Anganwadi centres to be revamped

MHRD will soon file an affidavit claiming that declaring the university a religious minority institution was an error as it was set up by an Act of Parliament and is funded by Centre Central varsity Jamia Millia Islamia will no longer be a minority ...

Jamia Millia Islamia's Department of Sanskrit, which was all set to start its first session amid much fanfare this year, is struggling to fill seats. By Monday, the last day of enrollment, only a few applications had been received for admission in ...

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of the governmment and the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on a PIL accusing one of its assistant professors of plagiarism. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to ...

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), the country's premier journalism school, is a step closer to becoming a deemed university -- an idea that has been in the pipeline for some time now. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has constituted a ...

The future of centres for the study of social exclusion in certain Indian universities is in jeopardy. Many of them have not been receiving funding for the past few months. Thirteen of these centres were set up in 2006, at the end of the 10th Five Year Plan.

Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov met his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj on 22 August. Kamilov, who arrived in India on Sunday, is leading a high level delegation from Uzbekistan including Elyor Ganiev, Minister for Foreign Trade of ...

Autonomy has always been a pipe dream for educational institutions in India. And while political appointments, rather than merit, have been the norm in the past, the current government seems to be taking them to an extreme. As India celebrates 70 years of ...

Today, radio is the hyper-local medium that has gone beyond its role of reading the news or playing popular music. Manavi Kapur and Nikita Puri report. IMAGE: RJ Malishka (left) with actress Bipasha Basu at the IIFA awards in New York. RJs now have to stay connected, 24x7, and have their fingers firmly planted on the nation's pulse.Photograph: @mymalishka/Twitter.   It was a perfectly mundane July evening in 2016 that soon became a nightmare for many in Gurugram. A monsoon downpour ...

After announcing ‘free’ feature phones, Reliance Jio wants to offer free Wi-Fi to almost three core college students in India. The company has submitted a proposal last month to the human resource development (HRD) ministry as well. According to a ...