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CIE, IIIT Hyderabad Foundation presents a summer programme for students to help built the next big deep-tech startup, DISHA, Deep-Tech students startup programme for the students who are planning to build a robotics company or working on any such idea. <\/p>
India has witnessed a surge in the startup sector with a recorded number of 19000 startups in 2016. Majority of the startups are in the consumer internet and financial services space. As most of the common problem statements out of which business cases and startups emerge as solutions are addressed, a new domain opens up for startups that employ technology that address deeper and complicated problem statements. DISHA would be a good place to start-off if you are dreaming to build the next Robotics Company or you are working on an idea that requires focus on areas such as Machine Learning\/ NLP\/ Computer Vision algorithms or latest AR\/VR assets.<\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491894908952","data":"
The participants will go through a four weeks resident programme that includes Idea Curation, Market Validation, Mentoring, Research Connect, Design Inputs, Investor Connect and many more.<\/p>
During the programme, the selected deep-tech ideas will be nurtured and mentored by research fellows from IIIT Hyderabad Research Labs and Startup Ecosystem Partners of IIIT.<\/p>
Eligibility:<\/b> Any Undergraduate\/Graduate\/Post Graduate Students who are excited about building the next big startup in the deep-tech domain shall apply for the programme.<\/p>
The applications shall be recommended by the Head of the Department or Institute Head to which the applicant belongs. Only applications vetted by the institute shall be considered for the programme. A hackathon will be held among the shortlisted applications. The selected ideas from the hackathon will go through the summer programme. At the end of the programme the idea with the best traction stands to win a Rs. 5 Lakhs Grant to continue the product and business development.<\/p>
The application ends on April 30, 2017.<\/b><\/p>
Hurry up! Apply Here<\/a><\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491896852126","data":"Benefits:<\/b><\/p>1. Getting the business case right.<\/p>2. Customer Journey Mapping. <\/p>3. Ecosystem Play. <\/p>4. Establishing Go-To-Market frameworks. <\/p>5. The best idea wins a Rs. 5 Lakhs Grant to help continue build the product and business. <\/p>6. The best ideas may also get invited for the pitch day of IIITHF\u2019s AVISHKAR, Deep-tech Accelerator programme. <\/p>"}]
Benefits:<\/b><\/p>
1. Getting the business case right.<\/p>
2. Customer Journey Mapping. <\/p>
3. Ecosystem Play. <\/p>
4. Establishing Go-To-Market frameworks. <\/p>
5. The best idea wins a Rs. 5 Lakhs Grant to help continue build the product and business. <\/p>
6. The best ideas may also get invited for the pitch day of IIITHF\u2019s AVISHKAR, Deep-tech Accelerator programme. <\/p>"}]
Something that should have been a regular journey turned into a memorable one after many moments of uncertainty for the people on the Ahmedabad-Puri Express as final year interning MBBS student Vipin Khadse helped a 24 year old woman deliver a baby while the train was still some distance away from Nagpur Railway Station, according to a report on Times of India. <\/p>
The report says that while the young mother's relatives had pulled the chain which prompted the TC and other staff on the train to go around asking for doctors on board, which is what attracted Vipin's attention. Vipin says that he didn't speak up on account of being experienced and thinking there might be another, more experienced doctor on the train. It was only when they came around for a second round of asking for help, did he realise that he might be the most experienced doctor on board himself. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491897421274","data":"58ec8ef556d61"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491897424727","data":"
Meanwhile, TOI reported that the other passengers had cleared out the compartment while the women turned it into a makeshift delivery room. When Khadse arrived, what he saw made his heart sink, scaring him. Not only was the woman bleeding profusely, the baby, instead of crowning (which is coming out head first) instead had a shoulder coming out first, saying it would be a complicated delivery would be an understatement. <\/p>
Vipin, however, gathered his courage and used WhatsApp to contact his seniors, when a senior resident, Shika Mallik, guided him over the phone on what to do. Using the tools available to them at the moment, Vipin's little medical kit which he had made a habit of carrying everywhere with him since his internship started, and a midwife on the train, they managed to deliver a healthy baby boy. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491897808413","data":"58ec8efb969bd"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491897810289","data":"
Vipin detailed the events in a lengthy facebook post, finishing it with what the incident meant for him and his reasons on becoming a doctor. It was a difficult situation which Vipin, with help from passengers and his seniors, managed to circumvent and save two lives. You can read his facebook post by clicking here<\/a> <\/p> <\/p>"},{"type":"fb-post","id":"fb-url-1491898065612","data":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vipin.khadse\/posts\/1420299781368237"}]
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I don't know why I do this to myself. I've been so used to the horrendous quality of Chetan Bhagat's books I don't even remember the last good book he wrote. I tried, okay, I tried very hard to go into this book with an open mind, that is to say, my face looked like someone had asked me to fish out pearls of wisdom from the septic tank of a boys hostel, and I was trying to make the cringe on my face go away before I could start reading. Surprisingly I did manage to get rid of the scowl before it slowly crept back on my face on account of the book being horrendously bad. <\/p>
Do you like Bollywood movies, complete with its innate inane one dimensional characters with no development arc who exist just for the sake of existing and serve no purpose and the movie goes on to become a pointless snoozefest filled with dumb moments that make no sense and would probably never happen in real life? Yeah then you'll like Half-Girlfriend. <\/p>
Bhagat has had a long enough career to know his audience by now, most people who read his books do not want to think beyond what is written on the pages of the book, there is no subtext or an overarching plotline that connects the dots, the characters in the book exist for the sake of existing, just like the book itself, which is written for the sake of writing, it serves no purpose except to be adapted as a Bollywood movie. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491828664424","data":"58eb803442574"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491828767104","data":"
The reason to compare this book to a Bollywood movie is because this doesn't read like a novel, but a screenplay to a movie, which Bhagat knows will be picked up by a studio anyway because that's how big he is now. I fail to see why he doesn't just stick to writing screenplay instead if he so badly wants his books to be adapted as films, but I suppose we all know the answer to that. It starts with m and ends with y and runs the entire world. <\/p>
Another parallel with Bollywood is how similar all of Bhagat's books are. There's a protagonist with low self esteem, male, finds a woman who is feisty, intelligent, beautiful and falls in love, and then there is sex. If you asked an average Chetan Bhagat reader which one of his books you're talking about using just that one line of description, they won't be able to tell, because it could be the plotline of any single one of his books! Apparently nobody has heard of the term 'fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me'.<\/p>
I hate having to repeat this over and over again, but I do not hate Chetan Bhagat, I dislike him for writing drivel that sells, but I don't hate him for the singular reason that he got a lot of my friends into reading, which has helped me a lot, so I owe him a thanks, and I hope he decides to improve his writing, because we need Indian authors children can look up to, and while there are plenty of Indian authors people can look up to, Bhagat's fame puts him in a unique position of impacting the youth outside Urban India, and that is why his books annoy me so much. Instead of using his position to write good literature, he's writing for the lowest common denominator, and while that may be his choice, not liking his books is mine. <\/p>
Now that I think about it, maybe an argument can be made for the fact that not all forms of entertainment has to be intellectually relevant, and that there are a large number of people that enjoy senseless plots written for the sole purpose of escapism and validation of their own personal insecurities, but then again, if everyone does the same in India, then there is nobody actually working towards redefining the medium itself with a ground breaking book. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491829628640","data":"58eb84e5b3178"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491829925295","data":"
Final Verdict: <\/b><\/p>
I wouldn't recommend this book even to my worst enemy, let alone a friend or an acquaintance. If you've made it this far, you can probably guess that I'm not looking forward to the movie coming out soon. But then again, there's nothing really I can say about Bollywood that'll make a difference, this is an industry that ignored performances from Aligarh and Dangal and gave it to Rustom, of all the movies. <\/p>
Maybe I should stop being this bitter all the time and take a chill pill. Until the next book review, people, stay tuned to stuMagz! <\/p>"}]
Tarang 2K17's Day 2 was electrifying, from performances by powerful rappers to the soulful singing of Shirley Setia, and on top of that, the amazing ramp walk session that saw students participate in droves, it was something straight out of a movie. If you missed it, worry not, we've got the highlights right here! <\/p>
Like and share this video with your friends! <\/p>"},{"type":"youtube","id":"vid-url-1491829602089","data":"KqbW4CcqfSw"}]
1. Pakistan arrest Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav and accuse him of spying. Jadhav has been sentenced to death, in a move that will further strain relations between the two countries. <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491824489196","data":"58eb6faf31042"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491824493236","data":"
2. RK Nagar bypolls, Sasikala's ticket to power, is canceled after allegations of rampant corruption and tampering. DMK leader Stalin called for a CBI probe into current Tamil Nadu CM, Palaniswamy. <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491825405017","data":"58eb735254478"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491825424233","data":"
3. Egypt declares an emergency period for 3 months following twin terrorist bombings yesterday. <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491825506553","data":"58eb73a93e049"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491825511919","data":"
