Monthly Archives: December 2013

CII-Exim Bank Commendation for BHEL

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Ninth time BHEL Tiruchi unit is awarded the commendation certificate

BHEL, Tiruchi, has won the CII-EXIM Bank Commendation certificate for “Significant Achievements on the Journey Towards Excellence” for 2013 in the category of large organisation.

Quality summit

This was announced at the inaugural session of the 21st Quality Summit organised by the CII in Bangalore recently.

This is the ninth time that BHEL, Tiruchi, is awarded the CII-EXIM Commendation certificate for Business Excellence.

Three categories

The CII-EXIM Awards are given to companies which are role models in Total Quality Management in each of the three categories (large, medium and small).

S. Dharmalingam, General Manager, Quality, J. Sankaran General Manager, Unit II and Sub-Contracting and Machining, S.R. Govinda Rajan, Additional General Manager, Quality Assurance and Business Excellence, K. Nagarajan, Additional General Manager, Valves, and M. Thiruneelakandan, Additional General Manager, Finance from BHEL, received the award from T. C. A. Ranganathan, Chairman and Managing Director, EXIM Bank.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Tiruchirapalli / by Special Correspondent / Tiruchi – November 17th, 2013

Team effort and hard work can create wonders, feels Sakina

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For Sakina N Olia, a BSc psychology student at Women’s Christian College, Chennai, the final-year of college is proving to be a year of “prioritisation and making the best of the time that is available”.

Sakina is part of Ayamara, which was initially conceptualised by Raghavendra Ramesh, Vineeth Ramesh and Srutanjay Narayanan, students of CEG, Anna University, Chennai. It is a student-run event management company that was started in August last year.

As a part of this 17-member group that manages various events across the city, she explains, “Our service charges are separate from the expenses incurred for that event. So we are able to manage our expenses pretty well. My payment depends on the kind of shows we do.”

They take care of events, both corporate and social. They have hosted a pan-Chennai car rally, launched a website called Paperhut, organised Secret Santa (Ayamara’s own initiative to give back to society in a unique way during Christmas), managed MYTF (a national-level theatre festival curated by Creashakthi), and organised and managed The Epic Show in association with 578 entertainments.

About the group Sakina says, “Each one of us are completely different individuals. But we work extremely well as a team. The advantage of having so many members with different talents is that we get the best product.”

Says Sakina, “I love being a part of Ayamara. I manage to find time to balance both work and studies. At times it’s hectic but equally fun and challenging. I want to pursue my master’s in human resource and in terms of Ayamara, we, the 17 of us hope to take it to larger and bigger heights!”

— kaviya@newindianexpress.com

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Education> Edex / by Kaviya Sanjeevi – Chennai / November 18th, 2013

Lady Wellington College won’t be renamed after leader: Tamil Nadu tells court

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Chennai : 

There is no proposal either to rename Lady Wellington College after Singaravelar or to erect his statue on the campus, the Tamil Nadu government has informed the Madras high court.
In a counter-affidavit, filed in response to a PIL of A Gowthaman seeking renaming of the college after Singaravelar and construction of a memorial for the freedom fighter at the venue, which was his house, secretary, Tamil Development and Information (memorials) Department said: “The setting up of Singaravelar statue and renaming the college is a matter of policy to be decided by the Government and no such proposal is pending with the department.”

However, it told the bench comprising Chief Justice R K Agrawal and Justice M Sathyanarayanan that a bust-size statue of Singaravelar was to be erected in Singaravelar memorial in Royapuram.

Senior advocate A E Chelliah, who argued the PIL for Singaravelar memorial, had told the bench that the freedom fighter founded the first trade union in India and had vast swathes of land in several places including Thiruvanmiyur and Mylapore. His residence at Mylapore, is now known as Lady Wellington College. British governor Lord Wellington took over his property after Singaravelar participated in the freedom struggle.

In 2011, the government announced a memorial for Singaravelar at Foreshore Estate, but did not proceed due to Coastal Regulation Zone norms. The PIL wants a memorial adjacent to ‘Vivekanandar Illam’ and renaming of Lady Wellington College as ‘Sindhanai Sirpi Singaravelar Educational campus’.

The PIL is scheduled to be taken up for further hearing on November 21.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Chennai> TamilNadu / TNN / November 18th, 2013

Of virtual mirrors and medical images on the Cloud

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Viswa Subramanian Sekar, a final-year BE (computer science and engineering) student of PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, looks forward to pursuing a career in research. Three weeks ago, she bagged the National Award for the ‘Best BTech project in Engineering 2013’ from Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and the Government of Punjab for her work on efficient storage of medical images on cloud. “As someone who hails from a family of doctors, I felt I should do some research based on medical images,” says Viswa. “Cloud computing is a cost-efficient technique. I have also created an image compression technique that reduces the image size and also ensures that quality of the image does not get affected.”

She began her work in 2012. Viswa has also attended various national and international conferences. The research was also published in Elsevier, a reputed international magazine for science and technology this year. She was also the only UG student to attend the Elsevier international conference held in June.

Presently, she is working on her final-year project, which is about creating a virtual mirror interactive dressing room. “I was inspired to take up the project when I saw the video on the same topic by CISCO. Also, interactivity using gestures is the next-gen technology and so is augmented reality,” she explains.

In Viswa’s project, the customer can virtually try out the dress on himself/herself. Also, the sizes could be altered. “The software kinect (used to create the virtual mirror) is very expensive if installed on the system. My idea is to make the virtual mirror available to people at their homes. The project is ready but there is still scope for improvements,” she says.

In future, Viswa intends to pursue her PhD in computer vision and wishes to pursue her master’s in Germany. But for a start, she is all set to go to Technical University of Munich in Germany (her dream university) for an internship spanning over a month-and-a-half at the end of this year.

— edex@newindianexpress.com

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Education> Edex / by Janani Rajeswari – Coimbatore / November 18th, 2013

Students to celebrate India cinema’s centenary year

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Enthusiastic students of Ethiraj College for Women here will join hands with Tamil director A.L. Venky to pay homage to 100 years of Indian cinema through an exhibition called Flashback, aimed to showcase and document the dynamic growth of cinema.

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“As many as 250 students from the visual communication department of Ethiraj College for Women are working on the research material for this exhibition. Several popular studios as AVM and L.V Prasad have come forward to lend their archival materials for display at the exhibition,” said a statement from the visual communication department of Ethiraj College.

The exhibition, which will be inaugurated Dec 14, is slated for Dec 15-21 at the Anna University campus in the Tamil Nadu capital.

“The exhibition will display rare photographs, unusual facts, archival information, miniature of sets, cut outs and posters of Indian cinema over the century. A puppet show which relate to the history of cinema will also be performed at the exhibition,” further read the statement.

“A tent talkie, which was the original mode for exhibition of cinema, will be at the exhibition playing archival clippings and significant shots of Indian cinema. Popular sets such as the courtroom scene from Tamil classic ‘Parasakthi’ will be recreated and the viewing public can have themselves photographed on these sets,” added the statement.

A group of 100 artists will called Chennai Weekend Artists will participate and sketch, paint and display key scenes from milestone films.

source: http://www.pinkvilla.com / Pinkvilla / Home / November 19th, 2013