Ansal Institute of Higher Education (AIHE)

Ansal Institute of Higher Education (AIHE), a premier institute in international Collaborative. Education (under transfer of credits system), now gives access to over a million dollars in scholarships for UG and PG degrees from reputed universities in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

Ansal Insitute breaks through the present day academic clutter to provide a realistic roadmap for a successful professional career comprising of a Bachelor's degree, Master's degree and an appropriate paid internship.

Situated in Gurgaon__a hot spot of global MNCs, Ansal Institute offers affordable and world-class professional education. Students who successfully complete Ansal Institute's broad-based 6-semester Advanced Diploma course work (similar to that followed in the IITs) are eligible to transfer their credits into fulltime degree programs of reputed and accredited US universities (that have scrutinized and approved Ansal Institute's syllabi for equivalence), which include:

Clemson University, USA__ Ranked 35th by US News and World Report and mentions it as the "Top Public University"

North Dakota State University, USA__Ranked 4th among the US public colleges and universities by US Consumer Digest, for offering most academic value per dollar

Tarleton State University, USA__Member of the prestigious Texas A & M University System

Coastal Carolina University, USA__an accredited US university

At the undergraduate level, for a 8-semester coveted US degree, Ansal Institute's Advanced Diploma covers 6-semesters (under transfer of credits arrangement) which is completed in 2 years by doing additonal two summer terms; only the final year is required to be done in the US university campus for their coveted 4-year degree, with the provision of substantial scholarships awarded by the US University for meritorious students from Ansal Institute. After the degree completion, students are legally allowed to work full time in the US for one year.

During the past three years, over 150 students have taken transfer to reputed foreign universities through Ansal Institute's unique programs. While some of these students are working, others are pursuing higher studies with scholarships/assistantships in the top institutions like John Hopkins, Keck Graduate Institute, Vanderbilt University, University of Illionois, Asian Institute of Technology, Australian National University and Embry Riddle University.

Ansal Institute's alumni in the US have won 25 President's honor awards and 35 Dean's honor awards for their excellent academic performance. Ansal Institute is offering Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs and the disciplines covered include Engineering, Biotechnology, Computer Science and Business Management.

The extraordinary track record of Ansal Institute's alumni in the US has stimulated extension of this transfer of credits arrangement with some leading overseas universities, which include San Jose State University, USA (ranked 15th in Engineering by US News and World Report), North Carolina State University, USA, University of Western Australia, Australia (belonging to the prestigious Group of 8 Australian Universities__after Ansal Institute's 2-year Diploma, students can earn dual degree UG and PG in Information and Communication Technology in 3 years in Australia as transfer students with potential of permanent residency in Australia), McMaster University (called MIT of Canada; considered No.1 in Canada), University of New Brunswick, Canada (among the Top 10 Canadian Universities), University fo Windsor and St. Mary's University, Canada, Deakin University, Australia, University of Plymouth, UK, University of Science and Technology at Lille, France.

Highlights of Ansal Institute's Internationa Program

* Exemption from SAT

* Accredited degree from universities in the US, Canada, Australia and UK

* 4-year overseas Undergraduate degree in 2 years and 9 months through Accelerated Progression

* Expenses reduced to about 1/5 for the coveted degree.

Ansal Institute's 14 acre campus provides state-of-the-art computer and other lab, modern networked library, internationa standard on-campus hostel separately for boys and girls, on-campus lockers, bookstore and other allied facilities for sports and transport facilities from major parts of Delhi and Gurgaon. The Institute has highly qualified and internationally acclaimed faculty with several senior members holding Ph.D. from premier institutes in India and overseas universities.

Over the years, Ansal Institute has made several innovations to improve and refine the methodology of delivery of education. Some of such improvements include: Helpdesks and Remedial courses, Regular Technology Workshops by industry experts, Centre of Excellence for hands-on experience on live projects and a strong Industry Interface with companies like Cisco, Microsoft, IBM & HP.

Ansal Institute also has an efficient training and placement cell. Its students have been successfully placed in organizations such as Wipro, Hughes Systems, Sapient, Mahindra British Telecom, IDBI, ICICI Infotech and Sahara India.

For more information ont he acamdemic programs and related topics, visit http://www.aihe.in/ or write to The Counselor, Ansal Institute of Higher Education, SEctor 55, Gurgaon, Haryana-122003. Tel: (0124) 4116414, 9871592061, 9818588029, 9810109430

Email: admissions@aitgurgaon.org, admissions@aihe.in

Pathbreaking Researches on Saturn And Its Moon, Titan

According to an international team of researchers, Saturn, the giant gas planet encircled with yellow and gold bands, is spinning slower than expected.

