Indian Institute of Technology Madras is known for excellence in technical education, basic and applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial consultancy. IIT Madras is a distinguished institute of national importance that has remained at the top of the ranking scales year after year. This year too, it continued to bag the top spot in the National Institute Ranking framework 2023 for fifth consecutive year. We at Innovation Cell had a pleasure of speaking with Director IIT Madras, Professor V. Kamakoti to understand the underlying spirit of IIT Madras that keeps it on a winning streak. One of the important things that we realized about NARF right from the time of its inception was that this is a very collective effort. This cannot happen just because of faculty, cannot happen just because of students. It is a collective effort of student, faculty, staff members, industry, alumni, everybody has a role to contribute to the parameters that are coming up and of course the total support of the government. I think all these five have fallen in correct place and that is why we are able to retain this rank and also improve on our scores. When you compare with what has happened last year to this year, we have improved on several friends. And the second thing is that we also do a very thorough detailed analysis on every parameter on a yearly basis and on a continual basis. And what we also found that when we are increasing from 0.75 to 0.85, that range was quite easy. If I want to go from 0.75 to 0.8, it was not a major effort that we need to do. But if I want to go from say 0.90 to 0.91, so as we start approaching the 100%, there are a lot of things that we need to keep in mind. There are a lot of big efforts, careful thinking process that need to be put there. So that is one which we are continuously following up and we are putting those efforts at the proper place, so that those parameters improve. More than the ranking, more than the scores that we get, we find this NAR of framework to be extremely important for the institute, for the betterment of the processes, betterment of the education that we are giving, betterment of our research and innovation on all these friends. We have aligned ourselves completely with the national education policy. So there are two or three important things that we have in mind. Number one is that we are currently looking at large amount of interdisciplinary research work. We have been granted the Institute of Eminence in 2018. Today last week we did open up 15 centres of excellence which are interdisciplinary in nature, meaning at least 10 faculty from 3 to 4 departments participate in this. And that is very important for the next generation research and for the next generation education also. So that is one thing which is very important and it has been very highly elaborated in the national education policy. The second important thing that we are is on the internationalisation front. We believe that we can go and contribute to the world, the Vishwaguru that we have been talking of. So we will be opening up a campus in Tanzania and everything goes well by October. And that is something which would be the first IIT to open a campus abroad. So that is also, the internationalisation front is also taking up a very important feature here. And that I believe will bring lot more of diversity into the campus, it will also expose us to multiple culture and for them to come and look at the Indian culture. So this is number 2 and we have been stressing on innovation and entrepreneurship. We have several success stories in the recent past and I am sure that over a period of time we will be doing a wonderful innovation and entrepreneurship stack for the country. We have a very systematic way by which a student gets an idea how he becomes a successful startup. And these are some of the very important things that we are focusing on. When we look at startups in other parts of the world, when you look at inverse stars, what they look at, whether I put this investment and whether I will get back that return, it is more like more of wealth oriented. But the startup culture that we have been developing here is to serve India, serve Indian needs. That is one thing that we are inculcating in our students. So for example, today we have done a startup which does a robo for septic tank cleaning which is essentially today an effort to remove manual scavenging in the country. We now have a startup which has done a very robust system for medical consultations. We have done a startup which is 3D printing rocket engines in our great space program that we have, the liberalized space program that the government has offered to us. There is enormous amount of economy development that is going to come there. But at the same time, we are looking at from a country's perspective, not just as a wealth generation perspective. And I believe that this perspective will make our startup more locally relevant and globally recognized. We have now what we call as an innovation stack. There is a center for innovation. There is just building the honorable vice president actually came and inaugurated the building. The center for innovation encourages students. There are several clubs in that, we have around 16, 17 clubs. Any student who has an idea, they come to the center for innovation. It is run by the student for the students and they will be given some reasonable amount of funding, they will be given mentorship to basically convert that idea into a design. And then there is a pre incubator called NIRMAN which will systematically now convert this design into a prototype. And then we have five incubators inside IIT Madras. We have the incubation cell of IIT Madras. And then we have a health technology innovation center. We have IITM Pravartak Foundation which is for the cyber physical system. We have a bio incubator and then we have a rural incubator. So we have five incubators there. Which basically enables this prototype to be converted into a startup. We also have a very effective patenting system where we encourage the students to patent. In the last year, we had the