Bengalaru, April 15 (IANS) Software major Infosys Ltd has made 20,000 campus offers for hiring freshers from colleges and institutes across the country to ramp up its headcount in 2016-17, a senior executive said on…
Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Prof. Talat Ahmad during a press conference in New Delhi on July 16, 2014. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) The Indian Navy has collaborated with Jamia Millia Islamia…
Nagpur, April 14 (IANS) Suspected right-wing Bajrang Dal activists pelted stones and hurled a slipper at Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar here on Thursday but he escaped unhurt. Police have detained 10…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, April 14 (IANS) At his age, teenagers loaf around and look for fun and adventure. Not so for the 16-year-old Arsh Ali. He not only makes sketches without an eraser in…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday disagreed with the central government’s decision to hike the annual fees at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by 122 percent. “The Centre must…
New Delhi: Lyricist and poet Gulzar at the `Jashn-e-Rekhta` Urdu festival in New Delhi on Feb 13, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Chandigarh, April 13 (IANS) Poet-lyricist Gulzar has accepted an offer to join the Tagore Chair…
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya during the inauguration of 3rd International Conference on Life and Livelihood Skills Realizing and Sustaining Clean India in Hyderabad on Nov 19, 2015. (Photo:…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, April 13 (IANS) Half of the students in 20 percent government schools of Himachal Pradesh had failed their class X exams and 14 percent the class XII exams in 2014-15, an…
Bengaluru, April 12 (IANS) The second year pre-university course re-exam in chemistry was held across Karnataka on Tuesday as rescheduled after its question paper leaked twice leading to cancellations on March 21 and March 31….
Jammu, April 12 (IANS) A “provocative” Facebook post over the NIT -Srinagar issue by a Kashmiri student led to a scuffle between Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students at a private college here on Tuesday. A section…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, April 12 (IANS) Despite the lure of a mid-day meal, low attendance in Tripura’s government schools is a “cause of concern” while enrollment is rising in private schools without the facility,…
Srinagar, April 12 (IANS) Around 1,500 non-local engineering students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Srinagar on Tuesday vacated their hostel rooms and left for their homes. The students said they were asked by the…
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday recalled its 2013 verdict quashing a Medical Council of India (MCI) notification mandating common National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) both for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and…
Srinagar, April 11 (IANS) Police detained Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena president Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga on Monday outside the NIT here when he tried to enter the campus. “Bagga and his two associates were detained…
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Recalling its earlier order, the Supreme Court on Monday said admission to private medical colleges will be on the basis of entrance tests conducted under the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)….
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Two Indian medical students were stabbed to death in Ukraine while a third was warded in a hospital, authorities here said on Monday. The attackers, Ukrainian nationals, have been apprehended….
Srinagar, April 11 (IANS) A majority of non-local students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, on Monday did not appear for exams being held for various classes. However, all the local students sat…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala/Guwahati, April 10 (IANS) The government will bring in foreign faculty to improve the quality of higher education in the northeastern region, union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Ram Shankar…
Jammu, April 10 (IANS) Dozens of marchers trying to enter Jammu and Kashmir to express solidarity with protesting non-local students of NIT were stopped by authorities on Sunday and urged them call off the march….
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee during a memorial lecture organised in honour of late former Union Minister Arjun Singh at Nehru Library Auditorium, Teen Murti House in New Delhi on April 9, 2016. Also seen…