ShareJai Vani Bajaj is an educationist with a difference. Director of the International College of Financial Planning (ICoFP), she has gone a step ahead of others in promoting need-based education. “I believe in education that comes handy for students in the professional sphere,” she said. The ICoFP was promoted in 2002 by the Bajaj Capital [...]

SharePolitical strife between the government and the Opposition and curtailed Parliament sessions are taking a heavy toll on UPA-II’s legislative agenda, with 29 of 35 pending bills slated for the Monsoon session dating to 2010 or earlier even as 33 new legislations have been listed. The large backlog is due to the 2010 winter session [...]

ShareTeach For India, a nationwide movement whose aim is to bridge the educational disparity in India, announced that it is expanding to Hyderabad with plans to bring 75 fellows in 35 low-income, English medium private and municipal schools of the city. This movement aims to bridge the gap by placing the country’s high potential college [...]

ShareIndia and Bangladesh on Saturday signed a comprehensive border management agreement as Home Minister P. Chidambaram held crucial talks with his counterpart Ms. Sahara Khatun ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit here in September. “We have just signed the agreement – Border Management Coordination Plan for a comprehensive and joint management of all frontier [...]

ShareThe campus became a cauldron of violence in Bengal long before Rabindra Bharati employee Basudev Nandi’s death on Friday following an alleged attack by five students who he had tried to prevent from illegally parking their motorbikes. “This tragic incident underscores the urgent need to work towards removing politics and violence from life on the [...]

ShareTarak Bajpai, COO of Speak Asia, does not believe that any operation of the Singapore-based firm is above law. Tarak had recently made it big after becoming associated with Speak Asia, a firm earlier called Haren Technologies. “We are not operating above law. During previous queries, all departments had given a clean chit to the [...]

ShareA Press Conference was organized by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) here today  by CA.G.Ramaswamy, President, ICAI. He  updated the media on  some of the recent initiatives taken by the Institute. Following is the Press note issued on this occasion: Group formed to address the issue of Black Money: In the wake [...]

ShareThe state government will soon implement Rajiv Education and Employment Mission which aims to provide industry-friendly education to students, according to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. The government aims to generate 15 lakh jobs (both governemnt and private) in the next 3 years through this mission, he said. Addressing the 93rd annual function of [...]

ShareDEEM 2011 – International Conference on Deregulated Environment and Energy Markets was organised by Electrical Engineering Department in association with Glasgow Caledonian University, Sponsored by Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA), Chandigarh & Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chandigarh that provided the premier forum for the practicing engineers, academicians, scientists, technologists, scholars, researchers, government [...]

ShareTarang is a full fledged educational NGO operating in India offering free education in India to the slum children of Mumbai. Working with the single minded goal of educating the poor children, Tarang has launched number of projects for the slum children of Mumbai. This India NGO tries to make a difference in the Indian [...]

ShareIDP Education, a student placement organisation for higher education in Australia, Canada, UK and USA, will conduct a ‘virtual fair’, from August 1-12, for Indian students looking forward to study in Australia. Twenty Australian universities, including two listed in the world’s Top 100 (as per Times Higher Education – World University Ranking 2010), are participating [...]

ShareJRE Business School has been selected as the ‘Asia’s Promising Business Schools’ from amongst the participating B-schools of the 29 countries by the CMO Asia Advisory Board and the Advisory Council of World Brand Congress. Mr. Shantanu Prakash, Chairman and CEO, Educomp Solutions Ltd has been nominated ‘Edupreneur of the year’. The award was received [...]