Three IIT Madras student bags pay package of 92 LPA from Google

Reportedly three students of IIT-Madras have received 92 lakh packages from Google. Selected students are from computer science department.

The students who received the offer are Guru Prakash, Santhosh Kumar N.and Kavin Karthik.

The three students were selected by Google to intern with the company for three months in Bangalore. After completion of their projects, they were interviewed.The students stated that the work culture of Google is the best thing and are ecstatic to join the company.

IIT Madras students getting ready for ‘Lunar Rover Challenge’

‘Lunar Rover Challenge’ will be a technical event that will be held at Shaastra-annual technological festival of IIT Madras, in month of january. Top 5 teams will get a prize of 1 lakh and the winning team will get Google Lunar X Prize in April.

Lunar Rover Challenge

The teams were asked to come up with a concept for a lunar rover which can descend from the 45 ramp of a lunar shuttle and negotiate the rough and bumpy terrain of the moon. The robot should be designed in a way that it can manoeuvre the craters on the moon. With the safety light switched on, it has to cover a distance of 500 metres and send back real time updates like pictures and videos to the control room on earth.

Preliminary Round

In preliminary round of ‘Lunar Rover challenge’ that was held on Sunday, 38 teams presented their robotic prototypes. One of the most interesting concepts was that of the robot with caterpillar legs, said MS Sivakumar, professor of applied mechanics, IITM. “The concept was similar to the natural motion of an insect which lifts up its body on losing balance. The other innovative ideas were the four legged robot and the one with a C-shaped leg.”

“These robots can climb on any surface and move to any side,” said former marine engineer H P Biswas.

From Chennai, the preliminary round will go to Mumbai and Delhi and the selected teams will present their rovers at Shaastra to be held from January 4 to 7.

VIT university celebrates chinese day

A grand celebration ‘Namaste China’ was held at Vellore Institute of Technology, vellore campus on the occasion of chinese day. Chinese day was celebrated by singing the national anthem of China followed by Drum Dance (Feng Yang Huagu) and Indian cassical dance by some of the Chinese and Indian students.

VIT chancellor, Dr G. Viswanathan, said, “The celebration marks the Indo-China friendly relations. It is a prelude to promote and exchange the two different cultures of India and China.”

Chancellore of VIT university said that these celebrations would bring both countries together.

Junior slashed with shaving blade and forced to do vulgar dance

Reportedly police has arrested 5 MBBS students of Rajiv Gandhi Medical Hospital, Kalwa on the compalint of a junior student. The victim was allegedly slashed with a shaving blade, stripped to his undergarments and made to do a “vulgar” dance. The teenager, Harish Chowdhary, informed the college authorities of the humiliation that his seniors had subjected him to.
He was advised to lodge a police complaint against the seniors who tortured him.

The arrested students — Mangesh Rane, 25, Achyut Narote, 23, Prabhakar Talavde, 25, Viresh Naste, 23, and Shailesh Gadakh, 23, were produced in court on Friday. The student, who is absconding, has been identified as Sharad Patil, 23.

In his statement to the police, Chowdhary said that Sharad Patil had sent for him to the hostel where at least three other students, who had been ragged, were also present. “After talking down to me, Patil pulled my hair and banged my head against the wall,” mentions Chowdhary’s statement.

The statement adds that he was asked to remove his clothes and was made to sing and dance in his undergarments. “Patil, who was consuming alcohol, threatened to sodomise me… Patil and his friend, Achyut Narote, beat me up and slashed me six times on the hands and chest using a shaving blade.”

Seniors cut hair of junior student forcefully

One new case of ragging has been registered in Banglore. A first year student of Dayanand Sagar college in south Bangalore was allegedly beaten up and attacked with weapons by four seniors. The college has suspended victim as well as all four seniors involved in this case.

The victim Siddarth Kumar Singh, 1st year B.Com student was to cut his hair in early August. He refused and tried to persuade them to stop bullying him. However, they later asked him to go to their house and dance for them. A few days later he was allegedly forced to go to their house and take off his clothes and dance for them. He ran away and spoke to his brothers about the incident. He alleged that the seniors threatened him that they would harass his brothers studying in the same college too, and thus he kept quiet. He stayed off college for a couple of days too. In his complaint, Siddarth has said that he was attacked by the seniors on September 20 when he went to write his internal exams. They allegedly used sharp weapons to scratch his face and thrashed him too.

