Author Archives: Mayank Arora

Coming down heavily upon the education system, of the country, Delhi High Court says, “It is completely de-humanised. It is a machine. The human element has been completely taken out. The contact between teacher and student is perfunctory. There is no connect, ” ruled out a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri. The […]

President Pranab Mukherjee launched two programmes to take education to the remotest corners of the country. This will be done with the help of technology. Mukherjee also launched a ‘National Academic Depository’ where verified educational records would be digitally stored by universities or a board to counter forgery. The programmes Swayam and Swayam Prabha were […]

Certified GST Students To Roll Out From Lucknow University   Within two days of advice from the Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma a unanimous decision was taken to add value to this new tax regime. It was decided on July 6 to introduce this tax regime as a subject at a meet in the presence […]

An India-born academician at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been named as the dean of its engineering school. Anantha Chandrakasan is the Vannevar Bush professor and head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). He assumed his new role effective 1 July. Chandrakasan succeeded Ian Waitz who is now […]

Apex Court: Madras HC to decide The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea against a Tamil Nadu government order. The order had reserved 85 per cent of seats in MBBS and BDS courses for the state board students. Only 15 per cent were reserved for those of other boards, including the CBSE. WHAT […]

Corruption In Education To curb corruption and bring in greater transparency, the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has asked all its employees to furnish details of their income and assets. This has to include property details. Once the data of assets is complete it will be put on the NCTE’s website and the figures […]

RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Chairman, Sanjiv Goenka, has been renominated as the Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT-Kharagpur. Highlights of Renomination 1. Goenka’s name was nominated by President, Pranab Mukherjee, in his capacity as Visitor of the Institute 2. This will be his second stint as the Chairman of Board of Governors. 3. […]

As cinema is considered to be the main source of entertainment, it runs in every heart and at the same time contributes to the economy of the country and why should Kashmir lag behind in this regard? It can be one exceptional place to contribute its share.  After all it is a place of great […]

The Indian School of Business (ISB) has announced that  said it has launched the Digital Identity Research Initiative (Diri) . It has be done to promote an academic study of the Aadhaar card and its implications. DIRI–The Highlights 1. According to a statement issued by ISB, as a part of the initiative, the B-school will […]