Yogesh Avasthi

University will upload answers to next month’s first semester BCom exam papers. Other undergraduate courses to be covered from second semester Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011112920111129024919138ce6b71d4/Hey-how-was-the-paper-Go-to-GU-website-and-find-out.html ) Gujarat University, which will conduct semester exams for undergraduate courses for the first time next month, plans to upload the answer key on its website to benefit students. To begin with, it will only upload answer keys to first semester BCom papers. Second semester onwards, science, arts and other disciplines will be covered. As many as 32,000 students are expected to appear for the first semester BCom exam to begin on November 30. As per plan, the answer key will be uploaded three hours after the daily exam and will stay on the website for two days. Usually, answer keys are uploaded for multiple-choice questions asked in competitive exams. B...

Officials at SCOPE have made demands for every college to list a minimum of 200 students for the language exam; students complain that compulsion is not right Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Monday, November 28, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/201111282011112801470498689a37296/More-students-must-take-the-test-SCOPE.html ) SCOPE officers have mounted pressure on colleges to increase the number of students taking the test. In the numerous meetings held with colleges, they have demanded that at least 200 students from each college should take the test. Many students feel that making the test compulsory is ‘unfair’ and an unnecessary expense. Society for Creation of Opportunity Through Proficiency in English (SCOPE), an initiative of Gujarat Government, is aimed at developing soft skills among youths for communication in English. Gujarati medium students are required to pay Rs 200 while English medium students have to pay Rs 300. However, little option has been left in this ...

A depressed Aadit Shah, 15, spent his Diwali vacation behind closed doors after his Facebook mates accused him of posting nasty comments on their wall. He later found out that two of his friends had hacked his account to malign him Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Sunday, November 27, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011112720111127030513876f697e30c/Friends-hack-UDGAM-boys-FB-account-post-Lewd-comments.html ) This should serve as a warning bell for parents oblivious to their child’s online habits and the dangers of the cyberworld he/she is exposed to. A class X student of Udgam School was pushed to the brink of depression after his friends hacked his Facebook account to send lewd messages to his acquaintances. It was jealousy that drove the two students — Kush (name changed) from Udgam and Arpan (name changed) from St Xavier’s Loyola — to hack the FB account of their friend Aadit Shah, 15. The reason: They did not like the fact that a popular student in their group was fri...

Rlys signs a 10-yr contract with Jyothy Laboratories which will set up a mechanised laundry near Kalupur railway station Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Saturday, November 26, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/2011112620111126022941299651f3aa/Private-firm-to-wash-rlys%E2%80%99-dirty-linen-.html ) Faced with the risk of soiling its reputation over complaints of unwashed linen being provided in the AC coaches, the railways has finally pulled up its socks. Western Railway (WR) has now signed a 10-year contract with Jyothy Laboratories to set up a mechanised laundry plant on railway premises. The land, water and electricity supply will be provided by the railways. Touted to be the largest unit in the country, it will have a capacity to clean 16 tonnes of linen per day, said railway sources. The plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2012. The railways will foot a total bill of Rs 65 crore for 10 years, sources told Mirror. A tender was out in June 2010 in this conn...

To be modelled on Taiwan’s ITRI, the laboratory will facilitate setting up of a domestic manufacturing base so that India can have locally manufactured electronic products Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Monday, November 21, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/201111212011112102234478359a3f87d/GTU-TO-PAVE-WAY-FOR-TECH-RESEARCH-WITH-RS-38cr-LAB.html ) Gujarat Technological University (GTU) is coming up with a first-of-its-kind electronics laboratory in the country to facilitate technological research and build an indigenous high-technology industry. To be built along the lines of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the Rs 38-crore lab will be set up on the new GTU campus in Chandkheda. The labs will focus on two broad areas of tech research: Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) — the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip — and mobile computing. INDIGENOUS PRODUCTS “Since adequate research faci...

