New Delhi: To address the increasing skill challenges of the Indian IT industry and growth of the domestic IT market, the state Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry intends to establish 20 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) during the XIth Plan."Although, the proposal is for sett...
New Delhi: The Central plan scheme which provides a provision for grant of financial assistance for appointment of a maximum of three teachers in modern subjects in traditional Sanskrit Pathshalas/ Mahavidyalayas for development of Sanskrit education is now being implemented by the Rashtriya Sanskri...
Kuala Lumpur: New Delhi has announced scholarships for the Indian diaspora for undergraduate studies in India during 2010-11. The undergraduate courses include engineering, architecture, technology, humanities, liberal arts, commerce, management (business administration and business management), jou...
New Delhi: Over 2,000 professors and administrative staff of the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) will go on strike on March 15 demanding minority educational institution status for the varsity, a tag that will allow 50 percent reservation for Muslims but no quota for any other category, an official said ...
New Delhi: The barometer of recession seems to seep down with the placement drive at the Delhi University (DU) already setting new benchmarks while the hunt for the young recruits is still underway.With domestic packages as high as Rs.32 lakhs, one student each from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRC...
Bhiwani: Class 12 state board English examination was cancelled in Haryana on Wednesday after reports of question paper leak, officials said.The exam was being conducted by Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH), Bhiwani. "We got reports that English question paper code number 302 was leaked in So...
New Delhi: "With regard to the Civil Services Examination (CSE) the Prime Minister has approved the proposal for introduction of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) in place of the existing Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination," said the minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Gri...
New Delhi: "While higher education establishments and government focus on PhD programmes, there is also great concern and apprehension about the poor quality of the M Phil and PhD programmes offered in large numbers by some institutions misusing the autonomy and the concept of distance education. St...
New Delhi: International Women's Day was celebrated at the Indira Gandhi National Open University's (IGNOU) Convention Centre with eminent women writers in the discussion panel such as Dr. Lakshmi Kanan, a renowned Tamil poet and fiction writer, Maitreyi Pushpa, a writer who started feminist discour...
Aligarh: "The idea that place and location can influence health is a very old and familiar concept in the western medicine and traces back to the time of Hippocrates when physicians observed that certain diseases seemed to occur in some places and not in other, or the intensity of some diseases was ...
Aligarh: The Career Counseling Cell of the Mohsinul Mulk Hall, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), organized the third lecture under the motivational lecture series. Prof. A.R. Kidwai, Director, Academic Staff College, AMU and Mr. K. Rammohan Rao, lAS, District Magistrate, Aligarh exhorted the students...
Aligarh: The Center for Women's Studies, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) organized an on-the-spot poster making and slogan writing competition to mark the hundredth year of women's international day. Students from various educational institutions participated in the competition in a large number. Th...
Aligarh: Noted film director Imtiaz Ali recently gave away the prizes at the valedictory function of three-day National Film Festival of short films and documentaries titled "Fimsaaz-2010" at the Kennedy Hall Auditorium, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).More than 80 short films and documentaries we...
Aligarh: Mr. Nafisul Hasan, Chief Chemist, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Dehradun while addressing the summer training programme recently organized at the department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) shared his views on oil exploration and the need of oil in the energy sector for...
Aligarh: The workshop, 'Artist in Residency' organized by the department of Fine Arts at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) recently ended with the exhibition of art creations of the students that they accomplished during the workshop. Prof. Jai Jharotia keenly interacted with the participating stu...
Aligarh: Professor A. R. Kidwai, Director, University Grants Commission (UGC), Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been invited to present a paper at the international conference on post colonialism and Islam at the University of Sunderland, UK. The multidisciplinary conferen...
New Delhi: Placement season at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) has well and truly begun with students being offered pay packages as hefty as Rs.1.6 crore within just two days of its commencement.A student from the IIM-C has bagged a record-breaking package from a global invest...
New Delhi: Encyclopedia Britannica textbooks and an online study module will hit Indian schools from April 2010 in four subjects - computer science, mathematics, environmental studies and general knowledge, says its president Jorge Cauz.This comes six months after the knowledge giant made inroads in...
Bhopal: Minorities in Madhya Pradesh have criticised plans to introduce the Bhagvad Gita in state-run schools, saying the scriptures of other religions should also be part of the syllabus, even as a section of Muslim leaders sees nothing wrong with it.The Catholic Church in Madhya Pradesh has said t...
New Delhi: The Delhi Government had to contend with the Supreme Court's rap on Tuesday for its failure to fill up over 200 vacant posts of government school teachers and principals for the last two years when free education for students up to 14 years has been made a fundamental right.A bench of Jus...