India is fully committed to protect the environment and is willing to do more than its pledge to cut emission intensity if developed countries help developing ones, the prime minister said before he left to join the final round of talks at the climate summit in Copenhagen. A labourer works at a roadside sugar manufacturing unit in the western Indian state of Gujarat December 16, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will join his counterparts from other nations at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference, including the U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, to give a final push to the negotiations that appear to be in deadlock.

“We are willing to do more, provided there are credible arrangements to provide both additional financial support as well as technological transfers from developed to developing countries,” Mr. Singh said in a statement. In the run up to the climate summit, India had pledged to reduce its emissions intensity by 20%-25% by 2020, and launched a series of measures to mitigate climate change, such as mandatory fuel-efficiency standards for all vehicles by December 2011 and introducing supercritical clean coal technologies for power plants.

The carbon intensity is the amount of carbon-dioxide emissions for each unit of gross domestic product. Mr. Singh said developing countries, such as India, will be worst-hit by global warming and its adverse consequences, and that India is fully committed to working with the rest of the world to preserve and protect the environment. “This is our common heritage, and this is what we must bequeath to our succeeding generations,” he said.

December 17th, 2009 Posted in News | No Comments »

Shahrukh Khan

There is not a dot in Bollywood that does not carry Shahrukh Khan’s name.

The Badshah of Bollywood born on 2 November 1965 in New Delhi is named #42 byTime magazine’s 50 most powerful celebrity in world !!!

He has a sister named Shehnaaz Lalarukh,His mother was very keen to name him “Shahrukh” which means “face of the king”.

Can you guess his dog’s name…..no no its not called Aamir …it’s named Chewbacca.

Fell in love with a girl called Gauri Chibbar who was then studying in Loreto Delhi.Used a pseudo name ‘Abhinav’ just to chat with Gauri on the telephone before marriage…

After marriage Gauri wanted SRK to fail in Bollywood so that they could settle in Delhi and leave Mumbai….but iska to opposite he ho gaya!!!

Best friends with Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Hrithik Roshan and his wife Sussane Khan  Juhi Chawla, Karan Johar, Sajid Khan,Farah Khan, Kajol, Malaika Arora …I hope he adds my name in that list also…..

Thought he has done 100’s of stunts in his movies….he is still very scared of riding horses.

He is an actor,producer ,host and a franchise owner but multi talented SRK also ran a restaurant in Dariya Ganj in New Delhi, India.

Yaar kyun kyun kyun kiya aise!!!….fans se puch lete……He was offered R Madhavan’s role in Rang De Basanti..but refused it as he had made a commitment for Paheli….

Personal Quotes

December 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I am made of a simple wood… That blows the tunes of heaven only when handled with care! However, my luck has never been in my favor. I asked myself, a place which is made of bamboos so I have been placed in it. An ordinary being born in an ordinary family with extraordinary capacities. No one has heard me, because every time I was ended in the hands of ignorant. I blew the anger in me, because I was not respected. That anger was treated negatively that I ended up being cornered. Every time someone tried to play on me, they preferred keeping it aside because they assumed it only blows the bitter tunes. They never tried to understand the depth and mysteries which they could have enjoyed if they would have had patience to discover the melodies in me and tried to play the right raga on right time, which requires taleem.

December 7th, 2009 Posted in Articles | 1 Comment »

As one enters a new phase in his life, a period which encompasses best of both worlds: on one side the freedom and enjoyment of being youth coupled with a realization of your destiny. Excitement is rife as one awaits the discovery of college life and explores the fun and power of collaboration and peering. Gliding through the limitless welkin of passion and desire there is concurrence of talent and opportunity. As the road ahead diverges and presents undulating scope and variety, one needs to focus and converge on every single opportunity. With a range of festivals and events calendared for the coming year, it is subscribed to be a euphoric commencement to each person’s impassioned destiny. As innate philosophy of every change reflects upon cardinality of every stage, it’s a transcendental transition. From skits to mudras, classrooms to lecture halls, meals to mess everything’s animated with prime finesse. From remembering the nostalgic threads of school days to the new fabric of college life, it’s a wrap of intensity and rapture. Today as we trudge into an arena of more desirable span of life one wonders the classy conception of tomorrow. With its inviting vista and a novel beginning of ever more zestful and brighter things to come, it is cheers to life


