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According to the Srinagar Police, the clash broke out after the end of a volleyball match, following which the police entered the campus upon the request of the NIT authorities.

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New Delhi Mar 31 PTI The Delhi Police has arrested eight people in connection with alleged vandalism at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals residence here officials said on ThursdayAccording to sources the eight people were arrested from Delhi and the numbers could go up as teams have been sent to make more arrestsOn Wednesday members of the BJP youth wing allegedly vandalised property outside the residence of Kejriwal against his remarks on The Kashmir Files filmPolice had on Wednesday registered a case in connection with the incident against unidentified peopleThe case was registered under sections 186 obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions 188 disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant 353 assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty and 332 voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty of the Indian Penal Code IPC and section 3 of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act Deputy Commissioner of Police North Sagar Singh Kalsi had saidDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP wanted to kill Kejriwal after its debacle in the Punjab pollsHe also alleged that activists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJYM the youth wing of the saffron party damaged CCTV cameras and security barriers at the chief ministers residence during a protestPTI NIT SRY

New Delhi Mar 27 PTI Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 204 degrees Celsius on Sunday two notches above the seasons average the India Meteorological Department saidThe humidity was 46 per cent at 830 amTh citys air quality was recorded in the poor category in the morning with the AQI clocking 205 at 9 am the Central Pollution Control Board CPCB data showedAn air quality index AQI between zero and 50 is considered good 51 and 100 satisfactory 101 and 200 moderate 201 and 300 poor 301 and 400 very poor and 401 and 500 severeThe national capital is expected to see strong surface winds during day time and the maximum temperature may reach up to 36 degrees Celsius the weather department saidPTI NIT SRY

New Delhi Feb 21 PTI Researchers at the National Institute of Technology NIT Andhra Pradesh have developed an Edge Computing Stack to monitor and control electrical loads The new device is an Internet-of-Things IoT based electrical switch designed to check the consumption of electrical appliances According to the NIT team the device is unique due to its hybridized approach of power line communication and WiFi and it has received an Indian patent too IoT-based monitoring system for individual appliances will help the consumer for balanced utilization of energy and also save the power bill the NIT team said In the existing devices automatic electrical switches are limited to operate the loads via wireless medium and they fail to record and store the consumption data of each electrical appliance The invention is a miniaturized low-power flexible easy to mount plug-and-play system and it can be used in building energy management systems the team claimedThe system addresses energy mismanagement at consumer end which is a problem for both the utility company and customer This product is intended to optimally manage electrical energy and monitor appliance level health by utilizing the existing electrical infrastructure This will also reduce the recurring maintenance cost and the power bill said Phani Krishna Karri Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering NIT Andhra PradeshThe system consists of two modules namely Master and SlaveThe Master Device communicates with a mobile device through a wireless medium The Slave devices are directly connected to electrical appliances which sense the voltage current power and power factor of each appliance The sensed information is communicated to the Master Device through a Power Line Communication PLCThe system efficiently uses the existing electrical infrastructure as a communication medium inside the house or the organization which records the consumption of each electrical appliance and makes it available for the user to monitor and control via a mobile device remotely The researchers plan to establish a start-up to commercialize this device which will help solve challenges of micromanagement of electricity and has applications such as IoT farming smart street lighting energy management in micro and smart gridsWe are planning to commercialize the product by establishing a start-up and grow as an individual entity However for wider outreach we are looking at licensing the technology to develop various products The unique contribution of this patent is the optimal usage of both Wi-Fi and Power Line Communications whereas the existing solutions are mainly based on Wi-Fi Bluetooth and a combination of bothThe AI-based suggestive mechanism of this patent will help the user to get notifications regarding the health of the appliance said L N Sastry Varanasi Research Scholar NIT Andhra Pradesh PTI GJS GJS RCJ RCJ

NOIDA India Jan 27 2022 PRNewswire -- Macmillans guiding objective is to enhance education worldwide by supporting communities with innovative curriculum resources which transform young people into educated confident and responsible citizens of the country Macmillan understands the potential of bringing disruptive transformation to learning and teaching environments and in order to achieve that it invests in initiating debates around strengthening education steering digital transformation and supporting teachers Publishing Prof Aditya Mittals article is another step in that direction httpsmacmillaneducationinblogrole-of-entrance-examinations-in-academic-autonomy-of-higher-educational-institutions Any discussion on premier institutions of higher education in India does not escape a mention of their respective entrance examinations for earning admission into them Regardless of whether these entrance examinations rely on selection-of-few or elimination-of-many from amongst examinees they are primarily aimed