The seven new government medical colleges that were given a go-ahead recently may begin working in the next academic year. The Karnataka State government, which has accorded permission to the medical colleges at Chamarajanagar, Tumkur, Haveri, Chitradurga, Koppal, Gadag and Madikeri, is working to ensure that the ..
Freeman Murray, legendary entrepreneur and mentor from the US, will be setting up a Startup School here for young entrepreneurs in collaboration with Startup Village -- India's first telecom incubator
Murray's Startup School will be set up in partnership with the Startup Village and Jaaga.in, a hub of ..
Prof.S.Sundar, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras has been selected to receive "Alumni Ambassador of the City of Kaiserslautern, Germany".
He is one among the four recipients, including the President of Google, Europe, and the only Indian to receive this award.
Awardees have ..
One set of question paper of UPSC examination, scheduled to be held in Kolkata on Nov 8, was by mistake sent to Ahmedabad from Delhi, officials said.
After an Air India cargo flight landed from Delhi, one set of question papers was found missing out of 160 sets.
Later on it was found that ..
State-owned Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology said it is looking at partnering UK-based fashion designing institutes to offer degree courses.
The institute also requested UK Trade and Investment Director Barry Lowen to help materialise the partnerships with UK-based designing institutes.<br ..
The AP High Court on Tuesday stopped the Medical Council of India (MCI) from going ahead with its National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) for postgraduate (PG) medical courses for the academic year 2013. The test is scheduled to be held on Nov 23. The HC had in October stayed the same for undergraduate (UG) course...
Home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan underscored the necessity for promoting inter-disciplinary research to gain an edge over other developed nations in the knowledge sector.
He was delivering the inaugural address after laying the foundation stone of the Convergence Academia Complex and opening of ..
At Rs 12 to Rs 14 tuition fee a month, state universities offer education at a very nominal cost in the regular mode. However, when it comes to distance learning, Utkal University has been levying fees that is 10 times higher than the regular courses.
Anyone doing MA degree in any state university in ..
For every five students who join engineering courses, there is only one student who takes up polytechnic education. The ideal ratio of student intake, however, is three students in polytechnic for one student joining engineering education.
The contrast has been highlighted in a note on reforms in ..
If the HRD ministry has its way, polytechnic institutions in the country will soon be required to undergo mandatory accreditation and assessment by an industry-sponsored agency recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The state boards of technical education will be involved in such ..