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WishTel adds Capsule in its tablet portfolio

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WishTel has added another tablet in their product basket with the launch of WishTel IRA Capsule – a convertible tablet laptop.

The convertible redefines technology advancement and boasts to deliver superior quality graphics, smooth multi-tasking capabilities and enhanced performance. It sports features like the 10.1 inches LED multi-touch capacitive  touch screen, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, 1.6 ghz dual core processor, IGB RAM,screen resolution of 1024*786 HD, battery life of 5 – 6 hours with super powerful 8000 mAH battery, Bluetooth, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Announcing the launch of IRA Capsule, Milind Shah, CEO, WishTel, said, “At WishTel, we always aim to create a products that are not only innovative and use advanced technology, but are also affordable, deliver high performance and meet the growing demand and needs of the consumers. With the launch of IRA Capsule, WishTel only wishes to reinforce the company’s vision to bridge the technology barrier and create innovative and highly effective products. Recognising the needs of the consumers and offering them the touch mode of eject and enjoy will only enhance their comfort, of using this device for both business and personal use”.

“The first year of our foray into the tablet market has been really a great experience for the brand and we have launched some really promising products in the market. With this launch, WishTel aims to become the most sought after tablet PC manufacturing company in the country and the most preferred tablet PC brand for our consumers.We aim to maintain the momentum and introduce newer innovative products for our consumers”adds Milind Shah.

The IRA Capsule comes with metallic casing and aims to replace Laptops and enter the portable, convertible tablet PC market. It is designed with built-in Sim slot for 3G data connectivity. The device is bundled with wireless LAN and expandable Micro SD card.The device comes with a full complement of ports, including USB, SD Card, audio and HD video to simplify the use of industry standard peripheral solutions.It has a 0.3 MP CMOS Front camera, 5.0 MP rear-facing documentation camera to support image capture, video conferencing and collaboration.

IRA Capsule comes pre-loaded with many applications that include Wish Learning, Wish Studio, Wish TV, Wish News, Wish video calling, and many more apps. The tablet comes engineered with a 8000 mAh battery, which can give users browsing time of approximately five hours.
The IRA Capsule will be available from the first week of April 2013, next month and will be distributed through 350 distributors across 35 cities in the country and is likely to be made available at a price of Rs 16,000.

Gordon Rich-Phillips announces 120 new high-tech jobs

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Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips has announced 120 new high-tech jobs will be created in Victoria, with the expansion of global software company, SAP.

Speaking in Bangalore, where he is part of the Victorian Coalition Government’s second India Super Trade Mission, Rich-Phillips said the expansion would include the establishment of SAP’s Mission Control Centre (MCC) in Melbourne.

SAP’s Melbourne MCC will be staffed by up to 20 senior consultants and project directors who will co-ordinate the delivery of services to customers both in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region. More than 100 additional jobs will also be created to meet SAP’s growing Victorian customer base.

“The Melbourne Mission Control Centre will co-ordinate large-scale software rollouts and SAP India will provide software research and development,” Rich-Phillips said.

“This is an exciting development which highlights Victoria’s strengths as a globally connected knowledge economy.

“This partnership is a good example of Victoria and India working together by leveraging India’s software development capability and Victoria’s project management and delivery expertise,” Rich-Phillips said.

The latest audio and video technology based at the Control Centre will be used to ensure SAP’s local teams and their partners in India can work together to deliver a combined software service to customers in the entire Asia-Pacific region.

“Online collaboration across international borders such as this initiative is a key driver of future Victorian and Indian economic growth,” Rich-Phillips said.

Rich-Phillips will also meet with senior executives of SAP Australia and SAP India and will visit the company’s R&D centre in Bangalore to discuss the cutting edge control centre and the ICT industry in Victoria and India.

“We are honoured to welcome Minister Rich-Phillips and the delegates from the Trade Mission to the SAP campus,” the Managing Director of SAP Labs India, Anirban Dey said.

“SAP Labs researches, designs, and delivers leading-edge software applications, taking local requirements from all around the world and integrating them into its global solutions. The team will work closely with the Mission Control Centre in Melbourne as they provide the services that put these solutions into production across the Asia-Pacific region.”

Rich-Phillips said the Coalition Government welcomed future opportunities for collaboration projects with SAP India, the company’s fastest growing subsidiary.

“This collaboration between SAP India and SAP Australia is a testament to the strong relationship we share and the commitment to pioneering excellence in technology that we are renowned for,” Rich-Phillips said.

