Dhaka, June 4 (UNB) - A high-profile delegation from different Indian educational institutions Sunday visited Dhaka University and met its VC Dr SMA Faiz. Indian High Commissioner Veena Sikri, Deputy High Commissioner S Chakravarti, DU Pro-VC Prof Yusuf Haider were present on the occasion. The delegation members are Dr RK Soni of Physics Department of Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Prof Shantanu Bhhattacharyia of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Dr LS Shashidahra, Scientist of CCMB, Hyderabad and GL Sagar of Educational Consultants India Ltd Uttar Pradesh. During the meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interests, especially the possibility of strengthening scientific cooperation, exchange of teachers and students and other programmes between the Dhaka University and the Indian institutions of higher education. Indian High Commissioner Veena Sikri assured VC Dr SMA Faiz of providing all possible assistance and cooperation to the Dhaka University. Later, a general discussion was held between the visiting Indian team and deans, chairmen and experts of the Dhaka University at the Centre of Excellence. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is expected to be signed between the Centre of Excellence for Science, Dhaka University and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore at 3PM tomorrow (Monday).

Bangalore, June 30 (PTI) Defence Policy PSU Bharat Electronics Limited unofficial nine-time (Independent) directors to the board of directors of the company.

“Nine of renowned specialists are now on the Board of Directors at the Bel-compliance with directives SEBI and the Department of Public Enterprises, that 50 percent of the board of directors of the company include independent directors, company said today release.

The new independent directors are appointed Bhupindar Singh, former CMD, State Trading Corporation of India, N Balakrishnan, chairman Science and Information Services Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor (Electrical Engg), IIT, Chennai, M Rammohan Rao, Dean, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, KG Ramachandran, former CMD, BHEL, V Bhaktavatsalam, former MD, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited, Goverdhan Mehta, former Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Sadagopan, director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and SP Parashar, director IIM, Indore, “he said.

The Government believes that investments in institutions of higher education and research and development are as important as investment in physical capital and physical infrastructure.

What we need, world-class universities, and there must be a beginning to an institution. We need a university is a place next to Cambridge or Oxford and Harvard and Stanford.

I am pleased that the Assembly know that we have selected the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, which enjoys a good reputation as a centre of excellence in research and development. We will ensure that IISc, in a few years, a world-class university. I suggest, for an additional amount of Rs 100 crore a grant for this purpose ”

– Palaniappan Chidambaram, Minister of Finance Union, Feb. 28, 2005

This brief, but as regards the IISc May, the famous “Jewel of Bangalore” into the limelight, but once again for thousands of students and professors of science and technology, a graduate of the sylvan want and greenery of the Institute, IISc and is of particular importance - an importance as a leading institution not only in India but also overseas.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that almost IISc began the spirit of scientific research not only in southern India, but the entire sub-continent.

While the first efforts in the creation of the Institute was certainly the Jamsetji Tata, it was the report of a committee, headed by Jamsetji Tata, saw at the time Secretary of State for India, Lord Curzon (an Etonian himself), an active interest and support for Noble Prize winners Sir William Ramsay (the discoverer of noble gases like neon), to identify an ideal location for the future Institute for the Advancement ” Originally investigations in all areas of learning and to take advantage of India. ”

Sir Ramsay’s opinion acceptance of Bangalore. With the support of the court of Mysore - the Wodeyars munificent a grant of 372 hectares, the Indian Institute of Science was on the path of reality.

The first part of the way students have been admitted again in 1911 after the Maharaja of Mysore, Shri Krishnarajendra Wodeyar, has laid the groundwork. Currently, the Institute is 443 hectares of land in the city, more green space in a city whose infrastructure to burst the seams!

The creation of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the year 1956 saw the Institute grant, as the university.

Thus, although some of India, which in the field of science and technology have been in contact with the Institute of India alongside its own Noble laureates Sir CV Raman. Others include Prof. JC Ghosh and Satish DHAWAN - one of the men contributed to India to take to the Final Frontier space.

