This issue includes the sad news about demise of Dr. Yogesh Mohan, Reader in Pharmaceutics dept. We are also sad to hear the death of our alumnus Yeshvir Singh (Mining 1967).
The issue contains the interview with Mr. Iqbal Ahmed, a self-made, world renowned model engineer, who was our guest of honour at Technex Festival. We have also included Technex Souvenir and a published report about 59th IPC Congress held in Dec 2007 at our Pharmaceutics dept. We have also published a number of articles from our students’ community.
The issue also includes a press release on the 90th Convocation of our university. Our Prime Minister, Dr. Man Mohan Singh graced the occasion as the chief guest. The news items in this issue include the call by Dr. APJ Kalam, our former President to develop “BHU as a brand”. As usual, most of the hard-to-find news are gathered by Rajat Harlalka (Electrical 2005), a member of our team.
We are pleased to state that Praharsh Sharma (2nd year Electronics) has joined our chronicle team.
We need more news. Please send us news, events, articles, information, etc, at: chronicle[AT]itbhuglobal.org. Please indicate your branch/year and college (if other than IT-BHU).
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Thanking you,
The Chronicle Team
We are sad to inform you that Dr. Yogesh Mohan, Reader in Department of Pharmaceutics, IT-BHU, passed away on Jan 16, 2008 due to massive myocardial infarction (heart attack).
Dr. Yogesh Mohan was 52 years old. He joined our institute two years ago. He is leaving behind his wife and two sons.
The chronicle team shares the grief with entire IT-BHU community in this moment. May his soul rest in peace.
(Dr. Yogesh Mohan)
(Chronicle note: Below please find the message and appeal for help received from Prof. Radhey Shyam Srivastava, Professor and Head, Pharmaceutics dept. Dr. Yogesh Mohan’s family is need of financial help, as the sons are not settled in life yet.
Readers may contact Prof. R. S. Srivastava in India at: rssitbhu@yahoo.com
Or Chandrakant Trivedi (B. Pharm 1975) in USA at: cltvav@yahoo.com )
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Banaras Hindu University
Department of Pharmaceutics,
Institute of Technology Date: 26.02.08
Dear All,
With great pain and grief I have to inform you the great tragic incident happened in the dept. One of our esteem colleagues, Dr. Yogesh Mohan, reader in the Department passed away on 16th Jan 2008 due to massive myocardial infarction. Dr. Mohan was very actively engaged towards the grand success of mega event, 59th IPC Varanasi 2007, ever witnessed in Banaras Hindu University.
He was very active since the beginning of IPC preparations and shouldered the major responsibilities of various committees in the IPC, including Transport Accommodation etc.
His untimely demise is great shock and loss to our department as well as his family. He left his wife and two sons who are yet to be established in the life.
Although this irreparable loss cannot be compensated; but we are making effort to raise some funds for the liabilities to be fulfilled by him towards his family.
In this context, we, the faculty of Dept. of pharmaceutics, I. T. Banaras Hindu University would
highly appreciate the monitory contribution towards the better support of family as taken of love and respect to our beloved late Dr. Yogesh Mohan.
Thanking you,
Prof. R. S. Srivastava.
Prof. R. S. Srivastava
Head,
Department of Pharmaceutics,
Institute of Technology,
Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi-221005
Email: rssitbhu@yahoo.com
Dr. Yogesh Mohan graduated from the Pioneer Pharmacy Dept. (IT-BHU) of the country in 1975.He did his post graduation & Ph D from the same Dept. After serving his Alma mater as faculty in the dept. for 4-5 years, he joined the industry Zhandu Pharmaceuticals as General Manager. There he spent about 20 years. His dedication & skill gave the industry a big name. Dr. Mohan was very popular amongst the workers & administration due to his undaunted working. After this he, once again, joined the Dept. as Reader in 2005.
Dr. Yogesh Mohan was one of the instrumental towards the biggest ever mega event in the history of Indian Pharmacy Education in
But we never knew & could not guess the destiny ahead. Dr. Mohan left us forever after the grand success of IPC. He met a massive heart attack on the fateful night of 15th Jan, and now there are memories only with us. He has left after him wife & two sons. We all pray almighty to give courage to his family to bear this greatest loss.
