Indian origin Computer scientist claimed to have solved toughest riddle

An Indian-origin computer scientist based in the US claims to have solved one of the world's most complex mathematical riddles.

Vinay Deolalikar, who works with the US multinational information technology corporation Hewlett-Packard in California, believes he has solved the problem of "P versus NP", Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.

The Massachusetts-based Clay Mathematical Institute has categorised "P vs NP" as one of the seven millennium problems. It is considered the "most difficult" one to be solved.

Super 30 shines in IIT-JEE tests

All 30 students of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for the third consecutive year, the institute announced on Wednesday.

"We are really upbeat and celebrating the 100 percent success for the third consecutive year as all 30 students have cracked the IIT-JEE this year," Anand Kumar, the institute's director-cum-founder.

Super 30 that helps the economically backward students crack the IIT-JEE has been selected by The Time Magazine in the list of The Best of Asia 2010.

The magazine, in its latest issue, said that every year, about 230,000 students take the exam for a seat in the IITs but only 5,000 grab it.

"Last year, 30 of them came from one coaching centre in Patna, capital of the impoverished north Indian state of Bihar. That may not seem like many, but for the Super 30 centre it's a pass rate of 100 percent," it said.

Mohammad Sadab Azam, a student of Super 30, said: "Thanks to Super 30, I cracked the IIT-JEE. Everyone is in a celebratory mood. We are happy."

Azam, whose father works as a labourer in a village in Gaya district, said that he had never dreamt of cracking the prestigious exam.

"It was all because of Super 30," he said.

TN SSLC results to be announced tomorrow

TamilNadu state SSLC results are to be announced tomorrow. Extensive measures have been taken by the Directorate to publish the results.

Directorate has announced the results will be published by 9 A.M.

Students can check their marks in the following websites

• tnresults.nic.in/sslc/sslc.htm
• www.pallikalvi.in/
• http://result.dinakaran.com
• results.oneindia.in/ 
• results.tamilnadueducation.net/
   

Indian girl in the team that created Artificial living cell

A girl who passed out of a Bangalore college is now in global limelight for being part of the team that created the first synthetic cell. Radha Krishnakumar, now in her mid-thirties, did her BSc in microbiology, chemistry and zoology from Mount Carmel College, reads the J Craig Venter Institute website, where her work has created ripples in the institute where she works now.

When contacted some of the teachers at the college who worked during the late 90s, and flashed a photo of her, one of them recollected this "quiet, sweet girl".

"She was a very quiet, unassuming girl. I remember her as a clever and focussed child," said a thrilled Vimala C M, the present head of the department of Zoology, who has been teaching in MCC for the past 25 years.

Student Cheated in Anna University campus by a Person pretending to be a employee

student was allegedly relieved of Rs.2.5 lakh cash by a stranger who promised to get him an engineering seat in Anna University.

According to police sources, D. Deekshit (19) of Tiruchi came here on May 3 to purchase an application form for admissions to engineering courses in Anna University. The suspect, introducing himself as Rishi Kanth, picked a conversation with the student near the campus and offered to help in getting a seat.

When Deekshit said he preferred Aeronautical Engineering, he said it would cost him Rs.5 lakh. Pretending to be an employee of the varsity, the suspect said Deekshit had to give a token advance and then pay the full cash.

After consulting his parents, the student agreed to the offer.

MGR medical university is like a Post office - TN Health Minister MRKP

In what was perhaps the biggest indictment of the MGR Medical University, Health Minister MRK Panneerselvam on Friday likened it to a post office where people go just to collect certificates.

He urged Vice Chancellor Dr Mayil Vahanan Natrajan to turn it into a vibrant university, taking inspiration from the Anna University and Madras University.

Speaking at the inauguration of the new entrance arch, new lift and remolded Senate Hall in the University, he said, " This university is now like a post office. People come here to collect certificates and other paperrelated work. I hope it soon becomes a fully functional university with classrooms full of students like the Anna University and the Madras University."

44 Deemed Varsities allowed to admit students this year

The Supreme Court Thursday declined a plea by the Human Resource Development ministry to restrain 44 deemed universities - facing the prospect of being derecognised - from admitting students for academic session 2010-11 commencing July.

A bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra also declined a plea by the Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam that the admission for the coming academic year to these deemed universities should be subject to the final outcome of the hearing of the matter.

30 physically challenged persons among 875 candidates passed in Civil services exam

Of the 875 candidates who cleared the Civil Services Exam, 30 are physically challenged, it was announced on Thursday.

Among the 30, 14 are orthopaedically challenged, five are visually-impaired and 11 are hearing-impaired, the Union Public Service Commission said.

A total of 680 male and 195 female candidates have been recommended for appointment to the prestigious Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service and other central services.

Shah Faesal, a doctor from Kashmir, has topped the civil services examination. Prakash Rajpurohit, a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, has bagged the second position while Iva Sahay from the Jawaharlal Nehru University has secured the third position. Ms. Sahay is the topper among women candidates.

Karnataka Education board to announce results for PUC & SSLC on May 6

The Karnataka education board will announce the results of the SSLC on 6th May 2010 at 07:00 AM. The result of PUC will also be announced on the same day.

