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A marvelous breakthrough in the field of social responsibility by B-School students
Universal Business School (UBS), Karjat has announced its euphoric association with Light of Life Trust (LOLT) for social project with a prima facie objective of sustainable development.The association is an outcome of the generous efforts of Vice Chairman of UBS, Tarun Anand, who is leaving no stone unturned for the all-round development of the future leaders.Universal Business School has complied to the Mantra of 3Es, which is Ethics, Environment and Experiential learning; that has paved way for working towards the environment and the external stakeholders by way of experiential learning.LOLT, one of the reputed NGOs, works towards the holistic development of rural community not just within the gamut of Karjat; but has its wings spread across Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and other states.They work in the areas of education, health, environment, and livelihood. UBS has joined hands with LOLT for transforming lives of the rural community across these areas wherein; 100 post-graduate ...
Skill Yatra : IMS Proschool Rides Over the Skill Gap by Visiting Colleges Across Cities
/ -- As a part of the initiative to raise skill awareness, IMS Proschool, one of the leading skill development and knowledge providers, is initiating '#skillyatra'to shrink the skill gap in India from Jan 14, 2019. As a part of this mission, they are riding over the bicycle to reach out to youth in colleges and 'mentor, motivate and guide' them about the awareness of right skills. This mission is also bringing together leading experts from various industries to interact with the students and help them to solve their career-related queries. (Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/811524/IMS_Proschool_Skill_Yatra.jpg ) During the course of its first leg to bridge the skill gap in India, IMS Proschool will reach out to 2,000 young students and 10 colleges and will cover a stretch of 500 km spanning across Mumbai, Thane and Pune. The first day of the initiative was flagged off by Dr. Vijay Joshi, Joint Director - Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) and was attended by leading ...
Guj asks school officials to ban students from playing PUBG
The Gujarat government Tuesday issued a circular asking district authorities to ensure a ban on online multi-player game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, popularly called PUBG. The state primary education department's circular was issued after a recommendation by the Gujarat State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said officials. The circular directed District Primary Education Officers to take necessary steps to enforce a ban on the game in primary schools. It said the ban was necessary as children were getting addicted to the game and it was "adversely affecting their studies". The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recommended a ban on the game across the country, said Jagruti Pandya, chairperson of the Gujarat child rights body. "The NCPCR had sent a letter to all the states and recommended a ban on the game. All the states are required to implement it. Looking at the negative effects of the game, we had recently sent a letter to .
School teacher arrested for sexually abusing students
An assistant teacher of a school in Malkangiri district was arrested by police Tuesday on the charge of molestation and sexual abuse of minor girls, officials said. The district administration also suspended head master of Ashram School at Gangala, Pravat Lakra while assistant teacher Ajay Kumar Das has been arrested, they said. The action followed after a Class-VII girl student of the school lodged a written complaint with the district Collector against Headmaster Prabhat Lakra and Assistant Teacher Ajay Kumar Das a few days ago. As per the complaint, the two teachers used to misbehave with girls staying in the school hostel in inebriated condition. A girl has meanwhile left the hostel and quit her study after allegedly being harassed with the misbehaviour by the two teachers. After getting information, Malkangiri collector Manish Agarwal asked the district child welfare committee to probe the incident. Finding the two guilty, the Collector suspended them and lodged a .
Presidency students hold sit-in, prevent faculty to leave
A section of students of the Presidency University on Tuesday evening launched a sit-in in the main varsity building preventing the six-member inquiry committee, formed to probe the incident of locking the main gate of varsity campus on September 10, to leave. The inquiry committee members were not prevented from moving within the campus by the agitating students who wanted to know on what basis the committee had earlier recommended the suspension of three students for locking the campus, one of the agitating students Ujan told PTI. "We will continue the sit-in outside the chamber of EC members indefinitely unless there is satisfactory reply on the part of the inquiry panel on what basis they had identified the three students as trouble makers on September 10 and recommended their suspension ... We will not prevent them from leaving the campus which they can only do by physically removing us," he said. The sit-in began even as the indefinite fast by six students of ...
70 students rescued from snow-bound Himachal road
Eight-seven people, 70 of them students, were Tuesday rescued after their two buses got stuck in heavy snowfall, police said. The students and the staff from an institute in Lucknow were on a trip to Himachal Pradesh when they were caught in bad weather between tourist town Kufri and Chharabra in Shimla district. All of them are safe, Shimla's deputy superintendent of police Pramod Shukla said. The DSP said the police acted on learning that the two buses were stuck in the snow. Police teams from Kufri and Dhalli then brought the 70 students and 17 staff members to safety. Some of them were taken to a hotel in Shimla and the others put up at the Institute of Hotel Management (IHM) and with a Territorial Army unit in Kufri. Several less-used roads in the state were closed Tuesday due to heavy snowfall, according to Himachal Pradesh Disaster Management Special Secretary D C Rana. Most of the main roads are open for traffic but the roads located in upper Shimla and upper Manali have been .
