Jamia Millia Islamia will be conducting the University Grants Commission – National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) Examination on Saturday, December 24, 2011.
There are a total of 30943 candidates who will appear in 65 subjects in the UGC-NET Examination to be Continue reading
Delhi University saw a major change this year as the semester system was introduced in all under-graduate courses. The system, implemented across 70 DU colleges that admitted more than 54,000 students to under-graduate courses this year. Continue reading
The Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi (located at Hauz Khas) (formerly College of Engineering and Technology Delhi), commonly known as IIT Delhi or IITD, is a college of engineering in Delhi, India. It forms a part of the league along with other IITs in India: the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Continue reading
Hans Raj College is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Delhi. This co- educational Institute offers education in all the three streams- arts, science and commerce, and is located on the Mahatma Hans Raj College Road, Kamla Nagar, in the Delhi University’s North campus, and has been ranked amongst the Top-10 Science, Arts and Commerce Colleges of India. Continue reading
A former student of Jamia Millia Islamia Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of a 2006 decision of the central university to ban elections to the students union.
Petitioner Ikrar Khan alleged that it was unreasonable on the part of the university to ban the election from March 2006. Continue reading
SRM University from Chennai has started its admission process for the academic year 2012-13, for various programmes offered at the university.
SRM University offers 197 programmes in the streams of engineering, technology, architecture, management, medicine, health sciences, Continue reading
Delhi Police today claimed to have smashed a gang of pickpockets with the arrest of four youths, including a Delhi University student, and recovery of 18 stolen mobile phones and Rs 50,000 cash. The arrested have been identified as Shehzada Kashif (26), Ravi Kumar (34), Shehzada Ashiq (32) and Varun Thakral (22). Thakral, who is doing graduation from Delhi University, allegedly received the stolen articles from the gang. “The gang operates generally in congested Metro Trains running between Raja Garden, Kashmere Gate and Rajouri Garden Metro Stations. With their arrest, 10 cases of pick pocketing have been worked out. 18 mobile phones and Rs 50,000 have been recovered from them,” DCP (Crime) Ashok Chand said. Kashif, Kumar and Ashiq were arrested from Kashmere Gate last Friday when they came there to sell stolen mobile phones. Thakral was arrested following their interrogation. “They used to target victims travelling alone. The three members of the gang surround the victim while the fourth picked the pocket. The fourth member of the gang Wasim is absconding,” Chand said. Thakral owns a mobile shop in Gaffar Market and he allegedly purchased stolen mobile phones from the gang and further sold them to his contacts in Agra and Ludhiana
Delhi University reached the finals of the All-India Inter University Men’s Tennis Tournament after a nine-and-a-half hour battle with Jain University here on Sunday.
The decision came only after all the five matches and all the three sets in the second reverse singles were played. Delhi play Gujarat in the final on Monday at the Manipal University Sports Complex, Marena. Gujarat beat Osmania University 3-0.
It was Siddharth Rawat who carried the day for Delhi. He emerged the hero of the 3-2 win. Jain University depended on Vinod Gowda for a place in the final. He gave them a good start in the morning with an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over Rubal Shandilya, but went down fighting Siddharth under floodlights in a nail-biting encounter. Siddharth put Delhi on par with Jain by beating Kiran Nandakumar. The pair of Vinod and Sagar beat Siddharth and Suraj 6-3, 6-2 to give Jain 2-1 lead once again. In the first reverse singles Rubal put Delhi level once again when he beat Sagar in three games at 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Then it was the Battle Royale between Siddharth and Vinod.
The never-say-die Delhi lad played with true grit and determination. While playing the second singles against Kiran he had dropped the first set 6-7 (7), but came back into the game strongly and won the next two games giving away only one point to Kiran in the two games.
In the final encounter too, Siddharth was down a set when he rallied strongly to win the next two. He raced off to a 3-0 lead in the second set and won it 6-1. The final set was brilliantly fought.
He managed to break Vinod in the eighth game to draw level 4-4 and that was the end as he won the next two games.