We all salute the indulgement & spirit of our beloved Yogesh.
Anand Srivastava
Reader in Pharmaceutics dept.
IT-BHU,
Email: anandit55[AT]yahoo.com
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With deep sorrow, we inform you that Mr. Yeshvir Singh (Mining 1967) is no more with us. He breathed his last in the morning (at 8.30 am) of March 6, 2008 at his residence at Nagpur, in presence of his wife and son. He was 64.
He retired as CGM from Western Coal Fields Ltd (WCL) in July 2004 after serving the company for 34 years. Since July 2005 he was associated as consultant with Sunflag Steel at Nagpur. He is survived by his wife, two daughters- Sapna & Anjali (wife of Ramendra) and son, Ankur. Let us all pray for the peace of the departed soul and strength for the family.
The above message was forwarded by our alumnus Mr. Ramendra Singh (Mechanical 1996), who is a Doctoral Student at IIM-Ahmedabad, and son-in-law of late Mr. Yeshvir Singh. Your condolence messages can be sent to his daughter-Sapna. Her email is: sapna.singh@unilever.com
The 90th Convocation of the Banaras Hindu University for those who qualified for the degree in the Examination of 2007 is being organized in B.H.U. campus on 15th March, 2008 forenoon. The Faculty of Engineering & Technology held a function on 14th March, 2008 at 11.00 a.m. in the Prof. M. Sen Gupta Hall (G-11), Institute of Technology, BHU.
We have covered the news about IT-BHU setting up TBI (Technology Business Incubator) in our January 2008 issue. We have received the following information from Dr. P. K. Mishra about TBI:
Shirvaikar Appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering
http://www.tie-dc.org/modules/extcal/event.php?event=114
Ajit Singh, PhD, is President, Siemens Oncology Care Systems Group. He gave a speech on March 4, 2008 to Tie-DC members on "Disruptive Technologies in Health Care".
About the SpeakerPresident, Siemens Oncology Care Systems Group
Previous to this position, Dr. Singh was group vice-president of the Siemens e.health Business division. In this role he was responsible for establishing Siemens Internet infrastructure, and for pursuing new e-business opportunities worldwide. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Singh served as vice president of the Siemens Health Services division, where he led the company’s consulting and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) businesses.
Prior to these executive posts, he held several positions with increasing responsibility in the Health Information Systems unit within the Siemens Health Services division. Before joining Siemens Medical Solutions in 1996, Dr. Singh was a project manager with Siemens Corporate Research, where he managed strategic healthcare technology planning and various research and development activities. Dr. Singh also served on the Faculty at Columbia University and Princeton University.
Dr. Singh is a popular speaker in the oncology community, and is recognized as a subject matter expert in both the future of radiation oncology and the role of IT in today’s managed health care environment. Most recently, he has been the keynote speaker for Healthcare Across Borders, a consortium of the international healthcare industry, which facilitates the international provision of premium medical services and information.
In addition he has spoken frequently at numerous industry events including the Imaging Economics Education Symposia and at the conferences held by the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA), National Managed Healthcare Congress (NMHCC), SPIE and Diagnostic Imaging.
Dr. Singh holds several patents in the field of image analysis and medical imaging, has published numerous refereed papers, and authored two IEEE Computer Society Press books – Image Flow Estimation: A Unified Perspective and Deformable Models in Medical Imaging. In 2003 he was awarded a “40 under 40” Award from the East Bay Business Times. This award recognizes 40 of the most distinguished and innovative business leaders under the age of 40 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://cs.utd.edu/dept/eecs/newsandevents/distinguished/Lakhtakia.html
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2008, 11 a.m., TI Auditorium (Directions)The Charles G. Binder (Endowed) Professor
Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Pennsylvania State University
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/news/Rathore-WhosWho2.shtml
ECE Grad-student gets listed in additional Marquis' Who's Who publications
Home page: http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~akshay/
(Chronicle note: This article was originally published in March 2006 issue of Manglorean Magazine and republished in March 2008 issue. Mr. G V Rao currently lives in Mangalore. He is one of our most illustrative alumni, having been an Indian Ambassador to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in the past. Now 88 years old, he graduated in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering from IT-BHU in early 1940’s.)