Teacher force student to undress in class, student commits suicide

According to sources at Bhopal a teacher forced his class 9 student to remove trousers in front of his classmates, including girls. Reportedly after this incident victim was very depressed and committed suicide.

The victim Rohit Mehra attempted suicide by hanging himself at his home in Hoshangabad, 77 km from Bhopal. He was student at the Higher Secondary School in Seoni Malwa. His mother found him hanging and rushed him to the district hospital.

Reports say, the teacher suspected him of cheating during the quarterly examination.

After his condition deteriorated, a critical Rohit was sent to a hospital in Bhopal, where he succumbed to his injuries. The preliminary inquiry by education department found that the teacher, Pramod Prajapati, had asked Rohit to open his belt and then pull down his trousers during the examination.

New discovery of IISc scientists acknowledged across the globe

Reportedly an IISc scientist Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and one of his student Indrani Banerjee has successfully applied Einstein’s gravitational theory to unlock the mystery of black holes in space. Both of them worked for more than two years to get desired results.

The new discovery by them on black holes has been acknowledged by the scientific community across the globe, including professors from Harvard University.

The new study by duo throws more light on black holes and their properties, particularly the correlation between mass and spin or rotation. They have proved that mass and spin are not independent of each other but actually interdependent. They have established that mass of the star could be used to calculate the spin.

“The spin of the observed black holes is still a debatable issue — the exact value of the spin is not known. On the other hand mass can be determined more easily. Rotation of the black hole is determined by the mass and rotation of the initial star. The larger the mass of the initial star the greater it tends to have a high rotational speed and turn into swiftly spinning black holes. The smaller the mass of the initial star the slower its rotation and spin. This property shows that spin and mass are correlated. Hence if mass is known, the spin can be predicted. Eventually, only one fundamental parameter characterizes the black hole,” Banibrata explained.

What is Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping.[1] The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole, there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. The hole is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics

For first time in 100 yrs, Dalit student tops King George Medical University

SURBHI KHYATI : Lucknow, Sun Sep 29 2013, 05:20 hrs: Indian Express

For a medical university that has been in news time and again for alleged discrimination against Dalit students, King George Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, is all set to award its most prestigious awards to a student belonging to Schedule Caste — for the first time in over 100 years of its history.

Vandana, an MBBS student of SC category of 2008 batch, has topped the university and bagged a total of 17 medals, including the most prestigious Hewett Gold Medal and Chancellor's Gold Medal, apart from two other gold medals for academic excellence.

The medals would be bestowed upon Vandana in the ninth convocation ceremony of the university Sunday.

The Hewett Gold medal is awarded by the varsity for obtaining highest marks in Final Professional MBBS Part II examination whereas Chancellor's medal is given for obtaining highest aggregate marks in MBBS.

Confirming that Vandana is the first student from SC category to get the top two gold medals, KGMU Vice-Chancellor Prof DK Gupta said: "In the last 100 years, we saw no student from SC category get an award (in academics)...I am very happy that this student (Vandana) bagged both the gold medals this year."

Vandana maintained that her achievement is more of an individual success, which she owes to her family rather than a story of community struggle and victory.

"I do not really relate to 'Dalit struggle' because I have had the good fortune of getting excellent education and my parents and siblings have been very supportive," Vandana, youngest of the three children of Harish Chandra Ram, a PWD junior engineer, told The Sunday Express.

Even in the past, Vandana has proved herself as a meritorious student with an outstanding 91 per cent marks in 10th and 89.64 per cent in 12th.

After completing schooling from Lucknow Public School, Vandana got 37th rank in SC category in medical entrance examination which secured her a seat at KGMU.

Reality of JEE Advanced 2014, you must know !!

Every year lakhs of students appear for IIT entrance examination but only thousands of them get success after two years of continuous hard work. What happens to others, why the success rate to get entry into IITs are too low.

