Paytm employee tests positive, India's coronavirus count rises to 29

A Paytm employee in Gurgaon has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, advising its employees to work from home for the next couple of days. With......

When a Nobel Laureate comes to town!

What does Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee thinks about India's education sector?Text: Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com. Photographs: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com IMAGE: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee......

JNU students grilled; Govt says fee-hike issue sorted

IMAGE: JNU students' union president Aishe Ghosh speaks to media personnel during a press conference in New Delhi. Photograph: Kamal Kishore/PTI Photo A team of Delhi Police's Crime Branch visited......

Restore normalcy: Govt to JNU VC after violence

Human resource development ministry officials on Wednesday "advised" Jawaharlal Nehru University vice chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar to increase communication with students, take the faculty into......

Order kills pay rise hopes for IIT, IIM faculty

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has killed hopes of an immediate pay rise for the faculty of centrally funded technical institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology,......

New IIITs to be autonomous

In what could be a first of its kind, the proposed 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology coming up in public-private partnership basis will have autonomous status and the government's......

The IIT story: IIESTs, 3 new IITs on way

It is well-known that the following seven engineering colleges were chosen for possible conversion to Indian Institutes of Technology / Institutes of National Importance:Aligarh Muslim University......

New IITs: A long journey ahead

It is now well known that the S K Joshi Committee has selected seven colleges/universities for potential upgrading to Indian Institutes of Technology.The committee took into account parameters like......