New Delhi: The rush for admissions at the prestigious Delhi University begins on Monday with the common pre-admission forms being made available for aspiring students both online and over the counter. The University offers 54,000 seats in over 60 colleges spread across the capital but the spectacularly high cut off rates in recent years tend to make the students nervous. The common pre-admission forms can be availed both online and...
09:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Foreign universities entering into agreement with their Indian counterparts for offering twinning programmes will have to be among the global top 500. The Indian varsities on the other hand, should have received the highest accreditation grade, according to the new set of guidelines approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) on Saturday. "The underlining objective is to ensure that only quality institutes are permitted for offering the twinning programmes...
07:47 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a one-day trip to Kolkata, where he will be attending two events - one at the Bose Institute, and the other at Calcutta University, where he's set to share the dais with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. This will be the leaders' first meeting after the petrol price hike, which the TMC chief has been protesting against....
09:21 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 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
Trenton: An Indian-born former Rutgers University student criticised by a judge for refusing to apologise for using a webcam to spy on his male roommate kissing another man days before the roommate killed himself apologised on Tuesday and said he has accepted responsibility for what he did. Dharun Ravi, 20, also said he will begin serving a 30-day jail term on Thursday even though he doesn't have to. Through a...
09:48 AM, May 30, 2012
Imphal: The Manipuri boy, who topped this year's CBSE class 12 examination, on Tuesday said he wanted to join St Stephen's College in Delhi and try his luck at the civil service examination subsequently. A jubilant 19-year-old Mohammand Ismat, who secured 99.6 per cent marks in CBSE, the results of which were out on Monday, said that he would like to study at St Stephen's after which he would take...
02:59 PM, May 29, 2012
London: A "space drink" developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation can also reduce wrinkles and reverse the telltale signs of ageing in just four months, say researchers, following a human trial. A team at Utah University has found in its research that the concoction, known as AS10, dramatically reduces wrinkles, blemishes and sun damage after four months. At the start of their trial, the researchers took visia photographs...
04:16 PM, May 27, 2012
New York: India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour. Ravi, 20, was to begin his prison term on May 31, after being sentenced earlier this week by Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman to...
03:20 PM, May 25, 2012
London: Nearly 20 years after Oxford University awarded her an honorary doctorate in Civil Law, democracy icon and Myanmar opposition leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi will arrive in UK to receive it at a special ceremony on June 20, the university on Thursday said. Suu Kyi studied, married and lived in Oxford for many years until 1988, when she left for Myanmar to visit her ailing mother, but did not...
03:38 PM, May 24, 2012
Bangalore: The results of the Karnataka PUC (Pre-University Course) Class 12 examination 2012 were declared at 1 pm on Wednesday by the Department of Pre-University Education, Karnataka. About 6 lakh students had appeared for the examinations this year. Students can access the results online at http://karresults.nic.in/indexPUC2012.htm. BSNL landline/CDMA/Mobile subscribers can get the results by dialing 1255225 or SMS puc to 53346. ...
01:50 PM, May 23, 2012
Bangalore: The results of the Karnataka PUC (Pre-University Course) Class 12 examination 2012 will be announced on May 23 at 1 pm by the Department of Pre-University Education, Karnataka. About 6 lakh students appeared for the examinations this year. The Karnataka II PUC (Pre-University Course) 2012 exams were held from March 15 to March 31, 2012. The results will be declared on http://karresults.nic.in/. The students can also access their results...
12:12 PM, May 23, 2012
London: The growing phenomenon of rich tourists visiting slums in Mumbai and elsewhere for entertainment, mainly sparked off by movie 'Slumdog Millionaire', is the subject of a new study at the University of Leicester. The study is also examining whether slum tourism can help tackle global inequalities and injustices, by analysing the growth in tours of areas of urban poverty, often called slums, favelas or townships. The project, funded by...
05:26 PM, May 22, 2012
Dubai: India-born Rohan Sampath knew he would do well in his Grade 12 exams but becoming the ICSE topper worldwide with 99.5 per cent marks was unimaginable. The 17-year-old now looks forward to joining Stanford University and unlike many brought up in Dubai, he really hopes he can return to India some day. "My first reaction was disbelief. I thought it was a typo. I didn't expect it," Rohan, a...
03:36 PM, May 22, 2012
Ew Brunswick: A former Rutgers University student who used a webcam to spy on his gay roommate was sentenced on Monday to just 30 days in jail " a punishment that disappointed some activists but came as a relief to others who feared he would be made a scapegoat for his fellow freshman's suicide. Dharun Ravi, 20, could have gotten 10 years behind bars for his part in a case...
07:50 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: During her interaction with Kolkata's students and others on CNN-IBN, West Bengal Chief Minister bristled at every question that brought up the issue of intolerance and insensitive statements from the authorities. She branded most of these as 'Maoist' or 'CPI(M)' questions. However, two specific questions incensed her to a point where she openly accused the questioners " both of them university students " of being 'Maoists' and 'CPI(M)...
02:23 PM, May 20, 2012
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