Ashish Chowdhary, a student of EDI and a Steve Jobs fan, has come up with a free cellphone app that allows CAT aspirants to work on 14 original test papers and also provides scores Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Sunday, November 13, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20111113201111130018403931ac787ab/Amdavadi-entrepreneur-develops-mobile-CAT-app.html ) Now, IIM aspirants can prepare for CAT at their convenience and that too, without spending a rupee. Ashish Chowdhary, a student of PGDBM in Business Entrepreneurship at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, has co-developed the CATapp, a unique cellphone application that can be downloaded for free. The app provides all CAT papers from 1994 to 2008 along with the solutions. It also comes up with a scorecard based on your test performance. Students simply have to send him an email at ashish@catapp.in to avail of the CAT app. Ashish, a B.E. in Information Technology from Dharmsinh Desai University in Nadiad, says...

These are run by in-charge principals who do not have the power to make decisions on policy matters. While the colleges have sent requests to state education dept for fresh appointments, it is yet to issue NOCs Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Saturday, November 12, 2011 ( http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4262288374987173563#editor/target=post;postID=1062546356571867691 ) The state government should talk about improving the quality of education only after it removes this roadblock. Of the 396 colleges affiliated to Gujarat University (GU), 175 do not have full-time principals. It is the in-charge principals who run the show in these colleges, reveals the newly published GU diary. Since the power to make important decisions does not lie with them and neither are they allowed the benefits principals enjoy, development activities are put on the back burner. Of the 86 BEd colleges, 72 do not have principals. Same is the case with 50 per cent of colleges that offer both arts and ...

Businessmen from Andhra Pradesh tried to get their berth confirmed by getting a fake letter in the name of the former railways minister Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, November 11, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20111111201111110233094797426d170/Two-passengers-caught-using-fake-letterhead-of-Mamata-for-getting-berth.html ) Between her hectic parleys with the UPA government over threats to withdraw support and surprise visits to the police stations for getting her party workers freed, when would former railways minister and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee find time to send a personal fax to Ahmedabad railways authorities, asking them to confirm the reservation of passengers in the VIP quota. This question apparently bothered officials in the Emergency Quota (EQ) cell of railways who received a faxed letter-head bearing the “signature” of Banerjee, asking to confirm ticket of two passengers in Navjeevan Express from Ahmedabad to Chennai. The letter ...

Experts and students are working on a website that will give access to ebooks, exam results, events, R&D at the college; parents, can log on to check their children’s progress Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/20111108201111080233291691b093552/Come-2012-LD-engg-students-faculty-will-interact-on-their-own-portal.html ) LD College of Engineering has launched a project to bring students, teachers, college administration and parents on one platform through a portal in the next couple of months. Experts, along with students, began working on the Rs 10-lakh venture about two months back and expect to complete it early next year. While students and faculty will have access to ebooks, examination results, attendance records, college events, research and development works of the faculty, the website will display the students’ performance in internal tests and parents will be able to track the progress of their children on it...

Intellectual Property Rights & Technology Transfer will be taught in semester VIII from Jan Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/2011110820111108023322919fa2f729c/GTU-introduces-course-on-intellectual-rights-.html ) For the past many years, students from across the state have been pouring out their innovative minds and creating wonders. But many a time, their ideas are pilfered by industries and individuals. Therefore, to help students understand the importance to patent their innovations, Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has decided to teach Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer course in the eighth semester of BE from January 2012. The course has been designed by IIM professor Anil Gupta and expert lawyers. Sources in GTU said, “No university has taught such a course. Students, especially from engineering field, need to understand the seriousness of intellectual property rights. They have been maki...

Now, tech varsity will conduct online exam that is mandatory for class II, III govt employees, teachers to get annual increments; step taken after complaints of malpractice in tests organised by ITIs Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, November 04, 2011 ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011110420111104025944134a344fef3/Computer-Exem-For-Babus-gets-Tougher.html ) Government employees who want their annual increment released now need to be better prepared for the mandatory departmental computer test. Fed up with complaints of irregularities in the examination, Department of Employment and Training has asked Gujarat Technological University (GTU) to conduct it online. The Course in Computer Concepts (CCC) examination that all class II, III and IV government employees and teachers have to clear to get their yearly salary revision was being conducted by ITIs since 2006. However, there were complaints of the employees getting away with cheating, fielding dummy writers and getti...