From the next academic session, students from non-engineering backgrounds seeking admission in the elite Indian Institute of Management - Lucknow (IIM-L) would be given "special weightage".
In a bid to increase diversity on the campus, IIM-L has made amendments in its post-graduate programme ..
ThoughtBerg, a budding For-Social-Profit (FSP) initiative, has launched a unique Campus Ambassador programme. This programme is aimed at fostering social innovation and entrepreneurship amongst college students.
In the first phase, the students will be taken to a boot camp to learn about social innovation ..
Official apathy and inadequate facilities have forced students of a government school near Tambaram to attend classes sitting on a street running close to the school, on corridors, under trees and also in a portion of a temple nearby.
The St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union Middle School in ..
The year 2020? Maybe it's 2050. The bell rings, some hundred middle school students pile into a classroom and take their place in front of their PC. The teacher walks up, switches on the whiteboard. A few clicks on the laptop later she's ready with her multi-media presentation. The students are free to choose ..
After an initial delay, the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 went on without any major glitches in the three centres where it was held in the city.
According to students who took CAT on day one, the number of glitches faced was fewer than last year.
There was a difficulty in logging in to ..
A combination of complex mathematical methods using sophisticated computer algorithms to prevent unwanted eavesdropping and malicious modifications on the Internet has been developed by a cryptologist of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) here.
Prof. Palash Sarkar, a cryptologist with the ..
Indian IT industry might need to shore up local presence to serve clients to overcome the anti-offshoring wave, but as of now the low cost of services provided by it is its only key advantage, Infosys CEO and MD Kris Gopalakrishnan.
The anti-shoring wave would be a challenge and could ..
JEENAL KAKKA, a peppy 26-year old believes in following her heart when it comes to matters concerning her job. Unusual as it may sound to many, Jeenal, after finishing Class 12 at St. Agnes High School in Mumbai, left a Bachelor's programme to enrol in a diploma course.
She first joined the Nirmali Ketan ..
The Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission to prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) begins tomorrow when over two lakh candidates are expected to appear.
The test will be conducted online in about 78 centres across 33 cities in a staggered format beginning tomorrow and ending on November 24...