Tuesday, April 19, 2011

List Of Universities in Sweden

The higher education system of Sweden describes the difference between Universitet (University) and Hogskola, where the former refers to "full university status" and the later refers to "college or university college with limited university status". The Universities are research-oriented and award bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees. whereas the latter ones usually are more focussed on applied sciences. The Hogskola have certain limitations in granting doctor's degrees and are more focussed on applied sciences.

The two oldest Universities are Uppsala University and Lund University which were founded as universities in 1477 and 1666 respectively. All the other universities in Sweden were raised from Hogskola status to University status after they had been founded.

The list of universities are as follows.

University	Established as a university	First establishment	Student population	Research grants
Uppsala University	1477	1477	20,450	3.265
Lund University	1666	1666	26,650	3.975
University of Gothenburg	1954	1891	24,900	2.999
Stockholm University	1960	1878	28,200	2.203
Karolinska Institutet	1965	1810	5,500	4.027
Umeå University	1965	1965	15,850	1.977
Royal Institute of Technology	1970	1827	11,950	2.033
Blekinge Institute of Technology	1989	1989	8,000	2.523
Linköping University	1975	1969	17,200	1.516
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	1977	1775	3,600	1.812
Luleå University of Technology	1997	1971	6,350	0.711
Karlstad University	1999	1977	7,750	0.303
Örebro University	1999	1977	8,600	0.342
Mid Sweden University	2005	1993	7,600	0.333
Linnaeus University	2010	1977	15,000	--

Thursday, April 14, 2011

India, Pakistan to play 3-match ODI series this year?

Prime Minister Gilani, who visited Mohali last month to watch the India-Pakistan World Cup semifinal, had said that boards of the two countries were holding negotiations for renewing cricket ties.

As a follow-up to the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani, India has decided in-principle to resume bilateral cricket ties with Pakistan. And in good news for the fans, India, Pakistan may play a three-match ODI series this year.

And now Pakistan Cricket Board chief operating officer, Subhan Ahmad, has told 'The News' daily that efforts are on to arrange a three-match ODI series despite the hectic schedule of the two countries this year.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Japan raises nuclear accident level to 7, as same as Chernobyl disaster

The Japanese government on Tuesday raised the accident level at a damaged nuclear power plant to 7, the worst on an international scale, from the current 5.

Level 7 had only been applied previously to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.

The accident level was raised after the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency determined that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has been releasing massive amounts of radioactive materials, which are posing threats to human health and the environment over a wide area, the public broadcaster NHK reported The agency gauged the level with the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).

The six—reactor nuclear plant, located 250 km north-east of Tokyo was damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which shut down its cooling systems, leading to partial meltdowns, explosions, fires and radiation releases.

The previous INES level of 5, declared in mid-March, was the same as for the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island in the United States.

'Radiation level might exceed Chernobyl'

The amount of radiation leaking from a damaged Japanese nuclear power station might exceed that of the Chernobyl disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, said Tuesday.

If the plant continued to spew radioactive material, it would be possible that the amount might surpass that of the 1986 disaster in Ukraine, TEPCO official Junichi Matsumoto said.

At the moment, however, the radiation releases are at 10 per cent of the levels emitted from the Chernobyl plant, the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Lokpal Bill movement - Anna Hazare's Fast Unto Death

Anna Hazare (Dr.Kisan Baburao Hazare), who is an Indian social activist was born at Bhingar, a small town in the state of Maharashtra, on 15th of June 1938.

He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1992 for his contribution towards the development of a village name as Ralegan Siddhi.

On April 5, 2011, he has started a fast unto death to make a pressure on union government to enact a law on Lokpal that deals with corruption in public offices.

