1) World Population Day 2016 observed with theme Investing in teenage girls a) World Population Day was observed on 11th July, 2016, worldwide. This day is celebrated with an intent to raise awareness of global population issues. b) The theme for this year is ‘Investing in Teenage girls’ and focuses on the empowerment of teenage […]

The Chanakya IAS Academy recently organized a felicitation ceremony to honour their students who successfully secured 361 seats out of the 1078 final selections done by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Shatrughan Sinha, actor and Member of Parliament who was the chief guest commended the students. He said, “India requires more of the young […]

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2016 website has displayed registration and lecture commencement schedules for IITs where majority seats have been filled. IITs have uploaded PDFs containing regulations, fee structure and requirements for admission to the institute. IIT Bombay (IITB), in its instructional document, has mentioned a very specific clause, that no other IIT […]

Congratulations to the two Maharashtra Common Entrance Test 2016 toppers; Chinmay Ghanekar and Aman Framewala.They both have scored 199 marks in PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Maths). Both the toppers wanted to secure their admission at VJTI (Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute), Mumbai. And as you can see in the images, both of them have been successful in […]

A total of 156 seats remain vacant in the National Institute Technology (NITs) after the third round of seat allocation process conducted by Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2016. The majority of vacant seats are from the NITs across the North Eastern states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim, and Agartala. “We have proposed to the concerned officials […]

1) Dipa Karmakar named World Class Gymnast by International Gymnastics Federation a) Karmakar, who recently became the first Indian female gymnast to qualify for the Olympics, has been awarded the honour for her performances in the Gymnastics World Championships held in Glasgow in October-November 2015. b) She is the first woman in the gymnast history […]

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) released the third round allotment list on July 10. With the seat acceptance process from July 11 to 13, only those candidates who are allotted seats for the first time in round three or those who have to dual reporting. As per the seat allotment statistics, there are no […]

Approximately 185 category students enrolled for a preparatory course at 19 IITs in the year 2015. What is a Preparatory course? It is structured to prepare students to pursue the academic programme to which they wish to been allocated at respective IITs.  This one year long course is done on the basis of relaxed admission […]

The second round list of Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA)  was announced on July 6, 2016. Those candidates who have been allotted seats for the first time this round must report to the respective reporting centres and accept the seats. The SBI branches near some of the RCs will remain open on and 9th July […]

1) Former Nokia executive Tejinder Kalra joins Indus Towers as COO a) Indus Towers has appointed Tejinder Kalra as the Chief Operating Officer. His appointment is effective since July 1. b) He joins Indus Towers from Nokia, where he was the Global Head for Bharti Business in his most recent role. c) He also worked […]