December 7th, 2009 Posted in Articles | 1 Comment »

Just stop copying those laboratory files, stop making those diagrams which you can’t make sense of, stop mugging up books which you don’t like to study and stop doing anything which you don’t want to. When you do that, you will suddenly feel a vacuum in your mind. A feeling where you won’t know what you do. Yes, stop for some moments. And then, start thinking. Is this what you want to do all your life? Copying, mugging up, forcing yourself? Stop to think what you want to do. Set a goal in life. Don’t do things the way everyone is doing. Carve your own path.
But then again, why should you do this? You need to do this because the world does not need people who do the same things over and over again. The world needs innovations all the time. We need people who do things better each time. Do it because it is what you require, not because of someone else’s wants.

Make your life constructive. When you live life your way, you have all the time for yourselves. Wishes don’t go unfulfilled, hard work keeps you busy and makes you happy, and your smile multiplies on thousands of faces. You help improve the world with your selfish efforts which don’t seem selfish anymore.
Use your creativity to do the thing it is supposed to: Create. The ability to innovate brings with itself the feeling of satisfaction. It motivates you to work more. Make the world around you a better place and you build your own paradise here.
Start a revolution in your heart. Bring out the courage from its hiding. Live the life you have been given. And spread some life too.
And if ever you write something you want to present to others, send it at dcetimes@dce.edu. We would be happy to pass on your message!
Nimisha Sachdeva

December 7th, 2009 Posted in Articles | 1 Comment »

This is to inform the students that the application forms for you to apply as a Student Volunteer from Delhi Technological University for the XIX Commonwealth Games, 2010 Delhi (3-14 October) would be available on www.dce.edu from the next week onwards.

December 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

House and Socrates. Two cases, same symptoms. House’s best friends describe him as rude, arrogant, and offensive. He never misses a chance to sarcastically pick people apart. He refuses any administrative or clinic duty. His sharp mind has made him a leading expert in diagnostic medicine, yet he doesn’t write up his medical cases for journals; the “ducklings” – Foreman, Cameron, and Chase – do it for him.
The only person who sometimes manages to control House is Cuddy, the dean of medicine and hospital administrator. While she admits that he is the best doctor she has, House’s obsession with his cases is at times a costly nightmare. He hides when on compulsory clinic duty. His unorthodox, and sometimes outright unauthorised, treatments lead to billing problems and lawsuits. His refusal to endorse a new drug costs the hospital a $100 million donation. He destroys the hospital’s MRI machine, attempting to scan the bullet-riddled skull of a corpse (a scan Cuddy had, of course, forbidden).

December 4th, 2009 Posted in Articles | 2 Comments »

By Moritz Schlick (1935)
Professor of Philosophy in the University of Vienna

It is natural that mankind should take great pride in the steady advance of its knowledge. The joy we feel in the contemplation of scientific progress is fully justified. One problem after another is solved by science; and the success of the past gives us ample reason for our hope that this process will go on, perhaps even at a quicker pace. But will it, can it, go on indefinitely? It seems a little ridiculous to suppose a day might come when all imaginable problems would be solved, so that there would be no questions left for which the human mind would crave an answer. We feel sure that our curiosity will never be completely satisfied and that the progress of knowledge will not come to a stop when it has reached its last goal.

It is commonly assumed that there are other imperative reasons why scientific advance cannot go on forever. Most people believe in the existence of barriers that cannot be scaled by human reason and by human experience. The final and perhaps the most important truths are thought to be permanently hidden from our eyes; the key to the Riddle of the Universe is believed to be buried in depths the access to which is barred to all mortals by the very nature of the Universe. According to this common belief, there are many questions which we can formulate, and whose meaning we can grasp completely, though it is definitely impossible to know their answer which is beyond the nature and necessary boundary of all knowledge. In regard to these questions a final ignorabimus is pronounced. Nature, it is said, does not wish her deepest secrets to be revealed; God has set a limit of knowledge which shall not be passed by his creatures, and beyond which faith must take the place of curiosity.

