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November 2008

• Curriculum change in Orissa schools likely  (0)
• Regional Centre for Biotechnology Training and Education in Haryana  (0)
• Centrally funded non-NIT/IIT engineering colleges in various states; need a KBKIET in Kalahandi  (0)
• IITs may become real universities and have more non-technical programs  (0)
• Disagreement on the WCCU and National university plans  (0)
• Call for EOI for establishing a medical college in Balangir  (0)
• Indian Institute of Handloom Technology at Baragarh inaugurated: Sambada  (0)
• Naveen asks for a regional center of IGNTU in Kandhamal and more  (0)
• Indian student numbers in the USA  (1)
• Ravenshaw University in two years under the leadership of VC Devdas Chhotray  (5)
• Two third of IGNTU students are tribals  (0)
• Indian money spent in Australia for higher education  (0)
• Oxford bookstore opens in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Manipur campus of IGNTU approved  (2)
• AICTE to allow doubling of seats in colleges with a more than 4 year record  (1)
• IIT JEE 2009: Students passing qualifying exam before Oct 1 2007 are not eleigible  (3)
• Scholarship for docotoral studies abroad  (0)
• Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri to have 25 universities  (1)
• Vedanta University hires Paulien and Associates  (0)
• My perspective on Vedanta University  (11)
• Setting up of 6,000 Model Schools at Block level gets union cabinet’s nod: PIB  (0)
• Vedanta University clips in youtube  (0)
• Prof. Arun Pujari is joining as the new vice chancellor of Sambalpur University  (1)
• XIM Bhubaneswar’s plans and status report  (0)
• Orissa government to give 10,000 higher education scholarships of Rs 10,000/year on MCM basis to Engineering, Medical and Dental students  (1)
• Children Education Assistance and Reimbursement of tution fee  (0)
• Asian Institute of Public Health to come up in Orissa  (3)
• Orissa govt. ready to give land, water, road and electricity for free and wants IIT Bhubaneswar construction to start as soon as possible: Sambada  (0)

October 2008

• Cabinet approves South Asian University  (0)
• IIT JEE 2009  (1)
• Lot to learn from Andhra Pradesh  (0)
• Some GRE resources in the web  (1)
• Andhra Pradesh plans at least one university in each of its 23 districts  (0)
• Mission and vision of Sri Sri University  (0)
• More details emerging on Sri Sri University  (0)
• Health Minister’s status report in the Lok Sabha on the AIIMS-like institutes  (1)
• Lok Sabha debate on Maritime University Bill: Orissa MPs make cursory requests for a branch in Orissa  (0)
• Japan to help IIT Hyderabad in graduate programs and in developing a management program  (2)
• Some Stanford course materials are available in web  (0)
• Math olympiad examination 2008  (0)
• Ford foundation international fellowships  (2)
• State universities needed in Orissa interior districts (Bhawanipatna, Phulbani, Angul and Keonjhar) and Rourkela  (0)
• NID in Bhopal from 2009-10. What happened to the one in Orissa?  (0)
• Recruitment evaluation criteria at Orissa universities and perhaps in many state universities across India  (1)
• IIT Hyderabad takes the lead in starting Ph.D programs  (2)
• NISER wiki and NISER’s visiting faculty  (1)
• TIFR plans campus in Hyderabad  (1)
• Educational and Research institutes in Hyderabad  (0)
• Vedanta University Project helps farmers  (0)
• Ravenshaw to house a regional centre of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)  (0)
• Ravenshaw to set up “Akshaya Mohanty Centre for Contemporary Music”  (0)
• Comparative Data for IITs and NITs during 2007-2008: from the MHRD 2007-08 annual report  (0)
• RIEs to offer International Diploma Course in Guidance and Counselling  (0)
• BIT asked to admit students by October 31st; BPUT has to figure out how!  (0)
• Layout drawings of IIIT Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Layout of Parala Maharaj Engineering College, Berhampur  (0)
• Orissa government issues tenders for IIIT, Parala Maharaj Engineering College and Construction Academy  (0)
• Centre to send a team to assess proposed IIT sites  (2)
• Searching the web for recent news on AIIMS-like institute in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Academicians demand new Central varsities in backward regions  (0)
• UGC pay hike proposal has rider  (0)
• Orissa govt. scholarship for girls in Orissa pursuing graduate studies in medicine, engineering and management: ad from Samaja  (8)
• Upgradation of ITIs  (7)
• Scheme for Girls’ Hostel for students of secondary and higher secondary schools  (11)
• Recommendation of the pay review committee of the UGC  (10)
• Cabinet approves 12 new central universities (one in Orissa) and four upgradations  (6)

September 2008

• UCE Burla gets conditional nod to be made to a state university  (14)
• Foundation stone of Sri Sri University laid; web site unveiled  (8)
• Bill to ammend IIT act (to include the new IITs) to be placed in the next parliament session  (7)
• NASSCOM and MHRD tussle over the 20 new IIITs  (6)
• Some central universities to come up earlier than the others?  (6)
• IIT Bhubaneswar advertises for faculty positions and for registrar  (12)
• Hi-tech group to make a knowledge city in the Bhubaneswar area?  (6)
• Vedanta University invites contractors, suppliers and service providers  (0)
• Hi-Tech group’s plan for Khurda, Jatni and Rourkela  (1)
• Three new ITIs to be set up in Kandhamala  (0)
• Vedanta University advertises in TOI for GM-Projects, Manager-CSR and Manager-Legal-Affairs  (0)
• Vocational Education in Orissa  (0)
• Model Schools (one each in each block) will be better than Kendriya Vidyalayas  (0)
• Vedanta University presents its vision to teachers in Puri  (3)
• Applying for faculty positions at IIT Bhubaneswar  (0)
• 153 Faculty poistions at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack  (3)
• Expert committee report on 374 model colleges in educationally backward districts  (0)
• Land acquisition status of Vedanta University  (6)
• Punjab retreats from its earlier proposal to make Punjab University a central university  (1)
• Bokaro steel plant sponsored medical college almost ready in Jharkhand; Orissa can not convince RSP or NALCO for a similar effort  (1)
• Brief updates on NISER Bhubaneswar  (0)

