Education News in India

India needs seven lakh doctors: MCI 7/Jan/2011
India would require at least seven lakh doctors to fulfil its requirements in the health sector, the Medical Council of India (MCI) said today. "We have prepared a vision 2015 document which has an assessment of how many doctors will we need," MCI chief S K Sarin said during the inaugural ..
Engineering students design satellite, to be launched in April 7/Jan/2011
A group of 54 engineering students from the city have designed a nano satellite to monitor greenhouse gases (GHG) that the Indian space agency is planning to launch in April. Since 2008, the students from SRM University have been working on the project 'SRMSAT'. The satellite weighing just 10 kg is being ..
Real challenge is equity in quality - D. Purandeswari 7/Jan/2011
"The country seems set to achieve Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) of 15 percent by the end of 2012, with the conclusion of the 11th Five Year Plan. With this, the government hopes, the country shall have moved towards the onerous task of achieving equity and expanding access of higher education across the ..
NTPC, MCL to set up medical colleges in Orissa 7/Jan/2011
Central public sector units Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will set up two medical colleges in Orissa, officials said today. While MCL has taken initiatives to set up a medical college at Talcher in Angul district, NTPC will set up one near any of its operational ..
Kalam turns nostalgic during school visit 7/Jan/2011
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam today took a trip down memory lane when he visited the panchayat school at Mandapam, near here, where he studied. Kalam inaugurated a library and two centres for computer and science at the school. The former president, ..
Global IT spending to grow 5.1 pc in 2011: Gartner 7/Jan/2011
According to the latest outlook by IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc global IT spending is forecast to a total of USD 3.6 trillion in 2011, a 5.1 per cent increase from the previous calendar year. In 2010, worldwide IT spending amounted to USD 3.4 trillion, a 5.4 per cent increase from 2009. ..
IIM-A to set up fund for research on emerging economies 7/Jan/2011
Premier B-school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, today said it has initiated the process of setting up a fund, which will provide support to research on emerging economies. "We shall set up a fund that will provide support not only to the IIM-A faculty but to faculty from anywhere who ..
Small satellite revolution taking root at universities 7/Jan/2011
A 'small' revolution has taken root at some universities across the country. With a little push from the Indian space agency, more and more students are now building small satellites. These satellites ride to the outer space as piggybak payloads on Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ..
HC stays MCI's notification on admissions 7/Jan/2011
The Madras High Court today stayed Medical Council of India's recent notification for holding national level entrance examinations for graduate and post-graduate courses in Tamil Nadu. When two petitions filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging the MCI notifications came up for ..
New vision and strategy needed to preserve Urdu: Sibal 6/Jan/2011
Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource and Development (HRD) has said that a new vision and a national strategy is needed in order to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Urdu language, literature and its art forms. He was speaking at the 18th meeting of the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language ..

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