Look at below queries and answer them one by one. Queries are very simple and it will take less than 1 second for you, but please honest to yourself.

1. Do you think that Good coaching can replace your hard work

What’s your answer, Yes/No

Yes - Please don’t ever think like this, no coaching can replace your hard work. No one will be with you until the end of your exam. They can guide you in your journey for IIT JEE examination but please remember at the final day of your exam you have to fight with lakhs of other students and you be alone at that time. Only your hard work will help you at that moment, so don’t ever completely rely on these coaching.

No - It’s very good. Just do your hard work and you will get success.

“All the very best”

2. What you say, late night studies for few months before JEE will take care of everything 
What’s your answer, Yes/No

Yes - How can you think like that, others are fool who is preparing for JEE since last two years. If you have wasted your time till now please don’t waste it more. Start JEE Preparation today only.

Let me tell you, most of us think like this, especially the ones who were unable to begin preparing for the entrance well before time.
Staying up at night may not be very helpful as it damages your sleep routine and health.

No - Very good, you understand competition level of JEE

3. What you say, is IIT everything for you!!

Yes – It’s good if you select for IITs but let me tell you there are many other good options also available for you. IITs are not the only institute which can make your future bright.

You can see that engineering students from other institutes are also doing very well

There are many other good engineering colleges in India where you can study the specialization of your choice, get good grades and be quickly placed in good companies.

Are there any famous and successful people who did not join IIT even after cracking JEE ?

4. IIT Entry is very difficult, not possible for students like me?

Yes – Why do you think, that you can’t clear JEE Advanced. If it’s because your concepts are not clear than yes you might be right. IIT entrance examination is all about your knowledge, if you are not good in concepts it’s not possible for you.

But if you think just because you are average student in your school/coaching, then let me tell most of the students who clear IIT entrance were average students. So don’t think like this and concentrate on your studies

B.Tech students who bagged heavy pay packages in this placement season

Despite of economic shutdown if we look at the current campus placements statistice, students are doing very well. Big companies are waiting for all talented young engineers and ready to offer them a big pay package. Few students who did very well in this campus placements season are listed below

• Smit Sanghvi

Institute – Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT)

Discipline – Information and communication technology

Company Name – Google

Package – 93 lakh pay package + 125 stock units

For complete details check this link

• Himanshu Jindal

Institute – Delhi Technological University (DTU)

Discipline – Computer engineering

Company Name – Google

Package – 93 lakh pay package + 125 stock units

For complete details check this link

• K Gopi Krishna

Institute – NIT Warangal

Discipline – Computer science

Company Name – Facebook

Package – 84.6 Lakhs

For complete details check this link

• Mr. Nilesh Aggarwal
• Ms. Navy Singla
• Mr. Mohit Yadav
• Mr. Ekaansh Goel
• Mr. Ujjwal Arora
• Mr. Ashutosh Mishra
• Mr. Shubham Somani
• Mr. Akhil Lochab

Institute – Delhi Technological University (DTU)

Discipline – Computer Engineering, Software engineering & Information technology

Company Name – EPIC

Package – 70 lakh pay package

For complete details check this link

• Ankit Gupta and Yogesh Sharma

Institute - IIIT Allahabad

Discipline – Computer science

Company Name – Facebook

Package – 60 lakhs pay package

IIT welcome the proposal to reverve one third seats for girls

According to sources, students’ affairs council (SAC) at IIT Madras has prepared a new proposal to reserves one third seats of IITs for girl students.

Sree Satwik Gokina, speaker, student affairs council at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras said as the institute had seen an increase in the number of girl students, it had become imperative to provide them reservation in SAC.

“We have had long discussions about the reservation issue in our meeting on September 21 in which there were differing opinions, some welcoming and others against it,” he said. He said that the SAC had formed a 15-member committee to interact with students and come out with a report on October 28after which the council would take its final call on the number of seats.

“We are also looking at amending hostel rules to allow girl students to campaign in boys’ hostels after the stipulated entry time. This will help girl students to continue their campaign for long hours in boys’ hostels as we have 17 boys’ hostels and only two for girls,” he added.

