Prof U B Desai, Prof M K Surappa, Prof Sudhir Kumar Jain, Prof Prem Kumar Kalra, Prof Madhusudan Chakroborty and Prof Anil Bhowmick will head the IITs at Hyderabad, Ropar, Gandhinagar, Rajasthan, Bhubaneswar and Patna respectively. The search committee of ministry of HRD had earlier selected these academics to head the new IITs.
The Punjab government has chalked out plans to promote contract farming of basmati and other long grain varieties of paddy, over 26,000 acres of land in 12 districts of the state.
In the worst-ever temple tragedy in Himachal Pradesh, 146 devotees, including 30 children and 38 women, were killed and more than 50 injured on Sunday in a stampede at the Naina Devi shrine triggered by rumours of a landslide.
All but one of the 146 people who were killed in the stampede at Naina Devi temple in Himachal Pradesh were identified and their bodies handed over to relatives on Monday. The highest number of dead -- 60 -- are from Patiala district of Punjab, officials said. While 15 pilgrims from Haryana lost their lives, the number of dead from Himachal Pradesh was ten.
Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's brother alleged on Wednesday that inhuman treatment was given to him while being transferred to Banda jail from Punjab, saying it could have been better had he been shot dead at a road crossing.
Three Babbar Khalsa militants were arrested in Fatehgarh Sahab and some arms and ammunition were recovered from them, the police said on Sunday.
The Punjab Police said a comprehensive security plan has been worked out for the Mohali match against Pakistan.
Punjab police released Indian Express correspondent Gautam Dheer on bail on Monday, a day after he was arrested from his residence near Chandigarh in connection with the gang-rape of a minor.
His resignation was even questioned in Rajya Sabha with Congress wanting a clarification.
Sukhdev is one of the seven drivers, three of them Indians, being held hostage in Iraq by a militant group which calls itself Black Flags.
As many as 91 more youths from Punjab returned to India on Tuesday from strife-torn Iraq on special flights.
After months of investigations, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Saturday filed a charge sheet against former chief minister Prakash Singh Badal and his family in a disproportionate assets case in a court in Ropar.
The new hires will work in cutting-edge domains of artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, natural language processing, camera technology and 5G networks.
From "GoCoronaGo" to "Sampark-o-Meter", the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and four Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have developed several mobile applications to aid the fight against coronavirus in the country.
Noting that over 17 lakh out of nearly 25 lakh candidates have already downloaded admit cards for the medical and engineering entrance exams, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said his ministry has been receiving e-mails from students and parents that these exams should not be further postponed.
'What is the need to postpone the exam?'
There were no immediate reports of any loss of life or damage to property.
The annual fee has been hiked from Rs 90,000 to Rs two lakh.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has released a list of top Indian universities across categories.
Young, raw energy from India's engineering colleges on display!
"The reasons for dropouts may be attributed to shifting to other colleges/institutions, personal reasons, medical reasons, getting jobs during PG courses, inability to cope with academic stress etc," Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
CRPF DG K Durga Prasad said the terrorists were clean shaven and that "shows" that they were fidayeen attackers.
'Jignesh Mevani has many strengths: Youth, articulation, fearlessness, proficiency with social media, political and ideological flexibility.' 'Also focus, as in targeting the BJP as the one and only enemy for now and using that justification to align with the rest,' says Shekhar Gupta.
This classification of districts is to be followed by states and union terrotories till a week post May 3, when the second phase of lockdown will end, for containment operations.
Incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab as protesters agitated against the dilution of the SC/ST Act.