In 2011, Anna Hazare led a movement for passing a stronger anti-corruption Lokpal bill in the Indian Parliament. As a part of this movement, N. Santosh Hegde, a former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Prashant Bhushan, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court along with the members of the India Against Corruption movement drafted an alternate bill, named as the Jan Lokpal Bill (People's Ombudsman Bill) with more stringent provisions and wider power to the Lokpal (Ombudsman).
Hazare decided to start a fast upto death from 5 April 2011 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, to press for the demand to form a joint committee of the representatives of the Government and the civil society to draft a new bill with more stronger penal actions and more independence to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas (Ombudsmen in the states), after his demand was rejected by the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh.

The movement attracted attention very quickly through various media. It has been reported that thousands of people joined to support Mr. Hazare's effort. Almost 150 people are reported to join Mr. Hazare in his fast.He said that he would not allow any politician to sit with him in this movement. This has been joined by people providing their suppport in Internet social media such as twitter and facebook. Many celebrities like Shekhar Kapur, Siddharth Narayan,Anupam Kher, Madhur Bhandarkar, Pritish Nandy, Prakash Raj,Aamir Khan showed their public support through twitter.

TN Assembly Elections - Velachery constituency

LETS WIN ONE CONSTITUENCY IN TN WITHOUT BRIBING A RUPEE & CREATE ONE MODEL CONSTITUENCY.

Sarath Babu says,

"Dear All,

Warm Greetings!! Im contesting in the TN Assembly Elections this time from Velachery constituency which compromises of Velachery,Adyar,Besant Nagar, Tharamani & Thiruvanmiyur which is the most educated constituency in the TN State as an independent candidate.

TN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2011;
ELECTION DATE: APRIL 13th

OUR SERIAL NUMBER IS 11,
NAME : SARATHBABU. E & OUR SYMBOL IS SLATE

The idea of contesting is not to change the State at once. It is to try and prove that educated youngsters can also take part in politics for the betterment of our nation. If we can work hard and win 1 seat in the assembly this time, more number of educated youngsters will take interest in politics looking at this victory. We plan to start a political party after the elections and work for contesting in more places next time. In the next 10 to 15 years, if we can manage to have 30 to 40 seats in the segments where there is high degree of educated population, I am sure we can have some amount of say on the way the government will function. Atleast, we will be sending signals to the atrociously bold politicians of the present. The damage done in the last 60 years cannot be undone in short time but if there is an initiative it will definitely make a difference and we can give our children or atleast our grandchildren a better place to live.

I request you all to support us in this initiative.

We Need 40000 votes to WIN.

A WIN will send a strong message to the whole political class and also encourage lakhs of educated youngsters across the country to get into mainstream politics.

1. We got around 15890 votes in the last Parliamentary elections 2009 & if each of them bring 1 more vote this time would be like another 15890 votes...

2. Our campaign team visited nearly 30000 homes till now which covers about 60% of voting popuation in door to door campaign and we had tremendous response. (We have support of around 20000 voters through this)..

3. I have addressed around 8 lakhs students & professionals and that comes handy and in door to door campaign im able to meet thousands of them...

4. Got few hundreds of ground level volunteers who work relentlessly for the cause.

5. Got around 5000 friends whose support proving to be handy..

6. Advantages - ADMK (Less known Candidate), PMK is contesting (Advantage is we get DMK & Congress votes from grass roots too) & MDMK is not in alliance....

7. In facebook & Orkut connected to around 44000 direct friends..

8. I have been working on this strategy for 2 years..

9. Only negative: Mindset of section of people that Independent cannot win...

Now we need your help to reach out to as many people as possible though email campaign.

Election Videos:

Video 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4o7BAqGr8Q ( Shot by a FRENCH DIRECTOR PIERRE)

Video 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GEKjGyBhrI (Thanks to Election Campaign Team)

Video 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFjWDkxkhW4

Websites:
www.sarathbabu.co.in ; www.hungerfreeindiafoundation.org

Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?skgroup_197453820270893&ap=1

Facebook Profile:
http://www.facebook.com/foodking.sarathbabu

Twitter Account:
http://twitter.com/#!/FoodkingSarath

Articles in Media:
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/sarathbabu-targets-educated-youth/261479.html