Prof L.S. Ganesh, dean (students) at IIT Madras, and an alumnus of the institute who had contributed to drafting a constitution for SAC in his student days, welcomed the proposal. “The number of girl students in the institute has seen a tremendous increase over the years. It has gone up from 100 a decade ago to over 1,000 today. It is important that we reserve some constituencies for girl students in the 50 member SAC,” he said.

Vikas Kumar, Career Counsellor, Ranchi gets Dainik Bhaskar Guru Shiksha Samman 2013

Ranchi

Dainik Bhaksar as part of their Celebration of 3 years in Ranchi organized "Dainik Bhaskar Guru Siksha Samman. Mr D.K.Tiwari , Principal Secretary, Education Departmene was chief Guest.

Recipients included Principals of top schools of Ranchi and leading educationists of Ranchi

Vikas Kumar, Founder , Psychographic Society, Career Counsellor

Mr J Mohanty, Principal, DPS,Ranchi

Mr A.K.Singh, Principal, JVM, Shyamli, Ranchi

Other Recipients included Principals of Kairali School, Tender Heart, Cambrian School, St Xaviers, Vivekananda Vidya mandir, among others.

Mr Amrit Anand, Director, Vedanta Tutorials, Mr Sujit Jha, Academic Head, Sri Chaitanya and Mr Paras Agarawal were other recipients.

MNNIT holds workshop on Android Development

Reportedly an ‘Android Development’ workshop was organized for all B.Tech students of MNNIT, Allahabad as part of a series of workshops on ethical hacking and robotics under ‘Avishkar’, the annual techno-management fest of the institute.

The initial session of this workshop started with lectures on Java essentials and Android basics, wherein students were made aware of different softwares used in the development of Java application. The topics covered in the entire workshop. Around 200 students attended the workshop and were provided a toolkit for Android development and a certificate from the Tech Defence Pvt Ltd.

IIT Madras graduate Prem Wasta richest savviest guy and Blackberry’s new owner

Prem Wasta 63 year old, graduate from IIT Madras who settled to canada in 1972 is in limelight again for his new deal with Canadian firm BlackBerry Limited for USD 4.7 billion. Wasta is already famous for for his unexpected, unorthodox buying moves and predictions and known as Warren Buffet of Canada.

Last night BlackBerry Limited said it reached a tentative agreement for a USD 4.7 billion buyout by a group led by Watsa-led Fairfax — its biggest shareholder. Fairfax (Investment firm co-founded by Prem Wasta) owns about 10 per cent of the handset manufacturers common shares.

Now all eyes are on Wasta, as to whether he will be able to conclude the deal successfully and turn around the troubled smartphone maker who has been hit hard by Apple and Samsung..

Brief about Prem Wasta:

Hyderabad-born Watsa, who earned a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras in 1971, moved to Ontario in 1972 where he earned his MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario.He met his wife, Nalini Loganadhan, during the final year at IIT and married her a few years later. The couple today has three children – two daughters and a son.

He predicted the crash of 1987, the Japanese collapse of 1990 and also the 2008 meltdown in the US. He gained from the US slowdown by picking up shares at rock-bottom prices when others were counting massive losses.

Beginning his professional career at Confederation Life Insurance as vice-president of Confederation Life Investment Counsel in 1974, Watsa left the firm in 1984 to join as vice president of start-up firm GW Asset Management, where he served for a year.

He co-founded Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel (which was acquired by Fairfax in 1991) in 1984. The following year, Watsa took control of Markel Financial Holdings, which was later re-named as Fairfax.
Watsa, who serves on Advisory Board of the Richard Ivey School of Business, is also the Chancellor of University of Waterloo, a Canadian city where BlackBerry Limited is headquartered.

“I know he is an ardent admirer of Warren Buffett and is sometimes referred to as the Warren Buffett of Canada,” says MG Venkatesh Mannar, the Ottawa-based President of The Micronutrient Initiative, and Watsa’s senior at IIT-Madras. “I remember him then as a shy and reserved person (maybe he still is).”

