An academic exchange programme between the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and St George’s University of London is likely to begin soon. 
Prof Sean Hilton, the executive head of St George’s University of London, was at BHU on a three-day visit. During his stay, Prof Hilton visited several departments of Institute of Technology, and Institute of Medical Science like pharmacy, bio-chemical, bio-medical. He interacted with the heads and faculty members, showing keen interest in different fields of medicine.
According to the BHU spokesperson, Hilton showed special interest in management of data of clinical investigation, urology, cardiology, ayurveda, trauma centre, prevention of diseases. He visited Sir Sunder Lal hospital and its operation theatres and held a series of discussion with various consultant. Earlier, a meeting was held with BHU vice-chancellor Prof DP Singh. The meeting was also attended by the dean and directors of IMS, IT and Faculty of Sciences.
“It was tentatively agreed upon that British medical students would be trained at BHU and the BHU medical students would be trained at St George’s University of London,” informed Prof Rajesh Singh, the chairman of press publication and publicity cell of BHU. According to him, the BHU V-C recently attended a meeting arranged by the UGC in New Delhi to explore and discuss the area of collaborations with the 15 universities of United Kingdoms, selected by the British Government, and the 15 universities selected by the Government of India.

The UGC assigned the autonomous organisation, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi, to make 15 groups of one British University and another Indian University each to explore possible areas of interest. The groups were formed on the university specialisation and mutual interest. In the process, the Banaras Hindu University was grouped with St George’s University of London. According to him, this British University is ranked second best in United Kingdom, particularly in the field of medical sciences, pharmacy, bio-medical, bio-chemical.

The government has assigned NUEPA to provide framework and other necessary details to expedite these 15 collaborations between the Indian and British universities. This effort of the government is being viewed as a serious homework to prepare the platform to accept and meet the challenges in global higher education.

European Community, Belgium has awarded Prof. VK Srivastava, department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, BHU, with Erasmus Scholar Award for 2008-2010 for expertise given to the staff and students of Technical University of Humburg, Denmark University and Portugal University in the area of advanced composite materials.
According to BHU spokesperson, Prof. Srivastava will organise all the research activities at Technical University of Humburg, Humburg, Germany. He is actively involved for the development of high temperature ceramic composites. The US Airforce, USA and JSPS, Japan have sanctioned international project to repair the defects of space shuttle during flight. The US airforce had always invited him under WOS programme to visit US Airforce Research Institute. Prof. Srivastava has also received various prestigious awards and fellowship to work at UK, Germany, France, Japan and the USA.

Here comes Banaras Hindu University’s new hotspot “Nescafe’s Coffee Corner”.
Located adjacent to Madhuban, the lover’s paradise, this place has turned popular in no time. The all-time-favorite VT, is gradually loosing its craze among students, may be because of lack of privacy due to tourists. Coffee Corner is proving to be a great venue to celebrate birthdays and throwing treats. The coffee starts at Rs 5 (Nescafe Classic) which is cheaper than VT, of course you need to neglect the quantity. And besides that you get a Cappuchino for just Rs 10 and many more to choose from.

And in case your mess is upseting you with its awful food, you can always have the home made Maggi overhere. However the price may make you raise your eyebrows. Its costs Rs 15 and is even less in quantity than the one you get for Rs 10 in the market.
Presently the place is giving a tough competition to VT and Maitri Jalpan Grah. But lets see how long ?
As a saying goes “Try new things but dont forget old, these are silver those are gold”.

I know most of you will agree to me when it comes to the number of holidays we get at Faculty of Science and Commerce.

I feel that more holidays shall me sanctioned for students at BHU. Its really tiring maintaining constant attendance at the faculty. We hardly have time for fun. No university in India has such strict rules for attendance. Whenever I tell my friends (outside BHU) that we have a compulsion of 90% attendance at college they start laughing. Some have even confirmed that is 90%  the sum of attendance for all the three years. Often I feel that others students outside BHU enjoy the real college life. College is more like a school in Faculty of Science. The holidays are really SPECIAL at BHU.

For those who are not a part of Faculty of Science.

Here is an example to tell you that what have you missed…

There are plenty of specimens at the Zoology Department..

Keep guessing whose leg is this (not mine ofcourse)…

Whenever we start something we take the name of God…

The shops outside enhace the charm. But nowadays we get only a limited stuff there..thanks to our ex-VC Prof. Punjab Singh who banned all the junk food, chinese cuisines and cold drinks.