August 2008

• 3314 Merit-cum-Means national scholarships for Odisha high schoolers: Samaja  (0)
• Vedanta University does the right thing and makes sustained efforts to win the hearts of locals  (1)
• Some details on the proposed 20 IIITs across the country  (2)
• Update on the proposed university by Art of Living and Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidyamandir trust; Sri Sri Institute of Management Studies, Bhubaneswar  (2)
• UCE Burla Students’ dharna reported in various newspapers  (7)
• UP Marches on with its own version of top notch institutes  (0)
• Assam plans to set up 3 medical colleges, 10 engineering colleges and much more  (0)
• WCCUs to be called National Universities?  (0)
• Cabinet clears National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) in Mohali  (0)
• UCE Burla students write to CM to make it a unitary university  (1)
• Vedanta University hires advisors for its medical college  (5)
• New centrally supported ITIs in Maoist infested blocks: Samaja  (0)
• Engineering and Medical College in Keonjhar?  (3)
• Lower bound of faculty payscales at IIT/IISER/NISER type institutes after the 6th pay commission  (51)
• Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology (BIT) has just received AICTE approval  (12)
• Gujarat plans Surakshya University and University for Forensic Science  (0)
• Prof. Pankaj Jalote will be the founding director of IIIT Delhi  (2)
• Dr. Laxman Mohanty, one of the founder of Silicon, Rest In Peace  (36)
• UCE Burla has submitted its Deemed University application  (2)
• People of Kalahandi up in arms for university: Dharitri  (2)
• IIT Bhubaneswar location search reaching a conclusion  (0)
• More Billionaires follow Anil Agarwal in establishing universities; though at a much smaller scale  (0)
• UGC recommends 735 additional universities; actions that Orissa needs to take  (8)
• Residential school in each district for child labourers  (0)
• Update on the HRD initiatives; location of 10 new NITs  (0)
• Law University to start classes in 2009-2010  (2)
• Some details on the proposed Jagadguru Kripalu University of Spritual Sciences: material provided by the university planners  (2)
• Khurda Rd - Khurda area is set to become a major knowledge hub  (0)
• CM writes to HRDM that the second central university be in Koraput  (7)
• Orissa Cabinet approves the Vedanta University Bill; it will be placed in the next assembly session  (13)
• MOU signed for a private medical college in Kanishi near Berhampur: Dharitri  (8)
• Other Engineering college clusters in Orissa  (17)
• List of Engineering Colleges in the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri-Dhenkanal area  (9)
• CM writes to HRDM to make UCE Burla an NIT  (11)
• News on the other new IITs: IIT Gandhinagar to start Computer Science and Civil Engineering next year  (9)
• 2008 Open-Close ranks for EE and ME at various IITs, ISM and (I)IT-BHU  (7)

July 2008

• Update on the proposed world class central universities  (9)
• Orissa offers land for NID and makes a new proposal: Samaja and tathya  (9)
• HHI Hotel Management School in Bhubaneswar  (10)
• Nominations invited for new IIT directors  (12)
• Foundation stone laid for engineering college in Berhampur; classes to start next year  (6)
• ISI Kolkata opens a research center in Chennai  (0)
• 104 students get admitted to IIT Bhubaneswar  (2)
• New campus for Institute of Mathematics & Applications (IMA) inaugurated in Bhubaneswar  (1)
• New ITIs and mini-tool rooms in the cards: Samaja  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar first year students status at IIT Kharagpur  (0)
• 17+1 New Engineering Colleges in Orissa that are admitting students this year through BPUT counseling  (32)
• IIT Bhubaneswar first off the block  (1)
• DAE tender for a vehicle in Bhubaneswar - Is it for NISER construction?  (0)
• Project cells created for the six AIIMS like institutes  (0)
• Cabinet approval of the new IITs  (0)
• 13813 villages in Orissa do not have any schools: Samaja  (0)
• Ten percent free seats in engineering colleges of Orissa: Sambada  (2)
• MOU signed for a Vedic University in Banki  (0)
• IISST is a deemed university now. Why is NISER behind?  (0)
• Some details on the proposed South Asian University in Delhi  (0)
• Emergency measures for new IITs and new Central Universities  (1)
• NTTF graduates from Gopalpur have job offers  (0)
• IISERs to come under NIT act?  (0)
• Haryana IIM to be in Rohtak, 70 kms from Delhi  (2)
• Orissa to push for the centrally funded IIIT to be in Berhampur: Dharitri  (0)
• IIIT in Berhampur and NID in Orissa back in the radar  (5)
• IIT Bhubaneswar classes to start at the same time as IIT Kharagpur classes  (2)
• Vedanta University: preferring Orissa over other states  (0)
• Corporate Houses To Set Up Technical Institutions in West Bengal  (0)
• Shitalapalli shortlisted as the location of the govt. engineering college in Berhampur: Samaja  (0)
• New IITs at the mercy of their mentors. Will IIT Kharagpur do the right thing for IIT Bhubaneswar?  (1)
• Vigyan Bharati trust signs MOU with WODC for a medical college in Rourkela  (5)
• Panel to identify varsity locations  (10)
• 2500-5000 new model schools: 1-2 in each block of the country  (8)
• Assocham observations of money spent in IIT coaching and Indians going abroad for their studies  (9)
• Tamilnadu and Himachal Pradesh’s HRD steps on CU, WCCU and IIM  (10)
• IIT Gandhinagar looking to corporates to fund IIT Chairs  (11)
• Student preferences among the old IITs  (13)
• 2008 Orissa JEE (BPUT JEE) Counseling details  (109)
• Vedanta University ties up with DAV School  (9)