IIT Kanpur official explains the reasons behind poor ranking of IITs

This year if we look at current QS rankingofworld’s universities, no IITs are under top 200. According to IIT Kanpur’s dorector IITs are nowhere because they didn’t pay the huge price to be even considered for a global ranking.

“They (a ranking agency) charge 1.5 lakh US dollars per IIT and even the ministry is aware of this,” said Indraneil Manna, the director of IIT-Kanpur, “One agency proposed that we pay 4.5 lakh dollars to be evaluated. It was quite a large sum.”
The top IIT official, who is part of a five-member committee of directors set up to explore global ranking systems, said, “We don’t shy away from scrutiny. If the exercise is transparent and objective and most importantly their data interpretation is precise then it’s worth spending that much money.”

The IITs have always maintained that they don’t want to be part of the global rat race, but the slide in rankings seems to have rattled the premier institutes.

In the prestigious QS rankings of the world’s 500 best universities released on September 10, IIT Delhi ranked at 222, IIT Bombay at 233, IIT Kanpur at 295, IIT Madras at 313 and IIT Kharagpur at 346.

The world’s top three were MIT, Harvard and Britain’s Cambridge.

“It hurts our reputation, so now we have been forced to explore the ranking system,” Mr Manna said, “We never felt the need to chase a ranking system, but the President raised a concern that IITs are not making it to any global list, so we felt the need to address that concern.”

New discovery of IISc scientists acknowledged across the globe

Reportedly an IISc scientist Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and one of his student Indrani Banerjee has successfully applied Einstein’s gravitational theory to unlock the mystery of black holes in space. Both of them worked for more than two years to get desired results.

The new discovery by them on black holes has been acknowledged by the scientific community across the globe, including professors from Harvard University.

The new study by duo throws more light on black holes and their properties, particularly the correlation between mass and spin or rotation. They have proved that mass and spin are not independent of each other but actually interdependent. They have established that mass of the star could be used to calculate the spin.

“The spin of the observed black holes is still a debatable issue — the exact value of the spin is not known. On the other hand mass can be determined more easily. Rotation of the black hole is determined by the mass and rotation of the initial star. The larger the mass of the initial star the greater it tends to have a high rotational speed and turn into swiftly spinning black holes. The smaller the mass of the initial star the slower its rotation and spin. This property shows that spin and mass are correlated. Hence if mass is known, the spin can be predicted. Eventually, only one fundamental parameter characterizes the black hole,” Banibrata explained.

What is Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping.[1] The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole, there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. The hole is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics

Girl student kicked in the stomach by seniors

Reportedly Radhika Kankirat , is a third year student of Government Nursing College, Akola. She alleges,her seniors from fourth year assaulted her for refusing to collect their hostel ‘outpass’.

“I was even kicked in the stomach by my seniors. My left hand has been fractured. One of my seniors also took a bite of my right ear,” she told

When she filed a complaint for the same, the response of college authority was very unexpected, college authorities threatened to dismiss her if she did not withdraw her police complaint.

102nd day of IIT Professor’s fast upto death

Reportedly Indian institute of technology, Roorkee professor G.D Agarwal is on fast and he will continue his fast upto death to save Ganga river. On 102nd day of his fast he gave up water too. G.D Agarwal, former IIT professor is 81 years old and on fast in the Matr Sadan Ashram of Haridwar in Uttarakhand since last 102 days.

“He is a noted scientist and has been fasting so many days for saving the Ganga. It is so shameful that the government has not even bothered to reply to his letters,” said Acharya Jitender, a close aide of the environmentalist.

Jitender said Agarwal on September 19 wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam in this regard, but has not yet heard from any of them.

Jadavpur university students on indefinite hunger strike against suspension of two seniors

According to sources hundreds of students of Jadavpur University are on indefinite hunger strike demanding suspension of two seniors. Strike started on Friday evening. Students are saying that anti-ragging committee branded a minor interaction between seniors and juniors as ragging without proper investigation.

“It was not ragging…but the anti-ragging committee concluded so, without proper investigation. There was no transparency in the process,” said a fourth year student of the civil engineering.