Mr. G.V. Rao [ Mangalorean Star: March, 2006 ]
Gollerkery Vishwanath Rao, is kind, humble, very helpful and down to earth person. He is the third person in the history of India to receive Mahatma Gandhi International Peace Prize Gold Medal. He considers winning this Peace award, the highest point in his career and life for that matter.
Mr. Rao was born to Late Sri G. Krishna Rao, who was a lawyer by profession and Late Smt. Girija Bai on November 11, 1919, in Kadri, Mangalore. Mr. Rao spent his first 18 years in Mangalore and always considered Mangalore as his home town. He moved to Paris in 1948, upon recommendation of Sarvepalli Radhakrishanan who was Indian Ambassador to UNESCO at that time.
Early part of his education was at Ganpathi High School and Govt. College, Mangalore. Later, he completed B.Sc in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University. He applied for Indian Railway Engineering Services however, Mr. Rao says, it is destiny that he was not accepted and God had other plans for him. He went to Ipswich, UK on Govt. of India scholarship. He was told his training was far superior and was sent to University of Berkely, California, USA. He studied present day equivalent of MBA for three years.
Mr Rao met Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in San Francisco who was extremely happy to meet and hear about Mr. Rao and suggested he go to UNESCO in Paris. He went to Paris under the scheme of Young Professional Programme and eventually became Assistant Director General of UNESCO. Once he retired he was requested to take charge of Mason de Linde in Paris where most of the graduate and postgraduate students from India resided and was Director of the same for 18 yrs. At the same time he continued to function as Special Advisor to Director General of UNESCO, which he does even today. During his tenure as Assistant Director General, he used to travel to UNO Headquarters, New York three times a year and has given several speeches there.
He firmly believes Dr. S. Radhakrishnan who was Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, when Mr. Rao was studying there as his sole motivator.
Mr. Rao is married to Mrs.Uma Rao. Together they have a son Jayanth - works at UNESCO at present and daughter - Jyotika is a Professor of Dance and Music and both are married and live in Paris, France
Awards and honors:
- Winner of Gold Medal as best outgoing student in Engineering, Banaras Hindu University.
- Winner of Gold Medal three consecutive years for elocution, prompting Vice Chancellor Dr. S. Radhakrishanan to say "aren't you going to give a chance to others to win"
- Gold Medal for promoting peace over a period of 50 yrs awarded in Chanakya Puri, New Delhi.
- Awarded Mahatma Gandhi International Peace Prize Gold Medal. First winner of this award was Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India, second Mother Theresa and Third Mr. G. Vishwanath Rao.
- Dr. T. M. A. Pai Gold Medal for his contribution to Konkani Community in 1995.
He has established a scholarship for meritorious students at Ganapthi High School in Mangalore. His contributions mainly are towards peace in general and education of Konkani children and social awareness specifically.
Though at the age of 86, he says, as long as he is alive, he will continue to help Konkani community and education. To this date whenever he is in India, that is every year, he makes it a point to visit Mangalore. As long as UNESCO wishes, he will continue to advise them.
I met him through mutual friend in New York in 1988 during one of his trips to the United Nations. Even when I met him recently after 18 years, I still find him full of energy and very sharp and was delighted to see me again. He was only glad to hear about Mangalorean.com and exclaimed "what a wonderful idea to bring Mangaloreans together".
What impressed me the most about him is, even though he has won so many awards and reached very high position in UNESCO, he is still very humble and kind.
