SMCI Media Education Master Herbal360

July 2009

  • Students turn killers in union elections
    31st July 2009
    Staff Writer

    Student union politics in the country has long become criminalized. In recent times, we witnessed numerous incidents of clashes between student unions leaving fatalities. Not only this, we also witnessed how a professor was killed by members of a student union affiliated to a national political party and got away with murder.

  • The geek shall inherit India
    31st July 2009
    Staff Writer

    TCS Survey reveals next-gen digital natives to shape India’s future

    There is something that India can look up to and hope for greater glory and achievements – today’s tech savvy urban youth. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in a bid to find out what’s on the mind of India’s youth between the ages of 12-18 in cities and metros, took out a survey on 14,000 school children in 12 cities across India.

  • Oz taking action against education scammers: Gillard
    31st July 2009
    Staff Writer

    In a statement made in the wake of the attack on the ABC journalist who was working on a sting to expose education and migration scams in Australia for the Four Corners TV program, the country's deputy prime minister Julia Gillard has said that the country was taking tough actions against the scammers.

    In a press release, Ms Gillard said;

  • DTU postpones counseling over quota confusions
    31st July 2009
    Staff Writer

    The Delhi Technical University (DTU) (earlier known as Delhi College of Engineering (DCE)) has delayed the counseling of students under the reserved seat category for admission to its courses for the 2009-10 academic session. DTU took this decision as the Delhi government is yet to issue any directions on admission policy for seats under this category.

    The counseling for the seats under reserved category was to begin from July 13. Now it stands postponed sine die.

    PB Sharma, Director, DCE said;

  • UPTU needs ‘brand’ course: New VC
    31st July 2009
    Staff Writer

    Dr. Kripa Shanker, who took office as the new Vice Chancellor (VC) of Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU), said that the university needed a flagship course like some top universities. Assuming office yesterday he said UPTU would identify one course, improve it and make it the preeminent course of the university.

  • Aptech to launch 'English Express' for language training
    30th July 2009
    Staff Writer

    Aptech, one of India’s leading IT education and training companies is going to launch a new venture – English Express – keeping an eye on the growing needs of English language training in the country.

  • Teacher molests Adivasi girls in MP
    30th July 2009
    Staff Writer

    In a deviant act of sexual perversion, a teacher allegedly molested eight Adivasi girl students on the pretext of ‘taking measurements’ of their uniforms in rural Madhya Pradesh.
     

  • Oz college goes bust leaving students, staff helpless
    30th July 2009
    Staff Writer

    In another bit of incident that the multi-billion dollar but scam ridden Australian foreign education sector could do well without, news is emerging that a private college in Sydney has gone bust on Tuesday leaving about 500 international students and 35 staff without a clue on what is going to happen to them.

  • DTU students place 'The Bet' on Bollywood
    30th July 2009
    Staff Writer

    We have often come across news where students, even school students have made documentaries using portable equipments and at times slightly more advanced equipments. But this is much beyond that.

    A group of enterprising students from Delhi Technical University (DTU), erstwhile the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), has made a feature film based upon the famous Russian writer Anton Chekov’s short story ‘The Bet’ by the same name.

  • MHRD suspends AICTE chairman for graft
    30th July 2009
    Staff Writer

    The Human Resources & Development Ministry has suspended the chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Ram Avtar Yadav. Ram Avtar Yadav is currently under Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation for corruption.

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