Education News in India

Mission to Mars possible in 2030: Kalam 18/Oct/2010
Former President A P J Kalam yesterday said that India is planning to send its mission to Mars in 2030. "We hope that we will be able to send the mission to Mars in 2030," he said at a school function here. Significantly, Kalam had made a similar announcement here in 2001 regarding the ..
India's animation industry likely to hit USD 1 bn by 2012 18/Oct/2010
The Indian animation market, estimated at USD 494 million in 2008, is seen growing at compounded annual growth rate of 22 per cent till 2012, an industry official said. "Globally, the animation industry is poised to touch USD 100 billion by 2012 and India's animation industry is expected to hit USD 1 ..
India to share education links with Scotland 15/Oct/2010
The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal and the first Prime Minister of Scotland Alex Hammond met here for discussing moves to strengthen India's and Scotland's learning links. In the presence of the two Ministers, four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between Higher ..
National regulatory framework for nanotechnology soon 15/Oct/2010
Soon, a national level regulatory framework for nanotechnology will be drafted to sort out issues of ethics and copyrights, Prithviraj Chavan, Union minister for science and technology and earth sciences, said here on Thursday at the international conference on nanotechnology. Chavan said, "The ..
President's approval to AMU centres in Murshidabad, Malappuram 15/Oct/2010
Decks have been cleared for two off-campus centres of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in West Bengal and Kerala after President Pratibha Patil gave her approval for their establishment. The President -- in her capacity as the Visitor has given her approval to the amendments ..
Centre for performing arts to come up at Tamil University 14/Oct/2010
“Kuthu Kalari”- Centre for Performing Arts is to come up soon in an environment friendly location at the Tamil University campus here. “In all probability, construction work will be completed by December and the centre will start functioning from January,” M.Rajendran, ..
BESU celebrates 14/Oct/2010
On Wednesday, a day after the Union cabinet cleared the proposal to upgrade Bengal Engineering and Science University to an Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), there was jubilation on the campus. State higher education minister Sudarshan Roychaudhuri said: “This ..
IITJEE classes real-time 14/Oct/2010
Imagine sitting for your IITJEE coaching classes in Kolkata with your instructor in Mumbai. Achin Agarwal and students from Kolkata's premier institutes have made it possible for students to do just that. Achin, a final-year student student of Computer Science and Engineering, at IIT ..
Now, an Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology 14/Oct/2010
The union cabinet has approved a proposal for conversion of the Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) at Shibpur to an Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST). The release said, "BESU will be converted to the IIEST by suitably amending the National Institutes of ..
IIMs to get more autonomy: Sibal 14/Oct/2010
Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal held a meeting with the chairpersons and directors of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to decide on the future course of IIMs and the steps to be taken. Sibal said that in the past one and a half years, a number of steps have been taken by the HRD ..

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