The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has released a list of top Indian universities across categories.
A group of high-powered individuals led by Anand Mahindra have come together to set up Krea university. The campus is expected to be ready by 2019 and the first batch of 100 to 125 students will commence classes in August next year.
Taking a leaf from the US, Canada and the UK, where students and research scholars get to work with Parliamentary panels, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is pushing for induction of interns in the Parliamentary standing committees.
This will enable security agencies to tap any call, real-time chat and data without help from the operators.
Vouching for academic credentials of the students named in the probe report of the controversial Afzal Guru event on February 9, a group of Jawaharlal Nehru University faculty members has noted that the sequence of events "does not constitute a major act of indiscipline".
'The ultimate satisfaction of helping in the country's space programme is the bigger achievement attracting women to space research -- and they are so good at it!'
Two Americans are among the five people from the United States who have been selected for India's prestigious Padma awards this year for their contributions in different fields.
Rahul Gandhi said he had helped the party conceptualise its 'Nyay' scheme to help remonetise the economy.
Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was discharged on Thursday evening from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he underwent several tests for memory-related disorder dementia. Lodged in Tihar jail for nearly three months in connection with the multi-crore Commonwealth Games scam, 67-year-old Kalmadi was admitted to AIIMS for a medical check-up on August 1.
His ministers's conduct may lead to a distancing between the army leadership and Prime Minister Imran Khan reveals Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, today visited All India Institute of Medical Sciences for a fresh medical check-up.
Doctors are demanding certain amendments in the bill. According to them, if not amended, the bill will lead to deterioration of medical education and degradation of healthcare services.
'But you cannot encroach upon the spaces that belong to the public.' 'For this new Parliament building, we envisage a minimum of 400 trucks, the huge long trailer trucks will be coming in day in and day out right into the heart of the national capital.' 'It will completely destroy Delhi's peace.' 'The beautiful sylvan surroundings of the quiet, beautiful, New Delhi is going to be destroyed for all time to come.'
'We are rolling out a vaccine when we don't even have the phase 2 trial results; forget about phase 3 trial results.' 'Why are we playing with people's lives?'
The 41- year old is currently the head of macro trading in Goldman's Securities Division.
News that transpired on and off the football field.
Research and teaching have remained Professor Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao's first priority and first love, and that is what sets him apart, says Dinesh C Sharma
The Bombay high court on Wednesday said that it was sad to find that several newborn children were among those who died during the week-long strike by doctors in the state last month.
A new advertising code for the outdoor media in Delhi is on the cards. The advertising code, to be out by the end of the month, is being drafted by a two-member committee appointed by the Supreme Court of India.
Pandey is a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer of 1984 batch.
...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
There were apprehensions in the SII about rival Bharat Biotech's 'indigenous' tag, opening up shortcuts for it. One senior person, who was very familiar with the sector, told me, 'The message has gone out from the very top. Somani (V G Somani -- drug controller general of India) has told me "Bharat ka karna hai".' A fascinating excerpt from Abantika Ghosh's Billions Under Lockdown: The Inside Story Of India's Fight Against COVID-19.
'The prime minister did not think that COVID-19 was a serious challenge as late as March 20.'
As a Parliamentary panel races to submit its report on the nuclear liability bill, Bharatiya Janata Party appears to have dug its heels asking the government to clarify whether the draft legislation was India-specific or being enacted to fulfil requirements of international treaties.
All the seven accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
BCCI on Thursday cleared Sunil Narine's action after giving him a final warning.
The Rs 500 crore cap in the event of an accident, proposed in the controversial nuclear liability bill, could be raised as part of government's efforts to address concerns of the opposition over the issue. Indications to this effect were given by government officials at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology and Environment on Tuesady.
'Once our voices are crushed, they can bring in an agenda of privatisation.'
The new mining policy must be rock solid
For Duflo and Banerjee, an important part of their work has been ensuring that the agency of the "beneficiaries" -- usually, in developing countries like India, poorer individuals -- is put at the centre of any policy design. This is a crucial way in which experimental results are often better than large scale data-based inference, says Mihir S Sharma.
Dave complained of uneasiness at his home on Thursday morning and was rushed to AIIMS.
If India Inc sincerely feels the separation of posts is not a good governance measure, it must spell out its doubts clearly to Sebi and give cogent arguments rather than mundane ones like India is different, argues J N Gupta, member, Kotak committee on corporate governance reforms.
Fresh admissions to Delhi University for the 2014-15 academic session under the three-year course will commence from Tuesday, a week behind schedule following the row over the controversial four-year undergraduate programme.
The executive committee of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled that Nicolas Chartier violated campaign rules by sending e-mails to voters favouring his movie while disparaging a rival film.
Ever wondered why the Nobel Peace Prize is given by a Norwegian Committee in Oslo and not in the Swedish capital unlike the other Nobel awards?
'Coupled with e-filing procedures it would really enhance the ability of the judiciary to provide speedier justice.'
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has promised "surgical" precision in distribution of funds to athletes preparing for the 2020 Olympic Games, asserting that centralisation of the process has made bureaucratic hurdles a thing of past.
Harvard-educated Piramal is also in the boards of several companies, including Piramal Life Sciences, SBI Capital Markets Ltd and Prudential ICICI Management.
Amid a raging debate over release of Bt brinjal for commercial use, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said genetically-tweaked variety of the vegetable was 'safe for all'.
The CBI has booked officers and employees of the shelter home.
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