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March 2010

• Jharkhand proactive with its public sectors for medical colleges; Odisha should learn from it  (0)
• 2010 Odisha budget has 32.5 crores for adding a medical college to Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• IISERs will have their own aptitute test on July 18 2010  (4)
• New dynamic VCs lead the Sambalpur region towards a knowledge hub  (0)
• Education issues debated in Odisha Assembly: Naming of National/innovation University; Government taking over of the medical college in Kalahandi  (0)
• DST funded Innovative Summer program in Science for +2 students at Sambalpur University  (1)
• Rourkelacity.com: CM favorable towards ESIC Medical College in Rourkela  (5)
• NIFT Bhubaneswar to cost 58.65 crore  (0)
• CSIR center to come up in Koraput via the CSIR-800 Programme  (0)
• Odisha should learn from Andhra Pradesh on how to go about creating knowledge hubs  (7)
• Progress report and current thinking on the proposed AIIMS-like institutes  (0)
• Bhubaneswar decided as the ESIC medical college location in Odisha: Rajya Sabha answer  (0)
• Status of AIIMS-like institutes; Progress very slow in Bhubaneswar  (1)
• 132 Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery (ANM) Schools and 137 General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) Schools across India including Odisha  (0)
• Hi-Tech advertises for its Rourkela Medical College: Dharitri, Samaja  (5)
• 300 page 6.2 MB UGC Report of the HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA Issues Related to Expansion, Inclusiveness, Quality and Finance.  (2)

February 2010

• 22 new Polytechs, 91 new ITIs and 415 new Skill Development Centers to come up in Odisha  (0)
• 15 crores in the Union Budget for converting BESU to IIEST  (8)
• CIPET adds two exclusive R & D hubs: One of them, Laboratory for Advance Research in Polymeric Materials (LARPM), established in Bhubaneswar  (1)
• Center willing to have Odisha’s third CIPET campus in Balasore  (1)
• VSSUT Burla marching foward; campus to be known as Siddhi Vihar  (2)
• Sahyog Foundation plans a medicity (with a medical college) in Jagatpur and a medical college in Keonjhar  (0)
• US based North South foundation offers scholarships to students in India  (4)
• Prof. Amiya Kumar Pattanayak appointed VC of Utkal University of Culture  (2)
• Progress on ESIC medical college – Expected to be operational in 2012: Samaja  (0)
• Telegraph lists the 44 deemed universities that were in the middle tier – found wanting but given 3 years to fix issues  (1)
• Some ESIC Medical College related correspondences between Bhubaneswar and Delhi  (0)
• Ama Akha Pakha and Innovate Clubs Orissa; a part of intersting organizations focussed on innovation in the Indian context  (0)
• All states to have a KISS like 40 acre residential school-college combo for tribals: Samaja  (1)
• Ad for admission to Institute of Mathematics & Applications Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Odisha plans to fund the education of bright poor SC/ST students in top private schools of the state  (3)
• Sambalpur University to have a IIIT like IT institute; State to give 10 crores.  (17)
• The earlier mentioned PHFI center in Bhubaneswar will be an IIPH (Indian Institute of Public Health); Will open this July  (1)
• Euclid TMP – a plus 2 level Math tutoring institute in Bhubaneswar  (1)
• Biotech educational and research opportunities in the Bhubaneswar area and Odisha in general: work in progress  (2)
• Odisha mulls 10 medical colleges on PPP basis at its district HQ hospitals: Samaja  (1)
• P. Chidambaram on Xavier’s institutes in India; Odisha should speed up establishment of Xavier University  (3)
• Manuscript Resource Centres and Manuscript Conservation Centres in Odisha  (0)
• Entrance exam for Rtapalli School  (2)
• University demanded in Kalahandi; Upgrading Govt. College Bhawanipatna to a university urged  (6)
• Pitroda proposes $500 million fund to attract star professors  (0)
• Central University of Orissa Koraput’s plans; soon to submit DPR for medical school  (2)
• Some exisiting universities and institutes may be upgraded to Innovation University status  (0)
• “Educational Finance Corporation” is a good idea  (0)
• SCB Dental department becomes a Dental college with its own principal; PG and superspeciality seats increased in the three govt. medical colleges of Odisha: Samaja  (0)

January 2010

• Shortage of Math Ph.ds in India; current faculty situation at the IISERS and NISER  (2)
• TOI excerpts from the revised concept notes on the proposed 14 Innovation Universities  (0)
• NIST Berhampur to have a Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Centre for Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in 3G and 4G Communication Technologies  (0)
• Vedanta to build hostel for Government College of Engineering in Bhawanipatna  (0)
• Prof. Jitendriya Kumar Satpathy from NIT Rourkela to takeover as BPUT’s 3rd VC  (8)
• Update on the University planned by Mukesh and Nita Ambani  (0)
• Urbanization University in Bangalore  (0)
• SOA University is in the list of 44 deemed universities that may lose their deemed university status  (72)
• Proposal for three new PPP based Central Universities for minorities  (1)
• Karnataka’s higher education vision – some initial glimpses  (1)
• IIT Kharagapur’s future plans  (0)
• Sambalpur University partners with Aarhaus University, a top world 100 university as per Times and SJT rankings  (1)
• Funding sources for the proposed innovation universities  (0)
• Reliance plans a world class university near Mumbai or Delhi; Unless things happen fast Vedanta University will lose its first mover’s advantage  (1)
• Ad for NEST entrance examination for NISER Bhubaneswar, UM-DAE Mumbai and ISERC Shantiniketan  (1)
• DRDO Research boards and Centers of Excellence  (1)
• Odisha plans a research center for Olive Ridley Turtles: Dharitri  (0)
• Samaja ad for Sikshya Sahayaka positions in Odisha  (9)
• Approaches to deal with medical vacancies in rural areas  (5)
• Faculty shortage at the CFTIs (Centrally Funded Technical Institutes) in India  (1)
• Behind the scenes progress on the 14 innovation universities  (0)
• 198 crores approved for girls and boys tribal hostels in Odisha: Samaja/tathya  (0)
• Higher education development in South Odisha: Samaja op-ed  (1)

December 2009

• Existing and recently approved (in the 11th plan) Dept. of Biotechnology Institutes  (0)
• Efforts to improve the infrastructure of Utkal University of Culture: Samaja  (0)
• Motihari (Bihar) and Kasargod (Kerala) unacceptable to MHRD as central university locations; proactive actions needed in Koraput  (5)
• Earlier this year College of Agriculture Bhawanipatna started with 48 students in B.Sc (Agriculture) program  (1)
• The importance of a community college system in India: Excerpts from an interview with Prof. Yash Pal  (1)
• Vedanta University campus design showcased as a 21st century university campus  (0)
• Speech of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at the foundation stone laying ceremony at National Institute For Science Education And Research, Jatani, Bhubaneshwar  (0)
• 160 construction companies bid for the AIIMS-type institutes  (1)
• Institute of Social Sciences New Delhi has a regional center in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Delhi farmers offer land for state university  (0)
• VSS Medical College Burla to become a Unitary University: Dharitri  (8)
• Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), including its Dhenkanal campus on its way to become a Media University  (1)
• NIT Rourkela: Orissa’s top nationally ranked academic institution and Rourkela’s shining jewel  (4)
• New National School of Drama regional campuses at Bangalore, Kolkata, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra/Goa and North East  (1)
• Ravenshaw to offer teaching jobs to its toppers: Dharitri  (0)
• Sibal in Singapore; talks about co-operation in building Innovation Universities  (0)
• Education city plan in Bhutan  (0)
• Proposed expansion of the university system in Orissa: feedback requested  (23)
• Sports Universities in India  (1)
• Scholarship for meritorious students securing 80% and above in annual HSE examination: Deadline 24th Dec 2009  (6)
• Learning from NIRTAR’s history  (2)
• RTI response on ESIC Medical College in Orissa  (3)
• National Institutes functioning under ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment  (0)
• Existing health related institutes in Orissa  (6)
• First hint that the CM is aware of the ESIC medical college in Rourkela issue  (26)
• VSSUT Burla advertises for faculty positions  (0)
• AIIMS Bhubaneswar tender watch: date extended till 23rd December 2009  (1)
• NISER Bhubaneswar call for tenders: Deadline 5th Jan 2010  (1)
• Past catches up with ICFAI in Orissa  (5)
• Balasore gets assurance from the CM that he will pursue with the defence department for a government medical college  (0)
• Subregional Science Centers proposed for Jeypore and Nrusinghanath: Samaja  (2)
• Congress leaders demand that the proposed (during the 11th plan) central/national/innovation university in Bhubaneswar (Update: Or is it the one in Koraput) be named after Utkalmani  (0)
• 600 students from Puri area come out in support of Vedanta University  (1)
• Status of various newly started central universities  (0)
• Adopt an ITI scheme of Ministry of Power and Central Electricity Authority (CEA)  (0)
• Vacancies galore in IITs, IIMs, IISc & NITs  (4)

