National Environmentalist Anupam Mishra no more Mishra traveled to villages across India describing the value of time-tested systems of water harvesting. He also advocated conservation of traditional water structures in India and abroad. Mishra was awarded the 1996 Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar (IGPP) award instituted by the Ministry of Environment...
Read MoreSymbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) 2016 was conducted across 32 centres in India from 2pm to 4pm on December 18. However, the Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram, candidates were given additional 30 minutes to complete the paper, the reason being a delay in students reaching the exam venue due to...
Read MoreIn a series of tweets, the Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda, confirmed today that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2017 is going to take place in 8 Indian languages. In one of his tweets, he mentioned that the examination will take place in Hindi, English, Gujarati,...
Read MoreWith only four months left to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), aspirants are busy preparing for class 12 board, and other exams. Engineering aspirants mostly aspire to secure admission at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), or the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs),...
Read MoreOVERVIEW: The overall structure of the SNAP exam underwent some change as compared to the previous years. The exam consisted of 3 sections having 40 questions of 1 mark each (Quantitative Ability, General English and Analytical & Logical Reasoning) and one section having 30 questions of 1 mark each (General...
Read MoreOne thing we can all agree upon is the excessive attachment to smartphones and social media. While most colleges around the world have started accepting the influence of social media in information dispersion, most official and confidential information is still transmitted through traditional emails or mail posts. However, a public...
Read MoreAnil Dhasmana appointed as new chief of Research and Analysis Wing The Union Government has appointed senior IPS officer Anil Dhasmana as the new chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He succeeds Rajinder Khanna who will complete his two year tenure on December 31, 2016. Anil Dhasmana has been...
Read MoreTechfest is a three day festival started in 1998 by the student body of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). It celebrates advances in the field of engineering and technology. With a footfall of more than 1.5 lakh, this annual festival is famous for its variety of events like...
Read MoreSinger Sona Mohapatra thrashed the Mood Indigo (Mood-I) committee on Facebook (FB), calling them ‘sexists’. Mohapatra in her FB post said she was denied to perform solo, and was asked to tag along with a male artist. Mood-I is the annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay...
Read MoreAshita (13) and Arnav Sharma (12), a sister-brother duo from Jaipur are the youngest participants at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) Techfest 2016. The siblings participated in various events like the Boeing National Aeromodelling Championship, Full Throttle and Skylark. While Ashita is in class 8, Arnav is in...
Read MoreJawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Examination and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry has declared the result of MD/MS (Doctor of Medicine/Master of Surgery) course today. For the 102 seats (92 Indian and 10 government sponsored and foreign national candidates), the JIPMER merit list has shortlisted approx. 13000 candidates based on their...
Read MoreThe Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released a mock test for JEE 2017 aspirants. The computer-based mock test is available on the official JEE Main website. The total duration of the test is 180 minutes. The website will display an automatic countdown timer on the screen, which will...
Read MoreHello readers, Here are today’s important headlines with key details for UPSC, SSC, IBPS and other competitive examinations. IAF Personnel can’t sport beard on religious grounds, directs Supreme Court The Supreme Court on December 15, 2016, ruled that the Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel cannot sport a beard on religious...
Read MoreDevendra Jhajharia, a gold medalist in javelin throw at Rio Paralympics, cited the importance of discipline, hardwork and positive thinking to students in Kota. Devendra was in Kota for the launch of a website and publicity material of a marathon which will be held on 19th February 2017. While interacting...
Read MoreMedical students in India are known to have crazy schedules and most of us have no clue about how they manage their days with only 24 hours in hand. Juggling between tricky schedules, trying to strike a balance between academics and a personal and social life, is not everyone’s cup...
Read MoreKaran Gupta is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and has degrees in Psychology, Business and Law. He is the founder of Karan Gupta Education Foundation (KGEF), Karan Gupta Consulting (KGC) and the Managing Director of IE Business School – India & South Asia. Since 1999 he has counseled and and...
Read MoreAn outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in University of Limerick (UL), Ireland, has come to light, with the institute sending out official emails to its students about the issue. The email sent to students by the Student Health Centre in UL, at 4:37 pm on Wednesday, December 14, confirms...
Read MoreThose who prepare for MBA entrances all year long, automatically find it easy to ace Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) that is scheduled to be held on December 18 this year, between 2pm and 4pm. That’s what happened with SNAP 2015 topper, Aditi Ramchandra who scored 99.05 percentile in SNAP...
Read More Virtual Payment Address (VPA)It is a virtual address which links a user’s identity with his/her bank account. So, you can send/receive money by sharing your virtual payment address with any merchant site and make a payment. This eliminates the need to share private and confidential information like mobile number,...
Read MoreCyclone Vardah and its aftermath has resulted in the rescheduling of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG twice in Chennai on December 12 and 13. The National Board of Examination (NBE) had announced that the examination would be rescheduled to December 16. Although, announcing the dates on December...
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