It was India Day at the University of Oxford on Friday. Network 18 brings together the best academic minds in the world with India's key political leaders on this special occasion. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Ahmedabad: Concerned over the rise in the number of suicides, Gandhinagar police have launched a helpline to offer counselling to people and dissuade them from taking the extreme step, a senior police official said in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The helpline named 'Jindagi' was launched by the state capital police on Friday. Its landline number is 1091, while the cellphone number is 9426671096, police said. The tagline of the helpline in...
02:41 AM, Jun 09, 2013
The show talks about the top and most promising engineering colleges in India. ...
11:25 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Veteran women's rights activist and pioneer of feminist studies in India Vina Mazumdar died in Delhi on Thursday morning. Mazumdar had been ailing with a lung disorder. She was 87 and is survived by four children - three daughters and a son. A strong votary of increased women's representation in Parliament and legislature, Mazumdar was the secretary of the Committee on the Status of Women in India that...
02:48 PM, May 30, 2013
Ask any engineering student where they aspire to study and the letters that come out of there mouth will always be IIT. The show talks about the top and most promising engineering colleges in India. ...
11:33 PM, May 26, 2013
Muktsar: To ensure all round development of rural students studying in government schools in Punjab, the state government on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NGO International Award for Young People. The MoU was signed by DPI (schools) Kamal Kumar Garg and Bivujit Mukhoty, representative of the NGO, in presence of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. "This was a leap forward towards state government's commitment to provide quality...
01:32 AM, May 25, 2013
The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Examination (RBSE)on Tuesday declared the results for the Senior Secondary (Arts) 2013 Examinations. Candidates can log on to www.rajresults.nic.in to check their results. Jaipur girl Bharti Gautam topped the exams while Mahendra Godara from Suratgarh secured the second position. The total pass percentage is 80.6 per cent in the 12th Board (Arts) exams. Girls outperformed boys this year with a pass percentage of 88.55 per...
01:09 PM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai: Police claimed to have busted an MBA entrance test racket, with the arrest of six persons, including a B Tech graduate, at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS). The B Tech graduate, who is the prime accused in the case, has been identified as Alok Kumar, who cleared the NMIMS entrance test several times by impersonating real applicants. About 87 students cleared NMIMS Management Aptitude Test (NMAT)...
10:08 PM, May 02, 2013
Delhi School of Business, which claims to be empowered with with technology driven learning management systems, held a day long conclave where the panel discussed about 'Management Education for Modernising India'. ...
07:50 PM, Apr 07, 2013
A US man who was unable to pursue education in his childhood has finally earned a high school diploma at the ripe age of 106. Frederick J Butler of Beverly was born in a different time, more than seven years before any world war. ...
07:50 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Facebook may lower one's self-control and tempt him or her into excessive eating or spending, says a new consumer study. ...
02:28 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Britain on Thursday said it would increase the number of face-to-face students interviews instead of just paper checks after a pilot study found abuse of the country's student visa system in Pakistan. ...
02:38 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Melbourne: Couch potatoes, watch out! Every hour that you spend in front of the 'idiot box' could be taking 22 minutes off your life, a new study has warned. Australian researchers have found that watching television could be shortening your life by 4.8 years. Researchers have found that for every hour of television viewed by a person over the age of 25, their life expectancy is reduced by 22 minutes....
04:28 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Islamabad/London: Kainat and Shazia, friends and fellow students of Pakistani teenaged rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who were also injured in the recent Taliban attack on her, have vowed to defy the militants and continue their studies. Undeterred by the attack earlier in the week, Kainat told Geo News she wants to become a doctor to serve the country. The 14-year-old Malala and her two friends were shot at in Khyber...
12:28 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Washington: Students from India have out-numbered their Chinese counterparts in US by a decent margin when it comes to pursuing master's degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields, an official report for the year 2009 has revealed. According to the figures tabulated by the Department of Homeland Security for the National Science Foundation in 2009, India was the top sending country for STEM and graduates enrolled in master's...
08:06 AM, Oct 10, 2012
London: Teenagers including girls who play violent video games over a number of years tend to become more aggressive towards other people, a new long-term study has warned. Researchers from Brock University in Canada said the study was the first to show a clear link between a sustained period of playing violent games and subsequent increases in hostile behaviour, the Daily Mail reported. Girls who play violent computer games during...
02:03 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections that are due on September 14 this year will see a total of 38 candidates from different political affiliations contesting for different posts. Campaigning was at its peak in the campus before the polls, with candidates covering every corner to reach out to as many students as possible. BJP's student wing ABVP has, over the past two years, made it a...
04:27 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Washington: Want to know what kind of a person you are? Then, make a query on your Facebook page, as how you use the social networking site can reveal your personality, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a new scale that judges people's personality based on how they use the popular social media site. The scale reveals that those who like high-risk activity...
02:40 PM, Jul 15, 2012
London: Scientists have developed a unique and affordable device which could enable millions suffering from nerve degenerative diseases and amputees to interact with their computers and surroundings using simple eye movements. The eye-tracking devices and "smart" software, which costs less than 40 pounds, can help patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy and spinal cord to interact with the computer freely. According to a study, published in The Journal...
05:28 PM, Jul 14, 2012
PAPER I : General Studies 1) In India other than ensuring that public funds are used efficiently and for intended purpose what is the importance of the office of the CAG? 1. CAG exercises exchequer control on behalf of the parliament when the president of India declares national emergency / financial emergency 2. CAG reports on the execution of projects or programmes by the ministries are discussed by the PAC...
02:57 PM, Jul 13, 2012