In addition, Sir CV Raman was the first director of the Indian Institute of registration during the year 1933, but Homi Bhabha was a volunteer assistant at the Institute only a year ago. The Institute of stock plan services of volunteers, the father of modern India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the manufacturer of modern Karnataka, Sir M Vishveswaraya and JRD Tata.

So what is it that IISc is among his fellow age? An obvious answer would sweat and boredom of its faculty and its students is what it is today. Professor Goverdhan Mehta, director of the IISc in place, said that there are a few little things that contribute to a world-class institution.

“An institution, an environment conducive to creativity and excellence thrive. We were able to do so, we have a good atmosphere for the faculty and students interact. Our advantage is also conditioned by the because we anticipated the possibility of cross-disciplinary interaction, “he adds.

Another advantage, said Professor Mehta, the Institute enjoys the wealth is intellectual capital of excellence with several heads. Although Professor Mehta is very satisfied with the generosity of the FM, he believes that such funding should not be used to award only once, but on a sustainable basis.

“We need the equipment must be updated regularly. The physical infrastructure on campus must be improved. New concepts in buildings are safe and energy efficient buildings, and should be integrated in our physical infrastructure” , He adds.

In addition, while preparing the budget is around Rs 150 crore according to RS 160 crore is virtually hunger salary compared to what institutions such as Stanford and manage. The Stanford Management Company, an enterprise of the University of planning, indeed, manages both the physical and financial assets with a value of $ 10 billion (estimated Rs 44000 crore).

Stanford Foundation assets, consolidate and manage common (the new entity called the Foundation Pool), has an annualized return of 15.1 percent compared to a 10 years, so Stanford’s MEP one of the best performers of all Report of college and university foundations, according to a report from the company Cambridge Consulting Associates.

For all those self-flagellation in India on the results of their higher education, not a single Indian university among the top-100 institutions in the world, after a last survey in 2004 by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education.

Not that China costs better. You do not have in the Top-100-be, and there is less than a half-dozen Asian institutions in the World 100 14 University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, 21, 54 Osaka University, University of Moscow in 66th Hebrew University of Jerusalem and 90 position withdraws the world.

The world is dominated by institutions of the American brand, Harvard, Stanford and the occupation of two positions, and Cambridge (3) and Oxford (7) an interruption of the USA’s monopoly of the Top-10. Seventeen of 20 American universities, indicating that, despite the recent decline in foreign students in the USA, universities, higher education remains an American stamp.

But the Chinese have clearly self-criticism of the list with a view to improving their own university system, in accordance with their stated national priority from 100 of their universities in the world-class facilities, a goal which is not even discussed, let alone India.

Indeed, India lugubrement rates even among the top 100 universities in Asia, with only Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT Kharagpur, and the University of Calcutta, which is included on the list. Asia is dominated by the list of institutions in Japan, South Korea and Australia, with a smattering of China and Israeli institutions.

The criteria for classification in the list and graduated from the Faculty of winning Nobel prizes and medals, international research courses in 21 broad categories of discussion and articles published in journals such as Nature and Science.

With the classification of the collection and India live in poverty in the presence of him, India should have the force of sheer numbers of their students and the inevitable excellence of the creamy layer of these huge figures.

While the Indian media ravens on the flight students the USA has proved that the Chinese are celebrating a decline in demand in the USA as a sign of its success in strengthening national institutions.

Nearly 80000 Indian students came to the USA last year for higher education, so that the largest contingent from any country. Participants in the Chinese market, less than 62,000.

Are genetic defects, cancer, epilepsy, deafness, blindness, diseases of the brain or even infertility different from the Indian population, compared to other population groups? It is a matter of several researchers in Bangalore, trying to meet its work on the forefront of the field of genomics.

Finding answers could pave the way for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of various diseases. One of the largest research efforts being done outside the city is in the field of genetics of cancer. Entitled “New targets for the treatment of cancer with the approach of genomics and proteomics” research is a cooperative effort cancer screening, researchers throughout the world “to decipher the genetic changes that occur during the birth and cancer progression.