Six 12th standard students suspended for ridiculing teacher
Six 12th standard students of a government aided higher secondary school at Tirupattur were Tuesday suspended for ridiculing their teacher and not allowing him to sit in his chair besides circulating a video of the incident in the social media, officials said. An inquiry by the district education officer Siva and other officials found that such an incident had occurred in the school, they said. They also summoned the parents of the students and told them about their indiscipline, officials said. It was found during the inquiry that the students had allegedly stabbed the school head master ome time ago and had used abusive words against several teachers. They ordered the students' suspension, the officials said. The students, however, would be allowed to write their Plus two public examination, they added.
Nagaland Minister conferred Aadarsh Yuva Vindhayak Puraskar
Nagaland Minister for Public Works Department, Tongpang Ozukum has been conferred with the Aadarsh Yuva Vidhayak Puraskar (Ideal Youth Legislator Award). The award instituted by the Indian Student Parliament was handed over during the 9th Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad convention held January 20 at MIT- World Peace University Campus, Pune, an official release said Tuesday. The convention is an annual event where thousands of students from different universities and Youth Leaders from across the country and abroad come to participate. Vice Chancellor of Bangalore University, Prof Dr K.R. Venugopal and President of Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, Tushar Gandhi, who is also the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi handed over the trophy, a shawl and citation to Ozukum, the release added.
Tripura to train over 40,000 teachers to switch to NCERT syllabus
The BJP-led Tripura Government will impart training to some 40,660 school teachers to enable them to switch to the NCERT curriculum from the next academic session beginning April, a minister said here on Tuesday.
IISWBM alumni demands alma mater get university status soon
The alumni association of the Indian Institute Of Social Welfare And Business Management (IISWBM), Tuesday demanded their alma mater, the country's oldest B-school, be granted university or deemed university status soon. IISWBM senior faculty and key alumni member Jhumoor Biswas said, "Getting the deemed university status will help the IISWBM get adequate central funds to carry on research in different fields where our researchers had been undertaking important works in past several decades." "As the alumni, we are concerned that the IISWBM has still not been granted university or deemed university status which will allow our brightest students and alumni to research on globally important disciplines. This is crucial for the present and future generations," one of the alumni association members and top executive of a corporate group, Koushik Paul told a press conference here. The institute has done major works in Transportation and Logistics Management, Supply Chain ...
Life Skills Non-Profit Dream a Dream announces grant from Omidyar Network India
Dream a Dream, a non-profit organization based in Bangalore that empowers young people from vulnerable backgrounds with critical life skills to thrive in the 21st century, today announced a grant from Omidyar Network India, the investment firm focused on social impact.Dream a Dream develops critical life skills in young people growing up in challenging circumstances in India and helps them prepare for a fast-changing, uncertain and complex future."This collaboration between Dream a Dream and Omidyar Network India aspires to put the spotlight on the critical need to reimagine the purpose of education in the 21st century and to bring to the forefront the impact of adversity on first generation learners from vulnerable backgrounds. We believe that this will push the dialogue on the core purpose of education to help children from vulnerable backgrounds overcome adversity and to thrive in the 21st century using a creative life skills approach," Dream a Dream Chief Executive Suchetha Bhat ..
Student Police Cadet programme rolled out in TN
Tamil Nadu Wednesday rolled out the Student Police Cadet programme, which aims to build a bridge between the police and school students by inculcating values and ethics in them through classes. The Ministry of Home Affairs-sponsored programme focuses on students of classes VIII and IX. Over 6,000 students in 138 government and aided schools in the city would take part in first phase of the programme, which will be gradually expanded to other regions and schools. Inaugurating the initiative, Chennai Police Commissioner A K Viswanathan said special care has been taken to ensure students are not burdened. "...Upon regular implementation, it would look like every house has a police officer," he said. The programme aims to train students in community policing, road safety, safety of women and children, disaster management, and fighting social evils and corruption. The cadets would also be taught values and ethics, respect for elders, empathy and sympathy, tolerance, patience,
DMK MP urges TN government to admit 108 medical students in government colleges
DMK MP R.S.Bharathi on Tuesday sent a representation to Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan and other officials to admit 108 students in government medical colleges as per a Madras High Court order.
