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    The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabadâs center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship get on to a good start. The center is part of IIIT-H initiatives to combine research and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship with highest quality education. The center was set up to imbibe creative, strategic, managerial and transformation ...
    Chennai: A venture of the Indian Institute Technology, Madras, or IIT-M, is training villagers for employment in retail, business process outsourcing and security services, in an attempt to bridge the urban-rural divide. âIf you take any industry, companies are always looking for people. Considering that majority of the population lives in ...
    Prem Chandra Purwar has been appointed officiating director of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L), an official said here Monday.His appointment, following a human resource development ministry directive, came after Devi Singhâs five-year term as IIM-L director ended Aug 24. The IIM-L board of governors had then constituted a committee ...
    With government firming up plans to open 16 new Central universities, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday demanded setting up such a varsity in his constituency Latur. Deshmukh met HRD Minister Arjun Singh to make a case for Latur for hosting a central university and also pitched for either an ...
    The number of girl students at undergraduate level at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) has increased significantly by over 65 percent this year. S.R. Kale, Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi said, "In 2007, out of 550 students at the institute, 50 were girls constituting 9 percent of the ...
    The Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Calcutta launched a one-year residential post-graduate programme for executives in âvisionary leadership in manufacturingâ in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur and IIT-Madras Sunday here.The programme has been designed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - a governmental agency of Japan that provides ...
    NEW DELHI: Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia has rejected President Pratibha Patil's proposal for an all-women IIT at Amravati, but this may not be the last word on the matter. As sources point out, the world over there are all-women education institutions imparting higher education, including technical and ...
    With the CAT - MBA entrance exam for the IIMs slated to go online from 2009, TestFunda.com promises to make the preparation for every CAT aspirant Easy, Effective and Personalised. The newly launched site www.TestFunda.com has managed to get over 15,000 registered users within a span of one month. Its fun ...
    Ankur Gattani, the IIT Bombay, IIM Calcutta graduate, who opted out of his campus placements to start his own venture, launched his start-up, Lifeinlines.com, in beta at IIT Bombay yesterday. With another IIT-B graduate, Maninder, on his team now, the two ex-members of the students' entrepreneurship cell on the ...
    A week after its formal launch, IIT-Hyderabad is still grappling with basic issues. The new institute has no permanent faculty, no research laboratory and insufficient accommodation. Though classes started on August 20, the process to recruit permanent faculty has not started yet. Moreover, filling up of the first batch of faculty ...
    The IITs have decided to open model answers to their entrance test questions to independent scrutiny within days of next yearâs Joint Entrance Exam, allowing the public to point out errors that may have slipped through undetected. IIT Delhi director Surendra Prasad said the institutes had decided to reveal the ...
    In its efforts to collaborate with premier international universities for research and development, IIT Bombay is planning to associate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US. âIIT Bombay is looking at some kind of association with MIT. But talks are still at a nascent stage. However, what is encouraging ...
    Highlighting the use of technological intervention for development in interior Maharashtra, IIT Bombay (IIT-B) has created a master plan for the Rahata block (Ahmednagar district) comprising 58 villages and two towns. âA number of districts in interior Maharashtra do not have access to facilities like water and electricity, though they ...
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today publicly assured IIT Guwahati director Gautam Barua that he would personally discuss with cabinet colleagues the institutesâ demand for exemption from faculty quotas. This is the first time that the Prime Minister, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, has hinted that he ...
    The IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) are opposed to reservation in the recruitment of faculty members and sought to be exempted as they were institutes of national importance. IIT-Guwahati director Prof Gautam Barua told reporters here today that the IITs for the last 36 years had ...
    Another summer has come and gone bringing with it a fresh group of students eager to be impressed. These students are ready to find out exactly what IIT has to offer. While making ranks on some of the Princeton Reviewâs âRoom for Improvementâ lists and achieving a whopping 96th on ...
    IIM-Lucknow, one of the premier business institutes of the country, is still in the dark about who will take over the B-schoolâs reins after the present director Dr Devi Singhâs tenure ends on Sunday. In a meeting conducted at the campus on Saturday, the director confirmed handing over the charge ...
    The IITS, which faced problems filling SC/ST seats this year (2008-09), decided on Sunday to further lower the cut-off for them in next yearâs admissions, to make way for as many candidates as possible. The decision was made keeping in view that next year, the six new IITs and the older ...
    So long, we have heard about Indian management gurus strategising for international companies. Now, IIT Bombay is evolving management mantras to woo more foreign entries for its business plan (B-Plan) competition âEureka!â. For the tenth edition, IIT-B has upped the stakes for Eureka! A total prize money up to Rs 25 ...
    In an effort to reach out to the faculty staff in engineering colleges across the country to acquaint them with its high quality courses and innovative teaching skills, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has tied up with Mission 10x, an initiative launched by IT company Wipro. This Memorandum ...
    But a non-profit humanitarian organization based in Murray was cheering for her at the Beijing Olympics as if she was wearing the red, white and blue. One of the best distance runners in the world, Defar is the honorary director of an Ethiopian dance troupe that ...
    Mission10X, a non-profit trust launched by Wipro Ltd, announced here today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) with the objective of creating a broad understanding that can foster closer collaboration between Mission10X and IIT-B. Some of the activities to be jointly ...
    Kharagpur: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K) has awarded the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award 2008 to three scientists from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur. Dr. Subhash P. Andey, Dr. Prakesh S. Kelkar and Dr. Madan V. Nanoti, all scientists with the Geo-Environment Management Division, NEERI, ...
    MEDAK: The Medak District Review Committee, at a meeting today, adopted a resolution demanding that the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology set up at the ordnance factory be named IIT-Medak instead of IITHyderabad. ââRespecting the fact that Indira Gandhi had contested an election from Medak, the name of the institute should ...
    To reach out to more students in imparting technical education, the IIT-Delhi has launched courses through distant mode. The elite institute is imparting a course on pilot basis to a few employees of certain industries in Noida, its director Prof Surendra Prasad told PTI today. "This is not any degree ...

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  • Amity University launches its Jaipur Campus.
    Amity has launched a campus in Jaipur also. It is a remarkable campus which will be coming up in a 150 acre area. To mark the occasion, Amity is organizing a Career Fest on Saturday, May 22, 2004. The Career Fest will take place in Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. There ...
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