Top ranking for Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Charusita Chakravarti of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Santosh G. Honavar of L.V.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eleven scientists have been selected for this year's prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology research by the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The CSIR instituted the award in memory of the eminent Indian Scientist Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Axiom Education, an education innovation company, Saturday announced the launch of interactive comic textbooks based on the curriculum set by the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) to spread scientific knowledge. Called "iken books", the textbooks have been designed with comic characters imparting education, and will be available in two volumes for students of sixth to eight standards.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Use of farm waste can lead to generation of 18,000 MW of electricity every year, the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science has estimated. The National Biomass Resource Atlas recently prepared by the institute estimates that there are 120-150 million tonnes farm waste that can be used for this purpose every year, Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah informed the Rajya Sabha Monday.

July 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has selected SunGard Higher Education's Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC) solution to help increase efficiencies in course administration, improve student services, and enhance capabilities for collaboration with institutions in India and worldwide. "SunGard truly understands the global language of higher education," said Professor Pankaj Chandra, Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

July 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will chair a five-member jury of the Infosys Science Foundation, set up by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd, to select winners for its awards in five science disciplines, the company said Wednesday. Sen will chair the jury for social sciences.

July 14th, 2009 BANGALORE - The US-based Pratt and Whitney, one of the world's leading aircraft engine manufacturer companies, has funded a chair at the department of aerospace engineering of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here. The chair will bring the company and the institute together to work on fundamental and applied research initiatives to develop efficient and environment-friendly gas turbine engines.

May 27th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Rs.150,000-crore Tata group will donate funds for a new facility and discipline at the century-old Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here, group chairman Ratan N. Tata said Wednesday.

April 2nd, 2009 BANGALORE - The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) Thursday announced a modest increase in the fee structure for post-graduate programmes from the ensuing 2009-10 academic year. The fee has been increased by Rs.25,000 to Rs.5.25 lakh from Rs.5 lakh for 2009-10 and by Rs.50,000 to Rs.5.75 lakh from Rs.Rs.5.25 lakh for the second year (2010-11), IIM-B school director Pankaj Chandra told reporters at the school campus.

March 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - One of the top B-schools in the country, Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (IIM-L) Monday announced that it will soon hike the fees for its two-year postgraduate programme. 'We have our financial requirements and to justify it we hope to increase the fee,' institute director Devi Singh told reporters here.

February 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's ambitious e-network project, linking leading universities and hospitals in this country with their counterparts in 11 African nations via satellite, was inaugurated Thursday evening by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who termed it a 'shining example of South-South cooperation'. Mukherjee inaugurated the Pan-African e-network with a brief video-conference call with his counterparts in 11 African countries - Ethiopia, Senegal, Seychelles, Benin, Gabon, The Gambia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana and Burkina Faso.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Having shot in Bangalore for over a month with Aamir Khan for Rajkumar Hirani's 'Three Idiots', actor R. Madhavan is sad that the schedule is over and misses all the fun they had.

January 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - Air Arabia Thursday announced new fares for its Bangalore -Sharjah route, starting from Rs.1,340, exclusive of taxes. Air Arabia, a low-cost carrier of the United Arab Emirates, launched services from Sharjah to Bangalore in October 2007 and has recorded an average seat factor of 82 percent, the airline's commercial department head A.K.

January 2nd, 2009 SHILLONG - While announcing a doubling of the investment in science from one to two percent of the national income, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday urged the Indian industry to invest in research and development aimed at boosting science and technology so that young minds are attracted to seeking a career in science. 'We need a new wave of investment from the private sector so that young people will be encouraged to seek a career in science,' the prime minister said while inaugurating the 96th Indian Science Congress at the Northeastern Hill University here.

January 1st, 2009 BANGALORE - A centre for infrastructure and sustainable transport and urban planning has been set up at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here. Established with a corpus of Rs.300 million/Rs.