Tuesday, April 27, 2010

SUPER 30 SETS UP BASE IN AGRA

The famed 'super 30' of Ramanujan school of mathematics, run by mathematics Anand kumar, is planning to foray into Agra.
Student of uttar pradesh, rajasthan and jharkhand now have a chance to enter the super 30. The driving force behind Super 30, Anand kumar was in city for planning the expansion of his mission outside bihar. Talking to the media at sen hospital , shahganj, kumar said, "We are planning to increase seats in different areas. The super 30 will help selected students for accommodation. The student of the city will also be eligible to take part in the Super 30 from this year onwards, kumar has deputed the joint director of city-based NGO bharat vikas parishad Vikramaditya and Rajiv Agrawal as state convener for the preliminary examination of Super 30 in Uttar Pradesh.
Patna based Anand Kumar has garnered countrywide appreciation for his innovative and selfless idea of helping bright, but underprivileged students crack one of Asia's toughest academic entrance examination, IIT-JEE(Indian Institute of Technology's Joint Entrance Examination). The interest in the farmed school is also because the selected 30 student have a near-flawless record of entering IITs, in the last two years, all the students were selected in IIT . Kumar advocated for making the JEE procedure less stressful. he focused on the need of reforms in secondary education for nurturing intelligence. Focusing on the condition of secondary education in India, especially north India, kumar revealed the need for improvement in infrastructure. Recently, he meet the indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in February and discussed how to improve academics in the country.
Kumar said,"We always talked about reform in primary education. Our infrastructure for secondary education is not so good, "Kumar sought for special training for teachers and better acadenic infrastructure in secondary colleges.

NOKIA UNVEILS NEW RANGE OF PHONES

Nokia on monday launched its range of qwerty devices, whose keypad is like that of a computer keyboard, starting at Rs 5,300. It has also launched an improved version of Nokia  Messaging with free push mail services.

Nokia on monday launched three devices- C3, priced at Rs 5,317.89(Euro90), C6- a touch and full keyboard phone -at Rs 13,000(Euro 220), while E5 is priced at Rs 10,634(Euro 180), a business-cum-entertainment devices