Literature

Importance of Learning English in our life!

If you're new here, and interested in the latest news and insights on news from India and world, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting I News India. English is the number one language of the world. As far as my knowledge is concerned I am too week in English language. My spoken English and English writing both are not up to the mark. The reason behind this was my primary education, which I mainly got in an environment where English knowing persons were too less....

A few tips for those who are preparing for CAT Exam!

If you're new here, and interested in the latest news and insights on news from India and world, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting I News India. This time of the year you can generally see anxiety and stress on the faces of all B-School aspirants because they are continuously preparing themselves for the biggest challenge of their lives. “Cracking CAT”. Those 2.5 hours decide the future of thousands of hopefuls. Strategizing, mock CAT’s, time management:...

And the Booker Award goes to Aravind Adiga!

If you're new here, and interested in the latest news and insights on news from India and world, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting I News India. If sportsmen had made India proud by winning gold medals in Olympics this time, Indian writers are not far behind in bringing laurels to our nation. The latest star of Indian soil is Aravind Adiga. This 33-year-old Chennai-born Mumbaikar has won the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger. Adiga is the...

10 Benefits of Reading!

If you're new here, and interested in the latest news and insights on news from India and world, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting I News India. I’m indebted to my mother to have inculcated a great habit like reading in me. I still remember how she used to just gift books for the special occasions like birthdays and Diwali. Slowly her perseverance of this trend became a passion for me.  This habit grew stronger as I grew up. I started working and the mounting...

5 Advantages & Disadvantages of Distance Learning!

When I graduated from my engineering college, I had a strong desire to pursue further studies like a management degree. But immediately after my college got over, I got a job offer from a leading IT company. I was in a dilemma since both the paths were alluring. I discussed my situation with some friends and they suggested that I should do a distance learning course from a renowned institution. According to them, this would not hinder my job prospects and at the same time allow me to...

Taslima returns India

Taslima Nasrin the controversial Bangladeshi writer came back to India on Friday after spending more than four months in Sweden. She arrived at the Indira Gandhi  International airport in the morning and was immediately taken to an undisclosed destination by security officers. The future plans of Taslima, who shot to fame with her controversial book "Lajja", were not immediately known.  She has been requesting for permanent residentship in the country, but the government has not taken any...

DU first cut off list out for session 2008-09!

Admissions for the current session 2008-09 have started in the renowned Delhi University with its first cut off list out today. The cut-off marks have moved up by almost one per cent for most popular courses. The Delhi University is also implementing quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) from this year. var AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var...

Dilemma of change of schools!

A survey showed that for the children who change schools frequently or even once or twice, it is a hell lot of a problem related to adjustments, proving their worth and finding the right kind of company. A lot of children have to face changing of their schools due to transfer of their parents to different cities, or due to the popularity of a better branded school. Students spending a majority of their time in these early stages in school, this education temple becomes a second home for...

Indian students among the best: Oxford!

It's very good news to the Indian students and Indian nation too that the very well known and renowned Oxford University of London has rated the Indian students among the best in the world. Oxford has presently 257 Indian students on roll, one-third the numbers of students from China. Still the Indians have won more scholarships than the Chinese. Last year, according to an Oxford journal they had won 54 different scholarships, including the prestigious ‘Rhodes Scholarship’. var...

IIT-JEE process to be reviewed by the Authorities!

In the latest release of the mark list of the candidates qualifying in the prestigious IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in 2007 by IIT-Bombay under the Right of Information Act (RTI Act), displayed a shocking scenario where even a candidate scoring as low as 7% in the mathematics paper got a decent rank to book his place at one of the most respectable and highly reputed institutions of India. The disclosure detailed that there were 7,202 general category candidates who qualified the joint...