Education News in India

All set for SSLC exams 9/Mar/2012
All arrangements are in place for the SSLC examinations beginning Monday, that will see more than 4.7 lakh students writing their papers. The examinations will end on March 26. Education Minister Abdu Rabb told reporters here that 470,100 regular candidates and 7,313 private candidates have registered for ..
PMO official chosen as 'Young Global Leader' 8/Mar/2012
Binoy Job, a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office, instrumental in using media for social change, is among 11 Indians selected as 'Young Global Leaders' by the World Economic Forum. 37-year-old Job, Director, Media and Communications to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and 10 other Indians were ..
Supreme Court rules Doctors with unrecognised foreign degrees can't treat 8/Mar/2012
The Supreme Court has ruled that Doctors possessing medical degrees from an off-shore overseas campus cannot practice in India if the certificate awarded to them is not recognised by the country in which the college is located. A bench of justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale passed the ruling ..
Year-long empowerment programme announced by IIM-K 8/Mar/2012
A year long empowerment programme for high potential women who would be assuming in the future leadership roles in various sectors was announced by IIM - Kozhikode. IIMK Director Prof Debashis Chatterjee Speaking on the occasion of the International Womens Day said 'This is IIMKs modest contribution for making the ..
AARDO felicitates NIRD for contribution in rural developmnt 8/Mar/2012
The Afro-Asian Rural Development Organisation (AARDO) has awarded The National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), a training, research and consultancy organisation under the Union Ministry of Rural Development, in recognition of its contribution in the field of rural development. The award was ..
Gopal Gandhi is IAAS chairman 6/Mar/2012
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, has a new chairman of its governing body in Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi who is also the President of its society. Besides Professor Peter Ronald deSouza, Institute Director, the governing body will include Professors D.L. Sheth, former Member of the Backward Classes ..
7,60,975 students take Plus-2 in state today 8/Mar/2012
A total of 7,60,975 students from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will appear for the Plus-2 examinations to be held across 1,974 centres from Thursday. As many as 4,07,969 girls and 3,53,006 boys will take their Language I paper on Thursday morning along with 61,319 private candidates. While in ..
School gets facelift through Sastra University 6/Mar/2012
A municipal school at Kottaiyur, a small village near Kumbakonam where Prof R. Sethuraman, the present VC of the Sastra University studied up to Class 3 is getting ready for a facelift through a generous grant from him. Sastra University is constructing a new building and compound wall at a cost of Rs90 lakh for the ..
Minority University proposed by Assam Govt. 7/Mar/2012
Assam government has sent a proposal to Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal recently for setting up a university for minorities, who constitute about 30 per cent of the state's population. "state Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, the Minister has assured us about looking into the ..
Science quiz by IGNOU for jail inmates 7/Mar/2012
A Science Quiz was conducted for the inmates of Central Prison by the regional hub of IGNOU. The event was a joint initiative by the IGNOU and Nagpur chapter of the Indian Science Congress. According to the authorities, as many as 30 questions were asked and the prisoners displayed tremendous amount ..

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