Published on July 25, 2008
The Chronicle June, 2008 issue.
Vol.2008 : Issue 0006
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(Chronicle note: We have received the following message from IT-BHU Global Alumni Association)
The website www.itbhuglobal.org is the official website of IT-BHU community. The server for the website is located in
We wish to reproduce the following facts:
1) Our alumni association has passed resolution stating that www.itbhuglobal.org is the official website for our alumni association. This was published in March 2008 issue of chronicle:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2008/03/#002238
2) The official website of our institute (www.itbhu.ac.in) points towards www.itbhuglobal.org as the official website of our alumni:
http://www.itbhu.ac.in/alumni/default.shtml
3) The institute administration has approved www.itbhuglobal.org as the official website for IBGAA. The letter from the institute was published in Sept. 2007 issue of chronicle.
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Below is the email sent to our administration about new website for our alumni organization and the approval received from our Director, Prof. S.N. Upadhyay
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----- Original Message --From: Director ITBHU Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:07 am Subject: Re: Official website for IT-BHU Alumni Association
To: Yogesh Upadhyaya
Dear Shri Yogesh
Thanks for bringing IT-BHU Alumni Association activities back to normal and hosting another website.
Good luck to you all.
Yours sincerely,
S
Director, IT-BHU
----- Original Message -----
From: Yogesh Upadhyaya
To: director@itbhu.ac.in ; dean@itbhu.ac.in
Cc: core@itbhuglobal.org
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: Official website for IT-BHU Alumni Association
So far we have been using itbhu.org (URL: www.itbhu.org) as our official website. However, due to technical and managerial problem in management of the site, which resulted in the content not getting updated on time and not being able to respond to queries, we are now hosting the alumni website under a new name (URL: http://www.itbhuglobal.org) on a different platform. As it can be seen, the new name is more aligned to the global mandate of our association.
With regards,
On behalf of IT-BHU Alumni Association
Yogesh K. Upadhyaya (Chemical 1977)
Ujj Nath (Metallurgy 1979)
Debashish Bhattacharyya (Mechanical 1982)
Arvind Gupta (Electronics 1992)
Anand Singh (Electronics 1993)
Jagadish Bandhole (CSE 1995)
Anshuman Singh (Electrical 1998)
Animesh Pathak (CSE 2003) Southern
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There is exciting news about IT-BHU being converted into IIT. As per govt. press release, the cabinet has approved the decision to convert IT-BHU into IIT. This clears the way for further actions in this regard.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=40461
During the monsoon session next month, the parliament will discuss about establishing new IITs. The existing IIT Act, 1961 will be modified to add the names of all new IITs including IIT-BHU.
After the IIT Act is modified and passed by the parliament, the next step will be the modification of BHU Act, 1915 by the parliament. This is also needed to convert
After completion of several other steps, it is expected that final official announcement about IIT-BHU will be by the end of the current year, or latest by early next year.
| Ordinances planned for new IITs, univs |
| Siddharth Zarabi / New Delhi July 14, 2008, 0:05 IST |
| Against the background of growing political uncertainty, the Centre is planning two Ordinances to fast-track the creation of eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and 16 central universities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A draft Ordinance for 12 new universities and upgrading four — Bilaspur University (Chattisgarh), Garhwal University (Uttarakhand), Goa University and Sagar University (Madhya Pradesh) — is expected to be put up for Union Cabinet approval. This will take the number of central universities to 37. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An Ordinance for the new IITs is also being considered to implement the initiatives that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had formally announced in his Independence Day address in 2007. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The department of higher education had earlier sought Cabinet approval to amend the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, to include the eight new IITs and to form a society under the Societies Act, 1861, to set them up. The plan to form a society is being shelved to hasten the process. With the Banaras Hindu University's Institute of Technology also slated to be upgraded to an IIT, the number of IITs will increase to 16.
