Indian junk?
Possibly related posts:
Wither IITs
I think education in Indian Institutes of Technology has become a big joke!
Read this news item from Times of India:
A general category student scoring 5 in maths, 0 in physics and 3 in chemistry and an SC/ST student who scored up to 40% lower — 3 in maths, 0 in physics and 1.8 in chemistry — was given a seat in IIT-JEE 2008.
Now that relaxation will also be 50%. In 2009, if the general category subject cut-offs remain constant, an SC/ST student with 2.5 in maths, 0 in physics and 1.5 in chemistry would squeeze into the hallowed IITs.
This year, score of the last general category student to be admitted was 172 (out of 489). The cut-off for an SC/ST student was 104.
Next year, assuming the general category cut-off remains the same, SC/ST students with 86 marks (50% of 172) will make the cut-off.
No wonder employers shun the IIT-ians and prefer even upcountry engineering colleges over the much-hyped IITs.
Poor IIT alumni, they can’t flaunt their snobbish, elitist name of their alma mater any more!!
Possibly related posts:
Internet telephony to open up in India
Yes. It is a dream come true for Indians!
IP Telephony or internet telephony has long been expected to materialize in India in full flow so that cheap telephone calls to and from India become a reality. So far,there has been a restriction on calls through internet terminating in a local telephone service. Now that restriction has been removed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the statutory governing body. In other words, it was PC to PC or Phone to PC in India; now it can be anything to plain old phone in India! So services like Vonage will become a reality in India too. And it will turn out to be a boon to the Non-resident Indians (NRIs) who are spending through their noses currently to keep in touch with their kin residing in India.
Here is the news as it appeared in IndiaTimes:
In a significant step that will have bearing on Indian telecom services and push the rates down further, Telecom regulator on Monday recommended complete opening up of Internet telephony.
The Internet service providers (ISPs) have been permitted to provide unrestricted Internet telephony which means they can terminate Internet telephony calls on PSTN (public switched telecom network) and vice-versa.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has even allowed the national long distance (NLD) operators to connect to ISPs through public Internet (Internet cloud) for unrestricted Internet telephony. But for that to take place, ISPs and NLDs will have to thrash out mutual agreements for unrestricted Internet telephony, said TRAI.
The move will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and result in lower STD tariffs. The move will permit calls from personal computers to fixed line and mobile phones. Currently, a voice call can travel between two computers but not from a mobile or a fixed phone. This is expected to open huge channels of revenues for ISPs.
NLD shall make suitable commercial and technical arrangements with access providers i.e PSTN/PLMN (public land mobile network lines) for unrestricted Internet telephony said the regulator in a statement.
You can read the rest of the story here.
Possibly related posts:
Kashmir today!
Photo source: Hindustan Times.
Possibly related posts:
Democratic princess!
Here is a news item in today’s Hindustan Times, a national daily from Delhi, India:
Two grilled or driving close to Priyanka’s motorcade
POLICE INTERROGATED two young men for over three hours when they accidentally drove close to the convoy of Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra near Safdarjung’s tomb early Sunday. One of the Personal Security Officers (PSO) made a call to the police that a white Santro car was “following them” and they anticipated threat from it. Police said when a PSO noticed that the white Santro (DL 9CG-0091) was following them from Delhi Haat and also overtook the security cavalcade near Safdarjung Tomb, the PSOs got into action, intercepted the car and forced it to a stop. The two men were handed over to the police. Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra were on their way home when the incident occurred around I am. The PSOs questioned the two men thoroughly before handing them over to the police. The two men identified as Arun and Jayant were taken to Tughlak Road Police Station, where they were grilled for more than three hours. The two men live in Saket. Arun is a law student, while Jayant works for a private firm. No case has been registered. Police said it was routine questioning and they were released soon. The two men told the police they were on their way to India Gate and had no clue they were moving parallel with the Vadras and their security convoy.
Possibly related posts:
Terrorism and India
Rediff.com poses a very pertinent question, “Is terrorism becoming as common as a case of theft?” in its well-documented essay with an outrageous title, “In India, we don’t catch terrorists“!
Read the complete article by clicking on the link above. Sad reading indeed.
Possibly related posts:
What price democracy?
Almost the whole of India is tottering in electricity crisis. There are reports of “power riots” in and around Delhi, the capital of india, according to Hindustan Times a leading newspaper from the capital:
People have had enough. Tired of long and frequent power cuts and false promises of improvement, people in the Capital and Gurgaon took to the streets attacking offices of power utilities on Tuesday.
After waiting eight hours without electricity early on Tuesday, residents of Mukherjee Nagar in north Delhi gathered in a mob outside the main zonal office of the power utility NDPL and stoned the facility. However, no one was injured.
They were back at the office later in the evening. The National Capital Region’s first power riots have taken place and there is not much the power utilities can do except file police cases or run away. In some cases, there is retaliation, too.
Just outside the city limits, patience snapped in Badshahpur, a Gurgaon village, after 15 hours without electricity. The villagers stormed the local electricity office, beat the staff on duty and damaged equipment in use
But that didn’t prevent the so-called netas (aka politicians) and figureheads flaunting extravagant ans ostentatious consumption of electricity.
Rediff reports:
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has consumed electricity worth more than Rs 16.5 crore in the past five years and the prime minister and his office has consumed power worth Rs 37.26 lakh in the past three years, information gained through the Right to Information Act has shown.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has consumed a total of close to 3 crore units of electricity in five years. The prime minister has consumed 7 lakh units in the past three years.
Replying to a an RTI query by activist Chetan Kothari, the Central Public Works Department replied that all the bills have been paid by the department.
The department said there is no separate meter for the prime minister’s residence and the consumption is for both his home and office.
‘There is no separate meter for the residence of the prime minister. There is a common meter for the 3, Race Course Road complex comprising of the PM’s house, security gazette, security lights, SPG office, MI room, PMO, horticulture pumps, temporary lighting,’ the CPWD said.
That is democracy in full flow for you!
Possibly related posts:
-
Sponsors
-
About Me
I am S.K!
Ok, what's the big deal, you may ask! But you may miss a good deal if you do not dwell deep into this web site, specially hand-crafted for you. But what about me, the person? Wait, I am not good at making things up. If you stumble upon a good-sounding résumé, please pass it on to me!
-
Quirky something
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." -
Recent Posts
-
Blog network
-
Propagate
-
Extra
