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STARTUP MANDRA The Innovation Institution Council (IIC) and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) of our college had organized an online interactive session for the final year students with a successful startup founder and an alumni of ECE department, R.Sasi Maadavan, who currently manages 3 start-ups. The session was monitored by Dr.B.Rajesh Kanna sir, incharge of EDC and startup cell. The students have participated actively. CURRENT AFFAIRS COVID-19: Nepal confirms cases of Kappa mutant of Delta variant Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population on, July 27, 2021, confirmed the detection of the mutant Kappa variant (B.1.617.1) of COVID-19’s Delta variant. Nepal had already confirmed the presence of Alpha and Delta variants in the country. In recent testing of 47 samples for COVID-19, the Delta variant was found in all of them. However, the new mutant known as K417N of the Delta variant was found in three of them, informed Nepal’s health ministry. The release by the Nepal government ...

MUTHAMIZH MANDRAM EVENT      Muthamizh Mandram conducted an online event called “Agadavigadam” which contained 3 section of rounds like connection, song and movie based rounds. This event was conducted on 17/7/2021. All the students participated enthusiastically. Winners for this event were also announced . CURRENT AFFAIRS Inland vessels bill 2021:          On 22 July, 2021 the Inland Vessels Bill, 2021 has been introduced in the Lok Sabha amid     the hullabaloo in the house due to the Pegasus snooping scandal. This bill will bring uniformity in the application of the laws which are related to navigation and inland waterways within India . INSPIRATIONAL STORY           Pranjal Patil, the first visually challenged woman IAS officer of India was born in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra, with a weak eyesight and lost her vision when she was only six. After her graduation, she cracked the UPSC civil services exam in her fir...

MUTHAMIZH MANDRAM The Muthami zh Mandram of our college  conducted an online event called Vikram vedha via Google meet on 11/07/2021 (forenoon). Most of the students participated actively. The Names of the winners will be announced soon. IIC WORKSHOP                       The IIC council of our college has conducted an online workshop on Building an Innovation: Passion for Professional life with Mr.S.Muthuperumal, Technical Director, Alchimica India Pvt. Limited, Chennai as the resource person. The session was held successfully and it was inspected by Dr.K. Baskaran sir and Dr.S. Nageswari mam. CURRENT AFFAIRS                           India’s largest solar park to be built in Rann of Kutch: India’s largest solar power park of 4.75 Gigawatt (Gw) is about to be set up in Rann of Kutch in Khavada, Gujarat. The renewable energy park will be built by the l...

ODD SEMESTER The Semester examinations for the 2 nd and 3 rd year students have finished successfully through online mode. Then the classes for 8 th and 5 th semester have started from July 1 in online mode. Classes are handled by the staff as per the schedule. BON VOYAGE Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Vasco Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa. With the aid of an Indian merchant he met there, he then set off across the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese explorer was not greeted warmly by the Muslim merchants of Calicut, and in 1499 he had to fight his way out of the harbor for his return trip home. In 1502, he led a squadron of ships to Calicut to avenge the massacre of Portuguese explorers there and succeeded in subduing the inhabitants. In 1524, he was sent as a vicero...

SEMESTER EXAM      The Third year and second year students of our college had their sixth and fourth semester exams, in the month of June. Following that, the arrear exams will be conducted. M UTHAMIZH MANDRAM EVENT                                                                                                      The Muthamizh Mandram of our college is currently conducting the fifth week of K ELVI NERAM from the 28 th of June , a quiz competition for our students through Instagram. The winners will be announced by the end of the week . S tudents from various departments are participating actively. CURRENT AFFAIRS India ranks 10th in cyber security index :            ...