The availability of MBBS and postgraduate (PG) medical seats will increase by 50% and 100% respectively from academic year 2013-14, Union minister for health and family welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Friday.
"The move forms part of the ministry's focus on reforms in medical and paramedical ..
An obscenity row broke out at M S University's faculty of fine arts on Friday after saffron groups strongly objected to a Jammu artist's paintings which they said depicted Lord Shiva in bad light and hurt religious sentiments. However, a major escalation was averted after the artist-cum-lecturer Surpal Singh Slathia ..
The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) today entered into a preliminary pact with law school NLSIU for forging academic partnership in the areas of competition policy, corporate law and economic cooperation.
IICA has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangalore-based National ..
President Pranab Mukherjee pitched for improving the standards of higher education by Indian universities and asked the private players also to contribute their best as there were 'unlimited' demands and 'limited' resources in the sector.
"The standards of higher education in India need ..
The education sector in Arunachal Pradesh today achieved another milestone with the laying of the foundation stone for the first technical and medical university at picturesque Apatani Plateau in lower Subansiri district.
"The commitment of my government to provide higher education to the people has ..
Buoyed by the success of its education initiative 'Prayas', which helps tribal students from Naxal-hit areas to get into engineering colleges, the
Chhattisgarh Government has decided to extend the scheme to four more districts.
Tribal Welfare Minister Kedar Kashyap, in a missive to Collectors ..
Professor Mohammad Sami, director, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, is visiting Nagoya University, Japan for one year with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship.
The press statement released by the univsersity on Friday says he has also been invited to chair a ..
Japan's new government decided not to extend a tuition waiver program to pro-Pyongyang high schools within the country, in response to the lack of
progress on the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals, education minister Hakubun Shimomura said.
The measure reflects the ..
Ninety-four percent of Israeli high school pupils access social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube via their cell phones during class, a new
study has found.
Some 95 per cent of the pupils take pictures or make recordings during class for non-study purposes, 94 per cent send e-mails ..
Only the top 15% of the candidates in the National Educational Testing (NET) merit list for each subject and category will be declared qualified and will be eligible for lectureship. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified the procedure and criteria for declaration of result for NET which is going to be ..