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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Report by India Education bureau, Pittsburgh: Two Carnegie Mellon University student-run teams will host the first picoCTF, a computer security competition running April 26 to May 6 that challenges high school students to learn the basics of hacking in the context of a story-driven game.
"The story of the Internet competition begins when a robot from oute...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Report by India Education bureau, Montreal: Nine McGill researchers are among the recipients of the newly awarded and renewed Canada Research Chairs announced today by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) at Western University in London, Ontario.
Six McGill chairs have been renewed, and three new chairs added for a tota...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Report by India Education bureau, Montreal: McGill University’s Food and Dining Services has received the Marine Stewardship Council Chain of Custody certification, becoming the first Canadian post-secondary institution to be recognized by the MSC for its commitment to serving sustainable seafood.
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), an internation...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Massachusetts: Four MIT professors have been named 2013 MacVicar Faculty Fellows for their outstanding undergraduate teaching, mentoring and educational innovation.
This year’s honorees are Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering; Rob Miller, an associate professor of com...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Oxford: Neanderthal brains were adapted to allow them to see better and maintain larger bodies, according to new research by the University of Oxford and the Natural History Museum, London.
Although Neanderthals' brains were similar in size to their contemporary modern human counterparts, fresh analysis of fossil data suggests that their brain structu...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
By Kianti Roman; Yale University has announced an agreement with the Botín Foundation to advance research in the area of emotional intelligence. The collaboration, which brings new funding for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, supports a scientific investigation of the links between creativity and emotion.
A March 13 signing ceremony on t...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
By Dorie Baker; Yale: Tom Bodkin, design director of The New York Times, will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on Tuesday, April 2.
Bodkin will give a free and public presentation, titled “Designing the News,” at the Yale School of Art, 1156 Chapel St., at 3:30 p.m.
Bodkin will talk about how the marr...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Yale: Yale University President-elect Peter Salovey and Universia President Emilio Botín signed an agreement March 13 marking a new collaboration between the two institutions to expand global education and career opportunities.
Universia, an institutional network of more than 1,000 universities in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, selected Yale a...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Wageningen: Urbanization, economic growth and other transformations are causing changes in lifestyles and diets in many parts of the world and countries are not coping as well as they could, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told professors and students at Wageningen University and Research Centre today.
The Director-General, on an ...
Friday, March 15, 2013
Report by India Education bureau, Cuttack: Right to education law may have come to provide compulsory education to the children till eighth class, but the mindsets of the school teachers hardly have changed to oblige the dictates of the law. But many grass-root workers who work for the cause of the society could make the teachers understand the effect of the law. Zarina Bibi from Cutta...
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Summer Camps to surpass Rs.1,000 cr. mark by 2017: ASSOCHAM (Delhi)
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 25 per cent, the summer camps industry size is likely to touch Rs. 1,000 cr. by 2017-18 from the current level of Rs. 400 cr. due to w ..
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Vedanta Khushi Event On Street Children : Past Tense But Is Future Perfect For The Children Of Streets ?? (Delhi)
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New Delhi: Mere mention of Street Children brings a many notions on the condition of these poor and deprived children in India. Some are born poor and there are most, who wish to remain the same. Fault lies in system or the fault lies in ..
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Time Magazine featured Odisha as a state of excellence, hails leadership of Naveen Patnaik (Orissa)
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Report by Rashmi r Parida, Bhubaneswar: TIME, one of the world's leading and acclaimed news magazines Time Magazine featured Odisha as a state of excellence in India along with Gujarat, Bihar and Maharashtra. < ..
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Himachal Pradesh CM releases book on Hindi poetry (Himachal Pradesh)
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Report by India Education bureau, Shimla: Chief Minister, Shri Virbhadra Singh released a book titled 'Samkaleen Kavita Me Lokchetna' written by Dr. Satya Narayan Sanehi, here today.
On the occ ..
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Himachal Pradesh: Rs 10 crore for establishing and strengthening GNM Schools says Health Minister (Himachal Pradesh)
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Report by India Education bureau, Shimla: Government of India would provide Rs. 10 crore each as financial assistance to set up new and strengthen the existing General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) Schools in the State and the amount would ..
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Mobile Application for Monitoring and Incentivizing the Use of Clean Cookstoves in India
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Report by Santanu Ganguly, New Delhi: Qualcomm Incorporated, through Qualcomm Wireless Reach™, Nexleaf Analytics, in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute New Delhi (TERI), Project Surya and the UK Department for Int ..
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45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference Begins
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: The 45th session of the Indian Labour Conference began in New Delhi today with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh laying emphasis on need to focus particularly on the well being and welfare of m ..
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India, Brazil and South Africa Commit to Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smt. Krishna Tirath signed the fifth India Brazil South Africa (IBSA) Women’s Forum Resolution, here today. Also signing the resolution were ..
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Government launched intensive Training Programme for ASHA Workers
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: An intensive training programme has been launched by the Government for ASHA workers to provide qualitative healthcare to the rural population. The induction training of ASHA is for 23 days in ..
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Internet connections in India to exceed 380 mn mark by 2017 - ASSOCHAM
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Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 35 per cent, total number of internet connections in India is expected to surpass 380 mn by 2017 from the current level of 168 mn, acc ..
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