Education News in India

Garhwal varsity postpones exams 7/Apr/2012
The ongoing agitation by students' union and varsity staff demanding removal of Vice-Chancellor for alleged irregularities in recruitment to several posts has resulted in the Srinagar-based HNB Garhwal central university postponing the examinations, which were to begin from April 7, for an indefinite period. ..
New scheme to raise higher education enrolment 8/Apr/2012
The government is planning a Central scheme to incentivise the States to improve higher education in the country, concerned over the low enrolment ratio in higher education, The proposed Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) is aimed at increasing enrolment in the higher education institutions to 30 ..
BJP MP requests Sibal to push IIT Bill 6/Apr/2012
BJP MP Balkrishna Shukla has appealed to the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to get the long pending Institute of Technology Bill passed in Rajya Sabha as the fate of the students at two IITs is hanging in balance. Shukla urged Sibal to get the bill passed in Rajya Sabha when it resumes on April 24 for ..
HC seeks explanation from AUT 6/Apr/2012
Madras High Court Bench here has sought an explanation, before April 11, from Anna University of Technology-Madurai, as to how affiliation was granted to a private engineering college at a “lightning speed” after the cut off date fixed by the state government. Justice D.Hariparanthaman ..
FM to address VTU convocation 6/Apr/2012
VTU Vice-Chancellor H Maheshappa stated that Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will deliver the convocation address at the 11th Annual Convocation of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) here on April 8. At the convocation, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam ..
NGO charged of cheating 6/Apr/2012
Four research students from a University in the Netherlands have charged a Puducherry-based NGO with trying to cheat them of money and said they did not feel safe at its premises. The students from the University of Zuyd, in their complaint to police, alleged the NGO at Thirubhuvanai in Kumbakonam ..
Incubation centre foundation stone laid 6/Apr/2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of an incubation centre, to be headed by Infosys Chairman Emeritus N R Narayana Murthy, aiming to promote next generation entrepreneurs. Speaking after the ceremony, Modi said, "Twenty-first century would belong to knowledge power, ..
First four days witness 22,000 H-1B applications 6/Apr/2012
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received about 22,000 petitions for the much sought after H-1B work visas in the first four days after it started accepting applications on April 2, officials said. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) spokesperson Bill Wright ..
Medical college at Haripad gets the nod 4/Apr/2012
The Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the proposal to set up a medical college at Haripad as a public-private project. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the media after a Cabinet meeting that the National Thermal Power Corporation would provide land needed for the medical college. Mr. Chandy ..
HRD Ministry reaches out to IITs on common test 6/Apr/2012
Union Human Resource Development Ministry will hold a meeting with the Indian Institutes of Technology to address their concern over the proposed common national examination for science and engineering for Central institutes that is to be implemented from 2013. The older IITs — Kharagpur, Kanpur, ..

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