Islamabad: Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, has refused to eat meals provided by the jail authorities in Peshawar fearing he may be poisoned. Sources told Geo News, Afridi has refused to eat prison food, and that on his demand, prison authorities have provided him with essential items and cooking utensils so that he could prepare his own food. Afridi...
12:38 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal's 'One Country One Test' dream seems to be running into legal hurdles. Less than a week after he announced a Joint Entrance Exam for all centrally-funded engineering colleges including the IITs, the IIT Alumni Association is up in arms and says it will drag the ministry to the court. "If senate have given their dissent, no ministry can't go ahead legally....
10:06 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly opposing the new format for admission to IITs and other central institutes from 2013, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni association have decided to take the Union Human Resource Development(HRD) ministry to court. The association will be moving the Delhi High Court on Monday. In a meeting on Friday, the alumni and faculty members of institutions like the IIT, NIT and IIIT have decided to file...
08:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Lucknow: Haunted by the spectre of cheating in the MBBS entrance exam for those aspiring to be doctors, the Uttar Pradesh Combined Pre-Medical Test (CPMT) organisers have this year put in place unprecedented security measures. These include bringing answer sheets on a chartered flight, keeping secret the forward route of the sheets and closing all photocopying shops around the test centres. Other steps include taking fingerprints, keeping handwriting experts on...
07:29 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: The CAG report on the controversial Devas-Antrix deal which had slammed the Department of Space for policy violations, will be taken up by the newly constituted Public Accounts Committee. The decision in this regard was taken on Friday. It was also decided in the first meeting of the PAC that the latest CAG report on revenue losses to the Railways will be taken up by it in the...
05:09 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) results for 2012 are expected to be declared on Friday, June 1. Over 11 lakh students across the country are anxiously waiting for the same. Candidates can go to http://aieee.nic.in/aieee2012/aieee/welcome.html to check out their results. The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) is conducted to screen candidates for admission into various engineering courses offered by the National Institute of Technology (NITs)....
12:46 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has decided to hold a preliminary probe into the controversial coal block allocations and this could mean more direct trouble for the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's Office was the incharge of the coal ministry between the probe period of 2006 and 2009. The CBI will be acting on an order by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). Sources say the CBI will...
08:04 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: In the backdrop of government's announcement to hold a common entrance test for undergraduate programmes in IITs under a new format, the Faculty federation of the institutes on Thursday alleged the new pattern would erode the autonomy of the elite institutions. "As far as holding the test is concerned, the new format will erode the autonomous status enjoyed by IITs," said President of Faculty Federation of IIT-Delhi, Sanjeev...
11:55 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Being sleepy behind the wheel is almost as dangerous as drinking and driving, according to a study from France, with drivers who were either drunk or sleepy at least twice as likely to cause a vehicle accident as their sober or well-rested counterparts. For the study, researchers under the direction of Nicholas Moore at the Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Bordeaux analyzed information from 679 drivers admitted to a hospital...
12:43 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand out a compensation of Rs 3,000 to an RTI applicant for providing "misleading information" which caused her mental and physical harassment. Laxmi Aggarwal had filed a right to information (RTI) application with the DDA on March 11, 2011, inquiring the time of de-sealing and demolition of an unauthorised construction on the fifth floor of a...
03:48 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre was on Wednesday directed by the Delhi High Court to consider in three months a plea seeking CBI inquiry against members of Team Anna for allegedly receiving funds from foreign organisations to run their agitation for Lokpal Bill. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A S Chandhiok to treat the PIL as a...
05:16 PM, May 30, 2012
Patna: After cracking the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), Satyam Kumar, the twelve-and-half-year-old boy from Bihar has now passed Class 12 with 85 per cent marks. Satyam has become the youngest in the country to clear the Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination, family sources on Tuesday claimed. Satyam, a resident of Bakhorapur village in Bhojpur district, cleared IIT-JEE from the Mumbai zone...
12:12 PM, May 29, 2012
Hyderabad: Another high-flying businessman-politician YS Jaganmohan Reddy, said to be the richest MP, has landed in Chanchalguda Central Jail. The son of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Jagan, as he is popularly known, was allotted prisoner number 6,093 after he was sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in the disproportionate assets case. Jagan, who declared assets of Rs...
11:11 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The opinion over making Class XII results count for IIT entrances has been divided. While career counselors say it will increase stress on students, IITs insist the move will rejuvenate the schooling system. Speaking to CNN-IBN Career counselor Zubin Malhotra said, "I am of the opinion that it is wrong on just about every objective that this new format seeks to address. Let's try and understand what those...
08:50 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Starting 2013, students appearing for the country's most prestigious engineering institutes will face a whole new system " class 12 board exam results will be taken into account along with a two-tier joint entrance examination. There is mixed reaction to the move so far. While some think this will shut out commercially run tuition colleges that are unavailable to the poor and in rural areas, others worry the...
10:18 PM, May 28, 2012
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