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Laying out space goals

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rime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the space programme, observing that ''our space scientists have made us global leaders in one of the most complex areas of modern technology.''

For the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Monday was another red-letter day. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its twenty-sixth consecutive successful flight and the fourth wholly commercial launch, put the French earth observation satellite, SPOT-7, as well as four tiny satellites from Germany, Canada and Singapore, into orbit with characteristic élan. On hand at Sriharikota to witness the launch was Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a forceful speech immediately afterwards, the Prime Minister lauded the space programme and held it up as an example of what the country could achieve, observing that “our space scientists have made us global leaders in one of the most complex areas of modern technology.” India must, he said, share “the fruits of our technological advancement with those who do not enjoy the same.” He called for the development of a “SAARC [South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation] satellite” that would provide useful applications and services to neighbouring countries.

China, it should be noted, already uses its space capabilities for softpower diplomacy, one example being an agreement with Brazil to jointly build earth observation satellites. Mr. Modi clearly intends to deploy India’s space technology as part of the country’s diplomatic outreach.

However, before turning the prime ministerial suggestion into hardware, ISRO would do well to get inputs from the other South Asian nations about their pressing needs that could be effectively addressed with space technology.

The Indian space agency is well-placed to provide the sort of assistance that the Prime Minister envisages. From its inception, the raison d’être of the Indian space programme has been the harnessing of space technology to meet the day-to-day necessities of a developing nation. Today, India is able to build and launch satellites for meteorology, earth observation and communications. Mr. Modi paid a tribute to the vision with which the space programme was established, pointing out how modern communications, space imaging and disaster management capabilities provided by Indian satellites had benefited the common man and transformed policy planning and implementation. The Prime Minister was emphatic about enhancing these capabilities, as well as maximising their utilisation for governance and development. Apart from developing more advanced satellites, he wanted to see India become “the launch service provider of the world.” Turning these goals into reality will not be easy; at present, the country is able to cater to only a small segment of the international launch market and must launch its own heavy communications satellites abroad. But ISRO has risen to challenges before, and can do so again.

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NEWS UPDATE

News Updates DU to go ahead with BMS entrance test

With confusion still prevailing on the admission process, Delhi University said that it will conduct the scheduled entrance test for bachelor of honours in management studies (BMS) Thursday.

In a statement on Wednesday, DU registrar Alka Sharma said: "This is to inform all applicants of programme of BMS of University of Delhi, that the entrance test will be held as per scheduled on June 26, between 3 to 5pm. In case there is any change in the admission procedure by the competent authority, the same test will be valid for 2014 admission." The varsity has

received 25,357 applications for the 840 BMS seats. The BMS was introduced under the four year undergraduate programme after removing a few of the existing courses. This is the only course of DU undergraduate programme for which an entrance test is being conducted. After the entrance, there would be counselling according to which students given admission. As per earlier schedule, the first counselling will be held on July 6 and two days time will be given to the students to take admission. The FMS will then notify the students of vacant seats, and hold further counselling sessions if required.

The BMS course is offered in Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, College of Vocational Studies, Deen Dyal Upadhaya College, Keshav Mahavidalaya, Maharaja Agrasen College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

Post Graduates preferred In India, a career in science is preferred by most students. Science, as a field, encapsulates a vast range of subjects – from the traditional biology, physics, or chemistry combination to various emerging fields. Little wonder then, the stream offers a variety of courses both at the graduate and postgraduate level. A graduation in science helps students acquire jobs, but their scale of progress largely depends on their higher educational pursuits and specialisations.

Based on the BSc degree in pure sciences, students can opt for various specialisations at the postgraduate level.

Subjects like chemistry, physics, mathematics, statistics, electronics, botany, zoology, biochemistry, microbiology, geography, etc, are a few 04

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options that students can consider.

Graduates can also opt for applied and interdisciplinary courses like MSc in Bioinformatics, biomedical technology, human genetics, biotechnology, forensic science, life sciences, environment science, food and nutrition sciences, clinical research, etc.

Various diploma courses are also available for graduates who wish to take up a job immediately after graduation. Further, there are various scholarships that aid graduates to pursue their higher education. However, despite the growing trend of pursuing a job immediately after graduation, the importance of a postgraduate course cannot be negated as most companies look for candidates with a higher degree qualification with a good grade for vacancies of a certain level.

Career in Security To provide youth with better academic qualification in fields of counter-terrorism, anti-insurgency and cyber security, Raksha Shakti university has launched specialised courses for such career aspirants.

The Raksha Shakti university, set up in 2009 when Narendra Modi was Gujarat’s Chief Minister, has launched four new specialised courses this year in the field of prosecution, police administration, cyber security and police psychology for which admission

process is underway. The varsity, established by Gujarat government and approved by the UGC, conducts certificate, diploma and degree courses in the field of police science and internal security. These post graduate level courses, of two-year duration each, are designed keeping in mind, the present situation and challenges faced by forces, university’s Deputy Director General Vikas Sahay said.

“In the masters level course of police administration, students will be taught different aspects of internal security, coastal security, terrorism, anti-insurgency tactics, etc. This course is designed for those, who want to build a career in the domain of internal security,” he said. “Those who want to become expert in cyber security and preventive measures, they can opt for M Tech in Cyber Security. For students having inclination towards psychology, we have launched the Masters in Police & Military Psychology course with the help of experts from Delhibased Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR),” Sahay said.

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NEWS UPDATE

Beginning...

Students Still Waiting Over After a year of education, first-year students in University of Delhi are divided over the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP). In the tussle between the University Grants Commission (UGC) and DU, students say their opinions have not been heeded.

Those against the FYUP rail against the “elementary” foundation courses making them learn or do things they already know. They worry, too, about the work load going up if diehard FYUP critics have their way, that is, make them finish the programme in three years.

Others point to its international features, notwithstanding certain drawbacks, which, they say, could be fixed.

“We were always against FYUP. It’s totally irrelevant. But we don’t have any option now. If FYUP is abandoned, we will be burdened. We have already completed our first year in college, but there is no clarity yet. Nobody is asking us,” said Sonakshi Batra, a student at a North Campus college. Mansee Arora, an economics honours student from a south Delhi college, said, “FYUP is not beneficial at all. Now we have to complete our syllabus in two years and that’s going to be a burden. FC exams are totally irrelevant. An economics student is asked questions relating to prime numbers – this is substandard.”

The issue has been compounded by the fact that this batch of students has been made to go through major education changes, starting from the Central Board of Secondary Education’s continuous and

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comprehensive evaluation in class IX and X in 2009. In 2011, under then HRD minister Kapil Sibal, class X CBSE exams became optional. In 2013, the Joint Entrance Examination (main) replaced the All India Engineering Entrance Examination. And just when the batch was on the cusp of college life came the FYUP bombshell. “There seems to be no mercy for our batch, the guinea pigs of the Indian education system. FYUP gave us opportunities to grow as students. Gaining knowledge of all subjects at such an elementary level should not be a problem for students who aim to do something. Only the smart can

see the benefits of FYUP. Give us a piece of cake, let us taste it and then take it away,” said Simran Sanganeria, a history honours student.

Yet, others are apprehensive if the FYUP is done away with. “FYUP definitely should be retained. Coming from a city like Bhopal, the foundation courses provided me with an opportunity to be vocal about the differences of culture and values I saw in a cosmopolitan city like Delhi. It is not a joke that we choose a course of our choice and after completing one year it is going to scrap out, if it weren't for this interaction course, I don't think I would have understood these new people in just one year. It did provide me with a platform to showcase myself as a new personality all together,” said Chhavi Kumar, a history student. “Scrapping FYUP at this crucial time is a very irresponsible and childlike decision. The syllabus could be modified or adjusted to focus more on major subjects.

Otherwise, it could jeopardise students’ careers and send out a wrong message about university education,” said Bharat Sharma, an English honours candidate, who pointed to the by now common refrain as to why did the UGC not take the “right steps” last year.

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Now Back to Three years Degree

Many students heaved a sigh of relief as the tug of war between the University of Delhi and the University Grants Commission over the rollback of the contentious four-year-undergraduate programme (FYUP) finally ended with the DU administration agreeing to re-launch three-year degrees. The first cut-off list is

expected on Monday and admissions begin tomorrow. “I am glad the tussle is over now and we will enrol for the programme soon.

It was a very stressful time for me and my family. I arrived in Delhi on June 24 and since then, I have been anxious, going to the university, following the news,

hoping the matter would be settled soon. I have family in Delhi, so I had a place to stay,” says Vedant Mehra, a DU aspirant from Raipur.

A statement issued by Dinesh Singh, vice-chancellor, DU, said, “The University of Delhi recognises the need of the hour. It is of paramount importance to protect the interests of the students by ensuring the start of the admission process. In line with the directive of the UGC, the university has decided to roll back the FYUP. The principals of our colleges shall assist in devising and ensuring speedy completion of the admission process.”

The admission process will now be conducted under the scheme of courses that were offered in the 2012-13 academic year in all DU colleges. For this, a 14member committee of principals has been created to monitor, advise and facilitate admissions under the three-year structure.

“The committee of principals, which will devise the modalities for admissions and advise and monitor all related issues in colleges so the process of admissions to undergraduate courses for 2014-15 is completed in the shortest possible time and in a smooth manner,” the university said in a release. The committee met on Saturday.

The announcement came a day after the UGC refused to accept an alternative proposal, by ‘eminent academicians’, which the university administration had sent it. The proposal reduced the compulsory foundation courses, increased the number of major discipline courses and recommended a three-year honours programme.

