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India’s AI Push: Microsoft launches 'Jugalbandi', AI-based multilingual chatbot for rural India

The Jugalbandi chatbot uses a completely indigenous AI model developed by IIT Madras' AI4Bharat. The chatbot was launched with the aim to help farmers and people in rural India to access information about farming and government schemes on their phones.

IIT-Madras launches new department to combine medical education, engineering

Check this space to know all about the new department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

20-year-old IIT-Madras student found hanging in hostel room, fourth suicide in three months

The student has been identified as 20-year-old Kedar Suresh. He was pursuing Chemical Engineering in IIT-Madras

Love has no boundaries: This IITian quits job and becomes a criminal to keep girlfriend 'happy'

Hemant Kumar Raghu, who was an IIT-Madras graduate working in Dubai, turned to crime to please his girlfriend

Want to check if your milk is adulterated? IIT-Madras' new device could help

Researchers at IIT-Madras have developed a 3D paper-based portable device that can detect adulteration in milk within 30 seconds. The test can be used to detect adulteration in other liquids as well such as water, fresh juices and milkshakes

With a total of 1,199 offers, record job placements for IIT Madras this year

As many as 80 per cent of students who opted for Campus Placements during 2021-22 have received job offers during placement 2021-22, the premier institute said in a statement on Monday

Indian Railways books cab for student so that he could catch train on time amid heavy rains; wins hearts

After the train got cancelled, the staff at Ekta Nagar railway station helped Gadhvi get a cab to Vadodara station. The young student reached Vadodara station on time. The railway department did not stop there. Officials at Vadodara station even helped the aspirant with his luggage

IIT Madras researchers successfully develop and deploy an AI-based tool to diagnose cancer

A group of researchers at IIT Madras have developed an AI-based tool that detects cancer. Using the new tool, doctors will not only be able to detect cancer at much earlier stages, but they will also be able to create personalised treatment strategies, that work in a better manner.

The IIT-Madras invention that could put an end to manual scavenging in India

An IIT-Madras start-up has developed a robotic machine to clean septic tanks and hopes to end the dehumanising pratice of manual scavenging in India. Around 10 units have been distributed in Tamil Nadu, which reported the highest number of deaths of workers cleaning sewers over the last three years

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate India's biggest drone festival

Modi will inaugurate India's biggest Drone Festival 'Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022' on May 27 at 10 am at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement