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IIMAs Insight to rock for first time this year (07 October 08:42) |
| For the first time, the marketing fair of the IIMA, Insight, will feature a rock band entertaining the residents of the city |
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Primary crisis is in secondary schools (07 October 02:11) |
| A World Bank report on the status of secondary education in India has severely criticised the government for neglecting education from classes 9 to 12. |
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Mumbai University appoints officer for VC selection (06 October 03:20) |
| The three-member search committee chaired by professor Andre Beteille was constituted by SC Jamir, Maharshtra governor and chancellor of universities in the state, on July 22. |
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Maximising scores in the verbal section (06 October 02:25) |
| Practice test are a good place to begin experimenting with this approach. It does not matter at what point in the test you are attempting the verbal section. |
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TIMSR pupils evoke the spirit of change (06 October 02:24) |
| Evoke 2009, the annual fest of Thakur Institute of Management Studies and Research (TIMSR) was centred around the theme 'leadership' and ideas that can change India. |
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Students seek eastern shores (06 October 02:22) |
| For the last couple of years, the region has become a fast growing nucleus for international universities to set base. |
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Soon an anti-ragging portal to help students lodge their complaints (05 October 07:34) |
| The supreme court had earlier asked the government to set up a central crisis hotline and anti-ragging database which will contain the details of each student. |
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Aptitude tests to prepare ground for CBSE grading (05 October 04:37) |
| Students of classes 9 and 10 may have optional counselling sessions. |
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Indo-American summit on education on Nov 13 (05 October 04:30) |
| Around 50 top American universities are arriving in India to participate in the Indo-American Education Summit on academic collaborations. |
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Army institute show unveils new eatopia (05 October 04:30) |
| The students of Army Institute of Hotel Management and Catering proved that recession cannot dampen their appetite for seeking culinary skills.
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Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology reopens for academic activities (05 October 12:19) |
| The insititute reopened after nearly a one month-shutdown following violence between two groups of students. A 3-tier set up will address the grievances of students |
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IITians make a beeline for business (05 October 02:32) |
| 'Ideaz' helps students to develop their plans into successful enterprises. |
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To show or not to show is SSC boards dilemma (05 October 02:26) |
| Pune info commissioner's order runs contrary to earlier ruling of state's info chief. |
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IIT-Bombay to get advanced lab next month (05 October 02:04) |
| In a major initiative, an advanced research lab for geospatial information science and engineering will be operational at IIT Bombay from November 2009. |
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Uniform norms mulled for teaching staff recruitment (04 October 08:58) |
| Getting a job in any educational institutes in Gujarat will be a tough task in days to come, as the state education department is in the process of establishing uniform rules for recruitment... |
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Science City to host 17th national kids Science Congress (04 October 08:40) |
| The Gujarat Science City will host the 17th National Children's Science Congress (NCSC) from December 27 to 31. |
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Gujarat kids paint their way into Guinness book (03 October 09:04) |
| It was a riot of colours in Vadodara when more than 8,000 children from different schools of the city on Friday sketched 4.3 km long painting on the theme of traffic. |
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Xaviers rally lights the way for students alumni alike (03 October 08:32) |
| The rally also covered Roopali Theatre, Nehru Bridge, Ashram Road, Mt Carmel High School, Swastik crossroads, HL College of Commerce and Vijay crossroads. |
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Nouveau début for Ruia (03 October 02:43) |
| The French department of Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, one of the oldest and the only one of its kind in the city, is all set for a revival. |
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Single board will make admission process easier (03 October 02:17) |
| The main focus of the talk was whether India should have one school education board and one national curriculum. |
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Oklahoma woman skins pet puppy to make belt (21 June 03:13) |
| A Jack Russell pup that had been left in the care of a woman, was cruelly shot dead as she wanted to make a belt of the dog's skin. |
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Dying baby girl revives after life support machine is switched off (20 June 06:38) |
| A baby girl surprised doctors when she made a miraculous recovery after her life support machine was switched off.
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Lightning-struck girl saved by her iPod (19 June 06:55) |
| A teenage girl survived a lightning strike after her iPod, which was round her neck, diverted the 300,000-volt surge that hit her.