For the first time in the university’s history, undergraduate admissions have been delayed because of the DU-UGC stalemate. The application process ended on June 16 and the first cut-off was expected on June 24.

English Honours isn't finishing school, say teachers About halfway through their first class in college, it dawns upon every English literature student that some major adjustment is in order-'English honours' isn't just storybook reading after all. By the end of the first day, at least some are alarmed to find that Hinglish isn't cutting it, and no language classes feature in the timetable. By the end of the first week, they know they'll never see 90% again. A large number of candidates and their parents harbour strange ideas 06

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about the English undergraduate course in Delhi University, the most common one being it's a language, or worse, a spoken-English one. That, coupled with the notion that it's easy, probably explains the 1.5 lakh applications for English-the largest number for any subject. Asked how many of her students actually knew what they were signing up for, a teacher at an off-campus women's college says, "I'd say, not more than 20%."

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NEWS UPDATE

Smriti Irani once again attacked by Madhu Kishwar On a day UGC warned Delhi University of "penalties" if it went ahead with admissions to the FYUP this academic year, activist Madhu Kishwar

attacked HRD minister Smriti Asian, business her an agent of the Left. This is often the second time the acknowledged Narendra Modi fan has attacked the minister, the primary being Irani's instructional qualification row that began with a Kishwar tweet. On Sunday, in an exceedingly series of tweets, Kishwar aforesaid, "Left lobbies most proud of BJP's HRD minister fulfilling their agenda in delivery DU VC down who tried abundant required reforms in education system. CPM's Nandita Narain and Karat appear to possess taken HRD minister's workplace. Supplying spate of unlawful orders to DU’s VC on Saturday and Sunday." She more tweeted, "If HRD minister truly found DU reforms imperfect, she might have appointed nonpartisan review committee and more matured due process of law to junk them." Openly supporting DU VC Dinesh Singh, she aforesaid in another tweet, "Many incompetent VCs in India. however new HRD minister selected to bring down DU VC who is among most serious regarding rising

teaching standards." On June 20, she had tweeted, "Big finish talented to leftists by UGC asking DU to scrap FYUP. Confirms BJP has no education policy nonetheless. Act as poor echoes of Left lobbies." Irani was pushed to the centre of a raging disputation over her instructional qualification once it emerged that she had created contradictory declarations once she contested Lok Sabha elections in 2004 and 2014. It all started with Kishwar business tweets vital of Modi creating Irani the HRD minister. She had then tweeted, "Irani claims to be B.Com half one from school. No such degree exists.

Means that she simply took admission and left. Deception in legal instrument."

Another post had aforesaid, "Congress and Left have nurtured intellectuals, lecturers for many years. BJP neglected this arena. @narendramodi higher place worthy person in HRD." This acted as fodder for Congress leaders who joined the cause with party leader Ajay Maken tweeting, "What a cabinet of Modi? HRD minister (looking once education) Smriti Irani isn't even a graduate! Check up on her legal instrument at ECI web site page eleven."

First choice of 44 out of 50 top rankers: IIT Bombay IIT-Bombay continues to be the highest selection for the most effective of the young brains in the country. The institute has maintained its position because the most sought-after IIT in the country, with Delhi and Chennai coming a remote second and third.

A number of things are answerable for this, ranging from importance given to streams over geography, from placement records to newer short courses on provide, tell students. Of the highest one hundred rankers in JEE-Advanced 2014, most have opted for IIT-B computer science as their initial selection. However 58 were assigned seats at IIT-B in computer science in the initial spherical, followed

by Delhi, wherever 36 of the highest 100 are admitted. While 58 of the highest one 100 rankers joined IIT-B, the quantity has fallen to a small scale, compared to 67 in 2013. 36 students were assigned seats at IIT-D, as against last year's 29. IIT-B director Devang Khakhar said he was happy that 44 of the highest fifty rankers

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have opted for the Powai institute.

"Students might have situated a lot of importance to the stream over the locality and once seats in computer science were filled up, they checked out the conflicting IITs," he said. IIT-B has 44 seats for computer science and engineering within the open class. Of the highest ten rankers, 9 have opted for computer science at IIT-B and the only feminine candidate in the prime ten ranks, Aditi, who got the

seventh rank, selected to go for computer science at IIT-Delhi. Computer science was between the most popular choice at IIT-B and IIT-D followed by electrical engineering among the highest 100 ranks. just one signed up for a dual degree programme in computer science at IIT-D and therefore the rest selected the flagship BTech programmes at IIT-B, IIT-D, IIT-M and IIT-K. This year, the IIT-Madras zone, home to popular coaching hub Andhra Pradesh, cornered half the seats within the most elite club of the JEE (Advanced); 50 of the highest 100 ranks were from the zone. However only four among the highest one hundred are headed for IIT-Madras, though' up to 30% top rankers used to choose for Chennai earlier. Food actually is that the reason behind the dip. "Students have usually said IIT-M doesn't have the sort of food that Bombay or Delhi have. But all our students are good, whether they are in the top one hundred or below," said associate IIT-M dean.

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Profit-making education entrepreneurs can turn around government schools with quality education The most important policy statement yet from the new government came from human resources development minister Smriti Irani last week. She said the Modi government will bring in a new national education policy after a gap of 28 years. Our primary, secondary and higher education sectors are in a

shambles.

The statute books guarantee the right to education. But try telling that to a headmaster or a principal of a government school anywhere in the country. Recently, two Dalit children were denied admission by an East Delhi government school. It was only after the mother's employers made a strong intervention that one child was admitted. The other, 11-year-old Krishna, is to be tested again by the wise teachers. The law says education is a right and no child can be cheated of this.

Also, no child can be made to undergo any test to seek admission to a government school. But try telling a government school teacher this.

Humongous amounts of money are being spent on regular government schools and special schemes such as Sarva Siksha Abhiyan to educate miserably poor students like Krishna.

But all that money has been wasted on 08

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building contracts and on insensitive teachers who refuse to understand the great mission of shaping the nation's future. Most of them are not interested in their students and even if some of them want to teach, they are dragged down by the system that does not incentivise sensitivity or integrity.

The problem lies in the mixed structure of the sector.

It is a money-spinning industry at one level and at another a drain on the nation's resources. So private schools, many promoted by politicians or religious bodies like the Church, have thrived.

They all impart good education and also make a lot of money. Without a paisa from the government, they have grown, branched out of their homesteads and become recognisable brands across the country.

Profit-motive is the life force of a private enterprise. When education becomes a profit-making activity, there is no real space for welfare mechanisms such as government schools. While unorganized private school teachers work without respite or job security or government-approved salaries, unionised government teachers take an assured takehome packet, send their children to private schools and thereby proclaim their own inefficiency and moral bankruptcy. Sure, government schools can be turned around, and rather easily.

From the school teachers, to district education officials, to the state education secretary, to the education minister, all of them should be made accountable to their jobs, salaries and beacon-fitted cars by sending their own children and grandchildren to government schools.

Overnight, there would be a sea change in the quality of education. A school is judged by the quality of the parents and not by the teachers.

5 vocational management courses put on hold

Returning to the three-year mode does not seem to be a simple changeover for college of vocational Studies. On Monday, it set to defer admissions to 5 job management courses and unharness cutoffs just for the courses in workplace management and commercial enterprise together with B.Com (honors) and social science (honors).Under the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP), the college was permitted to present Bachelor in Management Studies (BMS) instead of the job courses.

Currently the faculty needs Delhi University to permit it to continue with BMS underneath the three-year mode or introduce Bachelor in Business Studies (BBS) because it feels the opposite job courses became extraneous and can't secure sensible jobs for the scholars. The workers association and also the admissions committee set to place on hold admissions to 385 seats covering the courses in human resource management, management of insurance, material management, selling and management of retail business, and selling and management of insurance. The faculty had launched BMS with three hundred seats.

According to the president of the workers association, Surender Singh, "DU ought to permit us to retain BMS or introduce BBS in its place within the interest of the scholars. We will run the courses underneath the threeyear structure as we are against FYUP." The principal and chairman of the admissions committee, Inderjeet Singh Dagar, however, said, "Being the principal, I cannot approve defiance of the university or UGC's directives. By that directive, BMS

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Delhi University's first cutoffs soar to 100% in three colleges As expected, cutoffs for admission into Delhi University's undergraduate courses went sky high as colleges released the first list late on Monday.

For BSc computer science, the bar was as high as 100% in at least three colleges — Acharya Narendra Dev (95-100), Atma Ram Sanatan Dharm (98-100) and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (97-100).

Though 'popular' colleges didn't raised the bar too high — there wasn't much scope for it either — cutoffs in other colleges increased by as much as 20 percentage points for some courses as compared to 2012-13, when the same programmes were last on offer.

The increase is attributed to uncertainty over the number of applicants due the sudden rollback of the four-year-undergraduate programme. Barring courses such as Sanskrit, Hindi or Anthropology, cutoffs for a majority of popular courses were above 93% aggregate in best of four. And there is a 100 percent aggregate this year as well, recorded at Acharya Narendra Dev College for BSc computer science. The cutoffs released by the colleges are also riddled with additional criteria and aspirants need to carefully analyse them, as simply making the cutoff will not make them eligible for admission.