Mr. Rao's message to our readers:
Whatever work you are doing, do it with intensity and total loyalty. I believe in luck and destinies, when an opportunity knocks take it and do your duty honestly
Mangalorean.com salutes Mr. Rao and wishes him all the best in his life.
http://www.assamtribune.com
Amal Ch Baruah
GUWAHATI, Feb 6 – Amal Chandra Baruah, resident of Rajgarh Road, Chandmari, Guwahati, expired at Downtown Hospital following a brief illness on February 5. He was 75. Born to renowned family of Deshapran Lakshmidhar Sharma, he was the third son of freedom fighter Late Girish Chandra Sarma Baruah and Late Purneswari Devi of Bhir Gaon, Biswanath Chariali. He graduated in engineering from Institute of Technology of Banaras Hindu University after studying at Chariali High School and Cotton College. He served as the 1st chief engineer of GMDA, additional chief engineer of PWD, Assam he was also IIM, Bangalore trained management expert and consultant and Course Director of AASC, Guwahati. He left behind his wife Dr Reeta Baruah, son Dr Ayushman Baruah and two daughters – Atreyee Goswami and Archita Bhattacharyya – in addition to a host of family members.
The Institution of Engineers (India),
Varanasi Local Centre
I.T. - B.H.U., Students’ Chapter
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The Institution of Engineers (India), IT-BHU, Students Chapter, has by far continued to conduct Quiz Competitions, Classes on technical issues and Paper presentation sessions as its endeavors for the benefit of IEI members of Varanasi Students’ Chapter. We are pleased to state that this year also, IEI successfully conducted a quiz competition, a class on electronic components and circuits and a paper presentation session as its events during the session 2007-2008. With the consent and direction of our Student Advisor Dr. R.K. Mishra, a quiz competition was organized on 29 January 2008, a class on 30 January 2008 and a paper presentation session on 31 January 2008.
QUIZ COMPETITION
The Quiz Competition was held for all IT Students and IEI members on 29 January. 2008. A wide publicity was done through departmental notices and hostel posters. Vaibhav Srivastava (B. Tech. Part III-Electronics) gratefully agreed to be the quizmaster for the event and his talent and knowledge beautifully helped the organizers. The quizmaster decided to hold a written qualifying round to select teams amongst the rich audience of 100 students. A team of 2 students was allowed to participate and 6 teams were selected after the written round. These six teams faced a grueling quizzing session from the quizmaster and finally the scorer declared the results. The team of Vivekanand S. and Mandeep Jindal stood first. The team of Sunny Talwar and Akash Kumar and the team of Abhijit Shukla and Raj Kamal Ranjan jointly shared the runner-up prize. The team of Prateek Gupta and Sreedhar K. were awarded the third prize.
The quizzing session also included surprise questions for the audience. The winners were awarded CDs and DVDs and the audience were awarded ‘chocolates’ for the surprise questions. The event was conducted and compered by Praharsh Sharma (2nd year Electronics and Member, IEI, 2006-07 and 2007-08) who was thankful to the Students Convener Sandeep Singh (3rd year Electronics and Students Convener, IEI, Varanasi Students’ Chapter) for his co-operation and guidance. The event was held at G-7, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT-BHU on 29 January 2008 and was beautifully appreciated by the audience and saw encouraging participation from the students.
CLASS ON ELECTRONICS
A Class on ‘Electronics Components, Circuitry and Oscilloscope’ was organized by IEI, Students’ Chapter, Varanasi on 30 January 2008 at G-7, Department of Mechanical Engineering. The class lecture was given by Ashish Ranjan and Himanshu Shekhar (both of 3rd year Electronics). The class was attended by about 60 students interested in the field of Electronics competence and circuitry. The lecture imparted to the students, a good deal of basic knowledge in the field of Analog and Digital Electronics, Cathode Ray Oscilloscope and recent developments in the field. The organizers, Sandeep Singh and Praharsh Sharma were thankful to Ashish Ranjan and Himanshu Shekhar for devoting there time and concern.
PAPER PRESENTATION
Lastly, IEI, Varanasi Students’ Chapter also organized the most sought after and awaited paper presentation session on 31 January 2008 at G-7, Department of Mechanical Engineering. The organizers received a good response as a result of wide publicity through academic department notices and hostel wall-maps.
