Chandigarh: The Haryana government has made computer literacy compulsory in all its colleges from this year, a minister said on Sunday.Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperatives Sukhbir Singh Kataria said in a statement that modern computer labs are being set up in every government college i...

Chandigarh: A group of former students of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has planned a conference of the alumni to contribute in the social and economic development of Punjab and other states of the country, a representative said here on Saturday."We have engaged the IIT alumni, settled abro...

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Saturday passed a bill to re-establish the historic Nalanda University in Bihar as an international institute of learning.The bill, which was introduced in the house last week, was passed in a special sitting on Saturday. The Nalanda University Bill, 2010, will establis...

Toronto: Canada's Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University here plans to offer its world class courses to Indian students and forge tie-ups with Indian universities.Currently Indian origin students account for about 10 percent of the enrolment at the Ted Rogers School of Management, whi...

New Delhi: As the human resource development ministry seeks to establish education tribunals across the country, a parliamentary panel has urged wider consultations with all stakeholders before parliament debates the measure.In its report to parliament, the standing committee on the human resource d...

Aligarh: Dr. M. Karthikeyan, Scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, delivered a lecture on "Role of Chemoinformatics in Academics and Industry" at a programme organized by the Department of Chemistry of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). While thanking for the invitation to share h...

Delhi: Senior Scientist and Lead Technologist at the Johnson Space Centre, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. Kumar Krishen, visited the Delhi Technology University (DTU) on Friday and interacted with the students and faculty members of the university.An accomplished engineer,...

Gwalior: Major General Sarbjit Singh Pawar, VSM has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education (LNUPE) in Gwalior.The university is an autonomous organization attached to Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.Major General Pawar will be replacing Major G...

New Delhi: The Indian Army on Friday launched an initiative titled 'Kshamta' for soldiers to help them learn basic computer skills and spoken English, and secure "good jobs" after retirement."As the soldiers retire at an early age, we want them to be self-dependent after they leave the armed forces....

New Delhi: The curriculum for the Financial Markets Management (FMM) stream has been reviewed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in order to help students pursuing the course in securing admissions in universities.The FMM course had been launched by CBSE in collaboration with the Nat...

New Delhi: Only a couple of days after the Medical Council of India (MCI) announced a nationwide Common Entrance Test (CET) for all medical courses in India from the next academic session, it has now been announced that the medical CET has been scrapped.The decision came after the move by the Medica...

Ipoh, Malaysia: A decades-old Tamil school near here will not be closed down to respect the sentiments of the ethnic Indians who had planned protests to preserve their heritage.Following an intervention by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Perak state's chief minister Zambry Abdul Kadir ordere...

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court expressing its opposition to the central government's proposal to conduct a combined entrance exam for medical colleges from the next academic session, an official said on Thursday.The government's petition seeking permission to present ...

New Delhi: In a survey conducted by Bangalore's India Foundation for the Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia University's "Centre for Culture, Media & Governance" (CCMG) has been rated as a "Centre with Potential for Excellence".The survey called "Arts and Humanities Research Mapping, India" has listed 1...

Bhubaneswar: After students, it is the teachers in elementary and upper primary government schools of Orissa who will have to follow a dress code from September 15.The state school and mass education department on Thursday sent instructions to all elementary and upper primary schools, asking male te...

New Delhi: The Union Service Public Commission (UPSC) has announced the result of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2010 held on May 23, 2010. The results are available on www.ExamResults.net"The successful candidates have qualified for admission to the Civil Services (Main) Examination ...

Hyderabad: President Pratibha Patil on Thursday inaugurated the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2010) here with a call to promote mathematics amongst the younger generation. She said that study of mathematics inculcates the habit of rational thought and promotes scientific temper."The ...

New Delhi: To enable Information and Communications Technology (ICT) based education in the varsity, Delhi University (DU) has introduced e-classes for its students, which have been uploaded on its online portal. A one-day workshop on the launch of the e-classes was held recently in which almost 40 ...

New Delhi: The Delhi government is planning to open four technical education institutes in rural areas of the capital, an official said on Thursday."With Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit of the view that rural areas need to be given special care, more teaching institutes can be opened at these places,"...

New Delhi: NIS Sparta, an educational training institution and part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG), on Thursday announced the placement of 2,000 underprivileged youth from rural areas under a special, government-led project."The special project for the unemployed rural youth fr...