Srinagar, April 6 (IANS) A day after tension erupt in National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, a two-member team of union human resource development ministry (HRD) will arrive here on Wednesday to assess the situation…
Srinagar, April 6 (IANS) Tension gripped the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar after a group of students clashed with police on Tuesday. “A group of NIT students, all of them non-locals, marched to the…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Amid reports that some students from outside Jammu and Kashmir were proposing to leave the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday spoke to…
Bhubaneswar, April 5 (IANS) As many as 100 model schools in 14 districts of Odisha were inaugurated on Tuesday, with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurating one such English-medium school at Sasan Ambagaon in his home…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) There is no clarity yet on the prospects of monsoon this year, but another weak rainy season could “spur up” prices of most farm commodities, Religare Commodity Research said on…
Hyderabad, April 4 (IANS) Rights activist and former bureaucrat Harsh Mandar on Monday said the young voices for justice and equality being raised in universities are the sparks which should lit the whole nation in…
Bengaluru, April 4 (IANS) The personal assistant (PA) of a Karnataka minister and two other people were arrested on Monday for leaking of the question paper for the pre-university course (PUC) chemistry re-exam on March…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday asked whether a university could be described as a minority institution as it allowed the central government to move an application withdrawing its appeal challenging…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Delhi government will soon send 90 school principals to Cambridge University for an education leadership training exercise, as part of its teachers training initiative. “At first, 90 principals will…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University, which recently faced controversies, have figured in top four rankings released by the union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). The JNU has…
Dharamsala, April 4 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will interact with educationists at the University of Delhi in the national capital for five days from April 6 to finalise a draft curriculum for…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which came third in the HRD ministry’s ranking of engineering institutes in the country, on Monday said it lost out mainly due to its faculty-student ratio….
New Delhi, April 4 (IA NS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit. The apex court…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Science at Bengaluru in Karnataka has been ranked the best in university category of ‘India Ranking 2016’ by the union HRD ministry. The Institute Of Chemical…
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, April 4 (IANS) With assembly elections just a year away and with the opposition Congress in disarray, the RSS has surprisingly emerged as one of the most bitter critics of Goa’s…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday ranked IIM-Bangalore as the top management institute and IIT-Madras as the top engineering institute in India. The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore was followed…
New York, April 3 (IANS) A US school teacher accused of calling at class 7 student a terrorist during a class discussion on India has been sent on leave following a demand for her ouster…
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Feb 26, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani will address an international conference…
New Delhi: Social activist Medha Patkar during protest against the Land Acquisition Bill at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on May 5, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, April 3 (IANS) Activist Medha Patkar, who was on…
Houston (US), April 3 (IANS) A family in a US county is demanding that a teacher of a local middle school be fired after she called a class 7 student a ‘terrorist’. Twelve-year-old Waleed Abushaaban…