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.
There was a lack of "sensitivity" shown in some areas by Hyderabad University authorities in dealing with the events which led to suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula.
The 43-year-old popular television actor-turned politician continued to cultivate Amethi in the past five years despite her loss in 2014 to Gandhi and this helped her reap electoral dividends.
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to entrust the anti-dowry case registered against Arjun Singh and his family members to the CBI.
The medium and small-scale corporates in the country can realise a vital surge in their employee talent pool
The minister said that IIMs have to amend MoAs to set up centres abroad.
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"The policy draft has been approved. The ministry has been renamed as education ministry," a senior HRD ministry official said. The existing NEP was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992. A new education policy was part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto ahead of the 2014 general election.
Steps have been taken to raise awareness in society about this evil, the minister said.
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With 2,269 vacancies, the IITs currently have one teacher for every 16 students.
Senior leader Arjun Singh said the Congress would continue to support the UP government despite rumours to the contrary.
"Our legal experts have been on the job and either on Thursday or Friday, we will file our petition before the Supreme court to review its earlier order," Arjun Singh told mediapersons at a press conference in Delhi on Wednesday evening.
Customs sleuths will be posted in London, Hong Kong, Dubai and Brussels in an effort to check trade-based money-laundering among others.
The government has decided to set up three new Indian Institutes of Technology during 11th Five Year Plan, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
HRD Minister Arjun Singh was speaking at a UNESCO meet in Paris.
Kanti Singh is alleged to have blessed the couple -- Pinki Kumari (14) and Ashok Kumar Giri (15) -- after their marriage was solemnised on December 12.
A Bihar councilor with a criminal record has alleged that a Union minister for state paid him Rs 5 lakh to kill a deputy mayor. Ward councilor of the Darbhanga municipal corporation Allan Khan on Tuesday said before an executive magistrate that Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development M A A Fatmi gave a supari (a contract to kill) of Rs 5 lakh to kill Darbhanga Deputy Mayor Babby Khan.
While class 12 exams will be conducted across the country, the class 10 exams are only pending in North East Delhi where they were affected due to the law and order situation.
The award was presented to Helmunt Neunzert for his 'pioneering contribution' to industrial and applied mathematics.
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.
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It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet.
The government plans to increase the 2 per cent education cess in the coming Budget, but it is not going to mean more money for education.
With over a million Indians residing in the UAE, there is need to set up more Indian institutes of higher education in the emirates, Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh has said.
The reason: The Planning Commission has decided to cut the allocation for higher and technical education in the Budget 2007-08.
The Minister was speaking on the occasion of International Literacy Day.
Giving a boost to their academic ties, India on Tuesday agreed to help Saudi Arabia in setting up centres of excellence in its universities to promote scientific research and higher studies.
We asked readers about what they think of the union HRD ministry's proposal to levy an exit tax on IIT and IIM graduates who go to work abroad for lucrative salaries or to pursue higher studies. Here's the readers' response on the subject.
The HRD Minister has said the number of seats may increase.
The students also received support from the Indian Medical Association, which has called for a daylong closure of health services.
The commerce ministry and industry bodies are in favour of FDI in the education sector. However, the HRD ministry is opposed to it.
Prakash Javadekar set a scorching pace of changes in the environment ministry during his two-year tenure. He has the talent to calm ruffled feathers in the education sector, while proceeding with the government's agenda in this space.
The Centre plans to open one of three proposed IITs in the 11th Plan period in Bihar.
The former HRD minister said the Congress is changing the education system of the country under 'unwanted influence of Left ideology'.
