Day: November 17, 2011

IMPHAL, November 17: The premiere coaching institute of the country, Resonance, Kota has announced nation-wide biggest academic talent hunt test called ‘Scholarship cum Talent Reward Test (STaRT) 2012’, which is a two-stage national level talent test for students of class VI, VII, VIII, IX, X and XI & XII of Science Stream. Along with the academic and self development benefits for students like National Benchmarking and exposure to real life academic competition, STaRT-2012 is also loaded with excellent & biggest prizes & awards to the winning students.

The Stage-I will be qualifying examination for the Stage-II followed by Felicitation Function & Champion’s Camp at Kota.

The unique feature of prizes in STaRT-2012 is that the finally declared National toppers (1st Rank) of each class (total seven students, one from each class) shall win a Gold Medal & Eleven days visit to USA including three days visit to Space Camp at Kennedy Space Centre, NASA, USA and also four to five other tourist attractions in USA .

The prize worth for 1st Rank will be more than Rs. 2 Lac to each student. The National Runners-up (2nd Rank) of each class (total seven students, one from each class) shall win a Silver Medal & Six Days visit to Singapore including SCIENCE CENTRE SINGAPORE and also four to five other tourist attractions in Singapore. The prize worth for 2nd Rank will be more than Rs. 1 Lac to each student The National 3rd Rank of each Class (total seven students, one from each class) shall win a Bronze Medal & a high-end Laptop of worth Rs. 50000 each. The students from All India Rank from 04th to 10 in each class shall be rewarded with Desktop PCs worth Rs. 25000 each. The students from All India Rank 11to 500 shall also win prizes ranging from Personal Music Players (PMPs), Sports Watches to branded Writing Pens.

Through STaRT-2012, Resonance shall give away various attractive prizes & awards as mentioned above, having a total worth of more than Rs. 50 Lacs , to 3500 students in total (500 students from each class). Resonance has also generously allocated scholarships of maximum worth of Rs. Six Crores for the final top hundred students, from each class, if they enroll into yearlong classroom programmes of Resonance targeting CBSE, NTSE, KVPY Olympiads, IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AIMPT as relevant to their class and aspirations. The winners will be invited at Kota for the Felicitation Function to be held in February, 2012.The final top hundred students of all classes except class XII shall also be invited for three days Champion’s Camp at Kota, Rajasthan in which expert mentors of Resonance shall educate and guide them with a focus on establishing foundation for future competitive exams like NTSE, IJSO, KVPY, Olympiads, IIT-JEE and other Engineering & Medical entrances according to relevance of the class of students.

According to the format of STaRT-2012, the schools can conduct first stage test of STaRT-2012 in their own premises and also become entitled for awards of worth more than Rs. 12 Lacs in various reward categories for schools, their principals and coordinators based on performance and participation of their students.

A student, apart from his/her own school, also has options to participate in first stage of STaRT-2012 by taking test either at Resonance test centre or Online.

The first stage test of STaRT-2012 shall be conducted on various dates in December, 2011 and the second stage test shall be conducted on January 22, 2012. Both the tests will be OMR based, comprising objective type questions from Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology & Mental Ability, mainly from NCERT syllabus of the respective class. Class XI and XII students of Mathematics and Biology shall get different papers.

Registration for STaRT-2012, has already opened on September 26, 2011 & would close on November 26, 2011 whereas the complete information and guidance for STaRT-2012 has been made available on STaRT’s official website www.resostart.in . The same is also available on Resonance’s website www.resonance.ac.in

According to R.K. Verma, MD, CEO & Head (Academics), Resonance holds a high reputation for the sincere & successful methodology in its programmes for the tough competitive examinations like IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AIPMT, KVPY, International Olympiads & NTSE and the expertise & understanding of the crux of competition at Resonance are the backbone of devising STaRT-2012 to effectively give students a chance to compete with their true mettle and also adjudge themselves against the prevailing level of competition in the country.

Manoj Sharma, vice president (Operations & Business Development), Resonance, said, “Today no student in India can by-pass tough competition in realizing his/her career dream and through STaRT-2012, Resonance is offering a genuine platform to students so that they can judge themselves on a national benchmark and also develop temperament for forthcoming important formal competitive& talent examinations in their career”. He also added that, “The excellent prizes are kept to make STaRT-2012 interesting for students and scholarship support goes up to the level that a class X student  opting for IIT-JEE programme at Resonance may even earn continuing scholarship of worth Rs. 11 Lacs  till he/she completes his/her four year B.Tech. at IIT.”

