23 Mar 2009, 1354 hrs IST, PTI
Judge Tahilyani: Tumhara naam kya hai? (What's your name)
Kasab : Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab.
Judge : Kahan ke rehne wale ho? (Where are you from)
Kasab : Pakistan main Faridkot. (Faridkot in Pakistan)
Judge : Kya tumhe charge-sheet ki copy mili? (Did you receive a copy of the chargesheet) Kasab : Haan. (Yes)
Judge : Vakil hai kya? (Do you have a lawyer)
Kasab : Filhal toh nahi. (As of now.. no)
Judge : Vakil appoint karna chahte ho? (Do you want to appoint a lawyer)
Kasab : Jee sir. Jo November 27 ko mere liye khade hue the.. unhi ko bulalo." (Yes sir, you can call the lawyer who appeared on my behalf on November 27..)
Judge : Meri jaankari main toh aapke liye koi lawyer nahi tha. Aap chahte ho toh aapko sarkari vakil appoint karke de sakte hain. (As per my knowledge, there was no lawyer for you on that day. If you wish we can appoint a defence lawyer from the government)
Kasab : Theek hai sir. (Alright sir)
Judge : Kya aap jaante ho main kaun hoon? (Do you know who I am)
Kasab : I don't
Judge : Main Judge hoon jo tumhara case chalane wala hoon. (I am the Judge, who is going to conduct the trial in your case)"
Kasab (smiling): Namaste!
Judge : Agli date case ka.. main court mein order paas karunga jo aapko jail ki superintendent bata degi. (I will pass the order regarding the next date in the case in the court, which the jail superintendent will let you know)
Kasab : Bilkul theek sir. (Alright sir)
Monday, March 23, 2009
Soon, IITs may be turning out doctors too
20 Nov 2008, 0304 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
MUMBAI: Graduation day at the Indian Institutes of Technology may soon see more than just engineering whizkids stepping out of their portals.
In the coming years, the IIT palette will have on offer a range of shades beyond the cut-and-dry coding courses. A bunch of doctors, historians, perhaps policy makers too, could boast of IIT degrees. ( Watch ) The IITs may be currently stretched to the limit, but the XIth five-year committee for higher education is working with these centres of excellence to expand their charts. The committee, headed by educationist Yash Pal, that is meeting IIT heads on Friday will discuss how the tech schools can change their character and, like American universities, enlarge their menu. ... ...
MUMBAI: Graduation day at the Indian Institutes of Technology may soon see more than just engineering whizkids stepping out of their portals.
In the coming years, the IIT palette will have on offer a range of shades beyond the cut-and-dry coding courses. A bunch of doctors, historians, perhaps policy makers too, could boast of IIT degrees. ( Watch ) The IITs may be currently stretched to the limit, but the XIth five-year committee for higher education is working with these centres of excellence to expand their charts. The committee, headed by educationist Yash Pal, that is meeting IIT heads on Friday will discuss how the tech schools can change their character and, like American universities, enlarge their menu. ... ...
IIT student dies, chief quits after backlash
Kharagpur, March 22: A 21-year-old student of IIT Kharagpur died after he fell off a rickshaw today, prompting charges of medical negligence at the ill-equipped campus hospital and triggering a students’ protest that forced the director of the institute to resign.
Rohit Kumar, a third-year electrical engineering student, was playing basketball outside his Lala Lajpat Rai hostel in the morning.
His death a few hours later stunned the campus, and shock soon snowballed into outrage. A violent protest engulfed the residence of director Damodar Acharya who resigned this evening, and the medical officer of the hospital was suspended. The students also forced the dean, D.K. Tripathy, to promise to resign.
“Rohit suddenly felt unwell and complained of a headache. He took a cycle-rickshaw to BC Roy Technology Hospital, located about 500 meters away. He was examined by a doctor, given painkillers and sent back within 15 minutes of entering the hospital,” said an IIT student.
.... ....
The students blamed the director for the death, alleging that even after several complaints to the authorities, the hospital had not been upgraded.
