Prof. Francois Gros, a French scholar and researcher in the French government administered French Institute of Puducherry, has been selected for the President's 'Kural Peedam' award for 2008-2009.
The award, in recognition of his scholarly works on classical Tamil, will be presented to him here on March ..
The Parliamentary Standing Committee, in its report tabled in the House on Monday, has questioned almost every provision in the Universities for Research and Innovation Bill 2012. It has pointed to the absence of regulatory and accountability mechanisms for varsities and opposed the entry of foreign universities and ..
Health for all and education for all remain one of the highest priorities of the government, and accordingly, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday proposed to allocate Rs. 37,330 crore to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the Budget 2013-14.
Of this, the new National Health Mission that ..
Come Saturday, the 104-year-old Indian Institute of Science will open its doors to all for an event that will see research students and faculty of the institution demonstrate the principles of science.
The annual event will be held a day before the Founder's Day celebrations at the institution. Last ..
In contradiction to University Grants Commission's direction for integrating humanities and social sciences for students of other streams, DU has limited the options for commerce students to languages, while dispensing with courses like political science, history and philosophy. The Delhi University order came into ..
The proposal of giving autonomy to KJ Somaiya Engineering College was passed by the academic council of Mumbai University on Tuesday. This is the fourth institution under the Somaiya group to have attained the status.
The council instituted three new courses in engineering. "The university has ..
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will this week come out with a notification bringing crucial changes in its Main examination after successfully introducing changes in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination two years ago.
The change, coming into effect from this year, will give more ..
Xavier Institute for Rural Management-Bhubaneswar (XIMB), one of the premier B-schools in the country, reported cent per cent placement of final year students this year in its flagship programme, Post-Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM).
About 50 organizations from various sectors, ..
A total of 3,34,340 new primary and upper primary schools have been opened under the Right to Education (RTE) till September 2012, since the enforcement of the RTE April 1, 2010, the Economic Survey, released Wednesday, said.
Over 2,80,000 new school buildings have been constructed, and over 12,46,000 ..
The Punjab government today imposed a total ban on local holidays in government schools to properly implement the Right to Education Act, 2009 under which functioning of minimum 220 days was mandatory.
Instructions had been issued to strictly impose the ban with immediate effect, education ..