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Religare Technova IT Services Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of Religare Technova Limited, today announced a strategic alliance with US based Akros TechLabs to act as a Value Added Reseller of Akros’ “CNBSignln Two Factor Authentication product in the Indian, US, European, Middle East and Asia Pacific markets.

Akros is a technology solutions company, focused on developing and marketing cutting- edge solutions for the global mobile technologies industry and has cleared for admission in Technopark TBI. CNBSignin is a patent-pending, software based Two Factor Authentication solution, as opposed to the hardware based solutions that are available in the market today. It uses a non-time based synchronization algorithm and is built using the latest Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). A software based Two Factor Authentication solution does not require dongles or hard tokens and the customers of Banks, Capital Market Companies, and other institutions can secure their online accounts just by using their mobiles.

The Companies now get the benefit of easy administration of this service by doing away with the hassles of maintaining and shipping hardware based dongies and hard tokens to their customer base. Another added advantage of this solution is that it easily integrates with the Company’s base application and eliminates the need to host separate authentication servers and the costs associated with such infrastructure.

Sanjay Padode, CEO, Religare Technova Ltd. stated, “E-Frauds are impeding the growth of e commerce, a second level authentication mechanism deployed by e-commerce providers can significantly reduce the Incidents of e-frauds thus providing the end users to transact securely in cyberspace. Religare Technova is pleased to announce its partnership with Akros and to introduce a superior and hassle free software based Two Factor Authentication solution that I am sure will enhance the security of cyberspace transactions”.

Sid Prasanna, Managing Director of Akros TechLabs commented, “We are pleased to work with Religare Technova as our exclusive partner for CNBSignin. I am confident that we will be able to capitalize on the reach and size of Religare Technova. Also, our product being a software based solution is positioned uniquely as opposed to the other hard token based solutions that are currently available. We believe our solution brings significant value to companies along with high level of cost savings.”

"This is nothing but the dawn of a new era in the Indo-U.S. educational partnership with active private participation,” says Fr Abraham Mulamoottil, principal of Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Thiruvalla, (MACFAST) who is the brain behind the innovative educational partnership programme launched by MACFAST and McDaniel College in Maryland near Washington DC.

The MACFAST-McDaniel partnership offers opportunity to qualified science and mathematics graduates aspiring for teaching profession in the United States to pursue their higher studies there and get suitable placements there at the various U.S. public schools.

The very mission of our partnership programme is establishing a new `knowledge highway’ linking the Central Travancore town of Thiruvalla with Maryland in the U.S., thereby throwing the doors open into the world of opportunities abroad for the State’s unemployed educated youths, says Fr Mulamoottil.

It is officially known that the U.S. has severe shortage of qualified school teachers in mathematics and science subjects. Last year, therewere 350 unfilled teaching positions at various public schools in the State of Maryland alone and the partnership programme is aimed at effectively tapping this employment opportunity in favour of the scores of well qualified youths in India, he said.

Fr Mulamoottil said a total of 25 candidates in the age group of 20-40 years with ability to communicate and positively interact with young children would be selected for the first batch. The selected students will have to undergo a three-month resident preparatory course at MACFAST Santhinilayam campus. Dr Lynn McClintock, a post-graduate teacher from McDaniel College, is now in Thiruvalla to teach them the language skills, American accent and way of life. Four candidates have joined the training programme that has already started at MACFAST Santhinilayam campus in Thiruvalla. Talking to The Hindu, Dr. Lynn said the selected students will have to undergo a one-year post-graduate degree course in education at McDaniel College which will enable the successful candidates to obtain the Master of Science (MS) degree as well as the U.S. teaching license from Maryland State Department of education under an accelerated and intensive course, including structured class room teaching in regular secondary schools.

With this, they can work at any public school in the U.S., she adds. "It is true that the U.S. is facing shortage of school teachers in mathematics and science subjects. President Barak Obama has set apart $ 5 billion to improve the quality of science and mathematics teaching at school-level, besides making financial resources available to the school system on a competitive basis,” Dr Lynn said. Dr. Lynn said Indians have proved themselves excellent teachers in the U.S. as well as various other parts of the globe. America would only be happy to accept more Indians as teachers and the MACFAST-McDaniel venture has opened a new chapter in the Indo-US educational partnership, she added.

