Hyderabad, January 29: “They are going to deport us all within a few hours,” Tri-Valley University student Hari (name changed on request) told Express on the telephone on Friday, the horror in his voice unmistakable.
With the university at Pleasanton in the suburbs of San Francisco declared a sham university for immigration fraud, hundreds of Indian students, many from Andhra Pradesh, braced up to be put on the plane back home in the next 48 hours.
Hyderabad, January 29: Protests rocked the Kakatiya, Osmania and Telangana universities on Friday with students taking out rallies demanding that their semester examinations be deferred till a bill for the creation of a separate Telangana State was introduced in Parliament.
Hyderabad, January 29: The Chairman, State Level Police Recruitment Board, Hyderabad, in a pressnote has stated that the written examination for the recruitment to the posts of Additional Public Prosecutors Grade II and Assistant Public Prosecutors in Andhra Pradesh State Prosecution Service mentioned in the notification dated 12-11-2010 will be held on February 20.
The chairman asked the eligible candidates to contact the DIG/IG of the respective ranges on February 14 and 15 in case of not receiving Hall Tickets i.e., Identity Card (Candidate copy) on or before February 11.
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Hyderabad, January 29: The number of students awarded the Fair & Lovely Foundation Scholarship in 2010 has gone up to 212 from 183 last year. Among these girls, 31 belong to Andhra Pradesh. These 31 girls got scholarships competing with three lakh applications Fair & Lovely received from all over India. Out of thousands of applications received across the country for Fair and Lovely scholarship, Andhra Pradesh contributed to more than 30 per cent applications with the balance 70 per cent coming from over 23 States from India.
Mohali (Punjab), January 29: The security supervisor of a law college here has been booked for molesting a first year student, police said Saturday.
Amandeep Singh, in his late 30s, is the security supervisor of Army Institute of Law. The victim, a resident of Gurgaon, was staying at the college’s hostel.
“The girl says she had gone to a beauty parlour on Jan 23. She came back at 8 p.m., missing the 7.30 p.m. deadline to enter the hostel,” police officer Harbans Lal told IANS.
Thiruvananthapuram, January 28: Normal functioning at the five medical college hospitals in Kerala continued to be hit for the fourth day on Friday as post-graduate students have struck work, demanding a stipend hike and fee reduction.
The strike called by Kerala Medical Post Graduates’ Association turned more serious after the house surgeons also joined it on Thursday.
In all, more than 2,000 professionals are on strike.
Mumbai, January 28: The Taj Hotel is honored to be part of a Harvard Business School case study following the inclusion of the heroic response of its employees during the 26/11 terror attacks here, a hotel spokesperson said in a statement.
“We are honored to be a part of the Harvard Business School case study in which the spirit, loyalty and resilience of our employees during the crisis has been recognized as an exemplary display of leadership,” the spokesperson said.
New Delhi, January 28: In a new venture, the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) on Friday announced it was collaborating with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for a science discipline course.
The programme, masters in bioinformatics and biotechnology, will be a regular course the IBAB campus in Bangalore and students with bachelor’s degree in any branch of science or technology will be eligible to pursue it, according to an IBAB official.
New Delhi, January 28: The National Cadet Corps (NCC), India’s tri-services movement to groom school and college students into disciplined citizens, will grow in strength by two lakh and touch the 15-lakh mark soon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Friday.
“I am very happy to inform you that in recognition of the good work done by the National Cadet Corps, the government has sanctioned an enhancement in its authorized cadet strength from 13 lakh to 15 lakh,” Singh said addressing the cadets at the Prime Minister’s NCC Rally.
New Delhi, January 28: President Pratibha Patil Tuesday strongly condemned incidents of ragging in educational institutions, saying it is violence and should not be tolerated.
‘Cases of ragging in educational institutions are also disturbing. Ragging is violence,’ Patil said in her address to the nation on the eve of the 62nd Republic Day.
New Delhi, January 28: President Pratibha Patil Tuesday said that there should be a level playing field so that students from all sections of society can attend premier institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology.
‘Our endeavour should be to create a level playing field in educational competitiveness so that students from all sections of society can enter premier institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs),’ Patil said in her address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day.
Ranchi, January 28: Maoists’ move to disrupt Republic Day celebrations early Wednesday with a bomb blast could not deter Jharkhand’s school children from hoisting the national flag and celebrate the auspicious occasion.
