1) East Bengal to honour Milkha Singh with Bharat Gaurav Award a) East Bengal will confer its Bharat Gaurav Award (Pride of India) upon the Legendary athlete Milkha Singh. b) He will be honoured with the prestigious award on the East Bengal Foundation Day (1 August 2016). Along with the award, a cheque of 2 […]

The fresh option form filling for CAP (Central Admission Process) Round 4 link has been available on the DTE website way past the scheduled deadline. Candidates were instructed to fill and submit the form by July 28, 5pm (See image below).  Shri Dayanand Meshram, Joint Director, DTE and in-charge of handling CAP admissions, said, “As long […]

Praveen Manwar (39), a alumni of  IIT Kharagpur has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in Multai on the charge of murder. According to the Betul Police report, he killed his wife Shilpa and two children when he set his car ablaze on March 3, 2015, because of fears of being HIV infected. A senior official of the Betul […]

The deadline for filling fresh option forms for CAP (Centralised Admission Process) Round 4 was today, July 28, 5pm. Students were given 3 days since July 26 to submit fresh forms. However, it seems that the deadline has been extended without intimation. The official DTE (Directorate of Technical Education) website has still kept the form […]

I still remember the day I went paperless; it was three years ago and the reason was a device named ‘Kindle.’ It was a pretty new concept back then. Amazon had launched a limited-edition Kindle carved in graphite. It was an advanced version with fewer buttons since the alphanumeric keypad had been replaced by a […]

Kota’s Ankita Vijay (32) has won the ‘Grignard Research Award 2015 in Photocatalysis’ by International Agency for Standards and Ratings (IASR) for her research work. While the award was declared in 2015, Ankita only recently received the official certificate. She was also named among the World’s 500 Most Influential Chemists for Year 2015 on Earth, […]

In a recent declaration by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, around 60,000 engineering seats are up for grabs in the fourth round of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) conducted by the Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test 2016 (MHT-CET) . DTE has allotted around 15% seats for admissions in the engineering colleges in Maharashtra […]

The four top engineering colleges in Telangana have moved the Hyderabad High Court against the fee structure fixed by the Telangana Admission Fee Regulatory Committee (TAFRC) for the block period 2016 to 2019. The list includes Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology and Vasavi College […]

1) Kerala Tourism wins gold at PATA Awards a) Kerala Tourism has bagged a gold medal at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) awards for its trend-setting marketing initiatives that have boosted the tourism in the state. b) The two gold gongs for ‘Marketing Media’ are in the categories of ‘Travel Advertisement Broadcast Media’ and […]

The global phenomenon, ‘Pokemania’ has gripped India’s premier engineering institutes, Indian Institutes of Technology. Students who might appear to be wandering aimlessly around the IITs, are actually exploring their campuses, desperately looking for Pokemon. Usually gathering around Poke Stops, they reload on supplies of Poke balls, an essential tool for catching Pokemon. While the game is yet to […]