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
Mumbai: The specifications for revised version of the world's cheapest tablet PC - Aakash 2 will be finalised by month-end, Union Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "During the course of this month, we will finalise the specifications and technology for the Aakash project and move forward with its manufacturing," Sibal said at an event over the weekend here. The tablet will be a platform on which public...
11:03 AM, Jun 03, 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
However, experts say the move would be unfair to students. ...
07:03 PM, May 28, 2012
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11:52 PM, May 25, 2012
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11:43 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's pet project Aakash tablets is in a mess. Six months after the launch of the world's cheapest tablet computer Aakash, not a single tablet has been delivered so far. The Rs 2,250 tablet remains a distant dream for students. "There are milestones in life when we feel we have really achieved something great. This is one of those milestones," Kapil Sibal had...
09:39 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Song writers, artistes and performers, deprived of their dues so far, can now claim royalty for their creations with Parliament today approving a law to provide much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are cornered by producers. The bill,...
03:23 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The much delayed Bill, providing for certain important amendments to the Copyright Act, was on Thursday approved by the Rajya Sabha to remove operational difficulties and address newer issues related to the digital world and internet. The Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010, moved by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, also seeks to bring Indian laws originally enacted in 1957 in conformity with international norms and World Intellectual Property Organisation. Replying...
09:07 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools. The committee, which has five members from the social science background, will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them, said a NCERT notification....
09:39 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill which will give higher education institutions three more years to fill up the 27 per cent seats reserved for other backward classes (OBCs). The Lok Sabha passed the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill, 2012 on Wednesday after the Rajya Sabha passed it April 28. Besides 27 percent quota for OBCs, the national policy provides for reservation of 15 per...
08:59 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition on Wednesday created uproar in the Lok Sabha over the presence of just one Cabinet minister during Zero Hour when it was raising matters of public importance. Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj complained against the 'casual attitude' of the government towards important issues being raised in the House. HRD and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal was the only Cabinet minister present in the House. The Treasury...
04:48 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Under attack over the cartoon row, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday acknowledged that cartoons on the political class should not find a place in textbooks as they influence the impressionable minds of students. Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt...
02:04 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Cartoons making fun of political leaders is certainly no laughing matter. The toons finding their way into textbooks came under all-round attack in Lok Sabha on Monday, prompting the government to promise an inquiry into the role of NCERT officials and ensure there are no recurrences. A controversy that began with a cartoon of B R Ambedkar is now threatening to take the scalp of Human Resource Development...
10:02 PM, May 14, 2012
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