During the presentation, 10 different papers on varied topics were presented by the students. Most of the papers depicted original research work and were greatly appreciated by the judges and the audience. Dr. Satyabrata Jit (Department of Electronics Engineering), Dr. P. Ghosh (Department of Mechanical Engineering) and Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh (School of Materials Science and Technology) were the judges for the event. IEI, Varanasi Students’ Chapter was pleased to have amongst them, Er. N.D. Tiwari (IG, Department of Defense Services) as the chief guest for the event. Er. Tiwari is also Ex-Chairman of IEI, Varanasi Chapter and was very enthusiastic to witness the proceedings of the paper presentation session.
Dr. R.K. Mishra, Students Adviser was also present during the event to bestow his guidance on the organizers and participants. The winners for the event were awarded certificates and prizes (Winner- 1GB Pen drive and Runner up - 512MB pen drive). Deep Jariwala (2nd year Metallurgy) presented a paper on ‘Molecular Dynamics Study of Wetting of Carbon Nano-tubes’ and was judged as the winner. Harsh Agrawal (4th year Electrical) was judged as the runner-up for his paper on ‘Single Spin Universal Boolean Logic Gate’ and the team of Alok Kumar Singh (3rd year Electronics) and Himanshu Shekhar were awarded the third prize for their paper on ‘Temporal Video Segmentation for Video Indexing’.
The winners were awarded certificates and prizes by Dr. Satyabrata Jit, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar and Dr. R.K. Mishra during the valedictory. The event was compered and conducted by Praharsh Sharma under the able guidance of Sandeep Singh. Finally, Dr. R. K. Mishra delivered a vote of thanks to the staff, organizers and members of IEI and expressed his gratefulness towards the judges and showered his blessings on the participants.
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Additional Link:
Institution of Engineers (India): http://www.ieindia.org/
 | PRAHARSH SHARMA B. Tech. Part II, Department of Electronics Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Email: praharshsharmaster@gmail.com |
(Chronicle note: This workshop was conducted by Ms. Saloni Arya, who is Campus Ambassador for Sun Microsystems, Inc. She is 3rd year B. Tech. / M. Tech. Dual Degree program student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering).
Under the Campus Ambassador program of SUN Microsystems, a workshop on Solaris was held on January 9th in the Batch of ’98 Hall, Computer Science Department, IT-BHU. The topic was: Solaris 10 Basics: Installation, network configuration and basic administration.
I was actually very skeptical about the turnout because I couldn’t go to each and every hostel and inform the students personally (hope everybody knows girls are not allowed to go to boy’s hostels!!), but thanks to the rigorous mail sending and poster pasting done, the turnout was awesome. I would especially like to thank the 2nd year students who helped me in promoting the event by going to the first yearites and informing them about the workshop.
I started the workshop telling about the basic jargons like Solaris express developer edition, Community release, Nevada, Belenix, fdisk partition etc. Then moving on to the installation part, I addressed the very hot issue of multibooting Solaris. Many people mourn that they installed Solaris and lost all their data. I wanted to make it clear that installing Solaris isn’t that difficult and if you do it carefully, rest assured you won’t loose anything. I told them about all the various possibilities like having Solaris on a raw hard disk, Multibooting it with windows or Linux or having all three on one system.
Then I moved on to the hardware requirements part telling them about the Ram specifications and all. After this, I explained the entire installation procedure which I accompanied with a Solaris install video I had downloaded from net.
Post installation, I told them how to configure the network statically or dynamic settings via DHCP, how to install their favorite applications plus an introduction to software package management and basic service management (aka Solaris services aka SMF).
All said and done, a lot of queries came up which relived me because it implied that something went into the audiences’ mind. Thanks to the extensive resources we as CA’s are provided, I was able to answer all the questions rather satisfactorily (or as I will like to believe!!)
Oh I forgot to mention, free CD’s of Solaris and Netbeans were given away as prizes to the various questions I asked the audience during the session (I know, I know its free and open source, but come on guys, appreciate the effort put in downloading and making the CD’s and besides, the CD’s do come at a cost J).