Result will be published on the official website of  PUC and SSLC. The official websites for SSLC and PUC are www.kseeb.org and pue.kar.nic.in

The SSLC exam was conducted from April 1 and Around 8.35 lakh appeared fro the examination. PUC exam was conducted from March 18 and 6.51 lakh students appeared for the exams.


Result can also be checked from the following websites: http://results.karnatakaeducation.net/ 
http://karresults.nic.in/
www.kseeb.org

Indian born Professor to be Dean in Harvard business school

An India-born professor and IIT alumnus who has long championed a pledge for organizational leaders and managers on the lines of the Hippocratic Oath for doctors to enhance accountability in the corporate world has been named Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School.

Nitin Nohria, who is currently the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School's 10th dean, Harvard President Drew Faust announced on Tuesday.

Nohria is the first Indian, and indeed the first non-white, to become the dean of the 102-year old institution that typically ranks among the top three business-schools in the world.

TNEA applications to be issued from May 3 till May 31

Around 50 new engineering colleges are expected to be started in the State with an additional 12,000 seats from this year.

Applications forms for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions will be issued from May 3 and the university is gearing up for single window counselling, P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, Chennai, said here.

Last date

Dr. Jawahar said 1.8 lakh application forms had been printed by Anna University and they would be issued at 58 places across the State from May 3 (Monday). The last date for submission of application forms is May 31.

Technical Education in India needs change

Technical education in the country needs an overhaul and some radical changes, scientists and academicians taking part in a three-day international conference in the city have said.

“We need radical changes in engineering education,” VK Aatre, former scientific advisor to the defence ministry, said on the first day of the conference titled ‘Convergence of science and engineering in education and research’ on Wednesday.

Fire test to boost self confidence in Surat's private school

In a shocking incident, students of the primary section of a private school in Surat were forced to walk barefoot on a bed of burning coal and broken glass, on Tuesday evening.

The entire exercise, ostensibly organised to boost the self-confidence of the children, took place at the Riverdale Academy located on Rander road in the city.

During the event, which lasted for close to three hours, the participating children suffered injuries and cried profusely but this had no impact on the school authorities.

A girl motivates others to join the local school...

The Government Girls’ Middle School at Sherpur village in Madhya Pradesh is now being widely recognised as “Lalita Ka School.”

Lalita is no politician but a gritty 15-year-old, whose firm determination to study has motivated other girls to follow suit at the same very school from where she studied from Class VI to VIII.

Schools in Jharkand to open & close early- coz of high temperature

Due to the soaring mercury, school timings in Jharkhand have been changed from Monday. Schools will now open at 6.30 a.m. instead of 8.30 a.m. and will close at 11 a.m. instead of 2.30 p.m., an official said.

Ranchi, which was the summer capital of undivided Bihar, witnessed a temperature of 40.6 degrees Celsius Sunday. In Palamau and in some other parts of the state, the mercury touched 46 degrees Celsius.

4.72 Lakh students take IIT-JEE 2010

About 4.72 lakh students across the country will take the IIT-JEE 2010 to be held tomorrow for admission into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

According to T S Natarajan, organising chairman, JEE, an average of 60,000-80,000 students would appear in each of the seven IIT zones in the country for 10,000 seats in 15 IITs, IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad.

CAT results declared by IIMs

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) on Sunday, Feb 28, announced the much awaited CAT 2009 results.

The results are available on the CAT website. Candidates can check their results at by entering the following data:

    * CAT Registration Number

    * E-mail address exactly as supplied during CAT registration, as it appears on the Admit card.


The website also mentions that if students are unable to locate the details, they can contact Candidate Care or call the Toll Free Number 1 800 103 9293.


The seven IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore and Shillong have also separately put up the lists of candidates shortlisted by them for the next stage of their admission process.

CAT 2009 was the first time that the examination was conducted as a computer-based online test.

CAT results by the end of Feb

The wait would soon be over for candidates who are aspiring to get into the country's top business schools. The eagerly awaited result is expected to be out anytime now. Last week IIM official's announced through their official website that the results are to be further delayed and would only be out by end of the month.

This year's CAT was the first time that the examination was conducted as a computer-based online test. It was conducted in the paper-and-pencil format for 33 years. The original schedule for the test was between November 28 and December 7, which was extended by a day to December 8 to accommodate thousands of students who could not appear during the ten-day window because of technical glitches at several centers across the country.

Will RTE be successfully implemented ?? - Kapil Sibal comments

The Centre will check commercialisation of education and seek consensus among states to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act from April 1, said Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday.

"Our aim is to ensure that all children in India get quality education, but we are against commercialisation of education. Incessant hike of fee and overcharging from parents is something we do not support," Sibal told reporters in New Delhi.

In order to implement the RTE Act in its true spirit, the minister said, he will hold meetings with various state governments.

Science & Maths to be taught same across the country.

State boards across the country have agreed to implement a core curriculum in science and mathematics at the higher secondary level.
The decision taken by the Council of School Board of Education (COBSE) on Tuesday will be implemented from 2011-12.

The apex body for all school boards and councils also agreed to work towards a common entrance examination for professional courses by 2013. With concerns about stress faced by students mounting, the core curriculum is expected to be implemented smoothly. Putting in place a common entrance examination for courses like engineering, medicine may prove to be difficult, as it would mean doing away with entrance exams like IIT-JEE. Both decision would be referred to the Central Advisory Board on Education for approval.