tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20543015561160058392012-02-20T00:49:36.920+05:30I have a Dream - building the world's best, largest and most exhaustive Educational System, which will be free for all. The seed is sown!SandeepRajSharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09674445517968814524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054301556116005839.post-18236783811328151212012-02-20T00:48:00.001+05:302012-02-20T00:49:36.944+05:30

Have students gained an irreversible upper hand in conflicts with teachers?Shobha John | TNN We Need to Talk About Kevin, an Oscar-nominated film this year, is the chilling story of a child on a murder spree. The dark bit of news that recently came from one of our own schools, in Chennai, and the events that followed, have also mostly spoken about a student who knifed his Hindi teacher to

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: A two-day conference at National College, organized by Maharashtra State Federation of College Principals that started on Saturday, saw participation of more than 500 principals and educationists. Bhalchandra Mungekar, Rajya Sabha member and former vice-chancellor of Mumbai University, said, “Universities that have more than 300 affiliated colleges should go in for

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‘Science too vast for 60 marks’Yogita Rao | TNN Mumbai: Students appearing for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams are unhappy that they have to study two papers of science for merely 60 marks and their worry does not end there: they fear that they will not be able to complete the two papers together within the allotted two-and-a-half hours. In the past two years, students had to

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Washington: The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may be devouring asteroids on a daily basis, a new study based on findings by Nasa’s Chandra spacecraft has suggested. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, named in honour of Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, has been detecting Xray flares about once a day coming from our galaxy’s central black hole known as Sagittarius A*

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True colours: Milky Way is really milkyHouston: Milky way after all is milky in colour for sure! Scientists have revealed that our galaxy is aptly named Milky Way as it looks white, the colour of fresh snow in the early morning. University of Pittsburgh astronomers said their finding is significant because we are located in the middle of the Milky Way, which had previously made it difficult to

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Mahafreed Irani | TNN On the last day of IIT’s Techfest, robots battled it out in the grand finales of various contests: Robowars, mini F1 and a maze-solving game. The fiercest looking automatons were undoubtedly the battle bots of Robowars. The arena saw metal clash with metal as robots of different shapes and sizes, equipped with choppers, blades, hammers and flippers, clashed. The

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IIT-B students set up society to study MarsSrinivas Laxman TNN Mumbai: A group of IIT Bombay students have embarked on a different type of stellar mission—to “launch” Indian students and others to Mars. Towards this end, they have formed The Mars Society, dedicated to the study of the red planet. This comes at a time when the Indian space community has proposed 10 experiments related mainly

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Education is one of the most important aspects of childhood. But, increasingly, many children are feeling a reluctance to attend school. The reasons are serious and psychological, say psychiatrists, who add that with the right guidance and a touch of compassion the child can be coaxed back into the classroomShreya Bhandary | TNN Eight-year-old Sonia Pradhan was a normal student who loved

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London:Scientists led by an Indian-origin researcher have discovered a huge underground river which they believe is flowing some 13,000 feet beneath the mighty Amazon River in Brazil. The researchers at Brazil’s National Observatory believe the subterranean river is about 6,000km long, about the same length as the Amazon on the surface. The finding came from studying temperature

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Taipei: “i2R e-Paper” is paper but not paper as we know it — not yet, anyway, say its Taiwan developers. The product uses a thermal printer, the same kind as that used in fax machines. When the message is no longer needed, the paper can be erased with the flip of a switch — ready to be used up to 260 times. Researchers at the Industrial Technology Research Institute, where the paper was

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London: Planetary scientists claim to have for the first time spotted a thin band of anti-matter particles, called anti-protons, enveloping the Earth. The find, published in the ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’, confirms theoretical work that predicted the Earth’s magnetic field could trap antimatter, according to a team led by the University of Bari. The astronomers say that a small number

