Hyderabad, September 26: The non-teaching staff of English and Foreign Languages University, who have been on strike for a week demanding immediate implementation of the Compulsory Promotion Scheme, have threatened to intensify their agitation and launch relay hunger strike on Monday.
Holding the vice-chancellor responsible for the delay in the implementation of the scheme, the 145-odd employees burnt him in effigy at the university crossroads today.
Hyderabad, September 26: With a huge increase in the number of engineering colleges and seats, more than 43,034 seats fell vacant in both engineering and pharmacy colleges across the state after the allotment of seats for first phase of counselling was announced here tonight. Though the officials have announced that the second phase of web counselling will commence from October 5, sources said that at least 25,000 of the 1.8 lakh seats in the engineering stream under convener quota are likely to remain vacant in the end.
New Delhi, September 25: Extending a friendly hand towards the common people of India, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer Friday did voluntary service at a New Delhi Municipal Council school here.
The US ambassador, along with his wife Sally, his children and other participants from the America-India Foundation and Clinton Foundation contributed towards painting a classroom in the school located in a poor neighbourhood.
‘President Obama has asked me to serve as an ambassador to all of India, specially to the common people,’ Roemer said.
Hyderabad, September 24: Students taking up M.Tech. and M.Pharm. courses in private, unaided colleges will have to pay marginally more from this year.
Their tuition fee has been hiked from Rs 55,000 to Rs 57,000 per year for students taking the convener quota (A category).
For seats in the management quota (B category), the fee has been hiked from Rs 1.1 lakh to Rs 1.25 lakh.
Aizawl, September 24: President Pratibha Patil Friday said India intended to increase enrolment in higher education from the present 14 million to about 40 million.
‘Higher education has been accorded priority in our country. It is our aim to increase gross enrolment ratio in higher education to 30 percent by the year 2020, which means almost tripling the enrolment from the present 14 million to about 40 million,’ Patil said here at the the sixth convocation of the Mizoram University.
Rajasthan, September 23: Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has published the Sanskrit teachers result.
RPSC result of IIIrd Grade Sanskrit Teacher exam-2008 has been available on its official website http://www.rpsc.gov.in/.
The candidates, who appeared in the Sanskrit teachers exam (Post code-21&24) can visit the aforementioned website to view the result.
The result of IIIrd Grade Sanskrit Teacher exam-2008, held on Oct 2, 2009, April 30, 2010, is purely provisional.
Hyderabad, September 22: After BITS Pilani, it’s now the turn of Jamshedpur-based Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), one of the top five management institutes in India, to set up shop in Hyderabad. The upcoming campus will be the institute’s second campus in the country.
The state government has agreed to allot 75 acres at Jawahar Nagar on the outskirts of the city.
The proposed facility in Hyderabad is expected to augment its student intake, which currently is 240.
Hyderabad, September 21: The state government is planning to bring in a law to provide ‘education security’ to poor students belonging to recognised categories under the fee reimbursement scheme.
Officials have been asked to work out the modalities of the proposed Act to make reimbursement of fee mandatory for poor students.
New Delhi, September 22: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest in the world, will open study centres in six European nations, including Germany and France, to offer personalised courses, its Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has said.
‘We will open our centre in Paris next month. Negotiation is going on with Germany. I hope we will start in Germany by the end of this year. Our target is to open five-six centres in Europe by July 2011,’ Pillai told IANS.
Hyderabad, September 21: Students belonging to Telugunadu Student Federation (TNSF) today went on a begging spree protesting against the state government’s inordinate delay in reimbursing fee for BC students.
Students sought alms at New MLA quarters and the Secretariat.
Speaking on the occasion,Telugu Yuvatha and TNSF state presidents Beeda Ravi Chandra Yadav and N Narsi Reddy said that TNSF students went on ‘Bhikshatana’ across the state today.
They said that due to the lopsided policies of the government, the future of lakhs of students was hanging in balance.
New Delhi, September 21: As part of its initiative to integrate modern technology in distance education, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) said Tuesday it would provide a certificate programme in English through Nokia phone’s Ovi Life Tools.
‘We will initially start this programme in six districts of Maharashtra. After six months, depending on the response, we will launch it on a national level,’ IGNOU Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai told reporters.
New Delhi, September 21: Seven students from India will be offered an Australian scholarship to help them ‘shape future social and economic policy’ in India.
Peter Varghese, Australia’s high commissioner to India, Tuesday announced the Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarships.
