Dhookudu audio releasing in August first week

Ravi Teja in Meher Ramesh’s next?

After the debacle of NTR, Ileana starrer Shakti, the director of the film, Meher Ramesh remained off theradar for quite sometime. The reviews were scathing and almost everyone wrote him off. However, he seems to have bounced back. Rumours are rife that Meher Ramesh has narrated a story to Ravi Teja and he has agreed to do the film. Although, if all goes well, this will be the first time that Ravi Teja and Meher Ramesh would be working together, they have known each other for quite a long, as Meher was an associate of Puri Jagannadh. Malla Vijayaprasad is expected to produce the film on Welfare Creations Group banner.More details will be revealed soon.

For now, Ravi Teja has Gunasekhar’s Nippu in his hand. The film will go on floors soon. Deeksha Seth is playing the lead role and YVS Chowdary is going to produce it.

Puri Jagannath's film in Ganesh Babu Production

Varun Sandesh, Preetika’s film titled as ‘Priyudu’

A new film starring Varun Sandesh, Preetika and Shweta Basu Prasad has finally got its official title. Sravan is making his debut as a director with this film and Uday Kiran is producing the film on UK Avenues Pvt. Ltd banner. The film has been titled as ‘Priyudu’.

In a press note issued to the media, the producer of the film said, “Priyudu has a good love story and it’s acomplete family entertainer.” Except for four songs and some talkie part, the rest of the film has been completed. Two of these songs would be shot inBangkok and Nainital in the next schedule from July 25 to August 7. The remaining two songs would be shot in Hyderabad.

Recently, Varun Sandesh got injured while performing a stunt on the sets of this film. Kota Srinivasa Rao, Nazar, Kasi Vishwanath, Ali , Ranadhir, Vennela Kishore are some of the actors who are playing important roles. Mohan Jonah is composing the music and Malhar Bhat is the cinematographer. The film is expected to hit the screens in September this year. This would also be Preetika’s debut film in Telugu.

Anurag Basu set to direct Arundhati remake in Hindi

One of the biggest blockbusters of all time, Arundhati is going to be remade in Hindi soon. The film catapulted Anushka and Sonu Sood’s fame to greater heights and was one of the two blockbusters in 2009. Shyam Prasad Reddy had produced the film and KodiRamakrishna had directed it. The film was later dubbed in Tamil and it was a huge success. The film’s Hindi remake rights were bought by Gemini FilmCircuit. After several rounds of discussions, they have got one of the top directors, Anurag Basu onboard. He has directed films like Gangster, Life..in a Metro andrecently, Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori starrer Kites.

A sources tells us that a leading Bollywood actress is showing interest in the film. Although, the casting has not been confirmed so far, the film is expected to go on floors later this year. Anurag Basu is currently directing Barfee which has Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D’Cruz in lead roles. Stay tuned for more details on this film.

Jamia honours Ambassador of Saudi Arabia

New Delhi: The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) on Wednesday conferred its first ever Nishan-e-Azad title on Faisal Hasan Trad, ambassador of Saudi Arabia to India, for his signal contribution to the growth of the 91-year-olduniversity, one of the country's oldest.

"We acknowledge the role played by him in fosteringcloser education ties between Jamia and institutions of higher learning in Saudi Arabia whereby severalMemorandum of Understanding were signed and many successful visits made including those by heads of state," said Jamia Vice-Chancellor Najeeb Jung.

"He (Trad) is a rockstar among the diplomatic corps," he added.

Jung said the varsity - which became a central university by an act of parliament in 1988 - had developed a deeper bond of friendship with Saudi Arabia in Trad's tenure and he intended to strengthen the association.

"Efforts have been made by (Najeeb) Jung to bring this university to an international level and I have tried to support him because education spreads peace and knowledge," said Trad to a packed house after receiving the honour at the M.A Ansari auditorium.

"We will witness more cooperation between Jamia and the universities in Saudi in times to come," he added.

Speaking on the issue of Jamia getting a minority status, Trad said it would definitely help Muslim students who aspire to get educated.

"The minority status is indeed a big support for our Muslim brethren," he said.

According to Jamia, the title of 'Nishan-e-Azad' has been instituted in the memory of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India.

AICTE not to approve more part-time MBA courses due to misuse by Institutes

A senior AICTE official said, there are many B-schools around which are misusing the facility and running other programmes on the pretext of a part-time MBA programme.

