Jodhpur: In a major follow-up to the unveiling of the $35 Low Cost Access-cum-Computing Device, IIT Rajasthan has been allotted two projects for purchase of 1 lakh such devices and carrying out intensive laboratory and field tests across the country to ensure suitability in all geographical regions ...

Shimla: The Middlesex University of London, with overseas campuses in Dubai and Mauritius, plans to open a new campus in Delhi's satellite town of Noida, said its vice chancellor here on Wednesday."The Noida campus would run Bachelor programmes in business management, law, social sciences, informati...

New Delhi: As the demand for skilled labor and manpower increases with the growing economy in India, the Delhi government has decided to increase the number of seats by 3,000 in various Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) as well as polytechnic institutes that are run by it. Chief Minister of De...

New Delhi: The Indra Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has announced that it will soon be establishing a first of its kind culinary institute in India, that will offer courses on Indian regional cuisines. The decision to open up the institute at IGNOU's Maidan Garhi campus came after universit...

Jamshedpur: Xavier Labor Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur will conduct the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2011 on January 2, 2011.XAT is conducted by the institute, for admission to the Two year Postgraduate programme in Business Management, Two year Postgraduate programme in Human Resource Managem...

Thiruvananthapuram: The country's first-of-its-kind Educational Reality Show is aimed at unleashing the creativity and innovativeness of school students in Kerala, thanks to the initiative of IT@School ViCTERS.Speaking to the sources, chief of IT@School Anwar Sadath said 75 episodes in the show, wit...

Chandigarh: The sprawling 533 acre Panjab University (PU) campus here resembles a fortress with heavy security ahead of the September 3 students' council elections.Personnel from both Chandigarh police and a private agency are deployed on the campus to avoid any untoward incident during the Panjab U...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the home ministry to have all schools in the northeast that have been occupied by paramilitary forces vacated in two months.The apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar also asked the human resource development ministry to...

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday decided to defer the educational tribunal bill to the next session.The decision was taken with the consent of the house after Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal agreed to the demand made by several opposition members that the bill be deferred. In hi...

Thiruvananthapuram: Professor Pulapre Balakrishnan was on Tuesday selected as the next director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) here.A CDS spokesperson said the decision to appoint Balakrishnan as the director was taken at a meeting of the governing body of the social science research an...

New Delhi: As the five-year term of Delhi University (DU) Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental expires today, teachers at DU are refusing to let the issue of the semester system being implemented at the varsity come to rest.In an executive committee meeting of the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DU...

Agartala: A Vigyan Gram, or a science village, is to come up on the outskirts of Tripura's capital, complete with a museum, library, planetarium, botanical garden, bird sanctuary and other attractions to popularize science among the masses.The Vigyan Gram, to be modelled on the lines of science citi...

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court on Monday directed the state government to amend a law which regulates admission to diploma courses so that students of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) do not face discrimination.A division bench asked the government to make necessary amendment to ...

Aligarh: The Department of Civil Engineering (DoCE) at Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) organized a two day "National Workshop on Ethical Hacking" in Kennedy House Auditorium in collaboration with M/s Kyrion Technology Pvt. Ltd. More than 100 ...

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will be conducting the Combined Defence Services Examination (II), 2010 at 232 venues at 41 Centers throughout the country on September 19, 2010. Admission certificates to the candidates have been dispatched. Letters of rejection to the candidate...

Aligarh: A seminar hall at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) by AMU Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis.The Seminar Hall was constructed with a cost of around Rs.10 lakhs under the Eleventh Five-Year Plan by the Building Department of...

Koraput, Orissa: The Central University of Orissa, which celebrated its First Foundation recently, has decided to implement several plans in the future for the development of the university.According to the university Vice Chancellor Surabhi Banerjee, several new disciplines such as a Master's progr...

New Delhi: The Department of Space (DOS) of the Ministry of Science and Technology has proposed to setup a "National Institute for Climate and Environmental Studies (NICES)" with the involvement of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Min...

Chandigarh: Haryana has announced special holidays for all school children in the state October 8 to 13 to enable them to watch the Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be organized in New Delhi, an official spokesman said on Monday.The 2010 CWG, the biggest sporting event to be held in India, are being held...

London: A seven-year-old maths prodigy, who became the youngest Briton to gain the top grade in GCSE maths, now advises the government on the country's finances, a media report said on Sunday.Oscar Selby, who last week got an A* at less than half the age at which most pupils take the exam, has demon...