving the quality of education since years now and this competition intended to do the same, by picking out the best STEM talent from across India. The students were judged on the basis of critical thinking, problem solving and innovative abilities. The students underwent stages like the Cluster Rounds and Zonal Rounds and the winners of the Zonals were then challenged to win the final round on 27^th February in Bengaluru.

Ms Simi Anderson, STEM Ambassador (UK), who was one of the esteemed guests during the competition, seemed awed by the matchless and unprecedented talent shown by the children. She praised the mammoth efforts put in by STEM Learning in organizing this competition successfully. She said, “It takes 8 months in UK to conduct such competition at the national level. It’s mind-blowing that STEM Learning did this in 3 weeks.” Echoing the same sentiment, Dr Sameer Hariani, the Chief Guest at the competition said, “This competition is an extremely novel measure by STEM Learning to make the students ready for the future by igniting the scientific temper in them. This is an exceptionally favourable circumstance for these students to make science a child’s play and keep pace with the advancement in the field.”

Speaking about this colossal task of bringing the best STEM minds from pan India under one roof, Ashutosh Pandit, the Founder of STEM Learning said, “The traditional approach of learning facts and figures doesn’t challenge minds and so, students do not get the required opportunities to understand and showcase STEM abilities. We at STEM believe that the students need to gain practical knowledge to learn, explore & enhance their skills. By providing them with this singular opportunity of an all- India competition, we have not just identified the best minds who beat their peers and turned out to be STEM Champs, but have also recognized other young minds who may not have reached the final round, but they did exemplify robust prowess to be titled as the great innovators of the future. We can now almost certainly say that the future of India is rightly in the hands of these extremely talented young children.”

The young minds who proved their mettle during the finale were awarded on 28^th February during the ‘Rotary Karnataka CSR Conference 2020’ by the hands of Rotary District Governor Rtn Sameer Hariani. Teachers who have contributed extraordinarily to the field of STEM education were also felicitated during the glittering Award Ceremony.

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22-year-old Bangladeshi boy suffering from avascular necrosis treated with advanced stem cell regenerative technique

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Bangalore, 28th February 2020: Ahmed (name changed) from Bangladesh a 22-year-old doing his Bachelors in Law was diagnosed with a condition called Avascular necrosis of the right femoral head. A condition which occurs due to poor blood supply to the femoral head. The problem started a year ago, when he had complained that he had unbearable progressive pain in his right hip. The pain which went on for a year not only had affected his daily routine but his athletic career and his education also.

Avascular Necrosis commonly affects youngsters and is most often due to bone dislocations, fractures, alcoholism and longstanding usage of steroids for medical conditions. Even though the exact reason for this condition is still not known but the region most commonly affected is the femoral head. As the head of femur progressively get damaged until the head finally collapses leading to severe pain.
He was advised a total hip replacement at his hometown but was reluctant due to his age, limitation of his athletic activities and the chance of repeat surgery. He was looking out for other treatment options in Bangladesh but unable to find other options at his homeland. He started looking out for options online and got to know about Aster RV hospital in Bangalore.

Dr. Srinivas J. V, lead orthopaedic, Consultant, Aster RV Hospital, said, “When the patient came to us with this condition, we had to look at different options of treatment. For youngsters there are only limited options when it comes to treatment, where hip replacement is always the last option. This is because in the case of total hip replacement it may be necessary to repeat the surgery after 15-20 years due to the life span of the implant. Other than this we have core decompression and vascular strut graft, the success rates for these procedures are very low and these can limit the patient’s activities. Hence we opted for a very new and unique technique by the use of Stem Cell.”

Stem cells have the ability to regenerate the affected area, it is usually harvested from bone marrow and is processed until concentrated young stem cells are got. this is then injected directly at the affected site. In the case of Ahmed, bone marrow was harvested from his pelvic bone which was then injected into the affected region of the femoral head.
As stem cell application is a non-invasive procedure, the patient was discharged the very next day and is allowed to walk from day one. Ahmed made a full recovery within 2 months.
Ahmed who is into sports and other physical activities, said “I was always very active in class and sports as well. This one year was filled with pain which was intolerable. I am glad that the doctors from Aster RV hospital thought so much and suggested me a procedure which will serve me life-long. I’m grateful to the doctors for giving me a second lease of life.”

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State level Seminar on the Importance of SDMC &SDP Working towards SDG4: The 3Solution

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 by City Today News (City today.media)

RLHP with the support of WeWorld, organizing a State Level Seminar on the Importance of SDP & SDMC on 29th February 2020 at Indian Social Institute (ISI), Benson Town, Bangalore. Members from the Districts representative of SDMCS from across the state, likeminded individuals, academicians, NGOS, officials from the Education Department are coming together for the seminar and the discussions and recommendations will be presented to the Government to provide quality education to children through effective implementation of RTE.

Rural Literacy and health Programme (RLHP) a non-governmental organization, working for the development of the empowerment of marginalized communities,rehabilitation ofstreet children, women empowerment and community health for a sustainable development in the society. Through the child line 1098, the organization has been addressing the issues of children who are in difficult circumstances. So far the organization has expanded its programmes to 60 slums, 130 villages in 8 districts of Karnataka State.

Though, India has signed the International Convention on the Rights of Children in 1992 and has declared to recognize people below the age of 18 years as children and provide them care and protection, ensure the right to participation, right for development, yet even today, education has been a far away dream for children from themarginalized and poor communities. As per the ILO survey 8.8 million children who belong under the age 14 are out of the school. In Karnataka, only 12.7% of RTE had been implemented, and also 2850 government schools are on the verge of shutting down. Education is a basic right of every child, but in our country child labour is so rampant and it is a curse to the society.

Objective of the seminar: SDMC and SDP played a key role in the effective implementation of RTE act. In order to share the experience (evidence based) with the project intervention and to encourage other government schools to replicate this model for a sustainable development.

The state level seminar would help for a larger level advocacy for the SDMC and SDP. The state level networks and authorities would give more reach for the model across the state and the seminar may encourage other government schools to adopt the model for the development of children as well as schools We have a developing tools to implementing 3S solutions one of them hand book for PTM That is going to simple guide for parents’ teachers and HM to actively participate learning outcome for their children. Government schools.

RLHP with the support of We World GVC (We World is working for the development of vulnerable children and women in 29 different countries including India) working with 12 government schools of Mysore since last five years to ensure the children are getting an easy access towards the quality education through different methodologies In the course of our five years programme

we were able to reach more 8000 vulnerable children and their families from 20 urban and suburban areas of Mysore, In order to make an effective participation of SDMC and implementation of SDP, RLHP capacitated and strengthened the SDMC members through trainings, workshops, seminars and exposure visits on the importance of SDP and quality education with community and school authority’s participation. RLHP has identified more than 1000 children with learning deficits through conducting child assessment under the five Pillars of development (Health and Physical Development, Play and Cognitive, Communication and Literacy development, Social and Emotional development, Sensory and Motor Development) and developed Individual Education Plan (IEP) forthe deficit children with the support of teachers and parents. And conducting regular and effective PTM to evaluate the progress of the children’s health, education and overall development, as an impact of Parents Teachers Meeting, Individual Education Plan and individual attention to the child at school, family and community level led to the development of learning ability of the children from government schools.

–Saraswathi Director-RLHP,Mysore

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