IIM Lucknow unveils Medicinal Plant Garden on Foundation Day

Virendra Singh Rawat

Lucknow / July 27, 2020

To mark its Foundation Day, the premier Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow today inaugurated a Medicinal Plant Garden in its campus with plans to expand it to nearly a hectare in a year’s time span.

The foundation of the Institute was laid 36 years back on July 27, 1984. Today, IIM Lucknow is ranked 4th in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking of the union ministry of Human Resource Development among the institutions of higher education in India.

“Sustainable practices along with health and immunity are the most important agenda today globally. This Garden is just a step in this direction. It is a way of creating awareness about the medicinal plant species and also a way of conserving Rare, Endangered and Threatened (RET) species,” Institute Director Dr Archana Shukla said on the occasion.

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IIT Kanpur to host cyber security Hackathon 2020

Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / July 5, 2020

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur will host a cyber security Hackathon 2020 to provide a platform to coders to exhibit their skills and get mentored in the campus.

Designed by the professors at the IIT Kanpur C3i Hub, the Hackathon will seek the participating teams to identify, build and test robust cyber defense solutions to a given practical problem.

IIT Kanpur C3i Hub is among the world’s top research centres and India’s number one Research Center on Cyber Security and Cyber Defence of a Cyber Physical system. It addresses the issue of cyber security of a Cyber-physical system (CPS) in its entirety, covering all nine layers of the CPS.

The Hub incubates inter-disciplinary innovations by providing opportunities to investigate, test and assess cyber threats in different layers and then find solutions to make the system safe from cyber threats.

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Khadi fashion

UP moots Khadi razzmatazz in Germany

Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / July 3, 2020

To promote UP Khadi garments, the Uttar Pradesh government has mooted to organise a Khadi fashion show in Germany once the covid-19 pandemic is under control.

UP micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and export promotion minister Sidharth Nath Singh, while virtually interacting with Indian ambassador to Germany Mukta Dutta Tomar yesterday, observed the proposed Khadi fashion show would introduce the locals to the indigenous fabric, while promoting exports as well.

Singh apprised Tomar of the various incentives and sops being offered to woo investors in UP. In fact, the MSME minister said the state was ready to consider setting up of a German Park to attract investment.

Meanwhile, Tomar informed the covid-19 had disrupted the supply chain in Germany and although the work was on war footing to restore the same, UP could become a preferred supply chain destination for Germany.

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