Hackathon
KRUU, in affiliation with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has launched the KRUU GRASP 2026, a nationwide AI hackathon.
When: February 6 to eight
Eligibility: Open to UG and PG college students throughout Engineering, Science, Healthcare, Management, Design, and interdisciplinary programmes.
Themes: AI for Social Good, AI for Education, AI for Medicine, and Applied engineering.
Lecture on Education
Azim Premji University is internet hosting a public lecture on “Education in an Age of Polarisation: A Perspective on Cultivating Values, Resilience and Belonging in Childhood and Youth” by Arniika Kuusisto, Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Helsinki. The occasion will probably be held at Bangalore International Centre on February 2 from 6.30 to eight.00 pm. Visit https://tinyurl.com/5sxr3jj5 to register.
Admissions and scholarships
NIIT University invitations functions for its B.Tech. programmes in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science; Cyber Security, Robotics and Automation; Biotechnology; Computer Science and Engineering; Electronics and Communication Engineering; BBA programmes AI and Business Analytics, and Dual Degree Integrated MBA.
Eligibility: Pass in Class 12 board examination. Those with legitimate JEE Main 2026 rating needn’t take the NIIT University Aptitude Test.
JAIN Deemed-to-be University’s Faculty of Engineering and Technology has opened functions for the on-line JAIN Entrance Test 2026 to be held on April 9 and 10 for admission to B.Tech programmes. Details of programs and different info at https://tinyurl.com/mrfj74z3
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, the U.Okay., invitations functions for its new interdisciplinary M.Sc. in Economics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence course starting this September.
Eligibility: UK second-class honours diploma or worldwide equal in any topic with IELTS total rating of 6.5, with no particular person part decrease than 5.5.
Zenith School of AI launched a B.Tech, in Artificial Intelligence programme with mini-MBA.
Eligibility: Minimum 60% at school 12 or equal CGPA from a recognised board, with Physics, Chemistry, Maths as core topics.
Deadline: March 31
PVR INOX launched Cine Career, in affiliation with Timbuckdo to arrange college students for careers throughout hospitality, leisure, retail operations, and repair industries.
Commences: February 19
Eligibility: Open to college students who search publicity in cinema operations, customer support, hospitality, and associated service industries.
Deadline: February 15
The University of Birmingham (UoB), the U.Okay., has launched its Future Skills Scholarship for college kids who’re domiciled in India and have acquired an unconditional provide for a full-time PG programme (M.Sc. Business Analytics; Marketing; Data Science; Advanced Engineering Management; Molecular Biotechnology; Master’s in Public Health; M.A. International Relations, and LLM programmes (besides LLM Energy and Environmental Law – Distance Learning) in September 2026.
Deadline: April 30
SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) Deemed-to-be University has opened registrations for admissions to its UG programmes throughout it numerous campuses. Students in search of admission to Commerce, Management, Economics, Humanities, and International Studies programmes should take NMIMS Programme Aptitude Test (NPAT). Engineering, Technology Management, and Pharmacy programmes are provided by means of the NMIMS Common Entrance Test (NCET). Law aspirants can search admission by means of the NMIMS Law Aptitude Test (NLAT). Design schooling is obtainable by means of the NMIMS Design Aptitude Test (NDAT). Students inclined in the direction of Maths, Analytics, and Data-driven careers should take the NMIMS Mathematical Sciences Test (MST). Exam-wise eligibility, programme particulars, and admission processes might be discovered at https://nmims.edu/
Events
The Mathematics Department of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College, Chennai, organised interclass competitions on Live Mathematical Models and an inter-school Math Olympiad competitors. Participants showcased reside fashions that demonstrated mathematical ideas and their real-life functions.
BML Munjal University (BMU) hosted the second BML Munjal Memorial Lecture delivered by well-known creator Amitav Ghosh, who spoke about for rethinking resilience amid the planetary disaster.
IIM Kashipur hosted Avinya, its annual conclave organised by Navaashay, its Design and Innovation Centre. The theme was From Idea to Impact: Designing, Building, and Scaling Sustainable Products in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Speakers included Prof. Saptarshi Kolay from IIT Roorkee, Utsab Chakraborty from VISA; Parth Sangnani from Microsoft; and Anshuman Mansingh from Google. The institute additionally carried out 5 batches of Management Development Programmes for 232 PM SHRI college principals from Uttarakhand.
