MUMBAI: A mere fourteen girls have made the cut to the top 500 ranks of the IIT JEE Advanced exam, underscoring the gender divide in technical education at the elite IITs. The number of females rises to just 46 even when the list is expanded to the top 1,000 scorers (there were 68 girls on…
KOLKATA: Forty-seven new colleges have come up in West Bengal during the Trinamool Congress rule, West Bengal Education minister Partha Chatterjee has said. “47 new colleges (state-aided) have come up in the past seven years,” Chatterjee said at a felicitation programme for meritorious students in secondary (class ten board), higher secondary (class 12 board) examinations,…
PILANI: A device that helps school children with kinesthetic dyslexia has bagged the top honours at the Smart India Hackathon 2018 – Hardware Edition under the ‘Smart Communication’ category held at the CSIR-CEERI here. A brainchild of students from KCJ College of Engineering, Chennai, the device makes life easier for dyslexic kids who find it…
MUMBAI: A team of nine students from RN Podar School, Santacruz will travel to CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Headquartered in Geneva, the students won a competition among 195 teams from 42 countries and will get a chance to perform their proposed experiment at…
NEEMUCH: Aanchal Gangwal, a 24-year-old girl from Neemuch district in Madhya Pradesh and the daughter of a tea seller, has been selected in the flying branch of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Aanchal says she was inspired by the rescue operation carried out by the Indian armed forces during the 2013 floods in Uttarakhand. “When…
KHARAGPUR: Coimbatore’s Whistling Cookers of Avinashilingam Deemed University for Women bagged a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh by winning the Smart India Hackathon 2018 – Hardware Edition on Friday. The first runner-up was from the same college – Team Buddies. And the second runner-up was Team Askurvara from the Silicon Institute of Technology. The…
CUTTACK: Ravenshaw University has aborted its plan to start three self-financing courses which were supposed to be introduced from this year. Entrance test for the three courses were also conducted but due to poor turnout of students, the varsity authorities have decided to scrap the courses this year. The varsity had decided to introduce post…
NEW DELHI: On May 26, Meenakshi failed the Class XII boards with 16 marks in English core. Now, the Delhi girl is on her way to college as verification of her result showed CBSE hadn’t added up her marks correctly. She had scored 80 – a shocking difference of 400%. “Forget failing, I could not…
