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Current Affairs on IIT Madras
☞ IIT Madras has topped the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement 2021.
☞ The first indigenously developed microprocessor of India devloped by the new head of IIT Mardas, Prof Kamakoti named as ‘SHAKTI’
☞ Dr. Rohit Srivastava, Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, is known for developing affordable medical devices received this year’s Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) award in the Medical Science Category.
☞ IIT Madras has collaborated with the Road Transport Ministry on pavement engineering and intelligent transportation systems to conduct research on pavement engineering and intelligent transportation systems.
◘ This research includes innovative technologies on
- Novel pavement materials and technologies
- Hydrogen cell transportation
- Automatic vehicle classification
- Novel toll systems
- Incident management systems
- Traveller information systems
- FastTAG data analytics
- And traffic simulations besides transportation safety
☞ IIT Madras has developed India’s first indigenous motorised wheelchair vehicle, NeoBolt.
☞ IBM is collaborating with IIT Madras to support their online BSc Degree and augment select courses on the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) platform.
☞ IIT Madras has developed an AI tool called NBDriver (neighbourhood driver) for use in analysing cancer-causing mutations in cells.
☞ IIT Madras has launched the country’s first consortium for virtual reality called the Consortium for VR/AR/MR Engineering Mission in India’ (CAVE).
☞ IIT Madras & members of the Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI) are set to work together for boosting digital money transactions in India.
☞ Nirmala Sitharaman Virtually Inaugurated India’s 1st 3D Printed House at IIT Madras.
☞ PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Discovery Campus worth Rs 1,000 crore , built by IIT Madras.
☞ IIT Madras-incubated startup Pi Beam has launched an electric two-wheeler for Rs 30,000 named “PiMo”.
☞ IIT Madras hosted Asia’s 1st workshop on International Memory Studies virtually and acknowledged the need to engage in memory studies under COVID-19.
☞ IIT Madras launches ‘e-Source’ – an Open-Source platform to track e-waste. It is an open-source platform for tracking & recovery of electronic wastes (e-waste) is under beta level of testing by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.
☞ IIT Madras won the overall #1 position in the ARIIA (Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements)
☞ IIT Madras has developed ‘MOUSHIK’ Microprocessor for IoT devices.
IIT Current Affairs Bombay
☞ IIT Bombay developed a novel method using infra-red technology to detect which patients are more at risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19.
☞ Indian Army with the collaboration with IIT Mumbai inaugurates its first Green Solar Energy Harnessing Plant in North Sikkim.
☞ IIT Bombay Launched India’s First Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH). KCDH will be focused on driving academic programmes, research and industry collaboration in Digital Health
☞ IIT Bombay virtually hosted the 3-day long Conference of BRICS Network Universities.
* Theme of the BRICS Network Conference – “Electric Mobility”.
* This conference is a part of the 13th BRICSR Summit.
* 13th BRICS summit to be held in 2021, under the Chairship of India.
☞ Students of IIT Bombay has launched AIR Scanner, a free-of-cost document-scanning mobile application.
◘ Delhi has signed an MoU with IIT-Bombay and Tata Projects Limited to construct a smog tower. The smog tower is a 20-metre-high structure fitted with several air purifiers to clean the air.
Current Affairs related to IIT Kanpur
☞IIT Kanpur has launched ‘Mission Bharat O2’ to tackle oxygen crisis.
☞ Punjab National Bank has collaborated IIT Kanpur for setting up a Fintech Innovation Centre (FIC).
☞ HCL Technologies has inked an agreement with IIT Kanpur to collaborate in the area of cybersecurity.
☞ Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched ‘Ganga Atlas: River of the Past’ in the annual ‘Ganga Utsav 2021-The River Festival’ which is developed by Prof Rajiv Sinha, IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Current Affairs related to IIT Ropar
☞IIT Ropar, Punjab and Monash University, Australia have developed a unique detector called ‘FakeBuster to detect imposters attends a virtual conference without anybody’s knowledge.