largest patent in the country among academic institutions. We had filed around 240 plus patents and we had around 170 plus that was granted. And then we have the Gopala Krishnan Deshpande Center which is funded by two of our illustrious distinguished alumnus Chris Gopala Krishnan and Desh Deshpande which basically nurtures the startup to make them a unicorn. So we have very good startup stories. The Aether Scooter is one of IIT Madras incubator startup. You will be seeing Agni Kool that is coming up in a very big way. TUTOR which is working on the Hyperloop is coming out in a big, we had two very good exist in the last year from two companies MediBuddy and other smaller exits we have. So this overall we have these, all these stacks that we have set up and the way things are proceeding gives us a lot of confidence that we are doing things right. And I believe that this will be a very big churning point in trying to get more employers in the country than employees. So I gave you two examples, one was the example of the septic tank cleaner Robo which is today can completely eradicate manual scavenging in the country which the Honorable Supreme Court has come down and said that manual scavenging should be stopped. Socially also we feel it is relevant. Agni Kool for example will now give a different landscape into how we produce rocket engines. They have a patent on technology. We have TUTOR the Hyperloop which will redefine in my opinion the transportation of our country specifically the goods transportation. We have the E-plane company that is coming up which will be an ad taxi, it will be of very high innovation here. In addition we have port center, one of the largest port centers in Asia where we can simulate the sea, we can simulate vessel design etc. And I believe lot more of startups are going to come out because India is a country where we have a ocean named after our country the Indian Ocean. We enjoy a large Sagarmala of course and maritime is very very important and that is going to be a big economy booster. So we are seeing lot of startups in the direction. We already have lot more of startups working on non-destructive testing the lab grown diamond that is coming up for which this year we have got a 250 crore funding and that is going to be a major turning point. We also have a discovery campus which is 25 kilometers away from our main campus at Chennai and there we have all these multiple startups and multiple big long large size projects that are happening. So I think today the policies of the government are really helping. For example if you look at the drone policy which came last year has helped many startup companies including several IIT Madras company investing in the drone technology to take this up. There are lot of PLI schemes, performance and production linked incentive schemes that are promoted by the government. So there is a policy intervention, a positive policy intervention that is taking this up. This is number one. Number two is that these companies are deep into technology. If you take Hyperloop for example you have 78 students from six different departments which involve computer science, electrical, mechanical, materials, structures, aerospace and all. So we are now see design for example. So we are seeing massive deep technology development there. So the only thing that we need to make it right and we are trying to do that is that the investors get confidence in these companies and invest in them. If it is normally we see specifically I work in the area of semiconductors and we have five startups in the area of semiconductors coming out of my lab. But the only thing that we see is that we are very keenly working on Atma Nibbata but the investors must get the Atma Vishwas, the confidence in these startups and in our own startups and then fund them. I think that is started happening and that slowly we will build that trust and more and more success stories do come. I am sure we are going to become a great country. In 2047 when we look at technology leadership and we want to be technologically superior I think it is very very important that we have our innovation and entrepreneurship put right in that effort. One thing is every small idea you do not judge what the idea is go and patent it and let the patent decide whether it is a great idea or a smaller idea. For the greatness of your idea every time you should not and that is what is happening today. So patent all your ideas. This is my first request to all the students here. Every university has thousands of undergraduate and postgraduate theses that are submitted and many of these theses are patentable but they just missed the idea. So I think that is one first step that I would request all the students today protect your ideas by patenting and patenting has become very easy in our country in terms of it is just 1800 rupees or something like that and then even for expediting within 18 months you get yes or no that is also some 4000 rupees. So I think the process has become very simplified and it is very good for our country. So number one is they need to patent and second thing is let them take more risk in life. In a young age for example I am say 21 age and I may not have any big liability or loans or anything and I can probably take a couple of years risk to see whether I will be successful take that risk and I am sure other institutions will be that to help them. When at IIT Madras we have an incubation cell and we want to make it 10x in the sense we have been we have incubator on 300 companies want to make it 3000 in the in the next few years. So we are also trying to you know adopt more incubators and help them mentor companies. So the incubators today must be given some good level of funding reasonable amount of funding and they should encourage the start-ups with some initial funding in return to equity and I think that is the way we need to go up. And in the end that was some valuable advice for our young innovators and entrepreneurs from Professor Kamakoti. We will soon have some more from the world of technology and innovation from IIT Madras. Keep watching this space. Goodbye.


