On August 10, President Pranab Mukherjee addressed the students of Central University of South Bihar (CUSB) on ‘Energising the higher educational institutes of India’ through video conferencing from the Rashtrapati Bhavan. He showed the anxiety towards India’s global rank in higher education.
According to a report in Times of India, the President, Pranab Mukherjee advised the students and faculty members to give their best to make India an educationally accomplished nation. He also recalled the contributions of former Presidents S Radhakrishnan and APJ Abdul Kalam and the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi in nation building.
Further in a report, the president appreciated the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the central government and put forward the key points.
From under privileged section of the society, a student of Super 30, has been selected by the University of Tokyo for higher education. On Monday, Kunal Kumar has received a call from the University of Tokyo for pursuing higher education.This is not the first time a Super 30 student has achieved such heights, earlier this year, another student of Super 30, Abhishek Gupta, was selected for education in Tokyo after clearing the JEE Mains.
The son of an unemployed father, an emotionally charged Kunal said, “Till four years ago, I was struggling even for proper education, even though I had high dreams. It was sheer luck that I was routed to mathematician Anand Kumar’s Super 30 through a friend of his and that changed my life.” He received a rousing reception at the Super 30 academy for been selected by the University of Tokyo.
The members who were present at CUSB were CUSB registrar C L Prabhavathi, Deputy Registrar Rashmi Tripathi and PRO Mohd Mudassir Alam.
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Several candidates, who came to the Delhi l from across the country to appear for the Staff Selection Commission’s Common Graduate Level Test, could not sit for the exam on August 8 due to shortage of question papers at various centres.
Yakub Memon who was hanged on July 30 this year, due to being involved in the 1993 Mumbai blasts was awarded the M.A Political Science degree in absentia by the Nagpur Regional Centre of the university at the 28th convocation of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). He studied Literature from 2010 to 2012 and pursued Political Science from 2012 to 2014.
Delhi University released the eleventh cut-off list for admissions to undergraduate courses for the academic session of 2015 at 9 am today. The list for all three streams, Science, Commerce and Arts have been published online, the candidates can check the same at the official site
