Hyderabad, March 21 -- IIT Hyderabad celebrated its 16th foundation day on Thursday, March 21, with Prof Abhay Karandikar, secretary, of the department of Science and Technology, Government of India, as the chief guest of the event.

Dr BVR Mohan Reddy, chairman of BoG, IITH, delivered the presidential address and Prof B S Murty, director, IITH, welcomed the gathering along with the deans, heads of the departments, faculty, staff and students.

The occasion became more momentous with the announcement of the faculty teaching excellence, faculty research excellence, staff excellence and student academic and research excellence awards, along with felicitation of endowment awards winners.

More than 182 "achievers" have been honoured by the d...