They are not working within the regulated framework, which prompted us to take this step.The experts said this change could affect around 400 colleges and 20,000 students. These figures could not be verified with AICTE. Several calls to AICTE Chairman S S Mantha went unanswered. There are around 2,500 AICTE-approved management schools.

The B-schools concerned are unhappy. “Experienced people learn management much better than freshers. We have around 240 students for masters’ courses in management, finance, human resource and information management. We have already requested the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai to take up the matter with AICTE,” said Suresh Ghai, director, K J Somaiya Institute of Management and Research.

The three B-school’s directors said by this the higher education would be more costly than before and prevent growth and development of many working professionals.

According to a human resource director of a textile company, part-time management programmes allow employees to add knowledge.

Universities in India. Latest Indian University List

For the benefit of students, we have listed below the List of Universities in India. This directory also includes TOP UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA and the list of Indian Universities have been categorised State and City wise. These Technical, Professional Universities and Higher Education Institutions run Undergraduate and Post Graduate Courses leading to Graduate Degrees orPost Graduatation in their respective fields.

The List of Indian Universities have been compiled under the following categories

- Top Universities in India

Universites Ranking, Top Universities in India and Best Indian Institutesproviding Higher Education as per the latest India Today Nielsen ORG Marg survey. The list of Top Indian Universities include Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT, Kanpur. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Anna University, Chennai, University of Mumbai, University of Delhi and Bangalore University >> 

- Professional Universities in India

Professional Universities in India include Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University Hyderabad, Anna University Chennai, Assam Agricultural University Jorhat, Birsa Agricultural University Ranchi, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, Dr. N T R University of Health Sciences Vijayawada, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry Solan, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology Hisar, Jadavpur University Kolkata, JNTU Hyderabad >>>

- Central Universities in India

Central Universities in India include Aligarh Muslim University AMU Aligarh, Assam University, Banaras Hindu University BHU Varanasi, IGNOU Delhi, Manipur University Imphal, Pondicherry University, Tezpur University, University of Delhi, University of Hyderabad >>> 

- Distance Learning Colleges and Universities

Colleges & Universities Providing Distance Learning Correspondence Courses - MBA, MCA, M.Com, M.A., M.Sc.,BA, B.Sc. BBA, Law, Diploma and PG Diploma Programmes The List of Distance Education Universities include Annamalai University, IGNOU, Anna University, Symbiosis Distance Learning, Kurukshetra University, Punjab University, PTU, Ponnicherry University, NMIMS, Allahabad University, Kurukshetra University >>> More 

- Deemed Universities in India

The List of Deemed Universities include AMET University Kanathur, B.L.D.E. University Bijapur, Banasthali Vidyapith Banasthali, Bharati Vidyapeeth University Pune, Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, Christ University Bangalore, HIHT University Dehradun,IIFT New Delhi, Indian Law Institute New Delhi, Jamia Hamdard New Delhi Karunya University Coimbatore, K L E University Belgaum >>

- Private Universities in India

Private Universities include Amity Universities, EIILM University Jorethang, ICFAI University,Lovely Professional University Jalandhar, Mangalayatan University Aligarh, MATS University Raipur, Symbiosis University, Vellore University, Vidyasagar University Midnapore, Vinayaka Missions University Salem >>

- State Universities

The List of State Universities include Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli, Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University Meerut, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) Shimla, Karnataka State Open University Mysore,Panjab University Chandigarh,Punjabi University Patiala , Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Lucknow, Tripura University Tripura, University of Allahabad, University of Calcutta, University of Mumbai, University of Pune, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University Nashik >>>

- Institutes of National Importance

The List of Institutes include IIT Bombay,Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, NIT Claicut and other institutes >>

Kandireega, Ram, Hansika, Promos, Videos, Video Songs, Telugu Movies, Telugu Cinema and Exclusive Songs - 123telugu.com

Kandireega, Ram, Hansika, Promos, Videos, Video Songs, Telugu Movies, Telugu Cinema and Exclusive Songs - 123telugu.com

Delhi, Andhra schools are 'greenest'

New Delhi: Schools from Andhra Pradesh and from the national capital were on Friday declared as the country's 'greenest' as they bagged the green school awards organized by the Centre for Scienceand Environment (CSE), an NGO.