November 2009

• The faculty at IIIT Bhubaneswar and their degrees  (15)
• Setting up public libraries across the country  (0)
• Plans regarding ITIs and skill development centers: PIB  (1)
• India’s effort to address imbalances in higher education: PIB  (0)
• Correlation between Cafe Coffee Day outlets and Knowledge hubs – just for fun  (12)
• A turning point on ESIC Rourkela effort? – 4 Congress MPs including Hemanada Biswal request the PM for ESIC medical college in Rourkela  (25)
• IIT Gandhinagar to have part-time jobs for students  (12)
• State of Delhi’s knowledge centric moves and roadmap; What VSSUT can learn from Delhi Tech U?  (3)
• Gopabandhu Institute of Medical Science & Research, Near Athagarh, Cuttack  (1)
• Mass Rally for ESIC Medical College in Rourkela on the 21st of November  (1)
• Karnataka passes an ordinance for Azim Premji University in Bangalore  (3)
• Union Health Minister has incorporated a strong monetary incentive for fast completion of the new AIIMS-like institutions  (0)
• Kompass Aviation Training Center coming up in Bhubaneswar: Samaja  (1)
• Central University of Orissa, Koraput location finalized at Sunabeda: Dharitri  (0)
• Tata Group to join an NGO to jointly set up an Institute of Ayurveda Integrated Medicine near Bangalore  (2)
• The new NIDs will be in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and a location in Northern India?  (5)
• Making Rourkela a Tier II city of India – HRD and other development of Rourkela (work in progress)  (41)
• Highly ranked business school IMI Delhi to open a campus in Bhubaneswar  (7)
• Vedanta University – Finally locals speaking their mind  (0)
• Rourkela people wary of student’s strike regarding BPUT  (6)
• Push for ESIC medical college in Rourkela continues  (0)
• Kandhamal to have a govt. engineering school (or college?)  (2)
• Post graduate courses in various colleges in Orissa  (0)
• Government colleges in Malkangiri and Nuapada and govt +2 science colleges in Kutra, Tiring and Jirang  (1)
• After Bhubaneswar, Rourkela & Berhampur Apparel Training & Design Centers to soon come up at Baripada, Cuttack & Sambalpur.  (0)
• Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) plans a campus in Bhubaneswar  (22)
• Building World Class Universities: Keynote address by Prof Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University, USA at FICCI 2009 Higher Education Summit  (0)
• RVS Group to set up medical college in Balangir; MOU to be signed soon  (4)
• Kapil Sibal’s trip to US to invite foreign universities to India and Orissa’s dwindling window of opportunity  (1)
• Dr. Sanjib Karmee’s well researched request to CM and Orissa HETF on Gandhamardan Hills  (10)
• DST plans for easy grant opportunities for MSc and PhD graduates in Science  (2)
• Vice Chancellor Faizan Mustafa’s dreams for National Law University Orissa  (3)
• From Dharitri: Call for Tenders for the hospital and medical college complex of the AIIMS-like institutions  (1)
• Attractions of faculty jobs at IITs, IIMs, IISERs/NISER, IISc, etc.  (1)
• Indian government scholarships for students with disabilities  (1)

October 2009

• Latest status of the AIIMS-like institutions  (0)
• Higher Education Task Force Ad in Samaja  (1)
• 14 new polytechnics on the way; center to fund Rs 12.3 crores each for infrastructure, state to take care of the rest  (2)
• The state-wise list of agricultural universities in India  (4)
• What is a good location for a proposed second agricultural university in Orissa?  (41)
• Math Olympiad Orissa – last date of receiving applications is 15th Nov 2009  (1)
• IIT Bhubaneswar has a new web page  (0)
• ICFAI identifies 53 acres near SUM Hospital for its University in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Effort continues for ESIC medical college in Rourkela  (2)
• Plans afoot for Rural areas: rural universities in each backward and tribal clusters across India  (1)
• Update on Central University of Orissa Koraput  (4)
• Two great feedback to the Higher Education Task Force  (4)
• Samaja op-ed in support of Vedanta University  (1)
• Orissa Maritime Academy in Paradip offers 6-month courses for class X pass students  (2)
• Orissa Education and HRD related headlines from our sister site in Twitter (August 20 – October 20 2009)  (0)
• Institute of Material Sciences Bhubaneswar gets more promises on its 9th board meeting  (0)
• Srikant Jena tries to bring PHFI center to Orissa; Is that an IIPH? Will he succeed?  (0)
• Official Orissa higher education task force web site and feedback mechanism  (1)
• From Mineral Resources to Human Resources in Orissa – Part 2 (Work in progress)  (1)
• XIM plans a branch in Sambalpur  (29)
• Progress in the right direction on the ESIC Rourkela front; but things need to move fast  (1)
• Sri Sri University (Naraj, Cuttack) plans to start classes in June 2010  (0)
• Polytechnics in Orissa that grant diploma in various engineering subjects  (1)
• All party meeting on ESIC medical college in Rourkela: Samaja  (1)
• NISER Bhubaneswar advertises for its Ph.D program that will start in Decemebr 2009  (0)
• Orissa higher education task force formed; headed by IOP founder Prof. Trilochan Pradhan  (14)
• ESIC Medical college in Rourkela; latest news  (3)
• Two ads on Vedanta University in Samaja  (2)
• Knowledge Commission has recommended 50 national universities; Orissa must plan ahead and be prepared for it  (0)
• Some National Institutions/Universities and their locations; planning for the future in Orissa  (0)
• UGC withdraws its earlier persmission to institutions deemed to be universities to use the word ‘University’  (1)
• 20 new IIITs wait for the approval of the finance committee and the union cabinet  (3)
• Rourkela citizens make organized effort to get ESIC medical college  (0)
• Top 25 Indian Universities as per publications – from an article in Current Science  (2)

September 2009

• Sundergarh MP and Labour Committee Chair Hemananda Biswal goes to Delhi to bat for ESIC Medical College in Rourkela  (2)
• NIT Rourkela must follow NIT Warangal and go for a medical school and law school  (3)
• Sibal’s plan for the proposed national/innovation universities seems to be like the establishment of the first 5 IITs  (2)
• The recently announced faculty salary at IISc, IITs, IIMs, IISERs, etc.  (1)
• Orissa CM proposes ‘National Research Institute for Management of Wetlands and Coastal Ecosystems’ at Chilika and a ‘National Mangrove Research Institute’ in Orissa  (0)
• IIM gets traded for an additional central university in J & K  (2)
• Orissa CM asks for a tribal university in Kandhamal  (3)
• Samaja op-ed by Kabi Mishra in support of Vedanta University  (1)
• Orissa department of higher education consolidates all scholarship information and application process  (0)
• Union Law Minister Moily plans 4 regional law institutes of excellence  (0)
• Orissa should push for a Central University in the Western part of Orissa to be included in the 12th plan  (3)
• Concept notes on the proposed Innovation Universities and attracting talent to them  (0)
• Land for ESI medical college has been alloted at Bharatpur near IMA in Bhubaneswar. What Next? How to go about getting an ESI medical college to Rourkela?  (10)
• From mineral resources to human resources: Constructive solutions to speed up mega projects in Orissa by taking care of the people  (2)
• Prof. Deba K Tripathy joins as VC of VSSUT, lays out his vision and appeals to alumni  (1)
• Cabinet approves 9 new NITs; Arunachal Pradesh left out  (1)
• 3083  (0)
• Government to allow private funding in some of the 14 National Universities  (0)
• Thinking ahead to the 12th plan that starts from 2012 – Regional Universities, National and Regional Libraries, and Rural Sc. and Tech. Institutes  (4)
• Movement to bring ESIC Medical College to Rourkela  (15)
• Coimbatore’s textile institute to be upgraded to Indian Institute of Textiles  (0)
• Foreign universities bill almost ready for the cabinet to look at  (2)
• Prof. DK Tripathy of IIT Kharagpur appointed as VC of VSSUT, Burla  (0)
• Orissa lags behind most states in terms of medical colleges  (1)
• Four new IIMCs (Indian Institute of Mass Communication) in the offing; Hope the one in Dhenkanal is upgraded  (1)
• Vedanta’s reputation in the US: the US government and states of Arizona, Texas, Monatna and Washington support it  (1)
• National Institute of Design location in Orissa; making a case for your area  (12)
• Orissalinks and all around development of HRD infrastructure in Orissa  (13)
• Skyscrapercity.com forum on Vedanta and Nalanda Universities  (0)
• Purna Mishra’s well-argued appeal to the CM about establishing ESIC medical college in Rourkela  (1)
• Vedanta University Project CSR activities – some recent youtube videos  (0)
• Jensen Partner’s blurb on its assignment with respect to Vedanta University Medical College  (0)
• Perkin+Wills designed Vedanta University Medical College & Hospital design pictures are in the web  (15)
• IISc Bangalore one step closer to having an undergraduate program; an innovative 4 yr BS is in the cards  (1)
• Lessons and pointers from ISB (Indian School of Business), the only “world-class” educational institution in India  (1)
• Academic faculty, a hindrance to Education reform: Prof P Balaram  (6)
• Engineering College Clusters in Orissa in 2009  (13)
• Appeal to CM Naveen Patnaik: Please pursue ESIC medical college near Rourkela  (37)
• PPP based Medical colleges planned in Balasore, Rayagada and Naraj  (0)

August 2009

• Orissa holding a Second JEE-2009  (22)
• How Orissa can get an IIM?  (16)
• Dharitri article on status of libraries in the silk city Berhampur  (0)
• Both the Union Minister of HRD and Chair of National Knowledge Commission urge private sector to help in higher education; Vedanta University is more than an answer  (0)
• What are the other locations for ESI Medical colleges? Work-in-progress  (11)
• Orissa govt. goes back to Bhubaneswar as the ESI medical college site; Why did not it push for Rourkela  (15)
• Ranking of Indian Engineering and Technical Institutes based on research: NIT Rourkela at number 20  (19)
• IIT Bhubaneswar issues global invitation for Expression of Interest in building its campus  (5)
• IIT Bhubaneswar notification on Ph.D admission  (1)
• NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology) to start in a temporary campus in Bhubaneswar in 3 months  (11)
• Paradeep Port plans an engineering college in Paradeep next year: Samaja  (1)
• Orissa Education and HRD related headlines from our sister site in Twitter  (0)
• Orissa CM Naveen Patnaik pushes for NID in Bhubaneswar and several coast related research centers  (3)
• Some plans regarding Innovation/World-class/National Universities; Brain Gain policy  (0)
• The Vedanta University Bill and the Sri Sri University Bill as presented in the Orissa assembly  (1)
• The land use plan of Vedanta University – Why 6000 acres?  (9)
• Anil Agarwal says Vedanta University was originally planned for Gujarat; It gets environment ministry clearance for its Puri location  (4)
• Srujanika has electronic compilation of major Oriya dictionaries  (0)
• MOS in GOI Mr. Srikant Jena pushes for a NIPER and an IIPH: Samaja  (2)
• Proposed Innovation Universities may replace quotas by taking into account socio-economic factors  (1)
• Three more new engineering colleges in the JEE Counselling list; Purushottam Institute of Technology back in the fray  (14)
• B.Ed College to start in Kandhamal this year: Samaja  (2)
• IIM-Ahmedabad Campus to come up in Hydearbad; Orissa should pursue an IIM Calcutta campus in Orissa  (3)
• Orissa higher education vision 2020: http://orissa2020.org  (13)
• Top foreign universities with programs in India  (0)
• Update on Medical College to be set up by MCL in Talcher  (19)