Off-campus colleges played it safe to the extent that not many may see much of action during the first cutoff admissions. For example, Zakir Husain Delhi College increased its cutoff from 70 in 2012 to 90 this year for English honours while Ram Lal Anand (evening) upped the bar for its BA programme by 20 percentage points at 85%. "We are aware that these are pretty high cutoffs. But colleges have to be careful because there has been no registration for programme courses and there is reduction in the seats for honours courses (as compared to FYUP). Once students come for registration and we have more data, we

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BSc Comp Sc BCom (H) BSc Comp Sc BCom (H) BCom (H) Economics Pol Sc

95-100 97.25-99.75 98.33-99.33 97.5-99.25 97.25-99.25 97.5-99 96-98.5

can work on more realistic cutoffs. We have the liberty as there will be seven more lists to fall back on," said principal of a south campus college. Colleges like

Gargi, Deshbandhu, Acharya Narendra Dev, SGND Khalsa and host of others increased their cutoffs by over 10 percentage points.

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FITNESS CONNECT

BEST EXERCISES FOR

Tips Funky standing abs This is one of the best and easiest exercises to begin with. Stand with your feet below your shoulders, and then tighten your abs slowly bending your knees. Tilt your pelvis forward, so that your back is curved. Come back to the centre and tilt pelvis backward.

Perform this exercise 15 times on either side, or as your workout permits.

Chair leg lifts Perform this exercise using any kind of chair. All you have to do is, sit straight with your back flat against the chair, place your hands on the seat of your chair, then slowly lift your knees towards your chest and slowly restore them back. Carry out slow breathing while doing this.

Crunches This is a good exercise for upper, lower and oblique abdominal muscles. Begin by lying flat on the ground, with your feet placed firmly on the ground, clasp your hands behind your head. Raise your upper body by squeezing your abdominal muscles and when you are halfway through, hold on for 3 seconds.

Dumbbell bends This exercise is useful for your oblique muscles. Start with grabbing a dumbbell, holding it in your right hand; see to it that your palm is facing your body. Your feet

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bulging stomach is a problem area for most mortals. Even those who are naturally thin tend to develop a paunch as they step into their 30s.

Our stomachs store fat for a number of reasons; these reasons range from the genetic to plain abuse of food and drink, with little to no exercise. Often, those who invest heavily in exercise and diet to banish the bulging stomach, do so with a vague and incorrect idea of what is needed for a f l a t stomach.

To d a y, we give you a few

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Tips

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only help you get rid of stomach fat if you practise n with a healthy lifestyle and balanced diet.

Funky standing abs Chair leg lifts Crunches Dumbbell bends Bicycle exercise Side exercise Planks exercises that will strengthen and create lean abdominal muscles, help you eliminate a flabby belly and give you a flat stomach that helps you fight disease and ill-health.

To kick that tummy fat, simply belting away crunches or pushups is not enough. A solo act can't lead to a flat tummy or fat loss. Fitness expert, Sophia Yasmin says, "In my opinion spot reduction is not possible, there is no way to target a particular part of the body for fat loss." Your goal should be to build muscle, and focus on fat loss.

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Whether you are able to drop weight before attempting muscle toning, or tone muscle and then cut fat, depends entirely on how overweight you are, and how many inches you need to lose.Follow patterned full body exercises like skipping and running to burn energy at an elevated heartrate. The kind of food you eat also helps to cut down that visible and visceral fat. A balanced healthy diet is essential for stomach fat loss.Drink plenty of water and stay off from stress and anxiety and limit your salt intake.

should be at a shoulderwidth distance. Slowly place your left hand on your hip and bend your upper body towards the right, while keeping your head and body facing forward.

Bicycle exercise Bicycle is the best exercise for toning your stomach. It helps by keeping your stomach stable, along with movements, which burns fat.

Perform this exercise by lying on the floor, place your hands behind your head and bring your knees off the floor.

Bring your right elbow towards your left knee while performing cycling motion, and then switch your elbow position.

Side exercise This exercise targets your oblique, core muscles and shoulders. Stand straight, with your feet at approximately the width of your hips. Slowly bend your knees and hold dumbbells in each hand. Lift your hands up, so that the dumbbells are above your head and relax. Then lean your arms, head and torso to the right till 2 counts, then come back to the original position and then repeat it to the left side.

Planks Lie on the floor, with your face down, upper body supported on your forearms.

Raise your entire body off the floor, with the support of your forearms and toes form a straight line. Carry out 3 repetitions, with 15 to 20 seconds hold.

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ongrats, you are finally graduated from your University. The only snag is '''''corresponding to your studies? Here are some tips for you.

Well-presented and coherent resume and cover letter First of all, make sure to have a correct and coherent resume and cover letter. State explicitly there why you are the best candidate for a given job offer. In other words, “be clear�. Ask an advice from an expert if needed be to correct some mistakes there in. Information has to be coherent in the resume and the cover letter. Before writing them down, read the job description and carefully target it to your desire to work in the company. Go online or on TV and try to discover what is the job seeker searching for as well as key elements that ca be discussed during a probable interview.

Searching scrupulously Depending on studies you have followed, you can start researches. Job application may not be directly answered a few days after the deposit. Nevertheless, you will need to be patient and keep on searching. There are hundreds of websites on the Internet that can provide you with job offers that can meet your needs and requirements. Search on newspapers, keep connected with friends and ask them if

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there is an offer somewhere that may be interesting for you.

notification to remind and alert you of a job offer.

Use social networks Social networks can work for both personal and professional use. Get involved in professional social networks,

Do what it takes to stand out among the crowd Human resources boards receive and have to read about hundreds of resumes per day. They do not have enough time to read them carefully. Due to this situation then, you have to find ways to make your resume stands out from others. Copy paste from the Internet can be a real danger.

Online models are quite the same and using them is giving HR chances not to read yours. Moreover, target your documents (letter of application and cover letter) to the special job you are applying for. Make sure it does not contain error. You can also call the employer and share your excitement and enthusiasm concerning the job offer.

participate in forums and do not hesitate to show your degree and competences off. Networking is considered to be the number one in networking strategy. Sooner or later, you will receive an answer from a recruiter.

You can also use options such as online

Be confident and don’t give up Take this last tip in your heart. You may have tried everything but the future still remains unopened.

Getting discouraged can happen to everyone and especially to students searching for their first or their new job. Looking for a job is a competitive market. If you give up too early, you are loosing the trade. Even if many people are lacking of motivation and initiate, let it be not you. Perseverance is important in any field of life.

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15 skills you need for college T

ransitioning from the comfort of your home and the protection of your family to living essentially on your own can be exciting and confusing, which is why it helps to be prepared. Here are some skills you definitely need for college.

1. How to read and write at grade level.

College classes often demand a great deal of reading and writing - even math courses.

2. How to do basic arithmetic without a calculator. Some math and science professors don’t allow calculators on tests and quizzes, so sharpen up this skill now.

3. How to find a book in a library.

College papers often require a lot of research, so chances are you’ll be spending time in the library (or at least you should be). Save yourself time by learning the

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basics of the Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress system.

4. How to study properly for a test. If you’re like many high school students, you may have never learned how to do this.

Instead, you crammed the period before and then dumped out the information, never to recall it again. But you can’t afford to do this in college! Ask a college student you know for tips.

5. How to mooch Internet. Internet service can be expensive, and your college may not provide it, so get familiar with the area businesses, such as cafés, that offer free Wi-Fi. 6. How to do laundry. Your parents probably have told you not to mix reds with whites, but you never listened.

Well, now’s the time to ask Mom and Dad for a lesson in Laundry 101 - they won’t be around to help you when you live away from home!

7. How to keep a budget. Even if your parents help you pay for everything, you still need to understand how to spend wisely because their funds are not limitless.

Decide how much you’ll spend each month on books, food, entertainment, etc.

8. How to pack a suitcase. If you live on campus, chances are you’re going to move to and from home at least for the summer and holidays, if not more often, so learn how to pack quickly and effectively.

9. How to cook. You can’t live on cafeteria food

alone (unless you’re blessed with dining halls that serve a wide variety of options), and eating out all the time can be expensive.

10. How to maintain a balanced diet. It’s tempting to survive on just corn dogs and ice cream, but you can get sick easily if you don’t eat right. It’s also difficult to concentrate in class and study if your brain isn’t well nourished.

11. How to drive a car. It’s important to know how to drive, even if you live in a big city where it’s impractical to have a car. You may need to drive home during breaks or to an internship that your college arranges for you.

12. How to read bus and train schedules.

This is imperative when you travel home to see your family or get an internship that requires you to take the bus or train.

13. How to dress for a formal event.

You’ll no longer have Mom nagging you to dress up for special occasions like parties and job interviews, so learn how to tie a tie, select proper clothes, etc.

14. How to write a thoughtful thank-you note. You’ll probably have many guest speakers and terrific professors in college whom you’ll want to thank, and writing a nice note is a great way to express your appreciation.

15. How to read the newspaper and watch the news in an educated way. If you haven’t already developed your own political ideas, it’s time to begin thinking about the world and analyzing how the media presents global news. Remember that the world is always changing, so your thoughts shouldn’t remain stagnant.

You’ll survive if you forget to pack your favorite CD, but these are some things you definitely don’t want to leave home without!

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successfully launched;

PM Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists I feel specially privileged to witness this event in person l This is a "global endorsement of India's space capability" l The event fills every Indian's heart with joy and pride l Modi also urged the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to expand the footprint of its navigation systems to all of South Asia l

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ndia's national space agency ISRO on Monday launched five satellites from four countries from the spaceport of Sriharikota in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing the scientists at Sriharikota Space Center, PM Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists for the successfull launch. He said, "I feel specially privileged to witness this event in person".

This is a "global endorsement of India's space capability", said PM after the successful launch of an Indian rocket that carried five foreign satellites.

Filled with pride over PSLV-C23's successful launch, Modi said, "The event fills every Indian's heart with joy and pride".

Stressing that space technology is for the common man and not just for the elite, PM Modi urged Indian space scientists to develop a satellite for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations.