Gujarat Beat Osmania University 3-0; Pradeep Gowda bt Sameep Maheta 6-1, 4-6, 6-0; Vaidik Munshaw bt Pradeep Deswal 6-2, 6-0; Vaidik Munshaw bt Taran/Ajith 6-1, 6-1.
Delhi University beat Jain University 3-2: Vinod Gowda bt Rubal Shandilya 6-1, 6-2; Siddharth Rawat bt Kiran Nandakumar 6-7(7), 6-1, 6-0 and Sagar/Vinod bt Siddharth/Suraj 6-3, 6-2; Rubal Shandilya bt Sagar M 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; and Siddharth beat Vinod 0-6, 6-1, 6-4.
With Anna Hazare stealing much of the media limelight, social activists this year mounted a determined offensive over issues ranging from corruption and black money to tribal rights.
While social activism has for long been an important part of the world’s largest democracy, the trend got a boost from the anti-corruption movement of Hazare, who became the face of India’s war on corruption.
A former army driver, Hazare fasted in Delhi thrice this year, forcing the government to take steps to unveil an independent body with powers to investigate and prosecute corrupt officials.
The 74-year-old from Maharashtra caught the imagination of millions. Thousands took to the streets in support, waving the tricolour and the now famous ‘I am Anna’ caps and T-shirts.
Shadab Fayaz, a Delhi University student who has been participating in anti-graft protests in the capital, sees “a change India is witnessing for the founding of a better and more democratic India”.
“It has become easier for leaders like Hazare to seek support for any cause through social networking sites, internet forums and SMSes. We have seen a rise in the awareness among students,” he said. “They are becoming participatory rather than silent spectators.”
Hazare apart, there were other movements in small towns and cities that marked the dawn of a new revolution in India.
In July, social worker Nileema Mishra, who works in the field of micro-credit, was named one of the two winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the other being Harish Hande, founder of a solar power company that seeks to bring electricity to rural areas.
The 39-year-old Mishra got major recognition for her work among poor villagers that led to 1,800 women’s self-help groups in Jalgaon and other parts of Maharashtra.
On June 4, yoga guru Baba Ramdev, taking a leaf out of Hazare’s book, commenced an indefinite hunger strike in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to protest against corruption and black money.
Thousands of his followers trooped to the site. But in less than 24 hours, a police crackdown ended the demonstration before it gained greater momentum. Ramdev later went low profile but continues to speak against graft and the government.
In Himachal Pradesh, Rattan Manjari, 59, took on patriarchal laws that bar tribal women from inheriting property in the hill state.
She and her supporters daily visit a village in tribal areas to create awareness about her movement that has seen thousands rallying behind her for amendments to the customary laws.
Down south, a 75-year-old activist in Tamil Nadu successfully led a legal battle that saw several commercial establishments in Chennai’s busy T. Nagar area sealed by authorities for violating building norms.
The activist, popularly known Traffic Ramaswamy, is a former mill worker and a self-appointed traffic policeman — as much of his activism relates to regulating traffic in Chennai.
The Indian School of Business will begin operations at its second campus coming up at Mohali in April next year.
“Mohali will be another Hyderabad in the North. ISB should set up a pattern for other universities and institutes in excellence,” Mr Adi Godrej, Chairman of ISB’s Board of Governors said at a function to mark the tenth anniversary of the Hyderabad-based business school here on Saturday.
“In India, there is no unemployment. There is only unemployability,” Mr Godrej said while stressing the need for quality of education.
Mr Ajit Rangnekar, Dean, ISB said his school had grown from 128 students 10 years ago to 570 now.
“After the Mohali campus (goes on stream) next year, it will have 780 students,” he added. The 3,800 students who graduated from the school were working in 25 countries, he added.
The collective output of the 50 faculty members had already made ISB the most productive business school in the country, Mr Rangnekar claimed.
Mr Godrej also launched the book, ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come’ by Mr Pramarth Sen, the founder-dean of the ISB.