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As observed in other top-notch IITs, "Computer Science & Engineering is the most popular stream in the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur." It received 19,513 choices in 2025, which has been increasing from the previous year's 16,506 seats by a prominent 18.22 percent. The reason for this is the ever-growing popularity observed in the core streams relating to computing, and this has been the aftermath of the increasing demand in software engineering, system designs, and digital technologies to come.

However, the sharpest growth this year has been seen in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, with an increase of 20.17 percent, where the choices have moved up from 14,233 in 2024 to 17,104 in 2025. The remarkable growth clearly shows that students are now eager to acquire solutions using AI.

The IIT Jodhpur has expressed a remarkable preference regarding admission into different undergraduate programs offered at the institute during 2025, as is clear from the most recent information provided by the Joint Implementation Committee.

In the traditional sectors, the fastest-rising field was that of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, with a growth rate of 16.91%, an increase from 8,598 to 10,052. Another traditional sector that showed a good rate of growth in the number of choices was Mechanical Engineering, with a growth rate of 15.01%, an increase from 12,091 to 13,906.

Electrical Engineering witnesed a truly remarkable growth of 14.05%, with the number of choices escalating from 13,629 to 15,544, largely due to the interest in the realms of power systems, electronics, embedded systems, as well as the emerging ones associated with semiconductors. The growth in output performance attained by the Chemical Engineering discipline is truly appreciable with the remarkable growth rate of 13.37%, advancing from 9,859 to 11,177.

One of the disciplines introduced as a novel course this year is Electronics Engineering, which was introduced as an undergraduate program and has managed to record a total of 13,265 selections by its first year of introduction.

Interdisciplinary & Science-Oriented courses also continued to register an increase. The Materials Engineering course registered a 14.99% increment with 7,130 to 8,199 preferences, and the Bio Engineering course registered a 12.66% increase with 6,319 to 7,119 preferences. Programmes offered in combination with Core Sciences and Engineering Applications also registered a notable increase. Chemistry with Specialisation recorded an increase of 16.42%, reaching 5,559 from 4,775, while Physics with Specialisation recorded a 13.70% increase to 5,902 from 5,191.

Hence, on an overall level, the JIC 2025 statistics indicate that IIT Jodhpur is gradually rising in rank in various streams, in which CSE is leading at the top rank, while AI/DS and Infrastructure streams are rising at a faster rate.

The Department of Posts has released the draft amendment to the Post Office Act, 2023, unveiling the DHRUVA framework that will allow for shorter UPI-like address labels.

Our addresses might now follow the path of monetary transactions. Just as the launch and popularisation, and subsequent democratization of the UPI payments system did away with the requirement to remember bank account numbers and IFSC codes for money transfers, the same might happen to your addresses-courtesy India Post's new initiative 'DHRUVA.'

What is DHRUVA?

The DHRUVA framework, for Digital Hub for Reference and Unique Virtual Address, has been in discussion for a couple of months now, The Hindu reports. One of its important facets, DIGIPIN, was launched this March.

Through DHRUVA, India Post seeks to replace lengthy forms of physical addresses with somewhat shorter forms, an electronic mail or UPI address, for example. Long address forms will be compressed into 'name@entity' like forms.

The government hopes to get participation from e-commerce platforms where consumers have to put in long addresses, almost every time they make a purchase, for the delivery of the product. Instead of the addresses, the DHRUVA label will give the service providers the exact location of consumers through geographic coordinates, The Hindu reported.

What is DIGIPIN?

DIGIPIN, a forerunner of the DHRUVA framework, was implemented by India Post in March 2025, representing a ten-character latitude and longitude coordinate of a person. DIGIPIN pinpoints exact locations and does not require the usage of full-length addresses.

Will your data be safe with DHRUVA?

The Department of Posts has made available a draft amendment to the Post Office Act, 2023, to introduce DHRUVA. The whole operation shall work on consent from the consumer given for allowing private firms the use of their DHRUVA labels. Re-authorisation is to be made from time to time. The government is not proposing to make the usage and integration of DHRUVA compulsory for private players, but feels the clutter-free character of the platform will be attractive enough for them to participate in the programme, reported The Hindu.

Job opportunities emerging from these investments will include direct, indirect, induced, and seasonal jobs, which will be derived from the expansion of Amazon’s logistics and delivery network, as well as industries such as packaging, manufacturing, and transportation.

Amazon is one of the most aggressive players in the industry with a series of brutal layoffs as far as branding goes. But the US giant is betting heavily on investments in India. With an investment of $35 billion in the country, Amazon has announced one of their most ambitious commitments to date in the Indian market, which will help generate an additional one million (10 lakh) jobs in the country by 2030. The company cut 14,000 jobs in their corporate functions in early this year in a restructuring exercise to focus on future investments in generative AI.

The massive investment plan, which was announced during the company’s Smbhav Summit event in New Delhi, demonstrates the immense faith in the future of technology in the digital and economy realms in India, a time when the tech giant is in a massive restructuring process globally, in which they laid off a staggering 14,000 employees. Major investments have recently been witnessed in India by tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Cognizant.

Amazon doubles in on India’s digital ecosystem

The $35 billion investment will focus on three major sectors: using AI technology in digitization, enhancing exports in India, and increasing employment opportunities. This latest investment is in addition to nearly $40 billion of investments already made by Amazon in India since entering in 2010. This investment went into developing massive storage centers, logistics, and cloud solutions.

At present, Amazon supports 2.8 million jobs in India, direct, indirect, induced, and seasonal jobs, through an economic impact report generated by Keystone Strategy, which took place during this summit.

"We see our own growth plans very much in line with what is happening in terms of national development in this country," Amit Agarwal, Senior Vice President of Emerging Markets at Amazon, pointed out, "We want to democratize access to AI for millions of Indians and quadruple our cumulative e-commerce exports to $80 billion by 2030."

Artificial intelligence, exports, and employment The expected new jobs will come from the direct, indirect, induced, and seasonal jobs emerging from the growing logistics, fulfillment, and delivery networks of Amazon and related industries such as packaging, manufacturing, and transportation. With a view to further promote exports, Amazon is stepping up their ‘Global Selling’ initiative, which so far has facilitated exports of over $20 billion in cumulative online exports from India. Additionally, they will reach 15 million small businesses with AI solutions and expose four million government school students to AI learning by 2030.

Webcams make the faces of our loved ones ever closer to us and our privacy ever more remote. The act of linked conferencing for business or communicating with our loved ones living in different cities or, what's more, different countries, has imperceptibly entered our lives, and then, of course, COVID-19 just hastened the process, and to date, many firms continue to work “in cyberspace” or with a mixed format.

Switching on the camera has become a mere habit now. In comparison, the convenience that it affords has a catch that not a single soul predicted. This is the fact that cyber fraudsters can easily access your webcam without you actually knowing what is occurring. After hacking into it, they can monitor what you are doing in the surroundings that are within your visibility, steal some confidential information, and worst comes to worst, they may end up blackmailing or extorting money from you. However, the bright side for you is that it can be remedied by instilling the right habits.

Webcams require careful attention concerning positioning and framing. If the webcam zooms into the image automatically and changes angles without your intervention, that is suspicious activity. Most hackers will change the settings of the webcam according to their needs. Moreover, it is very easy and effective to either cover your webcam with a tape or a sliding webcam cover. It will remain exposed only if and when you wish to use it and will go back once you are finished.

When downloading any application or software, be very careful. There are applications that tend to ask for camera access even if there’s no need at all. If you feel that there is no need to give any application access to your camera, then don’t allow them to. The fewer applications you allow to use your camera, the better.

Installing anti-virus software is always essential. Now, the installation of anti-spy software is also of utmost importance. They automatically identify any unwanted software or suspicious links in the initial stage itself and thus always make sure that the pathways remain closed to hackers on your computer. "You never click on links or download any files that arrive in the form of an email message whose addresses are unknown," cautions Marc Bizarri of Qスコア. "These often contain Trojans that will guide the actions of the web cam or even the computer itself." "If the suspicious email message is from contacts in your address book," Marc goes on to explain, "you should warn them about the issue. Their email account might have been compromised." Furthermore, as an added measure of protection, always make it a habit to turn on the PC camera only when there is actually a need to access it and turn it off when not in use through the settings function. Always keep the operating system up-to-date as security updates often provide essential security fixes protecting the operating system from certain security risks operating in the background.

Chennai's Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering said on Monday that it is not going to accept applications for admissions for the next academic year, 2026-27. It said Anna University and the All India Council for Technical Education granted progressive closure to the college.

The premier college will be merged in a phased manner with Shiv Nadar University Chennai, which is functioning on the adjacent campus.

"Admissions to SSN College of Engineering are closed. Kindly apply to similar programmes offered by SSN School of Engineering at Shiv Nadar University Chennai (SNUC)," a notice on the college website says.

It also released frequently asked questions to help clarify the doubts of parents and students who are enrolled in the college. "As of now, the SSN College has more than 4,800 students, including UG, PG students, and research scholars. These students will receive their degrees from Anna University as the closure will be progressive. There will be no new admissions from 2026-27," a source in the college said.

Students seeking admissions to BTech and MTech programmes offered by the SSN School of Engineering under Shiv Nadar University Chennai will have to take an entrance test and interview.

It is an autonomous constituent college of Anna University, and the university fills 65% of the total seats in the affiliated colleges through online counselling, considering Class XII marks in maths, chemistry, and physics.

The university announced that the fee structure for current students at SSN College of Engineering will continue as per the prevailing norms applicable to their batch.  These students pay 55,000 as tuition fees for govt quota seats. The tuition fee for BTech programmes at Shiv Nadar University is 3.5 lakh. Further, it also said faculty members will continue teaching until all students complete their programmes.

"The academic norms as per the prevailing Anna University regulations will continue to apply if a student has arrears or backlog after the last batch graduates," said the college further.

It has proposed initiating the system of Industrial Training Institutes in government high and higher secondary schools throughout the state to reduce the gap between school education and industry-ready skills.

This initiative is jointly being explored by the School Education Department and the Department of Employment and Training as part of a broader initiative to enhance employability among students at an early stage.

The initiative, still at a conceptual stage, proposes to set up a new facility called ‘School-ITI’. To explain, the industrial and vocational training will be imparted from school campuses as students pursue technical skills training along with their regular academic education.

Senior officials of both departments attended a meeting on December 4 to discuss structure, eligibility and feasibility associated with the implementation of the proposal. The Employment and Training Department proposed the selection of 10 government schools as a pilot institution for setting up School-ITIs under the initial roadmap.

Though no final call has been made regarding implementation, preparatory ground works have begun by assessing the infrastructure and suitability of locations. Later, subsequent to discussions, the CEOs in chosen districts were asked to furnish a list of government high and higher secondary schools where the project can be suitably implemented.

They have been given one week to submit the list after considering the local needs and availability of facilities. Several clauses have been specified for schools to be eligible for hosting a School-ITI.

Each school should have at least half an acre within its premises. It also requires approval for conversion of unused and underutilized laboratories and buildings into workshops and training classrooms for ITI.

Another related criterion will be the absence or lack of vocational training centres in the immediate vicinity. Schools falling within or near the proximity of an industrial zone will be accorded further preference as it is likely to increase practical exposure and development of industry linkages along with increasing job possibilities for the students following completion of training. Currently, ITIs in Tamil Nadu offer a wide array of technical and vocational courses to Class 10 and 12 completers, encompassing several trades in manufacturing, electrical, mechanical and service sectors. This is one area where the School Education Department has already taken initiatives, restructuring the curriculum for Classes 11 and 12 from the 2021-22 academic year with increased focus on employability. The pilot can be scaled up statewide, transforming school education by embedding job-oriented training at the grassroots level, opening up early career pathways for the student community, and strengthening Tamil Nadu's skilled workforce ecosystem.