Modi also urged the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to expand the footprint of its navigation systems to all of South Asia.

He said the Indian navigation system will be in place by 2015.

India should develop more advanced satellites and develop capabilities to launch heavier satellites, Modi said.

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"India has the potential, to be the launch service provider of the world. We must work towards this goal," he added.

Encouraging the young scientists Modi said, "Continued progress in space must remain a national mission. We must keep enhancing our space capabilities". Further, emphasising on the need for technology,he said, "Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress".

After a perfect lift off from the First Launch Pad in Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at 9.52 AM witnessed by Modi, Indian Space Research Organisation's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C23 placed all five satellites into their intended orbits, one after the other between 17 and 19 minutes after liftoff, in textbook precision.

Speaking to ANI, former ISRO chairman Madhvan Nair said, "PSLVC-23 launch has proven to be one of world’s most reliable space launch vehicle".

Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal extended his gratitude to the team at ISRO for the successful launch of PSLV-C23.

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ducation, if looked at beyond its conventional boundaries, forms the very essence of all our actions. What we do is what we know and have learned, either through instructions or through observation and assimilation. When we are not making an effort to learn, our mind is always processing new information or trying to analyze the similarities as well as the tiny nuances within the context which makes the topic stand out or seem different.

If that is the case then the mind definitely holds the potential to learn more, however, it is us who stop ourselves from expanding the horizons of our knowledge with selfdoubt or other social, emotional, or economic constraints. While most feel that education is a necessity, they tend to use it as a tool for reaching a specific target or personal mark, after which there is no further need to seek greater education.

Nonetheless, the importance of education in society is indispensable and cohering, which is why society and knowledge cannot be ever separated into two distinct entities.

Let us find out more about the role of education in society and how it affects our lives.

Purpose of Education in Society Education is Self Empowerment receiving a good education helps empower you, thus making you strong enough to look after yourself in any given situation. It keeps you aware of your given surrounding as well as the rules and 16

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regulations of the society you're living in.

It's only through knowledge that you can be able to question authority for its negligence or discrepancies. It is only then that you can avail your rights as a citizen and seek improvement in the structural functioning of governance and economy. It's only when a citizen is aware about the policies of its government can he be able to support or protest the change. As a whole, people can bring about development only when they know where improvement is necessary for

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qualified candidate and a not so educated candidate, the employers will most probably go in for the qualified person.

The reason being that, a qualified candidate will not require much investment of the employer's time and money. The organization need not teach him or her the tricks of the trade, or the various ways of functioning and performing the tasks of the workplace. On the contrary, a novice / amateur applicant would need to be taught everything from scratch, which many employer's are usually not willing to do. The same applies for people who seek higher education and get advanced diplomas while working.

These people are continuously improving their profile and their knowledge base so as to go higher up on the competitive ladder.

the greater good of mankind. Education helps you understand yourself better, it helps you realize your potential and qualities as a human being. It helps you to tap into latent talent, so that you may be able to sharpen your skills.

Financial Stability and Dignity of Life Another importance of education is that it helps you gain sufficient academic qualification so that you are able to get suitable employment at a later stage. A decent employment would be combined

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with hard-earned remuneration or salary through which you can look after your personal expenses. While you earn for yourself, you gradually begin to realize the true worth of money and how hard it is to earn it. You realize the significance of saving for a rainy day and for unforeseeable contingencies. You feel empowered because there is a new sense of worth that develops within you, and you feel the need to be independent and free from any further financial support. You take pride in the fact that you are earning for yourself, and are not obligated to anyone.

Growth in Personal Aspiration There also comes a phase when the amount you are earning presently will seem inadequate because your aspirations and expectations from yourself would have grown considerably. After this, you will want to change jobs so as to have a higher profile. However, here is when you need to be prepared. A promotion of this figure can occur in two given situations, which are, that either you have the necessary higher academic qualification or a college degree which allows you a safe passage, or that you have amassed enough practical experience which allows you to be a suitable candidate for the employment you seek.

On the Job Efficiency This is why college education is very important after high school and must not be taken for granted. When faced with the option of choosing between a highly

Helps Plan Ahead Those who have amassed enough education, steer the path of development and progress for their country. It is these individuals who go ahead and become teachers, scientists, inventors, welfare activists, soldiers, and politicians who work together to form the very backbone of the society. Without this pool of intellect, the economic and social framework would crumple and fall, paving its way for anarchy, degradation, and violence. While this intricate balance of growth is maintained, there will be a continuous rise in progress in all quarters of life, whether that be personal growth, or development of the nation as an entity.

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Narendra Modi after PM

Mr. Modi campaigned in the recent election on his record of making Gujarat one of India's fastest growing and business friendly states, and his on own reputation as a tough administrator and staunch Hindu nationalist. In return, voters rewarded him and his BJP with an unprecedented landslide win.

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ndia's prime minister-elect Narendra Modi has been compared to Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Shinzo Abe, Tayyip Erdogan and Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Commentators have variously described him as assertive, dynamic, authoritarian and nationalist.

Many believe he's a genuine economic reformer. Others worry about his - and his BJP's - hard-line Hindu credentials and wonder whether it poses a threat to the idea of a pluralist India.

Mr Modi campaigned in the recent election on his record of making Gujarat one of India's fastest growing and business friendly states, and his on own reputation as a tough administrator and staunch Hindu nationalist. In return, voters rewarded him and his BJP with an unprecedented landslide win.

'Change agent' Mr Modi's supporters believe he is the right man to pull India out of the quagmire of low growth, high inflation, joblessness and slack governance. One commentator believes that Mr Modi may well have "inaugurated India's second republic" as his record in governance makes him an "economic change-agent, not an

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economic waster". Mr Modi inherits a sluggish economy. Growth has slowed to under 5%. Retail inflation, driven by food prices, continues to be high at over 8%.

Manufacturing is subdued and exports are flat. Jobs have dried up in a country which

needs to create 12 million a year to keep pace with its burgeoning population.

On other fronts, however, things appear to have improved.

The rupee has firmed to 58 per dollar, its highest in nearly a year. Reining in gold imports and a modest pick-up in exports have helped tame the current account deficit - likely to narrow to 2.3% this fiscal year, down from a high of 4.9%. Foreign exchange reserves at over $300bn (ÂŁ179bn) - are reasonably healthy. But such improvements hide deeper structural deficiencies.

Analysts say India urgently needs to build more roads and ports, boost its electricity supply, slash wasteful subsidies, reform archaic labour laws and clean up debt-saddled banks. Since its convoluted land acquisition law makes it difficult for industry to buy land, the government needs to free up vast tracts of idle land locked up in ailing state-owned enterprises for industry. It needs to cut red tape and regulations that scare away investment: India ranks a miserable 134 among 185 nations in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business survey.

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The BJP's 42-page manifesto has Mr Modi's unmistakable stamp. It is packed with promises which echo Mr Modi's obsession with infrastructure building: bullet trains, smart cities, linking rivers, more engineering and medicine schools, low cost homes, cleaning up filthy rivers.

More contentious commitments which reflect Mr Modi and his party's concession to the hard-line Hindu constituency building a temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya and ending a personal law given to different religions and supporting a common civil code for all Indians - appear in a few lines on page 41.

Mr Modi is certainly pro-business. But is he pro-free market at heart? Will he be able to, as political scientist Ashutosh Varshney wonders, "stabilise economic development as a master narrative of India's politics, displacing religion and caste"?

On the stump, Mr Modi repeatedly spoke about "maximum governance and minimum government", without providing much detail about what he meant. To be sure, it is easier said than done: diminishing government and making it more accountable will require considerable institutional reform in the gargantuan and stubborn Indian bureaucracy, which has been described as the "worst in Asia".

What Mr Modi can - and will possibly do - his aides suggest is to pick "low hanging fruit" and rev up investment.

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One of the main things on his agenda, they say, will be to kick-start some of the 250 stalled infrastructure projects - mainly in coal, steel, electricity, petroleum and roads - involving an investment of a mammoth $217bn (ÂŁ129bn).

"The main challenge before the new government," BJP leader Arun Jaitley, who is close to Mr Modi, told me during the campaign, would be to "work towards redeveloping confidence in Indian economy". The "low hanging fruit" he mentioned included boosting infrastructure, real estate, tourism, skills development and low-cost manufacturing.

Federal constraints Economist Vivek Dehejia believes that some administrative reforms coupled with a "few headline-grabbing infrastructure projects, should signal to corporate houses and investors - both domestic and foreign - that India is open for business again".

Mr Modi's "comparison to Margaret Thatcher, for example, is a bit overblown," Mr Dehejia told me. "However, it is always possible that the strength of the mandate, and the presence of pro-market advisers close to Mr Modi could tip the balance towards a stronger economic reform agenda, rather than a more ideologically 'neutral' emphasis on good governance."

Commentator Ashok Malik, who has written extensively on Mr Modi, says he will be "as rightwing as possible for a

mainstream electable political leader".

That means, he says, Mr Modi will strive to make India's bloated and lumbering state more "transparent and efficient" and make it more of a facilitator rather than an impediment. What it also means is he cannot massively reduce or radically overhaul India's big welfare schemes, which, having improved lives in the poorest regions, are also shot with corruption.

Then there are the constraints of India's federal polity.

Mr Modi will need to depend on a heavy dose of bipartisanship to push through key laws in a parliament which his party has been accused of stalling in the past - top of the list has to be the uniform goods and services tax which could fetch India nearly $500bn (ÂŁ298bn) in revenues and is more than three years behind schedule. The BJP commands the lower house of parliament but it holds only 26% of the seats in the upper house, which could make it more difficult to push legislation through. Much power also lies with India's states.