June 2008

• One of three apex Tribal research institute to be in Orissa  (10)
• Employees’ State Insurance Corporation to Set up Medical College in West Bengal  (9)
• Partial list of GOI institutes funded by various ministries  (8)
• EDI branch in Orissa: Sambada and Samaja  (0)
• Orissa government allocates 2.5 crores to the Engineering College in Berhampur: tathya.in scrolling text  (7)
• Orissa JEE (BPUT JEE) counseling to start July 11th: Sambada  (57)
• Course announcements of Utkal University of Culture  (1)
• AICTE voluntary scheme for tution fee waiver for women, economically backward, and physically handicapped meritorious students  (2)
• Cabinet approves two Schools of Planning & Architecture (SPAs) in Vijaywada and Bhopal  (1)
• Faculty positions at NISER Bhubaneswar and IISER Pune, IISER Kolkata and IISER Mohali  (3)
• In a first, more than 200 to get PhD from IIT-Bombay  (6)
• AIEEE 2008 Counseling and admission to the NITs  (57)
• IIT Bhubaneswar exact site not quite decided  (0)
• Andhra Pradesh to have one university in each district: Orissa should have one in each of its undivided districts  (4)
• 27 acres for IIHT in Baragarh  (1)
• Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and its Puri campus  (1)
• After NIT Rourkela it’s now KIIT’s turn at number 18  (0)
• 2008 Orissa JEE (OJEE) Counseling by BPUT possibly from July 11th: Sambada  (140)
• Second central university in Tamil Nadu to start functioning from this year: Orissa is far behind  (2)
• Universities and university like institutes in and around Bhubaneswar: a map  (0)
• Is NISER’s pay package better than the IISERs’?  (0)
• Hi-Tech may take up establishing a private medical college in Rourkela  (2)
• Livemint Rankings of Educational Institutions in India, 2008  (0)
• Knowledge commission recommends four centers for advanced legal studies and research  (0)
• National Institute of Paramedical Science  (1)
• UNESCO Regional center in biotechnology in Faridabad, Harayana  (15)
• Latest India Today ranking of tech schools in India: NIT Rourkela at 18 is the 3rd best NIT  (4)
• Deemed University applicants from Orissa: current status  (1)
• Pioneer reports on IIT Bhubaneswar Website  (3)
• M.Tech and M. Pharm programs at ITER  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar first batch stduents are likely to have the most IIT like experience (as compared to the students in the other new IITs of IIT Guajrat, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Patna, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Punjab)  (11)
• Top 20 ranked students in Plus two arts  (0)
• Madhusudan Inst. of Co-operative management: Admission notice in Samaja  (0)
• Some links on the new IITs  (0)
• IIMC will be upgraded as an International Media University  (1)
• Mathematics Institute to come up as a world class institution  (3)
• Biju Patnaik Film & TV Institute: Ad in Samaja for admission in Dip. in Cinematography, Sound and TV Engineering and Film and video editing  (0)
• NISER looking for 20 apartments to house its faculty: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• Revival of Orissa Aviation institute is on the cards  (0)
• Orissa JEE 2008 (BPUT JEE 2008) result out! Where can I get a seat with my rank?  (250)
• Several 5 year integrated masters courses at BJB: ad in Samaja  (1)
• IIT Bhubaneswar - Why pick it over IIT Patna, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Punjab : Part II  (7)
• An Essay on IIT Bhubaneswar : Why pick it over IIT Patna, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Punjab  (10)
• IIT Bombay mentoring IIT Indore?  (2)
• DAV Chandrasekharpur students do well  (0)
• AIEEE 2008 Counseling: What can I get with my rank?  (336)
• IIT JEE 2008 Counselling brochure and information on the new IITs  (17)
• NISER Bhubaneswar (National Institute of Science Education & Research) advertises for regular positions  (18)
• Orissa government looking for 1000 acres for IIT Bhubaneswar  (13)
• Finally BPUT starts construction  (9)
• Orissa government decides to establish a government engineering college in Berhampur  (11)
• NTPC to make world class (100 crore) IIIT in Chhatisgarh; Orissa happy with 1.5 crore barrack by NALCO and an ITI by Arcelor-Mittal.  (11)
• Search for the land for locating IIT Bhubaneswar: Current status  (9)
• New IITs (Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Patna, Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat): Train connectivity information on Bhubaneswar  (8)
• IIT Bhubaneswar students will most likely stay in MMM Hostel  (10)
• Centrally funded IIIT for Chhatisgrah; Orissa should push for one in Berhampur  (8)