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Hat-trick of delays: Most FYJC colleges to start only by mid-AugShreya Bhandary & Yogita Rao | TNN It’s the second week of August, but first-year junior college (FYJC) lectures across almost all city colleges have yet to begin, with more than 5,000 students still waiting to be assigned a seat. Principals are worried that with another list scheduled to be announced on August 12, before

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For The First Time Since Admissions Went Online 3 Yrs Ago, Edu Dept To Issue Special Merit List For Those Without Colleges Cut-Offs For Science & Arts Fall Drastically, But Only A Marginal Dip In CommerceYogita Rao and Shreya Bhandary | TNN Mumbai: More than 5,000 students have still not been allotted seats in junior colleges even after the third and final general merit list was announced on

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Shibu Thomas TNN Mumbai: “You have exercised your option (for school exams) with open eyes,” the Bombay High Court on Monday reminded a CBSE student who had sought orders that would allow her to apply for the online admissions to first year junior college. “If you wanted to take admission in a good college, why did you take the option of school exams?” asked a division bench of Justice D K

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‘Tau’ may set calculations arightLondon: The humble “pi” may have had its day. Mathematicians are campaigning for the most important number in the world to be replaced with alternate value “tau”. They are claiming that the number — the constant which references the circumference of a circle to its diameter — is wrong and it should be replaced with tau, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported. The

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Govt plans law for self-financed schools in stateYogita Rao TNN Mumbai: The government is in the process of formulating a Self-Financed Schools Bill, opening a window for organizations to set up private schools in the state. The bill aims to give private organizations permission tostartschoolson a self-financed basis. The bill, which may be tabled during the monsoon session, will lay down

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STUNNING DISCOVERIES: More than 1,000 new species have recently been found on the Melanesian island of New Guinea. Among these are (clockwise from top) a large green tree-dwelling frog, a monitor lizard, a rainbowfish and a blue-eyed spotted Cuscus

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Primary school to be extended up to Std VHemali Chhapia TNN Mumbai: For a long time, schools stuffed our children with more than they could digest. Suddenly, there is a feeling that chapters from history and maps of the world were introduced a year too early for generations of kids. The Union human resources development ministry has now decided to take a massive correctional step. Indian

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Space Bodies Detected When They Passed In Front Of Their StarsLondon: An international team, including scientists from the University of Oxford, has discovered 10 new planets. Amongst them is one orbiting a star perhaps only a few tens of million years old, twin Neptunesized planets, and a rare Saturn-like world, a release by the University of Oxford said on Wednesday. The planets were

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Red zone schools teach how to mint moneyShow Ways Of Fudging Attendance To Swindle Govt FundsSupriya Sharma TNN Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): ‘Phoolon se nit hasna seekho, bhawaron se nit gaana ... Learn to smile from the flowers, and sing from the bees).’ The cheerful lines of a popular Hindi rhyme are seen on a bright wall poster inside the bleak confines of a village school in Dantewada. But the

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CELESTIAL WONDER: The century’s longest and darkest total lunar eclipse saw the moon immersing deep inside the umbral (darker) shadow of the Earth. The next such eclipse will take place in 2141

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To bridge the gap between mainstream schools and the poor, NGOs find a way outTIMES NEWS NETWORK Pooja Vashisht wants to become a teacher. The 12-year-old lives with her parents who are dhobis in a small shanty in Ahmedabad. Reena Nayka, a dwarf, in Gujarat’s Navsari, is today her family’s breadwinner. She’s come a long way from almost starving. Rajnikant Patel, now may be mentally challenged

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: The city will witness the darkest lunar eclipse in 40 years on Wednesday. But the major attraction will be the colour of the moon which will turn coppery red. During the eclipse, the sun, moon and earth will align and the moon will pass through the earth’s shadow, which is also called Umbra. “I don’t want to miss the event as it comes once in four to five

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STD XI ADMISSIONSShibu Thomas TNN Mumbai: A Pune parent has moved the Bombay high court alleging that his son’s school has handed over admissions for an entire division for standard XI to a private coaching class. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Ranjana Desai on Friday in an interim order restrained the Vikhe Patil Memorial School in Pune from finalizing the list of

