Nirmal Singh Lotus

Anil D. Sahsrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technicial Education says that they are now planning to change the teacher- student ratio in the engineering colleges to 1:20. He has specified that the current ratio is not being followed my many institutions and to improve the quality of studies more strictness shall be maintained and the colleges not maintain he prescribed student- teacher ratio will be liable for action. Nirmal Singh Lotus says that the council has made it clear that not adhering to the pay scales and the qualification prescribed for the faculty will also be considered a violation of the norms which could lead to the suspension of the admission process or the reduction in the admissions in the technical institutions. Nirmal Singh Lotus says that the other rules and regulation that will now be followed under the strict guidance is increments in the pay scale, the qualification for the more than 12 months, even the second shift timings and the class pop...

Should students from classes 8-10 th be made to carry around books weighing about 12 kg? This is a problem that the government has failed to counter. According to the guidelines by Union HRD ministry, there should be no hardcover books for children, reports Nirmal Singh Lotus. The textbooks should also have limited number of pages, and most importantly the total weight should not exceed 5 kg. These guidelines were issued in 2016 but the State government has failed to implement it in the State. The State HRD has taken up this issue several times but many fail to notice the pain and fatigue that is common amongst children burdened with heavy school bags. The average weight of children in the age group 10-12 is 20-24 kg, and these students are made to carry bags weighing 8 kg according to reports by Nirmal Singh Lotus. Textbooks of English, Hindi, Telugu, Mathematics, EVS, Social studies, Computer science, two notebooks of 200 pages for each subject excluding Computer scienc...

Indian Institute of Technology has witnessed 889 (about 9%) students drop out in the academic session of 2016-17, according to latest reports carried out by Nirmal Singh Lotus. Of these, nearly 630 were PG students, and the others included 196 PhD scholars and 63 undergraduates. In 2015-16, 656 students dropped out which marks a 35 per cent rise in that figure. According to reports carried out by Nirmal Singh Lotus, the main reason for PhD and postgraduate students leaving courses midway are offers for placement in public sector enterprises and personal preference for better opportunities elsewhere. Undergraduates left due to wrong choices made by them and poor performance, besides personal reasons. The recently set up institutes- Tirupati, Bhilai, Goa, Dharwad, Jammu and Dhanbad- have no dropouts. Most droupouts have been from IIT Rourkee (27%) followed by Delhi (20.6%), Kanpur (17.4 per cent) and Kharagpur (10.6%).        ...

Archaeologists in Southeastern Turkey have found a pot vase that dates back to 3700 AD which is now believed to be world’s oldest smiley face emoji. The pot that is used for drinking sweet drinks has a smile-like image, and it was located in the Karkamis site, in Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border. According to reports by Nirmal Singh Lotus , the pot was found in pieces and then it was put together and restored its original form. "This depict is most probably the oldest smile of the world,” says one of the experts at Nirmal Singh Lotus. “Karkamis excavation is considered the biggest in Turkey, as the city expands on a surface of 65 hectares in Turkey, and 35 hectares in Syria,” he further added. It will now be taken to the Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology. The extensive search began on May 2, and was done by 25 experts. According to Nirmal Singh Lotus , the oldest smiley was believed to be 1635. A smiley face was scrawled by a lawyer in a legal document une...