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| For the new IITs, the government has provided for Rs 2,000 crore in the 11th Plan and, to start with, Rs 50 crore has been allocated in Budget 2008. For the 16 central universities, Rs 2,725 crore has been provided for in the Planm, with Rs 50 crore allocated in the Budget. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Two sites for the new IITs have been finalised – Bihta in Bihar and Medak in Andhra Pradesh. For the others, an expert committee is examining sites proposed by the Gujarat, Punjab and Orissa governments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=40243
It is proposed to set up 8 new IITs in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and
BHU hails Centre's decision to give IIT status to its IT dept
Posted at Friday, 18 July 2008 08:07 IST
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http://www.mynews.in/fullstory.aspx?storyid=6535
SteelGuru launches steelpricesindia.com: An exclusive Web portal for Indian and global steel sector(Deepali Batra/Neha Kaushik)
Publication Date 24/6/2008
The massive use and demand of steel in
Steel prices have been rather bullish in year or so impacting the users as well as buyers in a severe way leaving no benchmark for them to compare their transaction prices. In the present scenario where one needs to have nerves of steel to take considered decisions in this sector, www.steelguru.com, the world’s largest English based steel portal has come up with its very own www.steelprices.com as a solution. Steelprices-india.com is, therefore, providing domestic pricing information for steel products in each category at select location in
Mr Nishith Sharma of steelguru.com said that considering the fact that
Steelprices-india.com has prices displayed on daily, weekly and monthly basis with search facilities to access old data from the archives. Graphical representation of trends and comparison of price movement is also available. A calculator to convert domestic prices into comparative CNF and vice versa is provided along with a converter for weight, length etc. One can also monitor currency exchange rates, metal prices, BDI for the day and can take help from glossary and advanced search functions as well. All these features are accessible only to a registered user who is provided with a login id and password. To know more about the services, logon to www.steelprices.com or send a mail to info@steelprices-india.com.
Steelguru.com is the largest English based steel portal in the world, with more than ONE million page hits per month in just 3 years of operations. It compiles and publishes more than 100 articles every day on the website and also sends out free email based news letter called STEEL TRADE TODAY to more than 35,000 subscribers spread across 138 countries.
www.steelprices.com is an extension of www.steelguru.com and English languages’ largest circulated electronic newsletter for steel called STEELGURU which was a brainchild of Mr Nishith sharma. He completed his engineering from BHU in metallurgy and joined SAIL. Soon he caught the eye of non other than Mr Lakshmi Mittal and went on to head Mittal Steel''s marketing operations in
Contact info:
Nishith Sharma
Founder & CEO
Major & Minor
B 704 Millennium Plaza, Sushant Lok 1 Gurgaon 122002
Email: editor@steelguru.com
Honorable
Manu K. Vora, Ph.D., MBA, ASQ CQE, ASQ Fellow
ASQ Grant Medalist (2001),
Adjunct Professor, Stuart
Chairman and President, Business Excellence, Inc.
P. O. Box 5585, Naperville, IL 60567-5585, USA
Website: http://www.b-einc.com/
The tree-house resort project, possibly a unique of its kind in the world, is promoted by a team of 3 businessmen: Mantosh Das, Sunil Mehta and Uttam Kumar. The resort site will be open for general tourists by December 2008. Mantosh Das can be contacted at: mantoshdas@yahoo.com.
The promoters team: From Left to Right-Mantosh Das, Mr. Sunil Mehta, Mr. Uttam Tharyamal.
Profile of Mantosh Das, Sunil Mehta and Uttam Tharyamal:
http://www.naturefarms.in/promoters.htm
Mantosh Das has worked as project engineer at Pesticides India. Currently he is involved in trading of silk, chemicals, electronics devices, as well as development of nature based properties/ projects.
