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 When 12-year-old Gunjan Malik, a class VII student, did a copy-paste job on junk food for a class assignment on lifestyle diseases, she didn’t think much of it. That was until her teacher pulled her up for internet plagiarism — lifting chunks of text off the internet and passing it off as her own. She was asked to redo her assignment. While Malik is cursing the plagiarism detection software that did her in, for many teachers, programs like Turnitin and Viper have been a godsend when it comes to checking the growing trend of internet
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 The advent of the Internet has definitely helped the Indian education sector redefine its platforms and strategies for imparting knowledge. This was an imperative for India considering the sheer size of the country and the fact that our educational institutions have to cater to millions of students and offer them some degree of uniformity when it comes to quality of education. Now, with the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) taking strides to migrate the Common Admission Test (CAT) from the traditional paper-pencil basis to an online platform, it clearly shows how education and examination in India is gradually steering towards the online route. However, it must be noted that the glitches in conducting CAT online for the first time marred the show.
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 Educational institutions across the country are doubling as nurseries where great ideas are planted and nurtured, helping youngsters begin their incredible journey as entrepreneurs. Take Gaurav Singh, a final-year student at Mumbai business school Nitie, who, along with three of his classmates, already runs a thriving business. Over the past few months, the group has earned a neat Rs 10 lakh by selling theme-based Tshirts . “We got a lot of orders from colleges in Mumbai, and are in talks with Wipro and Deloitte,” he said. Eight months into the business, they have even employed a few workers to do the knitting and embroidery, and a designer.
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 Registering a record growth in its employment rate, Australia is creating 1,100 full-time jobs each day in various sectors, according to latest data. The country piled on an extra 37,500 full-time jobs in April, following on from 37,400 in March which was revised up from an earlier estimate of 30,100, said the employment figures released Thursday. But, at the same time it lost 3800 and 9700 part-time jobs as employers made positions full-time, The Age reported. Since December, Australia has put an extra 110,000 people into work creating jobs at an annualised pace of 3 percent, well in excess of the 2.5 per cent forecast in this week's budget. Though many extra jobs were created in industries such as administrative services, warehousing and accommodation, Australia's biggest and fastest-growing employer was the health and aged care industry, propelled by population ageing.
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 “Aim high. There is no end to what you can achieve.” The words of T.V. Anupama, who won the fourth rank in the Civil Services Examination, are loaded with emotion and earnestness. Years of hard work to achieve her goal reflect. Ms. Anupama had set her goals when she was in school. Even when she joined BITS, Pilani's Goa campus, one of the premier engineering institutions in the country, her mind was fixed on the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Anything less would have left her dissatisfied. “I certainly would have written the examinations again if I did not get IAS,” she says during an interview interrupted by the continual inflow of relatives, friends and local people to congratulate her.
Although she was sure to crack the Civil Services Examinations, she did not expect a rank so high. In that, Ms. Anupama did the entire State proud. With a well-defined strategy to reach her high-set goals, this electronics engineering graduate
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 With a population of 1.15 billion, India definitely is in need of high skilled healthcare professionals to deal with any kind of emergency. Most of India's population suffers from various illnesses for instance, stress related illness, psychological illness and illness that need immediate attention. As people grow more affluent and have a longer life expectancy, there is a high tendency to seek preventive healthcare rather than curative healthcare. People are willing to invest in their health and well being. This is definitely leading many to conduct regular visits to a host of healthcare professionals to monitor one's health and continue to enjoy staying fit right through the old age.
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