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Saturday, 31 August 2013
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
IIT-JEE examination pattern to remain unchanged for next year
IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) at a
crucial meeting on Monday agreed to
continue with the same pattern for the IIT-
JEE examination for one more year.
The board made a detailed review of the
new pattern of the two-tier Joint Entrance
Examination, which was implemented this
year, and was of the view that the pattern
should be continued next year as well for a
closer assessment of the system, sources
said.
JAB comprises heads of the various
campuses of the premier technological
institute.
The meeting took place in the wake of
reports that there...
IIT-Bombay sets sight on Mars with new rover project
MUMBAI: IIT-Bombay students are aiming
for the Red Planet which interestingly
almost coincides with the launch of India's
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) slated for a
lift off in October-November.
They have made a rover— stated to be the
first major project of its kind at IIT-Bombay
—which will help them to design and
develop an advanced vehicle that can be
equipped with payloads and flown in the
next Indian mission to Mars. The cost of the
project which is about Rs 26,000 has been
funded by the IIT Alumni Association .
At a very informal level, ISRO...
Saturday, 24 August 2013
Relief for IIT aspirants, no major change in 2014 exam format
MUMBAI: Next year's IIT aspirants will not
be put through grueling ad hoc changes.
Even as IITs were toying with the idea of
having a subjective test in the second level
of entrance exams-JEE Advanced-it will not
be implemented for the 2014 exam. Senior
officials said there will not be many
changes in the pattern and format of that
exam.
A senior IIT official said having a subjective
test for IITs' entrance exam will require
professors to manually evaluate answer
papers. For an exam conducted in the first
week of June, it is difficult to evaluate
answer-sheets...
Exam Pattern : JEE MAIN
Question Papers: There are two question papers,
each of three hours duration. Both the question
papers consist of three separate sections on
Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Questions
in these papers will be of objective type, which
are to be answered on a specially designed
machine-gradable sheet (ORS- optical response
sheet) using HB pencils only. Incorrect answers
are awarded negative marks.
Subject combination for each paper and type of
questions in each paper are given in the table
below:
Subjects Types Of Questions Duration
paper 1 Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics
Objective...
Conflict between democracy and its funding through corruption holds India in thrall
The UPA government in its second term is the
favourite whipping boy for the country's
current ills. Nuanced commentary examines
institutional dysfunction. Such diagnosis is as
helpful as detection of fever is for treatment
of cancer.
Of course, UPA-II is in disarray. It turns
defensive on record reduction of poverty, of
sustained increase in rural wages, of setting up
in five years one-fourth of India's installed
power generation capacity, of laying...
Thursday, 22 August 2013
PM marks the 'Golden Jubilee Convocation' at IIT-Bombay
The ‘Golden Jubilee Convocation’ of IIT
Bombay was marked by the presence of
honourable Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan
Singh. He addressed the event by expressing
the need of national leaders from the
disciplines of engineering and science.
India lacks in research and development and
quality institutions of higher education. For
this reason central government has decided to
develop higher and technical education in
India.
He also asserted that the amount spent in
higher education sector must account directly
to nation building. Further, IITs strongly...
President Pranab Mukherjee addresses students at the 45th Convocation of IIT Kanpur
KANPUR: As institutions of higher learning face
faculty crunch, President Pranab
Mukherjee today urged students who opt for
higher education abroad to remain engaged
with "often difficult, and somewhat noisy
democracy of ours."
Addressing the 45th convocation of IIT Kanpur,
Mukherjee said to support major expansion of
technical education, large budgetary provisions
have been made for infrastructure
development and research support to the
faculty.
"While all these institutes are attracting good
students, they are facing shortage of faculty,"
Mukherjee...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
IITD MUN 2013
Dear Delegates,
It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to This
Year's Edition of the IIT Delhi Model United
Nations Conference organized by the Debating
Club in Collaboration with the Board of Student
Welfare here at IIT. The 2013 conference will
take place on September 14th and 15th at IIT
Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi.
For more information please refer to our
website http://iitdmun.weebly.com/ or mail us
at iitdmun2013@gmail.com
...
Saturday, 17 August 2013
IIT-Madras director's appointment under Madras high court's scrutiny
CHENNAI: The validity of then appointment
of the IIT-Madras director, Dr Bhaskar
Ramamurthy, has been challenged in the
Madras high court , where a former IITian
has filed a quo warranto petition. If
allowed by the court, the director could
lose the post.
