SIPVS Knowledge is Power
- Dubai to host India-UAE Partnership Summit
A two-day India-UAE Partnership Summit (IUPS) will be held in Dubai from October 30.
- Second India-UAE Partnership Summit is being organised by the Business Leaders Forum (BLF).
- Vipul, the Consul General of India in Dubai, said “I am happy that the second edition of the IUPS is being organised by the BLF this year in partnership with the consulate.
- India focus country in Izmir International Trade Show
The Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) led a75-member Indian delegation for the ongoing 87th Izmir International Trade Show in Turkey.
- The delegation had several B2B meetings and business tie-ups with members of the Turkish business community.
- India is the Focus Country in the trade show with a standalone pavilion named ‘Source India’.
- The India Pavilion is a multi-product pavilion, including companies displaying products like ceramics, cereals and mechanical appliances.
- Bihar-Nepal bus service launched
Bihar and Nepal are now connected by bus. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar flagged off the first bus service between Bihar and Nepal.
- The service will link Bodh Gaya and Patna in Bihar to Kathmandu and Janakpur in Nepal.
- The bus service was commissioned following an agreement between India and Nepal.
- India’s first railway varsity starts operations in Vadodara
The first of its kind university in the country on the transport sector, the National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), started operations this week.
- A total of 103 students formed the first batch of this unique institute. This year it has started with two UG courses.
- Apsara – U Reactor Becomes Operational at Trombay
“Apsara”, the first research reactor in Asia became operational in Trombay campus of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in August 1956.
- After providing more than five decades of dedicated service to the researchers, the reactor was shut down in 2009.
- Nearly sixty-two years after Apsara came into existence, a swimming pool type research reactor “Apsara-upgraded”, of higher capacity was born at Trombay on 10th September 2018.
- The reactor, made indigenously, uses plate type dispersion fuel elements made of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU).
- By virtue of higher neutron flux, this reactor will increase indigenous production or radio-isotopes for medical application by about fifty percent and would also be extensively used for research in nuclear physics, material science and radiation shielding.
- Curtain raiser: INDO-US joint military exercise Yudh Abhyas 2018
As part of the ongoing Indo-US defence cooperation, a joint military training Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2018 is scheduled to be conducted in the foothills of Himalayas at Chaubattia in Uttarakhand from 16 September to 29 September 2018.
- This will be the 14th edition of the joint military exercise hosted alternately by both countries.
- The joint exercise Yudh Abhyas 2018 will simulate a scenario where both nations will work together in counter insurgency and counter terrorism environment in mountainous terrain under United Nation charter.
- Piyush Goyal launches a web portal “Rail Sahyog”
The Minister of Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal launched a web portal www.railsahyog.in.
- The web portal will provide a platform for the Corporates and PSUs to contribute to creation of amenities at/near Railway Stations through Corporate Social Responsibility funds.
- NITI Aayog, Intel and TIFR collaborate for Model International Center for Transformative AI
NITI Aayog, Intel, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) announced on 7th September that they are collaborating to set up a Model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) towards developing and deploying AI-led application-based research projects.
- This initiative is part of NITI Aayog’s ‘National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence’ Discussion Paper that focuses on establishing ICTAI in the country through private sector collaboration.
- Based in Bengaluru, the Model ICTAI aims to conduct advanced research to incubate AI-led solutions in three important areas – healthcare, agriculture and smart mobility – by bringing together the expertise of Intel and TIFR.
- It aims to experiment, discover and establish best practices in the domains of ICTAI governance, fundamental research, physical infrastructure, compute and service infrastructure needs, and talent acquisition.
- India-born student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar to get 2018 ‘Young Scholar’ award
Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, an India-born woman scholar in the US, has been chosen for a prestigious award for her work to help detect potentially life-threatening health issues using smartphones.
- She has been selected for the 2018 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar award.
- Nandakumar, studying at the University of Washington, has created a technology that turns an ordinary smartphone into an active sonar system capable of detecting physiological activities, such as movement and respiration, without requiring physical contact with the device.
