Engineering  

It’s Anil Kumble's birthday and we have a list of some lesser-known facts about our great old captain

Over 1,300 employees of General Motors Technical Centre India will transfer to TCS, including teams focused on propulsion systems, vehicle engineering, controls development, testing, creative design and special projects

With no prospects of profitability for Orb Electrical Steels in a competitive European steel industry, Tata Steel has proposed to close the site in Britain, necessitating a lay-off of nearly 380 employees. Wolverhampton Engineering Steels Service Centre also faces closure.

On August 14, AP Genco issued a pre-closure order to Navayuga Engineering Company for a hydroelectric project, citing lack of progress in work.

Rendering almost 15,000 workers jobless over the past two-three months, it was not good news for the auto industry as stocks tumbled up to 9%. Auto sales in India saw the sharpest fall in 19 years in July

 

The poll to the Vellore Lok Sabha seat, originally scheduled to be held in April alongside some other seats in Tamil Nadu, was cancelled following tax raids here and cash seizures. The poll was held on August 5

These are a samples of headlines from various dailies in the last few months. As can be seen, there is a huge crisis in engineering college education in Tamil Nadu, and the worrying part is, there is no apparent solution to the problem.

The major reasons behind the institutions opting for closure are less takers for the courses or colleges and shortage of funds, a senior official at All India Council for Technical Education said
 

The lecturer had not completed even two weeks while he joined as a lecturer at Srinivasa Institute of Engineering and Technology in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh

The accused dropped out of engineering and had a flare for hacking. He and his accomplices used a phone spoofing app to make calls to MLAs pretending to be speaking from Andhra Pradesh chief minister’s office and ended up looting Rs 35 lakh from local and national politicians.

Jilted lover, who is married and has two kids, stabbed and killed a college girl, who refused to accept his proposal in Tamil Nadu's Trichy

Kerala Health Minister KK Shylaja on Tuesday (June 4) said that the test results of a 23-year-old engineering student in Ernakulam, who was admitted at a Kochi private hospital with high fever, has confirmed the presence of Nipah virus. 
 

An innocuous query with reference to a pic of a hammer on the Facebook book page of 'Civil Engineering Learners' triggered this massive, impromptu tsunami of posts on Naesamani. 

Student bodies Akhila Bharata Vidyarthi Parishad, Student Federation of India, Democratic Youth Federation of India and Vishwakarma Society staged protests and demanded justice for the Raichur engineering student, who was allegedly raped and murdered

A 23-year-old engineering student was found hanging from a tree in Raichur. The parents of the girl have alleged that it is a rape and murder and named Sudarshan Yadav as the main suspect in the case. The CID will question the accused on Wednesday (April 24)