EDUCATION

In a statement, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India said on Tuesday: "Acting upon the Institute's proposal, the UGC has accorded the status of a post-graduate degree to Company Secretary. The decision will benefit the company secretary profession everywhere in the world. We are grateful to the UGC for this."

The issue concerns Rashmi Samant, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka's Udupi. She contested the elections for the Presidency of the Student Union and won. However, following some of her old social media posts being deemed "racist" and "insensitive", was forced to quit. Samant apologised in an open letter as soon as the posts emerged. However, as the clamour for her resignation refused to die down, she decided to quit as the president-elect.

Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay of the department and his team said that it is the first such prototype in India and there are no such commercial units worldwide. Upadhyay said that the prototype isolated 99.999 per cent pure hydrogen from a mere 15 ml/minute methanol to 13 litres/minute and succeeded in producing 1 KW of power on integration with a hydrogen fuel cell.

Brijesh Shukla, the dean, said, "We are introducing a full-fledged paper on Shaiva philosophy and aesthetics at post-graduation level in our M.A (Sanskrit) course and will be conducting doctoral studies in Sanskrit on the topic of Tantraagam and Kashmiri Shaiva philosophy from this session."

On March 15, online book examinations of the first-year students are going to start. About 1.25 lakh students will appear online. For the first time, this team of professors and students will provide solutions to the problems related to the examination of students of Delhi University sitting in the online book exam. Students of colleges, non-collegiate and SOL will get benefit from this.

As NASA aims to land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, the agency is looking to the US universities for lunar-focused research to bring about advancements in onsite resource utilisation and sustainable power solutions.

The 2-year Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) is a master's level course for Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. The programme equips students to take up leadership roles in a complex and dynamic global scenario.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has reduced the syllabus for the social sciences exam by providing relief to the students of class 10 all over the country. CBSE has taken the decision of reducing the syllabus in view of providing leeway to students in the class 10 board examination.

Using molecular dynamics simulations, the research team have shown that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of the antiviral drug against the HIV virus.

The Directorate of Education (DoE) of the Delhi Government issued a schedule regarding this. According to the DoE, admission in private schools this year will be conducted via online mode. However, the admission process in the government-run schools would be held through both online and offline modes.