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What happens When Management Messes With Engineers!

Once a woman found herself in a hot air balloon and discovered that she was lost! Later on she found a man below. She slide downwards a little and shouted, ‘Hello, can you please help me? I had promised my friend that I would meet him in an hour but it seems I’m lost.” The […]

President to review IITs, NITs and Central Universities

Indian President has an honorary position of Visitor (Head) of all the Centrally Funded Institutions (CFIs) of India, which include Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Central Universities (CUs). President Pranab Mukherjee has decided to play an active role in the betterment of the quality and standards of these educational […]

IITians superior to IAS officers, says Patna University VC

On the Foundation Day of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (IIT-P), Patna University Vice-Chancellor YC Simhadri said that IAS officers are over-hyped. Indian Administrative Services officers are merely clerks in a government office meant to implement government schemes. Civil Services Examinations too are similar to undergraduate examinations conducted by colleges.  Delivering a lecture […]

Government to Employ CBSE-Type Board for Skills Training of the Youth

NEW DELHI: Finally the government is working to set up an examination board to benchmark vocational training in the country. This is being done with a purpose so as to bring skill development in line with international standards. The labour and employment ministry is framing the structure and role of the proposed board. It is drawing from […]

NIT Jamshedpur to Break All Previous Placements Records for Batch 2014-15!

The students at NIT Jamshedpur are all beaming. According to official sources, the placements’ season has started at NIT Jamshedpur.  Mu Sigma, a US based firm has selected 18 B. Tech students this year, and has offered them an annual pay package of Rs.4.5 Lakh per annum. Starting of this placements season has been really encouraging […]

The proposal for the setup of NDL

A proposal has been put forward to the Ministry of Human Resource Development by the IIT Kharagpur for the formation of a NDL. This initiative has been taken by the IIT Kharagpur in order to develop the national online educational asset for those candidates who are interested in innovation and research. The director of this […]

Locals Mount Pressure for IIM in Behrampur

Several academicians and advocates joined hands to form a ‘Forum for IIM in Berhampur’.  The forum was founded to mount pressure on the government to establish the institution as promised by the central government in the last budget. A memorandum is soon to be submitted to the Revenue Divisional Commissioner, Southern Division, stating the need […]

CM Intervention Gets Girl Student Admission Into NIT-Calicut

The efforts of Chief Minister Oommmen Chandy bore fruit as he lobbied for the sake of a single girl student.  Keerthana, from Thiruvananthapuram, whose mother is a sweeper, brother is an MBA graduate and who does not have a father, cleared the JEE entrance examination with a sixth rank in the OBC category.  When she […]