"Prime Minister Modi will expose a paradoxical tension between his mandate and mission," says economist Arvind Subramanium. "His electoral appeal is based on his ability to wield power, ruthlessly if necessary. His success in governing the economy will depend on coming to grips with, and making the best

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the know-how of a business. The curriculum thus focuses both on academic subjects, such as statistics or economics, as well as practical business subjects, such as accountancy, law, management, marketing, finance, etc. The degree is

designed to provide the student with a wide range of managerial skills while at the same time building competence in a particular area.

After the course completion, the person becomes well versed with the basics of trade, economics, market policies and fluctuations. The commerce stream is broadly divided into Finance, Accounting, Economics, ECommerce and Business Administration.

Before choosing any course in Commerce, students should be clear that Commerce too is a highly demanding subject and not all students can handle the course. The stream is certainly not secondary to Science and requires a certain aptitude and a logical bent of mind to crack it. However, nothing can contest the fact that a degree in any of the subjects in Commerce will help acquire a handsomely paying job, thus securing a stable future. Moreover, a course in Commerce equips a student sufficiently to fetch him ample opportunities abroad as well.

Logical bent of mind, passion for the subject coupled with perseverance is bound to make a course in Commerce a rewarding investment for a lifetime for any student. Bank Probationary Officer: All you want to know. A bank probationary officer is the starting level appointment for bank personnel.

Accountancy Accountancy is one of the most sought after courses in Commerce stream.

Agricultural Economics Agriculture Economics is the study of economic principles, with emphasis on their application in the area of agribusiness.

Banking A career in banking is a well-paid, secure job and thus has been a coveted career choice of all times.

BBA/BBM Both BBA and BBM are management oriented courses with their base in commerce.

Chartered Accountancy Chartered Accountancy is renowned as one of the most

prestigious careers in finance and accounts.

Company Secretary A Company Secretary is considered one of the most important members in the management of the company.

Cost and Works Accountancy (CWA) Cost and Works Accountancy (CWA) is an emerging field of study in Commerce.

Mathematics A course in Mathematics opens up numerous career opportunities in different fields for aspirants.

Finance Management Finance Management is a postgraduate course which focuses on the essential areas of managerial decisionmaking.

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Career in Commerce T he origin of commerce, according to most historians is linked to the introduction of the barter system in the pre-historic times, an arrangement which was later replaced by currency.

Back from our history classes, most of us remember and have noticed that the terms, trade and commerce are usually taken together.

Looking at the etymology, the word 'commerce' has a Latin origin and comes from the word commercium, with 'com' meaning together and 'merc' standing for merchandise. The Oxford Dictionary defines 'commerce' as the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale. Today, Commerce has grown to include a complex system of companies that try to maximize their profits by offering products and services to the market at the lowest production cost.

Thus, it wouldn't be wrong to say that commerce is a system or an environment that affects the business prospects of an economy or a nation-state.

In this light, it doesn't strike particularly surprising that Commerce is the most sought after academic stream in India. Pursuing a program in the commerce field educates a person about

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ducation has been a problem in our country and lack of it has been blamed for all sorts of evil for hundreds of years. Even Rabindranath Tagore wrote lengthy articles about how Indian education system needs to change.

Funny thing is that from the colonial times, few things have changed. We have established IITs, IIMs, law schools and other institutions of excellence; students now routinely score 90% marks so that even students with 90+ percentage find it difficult to get into the colleges of their choice; but we do more of the same old stuff.

Rote learning still plagues our system, students study only to score marks in exams, and sometimes to crack exams like IIT JEE, AIIMS or CLAT. The colonial masters introduced education systems in India to create clerks and civil servants, and we have not deviated much from that pattern till today. If once the youngsters prepared en masse for civil services and bank officers exams, they now prepare to become engineers. If there are a few centres of educational excellence, for each of those there are thousands of mediocre and terrible schools, colleges and now even universities that do not meet even minimum standards. If things have changed a little bit somewhere, elsewhere things have sunk into further inertia, corruption and lack of ambition.

Creating a few more schools or allowing hundreds of colleges and private universities to mushroom is not going to solve the crisis of education in India. And a crisis it is – we are in a country where people are spending their parent’s life savings and borrowed money on education – and even then not getting standard education, and struggling to find employment of their choice. In this country, millions of students are victim of an unrealistic, pointless, mindless rat race.

The mind numbing competition and rote learning do not only crush the creativity and originality of millions of Indian students every year, it also drives brilliant students to commit suicide.

We also live in a country where the people see education as the means of climbing the social and economic ladder.

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education does not exist.

Education system in India is failing because of more intrinsic reasons. There are systemic faults that do not let our demand for good education translate into a great marketplace with excellent education services. I discussed the reasons previously in this article: Will Education make a comeback in India?

Let’s explore something else in this one: what should change in India education system? What needs to be fixed at the earliest? Here is my wish list: Focus on skill based education Our education system is geared towards teaching and testing knowledge at every level as opposed to teaching skills.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him one day, teach him how to catch fishes and you feed him for a lifetime.” I believe that if you teach a man a skill, you enable him for a l i f e t i m e .

Knowledge is largely forgotten after the semester exam is over.

Still, year after year Indian students focus on c r a m m i n g information. The best crammers are rewarded by the system. This is one of the fundamental flaws of our education system.

Reward creativity, original thinking, research and innovation Our education system rarely rewards what deserves highest academic accolades.

Deviance is discouraged. Risk taking is mocked. Our testing and marking systems need to be built to recognize original contributions, in form of creativity, problem solving, valuable original research and innovation. If we could do this successfully Indian education system would have changed overnight.

Memorising is no learning; the biggest

flaw in our education system is perhaps that it incentivizes memorizing above originality.

Get smarter people to teach For way too long teaching became the sanctuary of the incompetent.

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out the Indian Education System? as safe, well-paying, risk-free and lowpressure jobs. Once a teacher told me in high school “Well, if you guys don’t study it is entirely your loss – I will get my salary at the end of the month anyway.” He could not put across the lack of incentive for being good at teaching a n y

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terrible teachers all over India are wasting valuable time of young children every day all over India.

Education for all It is high time to encourage a breed of superstar teachers. The internet has created this possibility – the performance of a teacher now need not be restricted to a small classroom. Now the performance of a teacher can be opened up for the world to see. The better teacher will be more popular, and acquire more students. That’s the way of the future.

We need leaders, entrepreneurs in teaching positions, not salaried people trying to hold on to their mantle.

Implement massive technology infrastructure for education India needs to embrace internet and technology if it has to teach all of its huge population, the majority of which is located in remote villages. Now that we have computers and internet, it makes sense to invest in technological infrastructure that will make access to knowledge easier than ever. Instead of focussing on outdated models of brick and mortar colleges and universities, we need to create educational delivery mechanisms that can actually take the wealth of human knowledge to the masses. The tools for this dissemination will be cheap smartphones, tablets and computers with high speed internet connection.

While all these are becoming more possible than ever before, there is lot of innovation yet to take place in this space.

Re-define the purpose of the education system Our education system is still a colonial education system geared towards

generating babus and pen-pushers under the newly acquired skin of modernity. We may have the most number of engineering graduates in the world, but that certainly has not translated into much technological innovation here. Rather, we are busy running the call centres of the rest of the world – that is where our engineering skills end.

The goal of our new education system should be to create entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, scientists, thinkers and writers who can establish the foundation of a knowledge based economy rather than the low-quality service provider nation that we are turning into.

Effective deregulation Until today, an institute of higher education in India must be operating on a not-for profit basis. This is discouraging for entrepreneurs and innovators who could have worked in these spaces. On the other hand, many people are using education institutions to hide their black money, and often earning a hefty income from education business through clever structuring and therefore bypassing the rule with respect to not earning profit from recognized educational institutions. As a matter of fact, private equity companies have been investing in some education service provider companies which in turn provide services to not-for-profit educational institutions and earn enviable profits. Sometimes these institutes are so costly that they are outside the rich of most Indian students.

There is an urgent need for effective de-regulation of Indian education sector so that there is infusion of sufficient capital and those who provide or create extraordinary educational products or services are adequately rewarded.

Take mediocrity out of the system Our education system today encourages mediocrity – in students, in teachers, throughout the system. It is easy to survive as a mediocre student, or a mediocre tea cher in an educational institution. No one shuts down a mediocre college or mediocre school. Hard work is always tough, the path to excellence is fraught with difficulties.

Mediocrity is comfortable. Our education system will remain sub-par or mediocre until we make it clear that it is not ok to be mediocre.

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Five Reasons to Be a Reasons to Be a Bur l Helping people make better choices l Diversity of job tasks l New day, new challenge l Serve the community l More Reasons to Work in Law Enforcement

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or all the talk of the rewards of police work, are careers in law enforcement really that great? The short answer is, "yes!" There are a number of benefits, both tangible and intangible, to working in law enforcement.

For those of of you who are on the fence about deciding your career, here are five reasons to consider becoming a police officer: The opportunity to save lives, every day As a law enforcement officer, you'll probably save someone's life every day you come to work. At times, this may involve pulling a victim out of Ă‚ a burning car or providing first aid and basic life support to a shooting victim before paramedics arrive. Other times, it may be giving someone the Heimlich maneuver on your lunch

break.

Aside from these obvious examples, though, your mere presence and consistent enforcement of laws will save countless lives that you'll never know about. Every speeding ticket you write, every fight you break up and every incident of domestic violence you respond to may have been a fatality in the making before you prevented it.

