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Calcutta University might have lost its past glory and come to be dubbed by all as a crumbling institution. But by resting on past laurels and through its association with two Nobel laureates, the age old institution has found a place among the top 500 institutions in the 'Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2004'. The ranking by Shanghai Jiao Tong University has only two other Indian institutions featuring in the top 500 - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore graded between 202 and 301 and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur which is graded between 404 and 502 along with Calcutta University. The

Mumbai: Yashpal Mittal, Mr. Karve Anand, Ms. Gupta Ashoka and Professor Michael Nagler, the beneficiaries of the Jamnalal Bajaj awards for 2007. Yashpal Mittal, 74, wins the Excellence Award for his contribution to "bhoodan movement, and for spreading communal harmony. Mr. Anand Karve, 71, the President of the countryside Institute for Appropriate Technology in Pune, get the reward for the application of science and technology for rural development. Mr. Karve has 39 projects on behalf of national and international institutions and has worked mainly in the water sector, green house technology and harvesting technology. Ms. Gupta Ashoka, the "Award for

Clarkson University MBA Student Lindsey Lathrop to Join Peace Corps Clarkson University student Lindsey Lathrop of Queensbury, N.Y., will join the Peace Corps soon after she graduates with her MBA this May. I came to Clarkson to do my MBA because I was familiar with the area and I knew I would have the freedom to choose what I wanted to get out of the program, says Lathrop. To expand my horizons, I decided to apply to the Peace Corps. It was something Ive wanted to do for a long time. I took a human rights course in London taught by

What Nobel laureates teach about investing in B-Schools Fund Manager of Fidelity Fund Management, Arun Mehra studied electrical engineering and then did his MBA from the University of Chicago. He then did a stint with Motorola but wanted to work in the Indian equities market. After all, India is where he sees tremendous growth occurring over a 5-10 years period.

HYDERABAD: Offers scientists and abroad, including four Nobel laureates, are responsible for levying an annual scientific conference begins Tuesday, January 3, close between security. President APJ Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is five to 93 day Indian Science Congress will be held in Hyderabad's Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU). The event will focus on integrated development of rural areas with the help of science and technology, will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. Distinguished economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the opening session. Six World Food Prize, and 85 winners excellent scientists from 25 countries are selected from among the

SBOA students registering school won first prize in the competition Vive La Nature 2005 (Vive la nature), an inter-school directed by the nature of PSG Club Institute for Management in Coimbatore. Vidya Niketan school won the second prize and third prize went to Lisieux Matriculation School. More than 200 students from 30 schools participated in events quiz, elocution, wealth from waste, drawing, collage and elocution. The students were divided into three categories - sexually transmitted diseases. VI to VIII, sexually transmitted diseases. IX and X and sexually transmitted diseases. XI and XII.

New Delhi: The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), in its bid to “catch them young” programme, and to encourage junior players, will organise a Prize Money Tournament at Pune from August 1 to August 4. The Maharashtra State Table Tennis Association will organise the “B. I. Foundation” Prize Money Tournament for junior boys and girls and sub-junior boys and girls at the Mahohar Mangal Kanyalaya, near Mehendak, Garage, Pune. The tournament, which will carry a prize money of Rs 1,64,000, will be held under the aegis of the TTFI. This will be a ranking tournament, and the performances of the players

India and Pakistan would spend more on defence. While India has its defence budget by a 18-20 percent flying flat sewing, Pakistan has done, rather than a nominal value of seven to eight per cent. This year, India awarded Rs770 billion defense is a sharp increase on the estimated Rs603 billion spent in the last business year. Pakistan has increased by nearly a third of India, while proposing a "record" to the tune of Rs194 billion - about Rs13 billion more than the revised defence budget Rs181 billion. The question for the two rivals to answer the question whether they can afford

New Cambridge IGCSEs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India Studies will be launched at an evening to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Plassey at Londons City Hall. Nobel Prize winning Indian economist and philosopher Professor Amartya Sen will address the event and take part in a panel discussion with historian and author Nick Robins, London Assembly Member Murad Qureshi (host of the event), and Barrister and Broadcaster Huma Price. The event aims to bring together Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Indian communities to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Plassey and look at how extremism can be addressed

It was from Krishna Kumar, director of the Indian Institute of Management in Kozhikode (IIM-K). And he wanted peace with me. For the last three years, I have had an uneasy relationship with the directors of the three younger IIMs (Kozhikode, Indore and Lucknow) because of the annual survey of business schools that we do. These three directors were appointed after the change in the search committee structure because of which the government had a decisive role in their appointments. Probably they didn’t want their track record to be blemished by bad rankings of their institutes. In spite of their

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