May 2008

• IIT Bhubaneswar to start classes this year in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering  (11)
• IIT Orissa, Gujarat and Punjab likely to admit students this year  (0)
• IIT JEE 2008: What branch can I get with my rank?  (9)
• Details of NISER Bhubaneswar interview for admission  (0)
• Provision for free nursing education for SC/ST students in Orissa: Sambada  (0)
• Plus two toppers (top twenty ranks) of Orissa board: Samaja  (2)
• Six new IITs (including the one in Orissa) to start classes this year  (0)
• Ranking of engineering colleges in Orissa  (212)
• Developing the Berhampur-Bhubaneswar knowledge corridor  (7)
• News on the various new IITs  (0)
• Talabasta near Banki a likely site for the world class central university: Samaja  (1)
• Some plans for the proposed world-class universities  (0)
• Naveen writes to MHRD to start classes in IIT Orissa in 2008-09  (4)
• National textile university planned  (1)
• Kerala’s HRD goodies  (0)
• New medical colleges in the offing via PPP  (0)
• NASSCOM list of locations and recommendations for the 20 IIITs  (1)
• Free lectures online  (0)
• Potential locations of the IIT in Orissa: Tathya and Samaja  (4)
• NRO plans a cancer research center in Orissa: Samaja  (0)
• Result of NEST 08 for NISER out  (0)
• IIT Odisha locational requirements as specified by center: Samaja  (0)
• A good location suggestion for WCCU Bhubaneswar: letter to Samaja  (0)
• Orissa government needs to help out Utkal University  (1)
• IIT Gujarat and IIT Odisha may start this year  (0)
• Eleventh Plan HRD distribution across states  (0)
• Excerpts from “Implementation of Major Initiatives in Higher Education in the XI Plan”: Presentation at the 2008 Chief Secy’s conference  (0)
• NALCO urged to help in Orissa’s HRD development  (1)
• Vedanta does the right thing: free schooling for kids of displaced families in DAV School  (0)
• Summer camps for kids in Bhubaneswar - Sambada  (0)
• Maharashtra plans for giving autonomy to 100 colleges  (0)
• Four year BS instead of 3 yr BSc  (0)
• Berhampur University teams up with ICICI to offer PG Diploma in Banking and Insurance Management  (4)
• Primary education in Orissa: an op-ed in Samaja  (1)
• Three to four new national labs coming up in West Bengal  (0)
• HRD initiatives of UP: an IIT and an IISc type institute in the offing  (0)
• Vedanta adopts 400 Anganwadis  (0)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar next batch class to start in August 2008: entrance exam on June 22nd 2008  (0)
• CM promises to write Delhi about central university in Kalahandi  (3)
• Ph.D production at IIT Delhi; Job opportunities for Ph.Ds  (0)
• Revised Tender for construction of housing complex for AIIMS like institute in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• PIB: Educational Complex in Low Literacy Pocket for Development of Women Literacy in Tribal Areas  (0)
• Tamilnadu plans to establish ten new universities  (0)
• Andhra Pradesh to have a world class university in Kadapa: Orissa should have one in Rourkela  (3)
• Utkal University offers Masters in Finance and Control: ad in Samaja  (0)
• Sushree group of institutions in Balangir  (0)
• Council of Analytical Tribal Studies (COATS) Koraput  (0)
• Cabinet approves establishment of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs  (0)
• Cabinet approves establishment of National Police University  (0)
• Research at IMMT (Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology) goes way beyond materials and minerals  (1)
• Union Health minister’s statement on delay with respect to AIIMS-like institutes  (0)
• Evening Standard on Anil Agarwal and Vedanta University  (0)

