The Delhi University earned over Rs 3 crore in fees paid by students for either revaluation or rechecking their answer-sheets and for providing photocopies of answer-sheets to them between 2015-16 and 2017-18, an RTI has revealed. According to the information provided by the university, it earned Rs 2,89,12,310 for revaluation alone between[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the declaration of results of SSC examination-2017 for the selection of staff for the Central government ministries and departments, saying the conduct of examination was “tainted”. After perusing the two status reports of July 25, 2018 and August 30, 2018 filed by the CBI, the bench[Read More…]
Taliban’s efforts to keep girls away from education in Pakistan was defeated by their very action of shooting her, says Malala Yousafzai, the world’s youngest Nobel laureate. “The result is that today millions of people all over the world are speaking out” and taking action against keeping young girls away[Read More…]
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), in a landmark decision today, approved procurement of 111 Utility Helicopters for the Indian Navy at a cost of over Rs. 21,000 crores. This is the first project under the MoD’s prestigious Strategic Partnership (SP) Model that aims at providing a significant fillip to the[Read More…]
Are the portrayals of a character in any movie so strong that they overshadow the real figure? Something like this happened in Bengal when a textbook used the picture of Farhan Akhtar instead of Milkha Singh. Farhan Akhtar played the character of Milkha Singh in Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha[Read More…]
Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi and Mumbai is all set to enjoy the freedom of taking decisions on the recruitment, course structure and fee structure on its own. The government granted the Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay on July 09, last month. As[Read More…]
Explaining the many hardships and struggles an NEET aspirant has to go through, a student has written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after being denied of the seat in medical college, despite scoring 400-480 out of 720 in NEET 2018. “Students who are not deserving are getting[Read More…]
On the Independence eve, a small group in Bengaluru started ‘1000 Book Project’ with the aim to donate books to rural children. Seif Sulthan, founder of Hope Foundation and a management trainer, initiated the project with aim to send 200 books each to remote schools in five different parts of[Read More…]
Calling the opposition claims on rising unemployment a “political gimmick”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that over 70 lakh jobs were created in the formal sector alone in the last one year. Based on Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data, more than 45 lakh formal jobs were created between September 2017 to April 2018, Modi[Read More…]
The government does not want to leave any chance to please Dalit community in the election as the decision of Aligarh Muslim University not allowing a reservation to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes may cost it dear. National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Commission has asked vice[Read More…]
With growing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and India in the fields of education and health, Saudi Arabia has donated $5 million to the Jamia Hamdard University in New Delhi as a contribution towards the cost of building the medical college and expanding the existing Majeedia Hospital. The new building of the hospital will be named after the late custodian of the two holy[Read More…]
Cuttack: Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Sunday advised the law students not to be guided by the majoritarian views and remain true to their conviction. You should never be guided by the majoritarian views. Be true to your own conviction and conscience and always endeavour to be responsibly[Read More…]
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…]