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ACTIVE USERS OF THE LIRC ( March 1 st to 31 st March 2018)   All the below Active Users are eligible for one extra library card  for the month of  April 2018. Sr. No. Member No.of Transcations 1 MASCARENHAS RACHEL NOEL JACINTA 39 2 LEMOS AARON MELVINE SANDRA 38 3 GUPTA PRADEEP FULCHAND RENU 30 4 VAZE SHALAKA NARESH VASUNDHARA 29 5 HRISHIKESH MAHESH TELANG 29 6 ANTONY ALEX LEENA 29 7 PINTO GLEN JOHNSON LEENA 28 8 CRASTA RYAN RONALD LEENA 28

A skilling crisis, not a jobs crisis: Need to make skilling a key goal towards nation-building Skills should have been a priority after Independence because an unskilled or unemployed Indian is not a free Indian, and the launch of the Skill India campaign in 2015 seemed a fresh departure from the past. Young job-seekers are unable to get a job without experience, but it is unclear how they can get experience without a job. Skills should have been a priority after Independence because an unskilled or unemployed Indian is not a free Indian, and the launch of the Skill India campaign in 2015 seemed a fresh departure from the past. Taking a historical perspective, the phase 1 of skills in India was largely about a purposeless drift without vision, execution or institutions. In phase 2, while the vision was sound, but the execution was affected by the lack of institutional structures—anybody could say no and nobody...

Teachers could lose their jobs for plagiarism IN CASE OF REPEAT PLAGIARISM OF OVER 60% SIMILARITY, THE FACULTY MEMBERS WILL BE SUSPENDED, EVEN DISMISSED NEWDELHI: Student researchers who plagiarise may lose their registration and teachers who do could lose their jobs with the University Grants Commission (UGC) approving a draft regulation on plagiarism which will be notified after approval by the HRD ministry. Plagiarism in higher academia is a huge problem in India and UGC, the apex body of higher education institutions, has been threatening to come out with a plagiarism law for several years now . It finally approved the UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Institutions) regulations 2018 in its meeting held on March 20. HT has seen the minutes of the meeting. The law prescribes graded punishment for plagiarism. The draft rules for studen...

As ‘plogging’ sweeps through Thane, joggers pick up garbage bags to burn calories in Yeoor forests THANE: Are garbage dumps and litter deterring you from going on that much-needed jog? Maybe you can try plogging, the latest fitness craze that has descended on Thane. On Sunday, 200 fitness enthusiasts in jogging shoes and sweatbands, armed with litter collection bags, entered the Yeoor forest range at 6am and picked up trash strewn across the roads while trotting forth. This is perhaps the first plogging movement in the state. The trend is said to have been conceptualised by the Swedes and has been replicated globally thereafter. The Yeoor drive was organised by NGOs Earthkids Humanity Foundation and Yeoor Environmental Society, with the help of the civic body. Mayur Jamdhade (28), a coaching institute owner who went with 30 students said, “It was an amazing three-hour ex-perience. We keep talking and reading about the ill-effects of waste and plastic, we got a...