Justice D Hariparanthaman, before whom
the petition filed by Dr E Muralidharan of
Chennai came up for hearing on Friday,
ordered notices to the director and the
centre, returnable in three weeks.
In...
IIT-B joins MIT-Harvard's online courses platform
Students across the globe will now be able
to access courses and classroom content
developed by IIT Bombay. The institute
Tuesday joined the massive open online
courses (MOOCs) platform started by
Harvard University and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
IIT Bombay entered into a collaboration
with edX, a not-for-profit company set up
by MIT and Harvard and offers online
courses.
"The open source platform will enable us to
reach out to...
IIT Delhi Director R K Shevgaonkar & his students' proud moment
battery-operated wheelchair that helps the
physically-challenged use western toilets, a
biochip that tests milk for pesticide residue,
nanotechnology that keeps garments fresh and
anti-microbial even when one is sweating. The
unique models that the students of IIT-Delhi
showcased at their annual innovation fest,
i2Tech 2013 Open House, in April this year are
ample proof of the innovation encouraged at
the premier institute that has given it a sharp
edge over others. As the IITS monopolise the
top five positions in the India Today-Nielsen
Best Colleges...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
30 suspected dengue cases at IIT Bombay in two months
MUMBAI: Over 30 suspected cases of dengue
were reported on the Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay ( IIT-B) campus in
Powai in the last two months.
Of these, 23 cases were recorded in July
alone, a month when the rest of the city
also saw an increase in the number of
dengue cases.
In June, the IIT-B hospital inside the Powai
campus saw only eight cases of suspected
dengue, a disease spread by the sting of
mosquitoes.
In comparison, the hospital treated only
three cases of malaria, another vector-
borne disease , in June. The hospital treated
two...
Rishi Inc at IIT Delhi
They came. They played. Their mysticism left
everyone enthralled, lost and addicted. Hearts
brimming with euphoria. Ears dying to get
more. With a perfect blend of musical
instrument ranging from bass guitar to
enchanting flute, Rishi Inc. left no stone
unturned in binding the students to their
spell.The joy of being one with music was
radiating through everyone's face. People could
not help them loosing to their surreal music
with lots of claps,...
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
IIT-Patna director charged in Coalnet scam
IIT-Patna director A K Bhowmick was served a
chargesheet by IIT-Kharagpur last week for his
involvement in the Coalnet scam. Bhowmick's
five-year term in IIT-Patna ends in May next
year.
R N Banerjee, professor of industrial engineering
and management in IIT-Kharagpur has also been
chargesheeted for the scam. This is the first
time that the director of an IIT has been
chargesheeted on the recommendations of CBI.
P P Chakraborty, who was also named by the
CBI, has since been appointed director of IIT-
Kharagpur after the explanation offered by him
was...
Sunday, 11 August 2013
R&D grants from industry for IIT- B zoom by 52%
Even as institutes across the country rue
that the contribution of Indian industry to
research and development continues to be
much less than what is desired, IIT Bombay
has seen a 52 per cent hike in funding from
industry in 2012-13 as compared to the
previous academic year. Figures released
during the 51st convocation ceremony of
the institute Saturday show that IIT
Bombay received grants of Rs 293.5 crore
in 2012-13 for various projects from
diverse...
Saturday, 10 August 2013
KGPian Firdose A. Vandrevala appointed as the Executive Vice Chairman of Essar Steel India Limited
Essar Steel India Ltd announced the
appointment of Mr.Firdose A. Vandrevala
(1972/B.Tech/EE/PH) as Executive Vice
Chairman effective from August 12, 2013. He
graduated from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur with a B.Tech degree i
Electrical Engineering in 1972 and was the
resident of Patel Hall. He holds a Post
Graduate Diploma in Business Management
from the XLRI, Jamshedpur.
A recognized leader, Mr. Vandrevala was
associated with the...
Eye on transparency, another new outfit formed
NEW DELHI: Taking on the rampant money
and muscle power in politics, a new
political party, Nav Bharat Democratic
Party, was launched on Thursday,
promising clean candidates and transparent
democracy. The party helmed by a motley
group of professions, including a retired
naval officer, entrepreneurs, lawyers and
others, promised to provide an accountable
government.
