41 listed firms made 73 donations to gaushalas (cow shelters) and other cow-related charities over the last four years. The donations range from a few thousand rupees to a million.
The new rules come into effect soon.
To meet this week on representation to HRD ministry for degree granting power, autonomy.
As many as 125 students of two government schools in Uttar Pradesh were taken ill after consuming midday meals on Wednesday.
Will it trigger a social and management revolution as well, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against former Viswa Bharati University Vice Chancellor Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Not just in the fight against COVID-19, but also in politics, economics and society, observes Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.
'If India has to emerge as the world's laboratory and a global innovation hub, the minds of our youngsters must get an opportunity to flourish.'
During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said that meaning of Sanskrit 'shlokas' is a universal truth and merely because it is written in Sanskrit, it does not make it communal.
If India wants to satisfy the aspirations of its youth, it will have to revamp the higher education system without ifs and buts
Should we really pay attention to them, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Never in his long political career has the Union labour minister attracted such attention.
There is clearly something deeply rotten in the systems of institutional governance in the bastions of higher education in India, says TCA Anant.
The MHRD plans to track various performance parameters of government school teachers and students through tablets and smartphones, reports Sahil Makkar.
Third of faculty positions vacant. One per cent seats empty. New institutes lag in infrastructure, research.
Finance Commission has got new team who are committed to growth initiatives.
The term of the last chairman of the pension regulator, Yogesh Agarwal, was cut short by the finance ministry in November.
'Once our voices are crushed, they can bring in an agenda of privatisation.'
Three key babus will make room for a new set of officers to carry the baton of Budget programmes.
The ministry had last week announced that the re-examination of the CBSE Class 12 economics paper would be held on April 25.
Centre clears eight new schools to bridge regional imbalance in the armed forces.
Rumour has it that former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad had once misbehaved with Amit Khare, the then district commissioner of Chaibasa in south Bihar, in full public view. The incident was enough to enrage the strong lobby of Indian Administrative Service officers to take on the all-powerful chief minister.
Every single assault targeting the Maha Bodhi targets India, says Tarun Vijay
In the third reshuffle since coming to power, Prime Minister Modi raised the strength of his Council of Ministers from 73 to 76.
Internships provide a platform for you to experiment with your career, explore new options, learn new skills.
Sanitation is always clubbed with other departments, which lead to its neglect, says Devanik Saha.
Given India's political scenario, where parties seek votes on the basis of caste and religion, the issue of using mother tongue in schools is more of a political vendetta, says Devanik Saha
More people will be literate, on the Internet, linked to the national identification scheme and likely to receive electricity, especially from alternative-energy sources.
The processes that create a seven per cent-plus GDP growth rate without a similar growth in jobs are far from fully understood, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The shortage of skilled workers in India is one of the country's biggest challenges.
'Gujaratis, among all Indians, are supposed to be born businessmen, but if more than 80% of them do not have the ability to do basic arithmetic, the future is grim.' 'The big issues are in society and they cannot be changed by an HRD minister no matter how brilliant she may be or think of herself as being,' says Aakar Patel.
One solution to India's challenges of education, employment, employability lies in state governments adopting apprenticeships on a large scale.
This is the text of the statement put out by the People's Media Advocacy and Resource Centre on IIT Madras's derecognition of the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle.
The 'Make in India' vision cannot survive in the long-term without concrete measures to build a concurrent 'Create in India' movement.
The polytechnic graduate is on the front line of our war to establish a vibrant manufacturing sector in India, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain DoPT, Atomic Energy as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated.
While Raju and Brijesh Saroj have found help from the Uttar Pradesh government as well as the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Zahid Qureshi is struggling to make ends meet.
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