4. Flipkart pulls a surprise, raises $1.4 billion and acquires Ebay.in <\/b><\/font><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491826369813","data":"58eb770c48495"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491825645726","data":"5. War looms on the horizon and Donald Trump's bombing of a Syrian airfield is seen as an act of aggression with Russia ramping up threats. <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491825741051","data":"58eb74af84595"}]
5. War looms on the horizon and Donald Trump's bombing of a Syrian airfield is seen as an act of aggression with Russia ramping up threats. <\/b><\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491825741051","data":"58eb74af84595"}]
When you hear the word rap, the first thing that comes to your mind is the image of a white or a black guy, dressed in baggy stuff and waving hands and going about rapidly saying the lyrics in a rhythmic way but Pranav Chaganty, our own Hyderabadi rapper has a different opinion about the genre.<\/p>
\"It is common perception that rap is a western thing but I believe rap is very Indian and more so, very Telugu. If you read the Telugu version of our epics and watch old Telugu movies centered around Mahabharata, you'll find poetic conversations between characters that very closely resemble rap battles,\" says the 26 year old rapper, whose recent video on Pani Puri got over 1.25 lakh views within a span of 10 days, who adds, \"Having grown up in a typical Telugu family, surrounded by Telugu poetry, I came across poetry by legendary writers like Vemulavada Bhimakavi and Palakuriki Somanathudu and their poetry felt a lot like rap. I wanted to write poetry in Telugu and it finally happened in the past few years.\"<\/p>
And in regard to his hit video Pani Puri, he says \"Rap is poetry that people connect with and in the same way, I wanted to write about something everyone can connect to, I didn't decide on anything specific and while thinking along these lines, I realised Pani Puri is something that's common to every Indian and I just wrote it. I didn't think it'll become this popular, I just went on to write what I feel about it.\" The two minute song highlights the emotions that surround the whole Pani Puri experience. It took him just an hour to write and he collaborated with Tamada Media to produce it. The song, directed by Sriharsha, was shot by Sekhar Boon and Jones Katru and edited by Raviteja Nannimala, with the music by Rajesh Raj and Satish taking care of the mixing and mastering.<\/p>
Writing isn't something that he's always done, as Pranav explains, \"After finishing my electrical engineering from VBIT, I worked in Merchant Navy and I sailed for a year. But I always knew that I wanted to write and I quit my job as a sailor and I came back to Hyderabad to write. The challenge of linking different words together to give rise to phrases and sentences with a beautiful meaning is what gives me joy.\"<\/p>
\"I didn't make this video to get a break or something. I just gave in my 100% and the rest naturally came. This is what I'll say to students too. When you want to do something, give it your 100%. Whether it'll become a success or not is not in your hands; the effort is in your hands. Just do it perfectly,\" adds Pranav, who just wrote and shot for a song on the ongoing IPL.<\/p>
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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad is one of the biggest universities in the country with about 200 colleges affiliated to it. Over the years, since its inception in 1965 it has grown to be the most reputed university with exemplified infrastructure and unique and efficient curriculum. Here is a list of things you might not about JNTU. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491808557353","data":"
1. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University was established on 2 October 1972, by an act of State Legislature.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815965079","data":"58eb4e665c455"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491808672488","data":"
2. It was founded in 1965 as the Nagarjuna Sagar Engineering College which later was established as a University. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491816140103","data":"58eb4f187e6fc"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491808773273","data":"
3. The Governor of Telangana is the Chancellor of the university and the first Vice-Chancellor of the university was D. N. Reddy. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491814435597","data":"58eb486d93b2b"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491808910068","data":"
4. It offers around 25 undergraduate programs( B.Tech) and 77 post graduate programs. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491814618110","data":"58eb49252e925"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491809005051","data":"
5. Back in September 2008, as per the Act No. 30 and Act No. 31, JNTU was divided into four universities, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada (JNTUK), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur (JNTUA) and Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, Hyderabad. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491814702760","data":"58eb49d77e87f"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491809158864","data":"
6. For the year 2015-16 around 200 Colleges are affiliated to JNTU and 158 Colleges have been rejected for affiliation. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815198468","data":"58eb4b6b9ad9c"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491810426232","data":"
7. It is recognized by UGC and further it has gained \u2018A\u2019 grade accreditation by the (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) NAAC. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815275515","data":"58eb4bb664d25"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491810459795","data":"