The party will field candidates, including
working professionals, entrepreneurs and
veteran...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
Murthy seeks good people in politics
Hyderabad: Co-founder and executive
chairman of Infosys Narayana Murthy said on
Wednesday that unless people voted for good
candidates it was not possible to improve
governance in the country. While addressing
the second convocation of IIT-Hyderabad in
Medak, Murthy said, “For improving
governance, the first step is to vote for the
best candidates.”
He said that strong and enduring institutions of
the state and effective watchdogs of the civil
society...
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
IIT tuition fees just 26.5% of expense on students
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have
raised their tuition fee to Rs 90,000 a year
from this academic year, up from last year’s Rs
50,000. According to the IITs, even after the
increase effected after four years, the fees
cover just over a fourth (26.5 per cent) of the
actual expenditure on students.
That is because IITs spend Rs 3.4 lakh on a
student in a year. “Though we spend more on
students than we charge them in terms of fee,
we also...
IIT Bombay Joins Hands With AGC Networks to Build Capabilities/Facilities
MUMBAI, August 7, 2013
MUMBAI, August 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Implements an Audio Visual System to
Build a State-of-the-art Convocation Hall
IIT Bombay, one of the premier
engineering institutes of India, today
announced it has implemented an Audio
Visual System to build a State-of-the-art
Convocation Hall by joining hands with
AGC Networks Limited, (BSE: 500463 and
NSE: AGCNET), a Global ICT solutions
provider and integrator in Unified
Communication, Network Infrastructure,
Data Centre & Virtualization and
Enterprise Applications to build
capabilities...
AGC Networks help IIT Bombay build state-of-the-art Convocation Hall
Over the last 53 years, IIT Bombay has an
esteemed recognition of generating around
39,000 engineers and scientists through its
quality curriculum
News | by CIOL Correspondent
BANGALORE, INDIA: IIT Bombay,one of the
premier engineering institutes of India today
announced it has implemented an Audio Visual
System to build a State-of-the-Art Convocation
Hall by joining hands with AGC Networks
Limited.
The success story of collaborative technology
solutions deployment in IIT Bombay's
convocation hall further demonstrates, AGC
Networks commitment towards...
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
IIT-Madras students observe Hiroshima Day by making thousand origami cranes
CHENNAI: Students of IIT-Madras observed
the 68th anniversary of the bombing of the
Japanese city of Hiroshima during World
War II by making a Senbazuru; a string of
thousand cranes.
According to Japanese legend, anyone who
folds a thousand origami cranes will be
granted a wish by a crane.
"It is a tribute to Sadako Sasaki , a Japanese
girl who died of leukaemia after being
exposed to radiation from the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima during World War
II," said Arya Prakash, one of the conveners
of the fine arts club. Sadako is said to have
tried to...
Nod given to IIT-H project with Japan
It
is
expected
that
the
Indian
Institute
of
Technology,
Hyderabad
shall
be
getting
a
huge
push
regarding research facilities in the next few
years as the cabinet committee on economic
affairs has at last approved a partnership
project along with the Japanese Government
last week.
It is likely that there should be value addition
through discussions between academics and
experts from industry and teachers and
students of Indian Institute of Technology,
Hyderabad.
The...
Monday, 5 August 2013
Speranza IIT Delhi
Official page for Speranza, annual socio-welfare
fest of IIT Delhi, organised by Board for
Students Welfare( https://www.facebook.com/
boardforstudentswelfare...
IIT Bombay and IIT Roorkee to help the government build smart cities
The HRD ministry will partner with IIT Bombay
and IIT Roorkee for building ‘smart cities’
equipped with better amenities.
A roadmap for this collaboration was devised
in Delhi recently to help identify themes
related to city management by integrating
technology with governance.
"The future lies in how we create and manage
cities in a sustainable and inclusive manner
through smart urban planning. IITs and IIMs
being the premier institutions, have significant
knowledge pool to create a vision, strategies
and plan of implementation in an integrated
manner,"...
IIT-B, Western Railways join forces to close gap between trains
A team from the Industrial Engineering and
Operations Research (IEOR) and the Computer
Science Engineering departments of the Indian
Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) and th
operations department of Western Railway has
begun work on trying to tweak the running of
trains in such a manner that the current gap o
three minutes between each train can be
brought down further.
This gap — called headway in train operations
lingo — if reduced, would...
IIT M.Tech sees more girl students
Chennai: While there has been no big increase
in the number of girls joining the B.Tech and
B.Tech (dual degree) programmes at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) , 74
girls have enrolled for its M.Tech course this
year as compared to 61 last year.
