This is the extraordinary story of three young girls and their never-say-die spirit, which has changed the education scenario in a small village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. They faced apathy, taunts and humiliation in their battle against ignorance and deep conservatism. Thanks to their efforts, 90% of the children in their village attend school…
The first ever initiative provides exposure to new careers in seven states across the country. By A Staff Writer In the first of its kind initiative, a pan-Indian career counseling campaign nicknamed ‘Career Yatra 2015’ was organized connecting 25 cities of the country during the month of May and first week of June to make…
Bengaluru: The 15th Graduation Day was celebrated on 23rd May 2015 at the campus of HKBK College of Engineering for the outgoing B.E/MBA and M.Tech students. 496 students graduated out of the portals of HKBK College of Engineering this year. They were presented with mementos and certificates. Mr. C.M. Faiz Mohammed, Director, HKBK Group of…
New Delhi: The Government of India has introduced the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) for encouragement of studies in pure sciences. KVPY is a scholarship programme. The Department of science and technology, Government of India conducts an aptitude written exam to offer scholarship to talented students. Students who are studying in science/mathematics after 10th standard…
Ambur: The two Muslim-managed higher secondary schools here have shown extraordinary performance in the SSLC exams. The Hasanath Jaria Girls High School produced 100 per cent passes. All the 315 girls who appeared, passed the exam. Even in the 12th public exam it has been getting cent percent result continuously since the past 4 years.…
Kozhikode: Two Muslim girls have topped the Kerala Medical Entrance Examination, result for which were announced by P. K. Abdur Rabb, the Minister for Education in Thiruvananthapuram. Securing 954 marks, P. Hiba, a resident of Manchery in Malappuram district, bagged the first rank in the examination while the second rank went to Mariam Rafi of…
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has invited applications for the award of fellowships for the year 2015-16 under Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) for the benefit of Minority Students belonging to Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist and Parsi communities for pursuing studies leading to M.Phil / Ph.D degree (full time) in Sciences, Engineering and…
A team from an M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Mumbai has bagged the first position in Asia in an international competition in Aeronautical design held in USA last month. The team ‘Aerosols’ of the college run by Anjuman-I-Islam stood first in Asia in the international competition held on March 13-14 at Lakeland,…
New Delhi: ‘GUSTO’, a low-wind energy capturing micro wind turbine designed by the students of the Jamia Millia Islamia was adjudged the Second Prize at GRIDTECH”2015 held here in the second week of April. The students mechanically and electrically designed and fabricated GUSTO in-house in the college labs. GUSTO was a joint project of third…
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia will be introducing four new courses from the academic year 2015-16. The programmes would be: 1-MA in Gender Studies at Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s studies, MSc in Biophysics at Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health at Department of Social Work and Diploma…
