It’s a historic consensus but the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) has today announced that come March 2010 and you will know that marks will soon be replaced by grades and that will be awarded through a comprehensive evaluation over the whole academic year. Class X board exams will be made optional for students who will continue in the same school for classes XI and XII. The objective of this overhaul in the education system is to reduce stress on students. An initiative taken by Union Human Resource Development minister, Kapil Sibal is to revolutionize the education system…

It’s been long … and I was out of blogging. But it’s a sudden freak of thought like a thunderbolt that I decided to keep it updated… read on
It was Tata’s Nano launch that I wrote and it was Mr. Ratan Tata’s promise to make the cheapest car in the world hit the road by November 2008…and being a strong Kolkatan felt proud that this world’s popular auto project will be associated with Kolkata, to be precise with Singur.
Yes, it is in Singur, 40 kms from Kolkata that Tatas have …

Life in this 21st century has been changing a lot and we have started to run with time. Change in pace changed the ways and means of entertainment as well and these have undergone a drastic makeover. Gone are the 8-ball over in a cricket game that we saw as children and the 6-ball overs took them over with 60-over games. Later came the 50-over matches and people seem to be not satisfied with it, rather have no patience to sit for 100-long overs of a match. Now came the …