President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday gave assent to the change in name of the Ministry of Human Resource Development as Ministry of Education, an official notification said. IMAGE: Education......
The National Commission for Women has been slammed by a Parliamentary panel for not playing any "proactive" role in safeguarding the rights of the fair sex despite the massive nationwide outrage......
The board results are out and it’s time for the students to choose a college.To help them with a list of top colleges, Union ministry of human resource development released a national......
The Human Resource Development ministry was hit by yet another controversy with chairman of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay's board of governors and nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar resigning......
'We are going to need more technical people in government.''You can't expect a generalist to understand the complicated world of financial engineering.''I regret to say that most of our politicians......
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have a 2008 budget wishlist. They want the government to grant them more funds to support their infrastructure expansions and research initiatives. The......
One third of faculty positions vacant.One per cent seats empty.New IITs lag in infrastructure, research.Abhishek Waghmare and Sahil Makkar report. Indian Institutes of Technology are struggling to......
Ajit Balakrishnan on learning from past technology revolutions. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The media, the world over, is flooded with stories about how Internet companies are......
Are algos taking over from 'shoeshine and a smile', asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com 'Can you explain to me why this feature [and I named one] is missing in......
Bank unions - officers and workmen - had buried their differences and sat across the table on August 29 to work out a fresh deal with the IBA involving a 20 per cent wage hike. The terms of the......
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, headed by Satyanarayan Jatiya, has slammed the Sports Authority of India for not roping in sportspersons even 20 years after being......
- A Parliamentary Standing Committee praised the government for the wrestling and boxing facilities at the Sports Authority of India's Sonepat Center but pointed out that "excellence needs to be......