The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is all set to set up five special academic centres across the country to offer traditional and job oriented courses.

In this regard, AMU has already got the final nod from the varsity’s Academic Council on Monday.

The new centres will be established in Murshidabad (West Bengal); Katihar (Bihar); Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh); Pune (Maharashtra) and Mallappuram (Kerala).

The university (AMU) is making discussions with the related states in order to open up special centres of the varsity.

Pavneet Singh Gulyani, a Chandigarh-based boy has managed to succeed with nice ranking in CAT exam results as he got full 100 percentile and also got calls from six IIMs, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Kozhikode and Indore.

It should be noted here that the first round of CAT results have been cleared by nearly 50 students from Chandigarh, who also have got calls from IIMs. However, Pavneet is the one who is on the topmost position.

The Common Admission Test (CAT) results have brought all smiles for Chandigarh students as more than 50 boys and girls from the city, most of them engineering students, have got calls from IIMs.

Punjab Engineering College student, Pavneet Singh Gulyani couldn’t have asked for more. 22-year-old Pavneet, a resident of Mohali have topped the IIM Common Admission Test with a 100-percentile score. Son of a shopkeeper, he is among the all-India toppers.

London, Jan 9 : Japanese government is under attack for its apparent attempts to rewrite its wartime past in the new school textbooks.

The government had decided two years ago to delete or rewrite references to 1945 Battle of Okinawa in the history books, where the military apparently forced the civilians into mass suicides faced with defeat.

According to new reports, education officials have agreed to restore the passages in new books, but it will not contain the word "forced" in the context of the Imperial Army''s role in the suicides.

New Delhi, Jan 9 : The Union Cabinet today approved amendments to the National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions Act 2004.

The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions was established through the promulgation of an Ordinance dated November 11, 2004.

The Ordinance was replaced by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act 2004 (2 of 2005) which was notified on January 6, 2005.

Hong Kong - Up to 80 Hong Kong schools could be given the choice of switching back to teaching in English, eleven years after a "mother-tongue" policy ordered them to teach in Chinese, government officials confirmed Friday.

The proposal, submitted to lawmakers on Thursday, is aimed at improving English-language standards which have fallen since Hong Kong ceased to be a British colony in 1997.

It would, if approved, give a number of schools where a large proportion of pupils are high-achievers the choice of teaching students in English.

Other secondary schools would have the option of using English for one quarter of lessons.