At the end, I would just like to say that seeing so many people turn up for the workshop really overwhelmed my heart. Due to lack of space, people had to stand and see the workshop!! Thanks a lot to all those people who turned up because it really boosted my confidence to take up similar workshops in the future.
Additional links:
- Official website of Sun Microsystems: http://www.sun.com/
- Saloni Arya’s blog on Sun website:http://blogs.sun.com/saloni/
- More about Sun Campus Ambassador program: http://www.sun.com/corp_emp
/zone/campus_ambassador.html - IT-BHU Sun Club: http://groups.google.com/group
/itbhu_sunclub
 | Ms. SALONI ARYA 3rd Year B. Tech. /M. Tech. Dual Degree program Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Email: saloni.itbhu@gmail.com |
Manmohan Singh awarded honorary doctorate degree by BHU
15 Mar 2008, 1306 hrs IST , PTI
BHU Chancellor Dr Karan Singh presented the degree to the Prime Minister in recognition of his contributions to the Indian society at the university's 90th convocation ceremony in Varanasi.
The university also conferred honorary D Litt degrees on well-known painter Satish Gujral and historian Irfan Habib on this occasion.
In the convocation, 29 medals, 179 PhDs, 2,023 Post Graduate and 4,252 Bachelor degrees were distributed.
http://biospectrumindia.ciol.com/content/studentsspecial/10802072.asp
JNU, BHU and MKU are the first three choices of students for MSc general biotech course at the time of admission. Similarly, TNAU and GBPUAT are preferred choices of candidates for MSc Ag Biotech.
http://news.indiainfo.com/2008/03/07/0803072112_kalam.html
"Will you take up the call of Ganga to clean it up, at least, in Kashi?," Kalam, who was taking a class at the university, asked the students.
"You represent the youth power, you can bring the change in the society, technology and even the management, so why don't you rise up to the occasion and clean up the holy Ganga, at least in Kashi?," the ex-president said.
He asked thousands of students sitting to attend his lecture to go for "Mission Clean Ganga".
Citing an example of Punjab, where the disciples of a "baba" cleaned a 160-km long river after he instructed them, Kalam stressed that the initiative for cleaning Ganga would be revived if BHU students were to take it
Updated: Friday, March 07, 2008 at 11:12:59
Students could be seen breaking the security cordon to climb the stage to take a closer look at Kalam. They raced behind the fleet of cars as security personnel escorted the former President away.
Varanasi's 'Mrs India'
Prabhu Razdan, Hindustan Times
Varanasi, February 11, 2008
She may not have been granted Indian Citizenship rights, but she has been here for 40 years.
Dr Bettina Baumer, born in Austria, has been working in Varanasi since 1967. Unbelievably, she is today a renowned scholar of Sanskrit, Kashmir Shaivism, Indian philosophy and art.
Visit Abhinavgupta Research Library at Bhadaini near Assi Ghat in Varanasi, one finds her busy teaching scholars from India and abroad. But in a traditional Indian (Pandit) style, sitting on the ground.
“I came to India about 40 years ago and got married to India”, says Baumer. “My entire life is devoted to India,” she says, adding,”I came to India as a student in 1967 and taught in Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi’. She has a strong feeling for the Sanskrit language. She has hold on this language to the extent that most foreign students and also from India feel in pride in being students of Dr Baumer.
Interestingly, the teaching is totally free of cost.“ I don’t charge any thing except meagre charges for using library”, she says, adding,` this too I charge for maintaining this library’.
The library is a real treasure of knowledge. There are books which are very difficult to find in the market.” Anyone who want to read such books are welcome at the library”, she says,adding, `no book is given outside’.
Baumer, it may be mentioned it may be mentioned has been director of a research institute on Indian art in Varanasi and coordinator of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Varanasi. Since 1995, she is regularly teaching as visiting Professor at the universities of Vienna, Berne and Salzburg. She was also Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Baumaer has authored many books in German and a number of books and scholarly articles in Sanskrit and English, including three volumes of Kalatattvakosha : A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts edited by her. She became a disciple of Swami Lakshman Joo in 1986 and has been teaching Kashmir Shaivism and its texts for a number of years.
