School Students, Get Ready to Practice More Sanskrit, Now with a Technological Twist!
Central Board of Secondary Education has asked all its affiliated schools to celebrate “Sanskrit week†on an experimental basis to popularise and stimulate interest in it and develop apps on the language. The Sanskrit week will be organised from 7th to 13th August 2014, during which students would be encouraged to participate in short speech […]
IITian vs Rickshaw Wala
A RIB TICKLING READ!! IITian and Rickshaw wala- A brilliant piece of conversation I had gone to Benaras with a friend of mine. As we were planning to visit the famous Sankat- Mochan temple, we spotted 2 two rickshaw walas contending for our business. I agreed to go with a 20-odd year’s old chap, as […]
6 Year Old Minor Raped in Bangalore School- A School or a Slaughter-house?!!
Anger was at its peak in Bangalore when the news of the rape of a 6 year old helpless kid was out. The alleged rape of a 6 year old at a prominent school in Bangalore has badly enraged the city and triggered massive protests by parents from every nook and corner. It was thoroughly […]
Remuneration of 25Lakhs for all Recruits at IIT Jodhpur May Ensure No More Faculty-Crunch Soon! Can We Say Well Done IIT-J?
Faculty shortage in the new IITs is not a new problem. Thus, battling hard with acute faculty crunch, now IIT- Jodhpur has decided to encourage new faculty recruits by offering a starting salary of Rs.25 lakhs per annum to them. Chairman of the Board of Governor, Mr. Goverdhan Mehta said, “In our endeavours to recruit […]
Reality Check:Only 18% of Engineering Graduates are Employable!
It is a shocking title, right? Nonetheless, it is true that less than one out of four engineering graduates are employable, according to a survey report. The third edition of the National Employability Report for Engineering Graduates- 2014, as released by a private employability solutions company, released that though 18.33 % of the engineers are […]
Gerry Arathoon accused for prompting guidebooks authored by his spouse
Gerry Arathoon has been terminated from her job in the CISCE headquarters, Saket, till the inquiry is completed. Anita Arathoon authoured the 2 guide books without her husband taking the permission from The Indian Council- “The Merchant of Venice Workbook†and “The Merchant of Venice-Text with Paraphraseâ€Â. According to the survey The Merchant of Venice-Text […]
A Handful of Seats in JEE Main: Is it Fair for a Toil of 2 Years?
After toiling hard for two years to score well in JEE Main, the so- called ‘One India One test’ conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education, the general category candidates have been informed that only 6, 400 seats are available in the 10 IIITs, 30 NITs, and 10- 12 other centrally- funded institutions. Some popular […]
Have Nowhere to Go : Thanks to the Percentile System in Maharashtra
If in case you are planning to study engineering at a top institute in Maharashtra, then you had better make sure that you do the two years of junior college through the state board. Over 8,000 engineering aspirants who passed the ISCE or CBSE exam have learned this lesson albeit a little too late now. […]
No IITs for Karnataka! Was Petty Politics Worth it?
Now the Political leaders from Karnataka may cry hoarse over the State not getting an Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, in the Union Budget. Nevertheless, the officials in the Human Resources Development Ministry blame it on petty politics and rivalry among State leaders that thwarted the Centre’s move in this direction. The HRD Ministry headed by […]
An IIT for Jammu but not for Kashmir – Omar Lashes out at PDP
Expressing huge discontent at PDP and its Parliamentarians from the Valley for keeping ‘criminal silence’ over the ‘barefaced discrimination meted out to Kashmir’ by the Union Government while allocating an IIT to Jammu and depriving the young Kashmiris on this account, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that it was a matter of absolute shame for […]