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Instead of a day on Saturn lasting roughly 11 hours, the researchers have calculated the rotation period is 10 hours and 47 minutes__ eight minutes slower than estimates from the NASA voyager results during the early 1980s.

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It has been further stated by researchers that it could affect the size of the planet's rock and ice core and provide more insights into how it formed.

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As scientista believe, the measurement of Saturn's period of rotation may prove to be pathbreaking for future research on planetary characteristics. It is after an effort of almost two years that scientists have succeded in getting fascinating insights into Saturn.

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In another improtant research on the topography of the Saturnian moon Titan, an international team of space scientists led by Prof. Ralph Lorenz of the University of Arizona (USA) has found that Titan has huge regions covered with dunes. The findings of this research, published in Science in the first week of May 2006, reveal that these dunes might be made up of ice crystals, sand or some other unknown material. According to the researchers, Titan's atmosphere is thicker than Earth's, its gravity is lower and its sand has a completely different composition. Thus, it is only due to the physical process, which could have taken place there, to which the formation of dunes can be attributed. The existence of dunes, piled over other geographical features probably suggests that wind recently blew fine grains of some material (sand, ice or something else) around, which might have resulted in their formation.

Why is it harmful to see solar eclipse with naked eye?

Why is it harmful to see solar eclipse with naked eye?

Doctors always warn people, especially children, against watching the solar eclipse, either directly or through smoking glasses or even in shallow water as in a utensil. The harmful rays in the sunlight (infrared rays) are at the maximum during the eclipse, which might burn the most sensitive part of retina, forea and macula, leading to irreversible loss of eyesight.

The surface of the sun is about four times as hot as a furnace. The lens or cornea in our eyes acts like a burning-glass. If one looks straight at the Sun, the lens will be destroyed for life. Even if we look at the Sun through smoked glass, the Sun may look dim, but the dangerous heat rays can still pass through. Whenever there is an eclipse of the Sun, some people are blinded because they take foolish risks of this sort.

Insulin 'n' Blood Sugar

Who invented insulin and how does it regulate blood sugar?

Insulin is a very useful drug for diabetes and was discovered by the Canadian Physician and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Frederick Grant Banting in 1921. It is a product of unknown nature derived from the pancreas of animals. It regulates the percentage of sugar in blood. If the percentage is too high, it converts the excess into starch and stores the starch in liver, muscles and skin. With the help of insulin, a diabetic patient leads a normal healthy life. It is generally injected into the patient.

Which is the smallest sovereign state in the world?

Which is the smallest sovereign state in the world?

Vatican or the Holy See is the smallest sovereign state in the world both in size and population. The total land area of the Vatican is 0.17 sq. miles or 0.44 sq. km and its population is just 932. The Pope possesses full executive, legislative and judicial powers. Vatican is situated within the city of Rome. Vatican issues its own coinage called Vatican lira, which is interchangeable with Italian lira.

Vatican is a remnant of the "Patrimony of St. Peter", the secular state donated to the Popes in the eighth century by Pepin the Short, father of Charlemagne. In 1929, Mussolini's government made peace with the Papacy in the Lateran Treaty, which recognised the Holy See as an independent state. The treaty was incorporated into the Italian constitution of 1947. Under the terms of the treaty, the Pope is pledged to perpetual neutrality and may intervene in international affairs as a mediator only upon request.

As sovereign of the Holy See, the Pope is an elected absolute monarch who appoints a Pontifical Council to govern the city on his behalf.

Where did hieroglyphics originate?

Where did hieroglyphics originate?

Hieroglyphic writing is part of the ancient Egyptian civilisation traceable to the end of the fourth millennium BC, appearing as annotations to scenes cut in relief on slabs of slate in tombs and chapels. The earliest hieroglyphics represent lines of hymns and prayers, and the names and titles of individuals and deities. This distinctive style of writing was probably born out of the desire to annotate carved pictures of religious offerings, hunts and battles, it lent distinction to people and places and provided a telltale record for future generations. As hieroglyphics further evolved, it began to appear without pictures, i.e., just pure text on clay tablets and cylindrical stones. This led to labelling of numerous, everyday items. For instance, a jar of wine might bear the name of the vineyard, of the shipping merchant or of the reigning king.

Hieroglyphic writing vanished after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 639. Neither the army of Napoleon that conquered Egypt nor the French archaeologists that followed them could decipher the hieroglyphics. It was the discovery of the Rosetta stone, an inscribed basalt slab, in 1799 that provided the clue to the deciphering of hieroglyphics. And the job of decipherment was begun by Thomas Young (c-1818) and completed by Jean-Francois Champollion (c 1821-22). Found near Rosetta, Egypt, the stone is now being preserved in the British Museum.