The two students were suspended Sep 11 after a second year engineering student gave a complaint to the University Grants Commission (UGC) that he was beaten up last month. A final year student of construction engineering was suspended for two semesters, and a fourth year student of the printing technology department was handed a one-semester suspension.

As part of the relay hunger-strike, around 400 students have been sloganeering from time to time and holding aloft posters demanding reinstatement of their two suspended colleagues. A section of students has been camping outside the office.

Harsha Bhogle enthuses students of IIM-Ahmadabad, Bokaro girl does anchoring

World Renowned Commentator Harsha Bhogle visited IIM-Ahamdabad and addressed   students of IIM-Ahmadabad on 22nd september,2013. Program was anchored by IIM-A student Anshika Sinha, who has her roots from DPS, Bokaro

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Harsha Bhogle is the son of A. D. Bhogle, a professor of French, and Shalini Bhogle, a professor of psychology. He attended Hyderabad Public School, and subsequently studied chemical engineering at Osmania University at Hyderabad. He did his post graduate program PGDM at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Post-graduation, he joined an advertising agency and worked there for two years, following which he completed another two-year stint at a sports management company.Bhogle began his career as a commentator at the age of 19 with All India Radio, while living in Hyderabad. In 1991-92, he became the first Indian commentator to be invited by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during India's cricket series before the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He has since worked for ABC Radio Grandstand during India's Australian tours, and for eight years worked for the BBC as part of their commentary team in the1996 and the 1999 Cricket World Cups.

Since 1995, he has been presenting live cricket from all around the world for ESPN STAR Sports and was part of the 'Few Good Men' commentary team that included Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, and Alan Wilkins along with Geoff Boycott and Navjot Singh Sidhu, for few seasons, and later, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar.

The voice of cricket. What a brilliant speaker! Nice to listen to someone who can talk about the legends of cricket and the pains of Term 1 Microeconomics and FRA in the same session! wort Chanda Lalwani on her facebook status.Time And Again Events Happen Out Here That Make You Realise, Yes ! You Are In The Best-B School Across...exclaimed Tanzeel Ahmad in his facebook update

He covered the 2011-'12 series in Australia solely for ABC Radio — the first time in a decade he has not been part of an ESPN Star broadcast.

Harsha has been covering all Indian Premier League seasons since 2009 and is an expert cricket analyst on CNN-IBN.

He has hosted television programs such as Harsha Online, Harsha Unplugged and School Quiz Olympiad for ESPN and Star Sports.

Harsha even had a Television programme named after him, "Harsha ki khoj"/"Hunt of Harsha", that strived to find broadcasting talent in India.

Bhogle was recently voted the favourite TV cricket commentator by Cricinfo users based on a worldwide poll.^[1] Bhogle has also anchored BBC's travel serial Travel India and Business Today Acumen Business Quiz and Debate competitions.

Bhogle was the advisor to the Mumbai Indians for the 2008 IPL.^[2]

Bhogle has published and authored a number of books, including a biography of Mohammad Azharuddin and a collection of columns in The Indian Express, Out of the Box — Watching the Game We Love and is also a columnist for the Chennai based "The Sportstar" a subsidiary of The Hindu group of Publications under the title "Hitting Hard" by Bhogle. (2009). Bhogle has presented the program TRAVEL INDIA WITH HARSHA BHOGLE on the Discovery channel and TLC.

Bhogle has recently become a freelance TV presenter, not being employed with any one channel. In the 2011 World Cup held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, he anchored the pre and post match shows that featured Simon Hughes, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sunil Gavaskar, Tony Greig and Sourav Ganguly.

Bhogle's presence in electronic media can be seen through his Twitter account @bhogleharsha and his weekly article on ESPNcricinfo.

Profile Source: wikipedia 

DTU placements 2013, EPIC offered 70 Lakhs per annum to 11 DTU students

Despite of economic shutdown the placements season in DTU is going very well. Earlier US based company EPIC selected 8 students of DTU with a pay package of 70 lakhs per annum, but reportedly 3 more students have received. So till now EPIC has offered jobs to 11 DTU students with a pay package of 70 lakhs per annum.

