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The idea first came to him, thanks to hunger pangs. Hailing from Chandigarh, Aruj Garg initially faced a lot of problem with the kind of food that was served in the college mess or the small eateries that had mushroomed outside the college. Also, for each meal, a considerable amount of time was being spent in trying to figure out where to eat.  This is where the idea of starting a food place on campus came about. GyanCentral's Ushnota Paul meets this visionary young and enthusiastic final year B.A. LLB. (Hons.) student of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) for an exclusive interview, who established his own enterprise, 'Bhukkad' on campus in May 2011.

Law School is a hub for new opportunities and platforms to explore. But with great opportunities come chances of great falls. Be it the class tests, projects, tutorials, moots, debates or societies, the beginning of law school often witnesses some disappointments. In the past 4 years that I have spent in school, the first was admittedly spent in shedding a tear or two every time such disappointments came my way. Well, bottom line, after the first year filled with experiences like this, you tend to devise your own survival plan against such disasters, big or small. Here is a glimpse into mine.

It's Monday again! Time to take a look at GyanCentral's weekly law update, where we discuss about the various happenings across law schools and the field of law in general. GyanCentral's Ushnota Paul brings you all the spice! Read on.

Now that the JEE 2013 day is looming fast, your preparation should have almost completed and revision should have taken over now. Confusion is bound to occur. Well, here is our last minute JEE preparation expert, Ajay Narayan to take them up and help you clean up the clutter.

It's been a little more than four years since eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were set up to increase the number of institutes providing quality technical education to some of the brightest students of the country. All is not hunky dory with the new institutes however. Seven out of the eight institutes have been facing an acute shortage of faculty which in some IITs is as high as 60 percent. Anuraag Khandelwal brings you the report.

The Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University's (DSNLU) foundation stone for the construction of their new campus was laid on March 7, 2013 at Asakapalle in Sabbavaram, Andhra Pradesh. The university is being established in the sprawling 15.7 acres (first phase) at an estimated cost of Rs.77.7 crore. The university is to be built in three phases and would cover about 60 acres in the scenic  hillside at Sabbavaram.

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to visit NALSAR for the first time. I have visited a lot of law colleges and NLUs until now, for various reasons, but this was my first visit to NALSAR. The occasion was to judge a moot – a pre-moot for the Willem C. Vis CISG moot court competitions that are held in Vienna and Hong Kong (in case you didn't know, both the Hong Kong and Vienna version of the moots have a common moot problem, many common judges, and a shared mooting culture).

Around 550 students registered for placements with 70 percent of them placed in the second phase, NIT Durgapur shows good progress this year. Most companies are walking in with the motto of definitely picking students from this institute. Around 25 percent of the companies have come in through alumni contacts, says the Placement coordinator Satyam Sidharth,a final year mechanical engineering student. Surya Ragunaathan and Ashish Korada bring you the report.