Thursday, 28 March 2013
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Friday, 15 March 2013
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Thursday, 7 March 2013
THE HINDU
Meet on cyber security today
CDAC, CSI and JNTU-Hyderabad are conducting ‘InfoSec-2013,’ a conference on highlighting security concepts and advancements in cyber security arena on the JNTU-H campus on March 8 and 9. About 1,100 engineering students and faculty will be participating, according to a press release.
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
USB Flash Drive Concept

 you are like me and have unused small micro SD cards lying around the 
house or office from old mobile phones and devices, the Collector USB 
Flash Drive Concept can put them to good use. It combines a number of 
small capacity memory Micro SD cards, or large if you have the funds. 
Transforming them into one useable USB memory flash drive.
The Collector USB Flash Drive concept has been designed by Fang-Chun 
Tsai and is still just a idea at the moment so no details are available 
on the mechanics of the partitioning as yet.
Monday, 4 March 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
THE HINDU-ASK THE US CONSULAR CHIEF
Questions about U.S. student visas? The Hindu and 
Chennai Central@The Hindu in association with the U.S. Consulate 
General, Chennai, will host the first-ever joint Facebook wall chat on 
student visas on March 7 at 2 p.m. Consular Chief Nick Manring will 
answer the most ‘Liked’ questions about student visas, including the 
application and interview process. Can’t join the chat live? You can 
start asking your questions at 8 p.m. on March 6. Make sure to ‘Like’ us
 and ‘Share’ the post with your friends through our Facebook pages: 
http://www.facebook.com/chennai.usconsulate, 
http://www.facebook.com/thehindu, and http: 
//www.facebook.com/ChennaiCentral
View the video of Consular Chief Nick Manring here: thne.ws/us-studentvisa
THE HINDU-CMAT IS COOL
Students aspiring to study management can often be 
overwhelmed by the sheer choice of colleges and degrees available to 
them. At the same time, these colleges come with their own requirements 
for admissions, most requiring applicants to have written at least one 
common entrance exam for management. With no consensus on one exam for 
the country's management colleges, students often had to write multiple 
to keep their bets safe. Now, with the scrapping of 
Karnataka's Post-Graduate Common Entrance Test (PGCET) in favour of the 
national Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) conducted by the All 
India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), CMAT is now the only 
gateway to government quota seats. While many students appear to be 
welcoming the move, its sudden introduction threw many off gear, even 
prompting the AICTE to hold another testing window for State students in
 May.
Anish Roy Choudhary, B.Sc third year, Physics, Maths and Computer 
Science (PMC), St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science, Bangalore
I feel that scrapping of PGCET in favour of CMAT was
 a good move, as it saves the hassle of applying for several different 
examinations. The time and expense involved in applying for various 
management colleges thus reduces drastically. It’s certainly a breather 
for management aspirants like me who are seeking seats under the 
government quota. But the introduction of CMAT exam was not in a planned
 manner, resulting in many students, me included, missing its first two 
rounds, as we were not aware of them. I now plan on writing the third 
round scheduled in May.
Overall, CMAT is an excellent
 option. With it, several management colleges from different States 
would come under one umbrella, which more or less ensures a fair 
competition for all. It’s beneficial for aspirants who haven’t scored 
well in CAT and gives them another chance to succeed.
Abhinav Singh Bhal, B.Tech graduate in Computer Science, Amrita University, Bangalore
With the nationwide exam like CMAT being made 
compulsory, the opportunities for MBA aspirants multiply as they get 
more B- schools to choose from.
An aspirant from 
Uttar Pradesh can now get a shot at better institutes in Maharashtra or 
Karnataka, something that was formerly a distant dream. For nationwide 
admissions, aspirants need write just one exam (CMAT) instead of 
multiple State exams, a process that consumes both time and energy.
I
 feel CMAT being made mandatory has opened many doors for MBA aspirants 
in the country, making it an excellent move. CMAT remains a viable 
option for most of the B-school aspirants as the IIMs short-list only 
the top percentile candidates for their programme while the others do 
not get any calls. With other top MBA colleges short-listing candidates 
on the basis of CMAT scores, writing it grants excellent options for 
B-School aspirants.