CV of Dr. Bettina Baumer
Univ. Doz. Dr. phil. Bettina Bäumer
http://www.hindu.com/2008/02
BHU gets funds for Ayurveda dept.
Varanasi: The Central Government has sanctioned an amount of Rs. 2.5 crore to Banaras Hindu University (BHU) for various projects being undertaken by its Ayurveda department.
University’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. Panjab Singh said Rs 2.5 crore has been sanctioned to the Ayurveda department for research and development under different projects.
The programmes would be developed on the campuses, including main campus and Rajiv Gandhi south campus, he said.
http://www.cybermedia.co.in
Excerpts:
Press Release - February 10, 2008
CyberMedia's 4th BioSpectrum Biotech Public School Survey 2008 Reveals List of Top 19 Public Biotech Schools
- Rank 1: University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Rank 2: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
- Rank 3: Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Trivandrum
- Rank 4: Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
- Rank 5: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi
- Rank 6: National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
- Rank 7: GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar
- Rank 8: University of Kashmir, Hazaratbal
- Rank 9: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
- Rank 10: The Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda, Vadoda
- Rank 11: Department of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, Jammu
- Rank 12: Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
- Rank 13: Department of Microbiology, Bangalore University, Bangalore
- Rank 14: Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
- Rank 15: Department of Biotechnology, Government Science College, Bangalore
- Rank 16: Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Tezpur
- Rank 17: Department of Biotechnology, Kumaun University, Nainital
- Rank 18: Department of Microbiology, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
- Rank 19: Department of Biotechnology, Burdwan University, Burdwan
IGNOU targets 3.5 m students, to start 2 more centres in UP
Varanasi, February 12 The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has set a target of enrolling 3.5 million students by the end of the 11th Five Year Plan.
“The increase will make our student base represent 40 per cent of students enrolled in higher education/tertiary education system of the country,” said D K Choudhry, IGNOU Pro Vice-Chancellor.
At present, there are 18 lakh students who have enrolled with the open university, representing 17.5 per cent of the students pursuing higher education in India.
To boost its student intake, IGNOU has notified two more regional centres at Aligarh and Varanasi.
Lucknow already has a regional centre and Varanasi has a sub-centre at Benaras Hindu University’s (BHU) campus.
The university has notified to convert the Varansi sub-centre into a regional centre.
“We met BHU V-C Panjab Singh who has assured to give land for the centre at BHU’s South Campus in Barkaccha. If things turn out as planned, the Varanasi regional centre will start functioning at the campus in two years time,” Choudhry added.
The Varanasi regional centre will coordinate all the study centres in the state’s 16 eastern districts.
Efforts are underway to set up study centres at Chandauli, Mau and Maharajganj, the only three districts of eastern UP, which have no study centres, Choudhry said.
He added there are plans to introduce some new courses, including a course in sports medicine and sports psychology that have been proposed by the Kolkata regional centre.
Besides, a proposal by the Varanasi centre to start a course in poultry science and technology is also under consideration.
“If the course in poultry science and technology takes off, we will ensure that it comprehensively covers various aspects of bird flu,” Choudhry said.
