Cabinet okays new education policy, HRD is now education ministry

Teaching up to class 5 in mother tongue or regional language, lowering the stakes of board exams, a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges and common......

De-recognition row: Protest held outside HRD ministry office

A protest over the issue of de-recognition of an Indian Institute of Technology-Madras students' group was on Monday held outside the human resource development ministry's office in New Delhi by......

Rohith Vemula not a Dalit, he ended life because....: Police closure report

The police have filed a closure report before a local court in its probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide......

Modi govt 3.0: Who is in, who is out

Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister on Sunday for a record-equalling third term, heading a 72-member Union council of ministers that put emphasis on continuity, youth and experience while......

How GoAir can become a thriving airline

Many argue that the airline could achieve its full potential if Nusli Wadia were to run it the way he does Britannia. In August 2020, Vinay Dube, former CEO of Jet Airways and a respected aviation......

Economist Kalpana Kochhar to retire from IMF in July

Indian economist Kalpana Kochhar, who heads the Human Resources Department of the International Monetary Fund, is leaving the organisation to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the IMF......

Infosys employees to undergo certification

In what will be the first such comprehensive exercise in the IT industry, all the 91,000-odd employees of India's second-largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, will now have to pass......

New IIITs to be autonomous

In what could be a first of its kind, the proposed 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology coming up in public-private partnership basis will have autonomous status and the government's......