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Bank on it
There are opportunities aplenty in the banking industry. With over 1,000 officerand 5,000 clerical posts getting filled annually, landing the right job isn't an impossible task. What is required is right training.


Lap up the offer
Here is a big chance for engineering students. Agilent Technologies, a multinational company, is launching an award for the best B.Tech project. Winners can look forward to an all-expense paid trip to either the US or the UK.
Reform the exam
"A radical shift of focus from passive listening to active learning by the student is the need of the hour. It does demand a crucial changein the method of teaching and assessment too."
INQUIZITIVE
Get quizzical
KIRTI SINHA, G. Ravi Kumar, K. Suraj Reddy, Deepak Karamungikar and Bhaskar Ramakrishnan have won prizes this week. Congrats! You can collect your prizes from The Hindu office during working hours. Answers to Quiz No. ...
Get creative
The ABVP will conduct its annual State-level technical fair - Srujana-2005 - at Osmania University Engineering College from March 3 to 6. The annual event is an attempt to encourage creative talent among engineering students and to provide a ...
Historians speak their mind
"History should not be distorted and there is a need for scientific approach in rewriting history, particularly when presenting the great past to the future generations." This was the view of speakers at a workshop organised by the Southern ...
Taking inspiration from GRE
"Computerisation, as followed by US agency conducting GRE, is the key. On line testing is the ultimate solution wherein a student can take test at any time of his choice. With EDUSAT being launched by the ISRO in September 2004, on line all-India tes t would be very easy and manageable."
Wass up
The need to preserve heritage buildings and the role scientists have to play in it would be discussed at length at a seminar to be organised by the School of Planning and Architecture (SAP), JNTU, next month. It would be attended by ...
CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Good response to Sanketika
* Sanketika-2005, the annual technical symposium held at Lords Institute of Engineering and Technology saw more than 500 students submitting papers from different colleges in the State. Other events that were included during the three-day event ...
CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Workshop on VAT
* A two-day workshop on Value Added Tax, Service Tax and Excise Duty, organised by the School of Management Studies, JNTU, discussed at length the positive aspects of VAT and how people would be positively affected on its introduction. T. ...
CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Seminar on leadership
* Dhruva College of Management organised a seminar on "Insights into making of a leader for the new millennium" wherein students and executives from business schools in the city participated. William D. Dar, Director-General of ICRISAT, spoke at ...
Colourful Felicity
* Felicity '05 - the annual cultural and technical festival of techies of IIIT-Hyderabad was a colourful affair with lots of entertainment events apart from some contests that tested the technical skills of the students. Participants from IITs, ...
CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Inter-college sports
* The Inter-college sports held for engineering colleges of JNTU has enthusiastic participants from several colleges and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology (MJIT) walked away with top honours in basketball and Table-Tennis events. ...
CAMPUS JOTTINGS
Students do their bit
* Students of Hi-tech College of Engineering showed their humane side by raising Rs. 29,513 for the tsunami-hit people and sent the same to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. The youth Red Cross wing of the college also organised a blood ...
RIGHT TURN
Winning the rat race
"Decide your goal, set priorities wisely and work for achieving them. This alone is the formula for success."
Q & A: ASK THE CBSE
Draw up a schedule for studies
The Central Board of Secondary Education answers questions relating to its examinations from The Hindu's readers. Readers are welcome to send in more questions, primarily those relating to the Class X and XII exams, to cbsehelp@thehindu.co.in, which will be forwarded to the CBSE. Answers to a select number of them will be published in these columns in subsequent instalments. The purpose of this series is also to help students with their examination-related stress.
Detoxifying industrial effluents
The rapid expansion and increasing sophistication of industries in the past century, particularly over the last 30 years, has meant that there has been an increasing amount and complexity of toxic waste effluents. The fast growing field of ...
Hard effect of soft drinks
If you've ever had a blood test that measured your fasting blood glucose level, it should be somewhere around 100 milligrams per decilitre. That's one gram of blood sugar per litre of blood, which translates into only about five grams (a ...
Options for ICWAI students
What are the job opportunities for ICWAI candidates and what is in store for them in the emerging economic scenario? Sabita,
Hyderabad A cost accountant can choose from several career options. * Join any company; * Serve in ...
Aeronautical engineering
I wish to pursue aeronautical engineering. I wish to know the institutes that offer the course and also the details about eligibility criterion and admission procedure? To be an aeronautical engineer, one should be a BE/B.Tech in aeronautical ...
Colleges offering M.Ed course
There are several universities offering M.Ed course through correspondence. Following are some of them, listed along with the eligibility criteria they seek: * Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu - 630003: Duration: 2 years; ...
All about JIPMER
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), affiliated to Pondicherry University, offers a number of medical and paramedical courses. Admissions to the courses are made on all-India basis and strictly on the ...
Techies rock
IIIT's techno-cultural event, Felicity, has proved how different and heady student festivals can be.
Beacon of hope
Helen Keller is a legendary figure. Despite being blind and deaf, she has proved that she could still communicate through her works. Truly, she is the symbol of indomitable human spirit, writes G. Keerthi.
Morning blues
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh mom... pattttttack (slap)... c'mon mom. Okay, I give up and get up! I get up late in the morning (5 a.m.) - that is what my mother thinks. Sigh. And if that does not happen, my sister is there to pinch me and wake me up to ...
Take that
HOW ABOUT writing about your classroom and your backyard, that is your college campus. Heart-warming (heart-rending too) stories, experiemces that moved you, incidents that stirred you or things you did not like, youth festival or workshop ...


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