Soumya Reddy Tummala, pursuing Masters in Electrical Engineering was found dead on Sunday. The body of the victim was found around 30 miles away from campus at St. Louis, Missouri, in a car belonging to a person known to the victim. The email response from Ron Schaefer, Director of International Programs at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Illinois, USA :
One of our graduate students, Soumya Tummala, was found dead in a car in St.
Louis, Missouri. According to Officer Rick Eckhard of the St. Louis County
Police Department,... Read→
Vacations come and go… and so do our plans to make them fruitful and worth their while! But yet another long holiday passes without anything substantial, happening. Most of us, most of the time, seem to have no clarity as to what we should be doing or even what we could possibly do in our leisure. Of course, the list of can-dos and want-to-dos is never-ending and continues to mount on. But then again, the list of restrictions imposed on us by the world alike (especially parents), questioning the usefulness of our endeavours, is way longer than... Read→
Every great idea is the child of a burning desire, a spark of inspiration and when we encounter obstacles, our restless mind gives birth to a fresh new spark…an idea! These little sparks create an immortal flame of passion within us… an intense emotion… a burning desire for a cause or an activity. Take ‘Improving India’ for example, It is supposed to be a matter very dear to our heart. So, if that is one of your passions… what are you doing about it? And NO!… I don’t mean joining communities/groups... Read→
No. the title is not about students of Hyderabad committing suicide. It s about students, especially those in engineering colleges, and their torturous journeys to their colleges in the APSRTC buses. Living in Hyderabad has really taught me many things, and one of them is not to be surprised when you see students and people hanging onto each other on the footboard, while the driver zooms at the top speed singing along to popular Telugu songs blaring down from the radio. It is perfectly natural and totally cool.
Its not that every day I think about... Read→
A Civil Engineering student of OUCE Naga Malleswari reportedly ended her life by hanging herself with her ‘dupatta’ from the ceiling of her hostel room at the ladies hostel on the Osmania University campus. Her roommates found the room locked from inside around 3 p.m. and as she did not open the door despite repeated knocks, they alerted the security staff, who forced open the door to find her hanging from the ceiling, following her detention as she failed to clear all her first year subjects and hence couldn’t be promoted to the third year. ... Read→
As we all know world is in power crisis and hence is in search of alternate sources of energy or methods for reducing the energy consumption. Taking this into consideration, Hi-tech College of Engineering conducted a national level technical conference to innovate novel ideas among young minds regarding saving energy. The IEEE student branch and ISTE students’ chapter of the college have organized this educative conference. The theme of this event was ‘ Energy management in the era of renewable sources’. As chief guest for the inaugural,... Read→
After being in a college for quite some time, it becomes a foster home for you, a home away from home. A place which starts being more familiar than your home especially if you are a hostellite. Even while coming back from home at the end of vacations, its always home coming. It feels like finally you are going to reach your own territory after living in a place which has become sort of alien to you in all these years.
Similarly people of my college also tend to have the same feelings about the college and the hostel, you see all the familiar people... Read→
Some times in our lives we get attached to certain people, sometimes to certain things or it may be certain places. This got me thinking about, what in our small but significant college life is the dearest to us. What is the thing that attracts us the most towards it?
What is it that makes the routine grinding that we as students undergo a little less unbearable? What is it that brings us closer to our friends? So many questions! So thinking what means the most to me in my college , frankly it is not easy because I don’t think much on the first... Read→
“Change is the law of nature”, anybody who has ever studied english even at a very elementary level must have heard the quote but the thing is, Is change a necessary evil or a way of modifying our lives for better? Winds of change are always blowing around, its just the moment when they catch up with you. IIIT , Hyderabad. A student of this college for the past few years, I have seen many a change occuring in my alma mater, some have been curious, some good and some downright pathetic. Some of the memorable changes can be the introduction... Read→
An agitation was organized in the Osmania University campus, as a voice against the administration, regarding the detainment of a large number of students of the engineering course starting July 5th 2008. A rule that was exacted by OU, compacts to “No student would be promoted to the 2nd year of engineering without acquiring a pass grade, in at least 50% of the 1st year subjects, and, he would require to complete all the courses of the 1st year, in order to get promoted to the 3rd year of BE.” This would allow students of engineering a chance... Read→