July 2009

• Vedanta University Bill aproved in the Orissa assembly with some ammendments; ICFAI University Bill referred to a select committee of the state assembly.  (19)
• Vedanta University Bill Passed in Orissa Assembly: Tathya running headline; Sam Pitroda name mentioned  (2)
• Call for nomination: Biju Patnaik award for scientific excellence: ad in Samaja  (0)
• Statewise count of Deemed Universities  (0)
• Four more PIO/NRI universities planned – Ministry of Overseas Indian Affair asks for EOIs  (0)
• National Universities will be exemplars for other universities including central universities  (0)
• Summary of India Today ranking of Engineering Colleges from 2003-2009  (4)
• XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar) interested in making/becoming Xavier University  (6)
• Bills for three private state universities introduced in Orissa assembly; India has 42 such universities as of June 2009  (0)
• Politicians are not much involved in private engineering or medical colleges in Orissa  (5)
• JEE Counseling for 88 Engineering Colleges/Institutes/Universities in Orissa; 25 of them are new  (5)
• Regular JEE counseling starts with Womens categories; IIIT, Silicon West, Parala Maharaj and Govt. Engineering College Bhawanipatna are in  (11)
• Excerpts of IIT Bhubaneswar director’s speech on the occaision of classes starting in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Opposition to certain conditions in the Vedanta University act; response embedded in Ila Patnaik’s article  (1)
• Business Standard interviews IIT Bhubaneswar director  (1)
• NTSE (National Talent Search) – Scholarhsips from 8th grade till Ph.D  (1)
• Central University of Orissa Koraput advertises for 15 faculty positions total in 5 areas (English, Oriya, Sociology, Anthropology, Journalism & Mass Communication)  (1)
• RTI response by MHRD related to Kalahandi; Orissa government should also push for a campus of IGNTU in Kalahandi.  (7)
• BPUT advertises for 37+37 positions for its engineering colleges in Berhampur and Bhawanipatna  (0)
• A partial list of engineering colleges that are newly authorized by AICTE to admit undergraduate students  (2)
• A partial list of new engineering colleges that may admit undergraduate students in the upcoming Orissa/BPUT JEE Counseling  (25)
• Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology promises to provide its top five students higher studies and research opportunities in the USA  (20)
• VC of CUO Koraput makes the right move; pushes for a medical college  (1)
• 2009 Open-Close ranks for EE and ME at various IITs, ISM and (I)IT-BHU  (0)
• Selected HRD headlines from our Twitter site  (0)
• Update on IIIT Bhubaneswar and IIIT Berhampur  (15)
• Status of AIIMS-like institutions  (4)
• 15% seats in private engineering colleges and privated medical colleges reserved for AIEEE and AIPMT qualified students  (23)
• BIT (Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology) and IIIT are good alternatives to CET and UCE (VSSUT) for top ranked students in Orissa/BPUT JEE  (5)
• 2009 BPUT/Orissa JEE Counseling – Open and Close ranks of last year  (28)
• Admission notice for Bachelors in Visual Arts at Govt. College of Arts and Crafts, Khallikote  (0)
• Orissa state cabinet approves bills for Vedanta, Sri Sri and ICFAI Universities  (0)
• Foundation stone laying of ICAR Foot and mouth disease (FMD) lab  (1)
• Proposed South Asian University has a initial five year budget of $300 million (Rs 1500 crores); India approves its share of $240 million  (0)
• Top 100 in Orissa Board Class X examination: Samaja  (0)
• Status of WODC helped private medical colleges in Kalahandi, Balangir and Rourkela  (2)

June 2009

• IIT Bhubaneswar faculty ad in newspapers (Deadline: 31st July 2009)  (0)
• Faculty openings at IIT Bhubaneswar (Application Deadline – 31st July 2009)  (0)
• Prof. Ganapati Panda will be the first Vice Chancellor of VSSUT, Burla: Dharitri  (0)
• Issues with Yashpal Committee final report  (10)
• Update on J N Tata Technical Education Center in Gopalpur; one more coming up in Kalinganagar  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar should start PhD programmes soon  (4)
• IIT Bhubaneswar student and faculty housing  (2)
• HRD minister plans to scrap class 10 board exams; will it be good for students of Orissa?  (1)
• Latest information on Sri Sri University and AOLHET  (1)
• Orissa government colleges have a faculty crisis  (1)
• OUAT also Offers MCA, MBA (Agri-Business Management), M.Sc (Bioinformatics) and M.Sc (Microbiology): Ad in Samaja  (0)
• IIT Kanpur to open extension centre in Noida; in future IIT Bhubaneswar should open an extension centre in Sambalpur/Rourkela region  (6)
• Tradewings Bhubaneswar: Offers Diploma in Airlines and Toursim Management (Ad. in Dharitri)  (0)
• List of B.Ed and CT institutions approved by the Orissa government: Dharitri  (6)
• XIM Bhubaneswar unveils a new 7 story academic block next to Fortune Tower  (2)
• Institute of Mathematics & Applications (Bhubaneswar) advertises for 5 faculty positions  (0)
• State of Delhi has many new university plans; first state to prepare a blueprint in response to NKC  (1)
• NKC member and JNU Professor Amitabh Mattoo mentions the idea of creation of five knowledge cities in India  (1)
• Proposed Jagadguru Kripalu University for Spiritual Sciences (Naraj-Banki Rd) – recent progress  (4)
• Some progress on the new IIITs; Orissa must insist on the new IIIT to be in Berhampur  (6)
• No politics on AIIMS (like institute) Bhubaneswar please!  (9)
• IIT-Hyderabad to design inter-disciplinary courses; Whats up with IIT Bhubaneswar?  (0)
• Dharitri says that the Abhinna Chandra Homeopathy medical college in Bhubaneswar is to have AIIMS like facilities  (0)
• Two government medical college proposals for Balasore? Defence department interested and Orissa government too?  (1)
• Central University of Orissa @ Koraput location one step closer to getting finalized  (2)
• Great job being done by the Institute of Mathematics & Applications  (1)
• Swaminomics pushes the voucher idea  (1)
• Pointers to Yashpal Committee’s interim report  (0)
• Some salient facts and trends about Orissa JEE (from Expressbuzz.com)  (58)
• Express Healthcare writes about Vedanta University Hospital  (1)
• Ph.D survey – Students’ perspective of doing Ph.D in India  (1)
• Rajasthan uses a balanced approach in choosing locations for its national institutions  (9)
• NISER Bhubaneswar and UM-DAE Mumbai NEST 2009 important notice  (1)
• NISER’s plans  (1)
• KIIT hires 75 IIT graduates as faculty; hope it nurtures them and keeps most of them  (2)
• Orissa JEE 2009 results are declared; some new and recent good private colleges  (227)
• ICAR operations in Orissa  (2)
• Nomenclature of Vedanta University gates and some of its landmarks  (0)
• KIIT group has a broad array of programs; KISS is expected to become its own university  (1)
• NISER Bhubaneswar has a new faculty advertisement; asst professor’s take home Rs 44,438 p.m and reader’s take home Rs 67,414 p.m  (1)
• More IITs and IIMs — beyond the ones listed in the March 28 2008 announcement — in the offing?  (2)

May 2009

• IIT Bhubaneswar students will stay near Jharpada and take bus to their classes  (0)
• New Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will try to speed up the setting up of AIIMS like institutes  (0)
• IIT coaching by IIT graduates  (1)
• Budget approved for one professor, two associate professors and three assistant professors in each course of CUO Koraput  (0)
• Orissa CHSE (+2) toppers in 2009  (0)
• Admission notice of Food Craft Institute Balangir  (3)
• Some information from the National Law University Orissa web page  (0)
• 150 students from Bhubaneswar are in the IIT JEE list (including the EML); 11 from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalay in Mundali make it  (3)
• MHRD sends appointment letter to IIT Bhubaneswar director designate  (0)
• OTV says that 300 Orissa students cracked the IIT entrance; Dharitri says 700  (0)
• Central University of Orissa, Koraput to start classes at COATS Koraput  (7)
• Review of Orissa’s plan on primary and higher secondary education for this year: Samaja  (0)
• Special Benefit for NISER students  (1)
• Four months part-time course for graduates possibly leading to a job in ICICI  (1)
• M.SC Computational Finance and B.Sc (Hons) in Math and Computing at Institute of Mathematics & Applications Bhubaneswar  (0)
• NISER unvelis its new web design; looks pretty  (0)
• Institute of Mathematics and Applications to train 52 tribal students from KBK for IIT/NIT/NISER: Ad in Dharitri  (2)
• IIT Hyderabad to start Masters and PhD this year  (15)
• Admission Notice of National Law University Orissa at Cuttack  (0)
• Post-matric scholarship for SC/ST students  (17)
• Joint application for +2 government junior colleges and a few private colleges (ones in DHQs without government junior colleges)  (0)
• NEST examination committee for NISER and UM-DAE is on the right track  (3)
• 40 new Engineering colleges and 5 new medical colleges have applied for state approval  (2)
• Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY)  (0)
• OUAT waiting for Orissa government’s nod for its proposed College of Forestry: Dharitri  (0)
• NASA Space settlement design contest  (0)
• Status of deemed university applicants as of 31st March 2009  (4)
• ASBM’s efforts to become a deemed university by 2012: Samaja  (0)
• Some thoughts on previous year NEST questions for NISER and UM-DAE  (3)
• Thank you Digambara, Sandeep babu, Braja babu and the others: Looks like CUO Koraput will start in Koraput because of your efforts  (0)
• Some National and Six Regional Institutes of Paramedical Sciences are being established  (2)
• IMMT offers a 1 year PG Diploma in Mineral Engineering  (0)
• Professor Faizan Mustafa takes charge as the VC of National Law University of Orissa (NLUO)  (1)
• Number of students registered for NEST 2009, the entrance examination for NISER and UM-DAE  (9)

