Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was on a day visit to Belgaum to take part in the VTU convocation and he delivered his convocational address. In his speech he said that 2008 global crisis hampered India’s growth. Finance minister also said that UPA govt had taken numerous steps by which the Indian economy would grow at [...]
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Abhay Gohil, retired judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, has been appointed a one-man commission of inquiry to look into the allegation that H. Maheshappa, Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), misled a search committee and the Governor’s office regarding his academic qualifications and research background before he was selected to head the VTU. [...]
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Source: The Hindu A Bangalore-based RTI applicant has brought to the front inconsistencies in the resume submitted to the Governor by VTU Vice Chancellor Dr. Maheshappa. Dr. Maheshappa had claimed in his resume that he had passed his BE in 1983 with a first class. However, the documents show that Dr. Maheshappa had passed BE [...]
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Calling it a “simple error” the university officials say MBA degrees were issued to students who had failed was due to a software problem. 15 students were issued MBA degrees on the VTU convocation held in January 2010 who had actually failed and all this has come out after an RTI application by U Gautham. [...]
View PostThe recent virus attacks that made the CAT (Common Administration Test 2009) online exams a dud has prompted the VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University) of rethinking on its online entrance exams for MBA & MTech courses. In fact VTU was the first university to start online exams in 2006, but after the present debacle it feels [...]
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The Centre for Internet and Society filed an RTI application to Visvesvaraya Technological University asking it to provide details about its curriculum design, and its tie-ups with various software vendors. (The Microsoft DreamSparkProgram is an initiative by Microsoft where all the students of the VTU would be allowed to download free versions of Microsoft [...]
View PostInnovative technologies and high-speed communication systems that have converted the world into a global village have come in handy to give concrete shapes to these new ideas and concepts. Latest developments in the field of education are the development of e-learning content on a mobile device. This is what the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has [...]
View PostTata Sons Chairman Ratan N Tata, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar and Prof Thomas Kailath, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University, US, will be honoured with The Honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum. Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur, who is also VTU Chancellor, will present the honor to [...]
View PostStory taken from my associate blog: http://belgaumnri.blogspot.com/We are totally upset over the recent attitude and act of state government especially education department and vice chancellors of VTUThe VTU Bosh and Rexorth R & D centre is opened in Mysore and even the German tool room was established at Bangalore, the e-learning studio of VTU is [...]
View PostFrom The Hindu & other sources: Nobel laureate Sheldon Lee Glashow speaking at the Honeywell Nobel Initiative Lecture Series in Belgaum on Thursday Nobel laureate Sheldon Lee Glashow, in his first-ever talk on Indian soil on Thursday, not only posed a question “Does science evolve through blind chance or intelligent design,” but also gave a [...]
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