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Bengaluru students showcase sustainable solutions at Green Hackathon
WeRise, a social enterprise initiated by Adhya Menda, a student of Mallya Aditi International School in association with The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) introduced Green Hackathon 2018, a platform for schools students of Bengaluru that addresses the civic issues of the city and provide innovative tech solutions to promote sustainable living in the most scalable, impactful and cost effective way.With the overarching theme of innovative technological solutions to promote sustainable living, the event kick-started with over 500 students, from about 100 entries in Bengaluru to present innovative ideas on sustainability and natural resource management at RMZ Ecoworld, Bellandur.Criteria for evaluation pivoted around five key environmental concerns - environmental impact, idea innovation, technical maturity, scalability and business value. The students designed and developed working model solutions which could benefit society at large. Some of these solutions were put together with the
Respect Indian cultural heritage: Govind Namdev
Ahead of the release of his feature film titled "Decent Boy", which is based on Indian education system, veteran actor Govind Namdev has urged students to respect Indian cultural heritage rather than miming western countries.
Chargesheet filed against 10 persons in CBSE class 12 paper leak case: Delhi police
In order to favour a girl student, an Una-based teacher had allegedly leaked CBSE Class 12 economics paper in March this year, according to the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police in the case, a senior police official said Friday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) G Ram Gopal Naik confirmed the chargesheet has been filed against 10 persons on Thursday in a city court. The 482-page chargesheet has cited 78 witnesses including the girl student, for whom her teacher leaked the paper and some students who had received the papers through WhatsApp, said another officer. Recovered mobile phones, handwritten notes, question paper written by the girl student and other data retrieved from cell phones have been cited as evidence in the chargesheet. "The teacher, Rakesh Kumar, wanted to favour a girl student and with the connivance of bank officials, he got the Economics paper and brought it to his residence. He called the girl home and she copied the paper and then he clicked pictures of ..
Delegations of JNU teachers' association, students' union meet MPs
Delegations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association and students' union Friday met MPs from across political parties who promised to raise issues related to the varsity in Parliament, the JNUTA said. The delegation has felt encouraged by the promise made by the parliamentarians to raise the matter in Parliament and also outside, they said. The JNUTA also informed the MPs that 37 teachers have approached the Delhi High Court on the MCQ-based computerised online JNU entrance examination. The body said they have sought the attention and intervention of the MPs in protecting a public university that has acquired excellence in research and teaching nationally and internationally. "We provided the MPs a comprehensive document that exposes the vice chancellor's role in destroying the teaching and learning process in JNU. "The delegation pointed out to the MPs about the vice chancellor's violations of the JNU Act, statutes and ordinances by constant misuse of his power of ..
ICAI to introduce objective questions in CA Inter, final exam from 2019
Chartered Accountants body ICAI said that from May next year, the CA exam will have 30 per cent multiple choice questions for selected papers at intermediate and final levels to strengthen conceptual clarity among the students. Besides, a pilot project of centralised evaluation of one paper in final level is also being implemented. In the central evaluation, examiners will be evaluating the answer books in the presence of head examiner under their supervision, ICAI said in release. "To strengthen conceptual clarity and sharpen the analytical skills of students... ICAI has introduced objective assessment for selected papers at the intermediate and final levels...from May, 2019 examination" Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) said in a release. This reforms will make process of examination and evaluation more credible, it added. Apart from that, on technology front 'Virtual ICAI' portal for students is being created. Using the portal, students will be able to fill the ...
JNUSU chief alleges his MPhil evaluation blocked by VC
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president N Sai Balaji Friday alleged his MPhil evaluation was blocked by the varsity's vice chancellor for allegedly raising "anti-Modi" slogans. According to a statement by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU), its chief is at present facing two enquiries - one for raising "anti-Modi, anti-VC and anti-RSS" slogans outside an Academic Council meeting in the varsity. He is also facing enquiry for taking part in a march called by contractual workers in the varsity to celebrate the court's order for 'Equal Work, Equal Pay' and for opposing the JNU administration's online entrance scam, it said. Similarly, other activists and students have been facing harassment from the administration through false and politically-motivated cases, the students body alleged. "In JNU, the Modi government is trying to silence the voice of students by directly attacking the students representative, by blocking Balaji's MPhil evaluation," it ...
PM's rally: Dharamshala Educational institutions to remain closed Thursday
All educational institutions in Dharamshala block of Kangra district will remain closed next Thursday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally there to mark the first anniversary of the Jai Ram Thakur government in Himachal Pradesh. Kangra District Magistrate Sandeep Kumar said the decision to keep the schools and colleges closed on December 27 has been taken to avoid inconveniences to the students on the day due to possible traffic snarls due to security arrangement for the prime minister's rally.
16 killed in Nepal bus mishap
As many as 16 people, including students and teachers of an institute, were killed and 11 others were injured when the bus carrying them fell into a ravine along Rapti highway near Dang in Nepal on Friday.The ill-fated bus, carrying teachers and students of Ghorai's Krishnasen Ichhyuk Polyclinic Institute, fell 700-meter off a mountain road while travelling towards Dang from Salyan on December 21. A total of 34 students and two teachers were travelling on the ill-fated bus."The bus was heading towards Tulsipur from Kapurkot of Salyan," Prem Bahadur Shahi, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Tulsipur, told ANI over the phone. Those injured have been rushed to Rapti Zonal Hospital in Tulsipur.The identity of the victims is yet to be established. A team of 19 police personnel is carrying out the rescue operations. More details are still awaited.
HP HC seeks affidavit on mechanism to check absenteeism of school teachers
The Himachal Pradesh high court has asked the state's Elementary and Higher Education Department to apprise it of the government's mechanism to check absenteeism among school teachers. A division bench of justices Dharam Chand Chaudhary and Chander Bhusan Barowalia Thursday ordered the department's director to file an affidavit detailing the mechanism to check the malady in the state's school. The bench passed the order while dismissing an appeal by a teacher whose absence from the school had been treated by authorities as dies non. Dies non means a day which is not treated as a day on duty. While it does not constitute a break in the service, the period does qualify as service for pension benefits or increments. In its order, the bench asked the director if any mechanism has been enforced by the department to ensure that the teachers attend their schools every day and do not proceed on leave without getting it sanctioned. The bench also asked as to what was the provision for ...
16 students killed in bus accident in western Nepal
At least 16 students on an educational tour were killed and 12 others injured on Friday when a bus plunged into a ravine in western Nepal's Dang district. Around 31 students and teachers of the Krishnasen Icchuk Technical School in Ghorahi were returning from a tour of a botanical garden in Salyan when the bus fell around 400 meters down into the ravine killing 16 people, police said. Authorities and first responders rescued twelve injured persons and took them to Rapti Zonal Hospital for treatment.
JNU issues show cause notices to 27 teachers for participating in hunger strike last month
The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration has issued show cause notices to its 27 teachers for participating in a hunger strike last month against the varsity's directives on rescheduling the academic calendar and compliance of faculty attendance, sources said Friday. JNUTA president Atul Sood and secretary Avinash Kumar are among those who have received the show cause notices on December 19, they said. The teachers have been given one week's time to explain their position, "failing which it will be presumed that they have nothing to say in their defence and disciplinary action under the admissible rules will be initiated against them", they added. In the show cause notices, the varsity said the JNUTA were given an opportunity to "send two representatives or office-bearers to discuss the issues with the rectors, registrar and concerned officers of the university". Through a circular issued on November 25, request was made not to hold protests or hunger strike at the JNU's ...
Delhi Police to soon charge Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid in sedition case: Sources
The Delhi Police is in the process of finalising its charge sheet in the sedition case against former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar and other activists, including Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, police sources said. Kumar, Khalid and Bhattacharya were arrested in 2016 on charges of sedition for allegedly organising an event in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus against the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru. The arrests had triggered a huge controversy with the opposition slamming the police for "working at the behest of ruling BJP". "The charge sheet is in the process of being finalised and is likely to be filed soon. The names of eight Kashmiri students also figures in the draft charge sheet," said a police officer, requesting anonymity. The controversial programme sparked an outrage after allegations were made that anti-national slogans were raised. The arrest of Kumar catapulted him to national fame and resulted in protests across the ...
It is time for renaissance for Muslim community in India, says former AMU V-C
It is time for renaissance for the country's Muslim community to develop itself and the nation, said Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, who was also Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim Unuversity, on Wednesday at a discussion on empowering young Muslims.
DU admissions: Javadekar rules out replacing cut offs with entrance test
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday ruled out replacing cut-offs with an entrance examination for admission to Delhi University undergraduate courses. The DU admission committee was working out on details of the entrance based system and the issue was to be discussed in the next meeting of the panel which has education experts, college principals and faculty as members. The issue was deliberated upon last year as well by the panel but a consensus could not be reached. "For 2019-20 there will be no entrance test in DU and admissions will be conducted on basis of class 12 marks," Javadekar told reporters. DU currently conducts computer based entrance test for nine undergraduate and postgraduate programmes while admissions to a majority of undergraduate courses are determined through the aspirant's scores in class 12 exams. DU's first attempt at switching to an entrance-based admission system in 2017 had hit a roadblock after objection from different student groups. The HRD ...
