Thursday, September 23, 2010

Yamuna water rising, flood situation grim in Agra

Yamuna water rising, flood situation grim in Agra

Yamuna water rising, flood situation grim in Agra

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 09:07 PM PDT

With the water level of the river Yamuna rising ominously, the flood situation Friday was described as grim by the district authorities who were shifting people along the banks to safer areas.

Now, you can just log on to apply for UPSC exams

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 12:15 PM PDT

As part of its e-governance initiative, the union public service commission (UPSC) has introduced a system of online submission of applications for all its exams.

CBSE aptitude tests to aid Class XI choices

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:56 PM PDT

Are you one of those brave CBSE students who have decided to give the Class X board exams a miss and go along with CBSE's new reforms, which involve a system of continuous and comprehensive evaluation all year long?

Delhi debacle may damage Brand Commonwealth

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 04:02 PM PDT

In the ultimate irony, India, which arguably made the modern Commonwealth 61 years ago by agreeing to stay in despite being a republic, could destroy the only visible and globally recognizable activity of the 54-member relic of empire, i.e the Games.

Mollified, press tones down sharp rhetoric

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Late on Thursday, an appalled global village appeared to be mollified by a mood change in Delhi, with news websites reporting India's first admission of "collective failure", the mea culpa by Organizing Committee treasurer A K Mattoo.

Enjoy a good laugh... joke's on the Games!

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:55 PM PDT

Whenever there's a crisis — recession, price rise, terrorism or films like Radio starring Himesh Reshamiyya — SMSes start flying between mobiles, Twitter timelines get clogged and statuses get updated with dark jokes that try to turn the problem on its head.

TN, Maha show greatest gender disparity in award of PhDs

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 11:57 AM PDT

Girls are often seen outperforming boys in classrooms across the board be it in school or college. However, statistics now point out that women still have some way to go before they can catch up with men in the field of post-doctoral research.

IIM-A in top 10 of B-school chart

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:51 PM PDT

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has, for the first time, been ranked number eight for its two-year Postgraduate Programme.

Seniors assault class VIII student

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:49 PM PDT

The ongoing trial in the Aman Kachru ragging case in the fast track court at Dharamsala hardly had any impact on students of a government school in Kangra district who assaulted a class VIII student when he refused to carry out their orders.

Taj corridor: Plea to withdraw PIL rejected

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:48 PM PDT

In a setback to UP CM Mayawati and cabinet minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused withdrawal of a PIL seeking full-fledged criminal trial of the duo in the multi-crore Taj Corridor case.

Terror mail sent from second-hand mobile

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:24 PM PDT

Investigations into the terror email sent by Indian Mujahideen hours after the Jama Masjid firing incident have revealed that a second-hand Nokia mobile handset purchased from a shop in Dongri in south Mumbai was used to send the threat mail.

Dog cast(e) away after dalit touch

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT

A dog's life couldn't get worse. A mongrel brought up in an upper caste home in Morena was kicked out after the Rajput family members discovered that their Sheru had eaten a roti from a dalit woman and was now an "untouchable".

Bhakra dam tilt increases, dam officials allay fears

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT

As if the retreating monsoon fury was not enough, Bhakra dam registered another, albeit, disturbing record on Thursday, by registering its highest ever deflection, a tilt in layman's terms, level of 1.08 inches.

Fresh alert in districts along Ganga, Yamuna

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:12 PM PDT

People of western UP heaved a sigh of relief as rainfall activity slowed down and water began to recede in some places on Thursday. But their ordeal is far from over as a fresh alert has been sounded for districts along the banks of the Ganga and Yamuna.

FMCT: India sticks to stand, Pak dithers

Posted: 23 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Just ahead of the crucial Conference on Disarmament session in New York on Friday, government sources said on Thursday that India continues to stand by its position that it will accept anything which is "universal and non-discriminatory" in nature.
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