IIT Bombay to set up campus in Gujarat

The expansion plans of IIT Powai are part of the HRD Ministry's directive to set up one such institute in every state.

I wonder from where will the professors required to teach in all these institutes come. Do we want to increase the number of IITs by sacrificing the quality of the graduates that pass out from them?

Patents slip out as India nurses data

What a shame! I read the article today morning and have been feeling bad about it since then. Our country is losing so much wealth and recognition because of a handful of administrators who, I am sure, have no idea of what a patent is and, how it works.

Government officials pointed out that the objection of the HRD ministry was on account of a confusion between patent and copyright.

This is a good example of what I discussed about, with some friends day-before-yesterday: Administraors unwilling to take any step forward as they do not know what "side-effects" it might have, thus threatening their position.