Andhra Pradesh's Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ongole and Kendriya Vidyalaya, Uppal, and Delhi's Kendriya Vidyalaya, Vigyan Vihar and Salwan Public School won the awards among 1,500 schools in 18 states.

CSE director general, Sunita Narain said that it is heartening to see that despite the limited resources, our rural, semi-urban, mid-rung and government educational institutions are actually leading from the front in driving change.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit gave away the awards.

Currently in the fifth year, under the programme, schools carry out rigorous self-audit on environmental practices within their own premises.

Sumita Dasgupta, programme director of CSE's education unit said that the schools have moved to using public transport or eco-friendly school buses. Energy conservation has been also a priority with schools taking care to consume less and use energy-efficient equipment.

Genelia steps out of Abhishek Bachchan's film

Abhishek Bachchan, Asin and Ajay Devgn starrer Bol Bachchan seems to be in news for all the wrong reasons. Rohit Shetty, who's gearing up for the release of Singham, was all set to direct this remake of yesteryear's cult film, Golmaal when one of the lead actresses in the film, Genelia D'Souze stepped out of the project. Initially, Samantha was said to be in talks with Rohit Shetty for the role; however, the makers finally opted for Genelia. However, days before the film goes on floors, she has stepped out.

While it's not clear if she was shown the door or if she stepped out voluntarily, rumours are rife that she was not happy with her role in the film. Apparently, she rubbed the makers on the wrong side due to this. However, other reports suggest that she opted out due to clash of dates. She's currently acting in Naa Ishtam with Rana and has to complete few songs for Force, a remake of Khaka Khaka Whatever maybe the case, she surely seems to have lost out a big film which could have restarted her career in Bollywood. Now, the hunt is on for another actress to replace Genelia in this film.

Nanna Theaters Coverage details

Ready to Implement 'Right to Education Act'

New Delhi: The Right to Education Act is all prepared to implement by the Delhi Government in a phased manner and has also taken effective measures to expand the educational facilities, said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. The Chief Minister said the Government has taken steps to expand the educational infrastructure and was now providing free uniforms, free books and free education to girls up to Class XII.

Haryana proposes teacher evaluation

Chandigarh: Haryana has proposed a teacher evaluation system to improve their skills and provide quality education to students in government institutions, a spokesman of the education department said here on Monday.

Under the proposed strategy, teachers would be evaluated on three counts -- self-appraisal, management's evaluation and grading, and management's suggestions.

"The total marks for evaluation would be 100. Of these, 50 would be for students' results, 20 for assessment of principal and 10 each for assessment of school management and development committee (SMDC), additional professional qualifications acquired during the year and minimum training attended during the year," the spokesman said.

"Evaluation would be placed within a growth oriented and fair framework and the evaluation experience would be non-threatening and beneficial for all parties, especially the students," he added.

The proposed teachers' evaluation strategy has been uploaded on the department website and all stakeholders have been invited to send their comments through post or e-mail to identify areas for improvement, he said.

Third-party evaluation of performance of students has also been proposed under the scheme.

The SMDC would comprise members from parents, local bodies, panchayats, teachers and even students community.

"The committee would oversee the overall development of the school and also frame a school development plan. SMDC would keep an eye on each aspect of schooling - enrolment, retention, teacher attendance, discipline in the school, school infrastructure, school maintenance and cleanliness," he said.

The committee would also be asked to rate each teacher on punctuality, participation in school management and upkeep, teaching quality and student development

Central grant for five PTU colleges

Jalandhar: Five colleges of Punjab Technical University (PTU) have now been selected forTechnical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), collaboration between the Central Government and the World Bank.

The National Project Implementing Unit constituted by the State Project Implementing Unit and Ministry of Human Resource Development will sign a MoU on July 31, following which grants will be given to the five colleges.

The selected colleges include: SBS College of Engineering and Technology, Ferozepur, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Bathinda, (all government aided colleges) and Chandigarh Engineering College, Mohali.

A grant of Rs 10 crore will be received by each college for developing infrastructure for graduate and undergraduate courses. While 25 per cent of the cost would be borne by the PTU on behalf of the state government, the rest would be paid by the Centre through the World Bank.

PTU Vice Chancellor Dr Rajneesh Arora said the project was started last year. A decision in this regard was taken during the 5th National Steering Committee meeting held on June 29 at Delhi. Applications from 89 state-funded engineering collegesfrom 18 states and two Union Territories were selected, he added.