Hey, what's up guys welcome to our training reviews, so this is going to be a quick video I'm just going to be showing you how to create your custom home screen on the Range Rover Velar screen This way you'll be able to add your widgets that you use most often and every time you hit the home button on the velar screen It will take you to your custom page. So let's just get straight into it All right guys, so you can see here. This is currently my new custom home page It's called my home one to stay on the top right So I've added a few widgets on the left-hand side a few on the right-hand side and a big clock in the middle So I'm going to show you how to do that if you've got the default screen You can probably swipe left and you've got an option to create a custom page But if you already have one and you want to add another one you just hold anyway You've got a little timer that does that and then it will open up this option here And then you'll see that little plus icon on the left-hand side So that will allow you to create a new home screen. So now you have various different panels here To add content to so if I just tap the top left one It gives me a large selection of the most common features on the velar screen So this also depends if you have the navigation inbuilt or you have more options like the TV and that kind of stuff So if for example, I go in and you know, maybe I like to say the television option I select that and the TV option comes there and this also gives you a little arrow to drag the Little widget to wherever you'd like to so maybe I like watching TV all the time in my car and I put it right there in the middle Go back onto another empty square Add some more options. Maybe I want to adjust the ambient lighting. So I'll have the ambient lighting there as well And then maybe I want to add a nice little clock and I can do that on the right-hand side Maybe go to more options And then all of the ones that you can see that you like to use the most often Then you can also add that as well So themes I've added as well just so I can change it between dark and light or leave it on auto And that can be placed anywhere you like. So I'm just going to quickly add a few more just to give you some examples To fill up the space And then lastly Let's go to maybe a mini media player Okay, so the media player you need more space for so you can actually delete any and drag them down Let's go back And then let's do maybe AM FM radio. So there you have it. That's your custom home screen. You just hit return here And it will save it. Now if you want to set that as your default one, then all you have to do is go into settings Home settings and then at the top you have default home You change that and you can select which one you want. So I have this one selected at the moment So I'll go back to that but also there's an option to change the wallpaper in the background So there's some various options There's not like a huge selection, but these are Dependent on the theme you've got running in your car So you have different wallpapers for light theme and dark themes So I've selected this red looking one click on home and that's how it looks there, which I think is pretty nice So I'll probably just keep it like that. So that's about it guys I hope that was useful if you have any questions and if you'd like to know anything else on The range of the last screen on how to do certain things then by all means drop a comment below Otherwise, I hope you subscribe. I hope you like this video I've got a lot more villager tips and tricks coming up very soon, and I know you're going to like them until next time take care


We'll give you an update on the officer-involved shooting that occurred Wednesday, April 25th, around 4.50 in the afternoon at the intersection of eastbound Colfax or east Colfax at Quebec Street. Denver police officer, detective, who's assigned to our Safe Streets Task Force, was in the area, was following up on a lead looking for an armed robbery suspect who was wanted out of Missouri and out of Colorado. While he's out there in the area, he sees the suspect drive by in an Audi convertible. The cops top is down, not the cop is down. It's a nice day out. He gets on the police radio and he shares that information with patrol officers. There are patrol officers in the area. The suspect appears to see the officers before they're ready to stop him and starts fleeing from them before they've initiated any action to make contact with him. They get two police cars in the area and attempt to make the contact in the area of Colfax and Syracuse and the suspect takes off hitting cars. One person described as kind of pinballing off cars and tries to go between two cars that are stopped at the light. They're facing westbound on Colfax at Quebec and they're side by side, lane number one, lane number two. He tries to go in between them at a very high speed and as he's driving away from the officer at this high speed, he has a gun in his hand and they can see him displaying that. He gets between those two cars, gets stuck. He gets wedged in between them. At that point, another two officers run up on the car on either side. Another officer in his car comes up and pulls in behind the suspect vehicle to block his car in so he couldn't escape. This is all happening really, really quickly and the officer in the car who pulled up behind him sees the suspect pointed gun at the officer who's standing at the passenger side of the suspect's car. The officer in his car shoots through the windshield of his police car towards the suspect. The other two officers, the one on the driver's side and the one on the passenger side, they also see the gun and see the gun being pointed at the officer on the right side of the car and they all fire simultaneously. That stopped and addressed the threat. We were able to remove the passenger from the car, get her out of the way and get control of the situation. We had a lot of citizens who were endangered clearly. He had struck several cars trying to get away from the officers. The two cars that he was stuck in between our concern was for their safety. His actions created a great safety risk for them. That was the reason the officers converged on the cars quickly as they did. The suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene from gunshot wounds. The passenger, like I said, she was taken from the car. She was taken to Denver Health Medical Center for treatment of some minor injuries received in the accident. We had one officer who was also transported to the hospital for some