Mumbai: Fifth standard students engaged in studies - no big deal. However, they are not studying on text books but on swanky apple iPads and this is not a concept classroom. At a universal school in Mumbai every student has an iPod and an iPad most of their teaching is done on iPad applications. They don't even have a computer class but all students have recently been given Macbook airs....
07:21 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Mumbai: Young children will soon be made champions of the fight against corruption if the Chief Vigilance Commission's new plan comes into effect. As corruption threatens to undermine the India story, the country's corruption watchdog, the CVC, is taking a long term view. Following the old adage of catching them young, the CVC now aims to make children anti-corruption champions. The CVC has written to all CBSE, ICSE schools asking...
10:43 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Mumbai: The new phenomenon of missed calls has been gaining popularity. It was used in popular forms of protest during the Anna Hazare movement as well. Stingy or not, we Indians love giving missed calls. A missed call can be a pre-arranged signal or pre-arranged message to mean something specific like, "I have left the office and headed home," or "could you please bring the car to where you dropped...
09:20 AM, Dec 26, 2011
Mumbai: The Right to Education Act promises quality infrastructure in schools. When child relief organization CRY invited volunteers to click photographs of government schools, it was an image of horror. Basins covered with bird droppings, dirty toilets, dogs in the classroom, is the horrific reality at some of the government schools. The reality was captured in camera by citizen journalists for CRY's campaign called click rights. The best pictures were...
01:29 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: YouTube has launched a new service 'YouTube for schools', which will have no access to videos other than those related to education. YouTube can be a very engaging education tool. There is just one small problem in giving kids YouTube access! The children might indulge in watching content which don't suit their age. To avoid any kind of distraction for kids YouTube has now launched 'YouTube for schools'....
08:02 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Mumbai: Forced into prostitution at the age of 10, Ayesha is fighting back. Not just that she is also helping others like her find life away from the brothels of the city. Ayesha was rescued by a man from a dance bar who later became her husband. Today, she is reaching out to other sex workers, helping them become a part of mainstream society. "Ayesha Didi has been a great...
08:31 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Jimmy Wales said he supports the idea that corruption in the government is something we have to take seriously. ...
08:46 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: When looking for a one stop source of information on virtually anything under the sun, more often than not people turn to Wikipedia, a site on which ordinary people who are armed with simple internet access can update information as it happens when it happens. Co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, who is in India for the three-day Wiki conference, said that the idea for the online encyclopaedia came to...
07:42 AM, Nov 19, 2011
About 2.5 weeks old and Facebook's latest app 'Take this lollipop' has more than 10 million likes already. ...
01:12 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Mumbai: The government will be launching the Right to Education campaign across the country called 'Shiksha Ka Abhiyaan' on National Education Day. It is reported that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make an appeal to the students of the country urging them to study hard. The appeal will be read out in 13 lakh schools across the country on Children's Day. Meanwhile, children in Uttar Pradesh will be listening to...
09:27 AM, Nov 11, 2011
Friends and family of Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandes took out a protest march from Andheri station. ...
07:37 PM, Nov 06, 2011
F1 2011 Timing App gets you closer to the action by giving access to live timing and track positioning in a 3D map. ...
08:05 AM, Oct 24, 2011
F1 2011 Timing App gets you closer to the action by giving access to live timing and track positioning in a 3D map. ...
08:05 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Navi Mumbai: In a move that could help the consumer check power theft, the Maharashtra Electricity Distribution Company has introduced pre-paid power meters. With this, paying bills will no longer be a problem and one can just pay the bill with the click of the mouse. Kasare family had got worried after a recent spike in their electricity bills. But a newly-installed pre-paid power meter has come to their rescue....
11:05 AM, Oct 06, 2011
Viraag, a Mumbai based singer, has found an innovative way to get people to pledge their eyes for donation. ...
10:00 AM, Oct 02, 2011
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