The ministry of HRD has given its nod for the site comprising over 500 acres of land. The site is about 25 km from Indore and has all the necessary facilities. The government had earlier given its approval for setting up of an IIT at Medak in Andhra Pradesh and Jatni in Orissa.
Tharoor had last week kicked up a controversy comparing Kanhaiya with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, drawing strong criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party while Congress distanced itself from his remarks.
government approved on Thursday expansion of community radio stations by non-profit organisations after ensuring security clearances from the defence and home ministries.
Given India's political scenario, where parties seek votes on the basis of caste and religion, the issue of using mother tongue in schools is more of a political vendetta, says Devanik Saha
Minister of State for Railways, Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy, on Friday resigned from his post in protest against the Union Cabinet's decision to go ahead with the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Three years from now, Indian railway network will be based on sophisticated, hi-tech and indigenously developed infrastructure ensuring safety of every passenger.
The much-awaited $35 computing-cum-access device, to be made available to students right from primary schools to universities, will be launched on October 5.
Alleging "delay in justice" to Hyderabad University research scholar Rohith Vemula, 150 protesting students from universities across Delhi who were detained earlier on Wednesday decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike at Parliament Street police station in New Delhi.
Recently, there have been reports that the government is working on a scheme to offer education loans at a minimum rate of interest of 4 per cent.
The Ministry of HRD, government of India, Department of Science & Technology, government of India and The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India present the Fifth Education Fair: International Exhibition and Seminar.
The award jury appreciated Das for the very fine weaving and detailed patterns of the 'Kula' basket, traditionally used during marriages," the statement said.
Certain educational institutions under ministry of human resource development have reported that campus selection has gone down this year to some extent, minister of state for HRD D Purandeswari told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The University Grants Commission is providing grants to universities for establishment of career counselling centres.
Subhas Bose Institute of Hotel Management (SBIHM)'s admission to hotel management & tourism, bachelor degree in Computer Application and bachelor degree in Business Administration for the year 2008.
Daggubati Purandeswari is the only Union minister to have joined the BJP this election. 'Everybody knows Dr Manmohan Singh is a man of great integrity and I consider it an honour to have worked with him,' Purandeswari, the BJP candidate from Rajampeta, Andhra Pradesh, tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
Krishnan said the caste system in Hinduism is very rigid and puts each community at certain place in the hierarchy. And it does not allow communities to go up. 'This system made many people try to escape from it when opportunity arose. Across the country, people from untouchable and other castes, which faced discriminations, became Muslims. In fact Islam came as a big relief for them.'
At the meeting of the Board of Governors of IIM Bengaluru held on February 11, the chairperson, Mukesh D Ambani, expressed his decision to step down, IIM-B said.
During the 90-minute programme, the HRD minister rejected the charge of saffronisation of education.
Voicing "dissatisfaction" over remarks by Modi on Friday at a university in Lucknow, the Joint Action Council spearheading the stir asked if the prime minister would now take action against his ministers.
'The government that is talking all the time about national security and national interests should be concerned.' 'When national interests are jeopardised by their own project, they should pause and listen.' 'Whether it is the BJP or the Congress, they all want control over the people.' 'They don't give a damn if anything happens to the people of the country; they are only interested in what they can get out of the data.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his second 'Mann ki Baat' radio address to the nation on Sunday, said as far as the issue of black money was concerned, he would work to ensure that every single penny was returned back to the country.
'My wife has done everything... She has had to give up a lot,' HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar tells Sahil Makkar.
Handing the Human Resource Development ministry to a first-time minister and the talk of repealing Article 370 may be signs that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are working in tandem
Banks want parents of students seeking educational loans to be made co-borrowers to facilitate loan recovery after completion of studies as part of a proposed student educational loan finance scheme.
Government officers who are by now used to take various pledges like Sadbhavna pledge, Anti-terrorism pledge, Swachh Bharat pledge and Ekta pledge, now will be required to do one more on November 26 every year, beginning this month.
"Though, for a student, receiving a master's degree is no less than any prestigious award. But on October 19, (the Convocation Day) I Sameer Gojwari won't accept it," said the student.
The union human resource development ministry has sanctioned an Indian Institute of Technology to Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy said in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
The committee is yet to give its opinion to the HRD ministry, Moily said, adding that the committee would finalize its interim by July 10 and then submit to the government.
The police said 10 companies have been deployed outside JNU. One company comprises 70 to 80 personnel.
A war of words broke out on Monday on Twitter between Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani and Congress leader Priyanka Chaturvedi, with the Bharatiya Janata Party leader taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi, saying that losing Assam elections was "his forte".
Sparks flew in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday as the raging Jawaharlal Nehru University row and suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula was taken up for discussion, with opposition accusing the government of muzzling the voice of the youth and "mercilessly crushing" the principles of democracy.
With only 1.21 lakh completed out of a targeted 4.19 lakh, the government seems to be in a race against time to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of ensuring toilets in all schools.
Blaming lack of sensitivity for increasing number of racial crimes in Delhi, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said racist attacks in the city were happening because society had not "really opened up".
Centre to challenge Allahabad HC order on AMU
It will allow states to detain students in class 5 and class 8 if they fail in the year-end exam.
Upasna Pandey/ Rediff.com spoke with senior professors and students who pointed out the inherent flaws in the existing sexual harassment grievance redressal mechanism at the institution and university level.
Reacting sharply to Congress leader Ajay Maken's comments on Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani's educational qualifications, senior Cabinet colleague Uma Bharti on Wednesday targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
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