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Agartala , June 8 — Northeast India's first IIIT (Indian Institute of Information Technology) will be set up in Tripura, a minister said here Friday. Tripura Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty told reporters: "Union Human Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal informed at a meeting in New Delhi Tuesday that northeast's first IIIT would be set up in Tripura." "The HRD ministry has decided to establish 20 more IIITs in the country in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. In the first phase, five IIITs would be set up in different parts of India, including one in Tripura," he said quoting Sibal. Currently, there are four IIITs in India -- Allahabad, Gwalior, Jabalpur and Kanchipuram. These autonomous institutions are providing undergraduate as well as postgraduate technical education. "The central government has decided to provide more financial aid to the northeastern states than the other parts of the cou...

Jamshedpur : In a boost to increase educational opportunities for inmates of the Gaghidih central jail, the prison administration has joined hands with National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS). The NIOS regional office has agreed to open study centre in the Gaghidih jail next month. To start with, 30 inmates of the jail will pursue matriculation and senior secondary board examinations through NIOS study centres. "Initially, 30 inmates will pursue their academic career through NIOS and the classes shall begin by July," said jail superintendent Tushar Ranjan Gupta. The state government will bear the study expenses of the inmates. The NIOS will charge about Rs 2,000 from each inmate who seeks to appear in any of the two examinations. The institute will conduct biennial examinations In April and October every year. According to sources, out of the 12-odd CPI (Maoist) rebels who are currently lodged in the jail, a few have expressed their desire to pursue studies ...

Singapore, June 10 — Zoya Akhtar's " Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara " and Imtiaz Ali's " Rockstar " triumphed at the 13th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards Saturday, with each winning four trophies. " Zindagi Na.. " won the awards for best film , best story , best actor in supporting role for Farhan Akhtar and best director for Zoya. "Rockstar" won the best actor in the leading role for Ranbir, best music direction for A.R. Rahman, best lyrics for the song and best playback singer male for Mohit Chauhan for " Nadaan Parindey ". Ranbir, who played the role of an aspiring singer who aims to make it big, beat actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan, to walk away with the trophy. On the other hand, actress Vidya Balan continued her winning streak by picking up the award for best actress in a leading role for " The Dirty Picture ". She emerged victorious among...

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has finally published the results of more than 1.1 million candidates who appeared in the 11th All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination this year which can be checked now on the official results portal on this direct link : http://cbseresults.nic.in/aieee/aieee_cbse_2012.htm The cut-off for General, OBS, SC/ST categories and Physically Handicapped candidates have been set as 48, 45, 18 and 18 marks respectively for the online counselling for B.E/B.Tech and B.Arch/B.Planning which will be conducted later this month by Central Counselling Board. Sanjeet Patri of Delhi has topped the exam this year securing the top position scoring 346 out of 360. IIT JEE Topper from Faridabad has secured 9th place where Mansee Sood, among the girls is AIR rank 6. About 4,10,000 students have crossed the cut off marks i.e. 48 and would sit for online counselling. Seats availability and counselling related information can be checked on...

( By : Rugved Thakur ) Answer writing is the key to getting good marks in Main Examination. 2 Main areas of concentration should be Meeting expectation of UPSC answering style and Presentation. When an answer requires 250 words or more, it is better to prepare  synoptic notes  in rough. This involves quickly jotting down the main points we are to write in the answer. Arranging the points in order of importance. This gives a good structure and flow to the answer. Try as far as possible to stick to the word limit mentioned in the question. Good control over language will help you to write more points in lesser number of words. Read the editorials of the newspaper and try to use that language in your answers. Exceeding the word limit may lead to problems in completing the paper. There is no need to count the exact number of words in the answer. During preparation itself one should know the length of the page that one needs to write for a 100, 200, 250, 300 and 600 words...