New Delhi The Congress said on Tuesday that the HRD Ministry’s circular asking Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Central universities to organise “patriotic” rock shows was an “insult” to the country’s youth. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said the government seemed to have presumed that nationalism needed to be inculcated through rock bands. “If this is the vision the government has for the young people of this country, then all that I would like to say is, ‘God help us’,” he told reporters. “It is a very funny circular to say the least,” he added. The Congress also accused the BJP…
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Under the State Madrassa Shiksha Parishad in Uttar Pradesh, 16,000 madrassas will now be geo-tagged as the government will track them through a GPS-based service. Also, each madrassa will get a ‘unified district information system for education (UDISE)’ code. The state government says that this is being done for better administration and filtering out fake teachers and pupils. Adityanath’s intentions being questioned But as per News18 report, madrassas are questioning Yogi Adityanath government’s intentions. The former head of madrassa board, Professor Zainus Sajedin said, “Had this directive been issued for the better administration of both madrassas and the government schools, I would…
pple is gearing up for the launch of its latest anniversary edition iPhone. While we already know that the phone will come with radical changes, a new rumour now hints that the iPhone could ditch the Apple’s patent home button and instead come with an thin software bar at the bottom of the screen that would have gesture control features. A report from Bloomberg states that the upcoming iPhone 8 would not have any physical or digital home button. The software bar can be used open the screen by flicking it up to the middle of the display or for…
It will do away with hitches in fonts, says official For the government staff in Vellore district, typing official documents in Tamil is all set to become hassle-free. The district administration has formally launched a software, Tamil word processor that has plenty of features in store. Called ‘Amma Menthamizh,’ the Tamil word processor was launched by Collector S.A. Raman. It was developed by a team headed by N. Deivasundaram, retired professor and Head of Department of Tamil, University of Madras, and also recipient of the Chief Minister’s Tamil Computing Award for 2013. “Other Tamil software feature font and keyboard drivers.…
Summary Charlie Bilello provides an illustrated antidote to overanalyzing the market. Kevin Wilson: Hurricane Harvey offers lessons for investors about evaluating risk. Roger Nusbaum: Life circumstances can have a big influence over portfolio outcomes. Most investors likely know someone who has stayed out of the market since the financial crisis, waiting first until things seemed safe again, and then waiting in vain for a good entry point. Included in that population of those who have missed out on a historic bull market are exceptionally knowledgeable financial researchers, economists and industry bigwigs. Their crime was they knew too much. That is…
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President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Harvey-caused epic flooding, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall. The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a massive spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when lawmakers return from their August recess. The $876 million cut, which is included in the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on the U.S.-Mexico border wall that the president…
Mumbai: CDC Group Plc, the UK government’s development finance institution, is in advanced talks to invest over Rs100 crore in Veritas Finance Pvt. Ltd, which lends to micro and small enterprises, said two people aware of the development. Chennai-based Veritas Finance was registered as a non-banking financial company (NBFC) by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in October 2015. In December, Mint reported that Veritas was in the market to raise funds. The company started with an initial capital of Rs13.60 crore and raised additional equity of Rs30 crore from Lok Capital and others, including Caspian Impact Investment Adviser, in a series A…
The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) on Monday declared the final result of Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination 2015 for the recruitment of data entry operator, postal assistant /sorting assistant and lower division clerk (LDC) on its official website. The final result has been prepared on the basis of document verification of the candidates. Earlier on June 30, the commission had declared the name of 12,991 candidates who qualified, for the post of data entry operator and 16,609 candidates who qualified for the posts of postal assistant/ sorting assistant and LDCs, for document verification. Candidates can check their results by…
New Delhi Delhi University’s Aryabhatta College is holding a referendum on Friday when its students take a call on affiliation with the Delhi University Students’ Union. The referendum was necessitated after Ram Lal Anand College (evening) turned into a morning college and was re- christened Aryabatta College in the 2015-16 academic session. The notice issued by the college authorities said the referendum has been scheduled this Friday between 12 noon and 3 pm. “There are around 2,200 students in our college. At least 50% should vote for a valid referendum. Out of the total votes polled, 75% should vote on one…