A Talk on "Changing News Media Landscape in India" | Today at JNU

An interactive session with Mr Milind Khandekar, Digital Editor, BBC India on 'Changing News Media Landscape in India' on Friday, February 15, at 3 pm in Room No. 344, School of International Studies II , JNU, New Delhi

All are welcome to attend.

Release of Report "Exports to Jobs: Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia" | 28 February at IHC New Delhi

Release of the Report "Exports to Jobs: Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia"

on Thursday, February 28, 2019

at Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Organized by ICRIER, World Bank Group and International Labor Organization (ILO)

PROGRAMME

09:30 – 10 am: Registration

10:00 – 11:30 am: Welcome Address | Prof. Anwarul Hoda, Chair Professor, Trade Policy and WTO Research Programme, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Special Address: Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog | Shri Heeralal Samariya, Secretary (L&E), Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India

Opening Address: Mr. Junaid Kamal, Country Director India, World Bank | Ms. Dagmar Walter, Country Director-India, International Labour Organization

Release of the Report | "Exports to Jobs: Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia"  World Bank Group and International Labor Organization

Presentation of the Report | By Ms. Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, World Bank and Mr. Daniel Samaan, International Labour Organization

11:45 am – 01 pm: Panel Discussion on How to Reinvigorate the Labor Market through Greater Export Growth

• Chair: Ms. Nidhi Mani Tripathi, Joint Secretary – TPD (Services), Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India

Panelists:

• Mr. Srinivasan Iyer, Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
• Ms. Sabina Dewan, President and Executive Director, Just Jobs Network
• Ms. Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Fellow, ICRIER
• Mr. Martin Rama,  Senior Advisor, World Bank
• Prof. Ajit Ghose, Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Development

01 pm – 01:30 pm: Question and Answer

01:30 – 01:35 pm: Vote of Thanks | Mr. Martin Rama, Senior Advisor, World Bank

 

RSVP

Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER

Core-6A, 4th Floor, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110003, India

Tel: 01143112400; Fax: 24620180 | E-mail: rajat.kathuria[@]icrier.res.in

Registration

Call for Participation: "Re-Greening India - Water for All: Critical need for coherence in policies and actions" | 23rd February at IIC Delhi

Re-Greening India - Water for All: Critical need for coherence in policies and actions

Date & Time: Saturday, 23^rd February 2019; 1300 - 1730 Hrs

Venue: Multipurpose Hall, India International Centre, New Delhi

Organized by: The Club of Rome-India

We hope you will accept our kind invitation and join us at this very interesting forum as it may carve out way for 'Right to Water Act' in India.

Fundamental Issues

Water is the most important resource for the survival of life on this planet, it is a fundamental human need and a critical national and an international asset. In every drop of water, there is a story of life and livelihoods. Unfortunately, this precious resource is depleting swiftly everywhere. The world's water resources are, however, under increasing pressure from a growing human population, expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, and increasing per capita consumption of water, the demand for water will grow by about 55 percent between now and 2050 exacerbating current pressure. India has about 17 percent of the world's population as compared to only 4 percent of its water resources. The water sector in India has faced significant and problematic issues related to management. Despite a sizeable water resource base and vast land resource, challenges of water sector infrastructure requirements, including operating and upkeep costs, etc. are significantly higher. Earth science and environmental policy issues confronting society are the potential changes in the Earth's water cycle due to climate change. Global climate change will affect the water cycle, creating perennial droughts in some areas and frequent floods in others. 

Targets

• 'Water for All' means for ALL living things and not only for humans.
• Per capita, water availability must include disparity in water allocation and access
• Comprehensive assessment of India's water sector, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
• Exploring Alternative strategies
• Educating technocrats with integration skills.
• Erratic distribution of rain, often contributing to floods and droughts in several areas
• Water use inefficiency 
• Unregulated groundwater extraction
• Water pollution
• Decreasing water quality due to poor waste management laws
• Interstate river disputes
• Growing financial crunch for the development of resources
• Safe drinking water
• Private investments and private sector partnership in Water for all

Debate Needed Today

The essence of the 'debate needed today' for policy coherence, revolving around:

(a) Social Equity

(b) Healthy Environment and

(c) Viable Economy

We should move away from conventional, narrowly defined approaches that focus primarily on specific projects and activities – such as big dams and large-scale projects.

Impact

Water is an immeasurably political issue. This resource interacts with a highly inequitable society marked with class, caste and gender differentiation. Techno-managerial reforms in the water sector cannot tackle the issues of inequity in the water supply. India has signed the 2010 United Nations (UN) declaration of water as a right, this gives equal opportunities for all. The focus of the seminar is to evolve an environment where water is available for all in a sustainable manner—safe drinking water for basic needs, adequate water for agriculture, water for industry and for the ecosystem. So, the challenge before our meeting is to identify the Innovations, Investments, and Convergences that India now has to bring about to create a development pathway that provides all its citizens, rich and poor, with an adequate quality of water without destroying its sources.

Register Online 

Further Details 

17th STIP Forum Lecture "Science, Technology, and Society: The Challenge of Reaching Out" by Prof. M. Sai Baba | 15 February, IHC New Delhi

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) Forum Lecture Series

 

Science, Technology, and Society: The Challenge of Reaching Out

by

Prof. M. Sai Baba

[T.V. Raman Pai Chair Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangaluru]

 

 Chair: Shri Gauhar Raza [Leading Science Communicator and Former Scientist, CSIR]

 

Date: 15 February 2019 (Friday) Time: 7:00 PM 

RSVP: Mr.Tish Malhotra/Mr. N. N. Krishnan, Tel.: 011-24682176, 011-24682184 | Email: dgoffice@ris.org.in

DST Special Call for proposals under SC & ST Category under ICPS programme | Last Date 15-02-2019

DST Special Call for proposals under SC & ST Category under ICPS programme

The Scheme: Proposals are invited from SC & ST categories only for conducting the following:

1. Conduction of national level Conferences/workshops/Seminars/brain storming sessions etc of three days duration.

2. Training programmes: In-house Short term training/FDP Programmes for Faculty/UG/PG/Doctoral students of two weeks duration.