IIT-M research scholars stage protest demanding hike in
IIT-Madras research scholars Friday staged a demonstration inside the campus here demanding a hike in fellowship amount, its timely and regular disbursal from various funding agencies. They demanded stipend of Rs 45,000 per month for Junior Research Fellows (JRF) from the present Rs 25,000 and Rs 55,000 per month from Rs 28,000 for Senior Research Fellows (SRF). The protest was as part of a nation-wide agitation announced by research scholars of IITs, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Indian Institute of Science and other central government-run universities. Scores of research scholars raised slogans and also took out a protest march to the administration block demanding a hike in stipend for research scholars belonging to Non-National Eligibility Test (NET) category who are receiving a "mere" Rs 8,000 per month. A research scholar, on condition of anonymity, said, "There was a hike in 2014 pegging the stipend to Rs 25,000 (JRF) and Rs 28,000 ..
PM Khan inaugurates national university at PM House
Keeping his poll campaign promise to utilise official buildings for public use, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday inaugurated a national university at the palatial PM House here. The Islamabad National University is housed in the premises of the PM House and other institutes and departments of the university will be added over time in the extensive grounds of the property, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood said during the inauguration ceremony. After coming to power, the prime minister said he will not stay in the PM House and moved into his military secretary's three-bedroom house. He said that governors will also not stay in Governor House as part of his cash-strapped government's efforts to cut down on costs. Addressing the ceremony, Khan said the purpose of establishing a university in the PM House is to signal the need for education and human development if Pakistan is to develop and progress as a nation, the Express Tribune reported. He added that the his government .
Chitkara University Incubated Farm Engineering Start-up Wins Ingenuity 2018 Challenge at University of Nottingham in China
/ -- Chitkara University congratulates its incubated Farm Engineering Start-up 'MOKSH' for winning gold at Ingenuity-2018 Innovation Challenge at University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. Chitkara University in association with Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) has led 4 start-ups from India to the Global Innovation Ingenuity 2018 Challenge. Ingenuity-18 is University of Nottingham's annual, tri-campus entrepreneurship competition. Ingenuity 2018 is a journey of exploration, a re-engagement around the problems facing contemporary society, and a chance to discover innovative solutions to how they are addressed. They are looking to discover and develop the next generation of innovators in the UK, Malaysia, India and China, to equip them to go out into the world and lead change. A total of 17 teams from three nations, UK, China and India, presented their business ideas, and a total of 10 top teams including 'MOKSH', got an Exclusive International Pass for having .
Young student-artists claim KNMA's galleries, show diverse works
In a bid to place art and aesthetics as inseparable to life, painted and crafted artworks of student-artists aged 9-12, came out of the classroom to adorn the galleries of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) here.
EuroSchool Whitefield Awarded Rank 1 in India Under Top CBSE Schools in Co-curricular Education
/ -- In a major achievement, Bangalore-based EuroSchool Whitefield has been awarded Rank No.1 in India under the Top CBSE Schools by Education Today in India's School Merit Awards, 2018. EuroSchool won this award in the category of Co-curricular Education. (Logo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/798038/EuroSchool_Logo.jpg ) The School Principal, Ms. Shruthi Yalamalli Arun, received the award at an award ceremony held recently at the Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. Top 200+ Schools and 50 Pre-School in 'International, Boarding, CBSE, ICSE, State, Boys & Girls' & Pre-School category were selected out of over 1615 survey forms. India School Merit Awards, 2018 are based on Jury Rating, Parent's Votes (78,510 votes) and EducationToday Co's Team Analysis. The schools were categorized under 10 Parameters i.e. Academic Reputation, Individual Attention, Infrastructure Provision, Innovative Teaching, Safety & Hygiene, Sports Education, Value for Money, Holistic Development, ...
Shimla: Rahul plays chess with specially-abled kids as nephew watches on
Congress President Rahul Gandhi engaged in a game of chess with specially-abled children at the Institute for Children with Special Abilities (ICSA) in Shimla, seated beside his nephew Raihan Vadra.Rahul, who visited the Institute on Thursday along with his sister Priyanka Vadra, was seen engrossed in the game as a number of children watched the Gandhi scion in action as she captured the moments on her mobile camera.Sharing details of the visit, ICSA principal Dharam Prakash Rana, in a telephonic interview with ANI, said: "Rahul Gandhi along with sister Priyanka and her two kids visited our campus at Dhali on Thursday evening around 5 PM and stayed here for about 30 minutes. He (Rahul) played chess with two students- Jatin and Amit. The duo also appreciated the cleanliness and arrangements made for special children both in the hostel and school."A total number of 146 students study in the school, including 110 with hearing and speech disability and 37 visually impaired students.The ...