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VIT student bags full scholarship for master’s programme

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Vellore, TAMIL NADU :

Neeraj Gupta, founder and CEO of Formulate IP presenting the scholarship award to Khwaja. Mohammed Kamal Khwaja, a final year B.Tech student of VIT University, was declared the first prize winner of the KTH Master's Challenge 2016 in Wireless Systems track.
Neeraj Gupta, founder and CEO of Formulate IP presenting the scholarship award to Khwaja. Mohammed Kamal Khwaja, a final year B.Tech student of VIT University, was declared the first prize winner of the KTH Master’s Challenge 2016 in Wireless Systems track.

Khwaja to pursue studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

A final year B.Tech student of VIT University has been awarded a full scholarship to pursue master’s programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The scholarship came after he bagged the first prize at the KTH Master’s Challenge 2016 in Wireless Systems track.

As part of the challenge, Mohammed Kamal Khwaja, who is studying Electronics and Communication Engineering at VIT, went through a number of quizzes, essays and interviews. He was declared one of the top three students in India during December 2015. The positions of the top three prize winners were announced at a prize ceremony in Bengaluru, a press release said.

“The KTH Master’s Challenge is a nation-wide competition organised by KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The competition has multiple rounds to test various skills and knowledge of students,” he said.

He added that the first prize winner was offered a full scholarship of INR 23,00,000 to pursue the master’s programme at KTH along with an internship opportunity at FormulateIP.

Khwaja, who is currently pursuing his final year project at Singapore University of Technology and Design, said he was delighted to be declared the first prize winner, and as part of the prize, he has been awarded a two-year scholarship to pursue master’s studies at KTH.

The Wireless Systems programme, which is part of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, is ranked 16th in the world by the QS rankings 2015.

Khwaja has also been offered an internship to work at FormulateIP – an intellectual property, innovation management and consulting firm co-founded by a KTH alumni.

He has pursued research internships at Hong Kong and Singapore. Presently, he is pursuing his final year semester project at Singapore as part of the Semester Abroad Programme offered by VIT.

VIT Chancellor G. Viswanathan said their goal has always been to help students reach their full potential be it through academics or extra curricular activities, the release added.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Tamil Nadu / by Staff Reporter / Velllore – February 29th, 2016

Jayalalithaa’s schoolmate Badar Sayeed quits AIADMK and joins AAP

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Jayalalithaa

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s school friend Badar Sayeed has quit the AIADMK and joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Sayeed, 67, was an MLA from Triplicane constituency in Chennai from 2006 to 2011 while the party was in the Opposition.

“Sayeed formally joined our party in the presence of Tamil Nadu state convenor Christina Samy on Wednesday. The party welcomes her wholeheartedly,” said M. Lenin, AAP’s media in-charge, told Indiatoday.in.

He said it is up to the party to field her in the Lok Sabha elections.

Sayeed was feeling sidelined and aloof in the AIADMK for quite some time, more so after Jayalalithaa came back to power in May 2011.

But her decision has surprised the AIADMK and political observers.

“I joined the AAP for personal reasons. I can’t reveal what these reasons are. There are no political reasons. Whether I will contest or not can’t be revealed now,” Sayeed told Indiatoday.in.

A leading lawyer in the Madras High Court, the 67-year-old is known for her outspokenness and boldness.

Six months ago, she filed a petition in the Madras High Court challenging the authority of Muslim qazis to grant ‘talaq’ (divorce).

She challenged the practice quoting Indian law and scriptures and said qazis granting divorce is illegal and anti-Islam and prayed the court to ban the practice.

The case is pending.

Sayeed was two years senior to Jayalalithaa in the Chennai’s Church Park Convent school.

She has a son and a daughter and her husband is a neurosurgeon in Chennai.

Political observers are surprised by Sayeed’s move.

Only on rare occasions have AIADMK leaders quit the party, especially when Jayalalithaa is in power.

“It is surprising. Jayalaltihaa has an iron grip over the party. People are afraid about even thinking of deserting. If this trend continues, it will be good not only for the AIADMK, which lacks even basic rights of dissent but also for democracy and Tamil Nadu politics,” said V. Durai Kannan, a senior journalist and political observer.

source: http://www.indiatoday.intoday.in / Home> India> South / by R. Ramashuramanian, Chennai / March 06th, 2014