Guwahati: Accepting that waste management by civic authorities of the city is not up-to-the-mark, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said "increase of waste is a sign of prosperity and high standard of living". Addressing a press conference here to express his optimism about Congress victory in the forthcoming Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election next week, he said the authorities have done well under his party's leadership.
"Increase of waste material is a sign of prosperity and high standard of living. See in America, you will find lots of waste," Gogoi said in a humorous tone. Economic condition of people in the city has improved and they are consuming products in a way leading to generation of lot of waste materials, he added.
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12:45 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Sometimes, it takes one person to stand up to tradition and bring change when the community refuses. An IIT professor just doing the same and acting as an agent of change by bringing tradition and modernity closer. ...
04:53 PM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: A professor from IIT Delhi, Dr VK Tripathi, has been spreading communal harmony by teaching 400 madrasa teachers Maths and Science over the past seven years. As a teacher at the Madrasa Dar-ul-uloom Rahmania, Maulana Abdul Jabbar dedicates his entire day to the teaching of Urdu, Quran and the Shariah. Now, he and his son attend the workshop by Dr Tripathi in Maths and Physics, specially meant for...
09:50 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: A 26-year-old engineer and civil services aspirant was killed and an under-training Indian Police Service (IPS) officer injured after their motorbike was hit by a truck here, police said. The truck driver ran away. Karmveer was killed around 11 pm in Kashmere Gate area in central Delhi and his friend Devesh Kumar, a 2012 batch IPS officer, was injured when their motorcycle was hit by the truck. Karmveer...
10:59 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Ahmedabad: An IIT-Gandhinagar dropout, who had left the institute in 2010 after failing to clear the exams, allegedly committed suicide in Ahmedabad on Tuesday by hanging himself. "Rohit Jagenia, a native of Kota in Rajasthan, committed suicide by hanging himself from the hook of ceiling fan in the kitchen," Chandkheda police inspector AG Gohil said. Rohit, who was an electrical engineering student in IIT-Gandhinagar, had come to Ahmedabad on May...
02:36 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: IITian Sai Bhaskar Reddy is making his contribution to the environment by providing smoke-free stoves to the remotest villages. "In the last eight years, I have been visiting the remotest parts of India where people do not have access to good and clean energy sources. And I would facilitate wood stoves to them. Many people ask me "what is an IITian doing in this part of the world"....
10:10 AM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: India's prestigious IIT and IIM could mark their international debut with the government considering a proposal to set up one such institution in Qatar. To take this proposal forward, HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday. Qatar has attracted some of the prestigious international campuses and requested Indian government to set up elite institutes such as IIT and IIM there,...
12:44 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Baghdad: A series of bombs battered Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim neighborhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 25 people in the worst wave of sectarian violence since civil war five years ago. The bloodletting reflects increasing conflict between Iraq's majority Shi'ite leadership and the Sunni minority, many of whom feel unfairly marginalized since the 2003 fall of strongman Saddam Hussein, a Sunni. The latest surge in violence began in...
06:10 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Denied a chance to appear for the IIT-JEE exams because he is visually impaired, an 18-year-old who scored 96 per cent in his Class 12 CBSE has opted to study at Stanford University in the US. "I would love to pursue my studies in my country, but the depressing guidelines of IIT-JEE last year have made it impossible for blind students to appear in the JEE (joint entrance...
10:54 PM, May 28, 2013
Beirut: Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of Beirut on Sunday, driving home the risk of spillover from Syria's civil war, after the head of Lebanese Shi'ite militant Hezbollah said it would keep fighting on the Syrian government's side until victory. It was the first attack to apparently target Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the Lebanese capital since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in neighbouring Syria, which...
07:06 AM, May 27, 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
Baghdad: A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shi'ites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. Nearly 300 people have been killed in the past week as sectarian tensions, fuelled by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting. Ten years...
06:34 AM, May 22, 2013
Baghdad: More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since US troops withdrew in December 2011. The attacks increased the number killed in sectarian clashes in the past week to more than 200. Tensions between Shi'ites, who now lead Iraq, and minority Sunni Muslims have reached a...
06:07 AM, May 21, 2013
Baghdad: A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 230 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years. The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when Sunni...
10:32 PM, May 20, 2013
Baghdad: At least 20 people were killed by a series of car bombs in mainly Shiite districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Monday and 11 others were killed by attacks in the southern city of Basra, police and medics said. Scores of people have been killed in attacks over the past week as tensions between minority Sunni Muslims and Shiites who now lead Iraq have reached their highest level...
02:59 PM, May 20, 2013
Kirkuk: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a Shiite mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday, killing at least eight people as they attended a mourning ceremony, police said. The bombing followed a series of blasts on Shiite neighbourhoods in Baghdad hours earlier, part of a surge in violence over the last four weeks stirring worries Iraq may slide back into widespread sectarian confrontation. ...
11:40 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Life may get a little simpler for Mumbai's millions after a fresh transport option - a seaplane that will complete a two-hour road journey in 7 minutes which will cost Rs 750 equivalent to the cab fare for the same distance. Operated by a private operator Maritime Energy Heli Air Services (MEHAIR), the first-of-its-kind service aims to be take off mid-June, with most police, aviation and governmental clearances coming...
09:55 AM, May 12, 2013
Patna: A 13-year-old boy from Bihar has cracked the preliminary examination of the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE). He is the youngest to pass the exam. Satyam Kumar of Bakhorapur village in Bhojpur district qualified for the IIT in 2012 at the age of 12-and-half years, after he got special permission from the CBSE, Mumbai zone. He then secured an all-India rank of 8,137. Not satisfied...
08:45 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Joint Entrance Examination for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) results were declared on Tuesday. The students can check their results here. Those qualifying the JEE Mains (top 1.5 lakh students in all categories across the country) will get a chance to appear in the JEE Advanced, scheduled to be held on June 2. This year, for the first time, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) is...
02:01 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: IIT Kharagpur, has revoked the suspension of whistleblower Professor Rajeev Kumar who had exposed flaws in JEE and other irregularities in the institute. The action came after a probe report by a one-member inquiry committee which went into the charges levelled against him, which was accepted by the IIT Kharagpur's Board of Governors. "Prof Kumar has been reinstated," said sources in the HRD ministry adding, the direction was...
04:57 PM, May 01, 2013
