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Population Connection Announces Winners of "World of 7 Billion" International Student Video Contest
/ -- Eighteen winners earned top spots in the 8th annual "World of 7 Billion" video contest sponsored by Population Connection. Over 5,500 students in grades 6 through 12 from 43 countries and 47 U.S. states and territories participated in the competition. The videos explored population growth as it relates to one of three challenges: Preserving Biodiversity, Sustainable Resource Use, and Protecting Human Rights. The three high-school first-place winners each received a $1,000 cash prize, while the three second-place winners each received $500 and six honorable mentions each received $250. Middle-school students who claimed first and second place received $500 and $250, respectively. Winning students hail from the U.S., Singapore, Thailand, India and South Korea. In addition to educating viewers about their chosen topic and how it relates to human population growth, students had to include at least one idea for a sustainable solution. The winning pieces were on topics as varied as ...
Students kill classmate, injure 8 at school near Columbine in US
Two high school students shot and killed a classmate and injured eight others at a charter school in a Colorado community that marked the 20th anniversary of one of the nation's worst school shootings just weeks ago. Douglas County sheriff's officials said Devon Erickson, 18, and a younger student walked into the STEM School Highlands Ranch Tuesday afternoon and opened fire on students in two classrooms, prompting students to run shouting through the halls or to hide out of sight as gunfire echoed through school. "At the moment no one really knew what was going on so I didn't know they were bullets," said seventh-grader Sophia Marks. "I just kind of saw like flashes and we heard bangs." Within minutes, deputies at a nearby sheriff's department substation entered the school and arrested the two suspects after a struggle. Both were students at the school and they were not previously known to authorities, Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. Josh Dutton, 18, told The Associated Press that he was .
Father of 'legal education' Madhava Menon dead
Considered as the tallest figure in modern legal education N.R. Madhava Menon passed away early on Wednesday, here at a private hospital, said family sources. He was 84.
18-year-old killed in Denver school shooting, 2 suspects in custody
An 18-year-old was killed after two suspects opened fire at a high school in suburban Denver on Tuesday, authorities said.Douglas County Sheriff said Coroner Jill Romann hasn't officially identified the male student."It is with extreme sadness that we can confirm that 1 student at the STEM School was killed in today's #stemshooting incident. The immediate family has been notified. Douglas County Coroner Jill Romann has not officially identified the student is stating it's an 18 year old male," Douglas County Sheriff's Office wrote on Twitter.Meanwhile, the two suspects were arrested after the shooting at STEM School in Highlands Ranch, which has over 1,800 students. Both the accused are students -- one is an adult male and the other is a juvenile, CNN quoted Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock as saying.The shooting began just before 2 pm (local time) and the suspects "got deep inside the school" and opened fire at the students at two separate locations, Spurlock said.School ...
At least seven injured in shooting at Colorado school
At least seven students were injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at a school near Denver, capital of the US western state of Colorado, local police said.
8 injured in Denver school shooting, 2 suspects in custody
At least eight students sustained injuries after two suspects opened fire at a high school in suburban Denver on Tuesday, authorities said.Police arrested the two suspects after the shooting at STEM School in Highlands Ranch which has over 1,800 students. Both the accused are students -- one is an adult male and the other is a juvenile, CNN quoted Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock as saying.The shooting began just before 2 pm (local time) and the suspects "got deep inside the school" and opened fire at the students at two separate locations, Spurlock said.School authorities informed the police as soon as the incident unfolded. The students were immediately evacuated to a safer area."Over the next few minutes, quite a few shots were fired. As officers were arriving at the school they could still hear gunshots," Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth said.Spurlock informed that the first sheriff's deputies arrived within two minutes of receiving a distress call from the ...
7 or 8 students injured in Denver school shooting, 2 suspects in custody
Authorities said that seven or eight students were injured in a shooting at a school in suburban Denver on Tuesday.The Douglas County (DC) Sheriff's Office said that two suspected shooters are in custody and a SWAT team is searching the school's premises."7 possibly 8 students have been injured. Two shooters in custody. SWAT still clearing school. Students being bused to Northridge Rec Center. Parents please have patience with reunification process," read a tweet by DC Sheriff's Office.The shooting took place at STEM School in Highlands Ranch in Colorado state, which has over 1,800 students.The area around the school has been cordoned off as authorities responded to an active shooter situation just before 2 pm (local time).Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth confirmed that two suspects are in custody and there is "tentatively" a third suspect in the shooting, according to CNN.Further details are awaited.
NEET-PG cut offs reduced
The Health Ministry in consultation with the Board of Governors, Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to reduce the qualifying percentile in respect of NEET-PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for the year 2019-20 by 6 percentile, an official release said on Tuesday.