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Shreya Bhandary TNN Mumbai: Five city students have brought accolades to the country by winning the Open European Championship of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology) Lego League held in The Netherlands earlier this week. These students came up with a simple solution for people suffering from flat feet. Ansh Verma from Ecole Mondiale World School, Shikhar Bakhda

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Found: Why a moving cycle doesn’t fall overWashington: Scientists have shed a new light on a century-long question on why given sufficient forward speed, a bicycle pushed sideways, will not fall over. The TU Delft team, in collaboration with scientists from Cornell University, centred on the following intriguing question: why is a bicycle self stable, above a certain speed? You add speed to a

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Mini Joseph Tejaswi TNN Bangalore: They are truly an “enterprising couple”. The husband-wife entrepreneur duo, K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh, has struck gold again with their sale of Tutor-Vista to the Pearson Group. Ganesh had started the online tutoring firm in July 2005 with a funding of $2.15 million from Sequoia Capital. Now the firm has been valued at close to Rs 1,000 crore. In 1990, Ganesh

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UK Publishing Group Hikes Stake In Desi Education Co To 76% For . 577 CrTIMES NEWS NETWORK Bangalore: TutorVista, an integrated education services company led by K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh, has sold a 59% stake to to UK-based publishing and media group Pearson for Rs 577 crore. This transaction would give Pearson a total controlling stake of 76% in the company, making it the largest deal in

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From 2012, Panel Suggests B-School Put Less Weightage On CAT ScoreMathang Seshagiri TNN Bangalore: An internal committee of the IIM-Bangalore has proposed some radical changes to revamp the flagship two-year postgraduate programme. The panel, headed by Prof C Manohar Reddy, wants the B-school to put less weightage on CAT score, make a 22-month work experience compulsory, summer placements

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Present day school students are like soldiers going to a war, that's the level of stress that's felt in every home and school. It's time to find a way to keep this killing stress at bay. Ansy Austin offers some tipsNo hanging out with friends, no TV, no Internet, in short, nothing else than the books - that isthe life of students who are to appear for exams. The visit to temples by the students

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96.5% of children in India go to elementary school, finds surveyBihar Stars In Elementary EducationTIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: India took another step towards universal elementary education last year, with 96.5% of all children aged 6-14 years being enrolled in schools, an extensive private audit has revealed. NGO Pratham’s Annual Survey of Education Report says the proportion of girls in the

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Mathang Seshagiri TNN Bangalore: It was a rude wake-up call to the prestigious 101-year-old Indian Institute of Science when chairman of Tata Sons Ratan Tata told it that it was not doing enough. He said the institute had not changed as much as one would like to see and it should contribute to a new way of life in India —and not just file major number of patents compared to what it did before.

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Srinivas Laxman | TNN Mumbai: Robotics and anti-terrorism devices dominate the twenty-third Western India Science Fair at the Nehru Science Centre in Worli. The fair will be on till Saturday. The four-day school science fair, which boasts 120 participants, was inaugurated on Wednesday by H C Pradhan, director, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. In all, 40 student projects and 18

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Washington: An ant colony is probably the last place one would expect to find a maths whiz, but a study has shown that they could solve complex, dynamic problems, and may even help computer experts develop better software. An international team has found the ants are capable of solving difficult mathematical problems and also able to do what few computer algorithms can — adapt optimal

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Manash Pratim Gohain TNN New Delhi: Over five lakh Class X students from senior secondary schools have decided to opt out of Class X board exams to be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in March 2011. This is the first batch for which the Class X board exam has been made optional and these students will now sit for the school-based term-end Summative II exam in April

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For The First Time, Over 5L CBSE Students Will Graduate Without Sitting For Board ExamsTIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: It will be an altogether novel experience for Class X CBSE students: whether they choose to sit for the board exams or not, the marksheets that will be issued to them will be the same. In other words, they will look identical, and one will be hardpressed to figure out who appeared for

