Bihar leader of the opposition and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav came in support of Super30’s Anand Kumar today. He tweeted in his support and said that there is a well-hatched conspiracy by few by few highly self-centric, narrow-minded, incompetent and failed competitors who are trying to sabotage hard earned reputation[Read More…]
New Delhi: The controversy over granting ‘Institute of Eminence’ status to Jio Institute figured in the Rajya Sabha today as many members questioned the wisdom behind ranking the yet-to-come-up institute with the likes of IITs and others that have a proven record for decades. Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told[Read More…]
In a startling revelation, five state-run primary schools had word ‘Islamia’ prefixed to their name on the sign board and the entire documentation of the school records was done in Urdu. Moreover, these five schools were seen shut on Friday instead of Sunday. Once the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi[Read More…]
Mathematician Anand Kumar who is famous for Patna’s Super 30 coaching for IIT-JEE preparation seems to have landed into controversy. His own students have blamed him for exaggerating the numbers and lying about the success of the institution just for popularity. The former students charged him of deceit saying that[Read More…]
Congress president Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), demanding an enquiry into the alleged massive data breach of candidates, who appeared for National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) this year. In the letter to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal, Gandhi called for putting in place[Read More…]
Agartala: An Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system was introduced in the Tripura Secretariat on Saturday to maintain employees are in their respective offices in time. Introducing the new system, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb asked the government employees and officers to attend their offices on time and complete their assigned task[Read More…]
The Gujarat government recently launched a pilot and unique project, ‘School on Wheels’ for the children of salt pan workers. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani introduced the project saying, “The idea is to provide infrastructure and teaching facility as part of Right to Education (RTE) for children in the 6-14 age[Read More…]
New Delhi: Flooded with complaints of irregularities, Delhi University’s Law Faculty on Wednesday withdrew results for its undergraduate entrance test within an hour of publishing it on its website. The results for the entrance test — conducted online on June 18 — was published at 11 a.m. on Wednesday and[Read More…]
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar has set a record of 100% placement with a maximum salary package of Rs 24 lakh. Vinita Sahay, director of Bodh Gaya IIM, confirmed the institution’s 100% placement in the academic session of the year 2016-18, saying, “The success[Read More…]
Kolkata: Under pressure from protesting students and revolt by a large section of teachers, Jadavpur University authorities on Tuesday decided to bring back the admission test system for admission to six under-graduate courses, but the Vice Chancellor announced that he would resign. The decision to admit students in the six[Read More…]
The HRD Ministry today granted “Institutions of Eminence” status to three public and three private institutes, enabling them to get full autonomy and special incentives to project them as “world class universities”. While the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry will grant Rs 1,000 crore funds to the three public institutions in the[Read More…]
Kolkata: With stalemate continuing in Jadavpur University over its decision to scrap admission test for six under-graduate courses, its authorities on Saturday sought a directive from West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi – the ex-officio chancellor – on the emerging situation, even as students continued their hunger strike. Virtually backing the[Read More…]
Addressing a press conference on Saturday July 7, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said the National Eligibility Test (NET) would be conducted in December while the JEE (Mains) would be conducted in January and April, and NEET in February and May. Javadekar announced that the National Testing Agency would start[Read More…]
Principal of Mother Khazani Convent School has been arrested by Delhi police on Wednesday July 4, in connection with the CBSE paper leak case. Earlier, two teachers and a coaching centre tutor were arrested for allegedly leaking the CBSE class XII economics board paper.
Patna: Nearly five lakh candidates, mostly engineering and Ph.D degree holders, have applied for 4,257 posts of guest teachers in the government-run schools of Bihar, officials said on Tuesday. We have received nearly five lakh applications for 4,257 posts of guests teachers in schools. It is much beyond our expectation,[Read More…]
New Delhi: Though summer is at its peak in most parts of India and literary events almost at a standstill, the coming month will bring cheer to many readers as it will mark the release of some riveting offerings. Here are the five books yearning for prospective readers in the[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi University on Friday issued its third cut-off list with many popular colleges still offering seats for popular courses. With close to half of total seats already taken across 60 plus colleges of the varsity, many colleges still issued cut-off for the courses like English, Economics, and[Read More…]
Sonipat: Turning a common perception on its head, international affairs students of O.P. Jindal Global University here have shown that pursuing a so-called conventional course can also open several doors of recruitment including in multinational companies, think tanks and international NGOs. This year, Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), Care India[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi University colleges on Monday announced their first cut-off list for admission, with Lady Shriram College setting it highest of them all for its B.A. (Programme) course at 98.75 per cent. For its Psychology course, the college set its cut off at 98.25 per cent, reducing it by[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday that the much awaited National Education Policy’s zero draft is ready and will be implemented by the end of 2018. The draft of the policy is ready. We are giving it the final shape, said Javadekar, who was[Read More…]
Chandigarh: For JEE-Advanced 2018 topper Pranav Goyal, solving the previous years’ question papers helped him a lot in getting an insight into the exam pattern and to come up tops in the prestigious competition. If you focus well, your study hours won’t really matter. So, just stay focused and calm.[Read More…]
New Delhi: For long, parents have been saving for the primary and secondary education of their children, as well as any higher studies. The past 10-15 years have seen a change with more students willing to take on the responsibility to fund their education, and this is where student loans[Read More…]
Kolkata: The Centre is hoping to pass the proposed education bill in the Monsoon session of Parliament to start examinations in 5th and 8th standards in government schools from March next year, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said here on Saturday. Stating that 25 out of 29 Indian states have agreed[Read More…]
New Delhi: Upset over not scoring good results in class 10th board exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), two students allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves on Tuesday. Police said, one of the deceased identified as Rohit Kumar Meena (17) was a student of Dwarka’s M.R.[Read More…]
New Delhi: Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) can now offer certificate, diploma and degree programmes in full-fledged online mode, along with, as has been the norm, those offered in the regular mode, sunject to certain conditions, the government announced on Thursday. These regulations will be made applicable from the academic session[Read More…]
