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Fifty internships is great but the mining excellence centre feels like something IITs should’ve had years ago. For a region known as India’s Coal Capital, the Adani & TEXMiN setup finally brings drone mapping, seismic tools & digital-twin mining tech to students. For mining and earth sciences, that is... show more

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