Category: Education
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Guest speaker forgets promise of “keeping lecture interactive”
At least thirty students fell asleep and four others made paper aeroplanes when a guest speaker at a college fest forgot his promise of “keeping the lecture interactive”.
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“Porn ban taught me more about computer hacks than four years of engineering”
Hardik Marwah of Yet Another College of Engineering (YACE) has admitted that he learned more about computer hacks in two days of porn ban than in four years of studying computer science engineering.
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Mother under the impression that son doesn’t smoke or drink in college
Standing firmly behind her wrong beliefs, a professional mother is under the illusion that her son doesn’t smoke or drink in college.
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Lord Ganesha fails to clear SRCC and other DU cut-off lists, DU apathetic
Delhi University, quite (in)famous for its inhumane cut-off lists every year, has gone one step further and done the unthinkable by denying admission to Ganesha, son of Shiva himself.
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IIT+IIM graduate depressed after topping Civil Services, says “nothing left to achieve”
The results for the prestigious civil services exams were declared today. NTMN caught up with the topper Mohan Topkar. Here are excerpts from the interview.
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In divine enlightenment during viva, engineering student realises he was being taught magic all along
Apoorva Tapas, October 15, 2012 When Harsh Suryavanshi asked his roommate the “how” question, he received the timeless response: “Abbey yede, bas likhne ka, sochne ka nahi! Khush rahega!” So, if no one knows the “how” behind things we study, isn’t it magic we’re being taught? Until last week, Harsh Suryavanshi was just another engineering…
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CBSE finds a way to allow students to score over 100% in board exams
The Central Board of Secondary Education has found a way for you to score 700 marks out of 600 in Class 10 and 12 exams. It has made some changes to the marking pattern after it found students scoring just 100% marks in their board exams.
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A Coaching Institute for Pregnant Women to Help Their Kids Grow Up to be IITians
The leading coaching institute Cheat-JEE has announced a competitive foundation course to train pregnant women to help their would-be babies have strong chances to enter the IITs right from the foetus stage.
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India to give every child the Right to Private Tuition Classes as “school is simply not enough”
Three years after India passed the Right to Education Act, the Cabinet has now approved a bill to give every child the right to private tuition. The bill will be tabled in the Parliament in the next session.
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Student found with working brain even after four years of engineering, scientists call it a miracle
Rishi Ayyer, December 27, 2011 Miracles are not accepted by Science. However, of late, scientists all over the world are baffled, and (secretly, of course) excited at the prospect of a miracle occurring right before their eyes. Says one scientist from CERN, “Christians believe Jesus was born and walked this earth. Hindus believe Rama fought…
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By 2020, parents will be sending little kids for five tuition classes a day
A research on Indian education practices shows that by 2020, an average Indian school-going kid will attend four different tuition classes, apart from school.