A UK postgraduate degree, for which thousands of Indian students aspire for every year, is not recognised in India as a PG degree and candidates holding such degrees may be rejected by the varsities for higher studies like Ph.D.The stand taken by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and the British Council that guides Indian students on UK education too seem to corroborate this view.
Senior bureaucrats R Parasuram and Sudripto Roy have taken over as Chief Secretaries of Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh respectively.
The Indian state of Kerala has awarded the pilot project of total e-Governance solution in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to IT consulting firm Wipro.As part of the pilot project, the IT major will create an end-to-end e-solution in order to provide a file tracking system, connect the zonal offices with a computer network, and interlink computers and facilitate its easy use in the panchayat-turned-wards.
In Madhya Pradesh, the state cabinet on April 30 approved a new transfer policy.According to the policy, officers and employees of state government will be transferred from May 1 till 15th June this year.Transferred employee would be relieved within a week.
Norwegian swimming world champion Alexander Dale Oen, who was considered one ofNorway’s top Olympic athletes, was found dead in a bathroom at anArizonatraining facility on April 30. He was just 26 years old.
The BBC News website has won the People’s Voice award for news at this year’s Webbys.Other awards went to Pinterest, Google+ and Spotify, all of whom picked up their first Webbys.The Daily Beast won the judges’ award for news website.The People’s Voice awards sit alongside the judges’ awards and are voted for by online fans. This year nearly 1.5 million votes were cast from more than 200 countries.
Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in to Myanmar’s military-backed parliament on April 2, taking public office for the first time since launching her struggle against authoritarian rule nearly a quarter century ago.
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