Author Archives: Mayank Arora

  A proposal to reserve 25 per cent of the seats for local students, in the National Law University (NLU), Cuttack, has been approved by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. According to a statement issued by the Chief Minister’s Office, students looking forward to get admission in the NLU will be highly benefited by the move. […]

A proposal to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI) with a new body—the National Medical Commission (NMC)—is likely to come up in the cabinet THE NMC BILL  The proposed National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2016 calls for: — creating a new body to regulate medical education with the government — having the right to […]

The examination regulatory authority on Friday declared the result of the Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility Test (UPTET) 2017. A total 11.11% candidates emerged successful in the examination held on October 15 this year. THE DETAILS  At primary level 17.34% candidates were declared successful while at upper primary level, 7.87% candidates cleared the exam. As per […]

Maharashtra minister Vinod Tawde told the state Legislative Assembly that criminal complaints could be filed against those found guilty for the chaos and delay in Mumbai University results earlier this year. The Education Minister said that the three-member probe committee will soon submit its report over the issue of delay in MU results. “Based on […]

Advances in technology offer the potential to expand access to education, but will online learning ever replace the need for teachers? The fate of teachers in the era of emerging e-class rooms and  online teaching took centre-stage as students from India and abroad engaged in a debate over it. The Participants Students from three prominent […]

Questions on “feminist perspective on the state”, “the country’s forest policy” and “Sarva Siksha Abhiyan” have left third-year students of political science at Delhi University colleges flummoxed. Many complaining that these were not part of the syllabus. Students who had opted for ‘Public Policy in India’, an optional paper offered in the fifth semester, have […]

President Ram Nath Kovind hascalled upon students to turn entrepreneurs to create jobs rather than seek them. He has also advised them to follow ethics and principles to attain true success in whatever they chose to do in life. What President Asserted The President said there could be no ambiguity or scope for argument on […]

  Team VaxiBead of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) has won the ‘New Zealand-India Sustainability Challenge 2017’ trophy for their invention ‘A mobile healthcare programme to ensure complete vaccination for every child’ at New Delhi recently. WHAT IS VAXIBEAD VaxiBead – an innovative mobile healthcare platoform that tracks vaccination details for the users and ensures […]

IIT Delhi and Washington University in St Louis (WashU) have inked an agreement under which select students of the premier engineering institute will have their skills honed. THE AGREEMENT As per the agreement, IIT Delhi will become a partner of McDonnell International Scholars Academy of the WashU. The students of IIT Delhi will be incubated […]

  When you think international rankings, you generally think IITs, maybe IISc. But there are quite a few other Indian universities making it to the Times Higher Education Top 1000 global rankings 2018. The list released in November 2017 has the following institutes on it: — Panjab University in Chandigarh (Rank #601), — Osmania University […]