Time To Shut Down Coaching Classes?

The coaching-tuition-profiteering model built on the back of a broken education system is a scandal and an abomination, and must go, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel......

Heavy rains lash Mumbai; schools, colleges to be shut today

Heavy rains coupled with thunder and lightning lashed the metropolis on Tuesday, slowing down movement of vehicular traffic and suburban trains, and bringing back memories of torrential downpour......

IMA puts out names of 382 doctors martyred in war against Covid

Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list......

Intellectual property law school at Kharagpur

West Bengal will bethe location ofthe country's first school of intellectual property, thanks to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpurand Vinod Gupta, founder of the Vinod Gupta School of......

IIT-K's B-school to expand capacity

The Vinod Gupta School of Management, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is in an expansion mode and will be increasing its student intake capacity to 120 in the 2005 session and 150......

B-school grads' salaries shoot up

The highest salary bagged by the outgoing batch of Vinod Gupta School of Management, the business school at IIT Kharagpur, was Rs 900,000 this year, Probir Gupta, Dean, VGSOM, told the press on......

IIT Kharagpur starts management course

IIT Kharagpur on Tuesday announced a post-graduate diploma in business management programme for working executives.The programme would be a two-year part time diploma course for executives in......

'Everyday was a nightmare on the sets of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro'

'Nobody laughed during the shooting. There were fights, swearing and what not. Tempers were high but the unit and the actors stayed on and, finally, the film was made.' 'But it was like riding a......