CHENNAI: India Institute of Technology (IITS) have long been recognized as one of the best of our education system and also have the worldwide recognition that the institutions comparable to the best in the world, the vice-president, planning the communication, Montek Singh Ahluwalia said here on Friday.

As graduates of the IITS were well in the USA, the U.S. Congress recently adopted a resolution on the estimation of these institutions, alongside the assessment of contributions by Indian Americans on the U.S. economy .

India is indeed the rate of private savings on a broad basis of the ability of business, commitment to an independent judiciary and respect for accepted standards of accounting had observers suggest that the country has able to achieve a growth rate of over 8 per cent per annum, however, support political measures were available, “said Ahluwalia also the convocation address in IIT.

M.S. Ananth, director of IIT Madras, has been awarded 1134 degrees. Among them, 82 Ph.Ds, 98 MS, 411 M Tech, 37 MBA, MSc 83, 80 and Dual Degree 343 B. Tech.

“These accounts cover a wide range of disciplines and specialties offered by the ten engineering departments, three divisions, the division of management studies and the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Humanities”.

The Chairman, Board of Governors, AE Muthunayagam said the creation of technology park would be a reality, with the government allotting areas related to the IIT.

Among the winners was Arvind Thiagarajan, receive, the President of India and the price by the highest score among CGPA-tech students and pupils in two ways.

The governor, the prize went to Mahesh Krishnamurthi (B. Tech). Karthik Srivatsa (B. M. technology and dual-Tech Degree), Dr. bags Shankar Dayal Sharma, while the price-AVN Ravikanth, the Institute was awarded the Order of Merit.

Boston (AP): The Indian-origin chief engineer of a Panama-registered container ship who oversaw the illegal dumping of tonnes of oily sludge into the ocean was sentenced by a federal court to two months in prison.

Mani Singh, 58, was also ordered by district court judge Patti B. Saris to pay $ 3,500 in fines. He had pleaded guilty in December.

MSC Elena, a 30,971-tonne vessel operated by MSC Ship Management Ltd of Hong Kong, made regular trips between European and US ports, including Boston, federal prosecutors said. The company pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $10.5-million fine, the largest in a case involving deliberate pollution from a single vessel, and the largest fine paid by a defendant in an environmental case in Massachusetts, the US attorney’s office said.

The ship discharged about 40 tons of oily sludge during a five-month period in 2004 by using a specially fitted steel pipe to bypass required pollution prevention equipment.

The coast guard had discovered the bypass pipe during a routine inspection in Boston harbour in May 2005.

Chennai, March 28 (PTI): Loyola College, Chennai, today, a declaration of intent with the London Metropolitan University (LMU) to jointly develop Graduate and Undergraduate Programs post.

The agreement will also allow the exchange of students and staff and develop educational curricula and teaching methods, Mark Bickerton, director of the LMU said.

College Principal Brother Albert Muthumalai told reporters that Loyola would be an Msc in Food Chemistry and Nanoscience and is awaiting approval of the conclusion of the next academic year.

The school should also M Phil and PhD in biotechnology, he said.

To a query, Dr. Oscar Nigli C, Director Foreign Desk, Loyola College said it was an opportunity to renew the agreement Loyola Institute of Business Administration, and the need to discuss them.