Education News in India

Positive steps help cut student suicides in city 26/Jul/2011
After years of unrelenting surge, the disturbing trend of student suicides is finally receding. From 88 in 2008 and 82 in 2009 and a frightening high of 115 in 2010, the number of school -and college-goers in the city taking their lives dropped to 30 this year. The new figures, which were recorded by the ..
Schools take lead in checking student suicides 26/Jul/2011
The drop in the number of student suicides this year, no doubt, owes a lot to the state’s attempts at making the system more student-friendly. But it is also owes greatly to the sustained efforts made by schools, which took it upon themselves to check the worrisome trend. They sensitised teachers, hired ..
Status Update 26/Jul/2011
The Indian School of Business (ISB) announced an increase of 200 seats in its flagship Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management, recently. Strengthened by the addition of a new campus at Mohali, the class size will increase from 570 to 770 for the incoming class. Admissions for ISB’s class of ..
Football Fiesta 26/Jul/2011
Bajaj Allianz has concluded the selection process for the Allianz Junior Football Camp in Kolkata and the Northeast. Wilfret Synrem and Aakash Dave from Kolkata, Adarsh Tamang from Darjeeling have been selected amongst the four youngsters to represent India in the Allianz Junior Football Camp. The 25 finalists were from ..
A Cinema of Their Own 26/Jul/2011
Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI) in collaboration with Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute and Bichitra Pathshala, inaugurated ‘Monsoon Dhamaal: Children’s Film Festival’ at the BITM auditorium, in Kolkata, recently. The ..
Need for Speed 26/Jul/2011
Sponsored by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and co-sponsored by Ford – the Servo Futura Kolkata Car Rally is being organised in association with AAEI-Durgapur, and with the technical support of Calcutta Motor Sports Club. The rally is being run under the guidance of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India. ..
Expanding its horizon in engineering research 26/Jul/2011
Mechanical engineering is one of the most versatile disciplines among the wide spectrum of engineering studies. Some of the areas in mechanical engineering such as production automobile, aeronautical, marine, industrial, tool and die engineering have developed as independent full-fledged disciplines. Any industry ..
CP talks tough on ragging 26/Jul/2011
Commissioner of Police J. Purnachandra Rao has warned students against taking the Anti-Ragging Law lightly. Those indulging in ragging would attract legal action including imprisonment which would threaten their career. Participating in an Anti-Ragging Awareness meeting organised by the Department of ..
Research with help of bioinformatics helpful 26/Jul/2011
Research with the help of bioinformatics with a trans-disciplinary approach is yielding good results, noted endocrinologist G. R. Sridhar said here on Monday on the research he is conducting along with Vice-Chancellor of JNTU-Kakinada Allam Appa Rao. Dr. Sridhar was felicitated by Prof. Appa Rao and the ..
Move to close hostels opposed 26/Jul/2011
Opposing the reported statement of Social Welfare Minister Pitani Satyanarayana that hostels with strength below 100 would be closed, students under the leadership of Dalita Hakkula Porata Samiti and AISF went on a dharna at the Colletorate on Monday. Dharna When the students had tried to ..

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