Seeking to inspire researchers, government plans to roll out the red carpet to attract top Indian scientists working abroad to spend some time in institutions here.
As per the plans, such "very high quality" scientists would be offered an annual remuneration of USD 1,00,000 (approx Rs 55 lakh) ..
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa sanctioned Rs 99 lakh towards renovation and procuring modern equipment for the state owned MGR Government Film and Television Training Institute, according to a state government press release.
After coming to know that the preview theatre at the MGR Institute ..
One of Britain's leading academics and the government's champion for equal opportunities in higher education has warned that ethnic minority students from countries like India were being forced by pushy parents to study medicine and law.
Les Ebdon, appointed as director of fair access by UK's coalition ..
President Pranab Mukherjee has not forgotten Bidyanagar College in South 24-Parganas district from where he began his career in the 1960s, nor have his former students and colleagues forgotten him.
"He (Mukherjee) was always close to his students. He impressed us very much as a teacher and we ..
Hailing from the poor 'musahar' community, children in a special school here staged 'Julius Caesar' and 'Macbeth' earning plaudits from one and all.
These 277 wards of landless parents of the economically underprivileged community, studying free in a special residential school run by retired police ..
The Maha Kumbh Mela, considered the largest public gathering in the world, will be the subject of a case study at Harvard University, which will study the logistics and economics behind it and the "pop-up mega-city" that comes to life in Allahabad during the religious event.
A team of faculty ..
India Inc seems to be tapping a new set of talent pool, the retired personnel who bring with them years of expertise for managerial and specialised roles, in sectors ranging from banking, energy and infrastructure to technology.
As per the human resources industry experts, those in high demand include ..
Entrepreneurs have immense opportunity in the defence sector as projects worth 30 per cent of the defence budget is open for them, a top Army official has said.
Claiming that the defence sector has business opportunities to the tune of Rs 50,000 crore per annum, Director General of Artillery Lt Gen Anjan ..
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam said he preferred atomic energy because it was "nonpolluting", compared to thermal plants.
"I am supporting atomic power because it is pollution free," he said, interacting with students after participating at a private hospital function here.
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Online test of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), organised for the first time in the state, witnessed 85% attendance at seven centres in Bhopal on Sunday.
"Except soil mechanism, other part of the paper was easy to attempt," said a student of final year civil from Bansal Institute of ..