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Ushering in one of the most radical exam reforms, the Central Board of Secondary Education will allow Class XII students currently appearing for the board exams to not only get a copy of their evaluated answersheets, but also seek re-evaluation instead of just a recount of the marks. Students can also specify which questions they want to be re-evaluated on. The facility will be open to those who apply for it and will be completely online — from availing a copy of the answersheet to requesting for re-evaluation.  According to CBSE sources, the exam committee has approved the move. However, as of now, it will be available only for English, Hindi, physics, chemistry, mathematics, political science and economics. There will also be a cap on the number of questions sought to be re-evaluated.  After a Supreme Court ruling, CBSE had, last year, provided photocopies of answersheets to candidates who had requested for it. However, dissatisfied students had to be content with 'v

A CBSE official said: "This has been done keeping in mind that the subject is normally not considered very interesting. History, if taught by taking students near historical monuments and sites, will become fascinating. This move will be of assistance to students and they will be able to study in an enhanced manner. It will also help students do well in projects." The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked its affiliated schools to take students on excursions to historical sites to make studying history more interesting. A CBSE official said: "This has been done keeping in mind that the subject is normally not considered very interesting. History, if taught by taking students near historical monuments and sites, will become fascinating. This move will be of assistance to students and they will be able to study in an enhanced manner. It will also help students do well in projects." Rakesh Sachdeva, principal, DAV Model Senior Secondar

The latest news sending shockwaves across the nation is of CBSE 2014 Board exam question paper getting leaked in Imphal. According to the rumors doing the rounds, all 3 sets of physics papers have been leaked and, in fact, were available for students 2 days before exam at Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000. CBSE has confirmed the news and re-test only in manipur would be conducted by cbse. The last case of a CBSE paper leak was reported in 2011 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, wherein four people were sentenced to life by the court after being convicted of the criminal conspiracy. They hatched the plan for the benefit of their own children. This crime was brought to light by a local newspaper on March 3, 2011. CBSE filed a case against culprits in the police station of Car Nicobar. There were five suspects out of which four were convicted. P. Krishnama Raju, Abdul Rasheed, M.J. Vijayan, and Abdul Salam were sentenced to life imprisonment by local court. M.P. Arun was acquitted by the cou

Talk about robots that can walk, talk, sing, read the news, tell the weather, go Internet shopping and even read human feelings. Meet Charles or Charlie, one of the world's most advanced robot, designed by Rajiv Khosla an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology and professor at Australia's La Trobe University, which can do all of that. At mere 20cm tall, Charlie is a 'Partner-Personal Robot' (PaPeRo), who has been specifically designed to assist children and adults with problems like dementia, autism, cerebral palsy, brain injury and other such illness. "A child with dementia will often forget to wash his hands in the washroom. The robot will constantly have his eyes on him and remind him that he hasn't washed his hands and that he needs to do it," Khosla said at the demonstration of the model organised by the Australian High Commission in New Delhi. More than 20 field trials have been conducted with Charlie and other robots - Matilda, Jake,

A team of Michigan State University computer scientists led by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur alum Anil Jain have built the first three-dimensional model of a human fingerprint. This development will not only help today's fingerprint-matching technology do its job better, but could eventually lead to improvements in security, according to information posted on MSU website. What Jain, a University Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and his team did was develop a method that takes a two-dimensional image of a fingerprint and maps it to a 3-D finger surface. The 3-D finger surface, complete with all the ridges and valleys that make up the human fingerprint, is made using a 3-D printer. It creates what Jain's team called a fingerprint "phantom." Imaging phantoms are common in the world of medical imaging. For example, to make sure an MRI machine or a CT scanner is working properly, it needs to first image an obj

The Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, will organise the second edition of Reflux, its annual chemical engineering symposium, on March 29 and 30. Reflux 2.0 will include a number of events including a lecture series, exhibitions, a panel discussion and technical writing, which would promote application-based learning. The festival hopes to promote the use of new non-conventional energy sources. It would bring together academicians, students and industrialists associated with chemical engineering. Workshops on advanced engineering software, including MATLAB and ANSYS, would also be held as part of the event. To promote learning between students and providing industry with solutions to complex problems, Reflux 2.0 will organise competitions such as a paper and poster presentation, a process design problem, industrial design problem, green tech and quizzes, besides competitions such as T-shirt design and photography in which students from all fields can participat

Two students of Vellore Institute of Technology ( VIT) University have developed a traffic management system, which functions automatically without manual intervention. Vellore Institute of Technology The system christened 'VIT subway project', which was installed on the campus in October last year, has been successfully functioning since then. The highlight of the system is that it distinguishes metal objects and people and even differentiates different types of vehicles. Electronics and communication students Achintaya Kumar and Raghav Gupta used magnetic technology to develop the system under the guidance of an assistant professor in the school of electronics engineering, J Kathirvelan. "Magnetic technology has not been used widely for vehicle identification. We used magnetic technology as we were particular to identify the vehicles and its movements. The system can identify and record any number of vehicles and we can retrieve information on the vehicles and i

A team of scientists at IIT Madras are developing stem cells to grow into cardiac cells, which can eventually lead to treatment of severe heart problems. The cells will now be surgically administered into specifically created rat models at the Central Drug Research Laboratory in Lucknow. The project is being funded by the department of Biotechnology. “We have developed cardiac patches isolated from biological material and proved the functionality of the cells. These patches when put into the ischemic heart can help reverse the dying cells,” says Rama S Verma, professor, department of biotechnology, IIT-M. Stem cell therapy holds a lot of promise in the field of medical science, he said adding: “Besides opening new avenues this may also help in preventing an organ transplant.” After the patches are surgically administered in the rats, he said: “We will check for all the physiological parameters like heart rate and blood flow. This will then help us in analysing the surviva

The placement drive at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur saw the Samsung Group of companies offer jobs to 44 students for an annual package of Rs 8 lakh. The college has claimed that for the first time in its history, a single group of company has offered such a high number of jobs to the students. Of the 44 successful candidates, 43 belong to B Tech (42 computer science and one electronics engineering) while another is from the MCA stream, said the college authorities. So far 73 companies have visited the institute and 466 job offers have been made to B Tech and MCA students in the ongoing placement season that commenced in October last year. The highest annual package of around Rs 33 lakh was offered by Work Application of Japan to two computer science students earlier in the year when placement drive kicked off. Piyush Golani and Lokesh Khandelwal of computer science stream of the college were the lucky ones to bag the plum offer. Public sector company Power