News Digest : 28 July 2014

News Digest : 28 July 2014

22K engg seats vacant after 1st round of seat allotment

Ahmedabad Mirror | 26 July 2014

After the first allotment of seats for engineering degree courses, 22,856 seats remained empty, said ACPC sources. This includes 14,168 seats that remained vacant after students failed to report to the help centres with the required documents. The students were supposed to submit their documents by 5pm on July 25. Read More

Device mimics trees to split water with solar energy

Ahmedabad Mirror | 26 July 2014

Through an energy conversion process that mimics that of a tree, a University of Wiscon sin-Madison materials scientist is making strides in renewable energy tech for making hydrogen. Xudong Wang, an assistant professor at the university, recently collaborated with researcher, Zhiyong Cai, in the US Forest Products Laboratory in Madison on research to use cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) for water splitting, a process that converts solar energy to hydrogen fuel. Read More

Attach filter to any bottle for clean water

Ahmedabad Mirror | 25 July 2014

Researchers have created a water filtering device that weighs less than 100 grams, needs no power to run and can be attached to any pet bottle to provide clean potable water… Roughly 780 million people around the world have no access to clean drinking water. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 3.4 million people die from water-related diseases every year. A Swiss Federal Institute of Technology student Jeremy Nussbaumer set himself the goal of making a contribution to solving this problem. Working with researchers from a group led by Wendelin Stark, the 23-year-old spent a year researching a membrane filter and developing a prototype. Read More

Steep hike looms in technical SFI fees

The Times of India | 28 July 2014

Technical education at self-financed institutes in the state is likely to be more expensive by 15% and 25% from this year. All the 550 self-financed technical colleges in Gujarat will adopt the new fee structure from academic year 2014-15. The new fee structure will remain in force till 2017-18. Read More

Soon, Wi-fi services in urban areas, universities

The Times of India | 28 July 2014

In a move to push IT based government interface with people and to make mobile connectivity easier, the Narendra Modi government has set the target to provide support to state governments and municipal bodies for launching wi-fi services in urban areas and universities. Read More

Tech varsity ties up with IPR to improve quality of PhD research

The Indian Express | 26 July 2014 | Read More

Three fundamentals that change behavior

The Indian Express | 26 July 2014 | Read More

IITમાંથી સદા ત્રણ વર્ષમાં બી.ટેક કોર્સ થઇ શકશે

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લાખોનો પગાર છતાં રિસર્ચમાં પ્રોફેસરોને રસ નથી ! : યુ.જી.સી.ના રીસર્ચ પ્રોજેક્ટ મેળવવા માટે ૩૩૦૦ ને તાલીમ આપી તો માત્ર ૧૫ ટકાએ અરજી કરી, તેમાંથી ૬ ટકાની અરજી માન્ય થઇ

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પીપીપી મોડલની જેમ હવે ઓટોનોમસ સ્તેતાસનું પણ બાળમરણ થવાની તૈયારી

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વિદ્યાર્થીઓ હવે મફતમાં પણ પ્રતિષ્ઠિત એન્જીનીયરીંગ કોલેજોમાં ભણવા તૈયાર નથી !

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