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Foreign faculty members engaged with some of the IITs have complained of harassment and delays in the police verification and visa registration processes they have to undergo. Foreign faculty members engaged with some of the IITs have complained of harassment and delays in the police verification and visa registration processes they have to undergo. The issue, it is learnt, has reached the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). IIT Kanpur was the first to flag the issue to the Union HRD Ministry and raised the matter at the meeting of the IIT Council in September this year. The Pallam Raju-led ministry subsequently shot off a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary to have the issue sorted out at the earliest. With most IITs working keenly on building their international profile and planning to host more and more foreign students and visitors for six months or even more, there is an increasing demand for a more streamlined registration process. Foreign visitors and students in

Police have launched investigation into the mysterious death of a student at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) campus near Agartala on Wednesday. Rahul Kumar who hailed from Bihar was found unconscious at his hostel bathroom and later declared dead when taken to government GB Hospital. The second year student of electronics and communications department in the premier engineering institute had not past complaint of any major ailment, a police officer said. “We are waiting for the post-mortem report to know exact reason of death, but we have already involved in preliminary investigation”, he said. Reports said the 21 year old ill fated student went to bathroom in the morning and his fellow students broke into when he did not make an exit after a considerable time. Rahul Kumar was found lying unconscious and was taken to GB Hospital in Agartala following advice of a local doctor. Doctors at the GB Hospital however instantly pronounced him brought dead. Apparently no

Top class football action, on a scale not seen in the country before, is coming the way of Indian fans. FIFA, the international football body, on Thursday awarded India the right to host the Under-17 World Cup in 2017. India beat stiff competition from Ireland, 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa and Uzbekistan to get the final nod from FIFA's executive committee at the resort town of Costa Do Sauipe in Brazil. "This is historic. This is what we have been waiting for. I need to thank the  FIFA  executive committee for keeping its trust in us and granting India the right to host the 2017 U-17 World Cup,"  AIFF  president  Paful Patel  said after the announcement was made late on Thursday. FIFA president  Sepp Blatter  told a news conference that selecting India was "really a sports political, a geopolitical decision." The tournament, in which 24 teams will take part, will be held at six venues which are to be selected from eight prospective centres — New Delhi,

Microsoft recruited nine students at the IIT-B campus placements–five for US and four for India. Post-midnight developments at the premier IIT-Bombay campus, early on Monday, left several students thrilled. High-profile companies not just offered seriously high pay packets, they also went in for bulk hires on campus. A similar situation played out at other IITs in the country as well on the first two days of placements.  Samsung  Korea, for one, hired around 14 candidates from IIT-B-the highest so far. Google picked up around 10 students.  Samsung Korea, which made an offer of $135,000 on campus, excluding performance-based incentives, hired 14 candidates for both its US and Korea offices. Last year, it had hired only one candidate.  Google hired three students for its California office and seven for India.  Microsoft recruited nine students at the IIT-B campus placements-five for US and four for India.  As most of these companies made bulk offers, by the end of the first day, the

The  IIT  student, who allegedly went  missing  from the campus after he failed to clear a group discussion as part of placement process, went to Haridwar for "finding peace" and has returned to the campus.  Naveen Kumar Jha, a second year student of M Tech, was reported to be missing since Monday by the  IIT administration . But he returned yesterday and said that he had gone to Haridwar to "find peace" as he was disappointed after he failed in the placement process.  A K Ghosh, dean of students welfare, said the administration will not take any disciplinary action against Jha and he is being counselled by counsellors at IIT.  Ghosh said the process of campus placements was underway and Naveen appeared in a company's group discussion but did not clear it.  "On Monday night, when the hostel warden went for a routine round, he found the door of Naveen's room open and his mobile, laptop and ATM card on his bed. The warden thought he might have gon

The brain is a roadmap of neural pathways linking many networks that help us process information and react accordingly. Women  have sharper memory while men coordinate things better. An Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi alumni has created the first ever  map of neural circuitry  inside a human brain which has confirms that women's brains are designed for social skills and memory while men's are for perception and co-ordination. However, there is one field in which women beat men hollow - multitasking, finds the study that looks at brain connectivity. A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published on Monday has found striking  differences in the neural wiring of men and women that's lending credence to some commonly-held beliefs about their behaviour. In one of the largest studies looking at the "connectomes" of the sexes,  Ragini Verma , an associate professor in the department of radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University

Salary packages exceeding a crore have made an appearance at an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) after a gap of three years. On the first day of final placements at IIT-Madras, two computer science students received offers of $210,000 (Rs 1.31 crore) each for international roles. While the institute declined to confirm the name of the company, sources associated with the placement process said Oracle, the American information technology company, has made the crore-plus compensation offers, which include a joining bonus. The highest offer for a domestic role (within India) at IIT-Madras increased to Rs 48.68 lakh, compared with Rs 28.82 lakh last year. Recruiters have been more generous this year at IITKharagpur and IIT-Guwahati as well for jobs outside the country. At IIT-Kharagpur, according to people involved in the placement process, the highest salary till Sunday evening had touched $150,000 (Rs 93 lakh) for an international role, compared with $125,000 last year. A

