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Visiting Indian Student Programme (VISP) and Visiting Students Programme (VSP) are specifically designed to foster exchange of ideas between undergraduate students from across educational institutions in India and the globe and those at Ashoka.
Ashoka University is inviting current undergraduate students from academic institutions across India to experience the university’s unique academic offerings through the Visiting Indian Student Programme (VISP). The six-week-long online programme will commence on July 5th and conclude on August 13th 2021. The deadline for enrolling on the programme is June 5th 2021.
As and when India emerges on the other side of the pandemic, bolstering public care systems has to be the top priority.
Ashoka University today announced that a Chair has been endowed by two renowned Astrophysicists, Sunanda Basu and Santimay Basu, in their name for teaching and research in Astrophysics. The University will undertake an extensive search for the appointment of a distinguished Professor of Astrophysics to the Sunanda and Santimay Basu Chair in Astrophysics.
As India strives through the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fear and panic are at play among the public. In this regard, taking the responsibility of educating the masses, Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM Deemed to be University, Hyderabad, hosted “Doctors’ Panel: COVID-19 Challenges and Solution in the Indian Perspective,” a part of their ‘Let’s Talk Policy’ series.
While pursuing the Young India Fellowship with Ashoka University in 2016, Kavya Sindhuja volunteered to work on a landfill in Sonipat, Haryana. But it was not until she actually encountered it that she realised the task she had taken on. "It was a major shock for me that something that looked like a hillock turned out to be a landfill."
Social work is not all dull and boring, it can be fun too. Your version of social can be something unique, something you're passionate about through which you can help the community around you.
The FLAME University will be conducting its Online Summer Immersion Program (FU-SIP) 2021 from May 21 to 23. The programme offers an opportunity to high school students to gain a first-hand understanding of liberal education. The curriculum is interdisciplinary and delivered in a framework that embraces the spirit of liberal education that places special emphasis on critical thinking.
We are still learning about SARS-CoV-2 virus dynamics. We have seen in multiple geographies that the pandemic comes in waves because a part of the population, which is unexposed, remains vulnerable and the virus can attack this population and create a new outbreak. The possibility of a third wave in future cannot be ruled out.
As Indians helplessly watched family members, friends, colleagues, neighbours and fellow citizens perish for lack of oxygen, a veritable army of people who could have helped was hamstrung, bound and gagged with red tape.
The Centre had claimed that Maharashtra has received the highest number of vaccine doses, but there are several small states such as Gujarat, Haryana and Uttarakhand which have been given more vaccines, according to an Ashoka University research paper.
Chandigarh, May 16 (UNI) Given the successful five years of the Chief Minister's Good Governance Associates (CMGGA) Programme, the Haryana Government has announced a call for applications for the sixth cohort of programme commencing July 26, 2021.
India’s Covid curve may be showing early signs of flattening, but, unlike the first wave, the decline in the number of new infections is likely to be much slower this time, according to noted virologist Dr Shahid Jameel.
It is more than a week that India has been reporting around four lakh new coronavirus infections every day. But this week has also been the first time since April that the upward march of the Covid curve has been interrupted. The daily count of cases has moved up and down, unlike in April when every single day, except Mondays, had brought in a higher number of cases.
At the time the first wave was tapering, sero surveys such aas the fifth serological survey in Delhi, conducted between January 15 and January 23, to detect Covid-19 antibodies sho wed 56.13% of the 28,000 people sampled tested positive.