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Cabinet to take up copyright Bill today - Indian Express Anubhuti Vishnoi Posted online: Thu Apr 26 2012, 00:44 hrs   New Delhi : The Cabinet is likely to take up long-pending Universities of Innovation Bill and Copyright (Amendment) Bill on Thursday. Both the legislations will come with changes factoring in recommendations by stakeholders and parliamentarians. While the amendments to the Copyright Bill will drop the controversial statutory licensing clause for radio broadcast, the Innovation Universities Bill will drop the clause to set up 14 such varsities. The new Cabinet note will allow existing varsities to upgrade to innovation university status if they adhere to required standards. The numerical target of setting up 14 such varsities has been dropped on grounds of non-feasibility and the argument that even a few of them will help serve the purpose of fostering a research eco-system, as aimed. While the Bill, when it first went to Cabinet earlier this year...

Google has launched a free tutorial website,  Search Education , which will help students learn how to better use  Google Search  for learning and academic research. The site is aimed at both at teachers and at individual users. The company knows that while its many tools can be useful, not everyone understands how to use them. Student Education seeks to solve this by providing live training  that anyone can access as well as lesson plans  that teachers can use to teach their students about Google’s many services. There are even “A Google A Day” challenges that can be used to reinforce search skills in students. Teachers will be pleased to find that the lessons plans are comprehensive. They include beginner, intermediate and advanced versions covering five different topics. There are also ten challenges, each of which covers a specific academic topic (such as history, biology and even math). Individual learners are mainly encouraged to check out the l...

CAREERS 360   –  MAY 2012  issue covers  India’s Best Engineering Colleges 2012. Our Institute has been awarded  "A" grading  in the survey conducted by the magazine. For more details, click the link below: http://www.careers360.com/ news/8473-best-engineering- colleges-Maharashtra-Goa or have a look at the following list sourced from the magazine website. MAHARASHTRA & GOA Institute LOCATION State National IITs/NITs/IIITs IIT-Bombay Mumbai AAA+ Top VNIT Nagpur AAA+ AAA International Ins titute of Information Technology Pune AAA AA National Institute of Technology, Goa Goa AA+ AA Other Deemed Universities/Central Universities Mumbai Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT) Mumbai AAA AAA NMIMS College of Engineering (MPST&M) Mumbai AA AA Symbiosis International University Pune AA AA Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Pune A+ N.R. S...