8. It has around 47 Departments functioning actively. Some of them are Marine Technology, Neural Engineering, Nanotechnology, Printing Technology. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815676002","data":"58eb4d464cce3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491810764292","data":"
9. The intake of JNTU Hyderabad is about 1000 students every year. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815733624","data":"58eb4d8603a10"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491810796838","data":"
10. According to 2017 Indian University Ranking - JNTU is ranking at number 55. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815989856","data":"58eb4e839b593"}]
1. Summer Paid Internship in Web Development<\/a><\/p>The selected intern should develop new user-facing features, build reusable code and libraries for future use, ensure the technical feasibility of UI\/UX designs, optimize application for maximum speed and scalability, assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end, collaborate with other team members and stakeholders. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491815670308","data":"2. Four Months Paid Internship In Full Stack Development<\/a><\/p>As intern you will be working on the back-end of a complex, highly interactive social media portal (Python Django framework), building a responsive website and hybrid app (Android) using Angular JS, Data Analytics, Scale-Up Services and such other.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491815834866","data":"3. Internship In Business Development At Hug Innovations<\/a><\/p>The selected intern will work on awareness and sales campaigns, resolving product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determining the cause of the problem, maintaining customer records by updating account information and able to attract potential customers by answering product and service questions.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491815941834","data":"4. Internship In Marketing<\/a><\/p>While working as intern, you should assist in the development and implementation of marketing plans as needed, analyze and report marketing campaigns for ROI effectiveness, create and execute a social media strategy that collaborates with marketing, advertising campaigns, research top influences, and PR for customer acquisition in India and in western markets and write blogs on sales, technology, etc. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491816046000","data":"5. Internship In Graphic Design<\/a><\/p>The selected candidate will be working on designing creative for social media and website. <\/p>"}]
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A culture is an ever shifting flux of practices by a people, that represent who they are and where they come from, and considering the vast size and various cultures in our country, it seems only fair that when you're far away from home in a place where the culture is familiar yet so unfamiliar, you take matters into your own hand and represent where you come from. This is what Sumanth Borra does at Lovely Professional University. We caught up with the singer, songwriter, musician, rapper and priest Sumanth Borra for a chat. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491814567090","data":"58eb50406c61d"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491815320506","data":"
\"The idea is simple, I wanted to represent the culture I come from in the university,\" says the Third Year Electronics and Communications student at Lovely Professional University, \"It started with my own, Telugu culture, first, but slowly we expanded to representing the cultures of the other South Indian states.\"<\/p>
Sumanth Borra has now become the de-facto go to guy at LPU for all issues related to South Indians. But getting to where he is now was not easy, \"I learned singing and music when I was a child, with some periods of inactivity involved due to focusing on studies, but this is the best way I know of taking my culture to those who want to be acquainted with it. Music, as such, is a tool that preserves our culture in the North, and it has given me so much\" he says. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491815820131","data":"58eb5053574f3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491815817742","data":"
Sumanth's musical career began as a child, \"There were Balostavs<\/i> held when I was a child, these were state level competitions, and I finished in the top 10. Later on, in college, I participated in Intra College competitions in which I've been finishing in the top 3 ever since\" he says. For some context, Lovely Professional University has well over 20000 students and has a number of branches. On top of this, Sumanth's performances are almost always in Telugu. <\/p>
\"I've found that people don't really connect to class songs, so I focus on writing and singing mass songs, you know songs that connect with the masses,\" he explains, \"and people love it, and it's quite amazing to see it happen.\"<\/p>
Sumanth finished 20 performances in his first year alone, and as of today, he's done 85 performances, the latest one happening in the final week of March, two weeks ago. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491816170222","data":"58eb503c6f7b2"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491816172303","data":"
