 | SevaShop to help service-based businesses set up an online shop in 15 secondsSevaShop, an app that helps servicebased businesses set up online shops in a quick and easy way, just won the biggest community hackathon in India, HackInOut 7.0 |
 | IIIT-Hyderabad researchers kick off mammoth crowdsourcing speech projectOver 50 per cent of the Indian population uses devices that are embedded with AI-based speech recognition technology. |
 | Three IIITs to open in Uttarakhand soon: Union Education MinisterThe three IITs will be established in the districts of Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar, and Haridwar in public-private partnership (PPP) mode, said the minister. |
 | Parliament passes IIIT amendment bill, giving national importance tag to five new institutesIt will also enable the institutes to attract enough students required to develop a strong research base in the country in the field of information technology. |
 | IIIT-Bhubaneswar students make first-of-its-kind ventilation device to ease mild breathing issuesInside a hyperbaric chamber, a person is made to inhale almost pure oxygen to speed up body’s healing process. |
 | AIC-IIITH to incubate 10 startups for its flagship Akash Incubation ProgrammeThe selected startups will be supported through their entrepreneurial journey by business coaching, bootcamps and workshops on various topics. |
 | Online laboratories pick momentum thanks to lockdown, says IIITHCoinciding with the imposition of the lockdown in India, statistics show a steep rise in page views of the materials - from 628,300 in March 25 to nearly 4 million in June 2020. |
 | IIIT-Delhi's 'WashKaro' app fact-checking fake news on COVID-19It is targeted at the layman and the daily updated content is delivered in Hindi as bite-sized audios for those who may not be able to read. |
 | App that warns about COVID-19 containment zones, filters fake news developed by IIIT-DelhiThe research team had also presented the app at the World Health Conference in Geneva on April 8 through video conferencing. |
