The Times of India.com

The Times of India, a reputed newspaper of Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd have their own website, timesofindia.indiatimes.com which according to me is the best among the rest of the newspaper website. The layout design is very simplified and easy to access with rich visual content and search option full of information from web(google), video, photos and TOI. News is organised in different section under City, India, World, sports, business, Market, Health & fitness, environment, special, women, & opinion. The unique feature of the website is that they upload newsy videos in association with Times Now & in fact have their own photo & video gallery. To indulge readers the site provides you with an option of blogging through their Times Blog section, wherein one can easily comment on their edits and also with Polling on various issues. There are many other option to access from latest news to most read to most commented. There are many colourful advertisements too. To entertain user they provide you with option of Horoscope & Leisure(gaming,crossword & cartoons) which is also a very unique concept. Not only that you can easily access to e-paper of TOI that too of different editions, but one can also access their fully nourished Archives.
TOI in this time of web indulgence has used both the print and visual media together extremely well and formed such an interesting and indulging website.

1st week at MCRC.

My journey at Mass Communication Research Center (MCRC), Jamia Milia Islamia, started with the interview for M.A. convergent Journalism, eventually i cleared it and got myself enrolled for the course. I missed the first day of orientation but attended the other two, which was very well organized, where i got to know about the course and the institution in detail and got my 'first shock' then and there i.e. 'no off's on saturday and sunday'..we wil be getting an weekly off on monday. 'Second shock' too came in very soon that we can not even get late for a minute for our classes pehw. Then classes started from tuesday-whole day at media lab was awsum-i personaly fell in love with FCP, the day was fine. Wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday too went that way-got introduced to all my sweet n intellegent fellows-teachers, classmates and seniors. Sunday combined class with our seniors made me relaise how we people can sleep and talk during our classes, i tell you our seniors are realy good at that. Then Sundays lunch at Pizza Hut with classmates was 'the first girls offical outing',which we all enjoyed a lot. There was a 'third shock' which i forgot to mention earlier was a mail from HOD which states that 'we all have to come on monday to attend the workshop on Documentries',which indeed mean that there will be No OFF this week-it was nostalgic,though i didnt got the mail and heard about it from classmates, so i give it a miss. Then here comes the tuesday again whole day in media lab thrilled me and this time I learned Protool,which was quiet interesting. After that during our break time we(the whole class) got our 'First Bash' from Mr. siddiqi for not attending the Documentary session and belive me it was quiet life threatning. So that was my first week at MCRC, which actually made me miss my most chilled out college days,but yeah i didnt missed my friends as my classmates are very nice and made me adjust with them quiet easily.
So in a one liner i would say, A week at MCRC made me Weak at knees.....!