The leadership of the Indian Institute of Science bio-chemistry professor MRS Rao, the study looks at the genetics of different types of cancer, in order to find likely targets of the drug fight against the disease. One of important discoveries that came near the study is the discovery of a new gene ‘X’ in India patients who can help clinicians days on the development of brain illness.

The Indian Institute of Science Researchers also new types of defects for Indians BRCA1, one of two genes linked with breast cancer, according to the first study ever on gene therapy in India.

“Our data from 14 families suggests a prevalence lower, but the participation of germ-line mutations in the BRCA1 gene among Indian women with breast cancer and a family history of breast cancer,” said Soma Kumaravel Sundaram, Department of Cell Biology and microbiologgy in IISc.

New gaps were also recognized IISc genes in blindness because of glaucoma.

At the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, researchers have identified a gene that epilepsy.

The research group headed by Professor Anand Anuranjan is currently in a common effort to digitize epilepsy Indian families concerned for the development of new genes associated with epilepsy.

The group was also the identification of genes and mutations cause deafness and showed that mutations in the gene connexin26 is a major cause of profound deafness in the Indian population.

“Identifying these mutations in infants and children, help in early diagnosis of deafness, so that intervention strategies can be achieved at an early stage, such as rehabilitation,” says Professor Anand.

A large part of gene research in the city is also laying new diagnostic techniques for diseases and disorders of health. The study of breast cancer, for example, a test for early detection of hereditary breast cancers.

Genetics many projects are also on other laboratories, including the city of Nimhans.

Basic Science Education is an area of the thrust of this house. The government is currently considering an RS-800 crore training and scientific research package. In addition to the renovation of scientists, research institutes, they used to finance three committed sciences, research institutes and teaching.

Marked interest basic research and the declining number of scientific personnel in the country were a source of concern for the government. As part of their budget debts, the HRD has tried to ministry, an RS-600 crore package as a support base for research, RS 100 crore for the two Indian Institute of Science Education & Research in Calcutta and Pune, and another for Rs 100 crore Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Given that the interest shown by the clock and the scientific committee for the promotion and rejuvenation of education scientific basis, the ministry is confident that the budget package. It would be in agreement with the government’s emphasis on basic research, science, which led to an allocation of Rs 100 crore during the last budget IISc, Bangalore, to ensure that it reaches the standards world-class.

In addition to the care of the budgetary authority sought for some institutions, the government of the injection of new efforts in the search for life in basic research, science will cost Rs 600 crore per annum. Of which, RS 400 crore for infrastructure development in universities and Rs 150 crore for setting up 10 centres for basic research science.

The 10 centres networking created in key departments of universities in different parts of the country to promote collaborative research, access to modern facilities and implementing training in the border regions. Of these two centres are in physics, chemistry natural sciences, life sciences, material sciences, mathematics and science. These centres are widely supported on a long-term, to ensure that international standards.

The RS-400-crore package of measures aimed at improving the infrastructure of science seeks an increase of five times the number of doctorates in science, the modernization of research laboratories and a starter-Fonds . Credits have been requested for the promotion of a formal relationship between universities and national institutions, including CSIR laboratories through joint research projects and training.

The government is the result of the proposal by Mr Sharma of the task force created by the Department of Human Resources Development in 2005, to assess the state of scientific research and training in universities and determine areas and action.

A long-time resident Bahrain presented yesterday his right to say glory, it was one of the fastest to mentally calculate the cube root of any number a maximum of 15 points, writes Mandeep Singh.

Director General of services wireless local loop aluminum, KK Thomas Held a presentation to the media by the Hotel Taj Palace Hotel, during which he showed his art, he said that he had perfected after two years research and hard work.

Also present at the event were his friends and well-wishers.

Thomas, a resident of Bahrain for the past 26 years, said he also for the Guinness Book of World Records, and he expects them to hear soon. “While there are many have done so, perhaps I can right the fastest,” he said, periods between nine and 99 seconds to solve complex problems.