Lest you get lost in the intricate web of Mumbai local train network, there is little reason to worry. You can now access a commuter-friendly and easily navigable railway map designed by students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). “This is a first of its kind initiative, wherein the students as a part of their class assignment have created an implementable project for the suburban railways of Mumbai,” said Mandar Rane, associate professor, Visual Communication, Industrial Design Centre, IIT-B. The colour coded  map  designed by first-year Masters in Visual Communication students, Jaikishan Patel and Snehal Patil, comprises of connecting routes that link western, central, harbour and Trans harbour train stations. “What makes the map unique is that we have included shuttle express ways which run from Vasai to Roha. Moreover, there is clear distinction between Fast and Slow local stops which existing maps don't provide. The visual appearance is easy on eye an

Close to a fourth of the IIT-Powai campus was placed by Tuesday evening. About 400 offers were made and all were accepted. So far, salaries have gone as high as $2,10,000 per annum for international offers and Rs 48,68,000 per annum for domestic offers at IIT-Bombay. Day 3 of placements at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay saw the highest international offer from MEC Japan that offered jobs to five students for an annual salary of 5 million yen (around Rs 30 lakh). Domestic recruiters included power management company Eaton, Intel, Morgan Stanley tech division, Ernst & Young and Cadbury. By the end of day 2, nearly 331 offers were made, said placement faculty in charge Avijit Chatterjee. "We are doing marginally better than last year," he said. The late evening slot on Monday saw the highest international offer coming from Epic, a healthcare software firm which offered jobs to 18 graduates from IIT-Bombay, 20 from IIT-Kanpur and 12 students from IIT-Khar

Dr Ramamoorthy, Dean, IIT-M, and Hiroaki Harata, GM, Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Japan, presenting The Nissan Global Foundation Fellowship Award to IITM students Suraj Vallamkonda and Supriya Kalidoss | Martin Louis Earning further laurels for IIT-M, city’s premier technical and engineering institution, two of its students, Suraj Vallamkonda and Supriya Kalidoss clinched the Nissan Global Foundation’s Fellowship award recently. They will be given a research grant of up to `1.2 lakh and will also be given a short training in Japan by Nissan. The award was presented to the students by Hiroaki Harat, general manager of Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Japan, in the presence of Ramamoorthy, Dean, IIT-M. Harata congratulated the students and informed that they had been selected through a tough and gruelling procedure which tested both their technical and leadership skills. The organisers further informed that the award, which was given in collaboration between IIT Madras and Nissan Global Founda

Two 21-year-old, soon-to-graduate IIT Kanpur engineers stunned tech major  Oracle  by turning down offers of Rs1.31 crore ($210,000) each, a top person involved in the process told ET. Both have opted for other companies that offered lesser pay, but gave roles the students liked better. They may have opted for Google, which offered Rs68.34 lakh ($110,000), or Tower Research Capital, a US-based  financial services  firm, which rolled out a package of Rs74.55 lakh ($120,000). "This just shows that not everyone is running after money," a placement team member, who did not wish to be named, said. "These students are mature; they know money does not reflect everything." The rapidly unfolding drama on Day 2 of the campus placement season at IITs threw more surprises. Zomato, an online food and restaurant listings startup, offered the highest salary on Day 2 at IIT Bombay, more than what marquee brands, including  Samsung  India R&D, Citicorp,  Xerox   Research, Ado

The devaluation of  rupee  seems to have taken its toll on campus placement at  IIT-Bombay  this year. The highest package offered for an international posting at IIT-B this year was $1,30,000 per annum, down from last year's $1,50,000. The devaluation of the rupee have taken their toll on the handful of students who bag these handsome packages every year. The offer was made by  Samsung  US/Korea, the same firm that had made the highest offer in the last placement season at the  Powai  campus. Till the time of going to press, the name of the student who had bagged this offer was not available. But the highest package, if calculated in Indian rupees comes to around Rs 80 lakh a year, same as what was offered last year. Sriram Bhargav, a computer science student, had bagged the highest-paying job for a posting in the US last year. Investment and advisory firm  Blackstone  made the highest package offer this year for domestic placement at Rs 40-50 lakh per annum. While the

Salary packages exceeding a crore have made an appearance at an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) after a gap of three years. On the first day of final placements at IIT-Madras, two computer science students received offers of $210,000 (Rs 1.31 crore) each for international roles. While the institute declined to confirm the name of the company, sources associated with the placement process said Oracle, the American information technology company, has made the crore-plus compensation offers, which include a joining bonus. The highest offer for a domestic role (within India) at IIT-Madras increased to Rs 48.68 lakh, compared with Rs 28.82 lakh last year. Recruiters have been more generous this year at  IIT  Kharagpur and IIT-Guwahati as well for jobs outside the country. Indian startups also in list of employers At IIT-Kharagpur, according to people involved in the placement process, the highest salary till Sunday evening had touched $150,000 (Rs 93 lakh) for an international role,

 Facebook, the recruiter every campus awaits, has not just looked beyond the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) this year but offered jobs to more candidates from non-IIT engineering institutes. It has picked up three of nine IITians and four of five non-IITians who interned at its Menlo Park headquarters in the US from May to August. They will join after their graduation in 2014. Each will earn $1,00,000 (Rs 62,39,000) as annual base salary, $75,000 (approximately Rs 46,80,000) as a one-time signing bonus and FB stocks  worth $1,00,000 that would be handed out over four years. Of the four non-IITians selected, three — Anish Shankar, Shubhanshu Aggarwal and Rohit Girdhar — are from an autonomous university, the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H). They have accepted the pre-placement offer.M Last year, FB had not accepted IIIT-H's invitation to participate in campus recruitment but had recruited only from the premier IITs. This time, FB did n