April 2008

• Six crores for renovation of the Sanskrit University: Pioneer  (0)
• NCERT and Tamil Nadu boardBooks available free on-line  (1)
• Sports hostels in Orissa  (0)
• Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Trust will set up a medical college and super specialty hospital near Naraj  (0)
• Vedanta University will work towards giving 25 percent seats to the students from Orissa who will be taken on merit basis: Anil Agarwal to IANS  (0)
• ICAR Foot and mouth disease (FMD) lab to be established in Jatni near Bhubaneswar  (0)
• ICAR institutes, project directorates and national research centers  (1)
• Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) to come up in Bhubaneswar?  (1)
• Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited agrees to set up a medical college in Talcher  (2)
• Vedanta University plans to give a large order of IP telephony to Cisco  (0)
• Jharkhand Central University to come in Khunti village near Ranchi  (0)
• SK Birla group to establish a top-notch B-School in Kolkata  (0)
• DAE Institutes  (1)
• ICMR institutes and centers  (0)
• DRDO labs in India: http://www.drdo.com/labindex.shtml  (2)
• Ministry of Sc. & Technology (DST and DBT) Labs in India: None in the DST list are in Orissa  (0)
• CSIR labs in India  (0)
• 700 acres needed for the world class central university  (4)
• PIB with budget estimates for IITs, IIMs and Central Universities  (1)
• Science magnet school as part of IMA? Not yet, but a precursor.  (0)
• ODM +2 Science residential school in Patia  (2)
• MHRD directive on OBC quotas: PIB  (1)
• Foundation stone laid for National Tribal University in Madhya Pradesh: Original idea most likely came from Orissa CM  (2)
• Ravenshaw on its way to become universally accessible  (0)
• Admission ad for Baliapal College of Physical Education: Samaja  (0)
• Aptech animation center to come up in Rourkela, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar  (0)
• DVC to set up R & D center at Rajrahat with the help of IIT Kharagpur  (0)
• Revised tender by NISER for barbed wire fencing and MS gate at Jatni  (0)
• ISB to set up its second campus in Mohali, Punjab. Also an IIM?  (4)
• Institute of Digital Media Technology, Bhubaneswar is making animation movies with its students  (1)
• Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar to soon join as NISER director  (0)
• NIMS (Neelachal Institute of Medical Sciences) ad for its programs in Nursing, Biotechnology and Physiotherapy: Samaja  (0)
• NTTF offers several diploma courses in Gopalpur  (2)
• IIT in Orissa announcement repeated in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha: PIB  (1)
• Ads in Samaja by Institute of Physics and IED (Institute of Entrepreneurship Development) School of Management (ISMT)  (0)
• Spreading higher education HRD resources across Orissa through new initiatives  (12)
• Union ministry did not like Kota as an IIT location as it is too far from a major city  (20)
• Sand art school in Balasore  (1)
• Vedanta University current land acquisition of Jagannath trust land leads to 1 crore per annum for the temple  (0)
• IMA plans five year integrated M.Sc in Computer Science  (2)
• Bachelor in Audiology and Bachelor in Physiotherapy program at IHS  (0)
• Two new Plus two Science colleges in Bhubaneswar: IHSE of ITER and Naidu’s  (1)
• Ravenshaw will offer MBA; XIMB will help  (0)
• Bill for private university to be set up by Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Trust cleared by state cabinet  (0)
• CIPET admission announcement: ad in Samaja  (1)
• Bhitarakanika right place for Mangroove research center: Samaja  (0)
• Tatas to take over IMA and call it Tata Institute of Mathematics?  (0)
• NISER tender for barbed wire fencing and MS gate at Jatni  (1)
• Satyabadi Education Summit: Op-ed in Samaja  (0)
• God help Oriya medium education: Op-ed in Samaja  (0)
• HDF (Human Development Foundation) making a B-School with difference  (0)
• School of Life Science, four star colleges and an infectious disease research unit  (0)
• PHFI to establish a public health training center in Bhubaneswar - Sambada. Why not an IIPH?  (0)
• MOU for five textile training centers  (0)
• ASBM to offer PG courses in investment portfolio  (0)
• IIT directors urge govt to give new institutes another name  (0)
• Excerpts from “The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications”  (0)
• ICAR Bio-safety level 3 animal lab near Jatni  (0)
• Samaja editorial on center announcing an IIT for Orissa  (2)
• DTET Orissa’s diploma entrance test: Ad in Samaja  (24)

March 2008

• MHRD presentation to the parliamentary standing committee: PIB  (0)
• NITs and IIESTs  (1)
• Minister Chandrasekhar Sahu’s take on the IIT and world class central university  (4)
• Coverage of Vedanta University in the international media  (0)
• Glimpse of GOI’s plan for attracting good faculty to top institutes and central universities  (0)
• Prof. L. M. Patnaik is the new VC of Defense Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune  (0)
• State-wise exisiting and proposed marquee institutes and central universities  (2)
• IIT in Orissa, a world class central university and another central university (hopefully in KBK) announced by the center : PIB  (4)
• National Research Institute of Ayurveda Drug Development (NRIADD) to establish its complex in Bhubaneswar  (2)
• Details on Vedanta University’s land aquisition: Sambada  (0)
• New Congress MP Ramachandra Khuntia asks PM for an IIT in Orissa  (0)
• Indian Govt. to allow IIT, IIM to offer courses via distance learning  (0)
• More on Vedanta University’s R & R package  (0)
• MBA in Agri-Business at Utkal University  (1)
• Samaja op-ed: Need to change the plus two curriculum in Orissa  (0)
• Excerpts of Interview of XIMB director in Pagalguy  (1)
• Cuttack Book Fair between March 22-30: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• Private University Bill for Vedanta university and others is under works  (0)
• Eastern Regional Language Center of CIIL is at Bhubaneswar  (0)
• 2.5 crore each to ITIs in Puri, Cuttack, Chhatrapur and Umerkote.  (0)
• Status report of AIIMS like institute  (0)
• INSPIRE program for attracting students to sciences  (0)
• MP Rudra Pany asks for IIT in Orissa in the Rajya sabha on 14th March 2008  (1)
• Regional plant research center in Bhubaneswar to have a tissue culture research lab: Sambada  (0)
• 100 new schools in Puri district: Samaja  (0)
• Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan says that an IIT may be established in Orissa for creating qualified employees to work in Industries in Orissa: Samaja  (0)
• Entrance exam for admission to Institute of Mathematics & Applications (IMA) Bhubaneswar  (1)
• More details on the 140 positions at Ravenshaw University  (7)
• Vacant faculty positions in Orissa universities and colleges to be filled by next academic year: Samaja  (1)
• Degradable polymer from shrimp scales and PL Nayak research foundation in Cuttack: Samaja article  (1)
• Agami Odisha’s plan of action (two rallies) on IIT and other issues  (1)
• IIT Orissa issue raised in the asembly; CM writes to PM again  (3)
• Number of Medical Colleges in India (statewise)  (1)
• BPUT Orissa JEE 2008 details  (69)
• Women only IIT in Amravati, Vidarbha (Maharashtra)?  (2)
• Undergraduate admission at national university of singapore for higher secondary student  (0)
• Scholarships at Ravenshaw University  (2)
• BJP MP Rudra Pany urges Rahul Gandhi to bat for an IIT in Orissa: Samaja  (2)
• 30% reservation for girls in all technical institutes of Orissa  (1)
• KIIT international School: ad in Samaja  (0)
• New IITs to have a broad array of disciplines and have a seven year total budget of 760 crores each  (0)
• IITs plan to pay handsomely to top-notch researchers  (0)
• Anil Agarwal’s net worth as per Forbes (pledged $1 Billion for Vedanta University in 2006)  (0)
• 144 faculty positions available in Ravenshaw University, Cuttack  (7)
• Orissa Governor bats for an IIT in Orissa  (0)
• Samaja letter to the editor on Why establishment of an IIT in Orissa is important  (0)
• NUEPA Survey on Elementary Education  (0)
• Establishment of Indian National Defense University: PIB  (0)
• Telegraph speculates on some of the new IIT locations  (2)
• Koustuv Group spreads its wings  (0)
• DOEACC `O’, `A’, `B’ and `C’ level exams: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• St. Xavier’s schools across Orissa  (1)
• Forbes Asia lists Anil Agarwal among the world’s top altruists  (0)
• CM and others react with disappointment over no IIT to Orissa in the budget  (1)