Mohit M.B., B.E. fourth year, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita University, Bangalore
I wrote neither CMAT nor PGCET, but I'm planning to 
write CAT. While I do feel that making a common exam was a good move, 
they need to get the word out to more people.
They 
could have set it up as India's Graduate Management Aptitude Test 
(GMAT), getting more support from good institutions. That will encourage
 more people to consider it.
Another issue is that a 
lot of institutes consider CAT scores as well. So, if I write the CAT, 
I'd have a shot at the IIMs as well as other good institutes. If they 
make the CAT exclusive for the IIMs only, and CMAT for all other places,
 it might work out better. At the moment, I'd rather write CAT than 
CMAT.
Ayush Naulakha, B.Sc third year, Biotechnology- Chemistry-Botany, St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science, Bangalore
Having a nationwide CMAT exam on similar lines to 
CAT is better than the State-level PGCET. With this, we get an 
opportunity to try out more number of colleges across the country than 
in a particular State. Although CMAT has not been planned well and there
 were very few who gave it, I feel students will find this better than 
State-level PGCET.
Cracking CAT is tougher and so if a
 student gets a good score in CMAT he stands a good chance to get into 
good B-schools even if he hasn’t done well in CAT. CMAT can serve as a 
national exam to get into B-school rather than writing CAT which is 
exclusive for IIMs, but also taken by other B-schools across the 
country. This will definitely reduce the CAT pressure.
Himanshu Arora, BBM third year, Christ University, Bangalore
I feel CMAT is far more useful to a student than 
PGCET was. It still lets you get into MBA colleges in Karnataka but you 
also get a shot at colleges around the country.
It 
just needs to advertise itself better so that more students write it. I 
wasn't aware of the exam and so I missed it, but I'm planning on writing
 the next round in May. That said, I think students should keep their 
options open and write multiple examinations, such as XAT or CAT, if 
they want a wide range of options.
THE HINDU-E Plus Challenge - 2013 youth festival today
E Plus Challenge - 2013 youth festival today
 
Third edition of The Hindu Education Plus 
`Inter-Collegiate E Plus Challenge-2013’ State Championship is all set 
to thrill about 1,000 students from all over Andhra Pradesh and test 
their communication skills through five varied competitive events on 
Monday at P.B. Siddhartha Arts and Science College, Moghalrajpuram in 
Vijayawada. Students drawn from engineering and 
medical colleges will vie with their counterparts from arts and science 
colleges to show their mettle in English Elocution, Group Discussion, 
Paper Presentation, Quiz and Creative Performance on stage. The event is
 being orgnaised in association with the Siddhartha Academy of General 
and Technical Education and GIT Grafx IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. as 
knowledge partners.
Two regional rounds of E Plus 
Challenge was completed at Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad on February 22 
and 27 identifying three regional winners from each place. These six 
teams will be joined by three from Vijayawada Region on Monday afternoon
 to compete for the coveted trophy and a total prize money of Rs.60,000.
 At Vijayawada 22 college teams (each comprising 30 students) will fight
 it out for the top three places at the venue from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. In
 the Visakhapatnam Regional final Vignan Institute Engineering for women
 stood first followed by Raghu Engineering College and Lendi Institute 
of Engineering and Technology. In the Hyderabad regional round CMR 
College of Engineering and Technology, Vignan Institute of Technology 
and Science and CMR Technical Campus were the top three winners. The
 State Finals of the E Plus Challenge 2013 will commence at 2 p.m. at 
the venue and prizes given away from 5 p.m. onwards at the valedictory. 
While Rajiv Education and Employment Mission in Andhra Pradesh 
(REEMAP) Chairman K.C. Reddy will be the chief guest, The Hindu 
Education Plus Editor Shalini Arun along with The Hindu Senior Associate
 Editor S. Nagesh Kumar will also be present. Competitions will be inaugurated by Siddhartha Academy President N. Venkateswarlu at 9 a.m. at Siddhartha Auditorium on Monday.
THE HINDU
Green card renewal is the responsibility of the USCIS
I have a green card that expired in Sept 2012. Can I 
renew it in Hyderabad or New Delhi as I am planning to travel to the 
U.S. in May?
