1. Vijender clinches WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight championship a) Indian boxer Vijender Singh has won the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight championship defeating Australia’s Kerry Hope, the former world number four. b) With this, Vijender climbed to 15th place in the world in his category. Meanwhile, British Asian boxer...
Read MoreEngineering aspirants who have been allotted a seat in the sixth round can report to their reporting centres (RC) on July 19, 2016 and July 20, 2016 from 10 AM to 5 PM on both the days for their seat acceptance, say JOSAA authorities. However, all those candidates who have...
Read MoreInstitute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is an autonomous agency in India, which started its operation in 1975 as Personnel Selection Services (PSS). IBPS is envisioned as self-governed academic and research oriented Institute, with a mission of enhancing human-resource development through personnel assessment. IBPS has invited candidates for the Probationary...
Read MoreThe fifth round of seat acceptance for admission into IITS, NITs, IIITs, GFTIs came to an end today at 5 pm. Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has also reported 186 seats as remaining vacant in different National Institutes of Technology (NITs) after five rounds of seat acceptance process. Most of...
Read More1) Forbes releases list of World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities of 2016 a) Forbes magazine recently released a list of the World’s Highest-Paid Celebrities of 2016. American pop singer Taylor Swift is ranked 1st on this list whereas, One Direction (band) took the No. 2 spot, followed by author James Patterson at...
Read MoreThe preparatory course schedule released by JEE Advanced 2016 today, July 18, has listed the institutes that will be hosting the course for the next year. As per the list, reporting to host centres will commence in the first week of August, about the same time when first year lectures...
Read MoreDear PaGaLGuY readers, The Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune has released exam dates for SNAP 2017. Read on to know more about important dates, including registration, payment of registration fee, to release of merit list and commencement of the program. About SNAP Candidates aspiring to join MBA post-graduation programs...
Read MoreIn a recent declaration by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, has notified engineering aspirants to register for the fourth round of Centralised Admission Process (CAP). Students who have not got seat in the previous rounds can register on the official website of MHT-CET 2016. Students who have already...
Read More1) Centre notifies Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 a) The Union government has notified the (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 and operationalised some of its provisions, giving a legal shape to UIDAI. b) The government...
Read MoreSeat allocations for Preparatory Courses are simultaneously taking place with the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) allotment rounds. As per the Joint Admission Board (JAB) records, so far 105 seats have been allocated in the 2016 Preparatory Courses. All the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian School of Mines...
Read MoreIn a recent declaration, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra has decided to scrap the admissions to the engineering courses for students who had not taken the Maharashtra Common Entrance Exam (MHT-CET) 2016 and had got admission on the basis of JEE Main 2016. DTE has informed this to...
Read More1) Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi appointed as Chairman of CBSE a) Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, a 1987- batch IAS officer, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for a five-year term.b) Chaturvedi’s name was announced on a day when 19 Additional Secretary-level appointments and 29...
Read MoreDream of visiting the NASA in the USA? Participate in Technothlon – the nation-wide school championship which will be held by students of IIT-Guwahati across the country for students of class 9 to 12 on July 17 from 10:30 am to 1 pm. Recognising the dire need of technical exposure...
Read MoreThe Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has allotted six supernumerary seats so far, two in Computer Science and Engineering branch at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai and IIT Delhi each, one in Mathematics and Computing at IIT Kharagpur and one in Chemical Engineering at IIT Patna. When the...
Read More1) Second phase of Haritha Haram programme launched in Telangana a) The two-week long Haritha Haram programme of Telangana government aimed to plant 46 crore plants to improve the green belt has recently begun. b) Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao participated in the plantation programme at Gundrampally near Chityal in Nalgonda...
Read MoreA total of 175 seats remain vacant in the National Institute of Technology (NITs) after the fourth round of seat allocation were released today by Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2016 (JoSAA). The number of vacant seats has increased from 156 to 175 since the third round of allocation was released. Around...
Read MoreThere is good news for engineering aspirants in Telangana planning to get a seat under the management quota as the government has put an end to heavy tuition fee charged by private unaided colleges by issuing a fresh set of guidelines this year. For years now, private unaided colleges in Telangana...
Read MoreTwo women were found hanging in their respective campus accommodations at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) on July 13, 2016. Police suspect that 47-year old Vijaya Lakshmi, wife of a professor from the Physics department at IIT-M, and 34-year-old post-doctoral scholar P Maheshwari, committed suicide because of depression. A...
Read MoreThe recent IIT fee hike from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2,00,000 had definitely raised a lot of eyebrows. Here is your chance to reduce the burden of your hefty tuition fees for a degree in an IIT. And it will be shared by none other than the Union Ministry of Human...
Read MoreThe recent string of suicides among engineering aspirants sent alarm bells ringing all over India’s coaching capital. Experts and social organisations are hoping that meditation, music concerts, movies and counselling will help students cope with the high pressure of preparing for the Joint Entrance Exams (JEE), which opens the doors...
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