JEE Main multiple choice questions require aspirants to pick the correct answer from a set of options. There are generally four options to every question, out of which one, or more than one option is correct. It is usually seen that candidates consider objective questions easy as compared to subjective. Despite the wide spread liking towards MCQs […]

Date  – 6th Feb,    Venue – The Orchid , Vile Parle ,  Mumbai WAT –  Teacher Training Programme in India has not been effective in India . No effective teachers are being produced Through  Training Programme . It is better to stop all these Training Programme and  save public money to build Toilets and infrastructures in Schools.  Analyze and  argument ……etc Panel 4 –  Professor 1 ( […]

The second day of Tryst, the extravagant technical fest of IIT Delhi went on with great enthusiasm shown by the participants and the audience alike. The prime event scheduled for day 2 that attracted the maximum audience was the Q&A session with Sachin and Binny Bansal, founders of the Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart. The success […]

The Union Budget announced today does not have the best of tidings for the Education sector. A few good projects, a little more money but no real will. Money,  because the Department of School Education and Literacy has been bestowed with  an allocation of Rs 43,554 crore this year as compared to Rs 42,186 crore […]

The Budget 2016, amongst high promises in the education sector, fails to highlight the status of converting Indian School of Mines(ISM) into an Indian Institute of Technology(IIT). The BJP Government promised to upgrade ISM to the status of an IIT, during the financial budget session 2015.This conversion process requires an Amendment bill to be introduced […]

The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his third budget along with the Finance Bill today. With billions of rupees allocated for farmers and the poor, the 2016-17 budget aims to boost the rural economy. Key achievements of the Indian economy in 2015-16: The Indian economy’s most notable achievement in 2015-16 is that despite the […]

The third day of Pragyan kick-started with several guest lectures that were a major crowd-puller. Lectures by Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and MD of India’s premier missile programme, BRAHMOS and by Gianni Di Caro, a senior researcher at IDSIA, the Swiss Artificial Intelligence lab, both witnessed a packed auditorium. The latter’s presentations covered the various aspects about the same, […]

More than 400 girls at Smt. Durgabai Deshmukh Government Women’s Technical Training Institute, Hyderabad, are forced to urinate in the open and in empty classrooms, since the college does not have usable toilets. The 40-year-old establishment has only one toilet for 462 students, which poses serious hygiene and sanitation issues for women. When PaGaLGuY spoke to the […]

Some 4500 students of the 6,000 odd, at IIT Kanpur were in for a rude shock when they were asked to cough up approximately Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 each as electricity bill for January 2016. This is a far cry from the odd Rs 2,000 they used to individually pay up per semester.  2016 onwards, IIT-K […]

The who’s who of international cinema took their hats off for some of the best films of 2015 at the 88th Academy Awards which was conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).  The Oscar, as the award is commonly known as, was presented across 24 categories. The award ceremony was hosted […]