☞ IIT Ropar has developed a first-of-its-kind UVGI-based room disinfection device named “UV Safe”. It harnesses the germicidal effects of UV-C radiations to inactivate viruses and bacteria including coronaviruses.
☞ A robot named ‘Wardbot’ made by IIT Ropar to deliver medicines and food to Covid patients.
Current Affairs related to IIT Hyderabad
☞ TiHAN, country’s first test bed for Autonomous Navigation Systems (Terrestrial and Aerial) was established at IIT Hyderabad.
Current Affairs related to IIT Guwahati
☞ IIT Guwahati is organizing the 13th Annual Entrepreneurship Summit Udgam 2021.
☞ Union Minister of State Civil Aviation General, V K Singh launched India’s first Centre for Excellence in Research on Drone/UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) technology and Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, Assam.
☞ Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT- Guwahati) signed a MoU with Oil India Limited (OIL) to collaborate on development and introduction of new technologies in energy and related sectors.
Current Affairs related to IIT Roorkee
☞ Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) has signed an MoU with IIT Roorkee to boost research and development in the field of highway infrastructure.
☞ The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has launched the country’s first ‘Quantum Computer Simulator (QSim) Toolkit, which is developed by IIT Roorkee.
☞ IIT Roorkee has launched seven new academic programmes to cater to the rising demand for new-age technologies.
☞ IIT Roorkee has inked an MoU with Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology for cooperation in agricultural research and education.
Current Affairs related to IIT Kharagpur
☞ Union Education Minister inaugurated Agri-Food Techathon 2021 at IIT Kharagpur to promote Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
☞ IIT Kharagpur has developed a solar-powered pest control system for smaller farm fields.
☞ PM, Modi inaugurated Syama Prasad Mookerjee Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at IIT Kharagpur.
Current Affairs related to IIT Delhi
☞ Tata Power has signed MoU with IIT Delhi to collaborate in areas like smart grid technology, clean energy solutions.
☞ The Indian Navy has signed an MoU with IIT Delhi on research in the underwater domain of Naval Electronic Systems.
☞ MG Motor partners with IIT Delhi for Research in Electric, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles.
☞ IIT Delhi and AIIMS have developed a Telerobotic Ultrasound System that allows remote ultrasound access through a robotic arm.
☞ National Health Authority has signed an MoU with IIT Delhi to Strengthen India’s COVID-19 Response.
☞Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) has signed an MoU with IIT Delhi for joint research in the area of agriculture and fertilisers including nanotechnology.
☞ IIT Delhi has launched ‘Chakr DeCoV’ to decontaminate N95 masks.
☞ Unnat Bharat Abhiyan of IIT Delhi has partnered with CSIR for promoting rural development.
Current Affairs related to IIT Jammu
☞ IIT Jammu signed an MoU with Army’s Northern Command to provide innovative technical solutions to them about Jammu and Kashmir.
Current Affairs related to IIT Gandhinagar
☞ IIT Gandhinagar is the only IIT in the country which is running a Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) that will showcase its unique 75 toy creations in the India’s first toy cluster fair held in Karnataka.
Current Affairs related to IIT Jodhpur
☞ IIT Jodhpur developed a low-cost water purification and treatment unit for schools in rural areas of Rajasthan.
☞ COVID-19 diagnosis technique using chest X-ray images is the invented by IIT Jodhpur.
Current Affairs related to IIT Bhubaneswar
☞ IIT Bhubaneswar has developed a low cost ventilation device “Swasner”, This will help to alleviate the respiratory problems of a covid-19 patient.
◘ World Reputation Rankings 2021
• The ranking is released by – Times Higher Education (THE)
♠ Key Points
• 4 Indian institutes have made it to the Times Higher Education(THE)’s World Reputation Rankings 2021.
• The annual ranking of THE that features the top 200 universities across the globe.
• Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru ranked among the top 100 (91-100) and topped the Indian Institutes.
• The other 3 Indian institutes are _
• Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras..
• The World Reputation Rankings 2021 topped by Harvard University of the United States of America (USA).
• The Harvard University of the United States of America followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and University of Oxford from the United Kingdom(UK)