Helping people make better choices It's no secret that police officers most often encounter people when they're at their worst. Drug addicts, gang members, thiefs, spousal abusers and people who drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs are just a few examples of the kinds of people you'll meet.

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opportunity you have to show these people a better way. They are usually a captive audience and, if treated kindly and respectfully, will listen to what you have to say. Though you may never know it, what you say and how you treat the lowliest criminal may play a huge role in whether or not they make better choices in the future.

Diversity of job tasks In law enforcement, every day has the potential to be completely different from the last. Your entire work day can change in an instant, at any time. There's no better environment for those who abhor

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monotony than that of police work. Not only is each shift different from the last, but the opportunities to diversify job tasks are abundant, as well. Are you tired of patrol? Transfer into investigations. Bored of investigating traffic crashes? Work towards becoming a K-9 officer. Working in law enforcement allows motivated people to try their hand at a host of unique and interesting skills and job tasks.

New day, new challenge Almost everybody enjoys a challenge, and there are few career fields more challenging than law enforcement. Police work, performed well, invokes all sorts of

challenges, both mental and physical.

Yes, you'll chase people and have to outsmart the bad guys, but in the end, it's all about problem solving. Officers often work with individuals in conflict to come up with mutually agreeable solutions. With the advent of community-oriented policing, a great deal of police work now involves helping people solve problems to keep them out of the criminal justice system, rather than taking action to put them in it. In the field, law enforcement officers have to serve as doctor, lawyer, judge, counselor, babysitter, teacher, and the list goes on.

Serve the community For many, it is an immensely satisfying thing to know that their work serves a greater good. There are plenty of personally rewarding aspects of police work, but the knowledge that what you do will hopefully help scores of people in the long run is perhaps the biggest "intangible" reward. People are social animals, and it's in our DNA to want to help each other. Working as a police officer fulfills this desire that so many of us have, while at the same time providing an opportunity to support yourself and your family.

More Reasons to Work in Law Enforcement Of course, these are just a few reasons to consider working in law enforcement. There are far more benefits to the job, perhaps even too numerous to list. If you're looking for a great job with great rewards, you can do far worse than law enforcement.

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No arrests under anti-dowry law without agistrate’s nod: SC

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he Supreme Court on Wednesday said women were increasingly using the anti-dowry law to harass in-laws and restrained police from mechanically arresting the husband and his relatives on mere lodging of a complaint under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.

Citing very low conviction rate in such cases, it directed the state governments to instruct police "not to automatically arrest when a case under Section 498A of IPC is registered but to satisfy themselves about the necessity for arrest under the parameters (check list) provided under Section 41 of criminal procedure code".

Section 41 lays down a 9-point check list police to weigh the need to arrest after examining the conduct of the accused, including possibility of his absconding.

Expressing exasperation over rampant misuse of Section 498A, a bench of Justices C K Prasad and P C Ghose said if police arrested the accused, the magistrate should weigh the preliminary evidence against the Section 41 checklist before allowing further detention.

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"The magistrate, while authorising detention of the accused shall peruse the report furnished by the police officer in terms of Section 41 and only after recording its satisfaction, the magistrate will authorize detention," the bench said.

It also said that this check-list for arrest and detention would apply to all offences, which are punished with a prison term less than 7 years. Punishment under Section 498A is a maximum of three years but it had been made a cognizable and non-bailable offence, which made grant of bail to the accused a rarity in courts.

But the court singled out the dowry harassment cases as the most abused and misused provision, though the legislature had enacted it with the laudable object to prevent harassment of women in matrimonial homes.

Writing the judgment for the bench, Justice Prasad said there had been a phenomenal increase in dowry harassment cases in India in the last few years. "The fact that Section 498A is a cognizable and non-bailable offence has lent it a dubious place of pride amongst the provisions that

are used as weapons rather than shield by disgruntled wives," he said.

"The simplest way to harass is to get the husband and his relatives arrested under this provision. In a quite number of cases, bed-ridden grand-fathers and grand-mothers of the husbands, their sisters living abroad for decades are arrested," he said.

The bench quoted "Crime in India 2012 Statistics" published by National Crime Records Bureau to say that nearly 2 lakh people were arrested in India in 2012 under Section 498-A, which was 9.4% more than in 2011.

"Nearly a quarter of those arrested under this provision in 2012 were women i.e. 47,951 which depicts that others and sisters of the husbands were liberally included in their arrest net. Its share is 6% out of the total persons arrested under the crimes committed under Indian Penal Code. It accounts for 4.5% of total crimes committed under different sections of penal code, more than any other crimes excepting theft and hurt," it said.

"The rate of charge-sheeting in cases under Section 498A is as high as 93.6%, while the conviction rate is only 15%, which is lowest across all heads. As many as 3,72,706 cases are pending trial of which on current estimate, nearly 3,17,000 are likely to result in acquittal," the bench said illustrating the misuse of Section 498A as a tool to harass husband and his relatives.

Describing arrest as a humiliating experience apart from curtailing the freedom, the bench said police have not shed their colonial hangover despite six decades of independence and were still considered "as a tool of harassment, oppression, and surely not considered a friend of public".

The need for caution in exercising the drastic power of arrest had been emphasized time and again by courts but has not yielded results, the court said and tasked the magistrates to check illegal arrests.

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oes working on real life problems in electronics, signal processing and genetics or mathematics, computer science, managerial economics and molecular biology excite you? If your answer is yes, the newly launched BTech in innovation by the DU is your destination.

The DU has come up with a new Cluster Innovation Centre offering a fouryear BTech programme on its campus. It is for the first time that the DU will have its own full-fledged BTech programme.

The programme, which will commence from October 6, is designed to enable students to pursue their goals and career objectives from a choice of several highly relevant and modern disciplines. JM Khurana, dean, students’ welfare says,

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“The new BTech programme will not only train students to solve real life problems in IT or mathematics, it will also allow them to showcase their creativity and innovation abilities through a blend of theory (40%) and hands-on projects (60%). Apart from this, students will also develop and enhance their leadership and communication skills.�

Interested candidates should submit their +2 passing certificates (with minimum 60% in four subjects with maths as one of the four subjects). Candidates enrolling for this course should not be more than 20 years of age as on October 1, 2011. The fee structure for the course is Rs 5,000 per semester.

For admission, students will have to pass an entrance exam, which will be a

written test with multiple-choice questions (two-hours duration) on September 25, followed by a personal interview. The total number of seats for the course is 40. The last date of submission of application form is September 19.

Other essential features of the programme are: An engineering kitchen that shall allow students to be innovative and experiment with freedom.

A strong interactive link with village systems and slum clusters for insightful generation and application of knowledge.

A synergetic link with industrial clusters for real-world engineering and innovation. Internships and links with some of the most important labs and institutions in India.

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How to crack common admission test (CAT) T

he Common Admission Test conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management for admissions into the IIMs and other participating institutes will be conducted during the test window from October 16 to November 11, 2013.

The formal announcement to this effect was made by Prometric India, which partners with the IIMs for conducting the test in 2013. This year, the number of testing locations for CAT has gone up to 40 – with the addition of Surat, Trivandrum, Vijayawada and Udaipur.

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Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation QA is looked upon as a challenging section even by students who have been regularly in touch with mathematics during their graduate studies.

Since the eligibility to appear for CAT is graduation in any discipline, the expected comfort level with mathematics is as much as a student would have who has not studied mathematics in the graduate level. The content is pretty welldefined. It is the time to apply the

concepts. That means using the concepts in problem situations: This requires a good two months with the basics followed by regular dose of practice with CAT type problems.

Data Interpretation is a section that can be cracked if a student understands some basic formats in which data can be presented – like different types of graphs, pie charts, tables etc. Reading data from these visual presentations is the first step.

Working mathematically to answer questions based on these is the second step. Simple high-school level concepts only are at play here.

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CAT CONNECT

Prowess with words Questions in Verbal Ability check your prowess with words, usage of words in different contexts, difference between the shades of meaning while using a word/string of words in different situations etc. While brushing up your vocabulary and working on word lists will help, the real comfort comes with actual usage and therefore this test area is closely linked to your reading skills also.

Reading Comprehension checks the ability to understand the exact nuances of the presented passage – in the manner in which the author intended it to be conveyed. It is not just about picking out factual information from a pile of text – the innuendos, the sarcasm, the criticism to a certain approach, the adherence to a

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certain type of ideological code throughout the passage, etc. are just some of the finer points that need to be understood while reading a passage. This kind of critical understanding can be developed only with good exposure to varied types of passages.

So try to read articles, essays and commentaries on topics that do not necessarily interest you. Re-read the passage and understand the flow of thinking and the logic build-up. For example, if you are interested in sports and have been following cricket closely, take a detour and read up on essays on anthropology and particle physics. Also you could test your real love for your favourite subjects by getting deeper technically. Let us assume again that you are a cricket fan. Search for an article that

details the evolution of the Duckworth Lewis method and its application in real One Day International matches. See if you are comfortable in understanding the logic of with the arguments favouring the method and the criticism levelled against it Logical Ability Exposing oneself to as many types of Logical Ability questions will help in generating enough practice and to quickly identify any patterns in the given data set.

The one thing that is central to cracking Logical Ability Questions is the flexibility in assimilating the conditions presented.

Since there are no formulae here – unlike in Quantitative Ability – the ability to quickly map out the “resources and constraints” in a problem situation becomes the key in arriving at the solution quickly. The advantage with a clear positioning of the problem parameters followed by adequate mapping of “resources and constraints” in a set of questions is that multiple questions could be answered with the initial time spent.