The highest international offer of the year of 93 lakhs per annum goes to DTU student Himanshu Jindal, that was offered by Google. Google has offered sam e package to one student of DA-IICT too

DA-IICT beat DTU in placements, student get 93 LPA job offer from Google

Reportedly One more student has got offer of 93 LPA from Google.As reported earlier, Himanshy Jindal from DTU got the highest offer of the year recorded till now from Google. The next offer from the google goes into account of DA-IICT , Smit sanghvi final year student of information and communication technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology has accepted this job offer.

Sanghvi preferred the company’s headquarters at Mountain View, California for his posting and will join Himanshu Jindal.

“It is a dream job. All the questions were technical but open-ended, which gave me room to present my skills to the interviewers,” said Sanghvi.

Only two months into the placement season, DAIICT has already placed 83 students with 19 of them being offered an annual package of Rs 10 lakh and above. For India placements, the highest salary offered stood at Rs 19.5 lakh annually and the average pay offered is Rs 7.3 lakh.

“Seven of my students were selected for the final round for Google placements and they were very enthusiastic about working with the company. I am happy that one of them has converted the enthusiasm into a job,” said S C Sahasrabudhe, director of DAIICT.

Harayana Boy selected for 3 year NASA training programme

Ashish, a teenage boy from Dhaulera village in Mahendergarh district of Haryana state has been selected for 3 year NASA astronaut training programme. Ashish completed his XII exam this year.

For the astronaut training programme, NASA selected only 10 candidates from across the world. Three of them, including Ashish, are from India.

Achievements of Ashish;

1. Ashish had cleared IISAT (Indian Institute of Space Aeronautics and Technology) competition organised by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
2. He also passed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance examination, getting the 112th rank.

Ashissh was honoured by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the presence of the boy’s father Radhey Shyam.

FIITJEE Ranchi Clean Sweeps NTSE 2012-13 Result

By ; Sumit Singh Ranchi: 21st September, 2013

FIITJEE, Ranchi Centre maintained its leadership in NTSE by once again giving best result from Ranchi City.
As per the reports recieved 26 students have qualified final stage of NTSE from Jharkhand out of which 17 are from General Category. FIITJEE, Ranchi has given maximum selection in NTSE from any coaching institute of Ranchi.

Mr Rajesh karn, Centre Head,FIITJEE Ranchi informed that total 9 students have qualified from Ranchi Centre. Out of which 8 are from General Category and one from ST category. Kumar Saurav is the state topper with AIR 18.

He also informed that Cutoff: General - 92 , SC - 72 , ST - 68 , PH - not mentioned. He attributed the success of students to their hard work , sincerity of teachers and methodology of FIITJEE apart from positive role played by Parents of all these students. He wished them success in their mission for IIT in 2015.

Mr Pankaj, AGM, FIITJEE Ranchi said that since inception of Classroom program for std 8th to
std 10, FIITJEE, Ranchi has been leader in giving maximu selection in NTSE. He is very optimistic that these successful students will also get good rank in JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced in 2015. "I personally feel that 4 year classroom program has made a difference in the analytical and comprehnsive ability of students and has lead to stupendous performance by students in competitive exams as well as school exam"exclaimed Mr Pankaj.


Following is the list of successful students of FIITJEE, Ranchi

Three IIM Indore Undergrads Expelled for Drug Abuse

by Lajwanti D'Souza in• 21 September '13 from Pagalguy

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Yet another case of drugs abuse has hit the Indian Institute of Management Indore. This time 3 students of the Integrated Programme in Management were caught smoking up on the campus. The incident happened a week ago and a disciplinary committee was set up to probe it.

Committee members apparently had long discussions with the students before arriving at a decision to expel all of them. According to Dr Akhtar Parvez, Dean, Administration the parents of the students were informed and they were given the choice of withdrawing from the five-year programme.

The boys are 17 years old and come from academically-eminent families. Two of the boys are from South India. The parents were apparently in a state of shock on hearing about the incident while the students generally seemed ‘unmoved.’ Parents of all the students had come to the campus to collect their wards.

