Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology ties up with US firm

October 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has been rated the best in South Asia in terms of visibility and scholarly papers on the net in the latest ranking of such institutions by Cybermetric Lab, the largest public research institution in Spain. The Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, the National Informatics Centre in Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai make up the top five universities in the subcontinent.

September 21st, 2009 US chemist leaves Zurich post over doctored dataZURICH — Switzerland's top technology institute says a U.S. chemist has resigned as head of research after scientific data were found to have been manipulated.

September 18th, 2009 BANGALORE - Leading chip maker Cypress Semiconductor Corp entered into a partnership with the Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology to set up a programmable System on Chip (SoC) laboratory at Bhubaneswar in Orissa, the company said here Friday. As part of the agreement, signed at Cypress headquarters' at San Jose in California by Bhubaneswar institute's Rabi Mahapatra and Cypress University Alliance director Patrick Kane, the chip maker will provide training to the faculty and students of the Bhubaneswar institute, with free hardware kits and software tools, the company said.

August 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - An earthquake of low intensity jolted Balasore district of Orissa and lasted for a few seconds, the meteorological office said here Friday. The tremor was felt in several villages and towns in coastal Balasore at about 4.10 p.m.

August 19th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday requested the central government to set up a National Institute of Design Technology (NID) in the state capital and offered to provide for it necessary infrastructure, including land. Patnaik met union Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma at New Delhi Wednesday and made the request, the chief minister's office said in a press release here.

August 17th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay will conduct an event in Orissa's Rourkela this year to promote new generation technologies. The "Nexus-2009" will be held Oct 10 in the National Institute of Technology (NIT) campus in Rourkela, an official statement said Monday.

July 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT - A) administration Thursday said it will soon withdraw the fine and punishment on 19 senior girl students after they apologized for ragging junior girls. On Tuesday, 19 B.

July 13th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Residents of Orissa have reason to cheer as the state has been getting plenty of rain in the last few days and the weatherman Monday predicted an average monsoon and heavy to very heavy rainfall over the next couple of days. "In Orissa there is no problem of rain.

April 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today ruled out supporting Congress or BJP-led government at the Centre after the general elections. Addressing an election meeting along with NCP chief Sharad Pawar and CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Patnaik said he was happy with the seat-sharing arrangement reached between the three parties for Lok Sabha polls in Orissa.

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ten Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) students Saturday received Honda Motor's Young Engineers and Scientists (YES) awards here for excellence in the field of science and technology. M.G.K. Menon, advisor with the Indian Space Research Organisation, presented the awards to the 10 students, selected from five IITs on the basis of their performances.

February 17th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Several trains on the busy Howrah-Chennai route were cancelled or diverted Wednesday after at least 25 wagons of a goods train that started from Paradip port in Orissa derailed near the border with West Bengal. The goods train, carrying coal from Paradip to Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, derailed near the Narayangarh station in West Bengal, 40 km from the border.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa would be complete in four years from now with Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh laying the foundation stone Thursday. The institute at Bhubaneswar is one among eight new IITs to be established in the country by the ministry of human resource during the Eleventh Plan period.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh will lay the foundation stone of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa Thursday, an official said. Arjun Singh was to lay the foundation stone Wednesday but the programme was rescheduled, an official of the industry department told IANS.

February 4th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Ten students of an engineering college in Orissa's Puri district were arrested Thursday for assaulting their juniors, police said. The fourth year students of Ghanashyam Hemalata Institute of Technology and Management on the Puri-Konark marine drive, some 70 km from here, allegedly attacked a group of third year students Wednesday for not obeying their orders.

December 26th, 2008 SHIMLA - The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) branch slated to be set up in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district would start its admission process from August next year, an official release said Saturday. 'The NIFT would start its first batch from August next year,' the release said.