This paper investigates into the integration of technology in early childhood education (ECE), examining its benefits, challenges, and implications for practice and policy. The rationale for technology integration lies in its capacity to enhance learning outcomes, engage young learners, and prepare them for a digital world. Despite its advantages, challenges such as screen time management and ensuring equitable access persist. A balanced approach to technology use involves thoughtful selection, purposeful integration, and fostering digital literacy. Implications for practice and policy underscore the importance of pedagogical integration, equitable access, quality assurance, and parental involvement. Recommendations for future research include longitudinal studies on technology's impact and professional development initiatives for educators..

By using application programming interfaces (APIs), open banking in India represents a sea change in the banking industry. With this change, banks and third-party vendors can safely exchange data with one another. In this study, we look at open banking in the context of India and identify its advantages and disadvantages. It shows how open banking may help marginalized areas by enhancing client experiences, boosting competition, and promoting financial inclusion. In an effort to foster innovation and collaboration, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is implementing regulatory frameworks like the Account Aggregator model, among other initiatives. However, data privacy problems, regulatory compliance difficulty, legacy system integration, customer education needs, and trust building are all areas that the research delves into. By analyzing these processes, this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how open banking might change India's financial landscape. Furthermore, the study aims to stress the significance of risk management in safeguarding consumer interests. By shedding light on how open banking could promote economic growth and broaden access to financial services in an increasingly digital economy, this study adds to the continuing conversation about the future of banking in India. .

This study reviews key research on youth employment and skill development programs across low- and middle-income countries, focusing on their effectiveness in enhancing employment outcomes. The findings highlight the importance of program design, multi-service approaches, beneficiary profiling, and addressing broader socio-economic factors such as caste discrimination, gender disparities, and economic disparities. Programs in sectors like agriculture and tourism showed significant short-term benefits, particularly for marginalized groups such as women and rural youth..

The global shift towards renewable energy sources (RESs) introduces challenges in maintaining system inertia and frequency stability in modern power systems. Traditional synchronous generators, which inherently provide mechanical inertia, are increasingly replaced by converter-based renewable generation, resulting in low-inertia grids prone to frequency deviations. This research addresses these challenges by proposing virtual inertia strategies using Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Supercapacitor Energy Storage Systems (SESS). Advanced control methods, including Frequency-Locked Loop (FLL) based frequency derivative estimation, are implemented to emulate inertial responses effectively. Distributed control schemes are developed for coordinated ESS operation, improving frequency nadir and reducing Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF). Simulation and experimental validation using MATLAB/Simulink and real-time setups confirm the practicality of the proposed strategies. This study contributes to enhancing power system resilience, offering solutions for dynamic stability in grids with high renewable penetration while addressing secondary concerns like voltage stability and harmonic distortions..

Conventional Energy Sources (CESs) currently fulfill a significant portion of global energy demands; however, these resources are expected to face substantial depletion by the end of this decade. The generation of electricity from such sources is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, leading to adverse environmental impacts and shifts in the planet’s climate and energy patterns. In response to these challenges, there is a global shift toward energy decentralization, where microgrids play a crucial role..

High-temperature thermal energy storage (TES) is a key enabler in the shift toward cleaner and more efficient energy systems. It allows surplus thermal energy—sourced from heat or cold environments—to be stored and retrieved when needed, enhancing energy management flexibility. This approach is particularly advantageous for harnessing solar energy on a large scale, especially in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, where excess heat can be stored during periods of high solar radiation and utilized during low-sunlight hours to maintain continuous energy output..

Sediment erosion is one of the key challenges in hydraulic turbines from a design and maintenance perspective in Himalayas. The present study focuses on choosing the best design in terms of blade angle distribution of a Francis turbine runner which has least erosion effect without influencing the efficiency and the structural integrity. A fully coupled Fluid-Structure-Interaction (FSI) analysis was performed through a multi-field solver, which showed that the maximum stress induced in the optimized design for better sediment handling, is less than that induced in the reference design. Some numerical validation techniques have been shown for both CFD and FSI analysis..