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The Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Akademi of Letters) celebrated 60 years of promoting Indian literature in March this year.  It not only recognises Indian writers and poets who have immensely contributed to literature but also organises hundreds of workshops, seminars, lectures, discussions and symposia, all across India to bring the country’s diverse reading community together. […]

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PART- 2 By early 2000s, some of the students who Mr. Bansal had taught had managed an entry into the IITs. Mr Bansal pioneered a new method of teaching. He invented what he calls the DPP which is Daily Practise Problems, which meant a daily look and grind into solving problems. Since the time between […]

PART-1 In real life, VK Bansal looks exactly like the way he does inphotographs.  A trademark white bush shirt, a half smile waiting tobreak into a grin and a gaze that seems to be perennially fixed someplace far away. What the photos do not incarcerate, however, is the moral fibre thatmakes VK Bansal, the 65 […]

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has invited applications for the posts of Judgement Writers and Stenographers. The details of the vacancies are follows: Judgement Writers No. of vacancies: 03 Essential Qualifications: Graduate in any discipline with at least three years of experience working as a Senior Scale Stenographer/ Judgement Writer Age limit: not specified Remuneration: Rs. 10,300 – 34,800/- […]

1. U.S legalizes gay marriages in all 50 states of the country (i) The US Supreme court, on Friday, in an historic ruling legalised same sex marriages, holding that gay people can marry in all the 50 states of US. (ii) The court ruled that US constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under […]

Not so great story of another run off the mill software engineer IIT JEE Results, June 2008 Life took a vicious turn for a boy of 18, his dreams shattered to smithereens. 2 years of working hard yields no result as he leaves the city of Jamshedpur; his hometown, head hung down in pain and […]

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Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is an Indian state-owned aerospace and defence company with about nine factories, and few regional offices in India. It is owned by the Indian Government & primarily manufactures advanced electronic products for the Indian Armed Forces. BEL is one of the eight PSUs under Ministry of Defence. It has even earned […]