February 2008

• Some Budget numbers relevant to Orissa HRD (NISER, AIIMS-like, etc.)  (0)
• Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar is the Director designate of NISER, Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Vedanta university aims to start in 2009 with research programs  (0)
• Vedanta University officials talk with the locals regarding land acquisition: Kalinga Times and New Indian Express  (0)
• State wise details of Universities, Colleges and Institutions as on 31st December, 2007  (0)
• Faculty Size Comparison  (2)
• DST Ad for Colleges and Universities : From Samaja  (0)
• Little progress in Culture University - no permanent faculty : Samaja  (1)
• Engineering College Proposals received by AICTE by Dec 31st 2007  (4)
• Charlie Rose interviews Anil Agarwal (includes Mr. Agarwal talking about Vedanta University)  (0)
• Vedanta University masterplan wins one of the 15 2008 Charter Awards of the Congress for the New Urbanism  (0)
• Scholarship revision notice at IISc Bangalore  (1)
• IIMC Delhi and Dhenkanal admission ad in Samaja  (0)
• NOU Baripada’s progress so far: It received “funded by UGC” tag in 2006 (Samaja article by its VC)  (1)
• ILS Bhubaneswar part of a team looking for medicinal molecules in Bacterias  (2)
• Expansion demand for Khallikote College: Samaja  (0)
• Oxford University Press opens its 10th Indian showroom in Bhubaneswar: Sambada  (0)
• KIIT entrance examination ad from Samaja  (0)
• Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) in UP : Some details  (198)
• Status of land acquisition for Vedanta University  (0)
• IDCO tender out for two OSME (Orissa School of Mining Engineering) buildings costing 3.67 crores each  (1)
• Tender for construction of housing complex for AIIMS like institute in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Dr. K. S. Krishnan research associateship (KSKRA) at DAE labs: ad in Samaja  (1)
• All facade and no substance: An English visitor writes about private engineering colleges in Orissa  (1)
• New CBSE regional offices to open in Bhubaneswar and Patna: Dharitri  (0)
• Early budget numbers in education  (1)
• Orissa cabinet approves 298.8 acres of free land for NISER  (0)
• Vedanta University’s ad in Samaja  (1)
• Gurukula Institute of Technology’s ad in Samaja  (1)
• National Council of Teacher Education; eastern regional office in Bhubaneswar  (6)
• Adam Gross, design principal at the Baltimore architectural firm Ayers Saint Gross, discusses the design of Vedanta University in Maryland Radio  (0)
• MHRD thinks of offering affordable coaching classes for IIT/IIM etc.  (1)
• Orissa BJP raises the issue of IIT  (0)
• IMS Center for Communications Studies in Bhubaneswar  (3)
• Going beyond writing letters for an IIT: Op-ed in Samaja  (0)
• IIT and politics: Editorial in Samaja  (1)
• Rajasthan asks its IIT to be in Kota; Bathinda in Punjab expects an IIT or an IIM  (5)
• National doctoral fellowship to pursue Ph.D in Architecture, Engineering, Management and Pharmacy  (1)
• NRIs propose to set up three private medical colleges; Berhampur wants one: Dharitri  (0)
• IIT Kharagpur plans to triple in size in 10 years  (0)
• Why many in Orissa mistrust MHRD of India: a cry for help to the PM and Planning Commission  (2)
• Berhampur University partners with BARC on research: Dharitri  (0)
• Orissa problems in primary and middle school education: two Samaja articles  (0)
• Is the proposal to convert “Institute of Material Sciences (IMS)” to “National Institute for Advanced Materials and Applications (NIAMA)” dead?  (0)
• CM Naveen Patnaik reacts angrily to MHRD special secretary’s statement; writes to PM again  (0)

