Indore, June 8 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday said that no Indian institution figures in the list of top 200 universities in the world and added that higher education does not have enough quality institutions. Addressing the first convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, the president said that [...]

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has sought an explanation from the state forest minister on the plea of a junior basic teacher (JBT) teacher alleging that he was recently transferred on political grounds. Justice V.K. Sharma yesterday stayed the transfer order of petitioner Prem Singh and issued notices to Forest [...]

New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Prem Singh, a Delhi University teacher who undertook a hunger strike at Rajghat here seeking the withdrawal of the four-year undergraduate programme, has ended his fast. The fast, which began Wednesday, concluded Friday evening. Prem Singh pleaded with authorities to consider deferring the four-year undergraduate [...]

Bhubaneswar, June 8 (IANS) Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University Saturday announced that it had inked a pact with Trinity College, London, to impart English language training to students and teachers. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between KIIT registrar Sasmita Samanta and national manager Trinity College, [...]

Shillong, June 7 (IANS) Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary Thursday asked CMJ University vice-chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha to clarify his stand on the issue of alleged fake PhDs being granted by the varsity. Jha has been missing and on the run for over than a month, evading police arrest, after Mooshahary, [...]

Durban, June 6 (IANS) An Indian-origin woman in South Africa has alleged that her seven-year-old son has been subjected to corporal punishment in school. The woman of Katlehorn in the South African province of Gauteng said that, though she was not aware how many times her son, a grade one [...]

Bhopal, June 6 (IANS) Taking note of the rise in crimes against women, President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday called on universities to take the lead in starting a sustained programme for meeting the contemporary moral challenges. “The recent rise in crimes against women and children is a cause for deep concern. [...]

New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) BJP leader Arun Jaitley has urged Union Minister for Human Resource Development M.M. Pallam Raju to defer the introduction of four-year undergraduate programme in the Delhi University, saying the issue requires a debate. “I am of the opinion that the introduction of this course should [...]

Hyderabad, June 6 (IANS) Annapurna International School of Film and Media (AISFM) and Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University (JNAFAU) here have signed an MoU to offer new four-year undergraduate and two-year postgraduate degrees with specializations in media. Under the agreement signed Thursday, AISFM and JNAFAU will offer the [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, June 6 (IANS) Kerala has been allocated Rs.403 crore in the current fiscal under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme for universal education, state Education Minister Abdu Rabb said here Thursday. Rabb said the centre has sanctioned Rs.403 crore for universal education in the state. “Of this, the centre [...]