‘I congratulate the seven outstanding people who have been identified for their potential to provide important policy leadership on their return home. These are individuals with the capability to shape future social and economic policy and
Kolkata, September 21: Global testing and assessment service provider Prometric, which was responsible for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 – the entrance examination for Indian Institutes of Management and other leading management institutions – Tuesday assured a hassle-free test this year.
CAT 2009 became a disaster after technical glitches and server crashes at several centres across the country.
Prometric said it will upgrade the physical and technical infrastructure of all test centres.
New Delhi, September 21: The online registration for CPT October 2010 examination has been started and will close on October 5, 2010.
The Candidates, seeking career in CA, can get registered at the Institute of Charted Accountants of India (ICAI) for the CPT exam 2010.
The Registration for is available at ICAI Exam’s official website: http://cptonline.icai.org/.
Students are advised to kindly visit the aforesaid website to get registered soon for the CPT October 2010 exam, scheduled for October 23-24, 2010.
New Delhi, September 21: Delhi’s high-profile Sanskriti School attended primarily by children of central government bureaucrats could soon have clones in state capitals across the country.
According to a Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) proposal, states will give the land free, and the Centre will provide financial assistance to set up the schools.
In return for the land, a percentage of seats will be kept for children of state government officers. The bulk of the seats will remain reserved for children of central government officers.
Hyderabad, September 20: A B.Tech graduate involved in a fake certificate racket was arrested by the SR Nagar police on Sunday. On a tip-off, police laid a trap and caught 22-year-old N Ramesh, a native of Guntur, near his hostel at Yousufguda.
Gulbarga, September 19: The desire to get a 2.5 lakh pound prize resulted in a loss of Rs17.5 lakh for an engineering graduate in Gulbarga City.
Gulbarga SP Padmanayan told Express here on Saturday that Sumay, daughter of Mustak Ahmed, who is an engineering graduate, received an SMS about a month back on her cell claiming that her mobile has won a prize of 2.5 lakh pounds and she was advised to contact the organisers of the lottery on e-mail.
When she contacted the organisers they advised her send some amount of processing charges to receive the prize money.
New Delhi, September 19: Those who prefer to use Hindi over other languages can rejoice. The government has requested Indian and international IT giants to prioritise developing software that will facilitate its use on computers as easily as English.
Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken made this request to the representatives of IT giants Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM) and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in a meeting convened Thursday, said a home ministry release Friday.
Varanasi, September 17: Four students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi have been arrested, one year after they assaulted and stripped a physically challenged youth and forced him to perform obscene acts that were even filmed by them, police said Friday.
The arrests came after the affected student, a native of Bihar, threatened to commit suicide if no action was taken against the four.
Hyderabad, September 15: The State government has permitted the Director of Government Examinations and Commissioner and Director of School Education to incorporate mother’s name in addition to the father’s name in the Register of Admissions and Withdrawals of school students.
Hyderabad, September 15 (Siasat News): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched the RBI Young Scholars Award Scheme to create awareness among young scholars about the Indian banking sector and RBI. Under the Scheme, the RBI will select 125 scholars through a countrywide competitive examination and award a scholarship.
Selection test will focus on the role of RBI in the banks situated in India. The candidates can write the exam in English as well as in all major regional languages.
New Delhi, September 14:Students at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will now have the freedom to choose the date and venue of their term-end examination with the introduction of ‘On-Demand-Examinations’.
The examination system covers more than 12 courses and will be conducted once a week on Friday at the selected regional centres in Delhi, Chennai, Jammu, Hyderabad among others. Results will be declared within 60 days.
The registration form is to be submitted online along with the payment of examination fee.
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Chennai, September 11: Good news for those aspiring to work in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector! Now any one seeking a job in a BPO can apply dialling a toll-free number to key in their resumes from their mobile phone.
The aspirants can also record their voice on the toll-free number — once this is done, the mobile number gets registered into the system.
Bangalore, September 07: Reserving 25 percent of seats for children of poor families in private schools would be mandatory and its violation would be punishable, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday.
“We will not budge an inch from this mandatory provision in the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, as we want to give opportunity to all poor children to study in private schools,” Sibal told reporters here.
New Delhi, September 03: Delhi University students today cast their votes to elect a new union in a poll which will decide the fate of 41 candidates.
Tight security arrangements have been put in place and Electronic Voting Machines were used for the polling.
“As many as 943 EVMs have been pressed into service.
There are 111 centres for the college elections and 130 for DUSU,” said Chief Electoral Officer Gurmeet Singh.