R. Velraj

After 16 months, Anna University's 42nd convocation is scheduled to be held on July 29. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to take part in the convocation and hand over degrees and gold medals to graduates.

As a result of students who chose seats in online counselling not enrolling within seven days of seat allocation, as many as 508 seats in Anna University's three campuses - College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chromepet, and Alagappa College of Technology (AC Tech) - were filled during upward movement of seats. These seats were earlier regarded as lapsed seats and would generally remain vacant.

Anna University has issued showcause notices to 225 engineering colleges and standalone institutions offering architecture, MBA and MCA courses found lacking in qualified faculty members and infrastructure such as labs and equipment.

Top engineering colleges are giving a renewed thrust to teaching Japanese, in addition to other foreign languages, to cater to the demand. Learning Japanese, it is felt, can help students land high-paying jobs due to an increase in tie-ups with Japanese firms.

Anna University has moved the Madras High Court challenging the Chancellor's order quashing the suspension of its Vice Chancellor, R. Velraj. The university argues the Chancellor exceeded his jurisdiction by interfering with the syndicate's suspension order, which was issued due to alleged fake faculty appointments in affiliated colleges.

To conduct physical inspection of engineering colleges post-pandemic, Anna University plans to rope in more than 100 faculty members from IIT Madras, NIT-Trichy and other top autonomous colleges in the state.

One in four sanctioned seats in Anna University’s four campuses including College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) and Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chromepet has fallen vacant after medical counselling this year, with students opting for medicine after getting admission in these

To attract talented students towards research, Anna University has increased the monthly research fellowship to PhD scholars from ₹20,000 to ₹38,000, which is at par with IITs and NITs. Each year, the university offers research fellowship to 50 PhD scholars joining various departments.

The delay in the announcement of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) results has made the online general engineering counselling in Tamil Nadu, scheduled to begin on August 25, doubtful. The state government is expected to take a call in a day or two about the schedule, sources said.

Some engineering colleges have raised an issue over Anna University's inspection committees insisting on PhD, NET qualification from existing non-engineering faculty members, saying that the rule should apply only to those recruited from 2019.

We made our way through one of the busiest places in Chennai to meet R Velraj, the shy, soft spoken man, who had won the Reliance-Vijay TV award for Best Cinematography for the year 2007.

To cash in on the craze for courses in artificial intelligence, data science, cyber security, IT and computer science among students, engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu plan to add 8,490 seats in their BE, BTech programmes next year.

The state will launch the i-Tamil Nadu Technology (iTNT) hub, a centre that will coordinate efforts to use technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain to solve complex challenges, in September this year.

To avoid wastage of seats in top colleges including Anna University, the higher education department has introduced a new rule asking engineering aspirants to pay fees within seven days of seat allotment in online engineering counselling.

More than 50,000 engineering students from Tamil Nadu will spend the next four months solving 50 real world problems identified by IBM as part of the experiential learning elective course, Anna University vice-chancellor R Velraj said on Tuesday.

More than 6,000 students from 60 schools in the city visited an exhibition showcasing innovative projects of engineering students at SRM Group of Institutions, Ramapuram campus.

Directed by debutant R.Velraj, was made on a budget of approximately Rs.5 crore.

Anna University has increased the fees for getting duplicate marksheet by ten times from ₹300 to ₹3,000 with effect from May 1. The fees for correction in marksheet, migration certificate and duplicate consolidated marksheet have also been increased by three times.

After a gap of two years, Anna University has decided to conduct physical inspection of more than 500 engineering colleges, standalone architecture colleges, MBA, MCA colleges for giving affiliation for academic year 2022-23.

Nearly two months after postponing counselling due to cancellation of 10.5% special reservation for vanniyars in November, Anna University on Thursday night released the revised schedule for Tamil Nadu Common Admissions (TANCA), 2021 counselling.

Dhanush plays Raghuvaran, who after years of unemployment, gets his dream job but a powerful rival is keen to put him down.

She would paring up with Vishal for the first time.