He said it has expanded its technical capabilities and to monitor carefully the evolution of figures, especially the different properties item 9 and 6 He said he now works when you try to calculate the numbers of any How long.

“I have almost completed the study 80 percent on the calculation of the cube root of a number of 18 digits, spiritual,” he said.

Thomas said the London Mathematical Society, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Faculty of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, among others, have already recognized, feat.

He said the London Mathematical Society had requested the dispatch of the methodology, so that it could be published in its journal control.

The head of the department of mathematics at the Indian school, VR Palaniswamy the direction of the proceedings at the event.

The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, in bags this year’s KC Mahindra Award for Excellence in Automotive Design.

Shamit Srivastav, a student of second year of the program design Masters of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, is the first runner-up, a victory quotes cash 50000-R to an approach combining a utility tractor with the name “Gaorun.”

This year’s first prize was not awarded because no entry could be the position.

The second runner-up was awarded to a team of four, Divya S Sarma, Vaibhav Anand, Vijay Abhishek and kshatriya, students of NID, Ahemadabad with a cash prize of Rs 25000

These students have a vehicle with the code name “basket” with a flexible mix of the provision of 10 to 12 people standing and mode 6-7, while resting.

The models were selected from over 100 entries in the various educational institutions in the country

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced the launch of their research activities in India. Kapil Sibal, Minister of State for Science and Technology, technical development and sea for the Government of India, opened the operations of the revelation of a commemorative plaque at the opening ceremonies for research investment. The laboratory in Bangalore, the third Microsoft Research Facility outside the USA, long-term basic research and applied research. Microsoft Research India (MSRI), is initially beginning of the investigation the fields of geographic information systems (GIS), technologies for new markets, multi systems and sensor networks.

“It’s a good feeling to have started our activities in India. The vitality and energy of the Indian community of research are very encouraging,” said P. Anandan, managing director of Microsoft Research India. “We unstinted support of all human beings, we talked about - we believe, a high level of synergy with Indian universities and government in our development objectives of basic and applied research.”

Microsoft Research India and the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ocean Development today a declaration of intent signed to find partners in scientific and technological research projects. The first cooperation project is a geographic information systems project, which provides a large number of satellite images, remote sensing and other geographic data in a geographically indexed databases. Microsoft Research India, a large part of the Government of unsensibel spatial data available to the public in a format that is easy to navigate and understand, with intuitive visualization of data. Finally, such a system could enable humans to exchange information, the same way as the Internet to large, but indexed by region and geography.

Search for this project includes work areas of information technology, including GIS, graphics, user interface, space databases, image processing and computer vision. As the project progresses, citizens of India can actually be a bird in the country. Advanced digitization of India ground support relief funds for planning and monitoring in the wake of natural disasters.

“We are pleased to sign this agreement with the Government of India. This is the first of many alliances, we have seen in India with the government and other research organizations to help solve some of the toughest problems in the IT sector and accelerate the next generation of innovations in software and data processing, “said Anandan. “We are also actively cooperation with academic institutions and several projects to incubate creative approaches to meet the needs of the communities they serve

Microsoft Research in India has officially started its activities and opens its technology Vista 2005: Computing for Tomorrow, the first in a series of annual symposia.

The event aims to attract researchers from around the world and give them a platform for presenting their efforts.

Speakers on the symposium, Mr. Rick Rashid, Senior Vice-President of Microsoft Research, M. Butler Lampson, a scientist-in-chief and Mr. Daniel T. Ling, Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft Research and roundtables on “The search for training and research in India” and “technologies for emerging markets.”

Beginning as a catalyst for research activities across the country, MSRI has several projects in Indian universities, including the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Several projects, covering various fields such as wireless sensors based on water resources management network for monitoring and control of irrigation networks of sensors to detect the disaster landslide and ethnographic studies of ICT for development have been selected. MSRI has a total of $ 250000 for these projects.

Microsoft Research India’s funding of ICT projects is an example of our commitment to cooperation with Indian universities. I see this commitment increasingly in the future. We assume that considerable investment in research to improve, “said Rashid.