Australian court delivers justice in Indian student case
New Delhi: An Australian court has sentenced a youth to four-and-a-half years' jail with a minimum non-parole period of two years for attacking an Indian student, Sukhraj Singh. Australia's High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, said today "Australian authorities are taking such incidents extremely seriously. This is another demonstration of the zero-tolerance approach being taken by Australian authorities in response to cases of violence against Indian students." "There is no pla...
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Category International
News Published Date:Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:28:52 GMT
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On empty stomach, 2,000 teachers give 'save IITs' call
New Delhi: Around 2,000 teachers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a hunger strike on Thursday even as they took classes, attended seminars and toiled in labs after the government rejected their demand for better salaries."Our protest is a huge success. It is one of its kind," M. Thenmozi, head of the IIT faculty federation, told sources."We took classes, attended seminars and worked in laboratories as we do regularly but all on empty stomach," she said adding that they are "...
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Category IIT
News Published Date:Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:02:40 GMT
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IGNOU to host intl conference on Peace Science
New Delhi: An international conference on Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science will be jointly organized by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), and Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, (GS&DS), New Delhi on January 11-13, 2010. Economists for Peace and Security International (USA), International Center for Conflict Prevention and Management (Australia), State University of New York at Binghamton (USA) are the other institutional co-sponsors of this important acad...
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Category Today
News Published Date:2009-11-26 15:28:38
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From Bangalore to Copenhagen - A play to protect environment
Bangalore: A group of Bangalore students is all set to educate world leaders gathering in Copenhagen for the December 7-18, 2009, climate change summit through a play on threats and challenges to environment worldwide.Life and Death, a play starkly depicting of the dangers to the environment, will be staged in the Danish capital by students of Christ University here. Four final year students of Master’s programme in Social Work -- Trina Talukdar, Supriya Nayak, Kasturi Mitra and Kavita Venugop...
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Category Karnataka
News Published Date:2009-12-05 11:17:06
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E-CAT - Entrance to MBA gets instant
Bhilwara: The aspirants giving Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) going online for the first time for eleven days have faced the music of resentment but the e-CAT claiming itself to be the conductor of a National Level online entrance exams for the management and professional courses takes the initiative to conduct them 365 days for admission to college of their choice. The online exam will be of two hours anytime between 10.00 am to 8.00 pm. ...
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Category Rajasthan
News Published Date:2009-12-09 18:14:02
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