Education:
MBA, Marketing from
B. Tech. Chemical Engineering, IT-BHU (1977)
News article about tree-house in Sify.com:
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14711472
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Some bird species in nature farm
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News item in
Abhishek Kumar, a software engineer from Houston, is a supporter for Barack Obama in
(Abhishek Kumar)
Hindu Nationalist Models Campaign for Premier after
“A month ago, Abhishek Kumar, an Indian-born software engineer from
"I am not even an American citizen, and I cannot vote," Kumar, 26, said from
But perhaps the most enduring image that many Indians have of Obama is a recently released photograph of his personal luck charms. In the collection there was a Hanuman figure, the Hindu monkey god.
Immediately, a group of overjoyed priests at a Hanuman temple here began performing an 11-day ritual prayer for Obama's victory.”
Website: www.midcareers.com
Press Release in Business Wire
http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=16405
Excerpts from the Press Release
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Source: midcareers.com
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 06:35 PM IST (01:05 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Accounting & management consultancy services, Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
India’s First Placement and Career Enrichment Portal - Midcareers.com - Launched for Middle Career Professionals
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 -- (Business Wire India)
Yoganishta Technologi-s, a well known placement services company, has just launched www.midcareers.com, which offers placement and career enrichment services for middle career professionals. This is the first of its kind service in
Some of the key highlights:
-- Exclusively for middle career professionals i.e. professionals with over 8 years of experience and in the middle management
-- Career focus, not just jobs – career development is a continuous process, placement is an event. Focus is on both
-- A hybrid execution model – online web applications to relate to wide section of midpros and supported by offline delivery to ensure individual attention
The idea and the model has been built with the experience of G Ramu from interactions with a wide cross section of mid-career professionals while in corporates, later as a placement consultant and after exhaustive research on mid-career professionals. And backed by Yoganishta, a placement services company that has been growing at a rate of 40% year on year since 2003.
Speaking to the media, G Ramu, Chief Architect, said, “Middle career’ professionals face two kinds of challenges as far as career is concerned. One, finding the right kind of job, which fits their profile – professional and personal. Two, addressing their career needs. Typically this includes addressing questions like “Am I in the right kind of job?” “Am I moving in the right direction?” “How do I enhance my capabilities to have better growth?”
Media contact details
KS Rajasekar - Chief Knowledge Officer,
midcareers.com,
+91 (044) 43453333 / +91 9841384190,
raj@midcareers.com
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Additional links:
1) Looking behind the great wall-article
http://www.midcareers.com/storage/Looking%20behind%20the%20Great%20Wall.pdf
2) Career Portals for mid career pros launched
http://news.webindia123.com/news/printer.asp?story=/news/articles/India/20080709/995681.html
News From Webindia123.com Career portal for mid career pros launched
Chennai | Wednesday, Jul 9 2008 IST
Midcareers.com, a specialised portal for mid-career professionals aimed at improving their placement and career enrichment, was launched here today. The portal would help experienced professionals find right job in the right Industry, its Chief Architect G Ramu told reporters at the launch function. He said mid-career professionals or midpros as they were called, were uniquely positioned in their career and life. ''A midpro is a mid-career professional who has had around eight years of experience with rich experience at the middle management level and is very focused on his role,'' he added.
Mr Ramu said there was a growing demand in most industries, including IT and manufacturing, to find the right manager to meet their requirements. ''We at midcareers.com aim to bridge the gap by finding the right candidate for the right job in the right kind of industry,'' he added. He said Midcareers.com would work with middle career professionals on the key aspects of placement and career enrichment.
''Career Guide, Career Counseling, Career tools, Thought Exchange and Placement are the five services being offered now by Midcareers.com, each of which has a clear objective in the business plan,'' he added.
3) Placement services for mid-career professionals
About 40 per cent of the mid-career professionals switch jobs
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/07/12/stories/2008071251050700.htm
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Brief Profile of G. Ramu
His career journey has been through Asian Paints, Britannia and leading IT organisations - HCL Technologies and iSOFT.