About IGNOU:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes
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| Take your pick 18 Feb 2008, 0545 hrs IST  , TNN |
| In addition to the CAT and CET, there are a host of management entrance tests that students can consider. Jayanti Ghose walks you through the choices. An MBA is among the most coveted professional qualifications today, in India and the world. It translates into varied employment opportunities, scope for advancement to the top positions in industry, lucrative salaries (when the MBA is from a premier business school), and allows flexibility for changing tracks, either when one is tired of being in one industry or organisation or when economic upheavals lead to growth in another sector or organisation. Admission into an MBA is a competitive process, involving a written test, group discussion and a personal interview. Most MBA programmes are open to all graduates and the written test tends to focus on assessment of skills important for studying management, but not giving much of an edge to graduates of any one discipline. The Common Admission Test is one of the most prominent national-level management entrance tests and CAT scores are used by about a hundred odd B-schools to shortlist candidates for group discussion and personal interview for finalising selection of students for their MBA or equivalent programmes. Many states, like Maharashtra, also conduct a Common Entrance Test (CET) for shortlisting candidates for the state-level B-schools. The question that arises in the minds of many management aspirants is whether there is any scope for doing an MBA without appearing for the CAT or CET. There are, in fact, quite a lot of choices for students who have not or are planning to not appear for the CAT or CET. Among the prominent choices are XAT, ATMA, MAT, SNAP and JMET, which are used for admission to various B-schools for an MBA or equivalent. |
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By Nandini Lakshman, BusinessWeek
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:31 AM
It's a Sunday afternoon and class time for 39-year-old IT worker Seema Shetty. Her feet curled under her in a swivel chair, she sits in front of a computer monitor, adjusts a set of headphones, and scribbles in a notebook. Shetty, who works for consulting firm Mastek in Mumbai, is in a virtual classroom in the Vile Parle suburb, where a dozen computers link students to some of
Today's class is a three-hour general management lecture, part of the online education course conducted by the Xavier Labor Relations Institute in
A consultant for various industries from insurance to banking, Shetty signed up for an online certificate course to "learn more about my clients' business requirements," she says. By enrolling in the 14-month, six-hour-per-weekend online course, at a cost of US$4,600, she can further her education without having to take a two-year career break to get an MBA. Learning online, says Shetty hopefully, "will definitely boost my job prospects".
Shetty is part of a growing tribe of working professionals and students in
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(Chronicle note: In this scholarly article, the author tries to compare the output of publishing academic articles in respected journals by Aligarh Muslim University and Banaras Hindu University. He observes that BHU is ahead in publication of more articles than BHU because of pragmatic steps taken by its Vice-Chancellor Dr. Panjab Singh, such as improving academic atmosphere at the campus, filling up teaching vacancies, encouraging research, etc. He is optimistic that if the current Vice-Chancellor of AMU, Dr. P. K. Abdul Aziz takes the similar steps, then research output can be increased by the faculty of Aligarh Muslim University.
In any case, the research output statistics stated in the articles are very interesting, and author has worked hard to collect the facts and figures. Research statistics about a university can be also read at Scopus (www.scopus.com), institute membership needed. )
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By Rashid Hasan
What ails AMU?
Recent incidents of violence on the campus have generated a lot of debate within and outside the university about the state of academic standards at AMU. Many people have argued that these incidents point to the falling academic standards. Are the standards really falling or it is only a perception? To answer this question and also to find where AMU stands vis-à-vis BHU, I have collected information about the research output, the number of sanctioned teaching posts and student enrollment at the two universities. The data on the number of papers published have been retrieved from ‘Scopus’, the Abstract and Citation Database of Elsevier B.V. (Amsterdam). The database covers more than 15100 peer-reviewed scientific, technical, medical and social science journals, including more than 180 good quality Indian journals. Elsevier has its own criteria for selecting journals for including them in the database. So, not all journals are covered by the database and thus the figures given in the following tables may not tally with those maintained by different departments.
Table1 presents the number of research papers published by the faculty of AMU and BHU during the period 2000-2007.
| Year 2000 | Year 2001 | Year 2002 | Year 2003 | Year 2004 | Year 2005 | Year 2006 | Year 2007 | Total |
AMU | 147 | 167 | 183 | 252 | 281 | 327 | 388 | 373 | 2118 |
BHU | 409 | 397 | 368 | 424 | 421 | 468 | 559 | 652 | 3698 |
Table6. Papers published during the last five years by
Departments | Year 2003 | Year 2004 | Year 2005 | Year 2006 | Year 2007 | Total |
Applied Science Departments | 32 | 24 | 25 | 33 | 28 | 142 |
Engineering Departments | 21 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 101 |
Total | 53 | 44 | 47 | 53 |