Tumkur University Blog

Challenges of rural B-Schools in providing quality education

blog_admin — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 04:39:35 +0000

Author: Dr. G. Sudarsana Reddy, Associate Professor, Dept. of Studies and Research in Commerce, Tumkur University. Education is an important index of human development, apart from economic growth and empowerment. Among various levels of education, higher education has pervasive and …

English language teaching in India

blog_admin — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 04:33:21 +0000

Author: Dr. Shivalingaswamy H. K., Associate Professor, Department Of English, Tumkur University. English language teaching in India presents a constellation of varied situations. It may be examined from top to very low level in terms of teacher proficiency and the …

Revisitng 1984: Pages Stained with Blood

blog_admin — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:56:03 +0000

Author: Subrahmanya Sharma V., Assistant Professor, Department of English, UniversityCollegeof Arts, Tumkur. Of all the fictional representations of the critical events that happened after independence with partition, Indira Goswami’s[1] Pages Stained with Blood stands apart, as it focuses on the …

Five C’s of 21st Century Soft Skills

blog_admin — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:37:03 +0000

Author: Dr. Parashurama K. G., Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Studies and Research in Social Work, Tumkur University. The framework of LPG – Liberalization, privatization and globalization demands a blend of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies. The …

Basel III: A Bird’s Eye View

blog_admin — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:55:58 +0000

Author: Dr. Noor Afza, Associate Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Business Administration, Tumkur University. Basel Committee on Banking Supervision set up on 17th May 1930 as the oldest financial organization at Basel Switzerland provides a forum for regular …

Sustainable development of Indian economy

blog_admin — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:20:18 +0000

Author: R. C. Nagaraju, Department of Commerce, University College of Arts, Tumkur. For attaining economic development at quicker pace India launched a number of economic plans since the adoption of new development strategy after Independence. These economic plans have resulted in …

Biotechnological relevance for the conservation of biodiversity

blog_admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:27:32 +0000

Author: Dr. Raja Naika H, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Tumkur University. Medicinal plants are the sources of important therapeutic aid for alleviating human ailments. With increasing realization of the health hazards and toxicity associated with the indiscriminate use …

Missing girl child: Decline of sex ratio in India

blog_admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:04:47 +0000

Author: GIRIJA K. S., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University College of Arts, Tumkur. The saga of a girl child to live in the country has been a hard and disastrous one as there is a sharp decline in the …

Civil Services exams: Karnataka has broken the myth

blog_admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:34:09 +0000

Author: Padmanabha K. V., Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, University College of Arts, Tumkur. Yes, finally we have broken the myth. We have proved that we too can bell the cat. Not five or ten, Karnataka has managed to secure …

Modern Physics and Philosophy

blog_admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:22:27 +0000

Author: Mangala Gowri M., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University College of Science, Tumkur. Our understanding of certain primary concepts in Physics such as time, space, dimension, objectivity in observation and measurement, the relation between cause and effect, probability, vacuum and so on has …