IIT-M director, Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
believes the substantial increase in girls joining
B.E/B.Tech courses in engineering colleges
across the country in the recent past has had
an impact...
IIT Madras Will Power AC Coaches In Indian Railways With Solar Energy
Indian Railways will soon have the AC coaches
powered by solar energy. The Integral Coach
Factory at Chennai has joined hands with IIT
Madras to design coaches that will use solar
energy to power the air conditioning systems.
In addition, the solar energy will be used to
power the lighting inside the coaches. This
would be the first project of its kind that
Indian Railways is undertaking to tap solar
energy.
Indian Railways, world's largest railway...
Sunday, 4 August 2013
No construction on river banks in Kedarnath: Vijay Bahuguna
NEW DELHI: No construction will be allowed on river
banks in Kedarnath and near other shrines in
Uttarakhand and a reconstruction plan has been
chalked out to ensure sustainable development,
Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said Saturday.
"We have chalked out a major reconstruction plan to
protect Kedarnath and other shrines for the next
100, 200 or even 300 years. No construction will be
allowed on river banks in Kedarnath and other
shrines," Bahuguna said.
Speaking to news channel India TV, Bahuguna said he
met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking...
Saturday, 3 August 2013
India's Advanced Weather Satellite INSAT-3D Successfully Launched
India's Weather Satellite INSAT-3D, carrying
advanced weather monitoring payloads, was
launched successfully in the early hours of
today (July 26, 2013) by Ariane-5 (VA214)
launch vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana.
After a smooth countdown lasting 11 hours
and 30 minutes, the Ariane-5 launch vehicle
lifted off right on schedule at the opening of
the launch window at 01:24 hours IST today.
After a flight of 32 minutes and 48 seconds,
INSAT-3D was placed in an elliptical
Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), very
close to the intended one. The o...
PSLV-C22 Successfully Launches IRNSS-1A, India's First Navigation Satellite
ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-
C22, successfully launched IRNSS-1A, the first
satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation
Satellite System (IRNSS), in the early morning
hours of today (July 2, 2013) from Satish
Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. This is the
twenty third consecutively successful mission
of PSLV. The 'XL' configuration of PSLV was
used for the mission. Previously, the same
configuration of the vehicle was used thrice to
launch Chandrayaan-1, GSAT-12 and RISAT-1
satellites.
At the completion of the countdown, PSLV-C...
IRNSS-1A Satellite Payload In-Orbit Test Completed
first navigational satellite IRNSS-1A on Jul
01,2013
July 31, 2013
All Navigation and Ranging Payload In Orbit
Tests (IOT) are completed. All operations
are normal.
July 22, 2013
Payload operations are in progress.
July 17, 2013
...
IIT-Kharagpur to hold global semesters in term breaks
KHARAGPUR: With a director finally at its
helm, IIT-Kharagpur is all set to adopt
global academic practices. The premier
institute plans to have international
semesters on the lines of summer and
winter semesters at top foreign universities.
The programme will be held during the
summer or winter breaks and won't clash
with IIT-Kharagpur's academic calendar,
director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti said.
BTech and MTech students may earn credit
points from such programmes conducted in
collaboration with foreign institutes. The
credits will be added to...
Friday, 2 August 2013
IIT-Madras to host workshop on recycling of construction waste
CHENNAI: IIT-Madras will host a workshop on
'Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling'
in collaboration with the Indian Concrete
Institute and the Central Public Works
Department next week.
According to the organizers, increasing
construction, maintenance, retrofitting and
demolition activities across the country
generate a considerable quantity of
construction and demolition waste that is just
dumped in landfills.
Experts estimate that the construction industry
in India generates about 15 million tonnes of
waste annually. Waste generation in...
CCEA clears IIT Hyderabad's joint project with Japan
joint project which aims at value addition
for the newly-created IIT at Hyderabad has
been approved by the Government along with
an academic and industry interface between
the institute and Japan.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs,
which met here yesterday, approved the
‘collaboration of IIT Hyderabad, and Japan’, to
be executed via an Official Development
Assistance (ODA) loan from the Japanese
Government and the Union HRD Ministry.
The project cost of Rs 1,776.50 crore will be
met through the ODA loan of Rs 1,501.72
crore while the balance...
