New Delhi: AIIMS Jammu, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Jammu, and Research Foundation of Hospital and Healthcare Administration (RFHHA) is jointly organising the "Healthcare Executive Management Development Program" from November 20 to November 27, 2022.  As per the officials,

New Delhi: Pondicherry University has extended the last date for accepting online applications for admission to its several PhD programmes under the exempted category for the academic session 2022-23. The PhD entrance exam application deadline is November 30, 2022. For candidates in exem

New Delhi: SCMS Cochin School of Business, Cochin is inviting applications for admission to its full-time Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) program for the academic session 2023-25. Candidates can apply online by submitting their applications at scms.edu.in. The PGDM program

New Delhi: As per the latest announcement, IIT Guwahati Director T G Sitharam has been appointed chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). He will now join his new position and serve the council for the next three years.  As per the officials, T G Sitharam will l

New Delhi: Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur have created a coating technology that makes the self-cleaning process easy for solar panels. The newly developed coatings are superhydrophobic, transparent, scalable and long-lasting. As per IIT Jodhpur, the method dev

New Delhi: IIM Udaipur has begun the application process for the PhD programme for the academic year 2023-24. Aspiring candidates can submit the online application form for the PhD programme through the official portal, @https://www.iimu.ac.in/. IIM Udaipur, offers a 5-year full-time Ph.D p

New Delhi: Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Orissa also known as North Orissa University (NOU) is inviting applications for admission to its Pre-PhD program for the academic session 2022-23. The last date to apply is November 30, 2022.  As per North Orissa Uni

Reading Passage Question A famous series of studies, known as the Hawthorne Studies, was the first to explore psychological factors that affect work performance. These studies attempted to investigate the relationship between the level of lighting in the workplace and worker productivity. Researc

Reading Passage Question With the development of modern theoretical astrophysics, astronomers are able to explain data collected by early observers and to amass data about previously unknown phenomena in extragalactic optical astronomy. Despite our lack of understanding of these new phenomena, th

Reading Passage Question Epidemiologists have long debated the pandemic potential of H5N1, aka bird flu. On one hand, the virus spreads too inefficiently between humans to seem like much of a threat: it has caused fewer than 600 known cases of human flu since first emerging in 1997. On the other

Reading Passage Question The printed word, the radio and the television used to be the only sources of information available to a mass audience. Journalists and radio and television presenters were household names. They decided what we saw and heard and their opinions carried great authority. But

New Delhi: International Management Institute (IMI) Kolkata has begun the application process for the PGDM programme for the academic session 2023-25. Aspiring candidates can submit the online application form through the official portal, @https://www.imik.edu.in/.  IMI Kolkata and Bhu

Reading Passage Question “Girl deficit” is not a concern only in developing countries. Almost half the globe is facing the gradual distortion of the human sex ratio resulting from female feticide. According to demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, “the practice has become so ruthlessl

New Delhi: The 2023 CEED application form is currently closed. On January 22, 2023, the test for CEED 2023 will be given. The participating institutes may perform additional admission procedures, such as portfolio reviews and personal interviews, in addition to using the CEED 2023 scores for ad

Reading Passage Question Most diseases or conditions improve by themselves, are self-limiting, or even if fatal, seldom follow a strictly downward spiral. In each case, intervention can appear to be quite efficacious. This becomes all the more patent if you assume the point of view of a knowing p

Reading Passage Question The institutions engaged in artistic or scientific activity are centrally concerned with the maintenance and extension of cultural systems. The growth of government patronage of these areas suggests that facilitation and production of culture has become a major state acti

Reading Passage Question Although the recent debate over the efficacy of capital punishment as a deterrent to violent crime has produced informed commentary from both camps, few of the “experts” cited in public discussion of the issue are aware that the basic concept of deterrence was

Reading Passage Question A few months ago, the village of Queniborough and its surroundings in Leicestershire gained dubious distinction as Britain’s hot spot for variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a fatal neurodegenerative condition related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)&m

New Delhi: The 31st JRD Tata Oration on Business Ethics was delivered by the Xavier School of Management XLRI on November 19, 2022 at the Tata Auditorium on the XLRI Jamshedpur Campus. This year's oration was given by Bhaskar Bhat, Chairman of Tata SIS Airlines and Director of Tata Sons Ltd.

Reading Passage Question Although epidemics are often triggered by bacteria and viruses that have undergone genetic mutations, as was the case with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which mutated into a harmful virus when it was transmitted from monkeys to humans, outbreaks of other disease

Reading Passage Question The errant gene that causes a hereditary form of breast cancer was an especially elusive quarry. Scientists knew that the gene – dubbed BRCAI – was somewhere on Chromosome-17, but they couldn’t pinpoint an exact location or identify the culprit’s c

New Delhi: Through the three rounds of the Common Seat Allocation System, 59,401 students in all Delhi University colleges have been admitted to undergraduate programmes (CSAS). The university's third round of seat distribution came to an end on November 17. Starting today, November 21, 2022, a

New Delhi: Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test, CET Cell has released the MHT CET 2022 LLB 3 Year CAP Round 2 Seat Allotment Result on November 22, 2022 (today). Candidates can check the allotment results at llb3cap22.mahacet.org. As per Maharashtra CET Cell, candidates who regist

Reading Passage Question The mid-thirteenth-century King’s Mirror contains extraordinarily accurate descriptions of sea mammals and other natural phenomena. The section dealing with the North Atlantic describes only three phenomena that assume an aspect of the marvelous: the hafgerdingar (s

Reading Passage Question The best-known method of classifying living things, Linnaean taxonomy, denotes species using a hierarchical structure, starting at the general level of kingdom, then phyla, order, family, genus, and, finally, species. Remarkably, Linnaeus’s system has proven robust,

New Delhi: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna is inviting applications for admission to its PhD program for the academic session 2022-23. Interested candidates can now apply online by submitting their application form by December 07, 2022.  As per NIT Patna, the

Reading Passage Question Despite an abundance of major nutrients in the surface waters of parts of the ocean, extremely low concentrations of dissolved iron are believed to play a crucial role in limiting the biological productivity of these regions. Phytoplankton, the basis of freshwater food ch

Reading Passage Question Almost 12 years after the landmark federal study “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform” warned darkly of the “rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,” we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation whose 13-year-ol