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India Today
3 days ago
- General
- India Today
IIT Madras invites JEE aspirants for campus demo days ahead of Advanced results
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is organising a series of Demo Day sessions for parents and JEE aspirants, offering a first-hand experience of the campus life, student experiences, and academic setup. These will be held in physical mode in different cities as well as online for those who cannot attend the physical institute informs that physical Demo Day sessions will be organised in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Vijayawada, and Hyderabad. Other than this, an online session is planned to be organised on 3 June, where the IIT Madras Director Prof V Kamakoti, along with faculty and alumni, will answer academic and non-academic life questions pertaining to the programme is aimed at helping prospective students and their parents make informed decisions before the admission process. The members will learn about flexibility of courses, life on campus, and support mechanisms for students. IIT Madras has also introduced changes in the curriculum to offer more flexibility. The students can pick electives from any department, pursue a minor or switch to Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degrees (IDDD). Workshops for first-year students have been reinstated in the academic calendar, giving them two additional weeks of holidays.A compulsory recreation course has also been introduced for the first two semesters to encourage an active a step towards inclusive education, the institute has also added new categories of admission such as the Fine Arts and Culture Excellence (FACE) and Sports Excellence Admission (SEA), with two additional seats in every BTech and BS programme -- a seat for female Madras is also giving scholarships to students. Alumni and CSR partners are giving scholarships to all the BTech students whose family income is between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 5 lakh. SC/ST students are also exempted from tuition fees regardless of Madras is also launching the 'First Principles Teachers Award' to honour outstanding pre-university teachers who have made a strong impact on their students by teaching from first programs demonstrate IIT Madras's vision of making top-level education accessible and affordable to students with varied backgrounds.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Science
- Time of India
39 in fray for LUTA elections
Lucknow: As many as 39 nominations were received by teachers for contesting the election for various posts in the Lucknow University Teachers' Association (LUTA) executive. The elections will be held on May 31. Six women teachers filed nominations for various posts: Monisha Banerjee (Zoology), Sangeeta Srivastava (Chemistry), Mamta Singh (Philosophy), Niharika (Law), Amita Kanaujia (Zoology) and Priya from management. Several teachers filed nominations for two posts. This includes Monisha Banerjee, CR Gautam (Physics), Suchit Swarup (Zoology), Ashok Kumar (Statistics), Alok Kumar (Fine Arts) and Senthil Kumar A from Hindi and Modern Languages, who will be contesting for two LUTA posts. For the LUTA president post, Vineet Kumar Verma from Mathematics, Ajay Kumar Arya from Geology and Anitya Gaurav from Ancient Indian History and Archaeology filed nominations. For the post of general secretary, six teachers filed nominations; for the post of vice president, seven; and eight for joint secretary. For the post of vice president, as many as seven teachers, including a female teacher, filed nominations. SAA Jafri from Oriental Studies in Persian and Arabic, Munesh Kumar from Education, CR Gautam from Physics, Satish Chandra from Law, Monisha Banerjee from Zoology and Ashok Kumar from the Statistics department filed nominations. "Teachers can withdraw their nomination if they want to, for any reason, by Sunday, which is the last date," said returning officer for LUTA executive elections 2025, Dinesh Kumar.
Malay Mail
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
A lens on the world goes dark: Legendary photographer Sebastiao Salgado dies at 81
PARIS, May 24 — French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, famed for his immense body of work depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, died Friday aged 81, announced the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member. The academy said it was 'deeply saddened to announce the death... of Sebastiao Salgado', describing him as a 'great witness to the human condition and the state of the planet'. It was his large black-and-white photographs of subjects such as conflicts or the Amazon rainforest that won Salgado the greatest fame and adorned calendars, books and the walls of his fans around the world. Critics accused him of beautifying suffering but Salgado never veered from his aesthetic or his work. 'A photographer who travelled the world constantly, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010, in Indonesia,' his family said in a statement to AFP. 'Fifteen years later, the complications of this disease developed into severe leukaemia, which took his life,' they added. 'Emblematic figure' Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva described his compatriot as 'one of the best... photographers the world has given us'. Lula, who learned the news of Salgado's passing at an official event in Brasilia with Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco, asked attendees to observed a minute's silence for the photographer. One of Salgado's contemporaries, US photographer Steve McCurry, wrote on Instagram that 'his vision and humanity left an indelible mark on the world of photography'. 'Alongside (his wife) Lelia (Wanick), he not only documented the human condition with unmatched depth, but also helped heal the planet through their reforestation work,' he added. UNESCO Secretary General Audrey Azoulay saluted 'an immense photographer, artist and documentarist whose talent captured the ecological and anthropological upheavals of our era. 'His art raised public awareness of often unknown realities such as those of the Amazon and its indigenous peoples,' she added in posts to social media. Paris-based media rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders (RSF) paid tribute to an 'emblematic figure of documentary photography'. 'A photographer of all records, Sebastiao Salgado was a keen observer of mankind and nature,' it added in a statement online. RSF noted that Salgado had contributed 100 of his own photos to one of the albums it sells to raise money for it works. 'Way of life' The photographer leaves a unique legacy of images from his hundreds of journeys through the Amazon rainforest and across the planet, from Rwanda to Indonesia, from Guatemala to Bangladesh, capturing with his lens human tragedies such as famine, wars and mass exoduses. Salgado conceived photography as 'a powerful language to try to establish better relationships between humans and nature', said the French Academy of Fine Arts. He worked almost exclusively in black and white, which he saw as both an interpretation of reality and a way of conveying the fundamental dignity of humanity. Active in the left-wing student movements of the turbulent 1960s, he studied economics and in 1969, he and his wife fled to France to escape Brazil's military dictatorship. He went on to receive French citizenship. His photos of drought and famine in countries such as Niger and Ethiopia landed him a job at renowned photo agency Magnum in 1979. Photography 'is a way of life,' he told AFP in 2022, on a trip to Sao Paulo to present his exhibition 'Amazonia,' the product of seven years shooting the world's biggest rainforest. A dedicated climate activist, he was a fierce critic of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) for the far-right leader's push to open the Amazon to agribusiness and mining. Salgado also founded an environmental organisation called Instituto Terra to revive disappearing forests in his home state, Minas Gerais, a successful project joined by more than 3,000 landowners. — AFP
