Seven New IIMs

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Cabinet Approves Seven (7) New IIMs

 

NEW DELHI: The country will soon have seven new IIMs, of which four will start functioning from next year with the Union Cabinet today approving a 

HRD ministry proposal to set up these management institutes.

 

The new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will be set up in Tami Nadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.

 

Aimed at generating a highly competent and trained manpower, the institutes are also expected to act as a major catalyst for developing a knowledge society that would inevitably impact on the economic growth of the country.

 

In the first phase, four IIMs at Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rohtak (Haryana) will be set up in 2009-10, which would become functional from academic session 2010-11.

 

The IIMs in Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan will be set up in 2010-11.

 

In phase-I there would be an intake of 140 students in the PG course and by the end of phase-II, it would reach 560 students per year.

 

The 11th Five Year Plan endorsed by the National Development Council (NDC) in December 2007, envisaged establishment of seven new IIMs in the country.

 

With these new IIMs, the country will have 13 B-schools. The Centre has also established one IIM -- Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM) in Shillong -- which has commenced its first academic session from 2008-2009.

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Class X Boards to Become Optional From 2010 ~ 11

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NEW DELHI: From the coming academic year (2010-11), the Class X board exams will become optional in all CBSE schools. The board will make a formal 

 

Sources in CBSE said board chairman Vineet Joshi will, on Thursday, hold the last presentation and consultation session in Madhya Pradesh on the changes being brought about before the draft is finalized and made public.

 

The sources said CBSE has prepared the format of an aptitude exam which schools can use to test Class X students on their level of understanding in each subject. The emphasis, however, will be on continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) through the year instead of a single public exam at the end of Class X.

 

``CBSE has decided to go strongly on making the Class X board exam optional and implement CCE grading system and other alternatives. The process of review of the present Class X exam system is over,'' Joshi told TOI.

 

He said that CBSE had also conducted a survey among students on whether they want the board exam to continue. ``In a couple of days, we will come out with final modalities of the new system,'' he added.

 

Joshi said there were apprehensions that the new format would create two categories of students, those who take the exam and others who don't. ``Concerns have also been raised on the problem of certification for those who opt out. We have addressed these issues in the new plan and provided alternatives,'' he said.

 

Among these alternatives is the provision of an online, on demand test for those who don't take the board exam but want certification later on. ``The certificate issued after this online exam would be equivalent to the Class X certificate. This test will also help students who want to change streams in Class XI,'' Joshi said.

 

In another major decision aimed at ensuring that schools maintain the minimim basic standards, CBSE has decided to have an independent agency for accreditation of CBSE schools. All schools under the board will have to get themselves evaluated by this agency within three years. New schools will get CBSE affiliation three years after they have been accredited by this agency.

 

Joshi said the accreditation agency could be either a government or private body. ``The Quality Council of India has shown interest in the project,'' he added.

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Class XII Marks Crucial from 2011

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Class XII Marks May Play A Crucial Factor in IIT-JEE from 2011

 

This may be a good news for those who had scored very good percentage in their XII board exam as Marks scored in the Plus Two board examinations are going to decide your eligibility in the Joint  Entrance Examination (IITJEE) for admission into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by 2011.

Union human resource development ministry  has set up a committee of IITs professors ,  to suggest reforms to JEE, is expected to submit its report recommending ways to consider the marks scored by students in higher secondary examinations while preparing the IIT merit list. A meeting of all IIT directors and JEE representatives in Chennai over the weekend discussed the proposed changes.

“We hope to devise a methodology to compute a normalised Plus Two cut-off eligibility score for each educational board (CBSE, ICSE, and State Boards). once it’s approved, then only students who have scored this cut-off mark would become eligible to appear for JEE,” said IIT Madras deputy director V G Idichandy, who is heading the committee.

Four years ago, IIT standing council had proposed 85% marks in XII as  minimum cut off percentage for JEE but it has been reduced to 60%  by considering it too high for benchmark

In the current  scenario the admission processes in IITs ,nowhere consider the XII marks in process which is opposed by various committees as it totally ignore the importance of XII board exam and give rise to coaching culture

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Bye Bye to Bypass Surgery.

 

Authenticate before taking any major decision ……………

 

http://akscnb.blogspot.com/2009/08/bye-bye-to-bypass.html

 

 

PREFIX & SUFFIX

 

Prefix	Symbol	Factor
Yotta	Y	1024
Zetta	Z	1021
Exa	E	1018
Peta	P	1015
Tera	T	1012
Giga	G	109
Mega	M	106
Kilo	k	103
Hecto	h	102
Deca	da	101
Meter / Gram / Litre / Volts / Amps / Ohms / Rs.   ……  And So On  ……
Deci	d	10-1
Centi	c	10-2
Milli	m	10-3
Micro	mu	10-6
Nano	n	10-9
Pico	p	10-12
Femto	f	10-15
Atto	a	10-18
Zepto	z	10-21
Yocto	y	10-24

 

 

NASA Created

On 29 July in 1958, the U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America's activities in space. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been instrumental in everything from weather forecasting to navigation to global communications.

NASA was created in response to the Soviet Union's October 4, 1957 launch of its first satellite, Sputnik I. The 183-pound, basketball-sized satellite orbited the earth in 98 minutes. The Sputnik launch caught Americans by surprise and sparked fears that the Soviets might also be capable of sending missiles with nuclear weapons from Europe to America. The United States prided itself on being at the forefront of technology, and, embarrassed, immediately began developing a response, signaling the start of the U.S.-Soviet space race.

On November 3, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II, which carried a dog named Laika. In December, America attempted to launch a satellite of its own, called Vanguard, but it exploded shortly after takeoff. On January 31, 1958, things went better with Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite to successfully orbit the earth. In July of that year, Congress passed legislation officially establishing NASA from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and other government agencies, and confirming the country's commitment to winning the space race.

In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared that America should put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, NASA's Apollo 11 mission achieved that goal and made history when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, saying "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

NASA has continued to make great advances in space exploration since the first moonwalk, including playing a major part in the construction of the International Space Station. The agency has also suffered tragic setbacks, however, such as the disasters that killed the crews of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986 and the Columbia space shuttle in 2003. In 2004, President George Bush challenged NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and establish "an extended human presence" there that could serve as a launching point for "human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond."

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