SAP is the largest enterprise application software company in the world, with locations in more than 75 countries. The SAP Mission Control Centre in Melbourne is scheduled to be fully operational by June 2013.

This announcement is part of the Victorian Coalition Government’s Super Trade Mission to India, which targets eight cities and includes delegates from more than 150 world-class Victorian organisations.

Gujarat proposes 3 new private state universities

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GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat Private Universities (Amendment) Bill might be a hope for establishment of three new private varsities in the state.

The bill, to be tabled in the assembly coming week, if approved will give way for the setting up of Lakulish Yoga University in Ahmedabad, Team Lease Skills University-ITI at Tarsali in Vadodara, and CU Shah University in Wadhwan.

If the bill is passed, the total number of private universities in the state will be 13. The state government is also supposed to table the Gujarat Professional Technical Educational Colleges or Institutions (Regulation of Admission And Fixation of fees) (Amendment) Bill, 2013.

This would be aimed at mobilisation of admissions to students from other states on vacant seats across the various professional and technical education colleges and institutions and also the centres of excellence.

60% fee hike in Kendriya Vidyalayas

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kvCHENNAI: After the last hike in 2009, Kendriya Vidyalayas across India have raised their fee to more than  60 percent.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) have also notified that the computer fund and Vidyalaya Vikas Nidhi would be doubled from the next academic year.

This takes the monthly fee for standard 10 to  Rs 800, as compared to Rs 490, the current fee. However, the tuition fee remains the same.

The proposed fee hike, approved by Pallam Raju, minister for human resource development and KVS chairman was brought to his notice by KVS on December 28, 2012 following decision from KVS board of governors.

The fee is utilized towards the maintenance of school campus, student amenities and equipments used in the campus.  The move hasn’t affected the parents of the students studying in KVs largely because most parents come under the provision by which they are allowed to avail concessions or reimbursement of the fee.

Also, students with families that come under the Below Poverty Line status or those who fall under the children with disabilities category are not liable to pay tuition fee and VVN contribution.  If a girl student comes from a family in which she is the only child and is studying in standards 6 to 12, she need not to pay tuition fee, computer fund and VVN contribution.

However, the move by KVS will affect those parents who do not fall under any of the above mentioned categories.

Inclusive, quality education is the need of the hour: UGC

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BANGALORE: Delivering a speech at the sixth National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Award ceremony  Ved Prakash, chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) emphasised on the need to focus on inclusive, quality education to contribute to the nation’s economy.

Prakash said that no single discipline can create new knowledge and therefore adoption of multi and inter-disciplinary approach is important.
The need to encourage talent and include sections like the Muslim minority into the system is a burning need of the hour. Also, maintaining the quality of the education that is being imparted in higher education institutions is extremely essential.
Prakash also mentioned that the higher education institutions should invest more on classroom processes rather than just infrastructure. Additional importance should be given towards improvement of physical fitness.

Facilities of research and innovation should be created and malpractices in the system should be brought in control. Importance should be given to building partnerships between the industry and the institutes to create skilled manpower.

Faculty shortage in different institutions should be addressed and efforts to bring in more and more institutions should strive to come under the tag of “knowledge systems.”

He also acknowledged the contribution of private sector towards higher education. However, he did not support the concept of commercialisation of higher education through private sector orgnisations.

Admissions to 4-year DU course might be based on Cut-off marks

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delhi universityNEW DELHI: In a new development with regard to the new four-year undergraduate programme of Delhi University (DU), it has come to light that the admissions to this course might be based on cut-off percentage. The marks to be considered will be the candidate’s score in Class XII and the marks obtained by the student in the choice of major discipline.

However, this is a tentative decision, the admission criteria is yet to be finalised. There is a possibility that the existing method of accepting cut-off percentages for the admission process will be retained for the July admissions.

The committee formed by the university Vice-Chancellor also discussed framing of admission related guidelines, examination and time-table for the next academic session. Increasing the number of seats in each discipline was also one of the recommendations made by the committee.

Under the new format of the four years course, admissions will be based on the major discipline. The applicants can opt to study for 20 papers in major discipline over a period of four years. Students can take a maximum of six papers in any minor discipline. Student can also opt to leave any course in their secind, third or the inal year.

A student who leaves a course after two years will be an Associate Baccalaureate, those who leave the course after three years will be Baccalaureate, and completion of a course till final year will get the student the title of either Baccalaureate with Honours in major or BTech degree.

