Life Science

8/7/12

Hamid Ansari gets second term as Vice President

New Delhi: On expected lines, UPA candidate Hamid Ansari on Tuesday won the race for Vice President for the second time, beating NDA candidate Jaswant Singh with a huge margin.

Ansari got 490 votes, where as Singh got only 238 votes. 736 of the 787 MPs in both Houses cast their votes. Out of 787, eight votes were invalid.

Voting for the Vice President began at 10 am and continued till 5 pm.

75-year-old Ansari, a career diplomat is the second Vice President to get the send term after late philosopher-statesman S Radhakrishnan.

The Vice President is elected by members of an electoral college consisting of Members of Both Houses of Parliament in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.

Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha are also entitled to take part in the election.

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8/2/12

Indian origin girl killed, 36 others injured in US Megabus crash

LITCHFIELD, ILLINOIS: A 25-year-old passenger who died in the crash of a double-decker Megabus in Illinois was from India traveling to central Missouri.
Aditi R. Avhad was headed to Columbia, Missouri, when the bus slammed into an interstate bridge support pillar on Thursday. Dozens were sent to hospitals with injuries. It's not clear how many remained hospitalized early Friday.
Illinois State Trooper Brad Lemarr said he didn't know where Avhad was seated on the bus, which was traveling between Chicago and Kansas City. The city in which she lived was also not immediately known.
Some hospital officials said early Friday they still were treating patients, though none were reporting any of the injuries to be life-threatening.
Troopers had reported that 38 people were taken to hospitals for injuries.

Saina Nehwal loses in semis, still in race for bronze

india's Saina Nehwal went down to world champion Wang Yihan in the women's singles semi-finals of the London Olympics badminton event in London on Friday. The match lasted 42 min, the longest rally was 34 strokes. Saina, the first Indian shuttler to reach the Olympics

semi-finals, lost 13-21, 13-21 at the Wembley Arena. The fourth seed will now play for the bronze medal Saturday against the other losing semi-finalist.

In their previous five encounters, Saina had never been able to blow her away. The two last met in January this year at the Malaysian Open where Saina lost 15-21, 16-21. In two of the three encounters in 2011, Saina managed to stretch Wang to three sets but could never alter the end result.
With already 21 individual titles to her name, Wang is known in the badminton circuit for not giving an inch to her opponents. Nehwal has yet to figure how to unravel that particular riddle.
Saina was realistic about her chances in the semis without sounding overtly confident.
"It's very, very difficult as the Chinese are strong opponents. We will both be under the pressure of expectations but I am not thinking about all that."
I was thinking too hard" said Saina Nehwal after she was beaten in straight games by world number one Wang Yihan in the women's singles semifinals at the London Olympics on Friday.

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CAT 2012 Notification and Exam Dates, Online Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 Application

CAT 2012 ELIGIBILITY

Eligibility: The candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA (45% in case of the candidates belonging to SC/ST/DA (it may also referred to as Persons with Disability (PwD) category)), awarded by any of the universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions estd by an act of parliament or declared to be deemed as a university u/s 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the MHRD, Govt of India
The percentage of marks obtained by the candidate in the bachelor’s degree would be calculated based on the practice followed by the university/institution from where the candidate has obtained the degree
In case the candidates are awarded grades/CGPA instead of marks, the conversion of grades/CGPA to percentage of marks would be based on the procedure certified by the university/ institution from where they have obtained the bachelor’s degree
In case the university/institution does not have any scheme for converting CGPA into equivalent marks, the equivalence would be established by dividing the candidate’s CGPA by the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the result with 100
Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification examination and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results can also apply

How and when to apply :

The number of testing days this year has been increased to 21 days within the window from 11th October, 2012 to 06th November, 2012

The CAT vouchers will be available at selected Axis Bank branches from 30th July, 2012 to 17th September, 2012
Registration window will be open from 30th July, 2012 to 19th September, 2012

CAT 2012 Exam Pattern

Similar to the previous year, the CAT-2012 will have only two sections
The first section will focus on Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation; the second on Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
These two sections will be implemented sequentially with separate time limits
The examination will be for 140 minutes
Candidates will have 70 minutes to answer 30 questions within each section which will have an on-screen countdown timer
Once the time ends for the first section, they will move to the second section and will no longer be able to go back
A 15 minute tutorial will be provided before the start of the test, and candidates are advised to go through that carefully before starting the main examination
The total duration will be two hours and 35 minutes including the tutorial
A practice test to provide candidates with a feel of the timed sections, as well as navigation and functionality of the actual test is available on the CAT website www.catiim.in
Candidates are advised to go though it carefully to familiarise themselves with the screens, layout, and navigation