December 4th, 2009 Posted in Articles | 1 Comment »

It is a hot summer day and you feel thirsty. Your friend offers you a glass of refreshing cold lemonade. How do you feel when you see the glass and when you drink it?The feeling which you experience, you’ll probably describe as happiness or pleasure. There is a connection between the two and at times one evokes the other, but they definitely aren’t the same. Pleasure is something more dependent on your five senses while happiness on the other hand is independent of these. A good feeling that you experience as eating a delicacy, enjoying a party or while engaging yourself in a joyous activity, doing something constructive with the five senses and depending on the people, objects and circumstances is pleasure.
The physical world around us is in a state of flux. Each moment a thing is created, changed, sustained, transformed and destroyed. We can’t change this normal state of affairs. No state ever remains as it is. And we experience unhappiness as the circumstances change with the changes not according to our liking. Nothing, on the contrary can influence our moods if we exercise detachment.
Happiness is considered as one of the greatest positive attributes which thus directs our efforts towards yearning for happiness right from the birth. Analyzing our actions, we notice that all our actions are directed towards attainment of happiness. As soon as our circumstances are according to our liking, we are exuberantly happy and in the other cases, we feel miserable. The former happens as a problem is solved, a burden lifted or a desire fulfilled, someone loves you, something happens that puts an end to a worry, a fear the mind comes to calm .The room of the mind filled with desire, worry or fear is then emptied and a feeling of joy, ease and inner peace encompasses us.
So the next time you experience happiness, watch your mind and see what’s happening. You’ll notice a serene arena freed from the constant chatter.
Happiness isn’t something very far away from us, or unattainable, nor are objects and events its causes. It is an inseparable part of the conscious.Happiness, as I feel, is from inside us. The sun of happiness is always there, sometimes obscured by the clouds of thoughts, worry and desire. It is just a dispersal of those thoughts that’s needed to let the shine out, within ourselves.You can’t see the jewels at the bottom of a stormy and muddy lake though they are there. You’ve got to make the water stay still, calm the storms, let the mud sink and then can you see them. The treasure is there whether you see it or not, and so is Happiness!
Akshi

November 13th, 2009 Posted in Articles | 3 Comments »

Collective Inspiration
ARMAGEDDON
IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), formerly IEE UK is a pioneering society in the field of Science, technology and engineering is active in 127 countries forming a network of more than 270,000 members. With such a reach, it is truly a global knowledge hub. IET-DTU student chapter recently held a meeting and announced its council. It has Smile Nagpal as the President, Sunil Chikkara as the Vice-President, Vinay Sareen as the Treasurer and Vijay Kumar as the General Secretary. Sushant Khosla has been put incharge of the technical department and the Chief event coordinator is Vibhor Garg. The corpo head, joint secretary, PR and Creative head are Sahil Chopra, Tushar Gupta, and Swamini Khurana respectively. Rrishanku Goel has been given the responsibility of the publicity department. Aditi Dhabu and Akanksha Jain are the technical advisers.
IET-DTU student chapter held its annual tech week, Armageddon, on 21st and 22nd October. The events were Junkyard, Quizzicle, Stock Stimulation and Math Olympiad. Junkyard and Quizzicle which are always popular among the students attracted a lot of participants. The President was particularly happy about the enthusiasm shown by the first year students for the various events. After organizing a very successful tech-week, the council has now set its eyes on the annual techfest, Renaissance. This time round, the events are going to be different from the conventional, drab ones. They are going to have an edge and will test the participants’ wit, skill and creativity like never before. This particular festival will definitely be something to look forward to.

By:
Swamini Khurana
Head PR and creativity
Iet-DTU Student Chapter

October 26th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »