Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) has been conferred with the ‘Platinum Technology Award’ at a function held in Geneva, Switzerland.

And the best thing about this honour is the fact that GGSIPU is the first Asian University to receive this award.

South Indian movie star Siddharth (was also seen in “Rang De Basanti” and recent release “Striker”) was on top of the world after he found his photograph alongside mega star Amitabh Bachchan on the latest prospectus of Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College.

“I’m on the cover of Kirori Mal College’s prospectus this year next to legendary alumnus Amitabh Bachchan… my amma (mother) is ecstatic. Cheers,” Siddharth tweeted recently.

Both the actors studied in the same college, but were in different courses. While Mr. Bachchan pursued BSc, Siddharth did his BCom.

The effect of the recession is still going on in the third world countries. But more and more companies are showing keen interest to participate in the University’s Central Placement drive beginning on January 25. Central Placement Cell (CPC) officials are showing special interest in recruiting differently-abled students from DU. CPC has asked different college Principals for compiling the performance records of students in this category.

Last year, only two differently-abled students were recruited from Delhi University. This year the number is expected to rise.

CPC was started to recruit final year undergraduate from different colleges through a central recruitment process in 2008. CPC has made a stronghold with the University and companies are willing to recruit more students this time. CPC has also been promised a package of Rs 14-16 lakh. Forty-four students were recruited by five companies in the first placement session in December last year. This year eight new companies are participating in this placement marathon. And some of these companies are planning to recruit anywhere between 50 to 100 students together.

I really appreciate this move of providing equal employment opportunities to the differently abled students.

Delhi University Blog wishes best of luck to all the students participating in this placement session.

Adit Mathur, the 20 year old undergrad from Shri Ram College of Commerce has been offered an annum training package of 32 lakhs by Deutsche Bank. Adit, who has been very good in studies from his childhood, is a resident of Civil Lines in Delhi. Adit’s mother Prof Anita Mathur teaches in the same college. Adit’s father is the COO of GMR Sports which owns Delhi Daredevils. He is the first pick of first timer Deutsche from DU.

This is the highest offer that any DU student has received till date. Generally foreign banks pick students from other reputed Indian institutions; such as IITs and IIMs. The highest offer that a DU student has got in the past is Rs 14 lakh from Lehman Brothers in 2007.

Shri Ram College of Commerce has placed 40 undergrads and 14 post graduate students from its Global Business Operations course. 44 companies have already visited SRCC, some of whom are returning after a year’s break. SRCC is not the only Delhi University College basking in the hiring glory. Besides Adit, a student from St Stephen’s College, Sukrit, has also got a similar offer from Deutsche Bank.

Companies like Google, Deloitte, McKinsey, Bain & Co, YES Bank, HCL, Wipro are regular recruiters from Delhi University.

I just read in the Times of India that the Delhi University, in collaboration with seven French institutions, is going to offer dual-degree in MTech in nuclear science and technology from this year onwards.

Students enrolled for DU’s three-year MTech programme would be spending third and fourth semester in Paris and they would be awarded a Master’s in nuclear energy. Once they come back from Paris and spend fourth and fifth semester in DU, they would get an MTech degree.

This new Master’s degree is also offered by University of Paris, Paris Tech( consortium of 12 French institutes ), Ecole Central Supelec and INSTN.

The industry-driven programme will be offered in collaboration with EDF and Areva — organizations working in the field of civil nuclear energy.

With this new collaboration Indian students will get a chance to work as an intern with EDF and Areva. Students interning with these organizations would get a chance to work at their nuclear reactor sites.

This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain practical knowledge of production of nuclear energy.

This new course will not only help the students in acquiring knowledge on cutting-edge technologies but will also prove beneficial for our nation. As we know that India faces a big power problems and nuclear energy is answer to it because very small amount of nuclear element can produce huge amount of energy.

University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been ranked as the number one University in India on the basis of indicators like publication quality and also overall performance in the rankings given by a reputed agency.

The University of Hyderabad stands first among top 25 universities in the ranking given by SCOPUS, a not-for-profit international body. The rankings are based on the papers published during 1999-2008.

SCOPUS gives the ranking once in three years. Our very own Delhi University is second in the list of 25 Universities.

When Hillary Clinton had last visited India in 1995, a student of Lady Shri Ram College had presented her a short poem. Clinton was very impressed by that poem and even mentioned it in her autobiography.

This poem was written by Anasuya Sengupta, she was asked by the college Principal to write a poem to be presented to Hillary. On her visit to The Delhi University on Monday, Hillary even recited some lines of the same poem, written on the state of women across boundaries.


Anasuya Sengupta, who is a writer and activist now, was a special guest at the talk delivered by Clinton. And she was amazed to see such a public acknowledgement from Clinton.

After the visit of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in January last year who was invited to DU for conferring an honorary degree on him, it’s the turn of none other than the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to visit the Delhi University.

Clinton expressed her desire to come for a talk in the Delhi University. She is coming on Monday, July 20th and may talk on education and Indo-US relations.

Clinton is expected to deliver her speech at the convention hall in the Old Vice Regal Lodge in DU. But the bad news is; only a few students will be allowed on invitation.