If selected, such candidates will be allowed to join the programme provisionally, only if he/she submits a certificate latest by 30th June, 2013 from the Principal/Registrar of his/her College/Institute (issued on or before 30th June, 2013) stating that the candidate has completed all the requirements for obtaining the bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification on the date of the issue of the certificate
IIMs may verify eligibility at various stages of the selection process, the details of which are provided at the website www.catiim.in
Applicants should note that the mere fulfillment of minimum eligibility criteria will not ensure consideration for shortlisting by IIMs
Prospective candidates must maintain a valid and unique email account and a Tel number throughout the selection process
Reservations: As per the Govt of India requirements, 15% of the seats are reserved for SC and 7.5% for ST candidates, 27% of seats are reserved for OBC candidates belonging to the non-creamy layer (NC-OBC), 3% seats are reserved for Differently Abled (DA) candidates

CAT Result: CAT-2012 result will be announced on 09th January, 2013 on the CAT website
List of shortlisted candidates for the next level of selection will be made available on the individual IIM websites
Each IIM will send interview letters to the candidates it has short-listed
The criteria for short listing varies from IIM to IIM
Please visit the admission hotlinks of the respective websites of IIMs for further information
CAT-2012 Vouchers: Before registering and scheduling for your test, you will need to purchase a CAT- 2012 voucher from any of the selected Axis Bank branches between 30th July, 2012, Monday, and 17th September, 2012, Monday

If the voucher is lost, voucher number is not readable due to mishandling of the voucher by candidate, and/or candidate thinks he/she has made mistakes in filling out information during the online registration, then the candidate can purchase a new voucher and re-register online
Important Dates
Voucher sale: 30th July, 2012 to 17th September, 2012
Registration window: 30th July, 2012 to 19th September, 2012
Test dates: 11th October, 2012 to 06th November, 2012
Results: 09th January, 2013

NMAT 2013 Notification and Dates (MBA Enntace test)

NMIMS Management Aptitude Test (NMAT)-2013

MBA (360 seats), MBA Banking (60 seats), MBA Capital Market (60 seats), MBA HR (30 seats), MBA Pharmaceutical Management (120 seats)
PGDM (Bangalore campus) (120 seats) (Hyderabad campus) (60 seats)

Admission for all the full time programmes mentioned above is through NMIMS Management Aptitude NMAT Test conducted by NMIMS

PGDM (Bangalore, Hyderabad campus): Full time bachelor’s degree (10+2+3/4) in any discipline from a UGC recognized University with minimum 50% marks in the aggregate in first attempt
The candidate must have completed graduation in the stipulated duration as per the respective University/Institution awarding the degree
Those candidates who have cleared their graduation by doing a part time course or through distance learning, correspondence courses, externally, open school are not eligible to apply
For all the full time programs candidates who are appearing for the final examination are eligible to apply (provisional admission subject to clearing the final examination in first attempt and in the stipulated duration as per the respective University/Institution awarding the degree with 50% aggregate marks) and also producing all the necessary documents, in original, within the given stipulated time
For all the full time programs candidates with two years and more years of post qualification work experience will be preferred
At the time of admission, the candidate should have cleared all the trimesters/semesters
Those candidates who have passed, or, have appeared for graduation examination from a University where Grade Point Average is given, such candidates must produce in writing from the University concerned about the equivalent percentage for the GPA/CGPA obtained
It is sole responsibility of the candidates to ascertain whether they possess the necessary and requisite qualification for the admission at NMIMS
If at any stage, it is found that a candidate does not satisfy the eligibility criteria or the information furnished by him/her in the online registration is incorrect, his/her application for the admission to the programme, even if selected, will stand cancelled
Candidates appearing for NMAT, group discussion and personal interview will do so at their own risk, eventually, forfeiting their admission for want of meeting the eligibility criteria
In such cases candidate will forfeit all the payments like NMAT registration charges, group discussion/ personal interview registration charges, program fee etc
NMIMS reserves the right to alter the terms of eligibility without intimation to the applicants
Test Centres: North (Delhi, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow); West (Mumbai, Ahmedabad); South (Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin); Central (Indore, Allahabad, Bhillai, Bhopal); East (Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Guwahati)
The venue details (school/college) at each location will be communicated to the candidates through the confirmation e-mail sent after the candidate has been scheduled