Hyderabad: In further deepening of the ongoing crisis triggered by the suicide of a Dalit scholar , Ten professors of the University of Hyderabad belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes minority  have resigned

Hyderabad: Hours after Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani produced P Hanumantha Rao's letter to target Congress over Rohith Vemula's suicide on Hyderabad Central University campus, the senior Congress leader hit back saying the young Dalit

New Delhi: Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani today expressed regret over the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad, but stressed that caste had no role to play in it.The HRD

Amethi: Sharpening her attack on Rahul Gandhi, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today accused the Congress Vice-President of cheating the people of his Lok Sabha constituency, whom he had described as his extended family."Rahul has

Thiruvananthapuram: Science research institutions should give more opportunities to women, Dalits and those from economically-backward sections, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said today.She said this as she inaugurated the first phase of permanent campus

New Delhi: More youngsters in the age group of 18-23 years are acquiring higher education and the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in India has risen to 23.6 per cent, and 46 per cent of those

New Delhi: Sixty-three students failed to secure the prescribed minimum grade in six Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) during 2014-15 session, Lok Sabha was informed today.Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani provided this information in response

New Delhi: All CBSE books and learning material will be made available online for free as part of the Centre's good governance efforts, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said here today.At a function organised at a

New Delhi: Twenty five cases of sexual harassment were reported from the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 2013-2014, the highest among 104 higher education institutions from where such matters were reported according to University

New Delhi: Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani on Friday slammed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his comment that" National Herald case is vendetta coming out of the prime minister's office"calling it

New Delhi: The government would come up with a new education policy next year, the Lok Sabha was informed today. HRD Minister Smriti Irani said the proposed new education policy would "fructify next year", amid a

New Delhi: Taking a dig at senior JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday wondered what would have been the position of women had such politicians been part of the

New Delhi: The Election Commission and Delhi University (DU) were today directed by a city court to bring the records of educational qualification of Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani against whom a complaint was filed

Kolkata: Fielding criticism on Indian varsities and research institutes not making the cut in global rankings, union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday asserted India's diversity is not reflected in the rankings."There is

New Delhi: Putting an end to the anxiety among PHD aspirants, HRD minister Smriti Irani today made it clear that the non-NET fellowship is not being discontinued.Her assertion came on a day when she met

Srinagar: A young MBA pass out has decided not to accept his degree at the first convocation of Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Kashmir from Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani as a

New Delhi: With barely three weeks remaining for his retirement, HRD ministry is understood to have recommended to the President to ask Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh to go on forced leave only to

New Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today made a strong pitch for promotion of Sanskrit and making it a language of the masses by simplifying it in schools and holding more research in the discipline.The

New Delhi: The government today unveiled a framework for ranking annually engineering and management institutes taking into account placement, entrepreneurship, compensation package, research activity and inclusiveness through reservations among others.The ranking framework broadly covers all

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has sought online comments from students for making recommendation to the draft of new education policy which is likely to come out by the year-end."We value