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December 2009

  • Rural doctors to get medical degree in 3.5 years
    31st December 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Getting a medical degree in 3-1/2 years is soon going to be a reality for thousands medical aspirants around the country. Keeping in view the needs to exclusively serve the rural populace, the Health Ministry and Medical Council of India (MCI) have jointly planned for a shorter medical degree.

  • Gujarat ties up with HCL to bring IT in tribal schools
    30th December 2009
    Lakshmi Anil

    It seems information technology is soon going to revolutionize the tribal hamlets in Gujarat. With fast-paced tribal development in mind, the Gujarat government has joined hands with the ICT major HCL Infosystems for ensuring increased IT penetration in the remote rural areas of the state.

  • APSCHE declares degrees of 3 Andhra institutes invalid
    30th December 2009
    Lakshmi Anil

    In the backdrop of the declaration made by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the invalidity of the distance education courses that were run by a few deemed universities, the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) has made it clear that the degrees awarded by these institutions too would not be considered valid.

  • AIIMS faculty set to receive salary on par with IITs, IIMs
    30th December 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Salary of the faculty of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and four other medical institutes of excellence will be at par with those offered in IITs and IIMs. A decision in this regard was taken by the Union Cabinet on Tuesday. From this parity of pay scales, as much as five reputed medical institutes’ staffs are supposed to get pay benefits. 

  • BARC lab fire claims lives of two research students
    30th December 2009
    Praveen Singh

    In a shocking incident, two research students have lost their lives due to serious fire case while working on a project. The incident took place inside the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) complex in Chembur in north-east Mumbai. Both the students were burnt alive in a fire that broke out in the building housing a chemical laboratory inside the BARC complex. 

  • Australia may lose $78m as flow of Indian students is likely to drop
    30th December 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Australia is set to suffer huge financial losses in the wake of recent attacks on Indian students. There will be 4,000 fewer Indians coming to Australia to study next year. The Tourism Forecasting Committee has predicted a fall of more than 20 per cent in terms of arrival of students compared to this year.   

  • IGNOU plans to add more community colleges
    30th December 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Community colleges are going to be more in numbers in the days to come. IGNOU has chalked out proper plans to add to the existing number of ‘community’ colleges in the country. The number of such colleges is set to increase more than three times to the present ones. From the existing 160 such colleges, 500 would be the precise number of community colleges across the country in next two years.

  • Police ban pro-Telangana students’ Hy’bad march
    30th December 2009
    Ishpreet Bindra

    Having extended its support to the students’ joint action committee at Osmania University, the all-party Telangana joint action committee has decided to hold a march in Hyderabad as part of its pro-Telangana campaign. However, the state police have firmly banned the march as it involves a complete shutdown in the region on 30 December.

  • IDC Top 10 Technology Schools in India
    30th December 2009
    Ishpreet Bindra

    According to a recent survey by IDC, which ran across 111 engineering colleges of the country, IIT Kharagpur has been ranked as the best tech school in India in the list. While IIT Delhi followed close behind at the second position, the yearly survey also saw seven National Institutes of Technology also figuring out in the best 30 technical education institutions.

    Here is the list of the ten best Tech-Schools of the nation: 

    1. IIT Kharagpur

  • Jamia is a modern, secular institution, asserts VC
    30th December 2009
    Praveen Singh

    Jamia Millia Islamia is striving hard to be known as a modern, secular institution of learning rather than the perceived 'superior madrassa' tag. Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung wants that the pre-conceived notion about this 90-year-old university gets diluted so that people see it in an entirely different and secular way.  

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