April 2009

• Intensive Advanced Course in Odissi at the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Odissi Research Center: Admission ad from Dharitri  (0)
• Samaja and Tathya.in: Conspiracy to have a second campus of Central University of Orissa (Koraput) in Bhubaneswar?  (6)
• Zee Institute of Creative Arts opens its second campus (after Mumbai) in Bhubaneswar  (1)
• Vedanta University Hospital design  (4)
• NISER makes 31 offers for permanent faculty positions  (1)
• Committee constructed to develop the initial programs and syllabi for the Central University of Orissa: Samaja  (0)
• Faizan Mustafa appointed as the first VC of National Law University of Orissa  (11)
• Update on the proposed AIIMS like institutions  (0)
• Vedanta University teaching and research hospital to open in 2011  (0)
• Vedanta University expects to start in 2011  (3)
• The 12 new central universities will start with only research programs  (0)
• How not to do rankings?  (2)

March 2009

• Revision of faculty Salary in India – links to various reports  (0)
• Inidan Institute of Welding plans a center in Orissa  (0)
• Educational video sites  (1)
• Central University of Orissa classes to start in June from a temporary location; VC Prof. Banerjee will be tested on her ability get one of the 5 medical and engineering colleges to her university  (0)
• The tragedy at IIT Kharagpur – lack of proper healthcare facilities; a simple proposed solution  (2)
• Language Education in School: an op-ed in Samaja by school teacher Manoj K. Panda  (1)
• SCB BDS seats increased to 50 (from 20) but lacks enough hostels: Samaja  (0)
• Southern Railway plans a medical college attached to its hospital in Perambur  (6)
• IGNTU branch in Manipur gets formal approval  (0)
• NISER Construction expected to start in two months  (0)
• Second NSD Chapter debuts in Bangalore; Four more to come in Kolkata, J & K, Maharashtra and N.East  (0)
• Dr. Abhaya K. Nayak joins as NISER Registrar  (1)
• IISc will admit students to its Ph.D programs with just B.Tech and without GATE/NET  (1)
• Vedanta University Project gets Conditional CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone) clearance: Sambada  (1)
• IISER Kolkata to start five year Earth Science program; other happennings there  (4)
• Forbes writes about Vedanta University in its recent issue  (0)
• Status of Deemed University applications from Orissa as of 31st Dec 2008  (2)
• IIT Bhubaneswar plans to hire 60 faculty soon; M.Tech via video conferencing from July: Samaja  (0)
• Last year people got into an IIT by scoring 45% in the IIT JEE  (0)
• Prof. Surabhi Banerjee named as the VC of Central University of Orissa proposed to be in Koraput  (11)

February 2009

• IIT Bhubaneswar’s vision getting shaped  (4)
• A typo in the budget speech and the upcoming elections may give Rajasthan an IIM  (0)
• Central Universities bill passed in the Parliament  (0)
• Indiscipline and frequent unrests may cost BESU the IIEST status  (0)
• VN College Jajpur Road, Titlagarh College and UN College Adaspur get autonomous status: Dharitri  (2)
• Advertisement for Merit-cum-Means Scholarship from Orissa government  (21)
• 12 KVPY from Orissa  (1)
• Infosys India Prize for Promoting Research in Sciences for India’s Development  (14)
• Number of AICTE approved colleges and number of colleges that have submitted proposals for 2009-10 up to 31st Dec 2008  (15)
• Twenty counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism schools to be set up; 4 in Orissa  (1)
• Orissa Gazette notification issued for the creation of Vir Surendra Sai University of Technology in Burla  (1)
• Reviewing the visible progress of the six new IITs  (3)
• IIT Bhubaneswar contacts  (5)
• Foundation Stone laid for IIT Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Devdas babu reappointed for another term as VC of Ravenshaw University  (1)
• Parasnta Das’s letter to the CM on pushing mining and metal industries to contribute to HRD of Orissa  (0)
• NISER Bhubaneswar is mentioned in Volume 1 of the 11th Five year plan document  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar: flyer for the foundation laying ceremony  (0)
• Academic Earth has a good collection of video lectures.  (0)
• Tata Steel MD B. Muthuraman to be Chair of BOG of IIT Bhubaneswar  (1)
• Two more AIIMS like institutes and 5 more upgradations proposed  (2)
• IIT Bhubaneswar now has a web page  (1)
• National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management in Maharashtra  (4)
• ICFAI private university bill getting ready to be presented in the assembly  (1)
• Getting to know the founding director of IIT Bhubaneswar  (0)

January 2009

• Prof. Madhusudan Chakrabarti will be the founding director of IIT Bhubaneswar  (7)
• Central School of Tibetans in Chandragiri  (7)
• NKC would like the National Universities to have extra land for future income generation  (2)
• Four govt. polytechnics in Malkangiri, Boudh, Gajapati and Sambalpur districts approved  (2)
• Srikant Jena (ex-central minister from Orissa)’s argument opposing Vedanta University; my rebuttal  (3)
• President of India issues ordinance establishing 15 central universities; one in Orissa to be called “Central University of Orissa”  (4)
• Tissue culture research at OUAT: Samaja  (1)
• Map of the IIT Bhubaneswar site in Argul  (3)
• NEST 2009 for NISER and UM-DAE CBS  (32)
• MHRD approves the Argul site for IIT Bhubaneswar: PTI  (0)
• GOI plans three new universities with 50% reservations for NRIs and PIOs; first one in Bangalore  (2)
• Army air defence college in Gopalpur  (4)
• JSPL invests 300 crores in higher education in Sonepat, Haryana  (0)
• Silicon Institute of Technology making a campus in Sambalpur  (19)
• CCEA approves National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology  (1)
• Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan appropved by CCEA  (85)
• KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences) plans to be a tribal university in 2009-2010  (2)
• Orissa plans a Veterinary University: Sambada  (0)
• Science and Technology initiatives of 2008  (8)
• Two higher education projects that West Bengal looks forward to in 2009  (0)
• Bata Kishore Ray joins as IIT Bhubaneswar registrar  (5)

December 2008

• Union minister of state for Coal says medical college in Talcher to come up in next academic year  (1)
• Agriculture College to come up in Bhawanipatna  (9)
• Tathya.in scrolling headline: New Agriculture college in the offing  (0)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar plans to offer B.Tech from next year: Sambada  (0)
• IGIT Sarang advertises for thirty four faculty positions  (1)
• Site visit team for IIT Bhubaneswar concludes their visit; picks Argul  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar temporary and expected permanent location  (0)
• Colleges in Khurda, Nayagarh and Puri districts  (1)
• Colleges in Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur and Kendrapada districts  (1)
• Colleges in Angul, Cuttack and Dhenkanal districts  (0)
• Efforts on to make Khallikote a unitary university  (5)
• Berhampur University to collaboarte with BARC to study impact of radiation on plants  (1)
• KIIT School of Biotechnology has faculty involved in research  (16)
• Orissa government plans a government engineering college in Kalahandi near Bhawanipatna  (5)
• Koraput as a location for a central university  (0)
• Land identified in Koraput for Central University; Branch of IGNTU proposed for Phulbani  (16)
• Central government scholarship scheme for college and university students  (74)
• Anna University takes top slot in research publications  (1)
• UCE becomes Vir Surendra Sai University of Technology  (4)
• INSPIRE fellowship letter to NISER  (5)
• UCE Burla becomes a unitary university – a live report from the assembly  (1)
• Story behind the the ABA Ghani Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology  (1)
• What to do after B.Tech?  (86)
• Concept paper being finalized for the proposed 14 national universities  (1)
• NIT Rourkela alumni association organizing seminar in Bhubaneswar  (1)
• IIT Bhubaneswar to run from Bhubaneswar from 2009: Kalinga Times  (1)
• Rs 80,000/year fellowships for science students under INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research)  (88)
• Current TIFR locations  (0)
• Each Institute for Nano Science and Technology will cost 100 crore: 3 in India  (0)
• Clustering govt. colleges in Orissa  (0)
• Higher education reforms planned at the prodding of NKC  (0)
• IISERs and NISER leadership comparison  (0)
• Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar joins as NISER Bhubaneswar director on Dec 8, 2008.  (1)
• Higher Educational Institutions in Neighbouring Cities of Orissa (Incomplete List)  (1)
• UCE Burla unitary university bill to be presented in assembly later this week  (15)
• Vedanta University Project sets record stratight against unsubstantiated rumors  (0)
• Tathya on six deemed university proposals waiting for NOC from the state  (1)
• Sambada on Vedanta University and not messing up an opportunity that may not come again in 100-200 years  (7)
• Asian Institute of Public Health starts offering courses  (3)
• 3344 faculty and staff positions at each of the proposed AIIMS-like institutes  (4)
• Bed distributions in the AIIMS like institutes  (0)
• Specs for AIIMS like institutes  (1)
• Feedback on NISER academic and residential township specs  (0)
• NISER residential township specs  (0)
• NISER academic township and Sports complex specs  (0)
• NISER call for tenders for Providing Consultancy Services for Construction of Residential and Academic Townships  (0)
• Tourism and culture ministry mulls over establishing a network of Indian Institutes of Art and Culture  (0)
• Sardar Valabhai Patel Post-graduate Institute of Paediatrics in Cuttack  (0)
• Walk-in interview during Dec 8-13 for 50 research positions at IMMT (Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology) Bhubaneswar  (1)
• Samaja ad for admission in ATDC Bhubaneswar, Berhampur and Rourkela  (1)
• Computer Science to be introduced in more general colleges: Samaja  (0)