at avoiding infiltration of human corruptibility into admission systems based on qualitative assessments The purely quantitative nature of selection procedures without any interference from personal contacts andor influence offered by entrance examinations more than makes up for their limitations especially in a society like ours struggling continuously to rid itself of corruption However entrance examinations for admission to premier higher education institutions in the country are considered by some to be a cause of academic stress in our educations system Unfortunately this is a misconception Entrance examinations A statement of purpose aligning institutional goals with goals of pupil Institutions of higher education have specific sets of goals in their respective preambles andor visionmission statements In an ideal scenario excellence is attainable only if the specific goals of these institutions are aligned with goals of pupil enrolled in these institutions and vice-versa Therefore in order to achieve andor maintain excellence academic institutions are entitled to select their students without external interference with a minimal standard of pre-requisite training and education required for these students to first comprehend and then contribute to the educational pursuits at and of their respective institutions Thus entrance examinations conducted by institutions as selection procedures for their incoming students are an integral part of their academic autonomy These examinations not only assess the examinees for their basic preparedness to be able to deal with specificindividual curricula of institutions but also serve as a window of suitability of the institutions to the goals of the examinees not be confused with their aptitude As a matter of fact any proposals to create a single examination or selection procedure for admission to different institutions is preposterous at best Such proposals a completely disregard the individual visions missions and objective functions of academic institutions while thrusting them with labels of similarity thereby stripping them off their academic autonomy and b simply mislead the society into assuming that there are no distinct educational goals of these institutions Basically forcing educational institutions to adhere to a single centralized entrance examination for admissions does not allow academic institutions to introspect on and devise admission processes in line with their distinct academic identity and educational goals In context of the above the bruhaha over multiple examinations putting more pressure on students is completely unfounded In fact setting up of a Joint Seat Allocation Authority JoSAA in 2015 for the IIT and NIT systems has already proven the effectiveness of examinees exercising their choices for a appearing in different number of independent entrance examinations and b obtaining strictly-merit-based admission in an educational programinstitution of their choice depending on the entrance examinations they choose to appear in This system has also proven to drastically reduce vacancies in premier Indian institutes Interactions with school children and their parents through various avenues eg outreach initiatives of Macmillan Education IIT Delhi clearly indicate that while some are clear about their individual educational aspirations extremely few are actually aware of distinctions in premier Indian institutions Thus multiple entrance examinations each with a different flavour clearly reflective of respective systems provide multiple exploratory chances to those searching for their own niche The analogy is no different from kids in a candy store either force a kid to eat only one kind of candy by removing all variety or allow a kid to choose whatever candy they feel will satiate their craving Eventually most kids will settle on their respective choices Similarly students with uncleardeveloping aspirations get a chance to test the suitability of specific academic institutions to their own aspirations through individual multiple entrance examinations Examination systems Setting benchmarks in educational systems A common view is that examinations are supposed to test knowledge or aptitude of examinees However another significant feature of examinations is that they set benchmarks for development of criticalanalytical thought processes and imparting conceptual knowledge along with its possible applications depending on the subject matter If none of the examinees perform well in an examination it reflects on the failure of the educational system rather than the ability of examinees Thus examinations do serve as mirrors to education systems Examinations more than evaluating students ideally focus on evaluating health of the system itself by setting attainable benchmarks of conceptual understanding with emphasis on certain areasfieldssubjects This brings to fore the challenges in a national education system that allows creation nurturing and realization of diverse dreams and aspirations After all an education system with the aim of no child left behind while simultaneously identifying and nurturing the gifted or those willing to work hard to become the gifted to excel in their respective gifts is not straightforward Of course here it is pertinent to appreciate that every single child is in fact gifted in some way or the other it is an explicit task of an education system to be able to allow each child to recognize and extract their individual gift or even develop a gift de novo for some this may happen sooner for others this may happen later in life Thus the first step in this direction is clearly defining the objective function of an educational system and benchmark it via suitably designed examinations If the objective function is no child left behind then there is no escaping from examination results exhibiting a skewed possibly multimodal normal distributions with large variances Such single examination systems cannot provide adequate evaluation parameters for serving as screening mechanisms for distinct higher education institutions with distinct goals in fact they often lead to educonomic inflation see httpsetinsightset-edgecomproject-based-learning-controlling-educonomic-inflation In this regard examinations conducted byin national education systems that