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2011/11/resonance-announces-scholarship-cum-talent-reward-test/

IMPHAL, November 17: A 55 year old woman has this evening leveled charge against the doctors of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences, JNIMS of negligence, cheating and wrongly operating upon her.

The woman identified as Achoubi of Hatta Golabati called a press conference at the Manipur Press Club this evening concerning her charges and has informed that she is ready to charge legal actions against the erring doctors.

Speaking at the conference, the woman informed that a JAC has also been formed in this regard and a memorandum submitted to the Governor and the state Chief Minister today.  

She has further charged that she was admitted to the hospital on October 3 with back pains. The doctor examining her advised to get an ultrasound at the earliest. She took the ultrasound from Adarsh Laboratory on October 5.

The doctor after examining the report of the ultrasound informed her that she would have to undergo an operation to remove a Kidney stone and a gallbladder stone and the said operation was conducted on October 11, she informed.

However, soon after regaining her consciousness, the doctor concerned informed her that there was no kidney stone and that she doesn’t have gallbladder.

Surprised and at the same time astonished with the information she along with her family and local elders met the Medical Superintendent of the hospital and informed him of the happenings. However even after assuring her that the hospital will consider her further treatment and reimbursement of the operation, the hospital authority forcibly discharged her on November 5 without complying to any of the assurances provided by the MS, she further informed.

Meanwhile, the JAC against the Wrong Operation for Mrs Achoubi has warned of various forms of agitations if the concern authorities fail to take up any positive actions, a JAC member warned.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2011/11/woman-charges-jnims-doctors-of-negligence/

IMPHAL, November 17: A man after getting prank calls on his mobile phone since last afternoon from a person identifying himself as a militant cadre traced the phone number and found out that the prankster is none other than a local boy who has been helping him in harvesting his paddy.

The man identified as Ningthoujam Mangilal, 37, s/o (L) Bapu of Heinoubok informed media persons that he has been receiving calls on his mobile phone since 12 noon yesterday from a person who identified himself as a militant cadre.

He further informed that the caller has been asking him to come out as his party has to solve some issues with him, on his he answered that the caller could have mistaken him to be someone else. However the caller yelled back at him and started threatening him.

He received multiple calls afterwards asking him to come to Patsoi, he further informed.

Angered and at the same time surprised over the repeated calls, Mangilal tried to find the caller and trace it back to the lad who he identified as Naorem Imo, 27, s/o (L) Kunjamani of Patsoi part I. he further informed that Imo used to help him in his harvesting his paddy some days back.

He himself went to Imo’s Patsoi residence this morning and later handed him over to the Women Welfare Association Heinoubok, he further informed.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2011/11/pranskster-turns-out-to-be-helper/

IMPHAL, November 17: Aspiring candidate of the Thoubal assembly constituency Oinam Indira today called a press conference at the Manipur Press Club and reacted sharply to some alleged  remarks made by works minister K Ranjit against the aspiring opponents of Chief Minister O Ibobi.

Reacting to statement, she ridiculed that the insult from the state works minister has only strengthened her resolve to fight the election and further added that a candidate’s winning lies in the hands of the public and not in the hands of some ministers. 

Further speaking at the conference, she informed that bogus electoral rolls of Thoubal district should be rectified at the earliest for a free and fair election in the district.

Indira who is aspiring to fight the Chief Minister who is the only one to complete a whole term as the state Chief Minister, further observed that the state government should maintained properly the prescribed guidelines of the Election Commission of India.

Meanwhile, Thoubal Kendra Kanba Lup president informed that the association has submitted a representation to the Election Commission of India and the concerned district authorities for a physical verification to pick out the bogus and repeated voters from the existing voters list of the district. 

The association has further suggested that all political parties and aspiring candidates should allow proper functioning of Booth level agents at every polling stations throughout the state as directed by the ECI.

Meanwhile, the coordinator of the association has further termed the insult from the minister as unfortunate and further added that such repeated provocations should be considered as an insult to the whole women community.

She has further added that the association will not tolerate any more insults.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2011/11/thoubal-aspiring-candidate-hits-out-at-works-minister/