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Anahita Mukherji TNN Murshidabad (West Bengal): Tom Sawyer, the mischievous young protagonist of Mark Twain’s 19th century classic, is an unlikely hero for a social activist from rural West Bengal. But Shabnam Ramaswamy, a feisty 55-year-old from Murshidabad, likens herself to Tom Sawyer in more ways than one. Like Sawyer, who, when given the onerous task of painting a wall, convinced his

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Bandra Couple Gives Up City Life To Start School In Dahanu VillageAnahita Mukherji I TNN Sogwe Village (Dahanu): Call it a case of reverse migration. While millions trade their homes in the village for life in a metro, two Mumbaikars decided to do the unthinkable. Bandra girl Michelle Chawla and her husband, Hemant Babu turned their backs on the big city lights and headed for a tribal village in

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RTE Act over and above the reforms that it promises for the education sector has given rise to many areas of concern, which has the education fraternity debating...Ansy Austin and Nagma Hasan | NIE Mumbai: The Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act definitely is a laudable Act, opine most educationists, as every child deserves to be educated. But the questions that arise have got

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Bollywood is pressing hard for the animation courses to be included at the school level. Now apart from other creativities, visuals will also come alive to your classes...Pragya Singh The ministry of Human Resource Development is likely to introduce a new course of Animation in schools governed by CBSE from Intermediate level as soon as it receives a detailed model for this stream from

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Sukhada Tatke | TNN Mumbai: Don’t be surprised if, a few months down the line, you don’t find the BMC’s garbage collection vehicles in the environs of Bandra Reclamation. Local residents have come up with an idea to not only collect and treat the garbage generated in the area but convert it into electricity. The electricity, in turn, will be used to light up the Reclamation promenade. The

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Minati Singha | TNN Bhubaneswar: From now on, teachers will also come to schools in uniforms. The state government has introduced a dress code for teachers of Class I to VIII in the municipal areas of Bhubaneswar, Berhampur and Cuttack on a pilot basis from August 15. The proposed dress code for women teachers is pink sari with black blouse, while male teachers would wear light blue shirts and

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Chittaranjan Tembhekar & Anahita Mukherji I TNN Mumbai: Caught in the concrete tangle of urban life, city kids can well be forgiven for supposing that milk comes out of tetrapacks and wheat from plastic pouches. In a bid to let the children experience the thrill of growing their own food, a handful of schools have put farming on the curriculum. Since the onset of the monsoon this year, 85 Std

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Kolkata: They are barely 18 years old, but have already achieved immortality. Anish Mukherjee and Debarghya Sarkar, who passed out of South Point High School this year, now have two minor planets named after them. The celestial honour was bestowed on them by the Massachussettes Institute of Technology and Lincoln Laboratory of the US. The honour is a recognition of their performance at an

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Anahita Mukherji & Srinivas Laxman | TNN Mumbai: What’s it like to fly a space shuttle? How do you eat your food while floating in a space ship? And after two weeks in space, how do your legs feel when you’re back on earth? These are just a few of the questions that former Nasa astronaut Joan Higginbotham fielded while visiting schools in Mumbai on Friday. Mission Apollo, an Indian company

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Neha Pushkarna | TNN New Delhi: The boy sat hunched, his eyes on the floor and his hands held in a twisted clasp below his knees, clearly uncomfortable with all the attention. On Wednesday, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik had left everyone gasping in disbelief by not only becoming the youngest ever to crack the tough IIT-JEE test but also topping it in Delhi and notching an all-India rank of 33.