Maoists blasted a school building and hoisted black flags in Palamau district, police sources said.
The guerrillas used detonators to attack the building in Rajharaa Khutti village. Black flags were put up on two school buildings.
New Delhi, January 28: The Vedanta University project in the holy city of Puri in Orissa will continue to remain stalled as the Supreme Court Friday ordered status quo in respect of land acquired or sought to be acquired for the varsity.
An apex court bench of Justice D.K. Jain and Justice H.L. Dattu ordered status quo on the ‘nature, character and possession’ of the land acquired or sought to be acquired.
Hyderabad, January 28: Keeping pace with plans to increase the group’s footprint further in South India, Manipal K-12 announced plans to further expand its network of schools across the State.
Washington, January 28: Susan Xiao-Ping Su, founder of the “sham” Tri-Valley University in California which has mostly students from Andhra Pradesh on its rolls, has been charged with running an elaborate immigration fraud, netting millions of dollars from foreign nationals hoping to migrate to the US.
The fate of the university’s 1,555 students, 95 per cent of whom are from India and mostly Andhra Pradesh, remains unclear amid reports that some of them being questioned after raids by the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) last week.
Hyderabad, January 28:Synopsys, the US-headquartered world leader in software designing, and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in Hyderabad Friday signed an agreement to establish microelectronics programme at the JNTU.
The programme is aimed at training local talent and providing highly skilled specialists that can address the complex design requirements of semiconductor industry companies, an official said.
Hyderabad, January 28: The JKC Monitoring Cell in the office of the Commissionerate of Collegiate Education is organizing a “Job Fair and Campus Drives” for students trained by JKCs all over the State.
Jawahar Knowledge Centers set up in degree colleges by the State government have been imparting training in industry-related skills, communication skills, soft skills, analytical skills, Computer skills and Accounting Executive Course (Tally Package).
Hyderabad, January 27: The EAMCET-2011 notification will be released on February 5 and the final decision will be taken on Saturday after the EAMCET Committee meeting. The exam, however, will be held on May 8 this year.
Officials said the notification will carry a clause about the mandatory 50 per cent marks to be obtained in Intermediate exams as per AICTE new norms. “We are incorporating the clause as the government wants to get a letter officially from the AICTE before implementing the norm.
Hyderabad, January 26: The A.P.O.S.S is offering Intermediate one sitting facility for SSC/Tenth class pass candidates in correspondence mode.
Hyderabad, January 25: Andhra Bank has invited online application for the recruitment of Clerks and Probationary Officers.
Andhra Bank, a leading Public Sector Bank, will recruit 1000 clerks and 450 POs through the recruitment 2011.
Te interested and eligible candidates can apply on-line through Bank’s website www.andhrabank.in.
The opening date of on-line registration is January 25, 2011 and last date is February 22, 2011.
Date for the Written Test for Probationary Officers is May 8, 2011 and for Clerks is May 15, 2011.
Hyderabad, Janaury 24: Are you trying to get your children admitted in a corporate or international school? If yes, think twice before you pay exorbitant fees. A few government high schools in the twin cities which obtain good ranks, would soon be designed on par with international standards, offering education at a nominal fee.
Hyderabad, January 24: Hyderabad Institute of Management Skills is conducting a seminar on “Soft Skills & Leadership Skills”, at it’s premises in Ameerpet here, from 6.30 pm on January 25. Entry is free.
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Bhubaneswar, January 23: Nearly 60 Afghan students who fled a Cuttack university after a clash with locals have pledged to return to Orissa only if they can stay here. The authorities have accepted the condition.
The students of Ravenshaw University at Cuttack, 26 km from here, quit Orissa after a clash with local students Jan 13 in the campus. Three local students and an Afghan were hurt in the incident.
Police have arrested the university’s student union president for the violence.
Hyderabad, January 23: Here is a boon for EAMCET aspirants, who were dreaming of securing a top rank and get into either engineering or medicine course. Manabadi.com, an educational portal, in a first of its kind move, launched an EAMCET preparation CD here on Sunday. This would surely enable the students to practise and assess themselves ahead of the entrance test as of now it was just two months away.
Hyderabad, January 23: The Center for English Language Training (CELT), University College of Engineering, Osmania University is offering a course in ‘English communication skills and personality development’ from January 24.
The last date for registration is January 24. For more details, contact 64575575.
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