November 2008

• ESIC plans a medical college in Bhubaneswar  (2)
• Vedanta and Sri Sri University bills presented in the assembly: Sambada  (0)
• Orissa government to pay for infrastructure costs beyond land for IIT Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Faculty Positions at Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology  (0)
• General Colleges count in various Orissa districts – work in progress  (2)
• List of general colleges in Orissa  (0)
• List of government colleges in Orissa  (0)
• Food craft Institute in Balangir – needs attention  (1)
• Locations of the new regular central universities, new IITs and IIMs  (5)
• Curriculum change in Orissa schools likely  (1)
• Regional Centre for Biotechnology Training and Education in Haryana  (19)
• 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  (8)
• 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  (7)
• Two third of IGNTU students are tribals  (1)
• Indian money spent in Australia for higher education  (0)
• Oxford bookstore opens in Bhubaneswar  (2)
• Manipur campus of IGNTU approved  (3)
• AICTE to allow doubling of seats in colleges with a more than 4 year record  (3)
• IIT JEE 2009: Students passing qualifying exam before Oct 1 2007 are not eleigible  (3)
• Scholarship for docotoral studies abroad  (1)
• Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri to have 25 universities  (0)
• Vedanta University hires Paulien and Associates  (0)
• My perspective on Vedanta University  (14)
• 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  (2)
• XIM Bhubaneswar’s plans and status report  (2)
• Orissa government to give 10,000 higher education scholarships of Rs 10,000/year on MCM basis to Engineering, Medical and Dental students  (31)
• Children Education Assistance and Reimbursement of tution fee  (1)
• Asian Institute of Public Health to come up in Orissa  (5)
• 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  (0)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (1)
• Japan to help IIT Hyderabad in graduate programs and in developing a management program  (2)
• Some Stanford course materials are available in web  (3)
• Math olympiad examination 2008  (0)
• Ford foundation international fellowships  (1)
• 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?  (6)
• Recruitment evaluation criteria at Orissa universities and perhaps in many state universities across India  (2)
• IIT Hyderabad takes the lead in starting Ph.D programs  (16)
• NISER wiki and NISER’s visiting faculty  (1)
• TIFR plans campus in Hyderabad  (1)
• Educational and Research institutes in Hyderabad  (1)
• 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  (2)
• RIEs to offer International Diploma Course in Guidance and Counselling  (2)
• 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  (5)
• Orissa government issues tenders for IIIT, Parala Maharaj Engineering College and Construction Academy  (1)
• 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  (0)
• Upgradation of ITIs  (0)
• Scheme for Girls’ Hostel for students of secondary and higher secondary schools  (0)
• Recommendation of the pay review committee of the UGC  (6)
• Cabinet approves 12 new central universities (one in Orissa) and four upgradations  (0)

September 2008

• UCE Burla gets conditional nod to be made to a state university  (6)
• Foundation stone of Sri Sri University laid; web site unveiled  (0)
• Bill to ammend IIT act (to include the new IITs) to be placed in the next parliament session  (0)
• NASSCOM and MHRD tussle over the 20 new IIITs  (0)
• Some central universities to come up earlier than the others?  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar advertises for faculty positions and for registrar  (5)
• Hi-tech group to make a knowledge city in the Bhubaneswar area?  (1)
• 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  (3)
• Model Schools (one each in each block) will be better than Kendriya Vidyalayas  (0)
• Vedanta University presents its vision to teachers in Puri  (5)
• Applying for faculty positions at IIT Bhubaneswar  (14)
• 153 Faculty poistions at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack  (4)
• 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  (4)
• 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  (5)
• 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  (6)
• 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  (62)
• Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology (BIT) has just received AICTE approval  (16)
• Gujarat plans Surakshya University and University for Forensic Science  (1)
• Prof. Pankaj Jalote will be the founding director of IIIT Delhi  (3)
• Dr. Laxman Mohanty, one of the founder of Silicon, Rest In Peace  (39)
• 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  (2)
• Law University to start classes in 2009-2010  (6)
• Some details on the proposed Jagadguru Kripalu University of Spritual Sciences: material provided by the university planners  (5)
• 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  (1)
• MOU signed for a private medical college in Kanishi near Berhampur: Dharitri  (0)
• Other Engineering college clusters in Orissa  (8)
• List of Engineering Colleges in the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack-Puri-Dhenkanal area  (15)
• CM writes to HRDM to make UCE Burla an NIT  (2)
• News on the other new IITs: IIT Gandhinagar to start Computer Science and Civil Engineering next year  (1)
• 2008 Open-Close ranks for EE and ME at various IITs, ISM and (I)IT-BHU  (0)

July 2008

• Update on the proposed world class central universities  (0)
• Orissa offers land for NID and makes a new proposal: Samaja and tathya  (1)
• HHI Hotel Management School in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Nominations invited for new IIT directors  (0)
• Foundation stone laid for engineering college in Berhampur; classes to start next year  (0)
• 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  (8)
• 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  (36)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (2)
• IISERs to come under NIT act?  (1)
• Haryana IIM to be in Rohtak, 70 kms from Delhi  (4)
• 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  (8)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (0)
• Panel to identify varsity locations  (0)
• 2500-5000 new model schools: 1-2 in each block of the country  (0)
• Assocham observations of money spent in IIT coaching and Indians going abroad for their studies  (1)
• Tamilnadu and Himachal Pradesh’s HRD steps on CU, WCCU and IIM  (1)
• IIT Gandhinagar looking to corporates to fund IIT Chairs  (0)
• Student preferences among the old IITs  (5)
• 2008 Orissa JEE (BPUT JEE) Counseling details  (102)
• Vedanta University ties up with DAV School  (0)

June 2008

• One of three apex Tribal research institute to be in Orissa  (0)
• Employees’ State Insurance Corporation to Set up Medical College in West Bengal  (3)
• Partial list of GOI institutes funded by various ministries  (2)
• 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  (60)
• Course announcements of Utkal University of Culture  (1)
• AICTE voluntary scheme for tution fee waiver for women, economically backward, and physically handicapped meritorious students  (17)
• 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  (11)
• In a first, more than 200 to get PhD from IIT-Bombay  (7)
• AIEEE 2008 Counseling and admission to the NITs  (81)
• 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  (2)
• Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and its Puri campus  (2)
• After NIT Rourkela it’s now KIIT’s turn at number 18  (1)
• 2008 Orissa JEE (OJEE) Counseling by BPUT possibly from July 11th: Sambada  (143)
• Second central university in Tamil Nadu to start functioning from this year: Orissa is far behind  (5)
• Universities and university like institutes in and around Bhubaneswar: a map  (1)
• 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  (2)
• UNESCO Regional center in biotechnology in Faridabad, Harayana  (36)
• Latest India Today ranking of tech schools in India: NIT Rourkela at 18 is the 3rd best NIT  (58)
• Deemed University applicants from Orissa: current status  (2)
• Pioneer reports on IIT Bhubaneswar Website  (3)
• M.Tech and M. Pharm programs at ITER  (2)
• 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)  (12)
• 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  (1)
• Orissa JEE 2008 (BPUT JEE 2008) result out! Where can I get a seat with my rank?  (257)
• Several 5 year integrated masters courses at BJB: ad in Samaja  (2)
• IIT Bhubaneswar – Why pick it over IIT Patna, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Punjab : Part II  (11)
• 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?  (10)
• DAV Chandrasekharpur students do well  (0)
• AIEEE 2008 Counseling: What can I get with my rank?  (332)
• IIT JEE 2008 Counselling brochure and information on the new IITs  (36)
• NISER Bhubaneswar (National Institute of Science Education & Research) advertises for regular positions  (9)
• Orissa government looking for 1000 acres for IIT Bhubaneswar  (7)
• Finally BPUT starts construction  (2)
• Orissa government decides to establish a government engineering college in Berhampur  (13)
• 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.  (3)
• Search for the land for locating IIT Bhubaneswar: Current status  (0)
• New IITs (Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Patna, Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat): Train connectivity information on Bhubaneswar  (0)
• IIT Bhubaneswar students will most likely stay in MMM Hostel  (1)
• Centrally funded IIIT for Chhatisgrah; Orissa should push for one in Berhampur  (0)

May 2008

• IIT Bhubaneswar to start classes this year in mechanical, electrical and civil engineering  (5)
• 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  (2)
• 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  (213)
• 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  (2)
• 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  (5)
• Primary education in Orissa: an op-ed in Samaja  (1)
• Three to four new national labs coming up in West Bengal  (1)
• 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  (4)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (3)
• Sports hostels in Orissa  (2)
• 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  (1)
• ICAR Foot and mouth disease (FMD) lab to be established in Jatni near Bhubaneswar  (2)
• ICAR institutes, project directorates and national research centers  (6)
• Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) to come up in Bhubaneswar?  (4)
• Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited agrees to set up a medical college in Talcher  (4)
• Vedanta University plans to give a large order of IP telephony to Cisco  (0)
• Jharkhand Central University to come in Khunti village near Ranchi  (48)
• 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  (58)
• Ministry of Sc. & Technology (DST and DBT) Labs in India: None in the DST list are in Orissa  (0)
• CSIR labs in India  (45)
• 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  (8)
• MHRD directive on OBC quotas: PIB  (5)
• Foundation stone laid for National Tribal University in Madhya Pradesh: Original idea most likely came from Orissa CM  (3)
• 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  (1)
• 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?  (5)
• 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  (1)
• NTTF offers several diploma courses in Gopalpur  (3)
• 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  (4)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (46)

