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IIT-Gandhinagar to reach out to community

Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) is gearing up to promote entrepreneurship at the grassroots level in its neighbourhood. It will do so by cultivating a social entrepreneurial ecosystem among its faculty, staff and students.  To develop its outreach entrepreneurship programme, the institute signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with I Create India, a non-profit organization that has been offering entrepreneurship programmes to disadvantaged youth and women since 1999. The MoU was signed by Prof Sudhir K Jain, director of IIT-Gn, and Ulhas Kamat, CEO of I Create India.  Following the MoU, I Create India and IIT-Gn conducted an Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP) for the faculty and staff of IIT-Gn as well as Vishwakarma Government Engineering College and Saffrony Institute of Technology.  "IIT-Gn believes in being an involved member of the community and a good neighbour. We are constantly looking for ways to engage with and contribute to the local

High Court asks CBSE to inquire into leak of Class 12th Physics paper

The Delhi High Court today asked the CBSE to inquire into the alleged leak of Class 12th Physics question paper in Manipur after a petition sought that the examination be held again across the country and not just the state. A bench headed by acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed also asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to inquire as to how many hits have been received by the web sites where the question paper was allegedly available. “Find out from your (CBSE) regional office as to how the question paper got leaked,” the bench said while posting the matter for further hearing on March 27. “Have you (CBSE) conducted an inquiry as to how many hits the web sites received after leaked question paper was posted on them?,” the bench asked. The bench was hearing a petition filed by advocate Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi in which he alleged that the Physics question paper of the class 12th examination was leaked and circulated on web sites and it was also sold in the market in Man

CBSE 2014 Biggest Leak: Maths Paper leaked 12 hours before

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As expected the important cbse maths paper was leaked all over India by various social networks especially through emails. Our IITandKOTA team has got latest photos of the leaked paper which went viral 12 hrs before the exam.  This is the Biggest ever paper leak scandal ever faced by the worried faces of CBSE. Parents and students are saying that due to Elections 2014, the govt is paying dead ears to all the leaked papers of CBSE 12th BOARD EXAMS

The World’s First Bionic Plant

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Imaging the fluorescence of carbon nanotubes inside leaves of an Arabidopsis plant using a single particle near infrared microscope. Like a flood of needles , an onslaught of carbon nanotubes seeps in through a plant's leaves' and beelines toward each cells' chloroplasts—the hub where sunlight transforms into chemical energy. These nanotubes, thin straws of latticework atoms, pierce the energetic chloroplasts and imbed themselves like a thousand splinters. But rather than irritating or damaging the cell, the foreign particles are giving the plant a hardware upgrade.  A team of MIT scientists  announced yesterday  in the science journal Nature Materials that by integrating these nanotubes into the leaves of several lab plants, they were able to markedly enhance each plant's ability to perform photosynthesis. By creating the world's first bionic plants, they increased the plants' light absorption by 30 percent.  "You could really use any nanoparticle,&qu

IIT Madras offeres MTech scholarships

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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras  invites applications for M.Tech Scholarships for students pursuing their Master of Technology program offered in various disciplines for academic session 2014. Scholarship Details: Financial assistance in the form of Half-Time Teaching Assistantship (HTTA) at the rate of Rs 8, 000 pm (tenable for a maximum period of 24 months) will be awarded to Indian nationals doing the M.Tech programs, subject to institute rules. HTTA students are required to assist the department for 8 hours of work per week related to academic activities of the department such as laboratory demonstration, tutorials, evaluation of assignments, test papers, seminars, research projects etc.  Eligibility:  Candidates should have a bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture from educational institutions approved by AICTE/Government. How to apply:  Candidates can apply online by visiting its official website http://mtechadm.iitm.ac.in from Ma

IIT Kharagpur student commits suicide

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A student from Nalgonda district, pursuing his M. Tech course from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, committed suicide. Boga Shravan Kumar (25), a final year student, was found hanging from the ceiling in his hostel room by his classmates, police said on Monday. Shravan, born in a poor weavers’ family, belonged to Raghunathapuram village in Rajupet mandal. PTI adds: Additional Superintendent of Police of Kharagpur B. Chandrasekhar said as per the preliminary investigation it was found that the campus placements of final year students of M. Tech was held recently and Shravan got a job but it was not up to his expectation and that he was disheartened over this. Yadagiri, father of Shravan, said they were informed that his son was disappointed with the placement. The family received a call from IIT-Kharagpur in the afternoon. “Initially, they told us that Shravan was seriously sick. Half-an-hour later, they said our son had committed suicide,” Yadagiri said, fighti