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• Gold - Nehru Hall
• Silver – MS Hall
• Bronze – RP Hall

Watch this space for updates on the points tally and individual standings in each of the Athletics events.

This is welcome news for students on campus, as getting a passport issued or renewed has always been a big hassle involving at least a few trips to Kolkata.

According to Mr. Tharoor, the process of issuing or renewing passports will become a lot easier with lower processing time and a provision for online applications. If the Project is implemented successfully, new passports will be issued within three working days and a ‘tatkal’ one the same day, after a police verification.
After assessing the functioning of the first few PSKs, the others should be set up by January 2010.

• Gold - RK Hall
• Silver - Patel Hall
• Bronze – Nehru Hall

The final results are:

• Gold – SN Hall
• Silver – RK Hall
• Bronze – Patel Hall

The individual standings are:

• Gold – Sneha Biswas (SN)
• Silver – Rajendra Chaudhury (RK)
• Bronze – Gaurav Khare (PH)

The following was reported on October 28:

Original standings:

1. SN
2. RK
3. PH

The position of PH is currently under dispute.

A Standing Appeal has been filed by the halls against the violation of a rule by the Patel Hall of Residence. The rule in question forbids direct communication with the judges. Any communication with a judge must be through the  Literary Secretary (TSG).
The halls claim that the Lit. Secy. (PH) and a participant were seen conversing with one of the judges. The Lit. Secy. (PH) claims that he was responding to a query, and that the conversation was initiated by the judge himself. Patel denies any communication between the judge and the participant.

The judge will be contacted later in the day for clarification.

Moreover, the rules allot 5 points for ’speech consistency’. The marksheets provided by the TSG erroneously had 15 points allotted for the same.
This issue has also been taken up in the appeal.

The Western Technology Music Society (WTMS) will be holding it’s annual production on Sunday. RSVP on Facebook here.

Venue: Kalidas Auditorium
Date: Sunday, 8th November, 2009
Time: 7.30 p.m.

The song list for this year is

1. Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle
2. Dio – Holy Diver
3. Doors – Roadhouse Blues, Break On Through, Light My Fire
4. Bon Jovi – Bed of Roses
5. Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
6. Deep Purple – Rat Bat Blue
7. Skid Row – Quicksand Jesus
8. Poets of the Fall – Lift
9. Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
10. Evanescence – My Immortal
11. Muse – Butterflies and Hurricanes
12. Megadeth – She Wolf
13. Black Sabbath – N.I.B
14. Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
15. Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower
16. Dream Theater – Another Day
17. Metallica – Four Horsemen
18. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb

The competition invites students from India’s apex institutes of engineering, science and technology, and management to come up with renewable sustainable technology business plans to combat climate change and fortify India’s and (by extension) the world’s energy security.
This prestigious competition offers cash prizes of Rs. 1,00,000 to the winning team and Rs. 70,000 to the runners-up, apart from providing an opportunity to interact directly with top-tier venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition India kicks off at the SRIC conference room on November 6 at 10 am and features a talk on Marketing of Technological Innovations by Professor Anjan Raichaudhuri of IIM Kolkata at the SN Bose Auditorium between 4.30 and 5.30 pm. The event will culminate in a prize distribution ceremony in Kalidas Auditorium at 11 am the next day.

New standings are as follows:

• Gold- NH
  
• Silver – RP Hall
  
• Bronze – MS Hall

The following was reported on Oct 25, 2009:

The results of the inter-hall product design competition are :-

• Gold- RP Hall
  
• Silver – MS Hall
  
• Bronze – LLR Hall

The revised standings are on account of the decision taken during the sub-committee meeting held on 26th October. The gold winning team (Nehru Hall) was disqualified on the grounds of violation of a rule that forbids people other than the presentation team to speak during the Q n A round.

The circumstances under which such a rule found its way into the rule books are beyond our knowledge, but it would have definitely been with the consent of all the Halls of Residence. One might argue that since everyone was aware of such a rule, its enforcement by the organizers was only justified. But yes, every time an incident like this occurs, we are forced to look at ourselves and ask how far from the spirit of the competition we are.

Abhijeet T

Ajay Vishwanathan

Koulick Ghosh

Pranav Rao

Pravin Sharma

Welcome Aboard !!