Jamia VC cautions staff against comments on students' complexion, race, clothing or religion
Jamia Millia Islamia's first woman Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar has urged varsity staff to ensure that they pass no comments on students' clothing, complexion, race or religion. Addressing the members of the teaching and the non-teaching fraternity Monday, Professor Akhtar underlined the need for updating the existing courses, overhauling outdated ones and opening new courses in sync with contemporary demands. "Growth and development of an institution has two dimensions consolidation and expansion. We must try to consolidate what we already have, update and tone up programmes that have been running and overhaul those that are outdated and lagging behind," she said. Akhtar said JMI is a gender-sensitive institution and right from its inception, it has embraced the idea of co-education and healthy mixing and growth of both genders. "Let us do nothing or make no such utterances that can be even remotely be interpreted as disrespectful or derogatory to women," she cautioned. Staff ...
Joint toppers in ISCE's Class 10, 12 board exams
Dewang Kumar Agarwal from Kolkata and Vibha Swaminathan of Bengaluru topped the Class 12 ISC examination with 100 per cent marks while Mumbai's Juhi Rupesh Kajaria and Manhar Bansal from Muktsar in Punjab were joint toppers in the Class 10 ICSE exam securing 99.60 per cent, as per the results declared on Tuesday.
Gujarat cop complaints to CBSE over internal assessment system
Unhappy over the internal assessment marks given to her daughter in Class X by a city school, an IPS officer from Gujarat Tuesday lodged a complaint with the Central Board of Secondary education (CBSE). In his complaint, the officer, Vipul Aggarwal, has claimed schools are misusing the "freedom" given for internal assessment of students and acting in an "arbitrary manner". The 2001-batch Gujarat cadre officer emailed his complaint to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal Tuesday, a day after the board declared its Class X results. Aggarwal is currently posted in Ahmedabad city as the Joint Commissioner of Police (Administration). In the email, Aggarwal said her daughter has secured 89.6 per cent in the Class X exam, obtaining 448 of the total 500 marks. For each subject carrying 100 marks, the CBSE conducts exams for 80 marks, while schools take test for the remaining 20, called internal assessment (IA) or practical. As per the marksheet, her daughter secured 91 per cent in the ..
AAP scholar Atishi goes beyond 'name' for better politics
A social activist and educator, Atishi, the Aam Aadmi Party candidate for the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat, took to politics because she felt it is the platform to bring lasting and significant changes in the lives of people.
Ker Guv seeks urgent report on attempted suicide of student
Kerala Governor P Sathasivam Tuesday sought an urgent report from the Kerala University Vice-Chancellor on the issue of the attempted suicide by a college student here last week. The Raj Bhavan, in a release said the governor sought a report from the vice chancellor after it received a petition on the alleged harassment of the first year BsC student of the Department of Physics, University College, Thiruvananthapuram. It said petitions on the alleged harassment of the student by the college union were received from the Communist Marxist Party and the Kerala Students Union. An 18-year-old girl was found with her hand slit in the parking area of University College here and purported 'suicide note' was flashed across the TV channels, in which she had allegedly written that she had taken the drastic step due to her stressful state of mind at that point of time. She also she was unable to study up to her expectations and the student political organisations of the college was .
Girls outshine boys in ICSE, ISC exam; 2 students of class 12 score 100 per cent marks
Girls outshone boys yet again in the ICSE and ISC examination, with the toppers setting a record of scoring 100 per cent marks in the class 12 examination. Kolkata's Dewang Kumar Agarwal and Bengaluru's Vibha Swaminathan bagged the top rank in the ISC (class 12) examination, results of which were announced by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Tuesday. The second rank has been shared by 16 students with 99.75 percent and the third rank has been shared by 36 students with 99.50 per cent marks. Mumbai's Juhi Rupesh Kajaria and Manhar Bansal of Punjab's Muktsar topped the ICSE (class 10) examination with 99.60 per cent. The second rank has been shared by 10 students with 99.40 per cent marks and the third rank has been shared by 24 students with 99.20 per cent marks. While girls achieved a pass percentage of 99.05 per cent in the class 10 examination as against 98.12 per cent by boys, the pass percentage achieved by girls in class 12 examination is 97.84 ...
