Madras boy tops IIT-JEE

June 22, 2013

Madras_boyNew Delhi, Jun 22: Candidates from the Madras zone bagged the first two ranks in the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Exam (advanced), or IIT-JEE, whose results were announced on Friday. The third and fourth rank holders are from Delhi.

“The topper, Pallerla Sai Sandeep Reddy, has scored 332 marks out of 360, while the second-position holder, also from the Madras zone, has scored 330,” said HC Gupta, Organising Chairman, IIT Delhi.

He added that candidates from Delhi zone scored 329 (third rank holder) and 323 (fourth rank holder). The fifth-rank holder is from Mumbai.

According to Gupta, for the first time in the history of IITs, girls made it to the top-10 ranks. “From the Delhi zone, Aditi Laddha from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, has scored 320. She is the sixth-rank holder, while Sibala Leena Madhuri from Tirupati (Madras zone) grabbed the eight rank with a score of 314,” said Gupta.

City boy at 99

Ananth V Kamat of Bangalore was one of the top scorers for Karnataka, with an All-India Rank of 99. Ananth, who was elated with the results, has no plans of joining any IIT. He has already secured admission into four-year BS programme at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science.

JEE (main), which took place in May this year, was an eligibility test for the JEE (advanced). A total of 1,52,351 candidates were eligible to write the JEE (advanced) exams, out of which 1,26,704 candidates registered, 1,15,971 appeared and 21,110 qualified.

“Of those who qualified 18,718 were male and 2,392 female. Females made up around 11 per cent of those who qualified for counselling, which is a slight increase from the last year,” said Gupta.

According to officials, most of the approximately 10,000 candidates who registered but did not appear for the exams were women. “As we have started free online registration for girls, registrations took place. Many female candidates did not appear for the exam. We cannot pinpoint one particular reason for this,” said another official.

The official said the overall distribution of qualified women is homogenous. “We cannot say who fared well between girls and boys. Considering the total number of girls who qualified, there should be at least one for every 10 ranks, which is not the case here, as two women have made it to the top-10. Thus, the distribution is more or less homogenous,” added the official.

Gupta said one of the primary reasons why roughly 26,000 candidates who were eligible to take the exam did not register was that many wanted to get into state-level engineering institutes, which ask for the results of the JEE (main). “Because the new exam pattern was implemented for the first time this year, till May 14 (end of JEE mains) we did not know which city has how many students who have applied. Fortunately, our assumption was correct and the exam was conducted without any problem,” he said.

This year, IITs will also send the hard copies of the results and necessary counselling schedule to all the 14,336 candidates who have been selected for counselling.

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Media Release
March 3,2020

Mumbai, March 3: Mumbai-based Ed tech startup Caymus Tech Ventures has announced inclusion of courses and programs from Harvard Business School, Chicago Booth, Harvard Kennedy School, Harappa Education, The Wharton School, and Stanford Online.

Lore.online users can now discover, compare, and enroll in both online and offline courses and programs including the following:

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●  The Wharton School and Chicago Booth offline executive education offerings, delivered in an face-to-face format, and that touch on topics such as Global Strategic Leadership, Private Equity and Digital Marketing for Executives.

Emerging leaders can tap these offerings to build skills to complement their formal education and experienced professionals can leverage them to hone new age skills required to manage a younger, more globally aware workforce.

Kavita Mehta, Founder CEO, Caymus Tech, says, “Giving our learners the best-fit options has always been our driving factor, which is why we are excited to announce that learners can now access Harvard Business School's highly coveted online programs on Lore and avail quality learning options from anywhere in the world.”

“We are continuously adding quality course providers like INSEAD and Stanford, whose select courses are also live on the platform”, she adds.

Lore.online has also integrated an assessment system in their Learning Pathways, where after undertaking each course, a report is generated which outlines learners technical and non-technical strengths and weaknesses. The platform now also shows open jobs for which a learner can also apply.

Caymus’ enterprise platform LoreForTeams, which was rolled out in Nov 2019, has been updated with additional features.

The new look now comes with a dashboard, new UI for Lore-curated learning lists, discussion features and a personalised learning feed. LoreForTeams, a learning experience platform (LXP), is aimed at working professionals in mid size companies. By adding the LoreForTeams functionality layer, Caymus aims to offer a revolutionary platform for skilling. This segment is seeing tremendous growth as more working professionals look for learning options to upskill themselves and stay relevant in shifting employment and business environments. The global demand for such platforms is north of $200 billion and in India, demand is nascent yet growing and expected to reach $10 billion by 2025.

Kavita Mehta, Founder CEO, Caymus Tech, says, “We heard what our customers and users were telling us. They want a real time view of what their teams are learning, a two way feedback system, and a more focused curation of learning options. Thus, we decided to add these features in LoreForTeams platform so that learning never stops and working professionals continuously find relevant courses to upskill themselves. Our vision is to democratize learning so that everyone has equal access to the best options out there.”

About Caymus Tech Ventures

Caymus Technology Ventures (Caymus) is a Mumbai-based ed-tech start-up focused on bridging the massive skill gap in the global workforce. The Company was founded in 2018 by Kavita Mehta, who earlier led Asia’s leading education consultancy. Caymus, with its expansive, integrated, and holistic perspective, believes in driving empowerment on the bedrock of education, skills, and technology. The Company‘s robust machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) powered platforms help recent graduates and experienced individuals identify targeted opportunities for personal and professional development.

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Media Release
March 4,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 4: With an objective to create awareness among children about the importance of consumption of fruits in regular diet, First Steps Pre-School, Kudroli, celebrated Fruits Day on Friday 28th February 2020 with fun and frolic.

The tiny tots of preschool celebrated Fruit Day. Children, representing the fruits of their choice sang the fruit rhymes with great zest, enthusiasm and vigour, enjoying the moments of joy and happiness in the company of their mates & teachers.

Teachers had made interesting and simple stories on encouraging children to have fruits in their meals. The teachers also explained the importance of fruits’ intake in diet for mental and physical growth. The tiny tots also learned more about the taste, smell,

color and texture of each fruit. Children clearly understood the importance of washing the fruits before eating or cooking and about the benefits of eating fresh fruits.

All the children were found to be quite thrilled and were positive on the fact that fruits are better than junk food.

The head teacher Himna S. Ahmed, teacher Azeema and Master Shehzan S. Ahmed arranged the event in an impressive manner which added feather to the event.

The event magnificently concluded with fruit feast for the kids of pre-school.

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July 3,2020

New Delhi, Jul 3: The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea challenging Karnataka government's decision to impose a 25 percent domicile reservation in the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru.

A division bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Subramonium Prasad observed that the impugned law is passed by the State of Karnataka, and the respondent university is also situated in Karnataka.

The court granted liberty to the petitioner to move the appropriate forum with their grievances.

The Karnataka Assembly had passed the National Law School of India (Amendment) Act, 2020 in March this year, which provided a 25 per cent horizontal reservation for students of Karnataka in the NLSIU.

The High Court observed that the main contesting parties in the present case were the NLSIU and the Karnataka Government. As the court did not show any interest in entertaining the plea, the petitioner withdrew the plea.

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