Beirut/Amman: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemned on Sunday the "abominable" massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, saying even monsters could not carry out such acts, and promised a 15-month-old crisis would end soon if Syrians pulled together. Assad repeated earlier pledges to enforce a crackdown on opponents he says are terrorists carrying out a foreign conspiracy, while offering dialogue with opposition figures who had avoided armed conflict or...
03:45 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Contending that IIT Council's nod to hold the engineering entrance test under a new format is a "breach of trust", IIT-Kanpur faculty federation on Sunday said any new system should not be introduced before 2014. "For students aspiring to appear in JEE 2013, the IIT Council proposal is a breach of trust. Both the processes and content of the new examination will not be clear to them any...
04:19 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Kochi: Six Students Federation of India (SFI) activists were injured after a march organised to the Kanayannur Taluk office turned violent on Friday. As many as 100 SFI activists took out a march against the delay in arresting the culprits involved in the murder of SFI Idukki district secretary Aneesh Raj. The march was part of the SFI's state-wide protest. Among the six injured, SFI district joint-secretary Shyam Shankar and...
08:13 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Doha: International envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday criticised President Bashar al-Assad for failing to comply with a peace plan to end the Syria conflict and said his forces were carrying out atrocities, arbitrary arrests and other abuses regardless of the world outcry against him. At a meeting with members of the Arab League, Annan gave a bleak assessment of the situation in Syria 15 months on from the start of...
03:21 AM, Jun 03, 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: Upset over the new IIT joint entrance test pattern announced by the government, alumni of the institute in Delhi have decided to form lobby groups and meet the Prime Minister to get the decision rescinded. In decisions taken at a meeting on Friday, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi Alumni Association decided to meet the Prime Minister next week to submit a memorandum with objections on the new...
04:41 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Beirut: Peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "frustrated and impatient" a week after a massacre in Syria of 108 people shocked the world, and there were signs Russia might be moving closer to the West's position on tackling the crisis. President Vladimir Putin denied that Russia, which has a base in Syria and supplies it with weapons, was providing the government with the means to crush rebels,...
01:45 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Hyderabad: The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad on Friday received the blood samples of N D Tiwari, the youth who claims to be his biological son and also the youth's mother for the DNA test over the paternity suit involving the veteran Congress leader. The blood samples of the youth Rohit Sekhar and his mother Ujjwala Sharma were collected in the Delhi High Court on May 26...
09:20 PM, Jun 01, 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 come up with unprecedented security measures in 2012. These include carrying 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, having handwriting experts on...
02:32 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: 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...
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Beirut: As UN officials cited eyewitness accounts of shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats on Tuesday in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the massacre of more than 100 people. UN special envoy Kofi Annan met with Assad in Damascus to try to salvage what was left of a peace plan, which since being brokered six weeks ago has failed...
03:22 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) Results for 2012 will be announced on Tuesday by 14 National Law Schools/Universities. Candidates seeking admission into the under-graduate and post-graduate programmes can check their results at www.clat.ac.in. The institutes under CLAT are: National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (NALSAR) National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU) The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata...
09:58 AM, May 29, 2012
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