January 2008

• Reaction to “No IIT for Orissa because of NISER” comment by an MHRD official  (1)
• NISER will fulfill Orissa’s IIT demand: Samaja  (0)
• IIIT-Bh Announces Admission Results  (0)
• Current IIT and IISc non-plan funding levels  (0)
• Middle school education in Orissa is neglected: Samaja  (0)
• Education Abroad: New IMS Center at Bhubaneswar to Help Students  (0)
• Why should kids study science? an op-ed from Samaja  (0)
• Partial list of “in progress (under consideration at AICTE)” MBA/MCA/etc. Colleges in Orissa  (2)
• Partial list of “in progress (under consideration at AICTE)” Engineering Colleges in Orissa  (0)
• The current list of engineering/MBA/MCA colleges in Orissa.  (0)
• Bihar and Andhra Pradesh IITs to start classes in temporary locations in 2008?  (0)
• BJB College to Offer Four Professional Courses  (2)
• Arjun Singh on Devious mode: Tathya.in  (0)
• Computer Education in 1,500 more High Schools  (0)
• Engineering Lectures from IITs and IISc in YouTube.  (0)
• Orissa govt’s press release on the CM meeting the HRD minister; CM’s earlier letter to the PM  (0)
• Fakir Mohan University, Balasore has “funded by UGC” tag  (0)
• CM meets HRD Minister Arjun Singh on IIT, IIM and KBK Central University  (0)
• Ravenshaw to have its own FM radio  (3)
• Educational development Index: PIB  (0)
• Prof. Srikant Patnaik, formerly of UCE Burla and Fakir Mohan University starts a management college: ad in Samaja  (0)
• IIT Chennai to help science education in Schools: Lesson for Orissa  (0)
• Updates on NISER Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Some progress on NISER land acquisition and transfer; Samaja ad for security agencies to guard the periphery  (0)
• OMC Donates 1 Crore for the Completion of Ladies Hostel in BJB Junior College  (0)
• Instructor wanted ad in Samaja by OP Jindal Institute of Technology and Skills in Angul  (0)
• Rtapalli Vidyapitha: NRI funded free residential school for poor and meritorious students  (1)
• Centre of Excellence in Logistics in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Four ITIs to be upgraded  (0)
• Google India Women in Engineering Award  (0)
• Education Push Yields Little for India’s Poor  (0)
• Orissa has the highest percentage of out-of-school rural children in the country  (0)
• ‘Met Lab’ in High Schools for Climate Study  (0)
• Vedanta University Campus among 2007 AIA Baltimore Design Award Winners and Jury Comments  (0)
• Centenary of Ravenshaw Chemistry department: a Samaja op-ed by Prof. P. L. Nayak  (2)
• Maharastra proposes a centrally funded Biotech institute/university in Nagpur  (1)
• NKC Chairperson Pitroda lends his support for an IIT in Orissa and talks about education and 11th plan  (0)
• Excerpts from VC Cambridge University Allison Richard’s article on “What makes a world class University”  (0)
• BESU becoming IIEST: Upgradation worth 450 crores during the 11th plan  (1)
• Arjun Singh has different rules for Orissa and Madhya Pradesh: ISM Dhanbad can have an extension center in MP that offers regular courses but IIT Kharagpur can not do so in Orissa  (7)
• CM lays foundation stone for law university  (0)
• Ministry of HRD Announces Israel Government Scholaship for Higher Studies in Israel  (1)
• Business skill development programme for tech students  (0)
• SAI International School for Global Exchange  (1)
• National Law University of Orissa to take off  (1)
• Sickle Cell Disease Research Centre started functioning in Sardar Raja Medical College, Jaring in Kalahandi  (1)
• IIT-Bombay to air lectures from today  (0)
• BESU upgraded to an IIEST - to come under revised NIT act  (1)

December 2007

• IIIT-Bh admission process is online  (0)
• Residential girls’ schools in 53 blocks soon  (0)
• Orissa government’s delay in responding may cost Orissa a world class central university  (2)
• Naveen continues to raise the IIT issue  (2)
• Prof. R. Nayak’s mail about faculty positions in Biology and Life Sciences at NISER, Bhubaneswar  (1)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar hires three more regular faculty and continues looking  (2)
• AICTE approval for increasing the number of students in Rural Management Course in KIIT  (0)
• IIIT construction to be completed in two years  (0)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar to begin classes in January  (1)
• National Law School foundation stone to be led by December end  (2)
• Ad for Ph.D program in BARC (from Samaja)  (0)
• More on IIIT Bhubaneswar receiving AICTE approval  (1)
• IMIS Bhubaneswar to have PG course in retail management  (4)
• CM asks for IIT, IIM, and IIIT in Orissa  (1)
• Education to remain the most favored sector in the 11th Plan: PM  (0)
• Business World 2007 B-School rankings  (6)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar gets AICTE approval for 25 seats  (4)
• Orissa in slumber and may miss taking advantage of the 11th plan opportunities in higher education: Tathya.in  (3)
• NISER Bhubaneswar (the DAE funded institute at par with the IISERs) admission test for 2008  (0)
• CBSE updates class X Oriya syllabus  (0)
• Read India Campaign in Orissa: A report by Dr. Dhanada Mishra  (0)
• Kerala leads in computer connectivity to schools  (0)
• More primary schools being established  (0)
• Orissa government prepares for the infrastructure development around the upcoming AIIMS like institute  (0)
• Law university and open university planned to start from 2008: Dharitri  (0)
• Central Minister Chandrasekhar Sahu meets PM on the IIT issue: Dharitri  (0)
• Vedanta University issues an EOI for its proposed medical college  (0)
• Summer short-term courses for engineers at Central Tool Room: ad in Samaja  (0)
• Bangalore and CNR beg for a Harvard/Stanford type university; Many in Orissa do not quite realize the potential of Vedanta University  (0)
• Plans for apaprel design and training centers in Cuttack, Baripada, Berhampur, Rourkela and Sambalpur: Samaja  (0)
• Increased fellowship amounts for CSIR fellows  (11)
• Update on BESU becoming an IIEST  (2)
• Toonz Academy to come up in Bhubaneswar soon  (0)
• Indian Institute of Nanosciences at Bangalore, Mohali and Kolkata  (0)
• Naveen urges industry to set up technical education institutes  (0)
• Steps towards regulation of online courses  (0)
• DOEACC certificate course examination: ad in Samaja  (0)
• IIT JEE 2008 ad  (3)
• Pioneer: Center yet to decide on IIT in Orissa  (0)
• Orissa government doubles teachers’ salaries  (2)
• PIBs on new IITs: Orissa has sent a request  (1)
• Orissa not taking adavantage of the Ashram School scheme  (0)
• Grants to college teachers: Govt mulls 57 crores for that says Samaja  (0)
• IGNOU admission ad in Samaja for its management programs; study centers across Orissa  (0)
• 54 new residential schools in Adivasi areas: Samaja  (0)
• Three international standard universities coming up in the state: Samaja  (0)
• IIM Shillong to start classes in June 2008  (0)
• Concerns about NISER, Bhubaneswar; DAE should pay urgent attention to NISER  (0)
• Centurion Institute of Technology : a new private engineering college coming up in Jatni  (8)