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RAF girls pay with their knickers for ride in jets (18 June 07:20) |
| Pilots of the Royal Air Force have come up with a novel way of making their female passengers pay for their ride in a jet. |
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Brit mum finds dead mouse in tikka masala jar (18 June 03:31) |
| While preparing Asda curry sauce for her children, Cate Barrett, a British mom, found dead mouse in the tikka masala jar. |
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Chinese lock picker invents anti-theft device in prison (16 June 04:19) |
| Making a new theft-proof lock in a prison in Hubei province, a thief has got his sentence reduced. |
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Woman puts down burglar by shot-putting 12-pack of beer bottles! (14 June 10:23) |
| A woman shot-put a 12-pack of beer bottles at a burglar as he tried to get away with her wallet on a bicycle. |
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Couple ordered to stop having sex by talking CCTV camera (13 June 09:03) |
| A couple were left embarrassed after a talking CCTV camera in a town centre caught them having sex, and ordered to stop. |
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Blind dates may turn out to be serial con artists! (13 June 03:26) |
| A middle-aged man found this out the hard way, when he was tricked by a woman he met through a matchmaking service.
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Jumbo hen egg from Punjab makes it to Limca Book of Records (08 June 04:39) |
| A 162 gram egg laid by a hen at a poultry farm in Punjab has made it to the Limca Book of Records as the biggest reported in the country. |
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One kg hair removed from girl's stomach (07 June 04:59) |
| In an unusual medical case, a surgeon removed one kg hair from a 11-yr-old girl's stomach at a government health centre in Dadabari area of the city. |
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One kg hair removed from girls stomach (07 June 04:59) |
| In an unusual medical case a surgeon removed one kg hair from a 11-yr-old girls stomach at a government health centre in Dadabari area of the city |
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Meet the Mowgli girl who was raised by dogs in a sqaulid flat (30 May 03:03) |
| A five-year-old girl has been nicknamed Mowgli because she has been raised by dogs since birth and has even developed dog like traits. |
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Meet the dog that spent 25 days stuck in a rabbit hole (27 May 11:17) |
| A dog got stuck in a rabbit hole and could manage to crawl out only after it lost a third of his body weight due to starvation for 25 days.
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Meet the 3-year-old professional master of wedding ceremonies! (26 May 06:28) |
| A three-year-old boy has left people zapped after learning to become a professional master of ceremonies at weddings |
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Girl in coma wakes up singing Mamma Mia! (26 May 02:42) |
| A three-year-old girl in a coma stunned her family when she woke up five days later - singing Abba hit Mamma Mia. |
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Meet the Chinese man who spent two months walking wrong way home (22 May 04:37) |
| A Chinese man spent two months walking before realising that the directions he was following did not go towards his hometown in Guizhou. |
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Texas woman claims she saw Christ-like figure in Cheeto (20 May 06:10) |
| A woman from Preston Hollow, Texas claims that she saw a Christ-like figure among the cheetos that she was eating. |
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Most Beautiful Transsexual in the Universe crowned in Thailand (20 May 03:49) |
| Sorrawee Nattee has officially been named the Miss Ladyboy 2009 in Thailand. |
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Japanese man sets world record for longest paper plane flight (19 May 06:21) |
| A Japanese engineer has created a new world record by managing to keep his paper airplane aloft for 27.9 seconds |
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Pet birds get their own cooler in Jodhpur (13 May 05:54) |
| A resident of Jodhpur has designed a miniature cooler to provide relief to his pet birds from the scorching heat |
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A man who has not bathed since 1973 (13 May 05:40) |
| For the last over 36 years, this man has neither taken a bath nor shaved.
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16yr-old Chinese girl survives 6-story fall by landing on stuffed bear (13 May 03:52) |
| A teenaged Chinese girl "miraculously" escaped death when she fell out of her 6th floor window |
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10yr-old investigated by Brit cops for playing football in his garden! (11 May 04:23) |
| A 10-year-old boy landed in trouble with the British police after an elderly neighbour complained about the noise he made while playing football in his own garden |
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The restaurant that serves only 'unmarried chickens'! (10 May 05:10) |
| The restaurant in China claims that it serves only virgin chickens. |
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Ticket holder may have won world's biggest lottery with £110m jackpot (09 May 06:03) |
| One ticket holder may have bagged the world's biggest lottery with 110 million pounds in the EuroMillions jackpot |
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Ticket holder may have won world's biggest lottery with £110m jackpot (09 May 06:03) |
| One ticket holder may have bagged the world's biggest lottery with 110 million pounds in the EuroMillions jackpot |
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Famous bust of Queen Nefertiti could be a fake (09 May 04:47) |
| An art historian has claimed that the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti believed to be 3,400 years old could be a fake |
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Dog eats Homer Simpson! (30 April 04:15) |
| Dixie, a ten-year-old collie-dalmatian pet dog, is said to have become ill after eating a plastic Homer Simpson toy. |
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Cheeky footballer faces penalty for passing wind! (05 April 06:25) |
| A cheeky footballer was slapped with a yellow card after breaking a penalty-taker's concentration - by passing wind. |
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