Trump says students 'unfairly treated' over Native incident
Boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky were treated unfairly in a rush to judgment, President Donald Trump has said after allegations the students had mocked a Native American elder. "Looking like Nick Sandman & Covington Catholic students were treated unfairly with early judgements proving out to be false - smeared by media," Trump tweeted on Monday. As in many cases, Trump's tweet appeared to be triggered by Fox News, as he cited the network's Tucker Carlson saying new footage showed "media" were wrong about the encounter. Footage captured on multiple phone camera videos that swept social media on Saturday showed a white Covington student standing silently with his lips taught, extremely close to Nathan Phillips, a Native American Vietnam war veteran, who beats a traditional drum while chanting. The student wears a red cap bearing Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again." Other students are jumping up and down, chanting. The incident occurred on the steps of the Lincoln ...
Shut madrasas to check ISIS influence on Muslim children: UP Shia board chief writes to PM
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UP Shia Central Waqf Board Chairman Waseem Rizvi has demanded shutting down of primary-level madarsas across the country in order to check terror group ISIS' influence on Muslim children. Rizvi, who has supported the demand for Ram temple in Ayodhya and uniform civil code, said Muslim children, if they want, can take admission in madarsas after completing high school. "It can be seen that children are soft targets for running any mission and at this point of time ISIS is a dangerous terror organisation which is gradually getting hold over the Muslim population across the world. "...if madarasas are not shut down, about half of the country's population will become supporters of the ISIS ideology in 15 years' time," Rizvi said in the letter. Stressing that the support to the ISIS is clearly visible in Kashmir, where through the monetary support to the children attending madarsas, they are being alienated from people of other religion in the ..
Row erupts over 'anti-Hindu' paintings at expo, college apologises
A major controversy erupted Monday over some paintings at an expo in the premier Loyola College here which allegedly showed Hindu symbols, the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in bad light. Issuing an apology, the college said that offensive paintings, put up as part of a cultural event, were immediately removed. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other right-wing outfits had strongly objected to the paintings which had portrayed the trishul, a symbol of Hinduism and 'Bharat Mata', in an inappropriate manner. While one of the exhibit featured the trishul in a painting related to violence against women, another alleged that Modi was a hegemonic and to further draw home the point likened him to a Hindu deity. Following complaints by the BJP and Hindu outfits to the police against the paintings that also had a strong political undercurrent against the saffron party, the college said it respected all religions. "Why there is no condemnatory statement from any of the leaders here... .
Rosatom announces scholarships for Indian students in nuclear energy studies
Rosatom, the Russian agency for atomic energy, has announced scholarships for Indian students in the arena of nuclear energy, according to a statement on Monday. Rosatom is the main equipment supplier for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu. Several study options are available at Russian universities specialising in nuclear engineering such as the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Moscow and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia. The scholarships would include fully-funded tuition fees and partly-funded living expenses. The deadline for the first round of applications closes on February 15. The registration is open on Russia Study website https://russia.study/en, the statement said. "The goal of the scholarship is to support interest in nuclear research and capabilities among young Indian scientists and engineers, and contribute to solving some of the world's most critical issues in the nearest future, allowing for the continent to be ...
Karnataka's seer, a messiah for poor, needy (Obituary)
Shivakumara Swami, the 111-year-old seer of the Siddaganga Mutt at Tumakuru near Bengaluru, was a popular and religious leader of the Lingayat community in Karnataka who served the poor and the needy for over eight decades.
Too much emphasis on tech-based learning can result in negative outcomes: OECD official
Use of technology over traditional methods of teaching in classrooms for school children may not always result in superior outcomes and sometimes the return is "negative", a senior official from the Organisation for EconomicA Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Monday.
Class 5 to be brought under primary by January 2020 : minister
The West Bengal government will bring class 5 to the primary level from January 2020, Education minister Partha Chatterjee said Monday. Following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement to this effect last week, a meeting of education department officials and the minister decided to set up the required infrastructure in schools where fifth standard classes will start from January 2020, Chatterjee told reporters here. "Rooms for class 5 are already there in integrated schools (those having both primary and secondary sections). In one year, we will have lots of time for creation of rooms in other institutions which don't have similar facilities," the minister said. He said after the infrastructure is ready, class 5 will be brought at the primary level, by January 2020. On January 14, the chief minister had announced that her government was mulling over a two-pronged strategy to meet the crisis of teachers in state run schools. The steps would be bringing class 5 to .