FEBRUARY’09: New Delhi, India: Hardware, services and ICT system Integration company HCL Infosystems Ltd today announced that Ajai Chowdhry, the founder chairman and CEO of the company has been nominated by the Honorable President of India to be the Chairman of the Board of Governors, IIT Hyderabad. Accepting his nomination, Ajai Chowdhry said it is [...]
FEBRUARY’10: New Delhi, India: Hardware, services and ICT system Integration company HCL Infosystems Ltd today announced that Ajai Chowdhry, the founder chairman and CEO of the company has been nominated by the Honorable President of India to be the Chairman of the Board of Governors, IIT Hyderabad. Accepting his nomination, Ajai Chowdhry said it is [...]
FEBRUARY’10: In the last five years, women’s presence in certain IITs has gone as high as 10 percent. In 2005,five per cent of the total number of those who cleared the JEE were women(381 out of 6,433). In 2009, this number has increased to 10 per cent (1,048 of 10,035). “The number of applications from [...]
FEBRUARY’10: IBM India has collaborated with six engineering colleges of Tamil Nadu for setting up Centre of Excellence (COE) to promote high quality education by providing state-of the-art technologies in colleges with the objective of nurturing highly skilled computer professionals. The colleges will provide infrastructure and high end systems while IBM will extend its entire [...]
FEBRUARY’10: In order to standardize the Indian engineers globally, the HRD ministry is planning to introduce the Engineers Bill, 2009, that would require obligatory certification of professional engineers. The bill aims to streamline the quality of engineers in the country and plans to set up the ICE, which will maintain a national and international record [...]
FEBRUARY’10: India’s premier technological institutes, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has reportedly been given a nod by the central government to set up their first offshore campus in Qatar. The new institute to be set up in Quatar will be called the International Institute of Technology and this will be set up all the IITs [...]
FEBRUARU’10: With the economic recession taking backstage, top IT companies are quite happy to offer huge salaries to the IIT graduates . Training and Placement head at IIT Kharagpur, Suneel Srivastava, said that the highest number of offers (13) and the highest salary package of Rs 22 lakh was offered by Barclays Singapore. The institute [...]
FEBRUARY’10: Under the chairmanship of HRD minister Kapil Sibal, the first IIT Council is eyeing for more foreign admissions at the PG level by framing a policy that includes introducing scholarships for studying at IIT and fee reduction for PG students in the IITs. Permitting IITs to create extra seats for foreign PG students to [...]
FEBRUARY’10: IIT Kanpur is going to organize its annual festival Techkriti on 11-14 February 2010. One of the flagship events of Techkriti will be ‘Ideas 10’, the international business plan competition. The event will witness participation from leading MBA schools, such as IIMs and XLRI as well as IITs and many international institutes like Stanford [...]
JANUARY’10: When the campus placements happen in 2011 at IIT Kharagpur, these five students will give it a miss. They would have by then started their own company. They have developed a bio cell’ (battery) that can not only treat sewage water but also generate electricity a that could offer a onestop solution to the [...]