NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon be offering programmes in warehousing, financial accounting and office management in a bid to provide more job-oriented courses, a university official said Wednesday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a welcome move, Kerala has reduced the teacher-student ratio from 1:45 to 1:30 in all state owned and state supported schools.

NEW DELHI: Objecting to Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's view that the IIMs and IITs did not have world-class faculty, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said the government had "complete trust in the creative potential" of the teaching staff in these premier institutes.

NEW DELHI: Literature from the sub-continent is very metropolitan and is being produced by a certain kind of writers who have great felicity with the language but little natural spontaneity, says award-winning writer Ira Pande.

NEW DELHI:Till a few weeks back they could not correctly pronounce everyday English words. But after a mere five days of training in the language at Delhi's Police Training College (PTC), the trainers were correcting their seniors while speaking in English.Many of the trainers at the PTC, some of them nearing retirement, could not speak the language continuously for even two minutes, but were training thousands of policemen over the years. But the scene changed ever since the man from Hyderabad started his mission.