The Inter-IIT Sporting Championships turned out to be a big disappointment for Kgp as IIT Kharagpur could not manage to come in the Top 4 in either the Men’s or the Women’s categories. Kgp finished 6^th in the men’s category and 5^th in the women’s. For a detailed performance review, watch out for our next print issue.

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The DBICA presents International Short Film Festival of India, now in its 4th year, is the largest and most highly attended short film festival in Chennai. The 2 day festival presents over 70 International and National Short films from more than 22 countries, to an audience of 42,000. SFFI is best known for its diverse and cosmopolitan balance of film that ranges from variety of genres like drama, documentary, animation, comedy, science fiction and mystery.

DBICA is the parent organization of the SFFI. It is a non-profit Media and Communication Arts organization that presents the best in world’s short film cinema to audiences in Chennai. The forthcoming 4th International Short Film Festival of India 2010 will be held on 13th and 14th February 2010. More Details can be found here (Mission & General rules of SFFI 2010) and here (Application Form SFFI 2010) .

The 15^th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) is being held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark from 7-18 December, 2009. Given the drastic turn of events the world seems to be facing due to global warming, it is essential for the summit to provide a convenient platform for all countries to reach a coherent solution and act fast before it’s too late. Now, more than ever, we need to stand united in order to ensure that the forces of nature remain conducive to existence. The conference is seeing many Indian students addressing it, too, who also write a daily blog to provide us with regular updates. Keep following the box above for the latest.

You may also follow updates directly from: www.whatswiththeclimate.org

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CodeChef, an online programming competition host (akin to an Indian version of TopCoder),  is holding an ACM ICPC style contest for students starting 21st November. With a prize budget of Rs. 3 lakhs, this event promises to be quite the competitive challenge even despite being held in the middle of exam-season.

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The iMo controller has won the award for the best presentation at the 2009 edition of the prestigious TechCrunch 50‘s final showdown. The company, based in Gurgaon,India was founded in June, 2009 by the trio of Himanshu Baweja, Pankaj Meena (co-founders) and Gaurav Bhatia (advisor). (more…)

Applications are being invited for The 2010 Google India Women in Engineering Award between 15 Septemeber and 31 October, 2009. Awardees, who will be required to be students of Computer Science or related fields, will receive a cash prize of INR 100000.  Details can be obtained from http://www.google.co.in/jobs/womeninengineering/2010/index.html

Attention: First year Integrated MSc. Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Mathematics students.

The Vigyan Jyoti Programme is a science camp which will be held between 13th and 15th October, 2009 at JNU, New Delhi. Those who are interested in attending the above program are requested to send their application (enclose: CV*, I-card xerox, and AIR 2009 letter) through their respective HODs to Dean UGS by September 7, 2009. All expenses travel (ie 3 tier AC or II class Chair car), free boarding and lodging at JNU, plus Rs 100 per day as allowance will be provided by KVPY.

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