Jodhpur: Agitating students of the IIT Jodhpur have appealed to President Pranab Mukherjee and the HRD Ministry to remove Director CVR Murti for his "dictatorial attitude".The students have been agitating against a recently passed Code
Mumbai: Nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar, who resigned as Chairman of Board of governors of IIT-Bombay due to “disagreements” with HRD ministry a fortnight before, said on Friday that “IITs should be left alone”. He described
Nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar who put down his papers as the chairman of the board of governors of IIT Bombay a few days earlier, has sought a serious decision making process at the educational institution."The
New Delhi: The HRD ministry has finally served a show cause notice on Delhi University vice chancellor Dinesh Singh asking him why he should not be removed from his post.The show-cause notice has been served
New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) Board of Governors chairman and nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar has resigned from his post after a reported 'disagreement' with the Ministry of Human Resource Development.Kakodkar, whose tenure
New Delhi: The HRD Ministry has set up a committee to probe alleged misappropriation of funds received under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan by an NGO run by activist Teesta Setalvad, who is facing heat along
New Delhi: With a section of students and faculty of Visva Bharati University threatening to intensify their agitation for the removal of the Vice Chancellor, officials in the HRD Ministry said they would await the
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday launched the exhaustive exercise for holding consultations aimed at the drafting of a new national education policy and invited suggestions and discussions towards that end.The launch was announced in
New Delhi: Amid the controversy surrounding his resignation, IIT Delhi Director R Shevgaonkar on Monday joined duty and met a couple of senior faculty members who are understood to have pursued him to reconsider his
New Delhi: After restructuring Planning Commission as NITI Aayog, NDA government is planning to revamp University Grants Commission (UGC), as well. This will be the second Nehru-era institution that may get a complete overhaul. After
New Delhi: To make solving numerical problems less taxing for visually-impaired students, Delhi University is developing specialised ‘mathematical kits' which will make it much easier for them to study the subject. The varsity plans to
New Delhi: With the mentors of the six new IIMs being finalised, government on Wednesday said it is prepared to commence academic activities of these IIMs from the coming academic session.The new Indian Institute of
New Delhi: The IIT Delhi Alumni Association yesterday came out in support of Raghunath K S Shevgaonkar, who quit as Director of the institute amid a controversy over alleged pressure by the HRD Ministry on
New Delhi: Top sources in the Ministry of HRD claimed that possible reason for the resignation of Director, IIT Delhi could be his alleged involvement in ‘illegally' setting up an off-shore campus of the top
New Delhi: Congress has moved a notice for privilege motion against Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu, alleging that he misled Lok Sabha over HRD ministry's circulars on celebrating Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday on Christmas as
New Delhi: Amid a row over HRD ministry's alleged move to keep schools "open" on Christmas day, government Tuesday asserted that it had no such intention whatsoever.K C Venugopal (Cong) flaunted "circulars" in Lok Sabha
New Delhi: Terming as “offensive and unjustifiable” government's reported decision to keep Navodaya schools open on Christmas, CPI(M) today demanded its withdrawal saying it was an “assault” on the religious right of Christians.The HRD Ministry
New Delhi: The HRD Ministry today said the decisions to ask those central universities to explore the possibilities of opening of Sanskrit department where it doesn't exist and to ask CBSE to make the language
Chennai: NDA ally MDMK today opposed any proposed changes by the HRD Ministry in the education system as suggested by the RSS, alleging these were part of efforts by BJP to 'saffronise' it after the
New Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said a controversy over German being replaced in KV schools has been created “deliberately” and asserted that its continuation as third language would have been a violation of
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