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Azim Premji University is a private university, located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was founded in 2010 and is named after Azim Premji, an Indian businessman and philanthropist who was chairman of Wipro Limited. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and several short-term diplomas and certificate courses.
Premji was born in Bombay, India in an Ismaili Muslim family from Gujarat. [1] [19] His father was a noted businessman and was known as Rice King of Burma.Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, invited his father Muhammed Hashim Premji to come to Pakistan, he turned down the request and chose to remain in India.
Private universities in Bengaluru include institutes like NITTE University, Alliance University, Azim Premji University, Christ University, Jain University, PES University and RV University. Bangalore medical colleges include St. John's Medical College (SJMC) and Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI).
The Pixel Park building, formerly hosted the interim campus of the Azim Premji University. It is located adjacent to the main building and directly overlooks the boys' hostel building. The construction of a medical college and hospital is currently underway within the campus for the PESU Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. The hospital ...
Azim Premji University: Bengaluru: 2010 Amity University Bengaluru: Bengaluru: 2023 CMR University: Bengaluru: 2013 Dayananda Sagar University: Bengaluru: 2014 Garden City University: Bengaluru: 1992 Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology: Bengaluru: 2013 Khaja Bandanawaz University: Kalburgi: 2018 KLE Technological ...
The foundation was started with a fund of Rs 100 crore by a group of Bengaluru businessmen, including Azim Premji, the chairman of Wipro, and philanthropist Rohini Nilekani. [1] In August 2016 the foundation awarded a grant of Rs 1.95 crore to the Foundation for Independent Journalism (FIJ), a non-profit company that publishes The Wire. The ...
During the dot-com boom of the early 2000s, Azim Premji's net worth increased significantly, making him the richest Indian for five consecutive years. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In 2004, Wipro became the second listed Indian IT company to report annual revenues exceeding US$1 billion. [ 17 ]
Azim Premji University Harini Nagendra is an Indian ecologist who uses satellite remote sensing coupled with field studies of biodiversity, archival research, institutional analysis, and community interviews to examine the factors shaping the social-ecological sustainability of forests and cities in the south Asian context.