The Adnani Group has announced the launch of the Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management (AIIM) at Navrangpura in Ahmedabad. The institute takes off its academic activities with a one-year (fulltime) residential Post Graduate Programme in Infrastructure Development (PGPIM) for executives.

London, December 6 : An American study has shown that the brains of kids belonging to low-income families process information differently to those of children from wealthier homes.

Conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, the study involved 26 children in the age group of nine to ten years. Half of them were from low-income homes, while half from high-income families.

The researchers used an electroencephalograph (EEG) to measure activity in the "prefrontal cortex" of the children’s brains.

During the test, the children were shown an image onto a screen. They had not been briefed about the picture.

The researchers measured the subjects’ brain responses as they saw the picture.

IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) has informed that it intends to build 650 examination centres across the country, including 15 in various jails, for its ensuing 'term-end examination' commencing December1.

"More than 2.73 lakh candidates will appear for the examinations," IGNOU spokesperson Ravi Mohan said.

According to the sources, IGNOU has also established 15 examination centres in jails for inmates who have enrolled to its various undergraduate courses.

Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 27 : Many Tamil schools do not have basic facilities although the country has been independent for more than 50 years, Malaysia Nanban quoted Selangor state executive councillor Dr Xavier Jayakumar, as saying on Wednesday.

He said some schools were conducting their classes in warehouses and under trees.

He added that in the 1980s and 1990s, many parents were not interested in sending their children to Tamil schools due to the deplorable conditions, which made it unsafe for them.

He said the trend had changed and more Indian parents were eager to send their children to Tamil schools due to the excellent academic performance by students in such schools.

Geneva  - About 75 million children globally, over half of them girls, do not receive education, including one third of primary school age children in sub-Saharan Africa, the UN's education, science and culture agency said Tuesday.

The lack of education and inequalities in schooling systems caused poverty and diminished opportunity, according to UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report which said governments had to take action to make improvements.

In general, children from poor countries are three times less likely to attend primary school than children from rich nations, and the education they do receive will probably be of lower quality.

London, Nov 25 : A new book written by Alex Games has phrases and words that are being used now in the modern age in a different context all together from when they had been originally formed.

Some of the words had originated from countries other than ones that they are used in, and some have been changed to suit the dialect of the region, reports the Sun.

Starting off the list of words was ‘Balti’, which in modern day is a type of curry popular in Birmingham, and named after the pot in which it is cooked. Its origin is from the Portuguese word ‘balde’, meaning bucket or pail.

Next was ‘Bonking’, a word, which was first used around 1975, to describe sex. Before that it had been used to describe a hit to the head.