The Karnataka government has urged the Centre to sanction an Indian Institute of Technology in the state at the earliest.
Higher Education Minister C T Ravi in a letter to Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said Karnataka is an ideal place to establish an IIT as it is a hi-tech hub where a majority of IT activity is ..
As part of plans to ensure that Puducherry emerged as 'number one' state in educational sector, a State level University and a farm university would soon be set up here, Chief Minister N.Rangasamy has said.
He was addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of the Government Tagore Arts College.
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India is lobbying with the Victorian and NSW governments to provide transport concessions to international students studying in Australia, in the aftermath of a series of street attacks to improve their safety.
S K Behera, Consulate General of India, Melbourne said, "We are taking up the ..
Scientists have released the largest ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes in our universe.
The new map produced by Sloan Digital Sky Survey III pinpoints the locations and distances of over a million galaxies. It covers a total volume equivalent to that of a cube four ..
In order to prevent differently abled school students from dropping out, Tamil Nadu government announced extending an assistance scheme to them with Chief Minister Jayalalithaa allocating Rs 22.34 lakh for it.
The government also announced other sops for differently abled persons.
The Chief ..
The ambitious Central government's project of setting up a Model college for the backward and naxal-hit Gadchiroli has been lying in doldrums, with its premises being transferred to a university, leaving the college and its students in a lurch.
As a result, the Rs 2.50 crore sanctioned by the Centre and ..
The Joint Admission Board (JAB) of the IITs, comprising heads of these prestigious institutes, approved the common entrance test for admission to the undergraduate programme for 2013 based on percentile ranking at a crucial meeting here.
The JAB accepted the IIT council resolution in this regard passed on ..
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said as a result of effective steps being taken to promote education, the number of private and public universities in the state has increased to 30 from merely five in the year 2004-05.
Besides, 479 new technical institutes have also been opened during the ..
The Centre was yet to grant sanction for setting up the AMU study centre in Bihar's Kishangang district, Education Minister P K Shahi told the assembly.
Replying to a debate on the first supplementary demand of the education department budget of Rs. 16.33 crore, he said that the Centre has not yet granted ..
The state government has stopped payment to two information technology companies for "poor service in running computer training programmes in about 1000 schools in Bihar on Build-On-Operate and Transfer (BOOT) basis", Education Minister P K Shahi said.
The two IT firms were found to be deficient ..