Lowest dropout rate in Kerala schools, says report

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Rural SchoolsTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At 0.53 per cent, Kerala gets the credit of being the Indian state with lowest dropout rate of school students.

Wayanad district had the highest overall dropout rate of more than one per cent. However, the rest of the 13 districts in the state has less than 0.5 per cent drop out rate in schools, as per the data released by State Planning Board (SPB).

The state has a total of 12,644 schools. 4,620 are government schools, 7,161 are aided schools and 863 are non-aided schools. Malappuram has a total of 1,427, the maximum number of schools as compared to other districts of the state.

There is a slight drop in the total number of teachers in the schools. However, the total number of teachers in schools in 2010-11 was 1,68,062 and it is 1,66,939 in 2011-12. 71.5 per cent of teachers are women.

There is also a rise the the pass percentage of the students. Whereas it was 82 per cent in 2010-11, the same has gone up to 88 per cent in 2011-12.

The report has also brought into light that 99 per cent of the government schools have access to drinking water facility, 99.7 per cent have washroom facility, and  162 government schools do  not have a school building of their own.

As per the report, 189 crore was allocate do the state during the 10th Plan period and Rs.712 crore during the 11th plan. In the recent state budget, the state Finance Minister K M Mani Friday proposed allocation of Rs.581 crore towards improvement of school infrastructure, and academic and student-centric programmes.

More Indian institutes in Africa: Anand Sharma

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NEW DELHI: While addressing the CII-EXIM Bank conclave on India-Africa partnership in New Delhi, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma announced that India is working closely with Africa towards setting up of educational institutions in the continent.

He further added that India is already in the process of setting up the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Ghana campus and also India Africa institute of information technology in Ghana.

He also mentioned that approximately 50,000 African students are studying in India. Also, 15,000 students among them have been granted Indian scholarship.

India and Africa collectively has a market of 2.2 billion people with a combined GDP of more than 3 trillion US dollar.

The bilateral cooperation has branched out across a number of sectors including agriculture, education, health, skill building and infrastructure. Data shows that Indo-African Bilateral trade reached 57 billion US Dollar in 2011, and is expected to reach 90 billion US dollar by 2015.

Dr Philip Kotler visits JRE School of Management in Greater Noida

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Greater Noida: Dr Philip Kotler, the legendary marketing guru, visited the JRE school of Management, Greater Noida to inaugurate the Philip Kotler Library, a library named after him.

Dr Kotler planted a tree in the JRE Campus signaling the beginning of his association with JRE School of Management. He further addressed the students and professors at the campus and had a brief interaction with them and spoke about the emerging global scenario in marketing and underlined mechanisms to upgrade knowledge for incumbents.

Speaking on the inauguration of the library, Harpreet Singh, President, JRE Group of Institutions said, “Today is a proud day for us. To be associated with Dr Philip Kotler is a great honour. We have always taught students using his books and to be able to interact with him is a great learning for both our students and professors. Our association with him only makes us strive towards providing our students with the best possible guidance at every stage of learning.”

UPSC’s new pattern ‘highly discriminatory’: Jayalalitha

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JayalalithaaCHENNAI: J Jayalalithaa, chief minister Tamil Nadu  stated that the changes introduced by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in civil services exams are “highly discriminatory” and “is calculated to bias the system against civil services aspirants from non-Hindi speaking regions”.

Jayalalithaa, in her letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the changes stand in violation of Article 16 of the Constitution (Right to Equality in public employment) and requested him to “intervene in the matter and prevail on the UPSC to reconsider these invidious, unfair and discriminatory changes”.

According to her, the four major changes in the exam pattern adversely affected interests of students from Tamil Nadu, especially those from rural backgrounds. The new norm also denied aspirants the chance to write the exams in Tamil, if they did not study in that medium till their graduation.

She further added that the change which says that candidates could take literature as an optional paper if they have studied the literature of that language at their graduation level (as main subject) was beyond logic as such stipulation was not there for other optional subject.

Also, the norm that there should be a minimum of 25 candidates opting for a particular language medium failing which they would have to write the exam in English and Hindi was discriminatory.

The fourth change that suggests removal of the compulsory qualifying paper in an Indian language and inclusion of an English composition and precis writing section in the essay paper instead that would also be marked, again stands in favour of urban, English educated candidates and is non-supportive for rural students belonging to disadvantaged sections.

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