The IIT Kharagpur community — around 7,000 students, 700 faculty members and 1,500 non-teaching staff — are dependent on BC Roy Technology Hospital that has 25 beds and seven doctors. Three months ago, the students had sent a proposal to the director to upgrade the hospital, but they said no action was taken.
“At a meeting held three days ago, it was unanimously agreed that it was merely a health care centre. We cannot handle serious cases and emergencies. We had appea-led to the authorities to upgrade facilities,” said D.D. Karmakar, a member of the hospital management committee.
Around 3.30pm today, students came out of the hostel and around 2,000 marched towards the bungalow of the director. A huge police contingent rushed to campus.
“The authorities even snapped Internet connection to prevent us from getting united,” said a student, standing outside the director’s bungalow.
A part of the director’s bungalow was ransacked and a car smashed by the students between 4pm and 6pm.
As the students kept gathering outside the house, Acharya came out. “I have resigned from my post, taking moral responsibility,” he said. ... ...
Rohit Kumar, a third-year electrical engineering student, was playing basketball outside his Lala Lajpat Rai hostel in the morning.
His death a few hours later stunned the campus, and shock soon snowballed into outrage. A violent protest engulfed the residence of director Damodar Acharya who resigned this evening, and the medical officer of the hospital was suspended. The students also forced the dean, D.K. Tripathy, to promise to resign.
“Rohit suddenly felt unwell and complained of a headache. He took a cycle-rickshaw to BC Roy Technology Hospital, located about 500 meters away. He was examined by a doctor, given painkillers and sent back within 15 minutes of entering the hospital,” said an IIT student.
.... ....
The students blamed the director for the death, alleging that even after several complaints to the authorities, the hospital had not been upgraded.
The IIT Kharagpur community — around 7,000 students, 700 faculty members and 1,500 non-teaching staff — are dependent on BC Roy Technology Hospital that has 25 beds and seven doctors. Three months ago, the students had sent a proposal to the director to upgrade the hospital, but they said no action was taken.
“At a meeting held three days ago, it was unanimously agreed that it was merely a health care centre. We cannot handle serious cases and emergencies. We had appea-led to the authorities to upgrade facilities,” said D.D. Karmakar, a member of the hospital management committee.
Around 3.30pm today, students came out of the hostel and around 2,000 marched towards the bungalow of the director. A huge police contingent rushed to campus.
“The authorities even snapped Internet connection to prevent us from getting united,” said a student, standing outside the director’s bungalow.
A part of the director’s bungalow was ransacked and a car smashed by the students between 4pm and 6pm.
As the students kept gathering outside the house, Acharya came out. “I have resigned from my post, taking moral responsibility,” he said. ... ...
In India, even Presidential documents can be tampered with
Signs don’t match - Discrepancy in letters on IIT director (28.12.08)
New Delhi, Dec. 28: The presidential approval for M.S. Ananth’s reappointment as IIT Madras director appears to have been tampered with before being released under the Right to Information Act, casting fresh doubts on an appointment already under legal scrutiny.
Copies of the approval letters, provided by the human resource development (HRD) ministry and the President’s secretariat, carry different signatures, indicating that only one of the two can be authentic (see graphic in the link). Ananth’s reappointment for a second term as IIT director last year was set aside by Madras High Court last week on the ground that the appointment process violated the IIT Act. This was the first time a court had set aside the appointment of an IIT director.
A review petition against the order is expected to be filed this week on behalf of the ministry.
But discrepancies between the approval letters provided by the ministry and the President’s secretariat suggest foul play, said the appellant before the court, E. Muralidharan.
Both approval letters carry the same text and are signed over the name of Barun Mitra, joint secretary in the secretariat. But the signatures differ.
Mitra, asked which was the original document, refused to explain the discrepancy. “I do not need to explain anything to you. These are official documents and I will only respond if I am asked officially,” he said.
Once official documents are released under the RTI Act, however, they become public documents.
