Bhubaneswar: IIT Bhubaneswar has introduced Odissi dance as a BTech subject becoming the first IIT in the country to introduce any dance form in its curriculum, director RV Rajakumar said here on Friday. The classical dance would be one of the ‘breadth’ course of maximum 12 credits during the four years BTech studies, he said. Each credit means, weekly five […]
» Read moreAndhra Bank, an institution with presence across 26 States and three Union Territories, on Friday opened its 2600th branch and 3000th ATM. Announcing this, the bank said 43 per cent of the branches are in semi-uban/rural areas and 231 of the branches are in unbanked rural centres. During the current fiscal, the bank added 100 branches and plans to add […]
» Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Thursday asked ten entities connected to the Satyam scam case including the ex-chairman of the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd., B. Ramalinga Raju and other family members to disgorge over Rs.1,800 crore, which are ‘ill-gotten gains’ made by them. The SEBI order said that pursuant to the SEBI order on July […]
» Read moreClasses at the new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Dharwad could begin as early as the next academic year, although at a transit campus. Ready availability of infrastructure for such a campus is being cited as one of the reasons which tipped the scales in favour of Dharwad over cities such as Bengaluru, Mysuru and Raichur. However, it may […]
» Read moreMumbai: Expanding its e-services interface, the Maharashtra government is all set to bring the process for issuing caste, birth and death certificates online from next month. The state government has decided to provide 50 of the 150 notified services under the Right to Services (RTS) Act online starting from October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Additional Chief Secretary, […]
» Read moreBengaluru: J Manjula has been appointed the first woman director general (DG) of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). She is the recipient of DRDO Award for Performance Excellence, Scientist of the Year 2011, and India Today Woman Summit Award -2014. Photo: © BCCL (Main Image)
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