IIT-Gandhinagar plans radical biomedical research
AHMEDABAD: Indian Institute of
Technology Gandhinagar ( IIT-Gn) is poised
to take up groundbreaking research on
global and public health, frugal engineering
and robot-assisted surgery.
After the recently held workshop on
biomedical engineering, IIT-Gn researchers
discussed proposals to study social factors
that impact health , find new drugs for
cancer, robot-assisted surgical techniques,
designing systems for electronic health
records of patients at public hospitals,
developing diagnostic tools for clinical
breath analysis and early detection...
Thursday, 1 August 2013
MORE POWER TO HONEST IAS OFFICERS LIKE DURGA NAGPAL
This refers to the report, “Noida rises
against Durga persecution” (July 30). It is
apparent that honest, hard-working and
diligent civil servants are anathema to the
political class. Upright IAS officer Durga
Shakti Nagpal's suspension lends
credence to this belief.
Clearly, the young civil servant is being
punished for taking on the notorious sand
mafia in Noida. Ironically, her fight is not
just with these lawbreakers but to a large
extent also with the lawmakers, many of
whom have demeaned their office by
compromising with the mafia.
Civil...
Durga Nagpal suspension: Can an honest IAS officer survive in our system?
Durga Shakti Nagpal, posted as Sub-
Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Gautam
Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, had cracked
down on sand mafia in the district. The
state government suspended her on
Sunday night saying irregularities have
been found in her work.
...
Honest IAS and IPS officer vs Corrupt Leaders
Should the government servant be answerable
to public or their elected representative?
Isn't it necessary that these officers should not
be puppet to these politicians.
In last few years seeing what has been
happening with honest IAS and PCS officers,
that becomes a necessity.
...
RoCK-BEE by Manish Chauhan and Subir Kumar Saha
RoCK-BEE stands for Robotics Competition
Knowledge Based Education in Engineering. It
is a book about learning through the
experiments. RoCK-BEE is for people who want
to know, how to learn in life. It tells about the
values of life, learning concepts, importance of
teachers and it makes one remember that
there is a zing of life which has to be enjoyed
in whatever condition one may be in. It’s a
must read for students and teachers.
Available through...
Best Teacher Award to Prof. D. Ravi Kumar
Prof. D. Ravi Kumar received "Best Teacher
Award" for teaching "Metal Forming Analysis
(MEL742)" in 1st semester 2011-12.
...
Book on Robotics by Prof S K Saha Released
Introduction to Robotics by Prof S K Saha is a
book which aims to understand the underlying
concepts used in designing and building a
robot, and to make it work. The strength of
this book lies in that it covers both analyses
and applications in a lucid manner. The
material provided in this book can be used by
practicing engineers as well for the purposes
of adopting, maintaining, and even designing a
robot.
The book is now complemented with the 3D
learning...
Book on "Dynamics of Tree-type Robotic Systems” by Suril Vijaykumar Shah, Subir Kumar Saha, Jayanta Kumar Dutt
This book addresses dynamic modelling
methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic
systems. Such analyses are required to
visualize the motion of a system without really
building it. The book contains novel treatment
of the tree-type systems using concept of
kinematic modules and the corresponding
Decoupled Natural Orthogonal Complements
(DeNOC), unified representation of the
multiple-degrees-of freedom-joints, efficient
recursive dynamics algorithms, and detailed
dynamic analyses of several legged robots.
The book will help graduate students,
researchers...
Novel hollow-core optical fiber to enable high-power military sensors
intensity of light that propagates through
glass optical fiber is fundamentally limited by
the glass itself. A novel fiber design using a
hollow, air-filled core removes this limitation
and dramatically improves performance by
forcing light to travel through channels of air,
instead of the glass around it. DARPA's unique
spider-web-like, hollow-core fiber, design is
the first to demonstrate single-spatial-mode,
low-loss and polarization control—key
properties...
Flying hairdresser dreams of freedom in Chinese skies
Buzzing like an oversized electric razor,
hairdresser Wang Qiang's home-made airplane
skids over grassland before soaring into a vast
blue sky, in a rare flight allowed by Chinese
authorities.
Wang spends his days trimming and shaping at
a hair salon in eastern China's Zhejiang
province, and his evenings working on the
rickety one-seater craft.
He is one of a tiny—estimates say their
numbers stand at around 2,000—but growing
number of Chinese private aircraft owners
who are grouping together to challenge
restrictions which ban them from almost...
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