3. Building awareness at School level and at ITI, Polytechnic, Advanced Training Institutes (ATI).

The above are to be conducted under broader indicative topics like 

1. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Applications

2. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL)

3. Data Science and Big Data Analytics

4. Quantum Science & Technology

5. Cyber Security, crypt analysis and security for physical infrastructure

6. Block chain Technology

7. Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything

8. Robotics and advanced Manufacturing

Further Details | Last Date for Submission: 15-02-2019

Panel Discussion on 'Information Technologies – Computing, Communications and Machine Intelligence: The Next Twenty Five Years' | IIC New Delhi, 19 February

Feb 19 NITI Aayog, India International Centre and Centre for Policy Research are pleased to invite you to the valedictory session on Information Technologies – Computing, Communications and Machine Intelligence: The Next Twenty Five Years Chair: N N Vohra, President, India International Centre Opening Remarks by: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, India International Centre Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog    Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research Keynote Speaker: Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA  Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Multipurpose Hall, Kamla Devi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi   Metamorphoses Website   Sign up for the event at this link. This is necessary given seating requirements. We are at the dawn of a new era in Information Technologies, driven by the recent breakthroughs in Machine Intelligence, and supported by impressive advances in Computing and Communications. This talk will outline the history of Information Technology and its likely evolution in the near future. And, more importantly, discuss the potential societal impact of these technologies. The talk will then survey India's record in developing Information Technologies and the opportunities for the country to become a significant innovator in this vital domain. The talk will be livestreamed on the IIC website; streamed through Facebook-live on the Metamorphoses Facebook page; and video recordings will be available on YouTube, as well as disseminated through social media channels hosted on the Metamorphoses website. The promotional video for Metamorphoses can be accessed here. Questions will be taken on a special number through SMS, provided at the venue, and selected ones will be answered given time constraints. Arogyaswami Paulraj is an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is the inventor and a pioneer of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) wireless technology, the key to all modern wireless networks. He has authored over 400 research publications, several text books and a co-inventor in 80 US patents. He founded three technology companies in the US which were later acquired by Intel, Broadcom and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. His major recognitions include the Friendship Award from the Government of PR China, US Government National Inventors Hall of Fame, the Marconi Prize and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell medal. He is a fellow of several National Academies in Eng. and Sciences in the US, China and Sweden. Paulraj served in Indian Navy for 25 years where he developed ASW Sonar Technology and later founded three Labs - CDAC (DEITY), CAIR(DRDO) and CRL(BEL/MOD). His recognitions in India include the Padma Bhushan, a civilian national award. Metamorphoses is a modest effort to try and bridge the gap between digital technologies, which are transforming our lives, and our understanding of their multiple dimensions. It will unfold in a series of nine interactions covering different aspects of the digital revolution. This series will examine the impacts of digital technologies on the human psyche and on societies – exploring ways in which some of the negative elements may be mitigated. There will be a peep into the future – of what machine learning and artificial intelligence may bring to human experience – and the moral and ethical dilemma associated with these. It will also delve into issues relating to data privacy and cyber security as well as the emerging legal regime to regulate this critical domain.   Tweet Share Forward

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Lecture "Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matter" | by Dr Helen Hobbs | 15th February at AICTE Auditorium, JNU Campus

The TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences 2019

"Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matter"

Speaker: Dr Helen Hobbs

15th February 2019 | AICTE Auditorium, JNU Campus

Breakthrough Prize Laureate Helen Hobbs is the 2019 Speaker of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences.

About the Speaker: Dr Helen H. Hobbs, Investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, is the 2019 Speaker of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences. As part of this lecture series, now in its ninth edition, she will be giving lectures in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and New Delhi. Professor Hobbs' work is focussed on searching for genetic factors that contribute to, and protect us from, diseases arising from dietary excess as food has become easily available and human beings more sedentary. In 1999, along with her colleagues, Professor Hobbs established the Dallas Heart Study (DHS) aimed at identifying factors that contribute to coronary heart disease and metabolic disorders. This 3500+ population group study showed that mutations in the protein PCSK9 result in lower levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the cholesterol in the blood that leads to atherosclerosis or the clogging of arteries. These observations led to the rapid development of two FDA-approved, anti-PCSK9 antibodies for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and the prevention of coronary atherosclerosis. More recently, Dr Hobbs' team has identified sequence variations that are associated with the full spectrum of alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (FLD), including steatosis, steatohepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Dr Hobbs and her team found that mutations in the protein PNPLA3 were strongly linked to this condition. Yet another screen showed that a mutation in TM6SF2 led to an increase in fat content. Dr Hobbs' team has shown that this protein helps the liver secrete fat into the blood in triglyceride-rich lipoproteins. Dr Hobbs attended Stanford University and Case Western Reserve Medical School before training in internal medicine at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr Joseph Goldstein and Dr Michael Brown, she joined the faculty of UT Southwestern. Dr Hobbs was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2004 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. 

Admission to the lectures is free and open to all.  Online Registration