India
New Chair enhances McGill ties to India
Source: McGill Reporter Courtesy of Fawzia Madni MONTREAL: McGill University and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) have partnered in the creation of a new chair on India Studies. The agreement was signed recently during a visit to McGill by His Excellency Admiral (Retired) Nirmal Verma, High Commissioner of India to Canada. The ICCR [...]
» read moreSpeakers lining up for Synergy 2013
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s upcoming President Shanthi Johnson will be speaking at this year’s event accompanied by 5 Canadian Members of Parliament. CIEC is still accepting proposals and we would love to hear from those interested in joining this esteemed line-up of speakers. CIEC will be offering a 1-night free stay at the Hilton Garden Inn [...]
» read moreiCARE Now Overseen by the Distinguished Gaurav Verma
CIEC welcomes Gaurav Verma, CIEC’s Project Coordinator, to the Executive Team. Gaurav is uniquely qualified to oversee iCARE – CIEC’s Agent Membership category – contributing his vast experience of working with international students and in the Indian Agent market as well as valuable, active, working relations with over 40 ACCC colleges in Canada. Accredited to [...]
» read moreIndia introduces Central Monitoring System
Source: The Register Phone calls, texts, emails and even social media all now snoopable. Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Indian government began quietly rolling out a Rs.4 billion (£47.8m) Central Monitoring System (CMS) designed to give the authorities sweeping access to citizens’ phone calls and internet comms in the name of national [...]
» read moreSeven unscrupulous travel agents held
Source: Hindustan Times JALANDHAR: The city police on Monday cracked down on unscrupulous travel agents on the basis of specific information from the British high commission and Australian embassy that the agents used to prepare forged documents of students for sending them abroad on study visa. During raids, seven travel agents were arrested with Rs 20 lakh [...]
» read moreMeghalaya government seeks report on Garo Hills rape
Source: Times of India SHILLONG: The state government has sought a detailed report from the West Garo Hills district administration on an incident of rape of a girl by miscreants from neighbouring Assam in Boldamgre village of the Garo Hills. Social welfare minister Deborah C Marak convened a meeting with principal secretary (social welfare) PW [...]
» read moreIndia’s cheap food plans to prove costly for government
Source: Reuters India may soon pass a new law to give millions more people cheap food, fulfilling an election promise of the ruling Congress party that could cost about $23 billion a year and take a third of annual grain production. The National Food Security Bill, which aims to feed 70 percent of the population, [...]
» read moreOnline education growing in popularity, education expert says
Source: Times of India TIMES VIEW The wave of the future The observation by Curtis Uhelein, president of US-based Apollo Global, doesn’t come out of the blue. The trend towards online education is something that has been percolating through the world of higher education for a few years now. Given how new the [...]
» read moreIndian heads project to prove Einstein’s prediction
Source: Times of India LONDON: Albert Einstein’s 100-year-old theory of relativity may finally be proved in the next five years. An Indian astronomer at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena is heading a global project which is poised to discover proof that space and time can wrinkle in the form of [...]
» read moreDhoni’s ‘Vishnu avatar’ lands him in legal tangle
Source: Hindustan Times An advertisement that depicts MS Dhoni as Lord Vishnu has landed the Indian skipper in legal trouble. An activist has filed a case against him in a Bengaluru court, alleging Dhoni had ‘denigrated’ the Hindu god in the advertisement in a business magazine. The case was registered under section 295 of the [...]
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