Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad asked young medical graduates to take up rural assignments voluntarily to help provide improved health care services in these areas.
Speaking at the inauguration of a university here, he called for a bigger role for the private sector in funding higher education.
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The year slipping by has been the most troublesome for the education sector as it got itself tangled in the transformation of old policies spanning language of instruction to curriculum and the evaluation system.
While new challenges are awaiting the education sector in Goa, 2011 has only just prepared ..
The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced the dates for the All Indian Pre-Medical/ Pre-Dental (AIPMT) entrance examinations on Tuesday. The preliminary exams will be conducted on April 1, 2012, while the final examination will be conducted on April 13, 2012.
Both the exams will be objective ..
The 22-year-old Rotaract Club of Saibaba Colony from Coimbatore has taken the concept of student entrepreneurship to new heights. Having inspired endless youngsters over the last two decades to develop their social, humanitarian and soft skills over the years, the initiative has now blossomed into one of the finest and ..
Anand Krishnamurthy's cinematic aspirations began when he got the opportunity to be sub editor of the festival magazine of the International Film Festival of Kerala in 2009. He was then just a literature student at Maharajas College.
Anand scripted and directed a short film on child labour titledMirage ..
New Year for All Saints girls will begin with loads of entertainment when academics will be confined to library shelves and desktops. It is going to be two weeks of cultural extravaganza and literary celebrations beginning January 2, 2012.
The girls are all busy rehearsing for the chain of events starting ..
It was almost a foregone conclusion that Farook College students would walk away with the trophies at the B Zone Art festival, held at Government College, Madappally for the colleges of Kozhikode and Wayanad. Farook College emerged winners at the fest for the seventh consecutive year.
M. Saranya, who won ..
For months, R N Podar School in Santa Cruz could not find the replacement for a chemistry teacher who took a transfer to Chennai. The school was then forced to go for a rather unconventional solution. It started virtual classrooms for the subject.
“The teacher took lessons from Chennai through ..
Science exists not just in textbooks but is in fact all around us, a group of 90 children discovered during their visit to the Nehru Science Centre. The personalised tour was organised as part of the Times of India’s Mumbai for Kids initiative.
“It’s nice to see that children get to do ..
Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (EIILM) along with the Bengal Resurgent Committee and Bengal Chamber of Commerce started a research initiative ‘Quality of Life – Destination West Bengal’. The research focuses on assessing and evaluating the general well-being, the prevailing ..