The government's move to set up a national board to provide modern education in madrasas failed to get full backing of Muslim MPs today as a majority of them felt that the composition of the proposed body did not fully represent the community.
The Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development invites applications for admission to its two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration programme.
The government may save over Rs 70,000 crore (Rs 700 billion) on capital and revenue expenditure allocated towards new schemes in the FY25 Budget that are yet to be implemented.
Senior leader Arjun Singh said the Congress would continue to support the UP government despite rumours to the contrary.
Nasscom has recommended that Jammu, Dehra Dun, Chandigarh, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Shillong and Kolkata should host the new institutes.
"I am pained at the needless and irrelevant controversies that are sought to be raised in the book published by Dr K L Nanadanji and presented to the Hon'ble President of India on May 9, 2008. I have no desire to join issue with any one on this matter and I respect the views of all my colleaguues, who have thought it proper to comment on it," Arjun said in his statement.
The book titled Mohin kahan vishram (No rest for me) penned by noted Hindi writer Dr Kanhaiyalal Nandan spanning half a century of Arjun Singh's political career is full of understatements that may kick off many controversies even while he escapes saying he did not mean it. In an interview to the author, Arjun Singh talks of the internal democracy that was once the hallmark of the decision-making process of the Congress.
A Parliamentary Panel has taken exception to the fee hike by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and asked as to why IIMs should raise their fees without waiting for the report of the Bhargava Committee, set up to review functioning of the institutes. The Bhargava Committee under Maruti Udyog Limited Chairman R C Bhargava was appointed in October 2007 to submit a review of functioning of IIMs within six months. Review would include existing fee structure in IIMs.
The top three Indian IT firms -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro -- collectively trained over 775,000 employees in generative AI (GenAI) capability by the end of 2023-24, according to an analysis of GenAI-trained workforce of leading companies in India in this sector. This number is significantly higher that the projection made by the IT industry body Nasscom in its Strategic Review of 2023, released in February this year. It said in 2023-2024, over 650,000 employees across the IT industry received training in Gen AI skills.
The government has said it would implement the Supreme Court verdict on the OBC quota and does not want to seek a review of the judgment. Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh sought to mollify allies upset over the exclusion of creamy layer, stating the government as also the United Progressive Alliance favoured reservation benefits for the creamy layer. Singh steered clear of the demands by allies, including the DMK, for a fair and just review of the verdict.
Mukherjee said some state governments were not carrying out rehabilitation of ex-servicemen in accordance with the norms laid down.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, the man who proposed the 27 per cent OBC quota, wants to implement the reservation from academic year 2008-2009.
The award was presented to Helmunt Neunzert for his 'pioneering contribution' to industrial and applied mathematics.
Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), specifically IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), which have announced a steep hike in their fees last week are unlikely to revise (scale down) the new fee structures.Vijaypat Singhania, the chairman of the governing council of IIM-Ahmedabad who met Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun Singh, justified the fee hike and said they would take steps to ensure that all deserving students get into the premier institution.
The government appears to have hit upon a novel faculty-sharing solution to tackle the shortage of quality faculty at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology. The shortage will accentuate now that eight new IITs have been announced.
Even as consensus eluded on the entry of foreign universities in the country, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday indicated the reservation policy will apply in these institutions.
'My vision for the future is that of a wholly child centric education system. We cannot afford to be the slaves of the past. We must keep ourselves in synch with the processes of change sweeping through the globe,' says Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal
The proposed Indian Institute of Management in Bihar will be set up at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, state Education Minister Brishen Patel said on Wednesday.
Will this improve the system, giving students a better, low-stress education? Or will it put them at a disadvantage when they appear for higher-level exams?
The opposition has demanded that Arjun Singh apologise.
The move is apparently aimed at introducing the Bill before the end of the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament.
'Our vision for the future includes the creation of an active ecosystem, human space flight, a human space station.'
Faced with increasing incidents of ragging in campuses, the government is launching a round-the-clock helpline to assist students in lodging complaints about such incidents for prompt action.
The former HRD minister said the Congress is changing the education system of the country under 'unwanted influence of Left ideology'.
The Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development invites applications for admission to its two-year Executive Post-graduate Diploma in Management programme for working professionals.
The state government had appointed Kalam as the first visitor of the proposed university under the University of Nalanda Act, 2007. The Bihar assembly unanimously approved the University of Nalanda Bill, 2007, in March 2007 for the setting up of an international university. The bill stated that the international university would strive to create a world free of war, terror and violence.
The government on Tuesday said it will allow setting up of world-class foreign universities in Gandhinagar's GIFT City, free from domestic regulations, to facilitate availability of skilled manpower in the financial services space. In addition, an international arbitration centre will be set up in the GIFT City for timely settlement of disputes under international jurisprudence, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while presenting the Union Budget for 2022-23. The centre could be on the lines of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, or the London Commercial Arbitration Centre.
The Union Human Resources Development minister had said that the RSS was involved in Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
The Union human resource development minister allegedly held the RSS responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
Under fire in India, Arjun Singh makes all the right noises in Riyadh.
Arjun Singh said he will speak after election results are out.
With a thrust on improving the standard of higher education, the government is working on a proposal to set up 14 'World Class Universities' across the country at an early date.
Low-cost computing is all set to grow, but if the Rs 500-Sakshat is also to be called a 'laptop', it confuses users and hurts the market
The minister said that IIMs have to amend MoAs to set up centres abroad.
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