are driven by no child left behind systems do not have the bandwidth to segregate diverse interests aptitudes and fortes inof examinees Alternatively any entrance examination created for admission to particular institutions is limited in its extent to identify or screen examinees with a minimal background preparation that is aligned with the goals of that institution Therefore unfortunate conclusions as failed examination systems are simply a way of brushing aside the real challenges associated with evaluations and admission processes without proper thought While no entrance examination or system of selection is perfect every system strives towards it to continuously evolve it requires through faculty commitment towards design of admission processes as well as in-class interactions As an example for several decades now both the patterns and contents of IIT entrance examinations with the current avatar being JEE Advanced continue to serve as benchmarks for developing specific analytical abilities that can be extracted from the NCERT material utilized by CBSE These examinations are an example of a thankless national duty that results in creation of un-recognized Intellectual Property of and by the IIT system which continues to provide benchmarks required for a obtaining a suitable education from an IIT and b achieving academic excellence in STEM education These benchmarks are in form of examinations known for originality creativity and analytical strengths of their contents Most importantly these examinations are meticulously designed to specifically serve only the IIT system especially towards exercising its academic autonomy in admitting students without even possibility of external intereferencesinfluences The point is that sincere commitment is required at every stage in a national education system to ensure that educational goals of each stage are benchmarked appropriately by suitably evolving examinations On the contrary development of a single entrance examination by experts having no direct investment into diverse institutional goals for which they are creating such examinations is equivalent to asking cricket umpires to serve as selectors for the national football team Thus any proposal to do away with examination systems due societal misconceptions are akin to suggesting that it is better for a society to live in poverty for controlling thefts Additionally single centralized examinations in the name of reducing examination stress also threaten creation of a hierarchy in Indian education in which institutions are rated not on their individual educational niches rather on the ranks or scores in a single examination of those who enrol into them Finally it needs to be acknowledged that a promise of financially rewarding employability akin to sweetness in candies rather than educational growth or skill development akin to nutritional benefits of candies is a key parameter for the general population in their aspirations of admission into an academic institution That said it is a major responsibility of educational institutions to also have a clear picture of how their graduates are expected to contribute to the society thereby making the final goals clear to admission aspirants Just assuming that mere establishment of any premier institutions will impart an education that magically a puts food on the table of their graduates andor b creates intellectual contributors in society is absurd at best About Dr Aditya Mittal Dr Aditya Mittal is a Professor at IIT Delhi and one of the founding faculty of the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences at IIT Delhi He played a significant role in the implementation of the MHRD now MoE Govt of Indias IIT-PAL Professor Assisted Learning initiative and is a former Chairman of JEEAdvanced at IIT Delhi Having played a key role in transition of JEEAdvanced from a paper-based to a computer-based test he was also instrumental in implementation of policies pertaining to increasing enrolment of female students in the IIT system He works with Macmillan Education India on school outreach in the field of STEM education and contributed to the development of ALTURA Advancing Learning and Teaching Using Resources and Assessment which is a LMS based collaborative learning solution for schools and young learners The focus is on project-based-cross-curricular approach to learning hence helping children to develop 21st century skills of cooperation critical thinking and creativity About Macmillan Education With a hefty list of accolades associated with its name Best Education Brand 2020 to name one Macmillan Education is the preferred partner of choice for leading educational institutions in India be it for content training or assessment Macmillan Education India MEI produces curricular resources in both print and digital form and offers assessments along with teacher training MEI has been in the school and higher education market in India for over 125 years and is today partnering with over 15000 schools and reaching over 10 million learners It is quite probable that every child from a private school in India would have read Macmillan Education content at some stage of life Know more about Macmillan at wwwmacmillaneducationin About Springer Nature Macmillan Education is a part of Springer Nature a leading global research educational and professional publisher home to an array of respected and trusted brands providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services Springer Nature is the worlds largest academic book publisher publisher of the worlds most influential 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New Delhi Jan 19 PTI Ahead of Republic Day celebrations two unattended bags were found on Wednesday in east Delhis Trilokpuri area officials saidAccording to fire officials they received a call at 1 pm regarding the bags near metro pilar number 59 block-15 TrilokpuriFurther details are awaitedLast week an improvised explosive device IED stuffed with RDX and ammonium nitrate was found inside an unattended bag at the Ghazipur flower marketThe explosive was kept in an iron box and concealed in the black coloured backpack The IED was later destroyed by using a controlled explosion technique after it was lowered into a deep pit located in the areaPTI NIT SRY