Drugs abuse is not unheard of in b-schools in India. However, while many institutes prefer to let it be as a ‘natural thing’ on campus, IIM Indore has always been taking action to the point of expelling students. Adds Dr Parvez: “We have a zero-tolerant attitude when it comes to alcohol, smoking or drugs. We do not like to give students a second chance if the committee set up to study the case suggests that we expel the students. It is a message we want to send across.”

The students procured the drugs from dhabas sprung up close to the institute. According to sources, while these dhabas also sell parathas and sabjee, they eventually sell drugs to those who visit them often and have the cash to cough up.

Last year too, five students were caught taking drugs in two different cases at IIM Indore . In February 2012, two students were expelled for taking drugs and later in October, three students were expelled for the same reason. Some of the students were given a chance to get return after a year of which one student joined back IIM Indore.

Final JEE Main score will be prepared by 60:40 rule

Last year around 12.5 lakhs students appeared for JEE Main 2013. Final JEE Main score was prepared by giving 40% weightage to normalized board scores and 60% weight age to JEE Main score. Top 1.5 lakhs students on the basis of jee main score were eligible for JEE Advanced 2013.

Last JEE Apex body meeting was held on Tuesday, in this meeting all members decided to keep normalisation rule as last year. The board decided to continue with the procedure for normalising board scores for the JEE-Main. “We may have a re-look at the procedure in 2015 based on the experience of the first two years,” the source said

CBSE may conduct JEE Main twice in a year from 2015

JEE Apex body meeting was held on Tuesday to discuss new CBSE proposal of conducting JEE Main twice in a year. If this proposal is accepted all students can appear two times for JEE Main without losing a year. JEE Apex body accept that this will reduce stress of students.

If this proposal is accepted, new system could be implemented from 2015. In these two exams, CBSE will consider best score of the candidates as final JEE Main score.

Final announcement has not been made yet. All experts are not in favour of this proposal. According to some IIT Professors repeat exam could increase stress as every candidate would try to improve his or her marks. “The second chance may prove good for students who have missed the first exam for a genuine reason. But it will encourage every student to take both the tests to improve their chances.”

Highest offer of the year 2013 grabbed by DTU student ‘Himanshu Jindal’

Reportedly the highest pay package of the year till now has been offered to DTU student by Google. ‘Himanshu Jindal’ student of Computer science and engineering bagged the pay package of 93 lakhs . Despite of economic shutdown students of Delhi technological university are doing very well in campus placements. Last month EPIC also offered fat pay package of 75 lakhs to 8 DTU students.

Himanshu has already accepted this job offered. I worked ver hard to get this job offered, he said.

DTU student bags 93 lakh job offer from Google

Reportedly Google has offered a pay package of 93 lakhs per annum to 4^th year student of computer science (COE), ‘Himanshu Jindal’. Google has also offered 125 Google stock units to him, value of these stock units comes up to Rs. 93 lakh as per the current exchange rate.

DTU placements 2013-14 started on Aug 1^st and placement statistics till now are as follows:

Total No. of companies who visited the campus for placements – 40

Total number of job offers – 260

EPIC has offered jobs to 8 students with pay package of 70 LPA

Amazon offered jobs to 8 students with pay package of 19 LPA

Highest international offer of the year so far is 93  lakhs by Google

The highest domestic offer of Rs. 28 lakh per annum has been made by Goldman Sachs.

1.08 lakhs engineering seats left vacant after 1st round of counselling

Reportedly about 1.08 lakhs seats are still vacant after first round of EAMCET 2013 counselling.According to experts this is the clear indication that students are losing interest in technical education.

Total 609 private engineering colleges are participating in EAMCET 2013 counselling this year and about 13 colleges recorded zero admission after first round of counselling. A total of 2,19,296 seats are available in private engineering colleges in the state, while just 6,550 seats are available in 34 government engineering colleges.Most of the vacant seats are in private engineering colleges.

Most of the students chose Electronics and communication this year. 33,557 seats were filled in this stream. While computer science engineering had 24,523 takers and the mechanical stream had 24,036 takers.The engineering colleges which has less than 10 students after first counselling might not function from this year and already admitted students will have to shift to other colleges during second phase of counselling. Currently total number of colleges that have less than 10 number of students are 34.