<span style="color: #222222;">Science and Technology Ministry has said that students of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, ARIES and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, IITR will soon be able to participate in joint PhD programmes. It said IIT Roorkee students can do projects on the ongoing activities at ARIES utilizing the various existing and upcoming facilities at ARIES.<br />''<br />''The Ministry said that this will be possible through a Memorandum of Understanding signed between ARIES with Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee for academic cooperation in areas of mutual interest.<br />''<br />''On the occasion IIT Roorkee Director prof. Ajit K Chaturvedi said that the aim of this partnership is to bring the researchers of IIT Roorkee and ARIES closer to each other so as to use their respective strengths to jointly address interesting scientific and engineering problems.</span><br />