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2.99 Lakh Vie For 5,444 IIT Seats

New Delhi, May 22 (UNI) Nearly 2.99 lakhs aspirants took a joint extrance examination for 5,444 seats in India's ace schools of technology and mines, Parliament was told today.

The schools covered: Indian Institutes of Technology at New Delhi, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee, Kanpur and Chennai, School of Mines, Dhanbad, and Technology Institute, Banaras Hindu University.

In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Human Resource Development M A A Fatmi said these autonomous schools try to increase their intake of students.

But there is no proposal currently to upgrade or expand any of Regional Engineering Colleges-- now called National Institutes of Technology-- to IIT Level, Mr Fatmi said.

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Pranab to visit China and Japan

New Delhi, May 22 (UNI) Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee will seek greater cooperation between Indian and Chinese Armed Forces during a four-day visit to Beijing next week. Minister Mukherjee is scheduled to visit China from May 28 as part of a weeklong three-nation tour, beginning Wednesday, that includes Japan and Singapore. Ahead of the visit, the Defence Minister said his visit to China was aimed at building mutual confidence. ''My efforts will be.....

Agitation on over OBC quota, 2 Knowldge Commission members resign

New Delhi, May 22 (UNI) Two members of the Knowledge Commission today quit their posts in protest against the Government's move of providing reservation for OBCs in institutions of higher learning as striking doctors and medical students continued with their agitation all over the country. Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Andrea Beteille resigned in the face of the Government expressing its resolve not to roll back the quota decision, though assuring the protestors of devising a.....

Punjab agrarain crisis is a national problem: Sharad Pawar

New Delhi, May 22 (UNI) Concerned over unabated farmers suicide in Punjab, which he hailed as ''granary of India'', Union Food and Agriculture Minster Sharad Pawar today assured the Lok Sabha that the agrarian crisis in the state would be treated as a ''national problem''. Replying to the debate on ''suicide by farmers in various parts of the country'', Mr Pawar assured that the UPA government would extend all possible help to the state.....
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