Hyderabad, April 5th: For the IIT-JEE entrance exam which is scheduled to be organized on April 12th, the number of applicants for the exam has increased to 25,000. Last year 40,000 students have applied for the exam and this year the number has increased to 65,000. At the national level the number of applicants increased from 3.5 lakh last year to 4.5 lakh this year.
The IITs has implemented 9% reservation to other backward caste (OBC) last year and raised the reservation by another 9 percent this year. With this the total reservation for OBCs has reached to 18 percent. With the increase of the number of aspirants every year, the IITs are proportionality increasing the reservation for OBCs. This year nearly 98,000 OBC candidates are likely to appear for the exam across the country.
According to Mr. Bhaba Sarma, JEE chairman at IIT-Guwahati which is conducting the IIT-JEE 2009, the 7 old IITs will provide a reservation of 18 percent to OBCs and the 8 new IITs will provide a reservation of 27 percent for them.
Kakinada, April 5th: For both the Assembly and parliament elections that are scheduled to be organized in the district on April 23, most of the nominations were filed on Saturday. According to the election commission, April 4 is the last date for filing the nominations and April 8 is the last day for...
Kakinada, April 6th: The scrutiny of nominations for the second phase of elections which are scheduled to be organized in the district on April 23 was completed on Monday. The scrutiny for all the 18 assembly and 3 parliament constituencies was done by the concerned returning officers under the sup...
Kakinada, April 6th: State Bank of India, Kakinada branch is going to open booking for the Nano car from April 9th . SBI main branch chief manager, Mr. P. Tribuvan Reddy disclosed this to the media on Monday. In this concern a press meet was organized at the SBI main branch. Speaking to the media M...
Kakinada, April 6th: To avoid the scarcity of drinking water due to closure of irrigation canals in summer, East Godavari district collector, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwevedi ordered the concerned officers to initiate effective measures for the water supplies. In a review meeting organized by him at dist...
Kakinada, April 6th: Some objections were raised by the congress, BJP and MRPS leaders over the nationality of the Praja Rajyam Party candidate, Mr. Chalamalasetti Sunil. Mr. Sunil filed his nomination as a PRP candidate on April 4 for the Kakinada parliament seat. With the objection raised by the ...
Kakinada, April 7th: East Godavari district collector and returning officer, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwevedi overruled the objections raised against the Praja Rajyam Party candidate, Mr Chalamalasetti Sunil stating that he is a citizen of UK and has no right to contest in the elections. On hearing the a...
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