Coimbatore: IGNOU plans to increase the number of 'community' colleges from the present 160 to 500 across the country in next two years, its VC Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai said.
He was speaking after IGNOU launched its skill development programme through community colleges, at Sardar Vallabh Bhai ..
Hyderabad: Thousands of aspirants preparing for the UPSC Civil Services examination are in a quandary as confusion prevails over the pattern of examination.
A statement by the UPSC Chairman about a month ago indicating that the pattern would be changed, putting in place a new model based on common papers ..
Kolkata: Canada’s Schulich School of Business, global business school, in association with the S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research has planned to launch the Schulich MBA in India on January 4 next year.
The Schulich MBA in India would be the first MBA programme by an international ..
Gandhinagar: The National level winners of the NIIT MindChampions Academy (MCA) were felicitated by World Chess Champion and NIIT MindChampion Viswanathan Anand at the grand finale of Chess Master 2009 at Gandhinagar on Thursday. Ashok Chandulal Bhatt, Speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly graced the occasion as ..
Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 92nd Indian Economic Association (IEA) Conference-2009 at KIIT on Sunday in presence of Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik. The three-day conference, organised and hosted by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, concluded on Tuesday.
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Kolkata: Students of BD Memorial Institute enthralled the audience for two days at Nazrul Manch during the school’s annual fest on December 21 and 22.
Students perform at the BD Memorial fest
The first day’s show, Satya Buddha ka aur Thirkan Jeevan ki, was a series of dance forms ..
Trichi: The Mid Day Meal Scheme, extended to privately managed schools in tribal areas and unaided minority institutions.
The Human Resource Development Ministry has set up a committee to examine extension of the scheme to such institutions. The committee had held a meeting of State education secretaries ..
Chandigarh: Punjab would have a self-contained integrated Information Technology (IT) and knowledge industry park at Rajpura town in Patiala district
Spread over an area of 1,276 acres, the IT hub would be the first facility of its kind being offered by the state for investment. The decision to establish the IT ..
Hyderabad: Indian Medical Association (IMA) has opposed the demand of its West Bengal unit for starting a diploma course in rural medicine.
Dharam Prakash, Secretary General of IMA, that the demand was opposed by the apex body of the doctors at its two-day annual conference that began here today. The meet ..
Rajahmundry: The East Godavari District collector Gopalakrishna Diwadi has directed officials of the education department to implement a 100 day programme to improve the results of students from the tenth class.
The collector who held a meeting with the officials of education department said there have ..