The Ministry of Human Resource Development has released its ranking of national institutes for 2018.
In its Annual Human Rights Report for 2006, the State Department also said 'attacks against religious minorities and promulgation of anti-religious conversion laws were (areas of) concern'.
Starting a social media campaign, Irani has urged people to follow suit and share pictures of themselves in handloom textiles, tagging five others.
Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar on Friday resigned as advisors of NCERT text book council in the wake of the row over the cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books. "Yogendra Yadav, who was the chief advisor of the Textbook Development Committee, and Suhas Palshikar who was the member of the committee have resigned," sources in the human resource development ministry said.
As per norms, sanction for prosecution of government employees accused of corruption has to be given within four months' stipulated time.
A move to confer an honorary doctorate on world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand was on Tuesday embroiled in a raging controversy over his citizenship, forcing him to decline the honour at least for now.
Unfazed by the controversy surrounding his nationality, World chess champion Viswanathan Anand looked cheerful as he arrived to a grand reception at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Consolidating on its 500-year-old legacy of providing quality education, The Society of Jesus (SJ) (popularly known as Jesuits) has applied for a Central University status with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
This year's computerised Common Admission Test (CAT), which was marred by technical glitches, will not be scrapped, the exam committee announced today.
The Bill, to be called the Draft Engineers Bill, will propose setting up a separate statutory authority which will lay down specifications for competency in professional engineering practice.
The National Commission for Women has been slammed by a Parliamentary panel for not playing any "proactive" role in safeguarding the rights of the fair sex despite the massive nationwide outrage over the Delhi gang rape incident.
Society member and one of the donor members of IIM-A Prafull Anubhai told reporters on Wednesday that they were upset by the 'explicit threats and unwarranted remarks' made by the government representatives.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is believed to have found that Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor P K Abdul Azis had committed financial impropriety and knowingly claimed allowances for which he was not entitled.
Amid a raging controversy over the alleged molestation at Stephen's College, the human resource development ministry on Saturday asked the University Grants Commission to take "appropriate measure" to ensure the institute's internal complaints committee completes the inquiry "expeditiously" and "impartially".
Major strengths and weaknesses, if any, in respect of schools would also be highlighted in respect of all the 1.04 million schools, an official release said.
Transcript of Bharatiya Janata Party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's chat on rediff.com on the compulsory singing of Vande Mataram controversy.
The Cabinet reshuffle of October 28 seems to have left some Congress ministers dismayed. While some are reportedly upset over being demoted, others are unhappy about being ignored for key ministerial posts.
Ending a week-long uncertainty, the government on Sunday directed all the centrally-funded elite educational institutions, including Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology, to implement the Other Backward Classes reservation from this year. The Human Resource Development Ministry issued the directive to the Central Educational Institutions, after the Supreme Court on April 10 upheld the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, excluding the creamy layer.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday said lawyers across the country would abstain from work on July 11 and 12 in protest against the government's Higher Education and Research (HER) Bill aimed at usurping its control over the legal education.
The government will not fund religious instruction like Quranic interpretation and Islamic law at madarsas (religious schools) but financially support regular subjects like maths and science that may soon be taught there as part of its modernisation process. The human resource development ministry will link madarsas with the National Institute of Open School and introduce mathematics, social sciences, Hindi, English and other regular subjects as part of modernisation.
The commerce ministry and industry bodies are in favour of FDI in the education sector. However, the HRD ministry is opposed to it.
The human resources development ministry has decided to set up an Indian Institute of Management in the North East mainly to cater to the students of the region.
The medium and small-scale corporates in the country can realise a vital surge in their employee talent pool
The Human Resource Development Ministry has launched an interactive session for Class XI, XII students through its 'One Stop Education Portal' Sakshat.
The government said that the premier B-schools should meet domestic demand first.\n
The institute authorities had earlier expelled the students from the hostel for ragging first year student Prakash Rajpurohit.
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
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The award jury appreciated Das for the very fine weaving and detailed patterns of the 'Kula' basket, traditionally used during marriages," the statement said.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal and his deputy D Purandeswari today received wholesome praise from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who described them as being a team of "finest minds" in the government.
The IIT-JEE reforms introduced by the human resources development ministry have sparked a national debate in India.
The Indian Institutes of Technology for the first time since their inception have begun drafting plans to implement the quota for faculty members from this year onwards, despite protests from the IIT student community and opposition from some professors.
Some directors think pooling their resources - financial and faculty - for their international foray makes eminent sense.
A three-member expert committee has recommended to the Union human resource development ministry, upgrading Banaras Hindu University's Information Technology Institute into a full-fledged Indian Institute of Technology.
The human resource development ministry plans to extend the mid-day meal scheme to children in the upper primary classes in the next financial year.
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