His public profile can be viewed on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/a50/ab
Education
MBA, Human Resources from XLRI,
B. Tech, Metallurgy, IT-BHU,
G. Ramu can be contacted at: gramu@midcareers.com
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http://www.varindia.com/searchdetails_title.aspx?id=f9d04296bd414d99a092b6af449c3de3
Amba research Appoints Anand Pande as Group CEO
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Profile of Anand Pande:
1) http://www.ambaresearch.com/amba/people/anand_pande
2) Education
- 1989 Master in Business Administration, Faculty of Management Studies,
- 1987 Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical,
Contact Email
(Info provided by Shalini Fernandopulle; shalinif@ambaresearch.com)
Manas Maral is software engineer-turned to Yoga Expert. After working at Tavant Technologies at
For 34-year-old Manas Maral, his journey from software to pranayama, acupressure healing and now even the opening of a six-bedded care centre has been one of self-discovery. He discovered yoga and pranayama when his wife was severely ill for a few months three years ago and he did not get any relief through conventional medicine. When he realised the benefits of yoga, he attended several camps held by Swami Ramdev and encouraged his extended family to find a cure for their ailments.
Manas first held regular yoga classes at Tavant. After some time when more than 250 persons had started doing yoga in the company on a regular basis, he reached out to other IT firms. Manas started taking classes at other IT firms of Lucent, HP and Mu–sigma and recently also at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Karnataka Reserve Police Force — all free of cost.
Manas dreams his care centre will one day give rise to a hospital which would be run on modern lines to identify diseases and where the cure would be based on yoga and ayurveda. He also wants to provide healthy and balanced food on a large scale to working professionals, who, he feels, eat food which is unsuitable for their sedentary lifestyle.
As Manas states:
“I do not teach Yoga for merely fitness or being healthy. I do treat disease of any kind (minor to major). The treatment methods include Pranayam, Aasans, Acupressure, Home remedies, Food change and Ayurvedic Medicines. I have made a TRUST, "Sushrut Kayakalp Centre",
which got IT exemption for any donation under 80-G.
Under this banner, I wish to open a treatment and research center. The aim of this centre would be diagnosis of disease using modern equipment and correcting it in natural methods. If required, patient will be admitted. Poor will be treated free of cost, including tests / admission / food, everything. Just because they are poor, they should not be deprived of treatment. Since, I am using all natural methods and results are extraordinary, the expenditure for any patient will be minimal. People wish to donate in cash or in kind (medical equipments, vehicle, land etc) are welcome.”
His work is also appreciated by media. Article on his work appeared in Tribune, Eenadu, E-sanje Prajawani, Mid-day etc. Some episode of his Yoga program was also telecasted on ‘IN Bangalore’ TV channel. Some of them can be found at
1) Engineered to heal - in Tribune
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080112/saturday/main3.htm
2) Price of Success at tribune
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071014/spectrum/main1.htm
3) Mission Yoga-in
http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5644&issueid=44&Itemid=1
4) Social Work by Manas Maral-Chronicle February 2007 issue:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2007/02/#001602
Computer savvy people can join his Google group to seek solutions / remedies for their health problems http://groups.google.com/group/manas_yoga_treatment
Phone: 41609291, 25720609 Mobile: 98801-96566
Mail: manasmaral@gmail.com
Address:
27th Cross 19th Main HSR-Sector-II Bangalore-102
(Forwarded by Arpit Sharma, Final year M. Tech. Biomedical Engineering)
(Pallab Bhattacharya)
His bio-data is attached here
http://www.itbhu.net/bme/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=57
Date of the seminar is 29th Sept to 2nd Oct 2008.
