Archive for September 2009
Class X grading process to kick off next month
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 22, 2009
NEW DELHI: Ushering in a new phase in school education, CBSE has rolled out the roadmap for starting the continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) process in its schools across the country from next month. The students who are now in Class IX will be the first to be evaluated for their scholastic as well as [...]
Id-ul-Fitr to be celebrated today
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 21, 2009
Id-ul-Fitr will be celebrated in the national capital today with the sighting of the moon. “The moon was sighted last night and Id will be celebrated today,” a spokesperson of Fatehpuri Masjid said quoting the Shahi Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid, Mufti Mohd Mukarram Ahmed. Id-ul-Fitr marks the end of the holy month of Ramzan, which [...]
7 Indians top global school exams
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 17, 2009
NEW DELHI: In November 2008, three Indian students figured among the toppers in the Cambridge International Examinations, an international board for school education that has presence in 156 countries. Proving that the performance was no flash in the pan, as many as seven Indian students have topped individual subjects of the global test for CIE’s [...]
Jet offers 50% fare discount
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 14, 2009
MUMBAI: Last week, Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal called his protesting pilots ‘‘terrorists’’ and they in turn were unperturbed by the airline’s $8 million losses per day thanks to their agitation. But now it’s bonhomie again. ‘‘We have reached an amicable settlement on all issues,’’ said executive director of Jet Airways, Saroj Datta at 2.20 [...]
HTC Hero Launched in India
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 10, 2009
HTC has launched its second Android OS-based smartphone, the HTC Hero, in India. This handset will come loaded with intuitive HTC Sense user interface. The phone was first launched in June at an HTC event in London. Airtel customers are offered 100MB free data transfer for six months and pack of Airtel apps like Portfolio [...]
640 Jet Airways pilots go on sick leave as protest
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 8, 2009
New Delhi: It is bad news if you are flying Jet Airways on Tuesday. Jet Airways said some of its pilots are striking by calling in sick, forcing the airline to cancel flights. The pilots “resorted to a simulated strike by reporting sick,” the carrier said in a statement. “This organised activity is a planned [...]
Chandrayaan-I was ‘killed’ by heat stroke
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 7, 2009
PANAJI: The reasons for early termination of the Chandrayaan-I mission are now tumbling out and they reveal that ISRO had kept the Moon orbiter’s problems tightly under wraps. ( Watch Video ) Contrary to the space agency’s explanation that Chandrayaan’s orbit around the Moon had been raised from 100km to 200km in May this year [...]
YSR death triggers ugly CM race
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 4, 2009
HYDERABAD: The body of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is yet to be laid to rest, but mourning in Hyderabad has given way to ugly power politics with the deceased chief minister’s loyalists on Thursday unleashing a strident campaign for making his son Jaganmohan Reddy the new chief minister. The campaign — quite unprecedented for the [...]
Yahoo’s SpotM becomes history
Posted by: famousinindia on: September 3, 2009
Yahoo Inc. has abandoned its ambitious India-focused social networking site SpotM and announced to replace it with “Guru”. It is not the first time when Yahoo! has closed down its utilities. The internet giant had earlier dropped Yahoo 360 Geocities , Yahoo Gallery and its beta stage social networking site Mash in September 2008. Confirming [...]