Sumanth spoke empathetically about fellow students from South India coming all the way to the North at LPU, studying so far away from their homes, talking about their inspirations and motivations, \"My goal is to make sure nobody has to struggle as much as I did to gain a foothold. I believe in creating my own opportunities instead of waiting for one, and I want people around me to do the same. As for me, my motivations were pretty simple in the beginning, my college gives attendance for events, but later it became something bigger than me, a movement, a place for us to identify with, and that puts a responsibility on us. Thus, we carry on, for the art of music and for the students so far away from their homes\" he concludes with a smile. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491817396689","data":"58eb53fa3cd4c"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491817410633","data":"58eb5408c7a8c"}]
I've been pondering over how to get this message across the people in the form of an article without sounding preachy or angry, eventually realising that there is no easy way to talk about this. The arbitrary value placed on our marks supported by an educational system that accounts into only one way of teaching, and cultivated by parents who want to see their children come out on top no matter what they do, so they can live vicariously through them. <\/p>
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong in a parent wanting their child to succeed, but what if their definition of success is not the same as the child's definition of success? Nobody cares about what the child thinks. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491807122661","data":"58eb302a7507a"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491807125357","data":"
When I was in school, I played a ton of video games and still managed to study enough to score pretty decent marks, but it was never enough for my teachers and society. My parents, thankfully, were okay with the marks I got, but my neighbours made it a point to rub it in because I didn't get 95% and instead got a 'measly' 90%. I mean what on Earth happened to us that we as a society consider 90% a terrible score? <\/p>
My performance started dropping when I was in college, I hated Engineering, hated it with everything I had in me, every fibre of my being. I hated it so much I became sick with all the hate I was feeling, and there was no vent to it because I felt there was nobody to talk to about it. Nobody cared that I wasn't interested in Engineering, but they were quick to tell me what to do instead of actually telling me to stop and follow whatever passions I had. <\/p>
I'm not completely guilt free here, at this point I had no ambition, my will was broken, I didn't know what to do, all I knew was that I was good at playing Video Games and writing about it. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491808458879","data":"58eb312856c70"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491808488115","data":"
The reason for this story is to highlight one of the many issues I have with our education system: the marks I got could not quantify what I wanted to do, what I was good at. They were just arbitrary numbers on a piece of paper that we attach importance to. I know that you are being criticised everywhere you go, but let me tell you that your marks sheet will never tell you what you are good at, except that you're good at memorising words in a book and writing them as is on a piece of paper in the exam. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1491808991934","data":"58eb3348dda05"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1491809039875","data":"
India has several problems, from people growing up without a single shred of individuality to people putting too much importance on things that should not even matter in a modern society. But no matter what happens, nothing will change if you don't change. The excuse that nobody else will change fails because that is used as a crutch to justify your own behaviour. Change will always start from you, and in a society like ours where breaking rules and justifying it saying everyone is doing it is the norm, following strict regulations set for yourself is a revolution on its own. <\/p>
Who you are, what you can do, and where you'll be in a few years are not defined by the marks you get, but by what you can do and how far you are willing to go to achieve your dreams. Don't let anybody else tell you otherwise. <\/p>
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Equality<\/i> and equity<\/i> are terms often confused to be the same but while these concepts are related, there are also important distinctions between them. Equality aims to promote fairness by substantiating the situation to everyone from the same place. Equity appears unfair, but it actively moves everyone closer to success by \u201cleveling the playing field.\u201d<\/p>
Let\u2019s try to establish a better perspective between these two relations. For instance, take three individuals who vary in height, one tall, medium, and short, standing on three stools of the same height. It is obvious that while they stand on top of the stools, they will still be of different heights when compared to each other. This idea is known as \u201cequality\u201d since all three individuals are given the same thing or opportunity, which in this case is one stool to each. Now, take the stool from the tallest person and present it to the smallest person amongst the three. The new observation would fall into the concept of \u201cequity\u201d since the height is instantly fair between all three even though the number of stools differ between each individual. <\/p>
Throughout the ages, the principles of equality and equity have been a subject of great confusion mainly due to their marked similarity in definition. Even though both terms aim to spread uniformity, knowing the difference can be useful within different circumstances in order for one to effectively address them.\n<\/p>"}]
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