Biggest river island...,,,,

Which is the biggest river island in the world?

Majuli happens to be the biggest river island in the world. It is situated in the middle of the Brahmaputra, and is easily approachable by ferry from jorhat in Assam. Spreading over an area of 460 sq. km., is island has a population of 1,50,000. A predominant community in the island is the Mising tribals.

Brahmaputra river

Where does the Brahmaputra river originate from?

The Brahmaputra is a major stream of Central and South Asia, having a total length of about 2,900 km (1,800 miles), and is called Tsang-po in Tibetan, Ya-Lu-Tsang-Pu Chiang in Chinese and Jamuna in Bengali. From its headstream in the Himalayas of Tibet, it flows castward for nearly 1,130 km (700 miles) across south-western China, then turns south through the eastern Himalayas and enters the States of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam (north-east India). The Brahmaputra takes a south-westely course for about 725 km (450 miles) through the Assam Valley, then turns south again, passing through Bangladesh to Bay of Bengal, where it forms with The Ganga and Meghna rivers, a vast delta.

Railway Service In India

When did the first railway service start in India?

The first train in India was flagged off an April 16, 1853 at Bori Bunder (V.T.). A wooden structure once acted as a terminus for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (now Central Railway). In this place today stands one of the most magnificent railway stations in the world-Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (former Victoria Terminus or V.T.). The modern terminus, built over a ten-year period from 1878-88 at a cost of Rs. 16,35,562/-, is on the UNSECO's World Heritage List.

ISRO

When was the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) founded and who was its first Chief ?

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was founded in 1969 with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai as its founder-Chairman. But India's bold venture in space research began much before, beginning with the work on establishing the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in 1962 with the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) under the Department of Atomic Energy. The first sounding rocket was launched from Thumba, near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, on November 21, 1963. In 1967, a Satellite Communication Earth Station was set up at Ahmedabad.

What are the Upanishads?

What are the Upanishads and how many of them are available now?

The word Upanishad literally means 'sitting near devotedly', and brings the picture of a sincere devotee learning from his guru- or spiritual master. The great Sankaracharya would, however, describe the Upanishad as simply knowledge of God.
There are , in all, 108 Upanishads ranging in length from a few hundred to many thousands of words, some in prose and some in verse. Of these, sixteen Upanishads were recognised by Shankaracharya as authentic and authoritative. In his commentary on Vedanta Aphorisms, he included quotations from six Upanishads. On the other ten Upanishads, he wrote elaborate commentaries. It is these ten Upanishads which, partly on account of their intrinsic importance but mailnly, no doubt, because of Shankara's commentaries, have come to be regarded as principal Upanishads. These ten Upanishads that form one of the vital bases of Hinduism are Isa, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Aitareya and Taittiriya.

What is synthetic rubber ?

What is synthetic rubber ?

Synthetic rubber is made of certain kinds of hydrocrabons. Of these, butadine is the most important. These hydrocarbons are obtained from coal, crude petroleum and alcohol. By the end of the Second World War, the combined production of synthetic rubber by USA and Germany alone was almost equal to that of natural rubber. Synthetic rubber is more oil-resistant than natural rubber. In the international market, natural rubber is facing severe competition from synthetic rubber.

Why do leaves fall in autumn?

Why do leaves fall in autumn?

The green colour in the leaves is due to a pigment, chlorophyll, in the plant. In autumn, the leaves stop making this pigment, thus the leaves turn yellow. Every leaf has a large vein underneath which carries water for nourishing it. This soon becomes dry in a yellow leaf so that water no longer flows through it. Thus the leaf dies and its grip on the branches loosens. When a strong wind blows, it breaks the leaf's grip and thus the leaves fall off in autumn.

Why do bees buzz?

Why do bees buzz?

The buzzing, sound is only caused by rapid fluttering of the bees'wings. The wings of the bees work like that of an electric fan. In hot weather, bees even carry water drops and spray droplets on their hives with their wings to cool it.

Why a pin-prick hurts?

Why a pin-prick hurts?

Human body is covered with skin. This skin is made up of several layers. Beneath the outermost layer are found millions of very small points. These are connected to a number of little threads called nerves. When the skin is pressed upon or touched, the nerves communicate the sensation to the brain. Thus the skin with the little nerves provides us with one of the five senses - "touch". If a pin goes into the outer layer and touches one of these little points, the touch becomes "pain"