Institutes

Centre misses IIT target, classes put off (The Telegraph)

6 Jul 2008

New Delhi, July 5: The new IITs opening this year will have a delayed start to their first academic session because the government has failed to deliver after scrambling to announce the institutes’ conception.

IIT Delhi students, teachers march against faculty quota (Calcutta News)

5 Jul 2008

Defending the autonomy of world-class institutes of excellence, nearly 200 students and professors of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D)Saturday night staged a candlelight march to protest the government's direction to reserve 49.5 percent of faculty positions in IITs for socially backward classes.

Utah governor institutes 4-day (Casa Grande Dispatch)

5 Jul 2008

SALT LAKE CITY - Starting next month, it will be 'TGIT' for Utah state employees. As in: 'Thank God It's Thursday.'