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Changes in FinMin: In first step, Subbarao is economic affairs secy

Duvvuri Subbarao today joined as secretary, department of economic affairs, Ministry of Finance. He belongs to the 1972 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (Andhra Pradesh cadre).

Prior to this, he was working as secretary to the Prime Ministers Economic Advisory Council. He will replace Finance Secretary Ashok Jha, who also held charge of economic affairs.

The government, however, did not announce who the new finance secretary would be. According to sources, the appointment will await other changes in the finance ministry.

More : business-standard.com

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The gung-ho Indian

Sridhar Chandrasekar was a systems analyst in a bank and in his late-20s, when he decided to pursue his Masters in the US. He stayed on to gain work experience at a time when software outsourcing was growing in popularity (1991-99). I was part of the boom period when Indian software companies made strident gains by winning large-volume contracts, especially during the Y2K and Internet/dotcom boom, he says. During this period he realised that the best avenues for Indian talent could be found only in India. In any other place, the quest will only be partially fulfilled and there will

HC reserves order

HC reserves order The PIL bench of the A P High Court on Tuesday reserved orders on a writ petition seeking a direction for housing the IIT at Basara. It heard senior counsel S Ramachandra Rao at length before reserving its orders. Venugopalachari, former MP and Telugu Desam leader from Adilabad, filed the writ petition complaining that the governments action in seeking to shift the location from Basara to Medak, was politically motivated. The petitioner said that investments were already made at Basara and any change would mean needless expenditure. More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Hard nut IIT-JEE to have a soft shell

Hard nut IIT-JEE to have a soft shell Good news for all IIT aspirants. The hard to crack entrance examination, IIT-JEE, is set to get simpler. This year, IIT-JEE candidates will be required to appear for two papers and not three. The IIT-JEE 2007 will be held on April 8. Each paper will be of three hours duration and will consist of questions on physics, chemistry and mathematics. Till now, students had to appear for three papers, one each on physics, chemistry and mathematics. The duration of each paper was two hours. The questions will continue to be of objective type

Quake-resistant Roomi Darwaza

The gateway to Awadh Roomi Darwaza has been selected for a pilot project for seismic retrofitting. Its for the first time ever in India that such an initiative was being taken to make archaeological structures earthquake resistant and preserve their pristine glory. A joint team of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) would be visiting this heritage site to explore the possibilities of making it earthquake resistant. More : timesofindia.indiatimes.com

IIT Kharagpur ties up with Taiwan school

IIT Kharagpur ties up with Taiwan school The Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) has is in the process of signing a memorandum of understanding with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) of Taiwan which will facilitate research collaboration, joint research, joint mentoring for students and student and faculty exchange especially in the field of chip designing and fabrication. While the Indian market has facilities and trained manpower for chip designing, those for chip fabrication are not available. Although IIT-KGP has a VLSI (very large scale integration) designing laboratory, we are still trying to set up a chip laboratory for

Seminar on Surface Transportation

An international exposition-cum-seminar on 'Surface Transportation - Emerging opportunity and technology' will be held here from August 17 to 19. Announcing this at a press conference, K E Raghunathan, Chairman, All India Manufacturers Organisation, which is organising the event with IIT-Madras, said around 250 delegates and 100 exhibitors will participate in the event. Malaysia would be the partner country for the seminar and China for the exhibition. Job fair, partner sourcing, auction of used machinery and sale of reconditioned machinery will also be conducted during the event. At the end of the third day's programme, a roadmap will be prepared

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IIT-Kharagpur gets its own law course

IIT-Kharagpur gets its own law course It has the IIT tag, but isnt a technical institution. It is the first-ever law school that focuses on intellectual property rights (IPR), property and tech law and will be up and running in July. In July, Kharagpur-based Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will open its gates for the first-ever batch of students at what it calls the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law. Based on a decision by the HRD ministry, it is also the only law school to be run by an IIT. Incidentally, IIT-Kharagpur was also the first IIT to start

IIT Kanpur gets funds from alumni

IIT Kanpur gets funds from alumni The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here has received financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh in USD from its 1972 batch graduates in order to create two chairs. This was the largest donation by the former students to IIT Kanpur. Former student Udai Pratap Singh said the batch would provide financial assistance for scholarship to needy students. He said the 1972 batch had been considering to provide Rs 5 lakh to the institute. Two students, Kamal Aggarwal and Rakesh Gandhi, had promised $ 1 lakh each for establishing the faculty chairs, the biggest ever donation to create chairs.

FSS chief Arun Kumar passes away

FSS chief Arun Kumar passes away Former Chairman of the Executive Council of NASSCOM (National Association of Software & Service Companies) and incumbent President and Managing Director of Flextronics Software Systems (FSS) Mr.Arun Kumar had passed away on Friday night due to cardiac arrest at San Diego in the US He is survived by his wife Amita, and his son Kunal. Mr. Kumar had been associated for the last 10 years with the Flextronics, which started off as Hughes Software Systems. Arun had an unyielding belief that people always come first. This philosophy impacted everyone who came into contact with him,