In order to fill up the serious shortage of experts in the healthcare industry in India, the government is contemplating allowing Indian doctors with foreign PG degrees to return and practice at home. There is a strong possibility that the Indian government will soon start recognizing postgraduate ...

The India Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is soon going to start offering Indian students a diploma course under which they will be trained for jobs in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. This one year diploma course will be offered by IGNOU in alliance with Bangalore’s ...

It was announced by Finance Minister P Chidambaram that the Union Cabinet on Thursday, July 17 had conceded to the creation of eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in India. Further on, he said that it was decided to convert IT-BHU into IIT by investing Rs 6,080 ...

IIPM has challenged AICTE in High Court of Delhi as AICTE on 30th June had scrapped IIPM as fake university operating without any credentials. Earlier too, IIPM has been involved in legal dispute with UGC. Noteworthy point is that IIPM has alleged that the AICTE had ulterior motives in issuing ...

Teach India, the United Nations Volunteers programme in partnership with The Times Of India, has received a heart-warming response from all corners of the country. A social initiative which aims to bring together children in need of education and people who can contribute a little time towards ...

From Friday, July 4, the new branch of the Indian Institute of Management became operational following its inauguration by the Meghalaya Chief Minister, Donkupar Roy. This happens to be the seventh branch of India’s top business school IIMs, apart from the six others located at Kolkata, ...

The Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, late on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 announced the B.Tech 1st Year results 2008. The B.Tech 1st Year students of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University can hence now access their results from the official website of the University. The web address ...

The Delhi University has come out with its second cut-off list where students can seek admission in different colleges of University of Delhi in Arts, Commerce and Science streams. According to the official DU website, "the students are advised to contact the respective colleges about details ...

After successfully introducing quota for the Other Backward Caste (OBC) students in higher education, the Indian government has now directed all branches of the Indian Institutes of Technology to immediately introduce quotas in the teaching faculty too for the SC, ST and OBCs. Apparently the IIT ...

The Board of Secondary Education, Orissa will be announcing the HSC result on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 11.00 hrs. The students who sat for the class X examination from the state of Orissa can hence obtain their results from the above mentioned time and day onwards. The results will be available ...

Students from India have been rated as amongst the best in the world by Chris Patten, the Chancellor of Oxford University, who said that the institution wants to woo more of them to its campus. The Oxford University has had the likes of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Deputy Chairman of the ...

The results of Combined Entrance Test (CET) 2008, conducted by Punjab Technical University are likely to be announced on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. This year too in the month of May, hundreds of students sat for the entrance test for admission to First year degree engineering courses in various ...

Admissions in University of Delhi are something most of the students and not just from the national capital, but the entire country vie for. The receipt of   applications has now closed and the fates of lakhs of students, who apply to DU, have been sealed. The admission list for various ...

The result of Combined Entrance Examination (CEE) 2008, conducted by the University of Delhi for admissions to Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) is likely to be announced on Saturday, June 14, 2008. The entrance examination for admission to first ...

A challenge for Indian women does not seem to bother, at least the gathering of women candidates at Jalandhar BSF recruitment drive shows so. More than 15,000 women candidates are trying hard to get into BSF despite knowing the fact that life in BSF is not going to be easy for them. Though the ...

The prestigious government-run institution of journalism and media studies, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is going to be upgraded into an international university in order to cater to the increasing demands of the media industry, said Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, the Information ...

In order to make successful the second phase of the Indian government’s universal elementary education scheme Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the Department for International Development (DFID) of United Kingdom is going to lend it Rs 1,200. A formal declaration about this was made by Nemat Shafik, ...

India’s Aditi Lahiri, an expert in linguistics whose work on Bengali dialects is well documented, has been appointed as the head of a new faculty at the University of Oxford. Lahiri is presently a professor of Linguistics at Oxford and will soon be heading Oxford’s new Faculty of ...

The Orissa Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2008 results have not been declared as yet and can be announced any day after June 10. This year the Orissa Joint Entrance Examination was held on May, 25, 2008. The JEE Orissa is conducted by the state of Orissa for admission to the first year degree ...

The results of entrance examination of PG Diploma courses 2008-2009 have been declared by the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). The students who have appeared for the entrance examination to the various PG Diploma courses can now find out whether they have cleared the written ...

The Board of Secondary Education, Rajasthan will announce the results of Sr Secondary (Arts) examination on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 4.00 pm. The students who wrote their exams this year can obtain the results by visiting the official website of Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education. The students ...

Class X Maharashtra board examination result will be announced on June 26. The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Education (MSBSHSE) will announce the SSC result on June 26 at 11 AM. The MSBSHSE is a statuary and autonomous body that conducts the SSC and SHC examination ...

The results for examination held in April for Secondary and sr. Secondary sections have been announced by the National Institute of Open School. The On-demand examinations were held in the month of April 2008 for candidates appearing for class X and XII examination. The candidates to obtain their ...

The number of seats reserved for Christians in St Stephens College is likely to be raised this year, the formal announcement of which will be made the coming week. This news has now got the students as well as the teachers anxious as the increased quota will make getting entry into St Stephens ...

The result of Combined Entrance Examination (CEE) 2008, conducted by the University of Delhi is expected to be announced any time soon. The exam was held on 31 May 2008. The students, who will qualify the exams, will be eligible for admission to first semester of Bachelor of Engineering courses for ...

The results for West Bengal Joint entrance Examination (WBJEE) 2008 are likely to be announced before June 15, 2008. On the basis of the results it will be decided whether a candidate has qualified for various undergraduate courses in the state of West Bengal. Students clearing the examination will ...

The Madhya Pradesh Board of secondary Education will announce the results of High School Certificate (HSC) examination 2008 on Monday, June 09, 2008. The results of the class X students are to be announced today at 4.00pm in the evening. The students who sat for their X board examinations from the ...

Orissa Examination result for +2 Arts (Regular) and +2 Arts (ex-Regular) have been announced on Monday, June 09, 2008. The results for the class XII Board examination for the Humanities stream, conducted this year were announced at 9.00 hrs today. The students who sat for the Annual Examination ...

2000 students and 450 teachers from outside Europe are the recipient of the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus scholarship for the academic year 2008-09. Amongst the 2450, 164 Indians are the proud recipients of the scholarship this year. Erasmus Mundus is a European Union programme, created in ...

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will declare the HSC result 2008 on Saturday, June 07, 2008. The result is likely to be announced at 11.00 hrs on Saturday. The students, who sat for the class XII examination this year, can obtain the results by visiting the ...