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Amit Bhattacharya | TNN New Delhi: Are the bacterial cells created in J Craig Venter’s laboratories in the US actually synthetic life? After the hype and hoopla over the announcement of the world’s first “manmade living cells”, scientists are getting down to answering that question. And this is what most of them have to say: Venter’s team has achieved a stupendous technical feat, but the cells

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Schools grapple with normsRight To Education Law Creates Confusion On Same-Neighbourhood, No-Screening PoliciesShreya Bhandary | TNN Mumbai: Schools around the state are slowly gearing up to meet the various clauses as mentioned under the Right To Education (RTE) Act which came into force in April this year. However, some features of the Act, like banning screening tests and selecting ‘

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Travelling At Speed Of Light, Each Day On The Craft Would Be A Year On Earth, Says Stephen HawkingJonathan Leake Humans may one day be able to use time travel to skip generations into the future, says Stephen Hawking. He has suggested humans could build spaceships capable of such high speeds that time itself would slow down for those on board. Such a spaceship could travel thousands of years

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Hemali Chhapia | TNN Mumbai: Walk into hostel rooms on any IIT campus and you’ll probably find every other aspiring engineer glued to his computer screen, feverishly setting up a website. Prabhkiran Singh is a different story; he is a civil engineering student busy whipping up chilled lassi every evening after class. The 20-year-old from Punjab who came to IIT-Bombay three years ago, didn’t

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Manoj Badgeri I TNN Kalyan: If all goes according to the plan, kids studying at zilla parishad schools in rural areas adjoining Kalyan, Bhiwandi and Ambernath would soon be taking their lessons in English. In a bid to help these students overcome the language barrier, the Thane zilla parishad has decided to introduce exclusive English-medium schools in rural areas. The general body of the

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London: Does the brain process lyrics and melody separately or as one? Scientists claim to have found an answer. A team at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany has found that the brain first deals with music and lyrics together and then, after passing through more complex processing, like understanding what lyrics mean, the two are treated separately. The

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SWEET THRILL: A racing car that researchers from Britain’s University of Warwick have retrofitted, on display in Boston. Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world’s first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds

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Now, robotic crabs to be used for raceVijay Singh | TNN Mumbai: The first ever ‘Great Indian Crab Race’ that is to be held in Mumbai on March 11 will now not feature live crabs, and instead battery operated robotic crabs will be used at the charity event organised by the American Alumni Association (AAA). An AAA spokesperson told TOI on Wednesday: “We were earlier going to use live crabs for

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Shreya Bhandary | TNN Mumbai: “A child’s brain functions better when given a chance to question,’’ said Dr Stephen Rushton, reclusive brain expert from the University of Florida, who along with his wife Anne, is in Mumbai to conduct a two-day workshop to help parents and educators understand brain development in children. The workshop, which will be conducted over this weekend, will shed

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Govt Plans To Lay 5 Lakh Km Optic Fibre Network To Reach Every Gram PanchayatShalini Singh | TNN New Delhi: Access to broadband services in India has been a failure in the otherwise highperforming telecom sector. To address this challenge, the government is planning to spend Rs 18,000 crore over three years to lay a five lakh km optic fibre cable (OFC) network to reach every gram panchayat.

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Camera-Mounted Chopper Model Bags First Prize At Aero EventShreya Bhandary | TNN Mumbai: Two first-year students from the Thakur College of Engineering (aircraft maintenance) won the first prize at an aerospace event held at the IIT-Kanpur Aerospace Engineering Centre last Saturday. Their inspiration, say the winners who returned to the city on Wednesday, was the Aamir Khan starrer and student

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Washington: Scientists in Japan are developing electric sensors using nanotechnology that could not only read information from our brains, but also write information to it. Keiichi Torimitsu of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) says that the technology could have real practical applications in helping sufferers from Parkinson’s disease or stroke. “Establishing connections between the

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Fuel cells have negligible emissionsWhat is the conventional method of power generation? The basic function of any power generation system is to convert energy from any other form into electricity. The most popular energy generation mechanism is based on burning fossil fuels—that is, converting chemical energy into mechanical energy for rotating turbines. The turbine then rotates the rotor of a

