Shweta SadanandanThe sailing fraternity in Chennai is all agog about the high seas achievements of super sailor Shweta Sadanandan (12), a class VIII student of Chettinad Vidyashram who won two national events hosted by the Tamil Nadu Sailing Association (TNSA) under the aegis of the Yachting Association of India (YAI) and the National Optimist Association […]
A final year fine arts studentof Delhi’s well-known Jamia Milia Islamia University (JMI), Tabrez Hassan Ansari is on cloud nine following the inclusion of his oil canvas titled Women-I in the 79th All India Art Exhibition 2007. Staged in early March by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, the exhibition was inaugurated by eminent artist […]
Although it has become a fashionable sport for the middle class, in India the mind and muscle game of the golfing greens has yet to acquire the mass popularity it has attained abroad. Golf courses are relatively scarce, and playing equipment is expensive. Hence the total number of golfers countrywide is estimated at a mere […]
The story of 13-year-old Benzy Kumar, a special needs class III student of Laxman Public School, Delhi who was awarded the gold medal (of the Union ministry of women’s development and welfare) in last year’s National Child Awards for exceptional achievement by prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on November 14 (Children’s Day), is very near […]
Neha Ahuja If there‚s one olympic sport in which tropical India‚s chances of winning a medal are remote, if not impossible, it‚s snow skiing. But Delhi-based Neha Ahuja (25) doesn‚t agree. Right now she is in Charlotte, North Carolina trainingfor the 6th Asian Winter Games to be held in China next January (2007). The first […]
An electronics and communications engineering graduate of Chennai’s Sri Sairam Engineering College, Arvind Ramanandan has been awarded the University of California Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award of Rs.55 lakh ($121,597). This scholarship entitles him to commence a doctoral programme in electrical engineering at UCal, Riverside, skipping the usually mandatory intervening postgraduate programme. On August 18 Ramanandan […]
Hamsa Padmanabhan (16), aclass XI student of the Central government’s Kendriya Vidyalaya School, Pune has bagged three prestigious international awards for her physics research project. Her 15-page research paper, titled ‘Physics of a simple prototype for static magnetic levitation’, won the $1,500 (Rs.67,500) second prize at the Grand Awards of the Intel International Science […]
The first Young Filmmakers Festival held in Toronto recently brought more than applause and appreciation to young Anshul Khosla, a class IV student of Mumbai’s St. Dominic Savio School. This articulate nine-year-old won the Best Script award for his docu-drama Love Changes Everything, which was screened at the inaugural Young Filmmakers Festival. Anshul did a lot […]
Jyoti Iyer (16), winner of the ClassMate Young Author Contest 2004, (CYAC) sponsored by cigarettes, hotels and agri-products behemoth ITC Ltd and adjudicated by a jury led by Ruskin Bond, believes that the best writing comes from the heart. “If you are honest, it will show in your work. It will shine through.”
She created aviation history following her appointment as the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) first lady air traffic controller in 1996. She is a national level badminton player, a lawyer and runs India’s first and only all-woman CNG filling station in New Delhi’s tony Shantipath area. That’s retired flight lieutenant Mukti Srivastava who loves to live […]
The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) has issued a notification for the recruitment of 35,726 assistant teachers in classes 9–10 and 11–12 in state-aided .....Read More
A day after the Karnataka government rolled out a suspension order against a government school teacher who protested for classrooms for students in his school, .....Read More
