EDUCATION

IIIT-Agartala student bags Rs 1.15cr package from Amazon
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A final year student pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Agartala (IIIT-Agartala), has bagged Rs 1.15 crore package per annum offer from e-commerce giant Amazon, sources said on Monday. NIT-Agartala Assistant Professor Rajib Mallik said that Subham Raj, who has bagged the offer from Amazon with an annual Package of 1.3 lakh euros (Rs 1.15 crore), would join Amazon's Berlin office in September this year as a Software Development Engineer.
Annapurna, class 12 Raj girl, selected for UNESCO's World Teen Parliament
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Annapurna, included in these 200 participants, suggested promoting digital working and paperless work in a 59-second video. Applications for this parliament were floated in July last year. The theme was - how the world can be improved.
Will students in Delhi be able to return to pre-Covid routine in 2022?
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On March 19, 2020, the Delhi government ordered for the first time the closure of all government and private schools in the city for teaching and non-teaching staff till March 31 in view of coronavirus, and postponed all exams. A study by the Azim Premji Foundation showed that almost 60 per cent of school children in India cannot access online learning opportunities.
BHU starts course in Hindu studies
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According to a BHU spokesperson, the postgraduate course is the first-of-its-kind to be offered by a university in the country. He said it is an interdisciplinary programme designed in line with the National Education Policy, 2020. The programme will be offered by the Bharat Adhyayan Kendra, in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Department of Sanskrit and Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, under the faculty of Arts.
CBSE set to conduct Class 10, 12 phase-2 board exams amid Covid surge
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The chances of the second term of the board examination getting cancelled this year are very slim, as health experts had earlier mentioned that the third wave is under control.
Investor education & financial literacy, IGNOU's new avatar on TV
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The objective for signing the MoU is to achieve the mandate of Investor Education, Awareness and Protection by utilising the tele-lecturing facility of Gyan Darshan Channel.The panel of resource persons for the lecture series would include experts from professional institutions such as ICAI, ICSI & Senior officials from IEPFA, Ministry of Corporate Affairs and other regulators. The proposed lecture series of 75 episodes will be a live tele-lecturing series on 24x7 Gyan Darshan TV channel.
India's 'SHAKTI' microprocessor developer Prof Kamakoti to head IIT Madras
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An alumnus of IITM, Kamakoti, is currently the Associate Dean for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR) at the institute. He is also a member of the National Security Advisory Board, Government of India. Kamakoti, who is a faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, led the research team that designed and booted up India's first indigenously-developed microprocessor 'SHAKTI' that can be used in mobile computing devices and networking systems.
Students claim NEET exam not applicable for AYUSH courses, HC issues notice
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Seeking the stand of the Centre and National Testing Agency in this regard, a division bench headed by Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice on the plea filed by six AYUSH aspirants. Further, the court said it will hear the matter on March 30 along with another plea filed by a group of Allopathic doctors who have moved the Court against allowing AYUSH practitioners to perform some surgeries. It also asked Centre's counsel Monika Arora to furnish details of allopathic doctors' plea.
GATE admit cards not released, exams likely to be postponed
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Earlier, GATE 2022 examinations were scheduled to be held on February 5, 6, 12 and 13, as per the official website. According to a notice issued by IIT-Kharagpur, the above mentioned dates are said to be tentative, which means that the examination can be postponed in the light of the surge in coronavirus infections. The admit cards for GATE 2022 were scheduled to be issued on January 4, which was later extended till January 7. Now, the site has put the admit card download on hold and no new date has been mentioned.
1st JEE Mains 2022 examinations likely to start from March instead of February, NEET on schedule 
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The Centre had decided that the JEE examinations will be conducted four times from this year onwards. The examinations were previously scheduled to be held in  February, March, April, and May. However, as the 2022 assembly elections are due in five states including Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Punjab, the JEE examinations are likely to start from March instead of February.
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