Green card 
renewals are the responsibility of the U.S. Customs and Immigration 
Services (USCIS), a part of the Department of Homeland Security. USCIS 
does not have an office at the U.S. Consulate General in Hyderabad. You 
need to contact the USCIS unit at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi at 
NDI.Consular@uscis.dhs.
gov.
There
 was a water drip on my passport due to which there is a small ink run 
on one side of the photo on my U.S. visa. Is my visa valid for travel?
The
 Department of Homeland Security uses the photo in your visa to confirm 
your identity at the port of entry. If the water damage to your photo is
 obstructing recognition, we recommend you apply for a new visa.
If
 you seek entry into the U.S. and the immigration official determines 
that the security and identification features of the visa have been 
compromised, you will be denied entry.
I have been 
admitted to the University of Colorado, Boulder for Fall 2013 and plan 
to schedule my F1 visa interview in June. What supporting documents do I
 need to bring to demonstrate the financial ability to bear the expenses
 of my studies and do I also need to show the money required for both 
years of study?
Congratulations
 on your admission! You must demonstrate to the officer that you can 
afford to pay for the first year of your education, lodging and other 
expenses. How you demonstrate that is completely dependent on how you 
plan to fund your schooling. Be prepared to show 
financial evidence that you and/or whoever is supporting you, have 
sufficient funds to cover your tuition and living expenses during the 
period of your intended study (e.g., pay slips, income tax documents, 
original bank books and/or statements, business registration or 
licenses). In addition to showing sufficient readily 
available resources for the full first year, you must show how the 
additional year(s) will be supported. Again, how you show that is by 
documenting your actual plans. 
I changed my job in 
Feb. 2011 and during my H1 transfer I forgot to transfer my daughter’s 
H4 which expired in January 2012. I plan to travel to India for getting 
my daughter’s visa stamped. Will there be any problem in getting her H4 
visa stamped?
As
 long as the principal applicant can demonstrate that he or she was in 
status for that entire period of time, eligible H4 members may also be 
considered to be in status.
Be prepared to provide an explanation and any necessary documentation to show that the H1B visa holder was in status. Please
 note, to apply for a visa in India, your daughter needs to also be in 
India. Getting a new visa does not extend your daughter’s status in the 
U.S.; that is determined at the port of entry when the visa is 
presented.
My H1B petition was sent back to USCIS in 
December 2011 and it was reaffirmed by USCIS in February 2013 and 
received by my employer. Can I submit my passport directly for the visa 
stamping or do I need to apply for a new visa interview with a new 
DS-160?
You do not have to 
apply for a new visa. Please contact the U.S. Consulate at 
HYDCEA@state.gov for an interview appointment based on the original 
DS-160.
Friday, 1 March 2013
THE HINDU
Heavy power cuts from today
Two-hour cut in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vizag, Tirupati and Warangal
 
Major cities in the State, including the State Capital, 
will face a two-hour power cut from Friday even as the power utilities 
have decided to impose heavy cuts in other areas.
In 
addition to Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati and Warangal 
will face two-hour cut every day, while the load shedding, as the 
authorities call it, will be more pronounced in mandals and villages. 
The Transco took recourse to power cuts as the demand shot up to 305 
million units a day, while the generation was 235 MU from all sources, 
including purchases.
Villages to be hit hard
According
 to officials, the duration of the power cut in district headquarters 
and municipal corporations would be fours hours and in towns and 
municipalities six hours. Mandal headquarters will face the brunt with 
an eight-hour cut, while the situation in villages will be worse as they
 will get power along with the supply for agricultural pumpsets, which 
is seven-hour supply.
The cut for all the places from
 Hyderabad down to villages would be implemented necessarily in two 
spells. Orders had been issued to the four distribution companies to 
compulsorily provide electricity from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. for lighting 
purpose in rural areas, in view of the students appearing for various 
examinations. The cuts are likely to continue till mid-April when the 
agriculture load is expected to tapper off gradually.
THE HINDU
Planning Commission Member visits BHEL
www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/planning-commission-member-visits-bhel/article4464925.ece
National Science Day celebrated
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/national-science-day-celebrated/article4464836.ece
IITians should prioritise research
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/iitians-should-prioritise-research/article4464409.ece
Wind energy sector gets a fillip
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/wind-energy-sector-gets-a-fillip/article4464321.ece
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