Findoc launched a monetary literacy initiative throughout Punjab schools to teach college students on private finance, investing, and capital markets. Sessions have been held at University Business School, Lovely Professional University, and Punjab College of Technical Education.
Mohan Babu University hosted a world analysis conclave on the theme AI-Driven Sustainable Technologies for Energy, Health and Society, organised with IEEE and the Institution’s Innovation Council. It offered UG, PG, and Ph.D. students a platform to current analysis and discover funding, collaborations, and {industry} partnerships.
Noida International Institute of Medical Sciences, a constituent establishment of Noida International University (NIU), organised a White Coat Ceremony for its MBBS Batch 2025. Speakers highlighted the significance of moral medical follow, lifelong studying, empathy, and the accountable use of know-how in healthcare.
Prof. Sumit Tripathi from Goa Institute of Management, Roma Trigunait from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, and Dinesh Chandra Pandey from Graphic Era Deemed-to-be University havedeveloped an AI-based forecasting framework to spice up retail profitability and lower carbon emissions. The findings have been revealed in Springer Nature’s journal Circular Economy and Sustainability.
A six-month LEAD Group examine discovered that AI-enabled studying techniques can increase pupil studying as much as 4 instances when built-in into common classroom instruction and follow routines. It examined outcomes throughout two cohorts: 3,511 college students who studied utilizing AI-enabled studying techniques and 6,215 college students who didn’t.
The IC3 Institute’s Annual Student Quest Report 2025, primarily based on responses from college students in the graduating courses of 2026 and 2027, exhibits that high-school college students are reshaping educational and profession decisions and likewise highlights a niche in present steering techniques and the want for tech-aware, well timed, student-centric counselling.
ApplyBoard’s Insights report highlights main worldwide schooling traits for 2026, exhibiting how rising affordability pressures, shifting immigration and post-study work insurance policies, and the speedy progress of transnational schooling in India are reshaping study-abroad decisions for Indian college students, households, and establishments.
BITS Design School has built-in the Practice School Programme into its undergraduate curriculum, offering college students with industry-mentored, credit-bearing, reside venture expertise. This includes eight-weeks Practice School: one engagement at the finish of the second yr, adopted by a 22-week Practice School in the closing yr.
Laul Global has launched Florida Coastal University, a totally on-line, digital-first college in Florida, the U.S., providing college students UG, graduate, and doctoral programmes in Business, Computer Science, and Education.
Prof. Ajay Dashora and analysis scholar Anushka Vashistha from IIT Guwahati and Afroz Ahmad Shah (Universiti of Brunei Darussalam) have developed a predictive framework to determine potential glacial lake formation websites in the Eastern Himalayas. The findings have been revealed in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal.
Researchers from Nagaland University, led by Gyati Yam, found Hoya nagaensis, a brand new plant species in Nagaland’s high-altitude forests, and documented its traits and ecology. The findings have been revealed in Kew Bulletin.
The School of Business Management, Noida International University, organised a two-day International Conference on AI–Business Fusion: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Multidisciplinary Innovation and Sustainability (ICIMIS-2026). There have been 300 delegates, and over 200 analysis papers have been introduced, aside from panel discussions and keynotes.
Noida International University’s School of Business Management hosted the AI–Business Fusion: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Multidisciplinary Innovation and Sustainability. Speakers included Prof. Prem Kumar Rajagopal (Malaysia University of Science and Technology); Prof. Dr. M.Okay. Dutta (Amity University); Vivek Ranjan Rai (ACP, Cyber Crime Cell); and Lata Gautam (Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India), amongst others.
Boeing Sukanya STEM labs have been inaugurated throughout authorities colleges in Odisha’s Sambalpur, Rairakhol, and Kuchinda districts by Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Education Minister. The are anticipated to learn greater than 3,000 college students yearly.
Target Learning Ventures carried out workshops for college principals and lecturers in Nashik on on-line instruments in instructing, studying, and evaluation, and curriculum growth. It additionally carried out a webinar on How to Choose the Right School for Your Child by Hema Bhadawkar, Associate Professor at Okay.J. Somaiya School of Education, Somaiya Vidyavihar University.
NIMS University’s School of Business, Department of Mass Communication, and Rajasthan Police, organised a seminar on Sashakt Beti – Samriddha Bharat (Empowered Daughter – Prosperous India). The chief visitor was Sunita Meena, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rajasthan Police).
The Legal Aid Clinic of ITM University, Raipur, held a NALSA-sponsored (National Legal Services Authority) workshop on drug consciousness and well being steering to teach college students on the dangerous results of substance abuse. A brief movie on the ill-effects of drug abuse was screened, and the Law college students introduced a road play on drug consciousness.
