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Jammu, Oct 05: Flydex Automobiles, a startup sponsored by Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University-Technology Business Incubation Centre, bagged third prize with an award of rupees one lac cash at UP Startup Conclave 2018. The event was held at IIM, Lucknow, and jointly organised by Uttar Pradesh Gov Startup India and LMA Lucknow. 
Out of 426 startups under ‘Product & Ideation Stage’ category, Mr. Aksah Srivastava’s startup, who is also an alumnus of SMVDU, reached the final round, and recognized by the jury members, namely Mr.  Saurabh Jain, Vice-President Paytm; Mr. K.C. Ayyagari, Google Cloud and Mr. Digvijay Singh, COO, Indian Angel Networks. During the event, Flydex demonstrated its patented product “CarbaDex” which increases efficiency of 125cc bike average up to 150 KM/L without affecting the engine performance and life, an idea much appreciated by Mr. Mohsin Raja, Cabinet Minister MSME UP Government. 
Mr. Akash Srivastava formally thanked SMVDU Technology Business Incubation Centre for its support and guidance. Dr. Swarkar Sharma, CEO, SMVDU-TBIC informed that huge potential and outstanding technology-based ideas like Flydex were discovered and promoted by the SMVDU-TBIC. Dr. Sanjeev Jain, Vice-Chancellor, congratulated the alumnus, and appreciated the sincere efforts put up by SMVDU-TBIC team.

Chennai, June 23 : Trade body Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli have agreed to work towards development of Tiruchirapalli city.

This decision to take up the Tiruchirapalli District Development plan was taken jointly at a recent workshop, a CII press release said here today.

"Tiruchirapalli has a strength in five areas -- education, connectivity, cultural heritage, SME industrial belt and strong talent", IIM Trichy, Director, professor Bhimaraya Metri said.

Tiruchirapalli can also become an innovation hub and an attractive destination in India, he said.

More than 40 members of CII Tiruchirappalli zone participated in the workshop, which also witnessed discussions on making the city a hub for industrial investment.   PTI




Minister seeks Indian Institute of Science Education &Research for JK
NEW DELHI, MAY 29: Minister for Higher Education, Technical Education and Information Technology, Molvi Imran Raza Ansari on Tuesday said that the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar, has given nod to the opening up of incubation centres for IIT and IIM for summer capital, Srinagar.
Ansari today met Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi to discuss various matters pertaining to the education sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
The minister said that steps are underway to strengthen higher education in Jammu and Kashmir. The Minister said that Union HRD minister has agreed for the establishment of incubation centres of IIT and IIM at Srinagar.
The Minister informed that the IIM Lucknow had team visited Kashmir during December 2017 to identify rented building for running such incubation centre at Srinagar. The building had been identified by the team and further course of the action as required to be initiated by IIM Jammu is still awaited.
He said that department has taken up the issue of creation of off campus of IIT Jammu at Srinagar with the management of IIT Jammu. The necessary action as required to be initiated in this behalf by IIT Jammu is still awaited.
The Minister demanded establishment of an Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) across the state, saying that State has only one CSIR Institute of Research (IIIM-Indian institute of integrated medicine (llSER's are autonomous institutes under MHRD). He informed the Union Minister that 46 colleges and University of Kashmir have applied for NAAC accreditation but the concerned team hasn’t visited these campuses for evaluation, it is proposed to take up the issue with the NAAC authorities to accelerate the process.


Lucknow, Aug 9 : Applicants for the Common Admission Test(CAT)- 2017 can register for the examination from today. Indian Institute of Management, (Lucknow) (IIM-L) will conduct the CAT exams in 2017 on November 26 after a gap of seven years. The examination, a gateway to MBA admissions in 19 IIMs and 150 other institutes, will be held in two shifts. According to officials, the exams will be held in 140 cities in the country while the last date for submitting the forms is September 20. From October 18, aspirants can get their admit cards online. This year, the applicants will have to fill four choices of their exam center cities. Though the authorities would try to give the first choice to the student, in case it is overburdened, then they will get the second choice or others. Around 2.5 lakh MBA aspirants are expected to register for the test. In 2016, 2.32 lakh candidates had applied. UNI