IIIT-Hyderabad student gets Yahoo award05th May, 2009

Yahoo! has selected Hyderabad-based Ashish Mangalampalli, a 2nd year Ph.D student from IIIT-H for the Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) programme award. Yahoo! has also provided $ 2,000 to give support to his research activities.

Read more ››ICWAI signs MoU with Institute of Management Accountants, USA05th May, 2009

Two premier institutes, the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), USA have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),

Read more ››IIT faculty will teach DIAT scientists05th May, 2009

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) has tied up with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai to sort out the dearth of teaching staff for training scientists in the defence sector. As part of this initiative, the DIAT aims at providing better skilled faculties.

Read more ››NIT inches closer to get NBA seal05th May, 2009

National Institute of Technology, Adityapur, Jharkhand, is coming closer to a nod from the National Board of Accreditation. This is going to be the 1st accreditation since when the engineering college was promoted to a national institute in 2003.

Read more ››Little known Orissa institute bags MCI honour05th May, 2009

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has chosen Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) as a regional centre for conducting Faculty Development Programme. KIMS is a sister concern of KIIT which will cover entire east India.

Read more ››Karunya University to offer M.Tech in water management04th May, 2009

Karunya University, Coimbatore will be offering an M.Tech. Course in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) from 2009-10.

Read more ››IIM in Tamil Nadu to be functional in 200905th May, 2009

The proposed Indian Institute of Management (IIM) of Tamil Nadu will start functioning from this academic session at Tiruchi. The academic activities of the new IIM will begin from a temporary location called Magneto Hydro Dynamics campus on the premises of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). The IIM will keep on functioning here till the time a full-fledged infrastructure is ready on a 200-acre permanent site identified on Bharathidasan University premises.

Read more ››JAB rejects HRD's privilege to SC/STs in IIT-JEE21st April, 2009

Joint Admission Board (JAB) has said a big no to a proposal by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).

Read more ››Maharashtra to have CBS, ICSE schools03rd May, 2009

Mumbai-based Podar Education Trust announced that it would launch two CBSE & ICSE schools of international standards at Ambedgaon and Ambethan close to Chakan, respectively, from June 2009. Constituted in 1927, the Podar Trust used to have Mahatma Gandhi as one of its trustees.

Read more ››Parents in haste: advantage pvt colleges03rd May, 2009

As admission season sets in more and more engineering colleges, especially the self-financing ones, in Tamil Nadu, gird up their loins to lure students. Anna University will begin counseling for admission into government quota seats in July.

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