According to Professor Errol D'Souza, director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the disruption has already started to happen.

Aditi Gupta has used comic books to make thousands of girls aware about menstrual health.

The CBSE is also planning to schedule its Board examinations so that the results for the same can be declared expeditiously. To this end, plans are to conduct the Board examinations in two legs.

From an AI stand point, India is quite far behind. One of the reasons is that we don't have a robust educational system, which would give us the talent pool that can develop AI tools, says Sunil Wadhwani.

In the recent past, teaching has been bogged down by a system that has laid excessive emphasis on examination results. The mindset of teachers was forced to become - know your subject, follow the curriculum and prepare students for their exams.

The government is committed to provide appropriate liquidity and financial resources to Air India, Union Minister Jayant Sinha said today amid delay in payment of salaries at the airline and uncertainty over its divestment plans.

The main problem with the survey is that it gives a glimpse of what the government should be doing - it just does not delve deep enough into the subject. In areas like national security, ethics in AI, and even in creating centres of excellence, it seems to skim the surface.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Friday announced that it will acquire close to 73 per cent stake in education technology provider Indiavidual Learning Private Ltd (Embibe) to become a majority shareholder.

With industry needs rapidly changing due to advancing technology, a host of online courses, both globally and locally designed, have sprung up to help professionals upgrade their skills.

India, as the seventh largest country in the world with a population of about 1.34 billion people, has been the fourth fastest growing economy, making progress in almost every field in leaps and bounds. So it may come as a surprise that as many as 732 million people did not have access to clean toilets and the sanitation coverage stood at a dismal 39% till 2014.

In healthcare, smart AI systems are quickly surpassing the capabilities of human radiologists researchers at Houston Methodist Hospital utilise AI software, which interprets the results of breast X-rays 30 times faster than doctors and with 99 per cent accuracy.

Robo-advisors have taken the investment management industry by storm and their meteoric growth seems unstoppable.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) and automationare set to take the centre stage in 2018. With Digital India marking its boundaries farand wide, its real effects will be seen this year, says Mettl CEO Ketan Kapoor.

Puri says that these institutes don't match the global standards of education. He is trying to replicate the \"ISB model\" in the hospitality education.