very minor injuries as well. In the search of the car and the crime scene, we did locate a gun that the officers saw. It matched the description. Our suspect has been identified as Charles Bow. It's B-O-E-H, 7-6 of 81. He was wanted for six armed robberies in Kansas City and St. Joseph's, Missouri, and then two armed robberies that he committed Monday, April 21st in the Denver Metro area. One was a bank robbery and one was a convenience store robbery. The passenger has been identified as Rachel Hauser, H-O-U-S-E-R. Her birth date is 531 of 82. She was jailed after being treated at the hospital. She had a warrant parole violation for negligent homicide out of Missouri as well. She's being interviewed as part of our investigation. So we had several witnesses, like I said, the cars that the suspect struck in his attempt to get away from the officers that we interviewed. We did have a couple witnesses that were taken to the hospital first for treatment again from the collision when the suspect struck their car. Nobody had significant injuries but definitely enough to be treated. We had eight civilian cars that were damaged in the course of this. The officers who were involved are patrol officers. They're assigned to District 2. They've been placed on the administrative leave for a few days, which is our protocol, and then they'll be placed on an offline assignment while the district attorney completes their review of the case. All Denver Police Department officer involved shootings are combined investigations involving our homicide unit, the Aurora Police Department's homicide unit, the Denver District Attorney's office, and with oversight from the independent monitor. The case will progress through its investigative steps with the final review and decisions coming out from the district attorney's office. Any questions? You said that the officer recognized him. Is that because everybody was told this is what he looks like to be on the lookout for him? So the Safe Streets detective who was out there knew what he looked like. He had his picture. He knew what kind of car he was driving, and a convertible top was down, and he got a great look at him and says, yep, that's him. He gets on the police radio and shares that information. So we were positive who he had in the car. Was that a gentleman officer in the Safe Streets Taxport? Was that a marked vehicle or an unmarked vehicle? He's in an unmarked vehicle. He did not try to pursue the car. He saw it drive by him. And then that's when he, like you said, used his police radio to share the information with the patrol officers who were in the area. And the patrol officers involved in this were all unmarked cars. I think the other thing that's important to note that you probably saw from crime scene pictures is the police car that had the bullet holes through the window was not up behind the Audi at the time when we got to the scene. When the officer got out of the car after the shots were fired, he didn't get the car completely in park and so it rolled backwards a little bit. He was not shooting from that point where the car came to rest. His car was right up on top or right behind the suspect's vehicle. You said that the suspect, you know, was waving the weapon towards officers and did he didn't shoot at officers? He didn't. We don't believe he shot at officers. We don't have evidence yet that points to that, but he was displaying the gun at the officers. You talk about what Denver's police policy is on shooting into a vehicle. So our policy is that we don't shoot into moving vehicles. It's important to note the car had come to a rest before the shots were fired. And also the policy is clear that if you shoot into a car that the threat is more than the car. The threat in this case was him armed with a gun. I don't have seen the final version of the policy. It's my understanding that that shooting into vehicles is part of the policy. So with every shooting like this, we review it to make sure it falls into the parameters of the law. Then we also do an internal review to make sure it falls within the policy. So that will be part of the final review. Again, the suspect's actions drove this. You know, he was shooting into a vehicle. He was shooting into a vehicle. He was shooting into a vehicle. He drove this. You know, he had a gun. He's ramming cars trying to get away. He's not complying with the officer's orders when they get up on the car telling him to drop the gun. His actions created a very dangerous situation for the citizens and the immediate air of the citizens in the cars, people on the sidewalk, and the officer was responsible for stopping the threat that he created. Thank you guys.


Aloha. I'm Ramah Rob Chadwick, Commander Navy Region Hawaii and Commander Naval Service Group Middle Pacific. Now I think it's safe to say that few national cemeteries can compete with the dramatic natural setting of the National Memorial Cemetery here at Punchbowl or what the Hawaiians call Puovina. It is truly a spectacular and fitting venue to remember the sacrifice of so many who pay the ultimate price for our freedom and the way of life that we cherish. Not far from me is the Court of the Missing with the thousands of names of service members who we will never forget but whose final resting places remain unknown. And I stand among a beautiful gallery of coral depictions of numerous battles in the Pacific from World War II, Korea, and the war in Vietnam. Among them is a display that honors what I truly believe were some of our US Navy's finest hours, the Battle of Midway. The battle was fought from June 3rd to June 7th 1942 and is widely considered the turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Our victory at Midway significantly curved Imperial Japanese offensive capability and shifted the balance of sea power in favor of the Allies. At the heart of our victory was the courage and tenacity of American sailors, some well managed risk, and even a little bit of well-earned luck. There are other examples of our history of heroism at the submarine base on Fort Island and at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. All are poignant reminders of our Navy's core values of honor, courage, and commitment that continue to guide all of us who serve today. The Battle of Midway will always hold a special place in the annals of US Navy history and we should never forget it. We will be laying a wreath in honor of those who through their courage and dedication secured the victory at Midway and paved the way to the ultimate victory and the peace that followed.