New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought a response from the Union Health Secretary on allowing on-MBBS persons to practise medicine to help meet scarcity of doctors in rural areas.
A bench headed by Chief justice A P Shah asked the officer to file his response on a PIL seeking to decriminalise ..
Indore: Acting on the advice of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, students of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore visited rural areas to have a first hand experience of government-run welfare schemes.
Around 200 students of IIM, Indore had spent nearly a week this month in Madhya ..
Bangalore: The Karnataka Government today decided to sanction Rs 175 crore for creating infrastructure, including laboratories in its pre-university colleges to start courses in science and commerce.
"The government will appoint 2,018 lecturers and set up 1,311 laboratories in 437 colleges in the ..
Kolkata: A modern hospital will come up on the lines of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said today.
For this, the Centre has provided Rs 100 crore and the state government would sanction Rs 54 crore, ..
Kolkata: The Centre has envisaged a quality monitoring plan for the new education and evaluation system, which state governments have to take up in consultation with empowered bodies. According to sources in the HRD ministry, schools have to hold tests on several subjects — language, mathematics, ..
New Delhi: Quality should be at the forefront of the education system, and access to quality education must be available for all. The nation cannot move forward with good education being limited to an elite class of people.
This was stated by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, while ..
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University will hold on May 17, 18, 19 and 20 entrance examination for admission to various programme of study offered by it.
The examinations will be conducted at 79 Centres across the country and one overseas Centre at Kathmandu, said a release issued by the Varsity. ..
Chennai: Thousands of passed out engineering graduates belonging to last year's May batch of Anna University in Chennai are left stranded for an annual convocation ceremony, leaving them anxious and worried.
Normally, the university conducts the ceremony latest by November every year but this time, it is ..
New Delhi: After the decision to start grading system in Class X board examinations, the government may introduce a similar system in Class XII, Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal said on Thursday.
Sibal said the idea has already been mooted and a committee has been set up. It will examine ..
Contrary to the common perception that children are not reading enough, Booker-prize winning Irish author Anne Enright feels that children today are reading more as they are exposed to a diverse selection of reading material. “Digital proliferation has expanded access in terms of reading books,” says Enright...