Education News in India

Corporal body for WB schools 17/Jul/2010
The state school education department has decided to set up an authority to monitor violations of the ban on corporal punishment. The authority’s directives will be legally binding on schools. The decision — taken in the wake of the controversy over the death of Rouvanjit Rawla, a Class VIII ..
IIT seeks robotic solution in conflict zones 17/Jul/2010
A group of students from IIT-Kharagpur is working on a prototype of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) which, if it proves successful, may be developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for use by security agencies for Low-Intensity Conflict (LIC). The six-member IIT team has ..
First Toto girl earns BA degree 17/Jul/2010
Rita Toto has become the first woman graduate among the vanishing Toto tribe in Jalpaiguri. With a population of only 1,365, the Totos are considered to be one of the most endangered primitive tribes in the country. The 22-year-old girl graduated in the arts stream from the Prasanna Deb Women’s ..
Bengal institutes to participate in IIT-Chennai fest 17/Jul/2010
The Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, is all set to celebrate Shaastra, the annual four-day technical festival from September 29 to October 3. Several state institutes, including IIM-C, IIT-Kgp and Besu, will participate in the fest which will include a variety of competitions, lectures and ..
15-year-old recounts Nasa experience 17/Jul/2010
It was a dream come true for 15-year-old Sayantan Bhattacharya of Behrampore’s Gorabazar. Having won top awards in the Nasa Space Settlement Design Contest twice — the first prize in the Class IV-IX category in 2009 and the second prize in the Class X-XII category in 2010 — he could finally attend the ..
WB govt working on OBC quota in higher education 17/Jul/2010
The state government is taking steps to introduce reservation for students belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions, as decided upon in principle earlier, higher education minister Sudarshan Roychowdhury said in the Assembly. The OBC reservation would be announced in ..
All Idiots on Durgapur drive 17/Jul/2010
They are a team of ‘All Idiots’, but together, they’ve designed something that could have a major impact on the way you drive. Inspired by the Aamir Khan blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’, a group of 30 second-year BTech students — working as the team of ‘All Idiots’ ..
Delay in announcement of fee revision upsets private matriculation schools 15/Jul/2010
Patience seems to be running thin for most of the 150 matriculation schools in Tiruchi region that had sought re-consideration of the fee structure communicated to them at the start of the academic year by the Justice Govindarajan Committee. The Committee that had earlier fixed the annual fee based on the ..
U.S. honours South Asian peace ambassadors 15/Jul/2010
Green t-shirts flooded the State Department yesterday, during an event that celebrated the graduation of teenage “Peace Ambassadors” from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, out of a programme aimed at promoting cross-border understanding in the leaders of the future. Indian graduates of the ..
Bogus certificates surface at engineering admissions 14/Jul/2010
A thorough scrutiny of certificates by engineering admission authorities has thrown up a number of cases of bogus certificates being produced by students. V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2010, said four cases of bogus nativity certificates were detected, with 41 suspect ..

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