Articles: IIT Kharagpur to Open Medical School in Partnership with US University
Region: IndiaIndia’s oldest IIT is all set to open an in campus Medical School in collaboration with California University, San Diego and would offer Bachelor, Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral degrees along side its Engineering degrees. As per Damodar Acharya, the director of the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), the project is likely to kick off with the opening of a 350-bed hospital in 2011. A memorandum to this effect was signed between the IIT and California University (CU) on 18th... more
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No Headway in Tripartite ’Gorkhaland’ Meet but Solace for Gurung
Region: IndiaAs was expected, the tripartite talks on ‘Gorkhaland’ issue in New Delhi on 11th Aug’09 could not produce any tangible results. However Bimal Gurung and Co scored a moral and notional win over their archrival Subash Ghisingh by forging a consensus on abandoning the bill on sixth schedule and scrapping the existing Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), created in 1988 after an agreement with GNLF supremo Subash Ghisingh. It was learnt that the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) ... more
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SBI Announces Cheapest Home Loans to Improve Market Share
Region: IndiaThe State Bank of India- a public sector and the largest of all Indian banks- announced a home loan (Hi-Five Loan) at 8% of Rs. 5 lakhs for a period of 5 years. It also announced home loans up to Rs.50 lakhs with interest rates of 8% for the first years and 8.5% for the next two years, making the offers the cheapest in the market now. The Bank also announced that no processing fees would be charged for a period up to 7th November’09 as a promotional offer to facilitate the buyers in th... more
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India: Private Airlines Proposed Strike Grounded Before Take Off
Region: IndiaFederation of Indian Airlines (FIA), an association of four big and six smaller airlines, announced today (2nd Aug’09) withdrawal of ‘protest suspension of flights on 18th August’. Bowing under pressure from smaller airlines, which operates low cost carriers, the planned protest strike has to be withdrawn within a couple of days of announcement. FIA officials quoted public inconvenience and governments willingness to enter into dialogue as the reason for withdrawal of the pr... more
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Indian Student Protests Racial Attacks in Australia
Region: AustraliaOutraged over the spate of racial attacks in Australia, hundreds of Indian students on Sunday took out a massive rally here demanding justice for the victims of recent assaults, including 25-year-old Shravan Kumar who is battling for life in a local hospital. The 'peace rally' organised by bodies like Federation of Indian Students in Australia (FISA) and National Union of Students kicked off from outside the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where Kumar is in a critical condition in the intensive ca... more
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Railway Protection Force Registered 204 cases
Region: IndiaDuring a check conducted by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in trains running between Alappuzha, Kottayam and Ernakulam stations, as part of the safety week observance, 204 cases were registered for various offences and Rs.75,500 was collected as fine. The cases registered and the fine collected were as follows: as many as 45 cases of unauthorised vending on railway premises (Rs.9,100); 28 unauthorised parking (Rs.13,050) cases; 56 footboard travel (Rs. 23,500); three for pulling the chai... more
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Left Front Poll Debacle in Bengal: An Objective Analysis
Region: IndiaThis year’s parliamentary election results has been extremely surprising for the Left Front (LF), which has been decimated to 3/7th of their strength of last parliamentary elections in 2004, when the LF won as much as 35 seats compared to 15 in this election. Just three years ago in May’06 the LF won the assembly elections by a thumping margin scoring 235 seats out of 294 seats. Statistics says the LF has lost as much as 191 assembly segments of the 294 and has lost more than 5% i... more
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Villages, Cities, Metros all Look Eagerly to Election Results
Region: IndiaToday is the day that determines who will win or lose in the Parliamentary election. From the morning itself, the media is set to bring the latest updates of vote results. The counting of votes that would reveal who has the upper hand in political Kerala started at 8 a.m. Let us see who will be the final winners of this heat. more
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Indian Engineering Students Help Redesign the Rickshaw
Region: IndiaThe public sector Kerala Automobiles Limited (KAL) has received unexpected assistance from a team of engineering students to redesign one of its three-wheeler models. The remodelling was taken up by Sonu S. Babu, Rahul Harish, U.R. Rachin, I. Irfan Ahmed and A. Anshad, all final-year B.Tech. (Mechanical) students of the Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Nalanchira, as part of their project work done at the KAL plant here. The project involved the redesign of the chassis of... more
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The Indian Parliamentary Election Scenario 2009
Region: IndiaThis time, not withstanding a scorching summer in decades, the heat generated by parliamentary poll proceedings has been much less than the previous occasions. The severe blow delivered by the Supreme Court banning pre-poll surveys and exit polls (after election schedules are declared) has taken away much sheen from the election battle, depriving the electronic and print media their share of gossip columns, hypothetical analysis and group discussions to throw open the number game of anticipat... more
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