The Union Cabinet on Thursday (November 20) gave its assent to the establishment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Regional Centre for Training and Education in Biotechnology at Faridabad, Haryana. The project would cost around Rs. 100 crores. The ...

A good news for India students at Gulf region waits as leading education portal 24X7 Guru has introduced its Gulf and Middle East operations. The portal is likely to cater the education needs of over 1.2 lakh students in Gulf region. The portal is designed to help the Indian students appearing for ...

A new financial research and trading laboratory was launched by the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) on November 18, 2008. This is the first laboratory of its kind in India. The Rs 1-crore financial research and trading lab will focus on helping the students to test financial models ...

The Punjab government has signed a tripartite agreement with Indian School of Business (ISB) and four leading companies to establish an ISB campus in the state. The ISB will set up its campus at Mohali with an investment of Rs 300 crore. According to the chairman of ISB, Rajat Gupta, the institute ...

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B) Director Pankaj Chandra has informed that the institute has added 150 more seats; 75 each in PGP (Post Graduate Program) and in executive program. Mr Chandra was speaking on the occasion of the 35th Foundation Day. IIIMB established in the year ...

The Supreme Court of India has stayed JNUSU (Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union) election for violation of Lyngdoh Committee recommendations. The stay order came on the plea filed by amicus-curiae and Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Gopal Subramanium. They had contended that there is a ...

The Supreme Court of India declared on October 20, 2008 that the medical entrance examination conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will have only objective questions from next year. The apex court has been approached by the CBSE to allow it to implement the new pattern of ...

On the occasion of mini-Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at Singapore, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi  said that there would be three universities for NRIs and PIO (Persons of Indian Origin) in India. The first NRI University which would start working from 2010 will be ...

One of the top ten technology institutes of India, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Andhra Pradesh has planned to invest Rs 1 billion to upgrade its exiting facilities. An all round development of the institute including the establishment of state of art e-classrooms, interactive lecture ...

In a compiled list 'Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings,'IITs of Delhi and Mumbai are among the top 200 universities of the world. The two institutes are the only one from India to make a mark in the list. While IIT Delhi is ranked highest at 154, a climb from 307 in 2007, IIT ...

Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management (IITTM) has announced to set up its maiden centre in Southern India at Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. As Per Prof. Sitikantha Mishra, the Director of IITTM, the centre will start its operation in full swing from 2009.  The autonomous body of the ...

This is one great news for students pursuing a course from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Getting information about and from IGNOU will become very simple as the varsity introduces its mobile service within the next 15 days. Through this mobile service, the IGNOU will send ...

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has asked IITs and IIMs to fill up vacant OBC seats with General Category candidates in the same year. On center's plea that it would create 9 per cent seats every year amounting to 27 per cent in three years, and at ...

Travel and tourism, a continuously burgeoning field, offers ample job opportunities. Thus to feed the demand for a bigger workforce in the Indian market, the tourism school run by IGNOU has declared that it will provide 25 lakh students in a decade's time. The IGNOU's School of Tourism and ...

Responding to an appeal by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, IITs have come up with raw-plan to expand themselves to cater more number of students. Mentionably, PM Manmohan Singh has wished for more admission in IITs through expansion of existing campus and optimization of existing R&D ...

Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje has announced that government will fund the education up to class XII. According to party leaders, late on Saturday, Raje waived off the nominal tuition fee of Rs 30-50 per annum for all students in government schools. Kalicharan Saraf, the Education Minister of the ...

The Delhi University (DU) has launched a central placement cell so as to help the students get a job after the completion of their courses. According to university authority, the registration form is available online on the university's website www.du.ac. The students are supposed to fill up the ...

Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has announced PT result for the year 2008. Local version of Hindustan Times is carrying the result. However, the result could also be accessed at the official website of BPSC.
 
The official website of BPSC is - http://bpsc.bih.nic.in/

SBI has declared its result for the posts of Probationary Officers and Clerical Grade. The exam for the probationary officers was held on 27-07-2008. The result can be availed at the official website of the SBI: www.statebankofindia.com
 
Also, the result could be availed by calling at the ...

CISA, the very first Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, was set up at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. India's Anand Sharma, the Minister of State for External Affairs, speaking at the occasion called for a 'quality transformation' of the global regime. He said this ...

In alliance with SPIC MACAY, the Delhi University (DU) is going to introduce a new certificate course on 'Appreciating Indian Culture'. The aim is to impart knowledge and thereby sensitize youngsters on the country's different cultural art forms. Speaking about this certificate course, Prof. Deepak ...

UPA government has decided to ease burden of loan for higher education among students. Where getting an education loan is difficult, paying back the same loan is almost impossible. Under the current scheme all the students whose parents are not earning more than Rs 2.5 lakh and who want to pursue ...

From March 2009, the students in Gujarat will be seen entering examination halls with textbooks in hand so that they can copy answers from it if needed. This is because the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has marched on and launched the open book format of ...

Nupur Sharma of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has become president of DUSU for the session 2008-09 (Delhi University Students Union). She defeated Sonia Sapra of NSUI (National Students Union of India) with a margin of 1,639 votes. Nupur Sharma got 10,345 votes. Nupur Sharma, a Law ...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has decided that there would be an addition of 20 new Navodaya Vidyalaya in existing 554 such schools in 34 states and Union Territories. However, the new Navodaya will be opened only in SC/ST regions. Government will open these schools this ...

Madras University has bestowed a PhD degree to Congress chief Edvige Antonia Albina Maino alias Sonia Gandhi. Interestingly, universities in Tamil Nadu are known to vest PhD degrees not only to political leaders but to film stars too. The honorary degree to Sonia has been given to felicitate her ...

The Delhi HC has upheld the judgment of a single judge bench that UPSC should declare cut-off marks of civil services preliminary examination. The latest judicial development has come in the aftermath of the appeal under Right to Information (RTI) Act. Earlier, a single judge bench on April 17, ...

The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow got its new officiating director in the form of Prem Chandra Puwar on 01 September, 2008. Mr. Puwar was appointed to the post of director as Devi Singh ended his tenure of IIM director on 24th August. The decision was taken following a directive ...

In an unprecedented decision Planning Commission has rejected President's proposal to open all-women IIT at Amravati. According to reports, President Patil's proposal was approved by both the HRD Ministry and the PMO, had gone to the Plan panel for its in-principle approval. In support of all-women ...

India ranked first in recently concluded Astronomy Olympiad; India won 2 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze medals. The competition was held at Bandung, Indonesia from August 19 to 27. Participants fought for 10 gold medals, 11 silver medals and 18 bronze medals in the Olympiad. India besides ranked ...