November 2007

• Orissa origin faculty in marquee Indian institutions outside Orissa (work in progress)  (41)
• Increased funding for K-12 schools and salary increases for teachers announced by CM  (1)
• PIB report: “Unspent amount in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan  (0)
• PIB report on promotion of education for girls  (1)
• PIB report on Kasturaba Gandhi Balika Vidayalayas  (0)
• Lots of unfilled positions in Orissa colleges: Samaja  (0)
• More tidbits on Education and HRD in the 11th plan  (0)
• PIB: State-wise literacy rates of all persons, males and females as of 2001 Census  (0)
• PIB: State-wise ranking on a composite index for primary and upper primary level of education  (0)
• Both Orissa govt. as well as Orissa Congress minister in Orissa neglect in pursuing NIFT  (2)
• NISER, Bhubaneswar ad for fixed term faculty  (0)
• IGNOU to partner with colleges for dual degrees and joint programs  (0)
• Skill development for SC/ST engineering graduates; Infosys funds 50 lakhs  (1)
• State level talent serach in dance, music and painting: ad in Samaja  (0)
• Orissa has asked for two central universities: Assembly answer by Higher Education minister (in Samaja)  (0)
• UCE registerd under Societies act as “Orissa Institute of Technology”  (1)
• Infosys gives 1 crore for one chair professorship at IIIT Bhubaneswar; other updates on IIIT Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Samaja Ad for admission to self financing courses at Khallikote College  (0)
• Higher education crisis in India: Samaja op-ed  (0)
• Stepmotherly attitude of the central government and Orissa’s ability: Op-ed in Samaja  (0)
• OSME, Keonjhar upgradation plans stuck in files: Samaja  (1)
• More on the Ambedkar National Merit Scholarship  (4)
• Various education schemes from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for disadvantaged students  (1)
• Number of Medical Colleges established during the last three years in various states  (0)
• HSCC in charge of building the housing complex of AIIMS (like institute in) Bhubaneswar  (0)
• IIT extension centers ok; branch campuses NOT.  (1)
• Orissa missed out on funding for DIETs: Samaja  (0)
• Institutions offering CT in Orissa  (0)
• Three HRD issues (AIIMS, IIT, KBK University) to be raised by the ruling coalition in the current assembly (from Dharitri)  (0)
• Not much progress on establishing a medical college in Rourkela  (1)
• Plans for increasing capacity of Orissa govt. engineering colleges  (0)
• GOI to partner with MIT for a health science and tech institute  (0)
• MM Joshi: Center neglecting Orissa  (0)
• 14 World class universities in India: Guidelines being formulated, States to compete  (1)
• A campus for India, shaped like a mandala: New Urban News article on Vedanta University  (0)
• Vedanta University project reaches out  (1)
• Co-operative university in Pune  (0)
• NISER course structure for Years 1-3 is in their web site  (2)
• More colleges to be given block grants by the state : Samaja  (0)
• BPNSI (Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute) admission ad in Samaja  (0)
• ATDC (Apparel Training & Design Center) admission ad in Samaja  (0)
• Ravenshaw extension campus to start soon  (0)
• 150 more Bal Bhavans next year. Will some of them be outside Delhi?  (0)
• Samaja letter to the editor on two central universities for Orissa  (0)
• BPUT tightens teaching at its colleges  (1)
• Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar on the 11th Plan education budget  (0)
• Admission to Ph.D program at the SOA University in Bhubaneswar: Ad in Samaja  (29)
• State’s first horticulture college in Chipilima near Sambalpur: Sambada  (0)
• Lalu asks IIT, IIM and Central University for Bihar  (0)
• HRD related excerpt from the PM’s address to the full planning commission  (0)
• Flying training institute to be established in Gondia, Maharashtra  (6)
• Block grant scheme of funding for new NIFTs; New NIFT center in Rae Bareli, UP  (0)
• OUAT Profs would like to upgrade their Department of Forestry to a College of Forestry  (0)
• PIB: Center to provide 100% of the construction cost of building hostels for SC girls  (1)
• Business Standard on allocation for education in the 11th plan  (0)
• IcfaiTech advertises for faculty positions in Samaja  (0)
• Orissa needs two central universities: Sahadev Sa