The McDaniel College offers 12-month accelerated graduate programme for selected students from India, based on its BEST (Better Educators for Students of Tomorrow) programme, emphasising on areas such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Successful participants will receive the MS degree along with MSDE (Maryland State Department Education Certification in their respective areas of concentration, which in turn make the license holders eligible to teach in Higher Secondary Schools in Maryland (Grade 7–12) and 30 other States in the U.S.

Employment

McDaniel and MACFAST will act only as facilitators for employment and not participate in the actual job offers. MACFAST selects well-qualified graduates in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, preferably those with Masters or those who have obtained high marks at degree-level. Candidates with teaching experience will be given due consideration.

Those with B.Tech. or post-graduation in science subjects and mathematics will also beconsidered, says Fr Mulamoottil. The estimated total cost of the programme is approximately Rs.15 lakh, including the tuition fee, food and accommodation, says Pradeep Vazhatharamalayil, college manager. The college will also arrange education loans from banks, if needed, Fr Pradeep said. Candidates may apply with supporting documents showing their educational qualification and job experience, if any, to Coordinator, MACFAST-McDaniel Partnership Programme, MACFAST Campus, Thiruvalla, Kerala- 689 101 .

Villgro’s ‘Unconvention’ – where path breakers meet path makers’, will be held on December 10-12 at Hotel Green Park in Chennai,India. The 4-in-1 convention also have ‘Wantrapreneur’ – India’s Biggest Business plan competition for social innovators,which focus on agriculture,energy,diary and water sectors. Participate and get a chance to win 12 lakhs in cash prizes and meet social investors.

Hello Friends, it’s that time of the year again, when we have to get busy with our academic projects. Most of you have already submitted abstracts have obtained ‘proceed’ from the guiding teachers. Do you know the importance of academic projects in our career? Sometimes academic projects have more importance than your aggregate marks when you are applying for a job.

So when we are studying engineering, it is all about what we can do, isn’t it? Now all of us have a golden chance to submit our academic projects and get direct visibility among the leaders of several leading multinational companies. You know what that means, right? – being visible in the crowd.

AIEPIC (All India Engineering Project Innovation Contest)

All you have to do is to submit your final year project at AIEPIC. Winners will be picked based on the relevance and innovativeness of the chosen subject for project, the method or process of executing the project and finally the results of the project.

• There are several exciting awards and incentives to the finalists. There could be awards for best projects at college and state levels too.

• In addition, up to 10 semifinalists in each branch will compete for a Peoples’ Choice award, which will be selected by popular vote from the AIEPIC website.
• There is a project bank where you can find project ideas.

How To Participate?

1. Go to www.aiepic.com and register or register directly here.
2. After completing the registration, provide the details of your project
3. That’s all

The contest is conducted by Silicon India with sponsorship from companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, IBM, CA, NetApp, EMC, Tibco and Mindlogicx. The last date to register is November 15, 2009. So please hurry up. For any question or help on registering or the contest, you can leave comments here and will be answered immediately.

Department of computer science and engineering (ACES) of Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology are conducting a three day International Symposium called EMINENCE 2009 from 16th November to 18th November 2009.

Eminenet Speakers from various institutues from India and abroad like Mr. Joseph Sirosh, Vice President ,AMAZON.COM,Seattle,USA, Mr ANKIT FADIA FBI ranked WORLD NO 2 ETHICAL HACKER, Mr. Arafath Aboobacker, Team-Lead Technical, NIIT Technologies, Bangalore , Mr EDISON FRANZ managing director of INTELLIGENTSIA. are the main attraction of the symposium.
Each day has a distinct theme namely Technical (Day 1), Entrepreneurship (Day 2) and Soft Skills (Day 3).There is a conference on the second day on developing Entrepreneurship in which delegates from different companies likeWipro,Adobe,HP,Igate,UST global,TCS, Mind tree, Infosys, and more will participate. On the third day we have a talk on building leadership and soft skills by Mr. Edison Franz.

Ten Technical and non technical competitions are another attraction Eminence 09