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  (5)
• IIT in Orissa, a world class central university and another central university (hopefully in KBK) announced by the center : PIB  (5)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (4)
• 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  (2)
• 2.5 crore each to ITIs in Puri, Cuttack, Chhatrapur and Umerkote.  (0)
• Status report of AIIMS like institute  (2)
• INSPIRE program for attracting students to sciences  (1)
• 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  (4)
• 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  (6)
• More details on the 140 positions at Ravenshaw University  (8)
• 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  (4)
• Number of Medical Colleges in India (statewise)  (1)
• BPUT Orissa JEE 2008 details  (83)
• Women only IIT in Amravati, Vidarbha (Maharashtra)?  (2)
• Undergraduate admission at national university of singapore for higher secondary student  (0)
• Scholarships at Ravenshaw University  (3)
• 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  (8)
• 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  (3)
• 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  (5)
• 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  (4)
• 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  (208)
• 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  (30)
• 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  (6)
• 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  (14)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (4)
• Partial list of “in progress (under consideration at AICTE)” Engineering Colleges in Orissa  (3)
• The current list of engineering/MBA/MCA colleges in Orissa.  (0)
• Bihar and Andhra Pradesh IITs to start classes in temporary locations in 2008?  (1)
• BJB College to Offer Four Professional Courses  (4)
• 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  (2)
• CM meets HRD Minister Arjun Singh on IIT, IIM and KBK Central University  (0)
• Ravenshaw to have its own FM radio  (4)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (2)
• 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  (11)
• 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  (2)
• 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  (3)
• 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  (14)
• 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  (7)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar gets AICTE approval for 25 seats  (6)
• 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  (1)
• CBSE updates class X Oriya syllabus  (0)
• Read India Campaign in Orissa: A report by Dr. Dhanada Mishra  (1)
• 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  (2)
• 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  (32)
• Update on BESU becoming an IIEST  (8)
• Toonz Academy to come up in Bhubaneswar soon  (7)
• 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  (5)
• 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  (29)

November 2007

• Orissa origin faculty in marquee Indian institutions outside Orissa (work in progress)  (61)
• 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  (2)
• 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  (2)
• More on the Ambedkar National Merit Scholarship  (7)
• Various education schemes from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for disadvantaged students  (11)
• 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  (63)
• 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  (1)
• 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  (1)
• Ravenshaw extension campus to start soon  (0)
• 150 more Bal Bhavans next year. Will some of them be outside Delhi?  (1)
• 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  (93)
• 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  (16)
• 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 Sahu in Dharitri  (0)
• Odissi schools in every district  (0)
• AP’s HRD request  (2)
• New IITs and IIMs to be funded via PPP?  (0)
• Orissa’s share of central universities in the 11th plan: Samaja op-ed by Sahadeva Sahu  (0)
• World class Institute of Entrepreneur Development proposed to be set up in Bhubaneswar  (0)

October 2007

• Orissa realizes that men can be nurses too: Dharitri  (0)
• ITI/ITC proposals forwarded to the center  (1)
• Right to School Choice – New Indian Express reports progress in Orissa  (0)
• Aerospace university in Bangalore proposed  (0)
• State BJP repeated demand for IIT and Central University in Orissa  (1)
• 1047 middle schools and 114 Kasturaba Gandhi girls schools to have eighth grade: Sambada  (0)
• Young Berkeley Economics Professor Raj Chetty on doing PhD and pursuing research  (0)
• Central Tool Room offers winter classes for Engineering students: ad in Samaja  (0)
• IGNOU’s admission ad in Samaja  (0)
• XIM’s admission ad in Samaja  (0)
• Dhanada Mishra’s READ Orissa campaign diary  (2)
• CUSAT about to become an IIEST  (2)
• Ruchika: If a child can not come to school, then the school must come to the child  (1)
• Sarba Siksha Abhijan related positions in Jagatsinghpur district: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• Tathya.in: IGNOU B.Ed Counselling from October 30  (27)
• Tathya.in: BPUT graduate requirements changed; old year back system removed  (5)
• Pratham and Dhanada sign MOU with Sambada on primary education  (0)
• Vocational training in Koraput for mentally challenged students  (0)
• More news on the 1 lakh/year scholarship for science students  (8)
• IMMT (formerly RRL) two day program on youth for leadership in Science  (0)
• Radhanatha Institute of Advanced Study in Education to become part of Ravenshaw University? : Samaja  (0)
• Cabinet approves IISERs in Bhopal and Thiruvanthapuram  (0)
• Stanford Daily on Vedanta University  (0)
• PM asks to freeze the location decisions on new central universities and elite institutions until the 11th plan is finalized  (1)
• Startover wrt Balangir medical college while Class is expected to start in 2008-09 in Kalahandi medical college: From Dharitri  (1)
• Steps for getting a commercial pilot liecence  (5)
• EU worried about IIT. Interesting!  (0)
• An MIT co-sponsored International Competition for the Best Research Paper on India’s Urbanization  (0)
• UP embarks on making its own state-funded institutes in the lines of IIT and IISc: Orissa should follow the examples of UP and Maharashtra  (4)
• IIPH funding sources  (0)
• PHFI and the new IIPHs (Indian Institutes of Public Health)  (48)
• On the new NIPERs  (0)
• NISER Bhubaneswar: Tender Watch  (0)
• AIIMS clones in Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Raipur, Patna, Rishikesh and Jodhpur: Tender watch  (1)
• Arjun Singh at odds with the PM, Planning Commission and the Knowledge Commission?  (1)
• Business India B-School ranking  (78)
• IBN Live: Location decisions on the remaining 4 IITs and 6 IIMs to be after 11th plan is finalized  (0)
• Master plan for Vedanta University wins AIA Baltimore design awards  (0)
• All India PMT conducted by CBSE: information on on-line application (16th Oct to 26th Nov)  (59)
• The engineering and MBA system in Karnataka: lessons for BPUT  (5)
• Some details on the proposed 16 central universities  (0)
• Briefs on the IIT in Orissa issue at the Resident Commissioner’s website  (0)
• A second JEE examination by BPUT  (9)
• Another BPUT JEE Counseling session for outside state candidates: 22nd and 23rd October 2007  (1)
• RSP expansion and adoption of ITIs in Sundergarh district by RSP  (0)
• CM meets union minister of Science and Technology for a Biotechnology incubation center  (0)
• Key sentences in the CM’s letter to the PM on IIT  (4)
• NISER ad for teaching assistant in Biology  (2)
• Vedanta University has acquired 775 acres of land: Sambada  (0)
• UCE Burla team’s meeting with the CM and others: a first person report  (4)
• RMTS scholar Himalaya Senapati got a silver medal at the International Astronomy Olympiad held in Ukraine  (0)
• Finally the CM writes to the PM again on IIT  (1)
• Chief Minister agrees to the three demands of UCE Burla students  (1)
• Which universities can be funded by UGC? How does a university get a “funded by UGC” tag?  (0)
• How does a deemed university differ from a university?  (1)
• UGC Predoctoral and Postdoctoral fellowships in Sciences  (188)
• UGC Chairman’s article in Hindustan Times  (0)
• Central Tool Room CAD course in its Kalinga Nagar extension center: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• Samaja Ads: M.Tech in CV Raman and College of Engineering Bhubaneswar (CEB)  (5)
• Samaja editorial on higher education  (0)
• More on the upcoming Sai International School  (24)
• Samaja Ad: NDA and Naval Academy entrance examination details  (0)
• Government considering differential fee structure for higher education  (0)
• Government mulling schemes that will allow collateral free bank loans for higher education  (3)
• Orissa government to urge Satya Sai Baba for a medical college in a remote area  (1)
• BHU submits Rs 3100 crore plan to become a world class university. Does any Orissa university have a similar plan?  (0)
• Young Astronomer Talent Search for Class 8 to 10 Students  (0)
• Apeejay Surrendra Group interested in setting up a research and design centre and a Knowledge Park in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Only 35 Computer Science Ph.Ds per year in India  (0)
• Summary of the recommdations of the National Conference on the development of higher education  (1)
• Orissa at the bottom of the major states in terms of higher education enrollment: Orissa must get two central universities  (0)
• A Samaja Op-ed on IIT in Orissa and Upgradation of UCE Burla  (3)
• IIT alumni plans to set up a new IIT  (0)
• Schedule for the next round of BPUT JEE Counseling (MCA, MBA, B.E, B. Arch, HMCT)  (4)
• UK Newspaper “The Independent” has a detailed article on Vedanta University  (0)
• Sambada provides details on the NIT Rourkela BOG director recommendation issue: How did a small time politician get recommended over well known technocrats?  (0)
• RMTS2007 Test on 11th Nov.; Last date of application extended to 25th October  (2)
• Information on yet another round of counseling for B.E/MCA/MBA  (5)
• M.Tech in ECE at NIST: Ad in samaja  (1)
• First time midday meals for 6th and 7th graders in 172 blocks: Samaja  (0)
• Tathya.in: Make UCE Burla a state university  (0)
• MHRD PIB: ACCESS, EQUITY AND QUALITY ARE FOCUS OF NEW INITIATATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION  (1)
• Sai International School and LaurelsGlobal Web pages  (1)
• Orissa Society of the Americas writes about central university and IIT to the CM and PM: Various reports  (2)
• Vedanta University land acquisition hits a hurdle; hopefully a small one  (1)
• Rural Math Talent Search Exam on November 11th 2007: last date to apply is Oct 10th  (0)
• BPUT vice chancellor’s vision: an interview he gave to Naxatra news  (5)
• Why UCE Burla’s demand for becoming a deemed university does not make much sense?  (2)
• UCE Burla students agitate for deemed university status: I think they are being misled into a wrong and harder path  (8)
• On Central University matters Bihar is awake, Orissa is sleeping  (2)
• Samaja Ad for faculty positions in Fakir Mohan University  (0)
• Samaja letter by a reader requesting Ravenshaw authorities  (0)
• Bakul Children’s library now with a computer lab and free Internet (courtsey SUN microsystems)  (0)
• Choice of NIT Rourkela Chairman of BOG not appropriate: Pioneer and tathya.in  (1)
• Orissa might again miss getting an IIT: Pioneer and Tathya.in  (0)
• Private Engineering Colleges restrict student movement: Ad in Samaja  (2)
• A private engineering college being made in Talcher  (5)
• Fourth of the 8 new IITs in Himachal Pradesh  (0)
• Narayana to start plus 2 : Samaja  (0)
• Orissa JEE counseling drags on further  (2)
• Adopt an ITI scheme  (0)
• Appeal to readers: need your urgent help on the IIT issue  (3)
• NRO appeal Naveen on IIT: Tathya.in  (0)

