Bhubaneswar: Students who want to pursue their career in archeology in the state can once again take the OJEE route, as it is going to conduct admission in the bachelor in archeology course in state-run College of Engineering and Technology (CET) for 2013-14 academic session, after a gap of one year.
Two colleges – government-run CET [...]
Ahmedabad: Gujarat University has revoked its decision to do away with centralized admissions for Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) and Bachelor in Education (BEd) courses.
The turnaround came after the university authorities were pulled up by the state government for tarnishing its image. It was communicated to vice chancellor Adesh Pal [...]
Mumbai: Several city colleges are facing a tough time trying to hire full-time principals after the University Grants Commission (UGC) recently introduced an academic performance indicator (API) norm for the appointments.
More than 50% of the around 650 colleges in the city do not have full-time principals; in most colleges, senior professors fill in as acting [...]
New Delhi: In a significant sanitization exercise, the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has made changes in its history textbooks dropping “objectionable” references to the Nadar community, depiction of angels in human form and introducing more sensitive coinages to caste to smoothen ruffled feathers of political leaders. The changes have been made [...]
New Delhi: An altercation was inevitable. Most students who attended the first Open Day at South Campus, Delhi University, were not there for information on admission procedure. They wanted details of the four-year undergraduate programme. University officials, on the other hand, wanted no discussion on the topic. As more and more uncomfortable questions started coming, [...]
Mumbai: Gurunath Meiyappan, CEO of Chennai Super Kings, on Thursday sought time till Monday to appear before the Mumbai crime branch for questioning in connection with the IPL betting scandal, hours after it issued summons to him for personal appearance tomorrow, police said.
Meiyappan, son-in-law of BCCI chief and CSK owner N Srinivasan, is under the [...]
New Delhi: The raging spot-fixing saga in the IPL turned murkier today with controversial Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf being withdrawn by the ICC from next month’s Champions Trophy in UK for his alleged role in the scandal which is growing bigger by the day.
A week after the sensational arrest of India paceman S Sreesanth and [...]
New Delhi: Ajit Chandila was allegedly paid Rs 12 lakh by a bookie for spot-fixing in IPL 6 but the attempt to manipulate matches failed as the cricketer could not play many matches, Delhi Police sourc es claimed on Thursday.
Interestingly, the sources said, Chandila gave three cheques of Rs four lakh each, two of which [...]
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
If international dancer-actress Lauren Gottlieb hopes to be seen in an action film soon a la Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, she also wants to team up with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan.
“I am looking to stretch myself. To come across the world and take projects in different languages is a big challenge. I want to make [...]
Sunil, who has scored a hit with the recently released ‘Thadakha’, has been working for ‘Bhimavaram Bullodu’ directed by ‘Kalisundham Ra’ fame Uday Shankar. D.Suresh Babu is producing this movie.
After this movie, he is going to do a film with Veeru Potla, which is tentatively titled as ‘Friend’ and Sunil also said recently that he [...]
Anchor Anasuya, who has become very popular recently, is said to have rejected to dance with Pawan Kalyan in ‘Attharintiki Dharedhi’.
The movie team has approached for an item song, and she has rejected saying that she is not willing to start her career in movies with an item song. She has revealed it in [...]
Badaun: Son of a SP leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs 1 lakh was also imposed on him by a local court here for raping a teenaged girl.
The 15-year-old victim was raped by Varun Bharadwaj alias Chinu, son of former SP block head Patanjali Bhardwaj, in Alapur area on December [...]
Washington: WikiLeaks has released what it says is an annotated transcript of a documentary that takes a critical look at the anti-secrecy group ahead of the US film’s Friday premiere.
WikiLeaks said it had not participated in the making of “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” a film by Alex Gibney that focuses on the [...]
Gorakhpur: A couple allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train near Jagat Bela railway station here, police said on Friday.
The couple, hailing from village Bhandaro under Chiluatal police station area, was in a relationship but their families were opposed to this.
The girl’s marriage was fixed with a boy from Sahjanwa area [...]