Yogesh Avasthi

Missing semester-I papers recovered after FSL probe threat By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 03:31:02 AM (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=20090120200901200331025313fad7b44 ) An envious teacher ruined the career of 19 computer science students of Gujarat Technological University (GTU), well almost.Jealous over her senior correcting answer scripts of GTU’s first semester exam, the teacher allegedly removed answer papers of 19 students. The tainted teacher, lacking enough experience to check papers, wilted under the threat of narco-analysis test and returned the answer scripts. She was asked to resign immediately. Ironically, both were buddies. The melodrama fit for a mega serial was enacted at L J Institute of Engineering on SG Highway early this month. The answer scripts of the first semester exam conducted by GTU in December, 2008 were distributed among senior teach...

Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi moves around with a contingent of gun-toting securitymen, including Border Wing jawans, far in excess of the threat he faces By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Monday, January 19, 2009 ( Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20Latest&sectid=2&contentid=200901192009011920073861269d77e1b ) Don’t mistake him for a politician from the badlands of Bihar, under threat from the local mafia, or a top cop striding out of his office with a posse of senior cops in tow. He is Parimal Trivedi, vice-chancellor of Gujarat University, who’s strutting around with a contingent o f securitymen, including Border Wing jawans, totalling as many as 13 of them. Trivedi is guarded by three Border Wing jawans and three policemen, besides his own private security men, while he is in the university, and three jawans and four cops when he is at home. So, he must be a marked man, the prime target of his many enemies. That’s ...

Yogesh Avasthi (22-1-2009) The state education department will soon merge class-VIII in primary division. "We will soon include class-VIII in primary division. Gujarat and Maharastra are the only two states in the country where primary division includes class-I to VII. Other states, includes Class-VIII in primary section" "This decision likely to be implemented from new academic year. Due to this, class-VIII students will get more infrastructure facilities and educational aids. More students will be benefited through Central schemes and budgetary allocations", said source. In the first phase, 4000 schools in remote areas of the state which has facility of primary section only, will get extra class of standard-VIII. Class-VIII will be started in the same premises with more facilities. This will help in decrease drop-out ratio. Also, student will have more facilities at their door-steps. ‘For the effective implementation of the project, the state education department ...

By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Saturday, January 17, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-% 20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009011720090117022505835ad1f872d ) City boy Naishal Shah stood second in the all-India Chartered Accountancy (CA) exam, results of which were announced on Friday. Niket Thacker stood third in the national merit list. More than 20 students from state made it to the top-50 in the country. Of these, 11 are from Ahmedabad and about six from Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara. About 30 per cent of the students who appeared from the state are reported to have cleared Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) entrance examination. The examination held in November last saw girls outshine boys with a Gurgaon girl topping the list. Surabhi Aggrawal from Gurgaon had topped the examination, securing 72 per cent marks. Two girls could make it to the toppers’ list this time. A total of 14,606 students, including 1...

3-ft-tall TCS employee to get gold medal in tech cradle convocation By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, January 16, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=200901162009011602524214733d9c68c ) She hates people showering sympathy on her. Accepting challenges of life and co ming out in flying colours are her basic instincts. That’s Pankit Dinesh Bindel for you, a postgraduate in information technology fighting physical hurdles with élan since childhood. Don’t judge this 23 something TCS employee by her height. She is only three feet, but is all set to bag a gold medal during the fifth convocation Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, from where she pursued MSc in IT, on January 31. She would be honoured with the medal for securing distinction marks.The wonder girl was born on Born on May 15, 1985. Three years on, Pankit’s parents spotted retarded growth in her....

students from KG to Std V were forced to attend classes in the open as the school building at shahibaug was under repair By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Wednesday, January 14, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009011420090114045515631863e10eb ) Blackboards, benches were set up in the skating rink to accommodate primary students Tuesday brought good news for primary students of Kendriya Vidhyalay in Shahibaug. Students from KG to Std V — who were forced to attend classes in the open for the past 15 days — were brought in from the cold.Central School works in two shifts. But the repair work in 12 rooms of the Old Red Building had forced students of both shifts out into the open in the middle of winter. As the photographs reveal, the students were studying in the open air even on Tuesday morning. That is till this reporter got in touch with Principal M K Kulshresht over the phone on Tuesday ...

The country’s first-ever education park-based city to come up in Nal sarovar’s vicinity, about 40 kmS from Nano car plant in Sanand By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 04:04:31 AM (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009011120090111040431983e7e3bbc ) Site of the proposed education park-based city, displayed through a red square, and the surrounding areas, shown through a Google Earth picture The state government has given its nod to a proposal of creating India’s first-ever Rs 2,000-crore education park-based city near Nal Sarovar, about 40 km from Tata Motors’ Nano car plant in Sanand. Incidentally, Nano project is also worth Rs 2,000 crore.The project, named Nal Sarovar Education Park, will be promoted by an Ahmedabad-based firm New Era Agrotech Infra Private Limited, about 10 km off Nal Sarovar on a 2,000-acre plot near Durgi village. The company top brass and officials...