In both letters, the presidential approval is dated June 28, 2007, when A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was President. The President’s approval to all director appointments in the IITs is mandatory since, as Visitor to the institutes, he is their highest authority.
“The question is not merely about identifying the original document. The larger question is: who tampered with a presidential approval and why,” Muralidharan said.
New Delhi, Dec. 28: The presidential approval for M.S. Ananth’s reappointment as IIT Madras director appears to have been tampered with before being released under the Right to Information Act, casting fresh doubts on an appointment already under legal scrutiny.
Copies of the approval letters, provided by the human resource development (HRD) ministry and the President’s secretariat, carry different signatures, indicating that only one of the two can be authentic (see graphic in the link). Ananth’s reappointment for a second term as IIT director last year was set aside by Madras High Court last week on the ground that the appointment process violated the IIT Act. This was the first time a court had set aside the appointment of an IIT director.
A review petition against the order is expected to be filed this week on behalf of the ministry.
But discrepancies between the approval letters provided by the ministry and the President’s secretariat suggest foul play, said the appellant before the court, E. Muralidharan.
Both approval letters carry the same text and are signed over the name of Barun Mitra, joint secretary in the secretariat. But the signatures differ.
Mitra, asked which was the original document, refused to explain the discrepancy. “I do not need to explain anything to you. These are official documents and I will only respond if I am asked officially,” he said.
Once official documents are released under the RTI Act, however, they become public documents.
In both letters, the presidential approval is dated June 28, 2007, when A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was President. The President’s approval to all director appointments in the IITs is mandatory since, as Visitor to the institutes, he is their highest authority.
“The question is not merely about identifying the original document. The larger question is: who tampered with a presidential approval and why,” Muralidharan said.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
IIEST: Unborn Giants
The following is what wikipedia says about IIEST:
Indian Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology [1](IIEST) are institutes proposed by the Government of India to meet the growing demand for engineering and scientific manpower to meet our country’s increased industrialization. The proposed IIESTs would be created by an act of the Parliament of India. They would be given the status of Institutes of National Importance, on the lines of IITs and NITs by the Indian government.
Initially, a group of seven elite universities had been selected for upgradation to the status of IITs by the S.K.Joshi committee. Since these colleges were controlled by the respective state governments and which couldn't be given IIT status due to political, administrative or technical reasons the MHRD appointed another Committee, called the Anandakrishnan Committee. The Committee recommended setting up a new family of institutes by upgrading the selected group of colleges and to be called IIESTs (Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology). Later, the Government of India shortlisted it to five institutions for the upgradation.
The five institutions have been short-listed based on the final Anandakrishnan report are as follows:
IIEST Kochi Cochin University of Science and Technology
IIEST Kolkata Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur
IIEST Hyderabad Osmania University College of Technology
IIEST Visakhapatanam Andhra University College of Engineering
IT-BHU which was shortlisted to be an IIEST in now on the path of being upgraded to an IIT.
Indian Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology [1](IIEST) are institutes proposed by the Government of India to meet the growing demand for engineering and scientific manpower to meet our country’s increased industrialization. The proposed IIESTs would be created by an act of the Parliament of India. They would be given the status of Institutes of National Importance, on the lines of IITs and NITs by the Indian government.
Initially, a group of seven elite universities had been selected for upgradation to the status of IITs by the S.K.Joshi committee. Since these colleges were controlled by the respective state governments and which couldn't be given IIT status due to political, administrative or technical reasons the MHRD appointed another Committee, called the Anandakrishnan Committee. The Committee recommended setting up a new family of institutes by upgrading the selected group of colleges and to be called IIESTs (Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology). Later, the Government of India shortlisted it to five institutions for the upgradation.
The five institutions have been short-listed based on the final Anandakrishnan report are as follows:
IIEST Kochi Cochin University of Science and Technology
IIEST Kolkata Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur
IIEST Hyderabad Osmania University College of Technology
IIEST Visakhapatanam Andhra University College of Engineering
IT-BHU which was shortlisted to be an IIEST in now on the path of being upgraded to an IIT.
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