Education News in India

ICT emerges as country's top biotech school 10/Sep/2011
City-based Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), has secured the top position in the BioSpectrum Biotech School survey. The BioSpectrum Top Biotech Schools study includes those institutions, which offer BTech, Masters and PhD courses in the subject. Faculty, industry interface, infrastructure and ..
Nagging parents push children to videogames 10/Sep/2011
According to recent study, if your kids play a lot of videogames, chances are that they do it because you nag them too much. Nagging parents seem to drive their kids into playing videogames. The study, which surveyed more than 500 students from 20 middle schools, is one of the first to link parental ..
By 2013, computers will be 1000 times faster 10/Sep/2011
Get ready for the next-generation computers and smartphones that are up to 1,000 times faster than the systems you use in the present days. Computer maker IBM is developing "skyscraper" computers using huge sandwiches of silicon chips by sticking layer after layer of chips covered with tiny ..
HC issues notice to Chancellor of Universities 9/Sep/2011
The Patna High Court issued notices to Chancellor of Universities, who is also the Governor of Bihar, asking him to explain by October 24 his position on a writ petition challenging the appointments of six vice-chancellors and four pro-vice chancellors. A pision bench comprising ..
HC upholds order quashing appointment of VCs 9/Sep/2011
The Patna High Court upheld the order of a single bench setting aside the appointment of the vice-chancellors of Magadh University and Veer Kunwar Singh University. A pision bench comprising justices Shiva Kirti Singh and Shivaji Pandey upheld the order of Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathy who had on May ..
Internet usage leading to a crisis: Calcutta Univ VC 9/Sep/2011
University of Calcutta's Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das has criticised the over-dependence of students to cull information from the internet. "We all celebrate globalisation but the negative part of it is that we are becoming more and more internet-oriented. If my daughter needs to know about Taj ..
Tripura Science Congress gets underway 9/Sep/2011
Two-day long Tripura Science Congress on the theme of 'Tripura We Dream: Science & Technology Interventions' organised by the Tripura State Council for Science & Technology began on Sept 8. Inaugurating the congress, state science and technology minister Joy Gobinda Debroy said, ..
CII, Asia Foundation to distribute books to 25,000 students 9/Sep/2011
The Asia Foundation and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) embarked upon distribution of books to 25,000 students at the primary and secondary levels and also universities in all Southern States and the Union Territory of Puducherry to mark the World Literacy Day. Students from 400 institutions ..
Govt hints at ordinance upgrading stature of IIIT, Kancheepuram 9/Sep/2011
With Parliament failing to pass a bill on upgrading the stature of IIIT, D&M Kancheepuram in the monsoon session, the government indicated an ordinance could be brought in as the fate of hundreds of the institute's students hangs in balance. "I have not spoken to the HRD Minister or to the ..
Bihar gets award for literarcy achievement 9/Sep/2011
Bihar government received an award from President Pratibha Patil for achieving the highest growth in literacy rate in the country in the last decade. On the basis of Census-2011, Bihar was appreciated for achieving the highest decadal growth rate in female literacy too. It has achieved a growth of ..

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