Maitreyee Boruah Dna

• Common Admission Test to become round-the-year affair from 2012

  Now, B-school aspirants can sit for Common Admission Test (CAT) throughout the year. After successful completion of the second online edition of CAT 2010 on Wednesday, organisers are planning to make CAT a round-the-year affair from 2012, for the convenience of B-school aspirants.Organisers of the exam, Indian Institute of Managements (IIMs) and th...

• These IIM-Bangalore students do not want to sit for placements

  They are not in the rat race to grab plum jobs in corporate and financial sectors. And, that is why they decided to opt out of placements, held recently at the premier Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B).Meet Amit Kumar Sikdar, Shailendra Pandey and Himanshu Meena, all 1st year post-graduate programme (PGP) students at  IIM-B.If P...

• Hungry, street kids take to drugs in Bangalore

  A twelve-year-old ragpicker near Kempe Gowda Bus Station in Bangalore, and a runaway from Patna, regularly sniffs glue, particularly Dendrite and Erazex to keep hunger at bay. Another fourteen-year-old girl, who does odd jobs, suffers from severe alcohol abuse.They are just two figures among the large number of street children in Bangalore who are ...

• Bangalore: The e-pursuit to realise academic dreams

  Aspiring engineers and medicos in Bangalore can now heave a sigh of relief. After school, there is no need for them to rush for special tutorial classes. With the concept of e-learning fast catching up among Bangalore's Gen Y, students can now take their tutorials from the comfort of their homes.

• Bangalore: Defence man, wife accused of torturing domestic help

  Thirteen-year-old Pooja maintained her composure as she narrated her agonies to the media about the repeated physical and mental violence that she was subjected to by her employers at Hebbal, for almost a year. Pooja was rescued by the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) on Wednesday, after they got a call from a cons...

• Bangalore schools say no to cane

  Bangalore schools are taking a stand and devising ways to put a full stop to corporal punishment which has left a scar on many students. The schools believe that by developing a friendly relationship between teacher and students, they can solve the issues pertaining to discipline amicably, and therefore bring an end to corporal punishment. The deci...

• Drive to track down missing children begins in November

  The statistics are frightening. Every year, about 4,800 children go missing from Bangalore.Experts say most of them are victims of trafficking and fear that they are either working as child sex workers or labourers in various parts of the country.In an attempt to bring the missing children back and reunite them with their parents, Campaign Against ...

• He worked as a waiter to become a teacher

  Professor KR Nayak has literally fought every sort of battle that one can imagine -- be it against abject poverty during his childhood or juggling between his higher studies and the demanding job of a bus conductor with the erstwhile Bangalore Transport Service (BTS). But nothing could deter him from realising his cherished dream of becoming a teac...