September 2007

• Merit cum means scholarship for minority students  (247)
• CEB offers M.Tech in Computer Science and Eng. : Ad in Samaja  (7)
• Health minister promises to start work on AIIMS clone in Bhubaneswar from Jan 2008: Press release of Govt. of Orissa  (1)
• Utkal University has 300 sanctioned faculty posts with 180 posts vacant now?  (3)
• Misinformation and ignorant campaign by Congress leader Kanhu Charan Lenka in a Samaja Op-ed  (6)
• WIPRO academy of Software Excellence: Ad in Samaja  (1)
• Problems faced by the Kastuaba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme in Orissa: Samaja  (0)
• Kasturaba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas scheme  (0)
• IIM act in the offing  (0)
• Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar are possible candidates for BITS business school  (3)
• Tourism management in RCMS: ad in Samaja  (0)
• Neglect of girl education: Samaja  (0)
• Oppotunity for B.Sc graduates at Vedanta: ad in Samaja  (5)
• ITER ad in Samaja for M.Sc in Biotechnology  (3)
• Ad in Samaja for Nursery teacher’s education  (0)
• JIPMER Puducherry MBBS seats increased to 100  (0)
• Third round of JEE counseling  (1)
• Merit-cum-means scholarships from Indian Oil Corporation.  (11)
• ITR in Chandipur to become an Air Borne Range  (20)
• Orissa cabinet decides on land lease for Sri Sri Ravishankar University: 6 crores for 185.97 acres  (1)
• Ravenshaw University hall to be accorded Heritage Status: Pragativadi  (2)
• Attempts to make Odissi Research Center a national institute: Dharitri  (0)
• Vedanta University land acquisition progress: Sambada  (1)
• Orissa plans to include class IX and X in Sarba Siksha Abhiyan  (0)
• GOI expects states to compete for the 14 (=30-16) world class central universities.  (0)
• ITER advertises for its M.Tech program for the third time: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• Samaja op-ed on Vedanta University  (0)
• Cost accountancy, chartered accountancy and company secretaryship  (0)
• Updates on the AIIMS-like institutes  (0)
• More information on new courses at Fakir Mohan University: Samaja  (0)
• Nursing education in the 11th plan  (0)
• NISER Bhubaneswar instructions for the second list of candidates  (0)
• GOI plans an aviation university  (0)
• Orissa to develop 600 new libraries : Samaja  (0)
• UCE Burla’s ad in Samaja for M.Tech  (3)
• Entrepreunership and skill development program in Keonjhar: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• NISER Bhubaneswar has a second and final list of candidates  (0)
• Including education in PPP  (0)
• Fakir Mohan University advertises (in Samaja) for programs in social sciences  (0)
• Central Tool Room’s branch opens in Rayagada: Ad in Samaja  (0)
• Ad (in Samaja) for Math Olympiad conducted by Orissa Mathematical Society and sponsored by DAE  (1)
• Sainik School Bhubaneswar’s ad in Samaja  (0)
• PM’s remarks in the full planning commission meeting  (2)
• Sarva Siksha Abhiyan : Steps in Orissa and Delhi  (0)
• Orissa government mulls grading engineering colleges: Dharitri  (0)
• Mostly job oriented programs at Fakirmohan University: Dharitri  (2)
• Some numbers related to IIT Kharagpur : a reference point to NISER  (2)
• Admission announcement by TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences): ad in Samaja  (2)
• NISER will be a world class deemed university: Samaja and others  (2)
• Outlook-Cfore business school rankings  (0)
• More details on the NITER proposal  (2)
• Sai International to start classes next year: Samaja  (0)
• Next round Orissa JEE Counselling details for MCA and MBA – ad in Samaja  (0)
• A collocated NITER with NISER?  (0)
• Samaja elaborates on the 4 more govt. medical college proposal  (0)
• Orissa may have 4 more govt. medical colleges  (0)
• Stewart School in Cuttack to celebrate its 125th anniversary  (0)
• Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology in Raebareli  (30)
• Newly AICTE approved Indus college of Engineering will take students through the upcoming Orissa JEE counseling: Ad in Samaja  (5)
• Samaja scholarship for poor meritorious students: application form  (0)
• Orissa govt ad in Samaja: accomplishments in higher ed and higher secondary education  (0)
• Every panchayat will have one fully aided high school: Dharitri  (0)
• Telegraph reports on the status of an AIIMS clone in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• NISER Bhubaneswar gets cabinet approval  (0)
• Templecity institute’s advertisement in Samaja  (0)
• Important Information for Admission to Orissa Engineering Colleges through the NRI quota (Orissa JEE)  (4)
• What does $1 billion buy? Is Vedanta University’s proposed budget enough?  (0)
• Wipro and KIIT will join hands to offer short-term post graduate courses  (0)
• Plan for vocational training of 20,000 – Samaja  (0)
• Orissa government’s loan stipend fund  (7)
• Urgent important information and instruction from NISER, Bhubaneswar  (1)
• AIIMS like institutions facing problem in attracting contractors  (0)
• New Engineering Colleges in Orissa that have received AICTE approval since the last counseling may admit students  (5)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar plans to start class in November; hopes to get final AICTE approval by then  (2)
• Progress on the AIIMS-like institutes, including the one proposed for Bhubaneswar  (1)
• NISER Bhubaneswar list of successful candidates and admission information  (5)
• Dresss code for teachers and other plans regarding K-12 BSE schools – report from Samaja  (0)
• Monthly VLSI certificate program at Central Tool Room – ad in Samaja  (0)
• Samaja interview with Dr. P. L. Nayak – Scientists are neglected in Orissa  (0)
• Detailed schedule for Orissa AIEEE/Remaining JEE/etc. available at Orissa JEE website  (42)
• Orissa JEE (AIEEE etc.) second round counseling schedule  (81)
• Orissa JEE (AIEEE etc.) second round counseling on Sept 4th and 5th  (46)
• Gopabandhu Academy of Administration has a web presence  (0)

