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  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 […]

  The Bombay High Court has issued an interim order directing the Mumbai University to ensure that students appearing for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations are provided with “supplements” or extra answer sheets if they require it to complete their answers. WHAT COURT RULED A bench of Justices BR Gavai and BP Colabawalla said that the […]

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, has registered a 17 per cent increase in its postgraduate placements and 10 per cent increase in its overall placements in the first 10 days. Placements at IIT Delhi has thus shown an increase from previous years Highlights 1. As per preliminary data, postgraduate job offers registered over a […]

  Japan has decided to offer a grant worth 8.4 million Yen for the construction of a vocational training centre for poor women and youth in Rajasthan’s Baran district. The signing ceremony for the project to be executed under that country’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Projects (GGP), will be held on December 19 at the […]

It’s not unusual to think of college life as a period filled with fun, laughter, self-discovery, and the beginning of lifelong friendships. College life brings with itself a certain set of characteristics like freedom, good company, new opportunities that often serves as the recipe for creating good memories. At the same time, one can find […]

The six older Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the three top Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian School of Business (ISB) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are among 100 institutions seeking to become ‘world class’ universities under a government plan. The Highlights 1. Overall 100 applications have been received.  2. Under public sector, 10 central […]

Around 150 first year Delhi University law students now face an uncertain future. They have been stopped from giving the first semester exams due to short attendance. DECISION AS PER THE NORMS OF BCI The decision was taken due to attendance norm set by the Bar Council of India (BCI)  which says that a student […]

A differently abled Indian teacher from a little-known institution in Uttarakhand beat tough competition from around the world to be named today among the top 50 contenders for an USD 1 million global award. WHO IS NEGI Pradeep Negi, an economics, social science and computer science teacher at Government Inter College BHEL Ranipur in Haridwar, […]