SOIL Institute of Management has appointed Jagannath Mohanty as Deputy Director of the PGDM Programme. Before this, he served as Associate Professor at IMT Nagpur, and earlier as Associate Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh.
Kotak Education Foundation hosted Manthan 2026, its annual schooling showcase, on the theme Reimagining Education for the Next Billion. Actor Swaroop Sampat and journalist Faye D’Souza have been the chief visitors. A coffee-table ebook Beacons of Change: Journeys of Hope, Learning, and Impact, was additionally launched.
SGT University hosted its 12th convocation for graduating college students in the presence of Prof. Sat Prakash Bansal, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Himachal Pradesh; Prof. Alok Kumar Rai, Director, IIM- Calcutta; Prof. Unnat P. Pandit, Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Indian Patent Office, Ministry of Commerce and Industry; and Prof. Diwan Singh Rawat, Vice Chancellor, Kumaun University.
Simplilearn partnered with Lovely Professional University to supply a Professional Certificate in AI and Machine Learning for B.Tech CSE (AI/ML) college students, to reinforce {industry} abilities, employability, and innovation.
Students of Gopi Birla Memorial School hosted an Environmental Protection Awareness Drive the challenges of air, water, and noise air pollution, and gave sensible options for saving pure sources.
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), KLH University Aziz Nagar Campus, Hyderabad, hosted a five-day Skill Development Workshop on AI-Driven Models for Autonomous Navigation Systems and a nationwide symposium titled Edutainment-2026, which featured 30 technical and fun-based stalls designed and introduced by college students, with assist from sponsors Being Zero, Cognalis, Robosevak, and Hillsafe. The institute’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering organised a five-day Staff Development programme on Modern Programming on Emerging Technologies.
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), in collaboration with the Indian affiliate of Marvell Technology, launched Networks for AI/ML Systems, a sophisticated academic-industry course to teach college students on these realities as they seem in manufacturing AI infrastructure. Nearly 45 college students from B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. programmes participated.
Awards
Team Camber Racing from SRM Institute of Science and Technology took the first place throughout Endurance, Skidpad, Autocross, Acceleration, Engineering Design, Fuel Economy, and Sustainability Best Practices classes and likewise acquired the Best Driver Award at Formula Bharat 2026.
Galgotias University was ranked in the 601–800 band globally in Business, Economics, and Computer Science, and in the 801–1000 band in Life Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 by Subject.
Maker Bhavan Foundation introduced the winners of its Vishwakarma Awards. The first prize winners have been: Team Vayu-Setu (Harsh Tejwani and Mohammed Ujjainwala) from Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology (VESIT) in the Smart Mobility class; Team Adaptive Modular Arms (Aarav Gupta, Palash Pangavhane, and Jaideep Lokhande) from IIT-Bombay in the Intelligent Machines class; Team Sarathi (Bolisetty Subbarayudu, Chiguru Varun, Gollapally Shivaraj, and Shaik Taufeeq)from the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, in the HealTech class.
Saket Ganatra and Rohan Pinara, Saint Paul’s School, have been the winners of the Young Innovators’ Expo 2026 organised by Marwadi University and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Team Drushti from CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, gained first prize in InnoVent 2026, the engineering innovation hackathon organised by Tata Technologies and supported by Amazon Web Services.
Collaborations
Delhi Technological University and the Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers’ Association signed an MoU to strengthen industry-academia collaboration in the electrical and electronics sector.
PE Analytics partnered with University of Cambridge’s Department of Land Economy to launch an academic programme, specializing in analysis and AI-driven predictive fashions in actual property.
The Government of Telangana’s Aikam signed an MoU with Pearson as its first associate to advance AI skilling, evaluation, and credentialing by means of the upcoming Global AI Academy.
ICONA partnered with UPES to ascertain an ICONA Centre of Excellence in Future Mobility to strengthen schooling, analysis, and innovation in future mobility. UPES may even host a Centre of Automotive Design Excellence together with ICONA.
NSE Academy Limited partnered with CFA Institute to supply globally recognised certification {and professional} programmes in funding, monetary markets, knowledge science, and ESG to equip college students with sensible, industry-aligned abilities.
IIT Mandi signed an MoU with JK DELOPT to collaborate on analysis, innovation, and indigenous know-how growth by means of a long-term industry-academia partnership.