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Bihar to form law to curb private coaching centresPatna/Biharsharif: As students protest against private coaching institutes spread across Bihar, the state government on Thursday announced that it would enact a legislation to regulate their functioning. “I have asked the state HRD department officials to burn the midnight oil to prepare a draft in consultation with the experts to enact a law

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Anahita Mukherji I TNN Mumbai: Alice in Wonderland (or Blunderland) could well be the name of a book on Maharashtra’s admission policies, which have been changing every year since 2008, and have been announced at the eleventh hour. Some policies have been passed a few weeks before the admissions started, and some have even been passed after the admission process began. And now, in the middle of

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Anahita Mukherji | TNN Mumbai: Schools in the state can no longer absolve themselves of all responsibility for their school bus system. The state government-appointed committee on school buses, set up over a year ago, has come out with its final list of guidelines, which could change the haphazard and often hazard-fraught way that this system is currently run. The committee has now made

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Common Bacteria Tweaked To Digest Sugars From Biomass To Churn Out Green DieselWashington: Researchers have genetically engineered one of the most common bacteria on the planet — E coli — to digest simple sugars from plant waste and turn it into valuable biofuel. They said their study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is the first demonstration of a one-step conversion of a

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New Delhi: After the decision to start grading system in Class X board examinations, the government may introduce a similar system in Class XII, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said on Thursday. Sibal said the idea has already been mooted and a committee has been set up. It will examine how grading could be introduced at Class XII.“We had a brainstorming session on this,”the

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: Hundreds of students from all across the state on Thursday protested against the hike in fees in professional education outside the Bandra office of the Shikshan Shulka Samiti, Maharastra’s fee determining body. “Fees in professional streams of education have been rising each year, forcing parents to take loans. In most states of India, fees are not revised annually

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Prafulla Marpakwar | TNN Mumbai: Students who are depressed can follow this friendly piece of advice from union energy minister Sushilkumar Shinde. “Suicide is not the answer, build up your will power. Even if you fail in one examination, that’s not the end of the road, as you have another chance to appear in the same test. One day, you will definitely achieve your goal,’’ Shinde said.

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India should celebrate the low-cost private school revolution that is underwayJames Tooley Something extraordinary is happening in education across rural India – that’s the conclusion that stands out in Pratham’s ASER 2009 report launched recently. The extraordinary concerns private education: Pratham devotes two special sections to private schools, which shows it recognises their importance.But

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Shreya Bhandary | TNN Mumbai: The Indian Army began a programme named ‘Op Sadbhavana’ and brought 34 school students from Poonch district on a tour to the city. The Maratha-Lai regiment has taken the responsibility of taking the kids around Mumbai and Pune over the next eight days. On Friday, these kids were shown around the famous INS Vikrant and INS Mumbai. “We want these children to know

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DTE reverts to old CET criteriaMumbai: A day after TOI reported on the problems caused by the new eligibility criteria for Maharashtra’s Common Entrance Test (CET) for an MBA, the directorate of technical education (DTE) has reverted to the old eligibility criteria. Earlier this month, the DTE announced that only students who scored a minimum of 50% in a full-time graduation course were eligible

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Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: The HRD ministry, which has decided to derecognise 44 “deemed universities’’, said its task force had recomended that institutions not found fit for deemed university status “should revert to status quo ante as an affiliated college of the state university of jurisdiction so that students would be able to complete their ongoing courses and obtain degree from the

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Anahita Mukherji I TNN Mumbai: International boards are working overtime to ensure that they reach out to those who may not have the means to afford admission to an international school. The International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), a Geneva-based board that has gained popularity in India, has set up a committee called the Access and Advancement Committee, chaired by Dr Indu Shahani,

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As Student Suicides Continue, Concerned Parents, Teachers, Psychiatrists And Police Focus On Woes Of Worried YouthAnahita Mukherji | TNN What’s common between a well-known actor and theatre personality, an IIMBangalore alumnus and a Mumbaibased journalist? As students, all of them had a taste of failure. Yet, they have all done well in their careers. Their motto: Don’t give up on life.

