Corporate Mind Games IIT-style!
New Delhi: The Technology Alumni Association (TAA) of IIT Kharagpur recently organised the second edition of their interesting Olympics for corporate intellectuals – Mind Trigger – this year. Inspired by the institute’s annual cultural fest called Spring Fest, Mind Trigger was well-organised but fun and informal in nature. Infosys team emerged as the ‘winner’ of […]
IIT Kanpur and Madras , IISc to offer joint PhD scholarship programme with Aus Univ
New Delhi: The famous Australian University – University of Melbourne – is quite popular with the most prestigious institutions of India. IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) are all partnering it to offer new joint PhD scholarship programme from 2014.The University of Melbourne has been ranked at #28 by […]
Angel Investors Network springs from IIT Bombay
New Delhi: Lead Angels (LA) is a newly found angel investors network founded by three members from IIT Bombay (IIT-B) – Professor C Amarnath, who has just retired from the IIT-B faculty position where he was teaching Mechanical Engineering; Sushanto Mitra who is an ex-CEO of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and now is the […]
GATE 2014 Admit Card to be available from December 18, 2013
New Delhi: According to the latest GATE 2014 notification, admit cards for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014, conducted jointly by the seven zonal IITs and IISc for admission to their Master-level and postgraduate courses in engineering disciplines, will be available on its official website (http://gate.iitkgp.ac.in/gate2014/admitcard.php) from December 18, 2013 The seven zonal […]
Freefalling GOCE satellite burns up high in the sky
New Delhi: The European Space Agency (ESA) predicted that the one-tonne GOCE satellite was freefalling towards Earth on a crash course from an altitude of about 160 km. The descending orbit extended across Siberia, western Pacific Ocean, eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The Twittersphere was abuzz with speculations about where the satellite will hit and […]
What’s in a name: Cyclone, Hurricane or Typhoon?
New Delhi: Haiyan has been found to be the world’s most powerful typhoon of the year. It hit the Philippines on Friday and moved onwards to the South China Sea. Do you wonder why some storms are called hurricanes, others as typhoons and still others as cyclones? All the three names point to the same […]
IITian who turned a musician and then a bureaucrat
New Delhi: An electrical engineering graduate from IIT Delhi – Kaushik Mukherjee – is the new Chief Secretary of Karnataka. But if he had not made it to the position, he would have been playing harmonica in an international event in Germany. A man of many talents, Mukherjee did his M.Tech from New York. But […]
IIT-BHU will research on superconductors to save power during transmission
New Delhi: In a unique three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by IIT-BHU and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), it has been decided that the institute will research to explore how high temperature super conductors can be used for transmission as well as bulk storage of electricity.Only one of its kinds, hardly anything […]
Entrepreneurship Awareness a huge ‘hit’ at IIT Kharagpur
New Delhi: At IIT Kharagpur, Entrepreneurship Cell is a non-profit student organization that conducts guest lectures, business plan competitions and workshops to foster entrepreneurial spirit in the college students of India. They also provide them with mentors and incubation support. In the month of October every year, it organizes a flagship event called the Entrepreneurship […]
Cheated in Class X, jailed 15 years later
New Delhi: In 1998, Asif asked another boy to impersonate him the Social Science paper in Class X board exams conducted by CBSE at Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Kailash Nagar. The boy was caught writing his test and the case was forwarded to the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB).Since last 15 years, Asif and his co-accused has […]