HRD Ministry extends JEE-Advanced registration deadline for aspirants in cyclone-hit Odisha
The HRD Ministry Tuesday announced an extension of deadline for JEE-Advanced registration by five days for students from cyclone-hit Odisha. The decision was taken following a request from Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The HRD Ministry has also directed IIT Bhubaneswar to help the aspirants from Odisha for online registration as it has fully functional internet connection. "I am happy to announce that students from #Odisha appearing for #JEE (Advanced) 2019 will get an extension of 5 days till May 14 for their registration. A decision to this effect was taken following the request of #Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha," Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted. "@IITBhubaneswar will help the #JEE (Advanced) aspirants in #Odisha for online registration as it has fully functional internet connection. As declared earlier #JEE (Advanced) for all students across the country will be held on May 27, 2019," he added. Mobile networks in Odisha remained affected following ...
Gurgaon girls top ISC exam in Delhi-NCR, bag second rank nationally
Gurgaon girls Srinwanti Debgupta and Shruti Jhamb have topped the ISC class 12 examination in Delhi-NCR with 99.75 per cent marks. Delhi-NCR schools achieved a pass percentage of 99.23 and 98.35 in the ISCE and ISC examination with girls outshining boys in both the classes. The toppers are from Sri Ram School, Aravali, Gurgaon and have got the second rank nationally. The second rank in Delhi-NCR has been shared by the same school's Rhea Prasad, Manav Chadha and Devashri Bhargava with 99 per cent marks. The third rank has been bagged by Gurgaon's Scottish High International School's Kinshuk Soperna and Jibitesh Saha, along with Sri Ram School's Shreshha Sharma and Malhar Jasoria with 98.75 per cent marks. Meerut Cantt's Vedika Agarwal has topped the ISCE class 10 examination in Delhi-NCR with 494 out of 500 marks. Shamli's Agrim Jain has bagged the second rank with 493 marks. The third rank has been shared by four students, three of them from Meerut, with 492 marks. The students are ...
Mumbai's Juhi Rupesh, Muktsar's Manhar Bansal top ISCE class 10 exam with 498 marks
Mumbai's Juhi Rupesh Kajaria and Punjab's Manhar Bansal topped the ISCE Class 10 examination by scoring 498 out of 500. Results for the exam were announced by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Tuesday. "I am elated with the marks. I will be honest, I had done well but I did not imagine to score this well,"Kajaria, who had Gujarati as an elective subject, told PTI. However, Bansal was confident of his performance in the exam. "I had done the calculation of how much I will be scoring and it was nearly correct. So in a way, I was expecting this," said Bansal, a resident of Muktsar who had taken Punjabi as a subject. The second rank was shared by 10 students with 497 marks while the third rank was bagged by 24 students with 496 marks. The exam was cleared by 98.54 per cent of the total candidates. While the pass percentage of girls is 99.05 per cent, that of boys is 98.12 per cent.
ISC class 12 results: 2 students scored 100 per cent; girls outshine boys
Girls outperformed boys and two students scored 100 per cent in the Indian School Certificate (ISC) class 12 examinations, the results of which were declared by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Tuesday."This is the first time that the students of ISC have scored 100 per cent marks," announced Gerry Arathoon, CISCE chief executive and secretary.Kolkata's Dewang Kumar Agarwal and Bengaluru's Vibha Swaminathan topped the exam by scoring 100 per cent. While the second rank was shared by sixteen students with 99.97 per cent, thirty-six students shared the third rank with 99.50 per cent.The girls achieved a pass percentage of 97.84 against 95.40 per cent by the boys. The overall pass percentage took a leap of 0.31 per cent, stalling at 96.52 per cent.The Southern region posted the highest pass percentage of 98.91 per cent, followed by western, eastern and northern region at 98.13, 96.66 and 95.76 per cent respectively.In the special category, as many as .
ICSE result: Girls outshine boys, pass percentage up by 0.03 per cent
Girls outperformed boys in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) class 10th examinations, the results of which were declared by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Tuesday.While 99.05 percent of girls passed the exam, the per cent of boys who cleared the exam stood at 98.12. The overall pass percentage took a leap of 0.03 per cent, stalling at 98.54 per cent."Mumbai's Juhi Rupesh Kajaria and Muktsar's Manhar Bansal topped with 99.60 per cent. While the second rank was shared by ten students with 99.40 per cent, twenty-four students shared the third rank with 99.20 per cent," announced CISCE chief executive and secretary Gerry Arathoon.A total of 9996 candidates from Scheduled Caste (SC) category gave the exams, out of which 97.75 per cent cleared the exam.Out of 6396 Scheduled Tribe candidates, 97.44 per cent passed with flying colours.In the special category, as many as 1021 candidates appeared for the examination, out of which 123 ...
HC issues notice to UGC, TERI institute on plea over degree
The Delhi High Court has asked University Grants Commission (UGC) and TERI School of Advanced Studies to respond to a plea of a student who was denied the Master's degree.