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Pratibha Masand | TNN Mumbai: A year after the CBSE allowed concessions for autistic children appearing for the all-important Class X exams, the state board is following suit. Starting with the SSC exams in March 2010, students with autism can avail of a slew of concessions—from appearing for exams in their own school, extra time for papers and opting for lower level maths—said state

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Hemali Chhapia | TNN In 2005, D Y Patil Medical College, Kolhapur, and Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Satara, were granted deemed university status when then HRD minister Arjun Singh saw great potential in them. Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune, had received the status in 1987. On Monday, all three universities were stripped of their rank by the HRD ministry and reduced to

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An Uncertain Future Stares At 2 Lakh StudentsAkshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: The HRD ministry has decided to derecognize as many as 44 “deemed universities’’, spelling uncertainty for nearly two lakh students who are enrolled with them. The ministry’s decision amounts to an acknowledgement of irregularities in conferring the deemed status on these institutions under the first UPA government in

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- SANTOSH ANDHALE In the backdrop of the spate of suicides by students aross the state and the growing concern among parents about coping with the pressure of studies, the Maharashtra Government is working out a new ‘best of five’ scheme of examination for the SSC. The scheme, being worked by the School Education Department in association with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and

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We took out our crystal ball to see which gadgets make the cutNimish Dubey In terms of tech wizardry, 2009 was a rather busy year. Products such as iPod Nano (with video recording), Sony PSP Go, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia N97 and Amazon Kindle grabbed the headlines at different times of the year. Some succeeded, some didn’t. But they definitely kept the tech-savvy segment of the society busy.

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Archana Rodrigues is the only academic from Maharashtra to have won a Guruvar award for her commitment to inclusive educationSharmila Ganesan-Ram | TNN Kids don’t have to tell a carrot from a radish in order to be able to join this small school tucked away in a leafy residential colony of Dombivli. Unlike those institutions, which grill teething infants and nervous parents alike in the hope

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By Paul BaskenWashingtonCorporate donors encouraged by the Obama administration will spend at least $260-million over the next four years to help improve student achievement in mathematics and science through specially designed television programs and video games.The plan, announced today by President Obama, will include new television programming fromSesame Street and Discovery Communications,

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference, an annual four-day residential conclave devoted to “ideas worth spreading”, which concluded in Mysore recently, was held for the first time in India. Chris Anderson, curator of TED, spoke to Sudeshna Chatterjee: What has taken you so long to reach India? Apart from one experimental event in Japan 15 years ago, TED has been for most of

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Our children hold the key to our collective goodShantha Sinha & Karin Hulshof A child growing up in India today can aspire to be an astronaut sending rockets into space, a cricket batting legend, a government minister, a Bollywood film star or a teacher set to inspire a new generation of children. As the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

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Web sight: A new window to the worldA new content-sharing website has opened up a vista of reading material for the visually impairedJoeanna Rebello Fernandes | TNN Through his tapering school years, Moiz Tundawala studied via his brother. The brother would read out texts to him as Moiz—who started to show signs of Retinitis Pigmentosa in his teens and whose sight gradually declined—would

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EDUCATING Ammi and AbbaThe Tanzeem-e-Walidaen works at enlightening Muslim parents as a prelude to schooling their childrenMohammed Wajihuddin | TNN In an airy first-floor room at suburban Vikhroli, around a dozen middle-aged couples are listening attentively to a bespectacled man holding forth in chaste Urdu. Ibrahim Abedi talks passionately, his speech laced liberally with Quranic commands

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The Grid Coming To A Computer Near YouShobhan Saxena | TNN CERN (Geneva): With domain names in Hindi, Arabic and Chinese set to become a reality on the web, the pundits in this science hub of Switzerland, where the internet was arguably invented, claim the next giant leap towards internationalisation will be the grid, which is just weeks away from powering up. The grid, made of thousands of