August 2007

• IMIT, Cuttack may see some improvement  (7)
• UGC’s thrust and priorities in the 11th plan  (0)
• Institutes of Public health in Hyderabad and Gandhinagar  (5)
• Veterinary related research center in Orissa: Samaja  (1)
• Ekalavya School (Class VI to XII) for Adivasis in Kalinganagar – Kudos to past Jajpur Collector Dr. Arvind Padhee for his initiative on this (a Samaja article)  (0)
• ITER advertises (in Samaja) for its M.Tech program again  (0)
• Short term training programs in hardware: ad in Samaja  (0)
• Program in radio jockeying and anchoring: Samaja  (0)
• +2 for hearing impaired students: an ad in Samaja  (0)
• Another PIB: Central university in each state  (2)
• NISER in Rajya Sabha  (0)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar has a web page with ad for hiring and RFP from architects  (1)
• Tathya scrolling text: Ravenshaw University likely to get Central University Status  (7)
• Statesman: Orissa needs to set right its technical education  (1)
• Prof Madhu Mishra takes over as Sambalpur University Vice Chancellor  (4)
• Rejoinder to “Vedanta University: a flawed pipe dream”  (5)
• Utkal University of Culture’s ad for Ph.D students (from Samaja)  (4)
• Hospitality training for 500 persons in Orissa  (0)
• BPUT, Orissa JEE Cordinators and the responsible Orissa government officials have created a mess  (3)
• Contributions of OUAT Scientists to Agriculture: a Samaja article  (1)
• Another new engineering college gets AICTE approval  (0)
• Tribal University Bill introduced by Arjun Singh in Rajya Sabha  (2)
• Children joining special schools under Child Labor Project  (0)
• Kerala is given assurance about one of the 8 new IITs.  (0)
• Proposal for six new NIPERs gets cabinet approval  (0)
• 3 months course on Japanese , French, Russian and Chinese offered by OCAC, Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Sports schools and institutions  (0)
• MBBS and BDS seats available under all India Quota  (7)
• Worker’s national technical university in Hyderabad  (0)
• Some news on the locations of new IITs and IIMs  (2)
• Ranking of K-12 schools in India  (2)
• Indus College of Engineering receives AICTE approval for taking students from 2007-08  (4)
• From Sainik Schools to NDA  (0)
• Punjab National Bank asks for land to establish a Farmers Training Center in Orissa  (0)
• Update on Kendriya Vidyalayas in Orissa from Sambada and Tathya.in  (2)
• PGDM in International Business at IITTM Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan’s ad on its own AIEEE admission  (5)
• Extended Merit List for Medical, Pharmacy, MBA, Architecture Candidates in Orissa JEE web page  (8)
• New Central Schools (Kendriya Vidyalayas) in Orissa  (0)
• Campus recruitment at Utkal University  (1)
• Mentoring by IIM Lucknow students: Other marquee institutions should do the same  (0)
• Registering for Orissa JEE next round of counseling and Orissa AIEEE counseling  (59)
• Ad with information on next round of Orissa JEE and AIEEE counseling  (10)
• Ministry of Steel creates chair professorships in metallurgy in NIT Rourkela and several other institutes  (0)
• NIPM (National Institute of Intellectual Property Management) in Nagpur  (2)
• India produces 40 PhDs in Computer Science/yr to US’s 1400/yr and China’s 3000/yr  (82)
• Tathya.in has more information on the next round of Orissa JEE and AIEEE counseling  (13)
• IMA’s Masters program in Computational Finance  (1)
• Analyzing the educational aspect of the PM’s independence day speech and its implication to Orissa  (5)
• Sambada school of media and culture: entrance exam on the 18th  (0)
• PM’s Independence day speech: 30 new central universities, 8 new IITs, 7 new IIMs  (1)
• KISS students represent India in a under-14 International school rugby tournament  (1)
• ASBM to start course on Banking, Insurance and Financial Servive Management  (0)
• UGC Scholarships for rank holders at the Bachelors level  (21)
• Educational Loans from Banks  (1)
• NIT (National Institues of Technology) act becomes effective Aug 15 2007.  (76)
• Next round of JEE counselling soon; AIEEE counseling dates not fixed yet  (17)
• JITM Students obtain scholarships from LBW trust of Australia  (1)
• Several PIB releases on new central universities  (0)
• Rajya Sabha answer on central university in KBK  (0)
• Samaja: Additional JEE list for leftover seats in Engineering, MBA, etc.  (1)
• Vedanta being asked for an engineering college in Kalahandi: finally a sensible approach  (1)
• BJB/Ravenshaw Junior Colleges and their performance in IIT entrance exams: how to change it (Chitta1)  (4)
• NISER Bhubaneswar: NEST 2007 Screening test result out  (12)
• Orissa AIEEE Counseling  (131)
• Mass movement in Malkangiri for a central tribal university in KBK  (1)
• Links for NTS and NRTS scholarship exams  (6)
• Data and observations on Medical Counseling Day 1 and 2  (11)
• Krupajal starts M.Tech program; has AICTE approval  (12)
• Conspiracy to shift CIFT (Central Institute of Fisheries Technology) from Burla  (0)
• Ad by Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS)  (1)
• Ad about JEE Recounseling for Medical seats  (3)
• Unsecured study loans to become easier: GOI to give guarantee to banks  (1)
• Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences  (2)
• Efforts on for more tribal hostels and Ekalavya Vidyalayas  (0)
• Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship for tribal students  (259)
• 2007 ranking of Orissa Engineering colleges that participated in BPUT counseling – solely based on student preferences  (158)
• Final summary of GE seat situation at the end of JEE counseling for general category  (87)
• Govt. reduces the medical annual fees to Rs 3.75 lakhs  (7)
• Farmer training institute in Orissa  (4)
• Karnataka gets a positive response from the PM on a new IIT in Hassan  (2)
• An incomplete list of Orissa origin professors outside India  (7)
• CRRI dispute with Cuttack municipality on a drain; threatens to move  (0)
• Reduction of the Vedanta Univ land requirement comes from eliminating the airstrip  (0)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar should offer weekend M.Tech for Engineering College faculty  (14)
• Summary of GE seat situation at the end of JEE counseling on 3rd August 2007 [GE 1-13600]  (8)
• Balasore and Baripada closer to getting individual medical colleges  (0)
• In J&K proposed DAIICT threatens to move from Srinagar to Orissa  (2)
• Vedanta Univ talk at the Society for College and University Planning Annual Conference  (0)
• Update on Vedanta University front  (4)
• Fees at private engineering colleges: Is the following news report from Samaja about NIST true?  (0)
• Board of Secondary Education Orissa’s Ad in Samaja for contract teachers  (0)
• Samaja Ad for Distance Education programs by Sambalpur University  (0)
• Ad for M. Tech at Siksha `O’ Anusandhan University  (0)
• IITTM offers PGDM in International Business Management in Bhubaneswar: their ad for admission in PG Diploma in Management  (1)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar gets AICTE approval to start M.Tech from its first year itself  (63)
• Board of Secondary Education, Orissa – toppers since 1957  (6)
• IIT and IIM situation in India: if the planning commission approves where the new ones may be  (0)
• Times of India: 8 more IITs and 7 more IIMs under consideration  (0)
• Computer courses will be introduced in Ravenshaw varsity arts programs  (0)
• Preliminary Ranking of Orissa Engineering Colleges that participate in BPUT JEE counseling – solely based on student preferences  (11)
• Summary of GE seat situation at the end of JEE counseling on 1st August 2007 [GE 1-8400]  (3)
• Samaja ad for NCSTC award  (0)
• Samaja ad about training at State Coir Development & Training Centre, Teisipur, Puri  (0)
• Orissa government discusses next steps for Ravenshaw  (2)
• More details on UGC’s support to Ravenshaw University  (0)
• Further news on the proposed new central universities  (0)
• Orissa gets new textile training centre  (2)
• Vedanta International School in Lanjigarh  (3)
• Demand for KBK central varsity gains momentum  (0)

July 2007

• KIIT National Law School ad in Samaja  (5)
• Allahabad bank educational loan  (5)
• School Choice  (0)
• Zee Interactive Learning Systems plans to set up Kidzcare centers in Bhubaneswar  (0)
• Tathya writes on movement towards KBK Central University and Agami Orissa  (0)
• Summary of GE seat situation at the end of JEE counseling on 30th July 2007 [GE 1-5000]  (5)
• PIB: Significant increase in DST research fellowship amounts (Update: Also CSIR fellowships)  (224)
• Private detective courses and programs  (1)
• OUAT counseling details – Ad from Samaja  (5)
• Meagre state funding and incompetent leadership at Utkal University of Culture  (2)
• KIIT to have a law school that will also offer five year integrated B.X+LLB programs  (5)
• No GE (general category) seats left in Silicon, ITER, NIST and UCE Burla at the end of 29th July counseling [GE 1-3600]  (0)
• NTS Exam Schedule announced by NCERT  (0)
• Economist, UK profiles Anil Agarwal and mentions Vedanta University  (0)
• Appeal on behalf of Ravenshaw University  (3)
• CET Bhubaneswar Computer Sc & Electrical and UCE Burla CS and Electronics filled in the second GE counseling session  (0)
• Further updates on Orissa JEE counseling – seat availability  (92)
• From the UGC pages – financial support links  (1)
• 1000 hostels for Adivasi girls  (0)
• Ravenshaw becomes eligible to get UGC funding  (1)
• Vikram Dev School of Art to be made a degree college  (1)
• Medical fees in private medical colleges reduced by Rs 50,000  (2)
• IIIT proposal of Orissa in 1997  (0)
• MHRD links English with Computers and suggest teaching of English to start in Class III  (0)
• Orissa governmeng increases seats in more colleges  (0)
• Founding director of IIIT Bhubaneswar, Prof. Gopal Nayak’s biography from Tathya.in  (0)
• Institute of Mathematics and Applications teams up with SCSTRTI  (0)
• Draft bill 16 new central universities under consideration  (0)
• How are Ekalavya Vidyalayas doing? Some reports from Samaja.  (0)
• Apparel training center inaugurated; land alloted for IIHT Baragarh; etc.  (0)
• Scholarships for students pursuing post graduate studies (M.A/M.Sc) in Mathematics  (0)
• Institute of Mathematics and Applications now has a new web page.  (2)
• Infosys establishes a 1 crore corpus for a chair at IIIT Bhubaneswar  (0)
• IIM will offer executive courses via HughesNet  (2)
• Infosys plans a pilot special training program for SC/ST students in 6 states including Orissa  (5)
• Archery training schools in KBK districts  (0)
• Interim Supreme court order on Satyasai Engineering College in Balasore  (2)
• Mahindra offers scholarships for BPL students, disabled students or defense wards pursuing diploma in a polytechnic  (0)
• Meeting in support of KBK Central University called in Malkangiri.  (0)
• Schools for students with disabilities  (1)
• Joining Orissa engineering colleges through AIEEE will entail the same fees as through Orissa JEE  (18)
• IIIT Bhubaneswar will start class this year  (0)
• Prof. Bijay Sahu is the new vice chancellor of Berhampur University; Sambalpur VC’s term extended  (0)
• Indira Gandhi Scholarship for single girl child for post graduation studies  (80)
• Tata Parivar scholarships for children of displaced families  (1)
• Orissa JEE counseling updates – seat availability  (4)
• MBBS Counselling to resume on August 9  (0)
• Samaja on dismal state of literacy among Adivasi Women  (0)
• KIIT and ICICI bank offer a one year program in P. G. Diploma in Banking and Insurance Management  (3)
• Samaja Ad: Sikshya ‘O’ Anusandhan becomes a (Deemed) university  (5)
• Progress on Vedanta University land acquisition front  (0)
• Tution fee rates at Orissa private engineering, MCA and MBA colleges  (5)
• OPECA Ad: Private colleges want students to report within a week of their counseling  (35)
• SBI extends Scholar plus scheme to NIT Rourkela: easy availability of student loans  (0)
• Orissa government asks committee to take a second look at the medical college fees  (2)
• KIIT to follow OJEE counselling schedule for MBBS and BDS programmes  (4)
• Orissa JEE Recounseling for medical seats will be in first week of August.  (0)
• Sambada: ITER’s parent organization “Sikshya O Anusandhan” becomes a deemed university  (8)
• BJB Junior College Plus two science and arts merit list of students  (2)
• Samaja: BJD Parliamentary party asks for KBK Adivasi Central University  (0)
• Yet another engineering college coming to Bhubaneswar  (2)
• Several NRIs including three US based professors starting an engineering college near Bhubaneswar  (1)
• Orissa’s dismal performance in IIT entrance examinations; no one cares  (5)
• Regional College of Management plans campuses in Dubai, Jamshedpur and Delhi  (0)
• ASBM (Asian School of Business Management)’s dream  (16)
• Tathya reports that medical counseling will be redone  (0)
• NAAC accredition of Orissa colleges and Universities  (3)
• Burla and Berhampur medical schools seats increased to 150 each  (2)
• Fee structure for engineering, MCA, MBA, BDS and Medical announced  (84)
• Seat increase in plus 2 science and commerce in many government colleges  (2)
• The story of Udaipur library and the man behind it: help needed  (0)
• From the AICTE pages: List of approved Pharmacy institutions in Orissa – 2007-08 (July 12 2007)  (5)
• From the AICTE pages: List of approved MCA institutions in Orissa – 2007-08 (July 12 2007)  (5)
• From the AICTE pages: List of approved MBA institutions in Orissa – 2007-08 (July 12 2007)  (2)
• About: Orissa engineering colleges in the AICTE list and their number of seats (July 12 2007)  (1)