So one should try to solve as many types of Logical Ability questions as possible as part of the preparation. This could also include puzzles, brain teasers etc. for variety. While these may not appear in an actual CAT examination in the form of questions, the flexibility that one would generate for logical thinking will definitely help in the CAT preparation also.

Any preparation should be enjoyable to the student.

General Knowledge Update While GK or Business GK has not been part of the CAT testing, it is very important for an aspirant to be comfortable with these. Other examinations – like the XAT – have a section on GK. Barring that, the preparation for CAT does not end with giving the CAT examination. Further, the selection processes involve Personal Interview/Group Discussion/Essay Writing etc.

It is not wise to prepare for this “after” you have cracked the CAT examination.

You are going to be part of the knowledge economy and you are expected to be well informed on matters concerning the nation, the economy etc. You do not need to be an expert but you cannot afford to be a passive onlooker either. Developing a good reading habit will pay off well in the long run. Remember, CAT is a national level competitive exam. You should benchmark your preparation levels against the best spread of competition on a national scale.

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UNIVERSITY CONNECT

Panel to assess 41 deemed 'C' category Universities The sub-committee has to complete the assessment before July 31, which is the deadline set by the Supreme Court for the UGC to give its advice to the HRD ministry on the status of the 41 universities

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he University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced a fourmember sub-committee under its vice-chairman H Devaraj to assess the 41 deemed universities, including three in Maharashtra, which were placed in the 'C' category by the P N Tandon committee and are facing de-recognition.

Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth in Pune, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences in Karad and D Y Patil Medical College in Kolhapur are the three institutions from the state among the 41 universities. The subcommittee has to complete the assessment before July 31, which is the deadline set by the Supreme Court for the UGC to give its advice to the HRD ministry on the status of the 41 universities. Former IIT Kanpur director Sanjay Dhande, UGC member V S Chauhan and additional secretary to HRD ministry Anita Sharma are the other members of the sub-committee. At its meeting held on June 13, the UGC resolved that representatives of these deemed universities shall make a video presentation about their institutions before the sub-committee and respond to queries raised by the panel members. The commission decided that after assessing each presentation, the proceedings of the sub- committee should be videographed

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and the reasons for the decision on each institution's status should be recorded.

On January 21, the Supreme Court had given the UGC two months' time to advice the HRD ministry on the status of these institutions after examining three reports related to deemed universities in the country. These included the 2009 reports by an expert panel of the UGC and by the Tandon panel and the 2011 report by a panel of officers headed by secretary to HRD ministry Ashok Thakur. The court had also asked the commission to examine the responses of the institutions concerned.

In March, the UGC resolved that all three reports varied in their approach, analysis and conclusions. It observed that considerable time had lapsed since the reports were submitted and the commission was not in a position to ascertain the current status of these institutions with respect to their physical and academic infrastructure, academic performance and research output. It concluded that a fresh assessment of these institutions was needed. The panel approached the Supreme Court with this conclusion and sought more time to complete the assessment exercise. The court granted it time till July 31 to complete the process.

in a nutshell l The HRD ministry had set up the Tandon panel in 2009 to review the status of all 126 deemed universities in the country l In its report, the panel had listed 38 of these institutions in category ‘A' for being truly worthy of continuing with their deemed university status and listed 44 institutions in category ‘B’, with a recommendation to give them three years' time to improve. The panel recommended derecognition of deemed university status for the remaining 44 institutions l On January 25, 2010, the Supreme Court ordered a status quo relating to the category ‘C’ institutions, which still continues l One of the 44 category ‘C’ institutions has since been declared as an institution of national importance by the central government and another two have been allowed by the Supreme Court to surrender their deemed university status. The issue now remains for the 41 institutions that are fighting out the Tandon panel's recommendation in the court.

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NEWS CONNECT

Plea to include Arabic, Persian in civil services exams dismissed

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he story of three aged women from Pachalam, who had no one to take care of them, grabbed the attention of city residents again recently when the eldest among them passed away. The plight of the sisters, however, is familiar to many elderly people here.

“The two older sisters, Alli and Santha, used to teach at a government school in the city. They were living on the pension that both of them received,” said the owner of a shop next to the sisters’ house. Alli, who was 92, passed away last week and her body lay at the house for two days before local people found out about the death and informed the police. Police admitted Santha, 82, and her younger sister Baby, who is mentally-challenged to the Ernakulam General Hospital. Both sisters were later shifted to the Government Mental Health Centre at Thrissur.

The situation of the aged sisters is a reflection of the breakdown of systems to take care of the elderly in society.

Increasing number of people are being abandoned by their families and forced to fend for themselves in their old age, social activists observed.

“What happened to the sisters and other stories we hear about old people being abandoned at Guruvayur are all early warnings of a problem that is growing every day,” said Biju Mathew, State head of HelpAge India. Mr. Mathew said that the elderly currently constitute over 13 per cent of the State’s population.

“They are expected to form more than 24 per cent of the population by 2025. That is almost double the current figure and we need to plan for the future,” he said.

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several cases where the elderly are left to fend for themselves as their children cannot take care of them. “In many cases, the children are working in different places or do not have the time or money to take care of the parents,” sad Nisha Varghese, coordinator of the Kerala Social Security Mission’s Vayomithram project in Kochi.

In such cases, Vayomithram helps shift the abandoned elderly to old-aged homes. The project also offers medicines and palliative care to the aged and can be reached on their helpline number 9349388887.

Mr. Mathew feels that old-age homes are only a temporary solution.

“We are suggesting setting up self-help groups for the elderly in the model of the Kudumbasree programme. Such groups will ensure that the elderly feel productive. Besides providing company, the community will also ensure the welfare of each member,” he said.

Crimes by Juveniles in India There has been recent spurt in the crimes by juveniles in India.

While on one hand the widening rich-poor divide in urban areas and loss of innocence have been pushing minors from poor sections of society into the world of crime, the children from well-do –families are also increasingly stepping in the world of crime. The main factors are peer pressure, lavish lifestyles, too much freedom from the parents and even simple curiosity are leading to these dangerous trends among the youngsters in India.

In 2008 crimes by juveniles across India increased by about 9.2%over the previous year. The figure in 2007 was 8.4% more than in 2006.According to the police sources, the share of crimes committed by minors to the total crimes has increased not only in the cities but in the country as a whole. The crimes committed by minors were 1.7% of the total crimes in the country in 2005 .It increased to 1.9% and 2% in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

There are increasing cases of juveniles involved in conflict with the law. They are found largely involved in thefts; pickpocketing and burglaries. They are now forming even their own gangs.

According to NCRB figures for 2009 the largest number of cases involving juveniles were thefts followed by causing hurt and burglaries besides rioting. The primary reasons are attributed to inadequacy in juvenile care and protection schemes of government. The government homes are in bad shape where reforming of children takes a backseat and stigma stays with them.

Sometimes the very fact of being a juvenile ensures that they get only mild punishment. This is the reason why organized criminal gangs are increasingly employing juveniles. The lack of tolerance and exposure to sex and violence is creating problems within the social setup. Most of the schools are also witnessing an increase in youngsters indulging in unruly and unacceptable behavior.

According to NCRB data, 34527 juveniles were apprehended all over India during 2007 out of which 32671 were boys and 1856 were girls.

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Government Jobs in India E

ver since there was an IT boom in India sometimes back, the IT companies gained immense popularity as better jobs provider and a lot of young graduates rushed to get recruited in private firms. However, after a years things became more clear and people realized how the private firms have always been exploiting their employees. Due to these reasons Indian government jobs gained the lost respect back. After the latest pay commission launched by the government, the lifestyles of the government employees improved and people were happy with government jobs in india. The jobs became more flexible and employees improved and people were happy with their jobs. The government jobs in india became more flexible and employees friendly in recent years. Every student and an adult started to look for a government jobs in india also known as sarkari naukri in India.

There are many benefits of having a government jobs in india such as job security, good salaries, flexible rules, sufficient leaves, non hectic schedules and the list goes on and on. After all the benefits and merits, still people fail to get a job because of several reasons such as unable to clear in the entrance exams and many times people just fail to get a job opening notification on right time. It is not too much hard to keep track of the latest jobs openings. The companies post the requirements on their websites along with the application forms and all that applicant is required to do is to fill that form and post it to the company along with a nominal examination fee in the form of a demand draft or a bank direct deposit in their respective account. Even the newspapers have all the information an employment seeker is looking for, such as job opening, Latest recruitment, requirements and other details.

Sometimes, it becomes hard to actually search for a government job as all the sources mentioned above just have the listed job openings and the seeker has no option to look for a specific requirement. In this situation, Such people may use the special search engines which is specially designed to search government jobs and job applications.

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sites to find government jobs in india Gone are the days of continues findings through the pages of daily newspapers to find out about latest central and state government job vacancies. Now, all the information about government jobs in india, a job-seeker needs to know is made available on his/her fingertips. There are several exclusive jobs portals that furnish a lot of relevant information. http://www.employmentnews.gov.in/ This website is favourite amongest all govt job seeker and No.1 website for finding goverment jobs in India, it is official indian govt web journel which publish weekly both in paperback and web content in 3 language in English, Hindi and Urdu. Its provide a lot of information about government jobs.

This jobs website, www.recruitmentportal.in, is promoted as a one-stop shop for government jobs, non-government jobs, competitive exams, including bank exams, SSC and UPSC exams and state civil services exams of various states. This portal also gives recruitment information and notifications regarding various Jobs and exams in India, apart from offering competitive exams preparation tips and complete procedure for applying for various jobs and exams. http://govtjobs.blogspot.in has information on various job openings in the public sector – both state and Centre’s jobs vacancies. Besides providing various details on number of openings, eligibility criteria, and application-related information, it provides links to the jobs vacancies on official government portals, which lends it more credential.

