Education News in India

Men working in night shifts face greater risk of cancer as per study 16/Oct/2012
Men working in night shifts may be at a higher risk of developing various cancers, a new study has claimed. The study is first-of-its-kind to provide evidence of a possible association between night work and the risk of prostate, colon, lung, bladder, rectal, and pancreatic cancer and non-Hodgkin's ..
Indian researcher teams work on cancer finds place in Nature India .. 16/Oct/2012
Work by a team of Indian researchers, who have developed a novel multi-component magnetic nanosystem that could image and kill cancer cells, has been highlighted in the latest issue of internationally acclaimed 'Nature India' magazine. The magazine is an international journal, with original, ..
Google invites children to share their creativity 15/Oct/2012
Google India announces ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition for 2012, inviting children between the ages of 5 to 16 years to share their creativity by doodling on the Google logo. The theme of this year’s competition is Unity in Diversity. The annual contest that received over a 100,000 entries last, expects ..
Rising incidence of physical violence against students at schools 16/Oct/2012
In the recent days India has been rocked with several incidence of physical violence against school children. In Shahdol (MP), a class X student of a government school was injured when he was allegedly beaten up by his teacher for not taking private tuition from him, police said. Noushad, ..
Introduction to South Asian studies made compulsory for getting degree at .. 16/Oct/2012
Introduction to South Asian studies has been made a compulsory course for all students of the South Asian University here. Every student will have to pass this non-credit course in order to get their degrees, said a statement issued by the varsity. The decision was taken at the second ..
IIMs taking a relook at CAT to offer a level playing field to candidates .. 16/Oct/2012
This year 67.6% of the CAT aspirants are from engineering background, an increase of over five percentage points from the 2011 edition. And with a further dip in applicants from disciplines like arts, humanities and medical sciences, the IIMs are now taking a relook at the Common Admission Test (CAT) to offer a level ..
Kendria Vidyalaya I in Madurai is being equipped with smart boards. 16/Oct/2012
The teaching methodology in the Kendria Vidyalaya I in Madurai is all set for a change, with 10 classrooms now being equipped with smart boards. These interactive boards allow running preloaded contents of lessons and other animated content. The school has installed 10 such smart boards in each classroom for the third ..
Two Bangalore schools honoured with awards 16/Oct/2012
Two city schools are basking in the glory of being honoured with awards and their principals agree that they're great morale boosters. Col. Tamojeet Biswas, principal, Rashtriya Military School, Hosur Road, said, "The award encourages us to further improve the school. It's an incentive for the staff ..
31,040 candidates appeared for CAT this year from Maharashtra 16/Oct/2012
Maharashtra has the highest number of CAT (Common Admission Test) takers this year. As many as 31,040 candidates appearing for the ongoing CAT for admissions to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) reside in the state, followed by Uttar Pradesh with nearly 25,270 candidates, and Delhi with 21507. Of ..
Vienna University of Technology partnering with Indian Institutes to build .. 15/Oct/2012
Austria-based Vienna University of Technology is partnering Facility Management (FM) zone, Real Estate User Group (REUG) and Global Initiative for Restructuring Environment & Management (GIREM) to set up a novel institute in this tech hub to build a talent pool of facility mangers for the services sector. <br ..

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