Education News in India

Agitations dampen New Year spirit 28/Dec/2009
Varun Krishnan, an engineering final year student and his group of friends had planned to throw a party at college this New Year's eve. Plans were being made for the same from October. But with the Telangana agitation spreading like wild fire and colleges being shut down indefinitely, they had no other option but to ..
Tapping knowledge instantly 28/Dec/2009
Books and journals have found their way to the desktops of students and research scholars. Thanks to the advent of electronic resources, easy, quick and anytime access to books and journals have become the order of the day in higher education. Access to reading and research materials is no longer ..
The placement season is here 28/Dec/2009
Campus placements this year, even at the top engineering college campuses, is months behind schedule. However, this has nothing to do with the global economic recession or its impact on various sectors in the country. An unusually cohesive initiative by academia and industry, ratified by a circular issued by IT body ..
Vision 2010 28/Dec/2009
The Indian higher education system is on the threshold of change with the government introducing a slew of reforms to chalk out the roadmap for India's continued economic success will depend on it providing educated and skilled labour, with this in mind the government has announced an ambitious plan to bring about ..
Small Talk 28/Dec/2009
Nanotechnology can be used to generate a range of socio-economic benefits through collaboration and interdisciplinary research. Proyashi Barua NANOTECHNOLOGY is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. Contrary to common perception, nanotechnology is not a new technology and has been in use since ..
Health care prism 28/Dec/2009
THE healthcare industry in India earns revenue accounting for 5.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Experts in the sector predict an increase in revenue in the coming five years to almost 6.2% of the GDP. Healthcare has emerged as one of the largest service sectors in India and currently employment ..
Finding 'the good' in making money 28/Dec/2009
THE concept of profit has to be understood in broad contours. Profit emanates from actions and all actions need to be grounded in righteousness. Therefore any profit that arises out of actions that are not right can never be real profit. This is the underlying message that Gurcharan Das tries to bring to the corporate ..
Big on business 28/Dec/2009
WITH an over-riding emphasis on teamwork, the corporate sector has had a continuing need for people with effective communication skills. "However, today apart from basic communication skills, candidates must be conversant with the nuances of business communication," says Anoup Munshi, course director, Indian ..
IIM Shillong responds to malicious reports 25/Dec/2009
Shillong: IIM Shillong has released a statement regarding factually incorrect news items printed about the institute, mostly by an organisation called Star NGO. "This NGO has no address nor any mention of office bearers. Their modus operandi is to use a gmail ID, keep their mails unsigned and carry ..
Minority school board plea 28/Dec/2009
MPs opposed to mainstreaming madarsa education have asked the minister for a separate agency to affiliate minority schools and provide them financial support. The demand was conveyed to Sibal at two meetings he held last week with A few Muslim MPs who had earlier rejected a bill to create the proposed Central Madarsa ..

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