Pallab’s work includes:
a) Developing the model and system identification of cerebral pressure and study of auto-regulatory mechanism during normal condition.
b) The auto- regulatory mechanism of the cerebral capillaries is impaired during the stress and stroke conditions. The cerebral circulatory disturbances caused under stroke results into the changes in mechanical properties of cerebral capillaries.
c) System identification and modeling of cerebral auto- regulation mechanism during stroke will be studied
Pallab Bhattacharya can be contacted at: pallab.bhu@gmail.com
Additional links
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2) National Institute of mental Health and Neuro Sciences
http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/
3) Prof. Jean-Claude Baron, Professor of Stroke Medicine,
School of Clinical Medicine,
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/mech/research/researchnews
Appointment
Research Fellow joins School
Dr A P Harsha, a Reader in Mechanical Engineering at
The research project will investigate novel biolubricants for use in the testing of biomaterials used in total joint replacements. Dr Harsha will use a state-of-the-art wear test device, the only one of its kind in the world, which will provide copious and vital experimental data for this exciting research project.
Profile of Dr. A. P. Harsha
Jul 05, 08
exchange4media News Service
Sameer Kapoor has come on board NDTV India as CEO. He will be responsible for driving the business of the channel, besides looking at revenues, distribution, general management and exploring new initiatives. Kapoor moves from Metropolitan Media Company Pvt Ltd, the JV between Times Group and HT Media, where he was President.
Previously, Sameer has worked as Managing Director for two years with Scholastic India Corporation, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and multimedia company. He has also worked with various consumer durables companies such as Carrier Aircon Ltd, Whirlpool, Bausch and Lomb, IFB Industries, Singer India and HCL Ltd, specialising in marketing and sales. His last stint in the marketing and sales field before joining the media domain was with Carrier Aircon Ltd, where he was Director, Marketing & Product Development.
Kapoor holds a graduate degree in Economics from SRCC, Delhi University, and has acquired specialisation in Marketing, Master of Management Studies, from
http://www.hindustandainik.com/news/5922_2134023,0015002500030002.htm
HT Correspondent
24 Jun 2008, 0343 hrs IST,TNN
The Central government has just discovered that the admission process to some of
Since 2002, the HRD ministry has been upgrading Regional Engineering Colleges to NITs on the lines of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to provide quality technical education. The government passed the NIT Act in 2007 and all these colleges were declared institutes of national importance.
Fifty per cent of NIT seats are reserved for students of the particular state where the institute is located. The remaining seats were till now reserved for students hailing from other states and
But now, the HRD ministry has realised that such an out-of-state seat quota threw merit to the wind. So while the state quota stays, the remaining 50% of seats in the 20 NITs, which have a total student intake of 9,580, will now be given to out-state students based on their all-India AIEEE rank and not the state rank. NIT-Nagpur director S R Gokhale explained that state-wide seat distribution had several "constraining features".
He described one problematic scenario. Assume two seats were reserved for Assamese students, four for students from
The HRD ministry notification points out, "With this system of filling outside state quota seats, there were situations when candidates with higher marks from some states/UTs were not getting admission in NITs, whereas other candidates from other state/UTs with lower marks were getting admission."
The scenario gets even more complex when one breaks down the quota of every state and then bifurcates it among open category and reserved category students. Here too, merit was going for a toss. The notification reasoned the change of admission process to "other demerits like, possible situations where candidates from a particular category with very low marks from certain states getting admission while candidates from the same category with much higher marks but from some other state being denied admission".
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Press-release from the ministry
18 Jun, 2008, 2034 hrs IST, IANS
The leader of opposition in the assembly, Oommen Chandy, said the government had agreed to the project early this year and had even taken advance money from the central government, but later backed down.
"In February, the state government came out with an order stating they have transferred the Cochin University to the central government to be upgraded into an IIEST at a cost of Rs 518.33 crores (Rs 5.18 billion) and even collected Rs 50 crores (Rs 500 million) as advance," said Chandy.
"But in a recent meeting of the top HRD (human resource development) officials, along with IIEST officials in
The human resources ministry announced setting up of the IIESTs to meet the growing demand for engineering and scientific manpower in the country. These institutes have been marked a 'institutes of national importance' on the lines of Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology.
Chandy alleged that at the same meeting where the Kerala refused IIEST,
Speaking to media a top official of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), on condition of anonymity, said, "We were