If you are searching for important dates of all bank exams in India then this site is very useful to find out various banking jobs, www.bankexamsindia.com. It also lists out the eligibility criteria, opening dates, cut-off requirements, last date of filling up and bank exam books to aid your preparation.

In www.govtjobsdaily.com, you can get a lot of details on RailwaInys, Bank, Medical, Engineering, Teacher recruitment, Defence jobs, IT, fresher openings, managerial, scientists/technicians, stenographer and walk-in interview details of various govt departments.

Process to Get Admission in IIT For IITs, the board results and the main test results would be given 50 percent weightage each. The top 50,000 candidates would be filtered and then the advanced test would be taken

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dmission to IIT will be a completely new ball game because different regulations will be put to effect from 2013. If you are studying in plus two and you are an IIT aspirant, you should buy all ears because from now on a particular weightage would be given to your class 12 marks as well.

This means that the selection process would be easier for students who have scored good marks in 12th standard. For others, there will be the chance to do extremely well in the main test and/or the advanced test for the selection. Yes, that is going to be the format for admission to Central government Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) from 2013.

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Therefore, as you are still to appear for your board exams, it is time you put in dedicated effort in scoring really well in class 12, so that your admission process to the IIT gets easier, this is how to get admission in IIT in 2013.

From 2013, there will be a JEE, divided into two sections, the main and the advanced. Both these tests will be taken on the same day. However, for IITs there will be a level of filtering after the main test.

Aspirants to other CFTIs will have to sit for both the tests. For IITs, the board results and the main test results would be given 50 percent weightage each. The top 50,000 candidates would be filtered and then the advanced test would be taken. No

marks weightage has been ascribed to the advanced tests, but it would be a test totally based on merit.

For the other CFTIs, the distribution of weightage is as follows. 40 percent to marks obtained in class 12, 30 percentages to the performance in the main test and the rest 30 percent from the advanced test. The IITs will gradually switch on to this later system in 2015.

Although you are primarily here to know how to get admission in IIT, yet knowing about admission in other CFTIs makes sense because the counseling of all the CFTIs will be held together. During counseling, you can choose from the IITs, the MITs and the IIITs.

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nce there was a time, when the meaning of Lawyer profession was only debating in the court by a common man. But in recent years, there was a drastic changes in the profession of Lawyer in India. Now a days so many youths are inspired and interested in making a career in corporate law. There is name and fame along with good income in the profession of Lawyer. This is the reason that so many so many youngster joining Laws profession and give it to a serious try as an career. Corporate Law is related to contract and commercial law, and deals with operation and formation of corporations. A Corporate Lawyer or business lawyer means that a lawyer who basically works for companies or corporations and represents their business entities of all type. These include associations, corporations, joint ventures, Partnerships and sole proprietorship.

Corporate or Business Lawyer also represent individuals who act in a business capacity like Directors, Owners, Managers, controlling shareholders and officers. Corporate Lawyer also represent other individuals with business entities in their dealings like consultants, employees, contractors, minority shareholders and sub contractors. Career in the field of Corporate Law is a great career option after 12th when you are considering for a career choice.

If you are interested in solving the problem of business disputes, business dealings problems, complex business agreements, preparing business dealings formats than the career in corporate law is for you.

Work of corporate Lawyer The duty and work field of corporate lawyer is to ascertain the legality of business transactions, business agreements, joint business ventures etc. A Corporate Lawyer gives his valuable advice to clients on different law provisions according to their needs. A corporate lawyer has to done a deep study on Accounting, Bankruptcy, Contract Laws, Tax Laws, Securities laws, Intellectual Property rights and a of others business related Laws to give professional advice to his clients. In addition a corporate lawyer helps his clients in:A Corporate lawyer can advise client of the applicable corporate law and help him to comply with them.

A Corporate lawyer can help steer client away from future legal disputes and lawsuits.

A Corporate lawyer can help protect client’s tangible and intangible assets.

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Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law RJNUL, Patiala Latest information about RJNUL Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find at, www.rgnul.ac.in Department of Law, Punjab University (PU), Chandigarh Latest information about PU Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find at http://puchd.ac.in

A Corporate lawyer can help client in negotiate more favorable business transactions.

Qualification for becoming a Corporate Lawyer Students who wish to make a career as corporate lawyer must study Humanities in 10+2, although student of commerce and science can also go for it according to their career choice. There are two alternate to become a corporate Lawyer:(a) After 12th, 5 years integrated B.A and L.L.B Or (b) After graduation, 3 years bachelor of Law (L.L.B) Skill of Corporate Lawyer A successful corporate lawyer should have the knowledge of laws issued by different govt institutes and departments for legal actions and procedures along with different guidelines. He should have updated himself with the latest knowledge of new rules and regulations of business, corporate law and company status guidelines. His other skills drafting as well as debating also placed a lot of emphasis in his work. He should also be professional in pointing out and highlighting the difficulties of his client to them well in advance to avoid problems well in advance. A Corporate lawyer skill

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of facing the problems during tough and opposite times also help him excel in this situation.

Work opportunities of corporate lawyar A corporate lawyer can get jobs in different companies or they can get the chance to work in any type of corporate law services firms. Although youngster doesn’t take interest in the partnership firm, they either can use their speciality to work in house council. They have also option of either teaching the corporate law in different study institutions or they can make a career in investment banking. Salary of Corporate Lawyer Higher salary and success is never far away from a talented corporate lawyer.

In starting of their career as corporate lawyer in any company, according to their talent and company profile, they can get 3 to 4 Lakhs Rupees salary package. But after some experience and success in given jobs, they can get a salary of 8 to 10 Lakhs per annum.

Senior Corporate Lawyers on high post of a company easily get a salary package of 25 to 30 Lakhs per year. Reputed training institutes of Corporate Lawyer Training This is the list of reputed institutes along with their website link, which provides training in the field of law as well as corporate laws :-

Department of Law, Guru Nanak Dev(GNDU) University, Amritsar, Punjab Latest information about GNDU Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find at, www.gndu.ac.in Department of Laws, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab Latest information about Punjabi University Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find at, www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in National Law School of India university, Banglore, Karnataka Latest information about NSLIU Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find atwww.nls.ac.in National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkatta, West Bengal Latest information about NUJS Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find at, www.nujs.edu Nalsar Law University, Hydrabad, Andhra Pardesh Latest information about NLU Law’s degrees, dipoma’s and certificate courses along with admission procedure details can be find at, www.nalsar.ac.in

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BRIGHT CAREER AFTER 12T

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HEALTH CONNECT

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oga is a 3000 yrs old remedies to become healthy and maintain the health throughout the whole life. It is an ancient art of practicing postures, breathing exercises and some diet restrictions to stay fit regardless of age.

Although Yoga is practiced centuries ago in india, but now a days its too popular in Abroad for living healthy and stay fit. In recent years YOGA also gain popularity as career options. Youngster who has Knowledge and expert in Yoga field can make a career as an instructor in this fields, Who teaches yoga to others as in school, colleges, institutes and personal trainers of big and famous.

What is YOGA ?: The meaning of Yoga in Sanskrit language means “ to unite� but there is misconception about yoga is that its about the twisting and bending the body in odd postures and shape. But this is not like that Yoga is, to look after and care you mind, body and breath. This includes regular practice of asanas or mudras (postures), pranayams (breathing techniques) and dhyan (meditation). In short when body, breath and mind came in harmony with each other aspect than yoga happens. The great sage and father of yoga PantJali, ancient granth Yog SUTRA consists of 196 terse yoga sutras which cover all aspects of human life. The astanga 38

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(eight aspects) of yoga are: Yam and Niyam: depicts of moral and social conduct Asanas: adjust the body in various positions or postures Pranayama: regulation of breath through various mode Pratyahar: internalization view of all the senses of perception Dharana: concentration Dhyana: deep meditation Samadhi: the ultimate state of self realization through yoga. Yoga is an ancient art by regular practicing one can attain great health, vigor and vitality. It can make you mentally and emotionally strong. Many celebrities practicing yoga to keep fit.

Career prospects of yoga instructor: Nowa-days due to extended working hours, targets, busy and hectic works schedule and odd habits of eating junk food, lifestyle become changed and very few people can look after their health and exercise regularly. Due to pesticide in foods and now a days awareness to create healthy body people are worried about health and thus demand of yoga instructor is skyrocketing. Films, TV Serials, TV programs, Talk shows also opened doors for yoga instructor to share their expert view about different yoga exercises, breathings and meditation exercise with public in the

field of yoga. Swami Ramdev is one of prominent yoga expert whose shivir or workshops has telecast regularly on TV Channels. Many yoga instructors have the opportunity to work in school, universities, colleges, gym, spa, health centres, large corporate houses, tourist resorts and housing societies. Yoga instructor can also opt for self employment by opening yoga centres and classes. Several renowned celebrities like byness tycoon, politicians and film stars has been hiring their own personal yoga instructors for staying fit.

Qualification for Yoga Instuctor For becoming a yoga instructor you must have professional training in the field of yoga.

After 10th or 12th you can do such courses.

There are many institutes, college and universities in india which offers certificate, diploma and degree courses in yoga, there you can enroll for yoga instructor courses for different duration.

Salaries of Yoga Instructor : Salaries and perks of Yoga instructor who are working individually is depends on their efforts and range of client. A reputed yoga instructor charges Rs 500 to Rs 1000 & more than that for per hour or session. A reputed instructor in the field of yoga can earn Rs 100000/- and more. In the school and colleges a yoga instructor get salaries between Rs15000/- to Rs.50000/- per month.

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