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Young presidents are in vogue. None more so perhaps than Maldives’ 41-year-old president Mohamed Nasheed, who ended dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s threedecade grip on power. Nasheed, who has long prodded the country’s nascent democratic process, has been to prison 16 times, been tortured twice and remains committed to liberal politics. He’s been in office just over a year and is busy trying to

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Insists On Hard Copy That Makes Detecting Anomalies ‘Impossible’Manoj Mitta | TNNNew Delhi: Stung by the exposure of admission anomalies in recent years, the IIT system has come up with an innovative method of blocking transparency even as it agreed to give data under RTI on the marks obtained by the four lakh candidates in this year’s joint entrance examination (JEE). It insisted on giving the

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Geoengineering Technique Will Help Reflect Back More SunlightWashington: Amid growing concern over global warming, scientists have come up with an unique scheme to cool the earth with the help of a geoengineering method that would increase cloud reflectivity over the ocean. Under the scheme, the scientists would increase cloud reflectivity over the ocean by spraying them with an ultra-fine

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Rich Nations Refuse To Budge At Delhi, Copenhagen Climate Deal Hopes DimTIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The divide between rich and developing countries on the prickly issue of intellectual property regimes for green technologies came to the fore on the concluding day of the high-level climate change technology conference in Delhi on Friday. With a consensus eluding the conference attended by

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Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Mahuva (Bhavnagar): It’s 10 pm. As Asarana village sleeps, a school wakes up in this part of Bhavnagar district abuzz with students, their hair neatly combed and ready with bags and notebooks. A group of zealous teachers with a conviction to inject academic brilliance into students of this village have helped launch this unique night school at the government-run

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Boffins develop a rocket fuel that uses a combination of water and aluminium, both these materials are found on the Moon and Mars. Thus making the manufacturing of this fuel on those planets a possibilityMUMBAI MIRROR BUREAU Researchers from Purdue University in the US are working with NASA to develop a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and “nanoscale aluminium”

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Gone are the days of people with a philanthropic bent, the kinds who would don khadhi kurtas, carry a jute bag and knock on doors of prospective donors asking for donation! Today, the NGO (non-governmental organisation) sector, with increasing professionalism, enhanced career growth opportunities and its transformation into a structured ‘industry’ with clear fundamentals (read: upliftment of the

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Stockholm: Three physicists won the 2009 Nobel Prize on Tuesday for work on fibre optics and light sensing that helped unleash the Information Technology revolution. Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith were hailed by the Nobel jury as “the masters of light” for transforming communications from copper-wire telephony and postal mail to the era of the Internet, email and instant

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Rewards Students With € 10,000 For Good GradesKatrin Bennhold Paris: In poor Paris suburbs it now pays off to do well in school—literally. High school students can earn rewards worth up to € 10,000 for their class to share if they attend lessons and get good grades. The pilot program, which took effect on Monday in three vocational schools in working-class neighbourhoods near the French

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Caught between the emphasis on elementary and higher education, secondary education has suffered in the country, a World Bank report has said. Calling secondary education a “forgotten middle”, Sam Carlson of World Bank, who prepared the report, pointed out how investment in secondary education had declined. While primary education gets the largest share of 52% of

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Bangkok: The gridlock at Bangkok climate negotiations worsened on Tuesday with key G77 members, including India and China, indicating that the “murder” of Kyoto Protocol could end up killing prospects of a deal at Copenhagen. The Kyoto Protocol converts the principles of “common but differentiated responsibilities” from the mother UN convention into quantified emission reduction targets for

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Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: With seven days of negotiations remaining before Copenhagen, the industrialised countries have still not made a single offer of financial compensation to poor and developing countries for their mitigation actions. At Bangkok negotiations, the US turned around instead to demand that India and other developing countries put their entire set of emissions reducing

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Nimish Sawant | TNN Mumbai: The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), which looks after all the national science centres across the country, plans to come up with over 1,000 School Science Centres (SSC) in the next five years to nurture scientifically talented students. The existing science centres across the country will act as an umbrella organisation for the individual school science

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