The Guardian
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81
The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose dramatic black-and-white photographs of the Amazon introduced the rainforest to the world, has died. He was 81. His death was confirmed by the Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he founded with his wife of six decades, Lélia Wanick Salgado. In a post on Instagram, the institute described Salgado as 'much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time'. The French Academy of Fine Arts, of which Salgado was a member, described him as a 'great witness to the human condition and the state of the planet'. 'I know I won't live much longer,' Salgado said in an interview with the Guardian last year. 'But I don't want to live much longer. I've lived so much and seen so many things.' More details soon …
Boston Globe
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Ready to change the world': College students graduate across Greater Boston amid political turmoil
At Boston University, thousands of scarlet-robed graduates buzzed with excitement, letting out cheers as they and their friends appeared on stadium jumbotrons. Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient Emily Deschanel, a BU alumna and actress who starred in the Fox crime procedural 'Bones,' reminisced about visiting campus dining halls and sneaking friends into dorms. Advertisement After receiving a Doctor of Fine Arts honorary degree, actor Emily Deschanel delivers the Address, during Boston University's 152nd Commencement on Nickerson Field, in Boston, MA, on Sunday May 18, 2025. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff 'The one role I've never played is commencement speaker at my alma mater, the greatest school on God's green earth, Boston University!' she said to cheers. 'I guess now thanks to this honorary degree, I actually am a doctor. No takebacks, sorry.' But the Advertisement At Tufts, Hrabowski reflected on his childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and his participation in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Children's March — a stand that saw him thrown in jail at age 12 by segregationist public safety commissioner Bull Connor. He voiced support for Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was detained by immigration authorities in March for co-writing a 'I could never imagine 55 years later that a young woman would write her truth in your paper and find herself arrested and put in jail,' Hrabowski said. 'But let me tell you that all of America salutes your president and Tufts University for supporting that student.' The government justified Öztürk's deportation in court by accusing her of undermining U.S. foreign policy and creating a hostile climate for Jewish students. Öztürk 'America is the greatest democracy in the world, and I believe in those values that we share. I have faith in the American system of justice,' Öztürk said after getting off her plane at Logan Airport. Freeman A. Hrabowski III delivers the Commencement Address at Tufts University's 169th Commencement in Medford, MA, on Sunday May 18, 2025. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Hrabowski said he, like Öztürk, still believes in America, and encouraged graduates to do the same. 'Roll up your sleeves. Get ready for the fight. You are ready to change the world because you were born to change the world,' Hrabowski said. Advertisement Boston University President Melissa Gilliam said graduates should celebrate their accomplishments and their communities amid 'uncertain times.' 'I understand if you feel concerned or even a little fearful. But sit quietly and take a deep breath,' Gilliam said. 'Trust in all that you have learned and trust that your loved ones and this institution have provided you with knowledge, experience, and values that will carry you through.' At Brandeis' 74th Commencement, Professor of American Jewish History Jonathan D. Sarna urged graduates to 'keep calm and stay sober' in a speech drawing parallels between the current moment and the political climate of the 1970s, when he graduated from Brandeis. 'Our generation had much reason to be sober. We lived through an era driven by President Richard Nixon intoxicated by power and fueled by rage,' Sarna said of his class of 1975. 'Your generation, class of 2025, likewise has much reason to be sober. Yours too is an era driven by a President intoxicated with power and fueled by rage.' Sarna also called on the university to recommit to its historical support of Israel. In November 2023, police '[In the 1970s] Jews and non-Jews alike had an intuitive sense of our collective responsibility toward Israel and its people,' Sarna said. 'Let us strive to reawaken that collective sense of responsibility.' Boston University president Melissa Gilliam gives her Charge to the Graduates during BU's 152nd Commencement on Nickerson Field, in Boston, MA, on Sunday May 18, 2025. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Sarna's speech was delivered amid criticism from students for the university's choice for commencement speaker. In an Advertisement In his speech, Sarna emphasized the importance of maintaining balance, modesty, and responsibility, praising the university's core beliefs under founder Louis Brandeis. 'Let's make certain, whatever our faith or politics, that Brandeis's role as the great academic center and the foremost training ground for 21st century American Jewish people is to reaffirm and bolster,' Sarna said. The Commencement ceremony took place two days following Brandeis's announcement to renovate a former administrative building into a new 'Center for Jewish Life,' 'affirming its founding mission,' the university said. Brandeis graduate Olivia 'Dakota' Lichauco, from Belmont, called the ceremony 'spectacular, very heartwarming, and emotional.' 'The past couple weeks have been very busy with finals exams, senior events,' Lichauco said. 'It's been tricky to find time to register how we are all feeling about graduation, but I think starting tomorrow it's going to settle in, which is a bit scary.' Graduates rejoice as the confetti flies at the conclusion of Boston University's 152nd Commencement on Nickerson Field, in Boston, MA, on Sunday May 18, 2025. Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Dan Glaun can be reached at
