On Monday, 8th September, Germany’s Minister of Education & Research Annette Schavan started her two-day visit to India. Her first stop was Chennai, to participate in the golden jubilee celebrations of IIT Madras, a flagship project of Indo-German cooperation in higher education. In Delhi on the 9th, she launched a series of science and technology cooperation inititiaves along with Kapil Sibal, the Indian Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences.

* First 2 photos are of IIT-Chennai celebrating 50 years of cooperation between Germany and India (Photo, first left from 'The Hindu' and 2nd right from 'The Indian Express Chennai', 08 September 2008. Rest of the other photos are from Rajesh Kashyap for the events held in Delhi, dated 09 September 2008.