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Ukraine-Returned Students Seek Government Help For Admission In Indian Medical Colleges

Ukraine-Returned Students Seek Government Help For Admission In Indian Medical Colleges

The students who were evacuated from war-torn Ukraine and their parents gathered at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday and sought the government’s intervention to ensure they are accommodated in Indian colleges. The students held placards that read: “Help all Indian MBBS students of Ukraine” and “Save the career of Indian students”. Thousands of students from […]

IIT, IIM, Central Universities Made Functional In Record Time In J&K: Kansal

IIT, IIM, Central Universities Made Functional In Record Time In J&K: Kansal

Jammu & Kashmir is witnessing an unprecedented era of positive developments with the setting up of premier education institutes like IIT, IIM, AIIMS, and Central and Cluster Universities among other avenues of education. The remarks were made by Principal Secretary Higher Education, Rohit Kansal while addressing students of Central University Jammu. He was chairing the […]

UGC Act Needs to Be Revised to Regulate Admissions, Writes Olav Albuquerque

UGC Pushes For Diversity in Foreign Students Coming to India for Studies

Tamil Nadu has thwarted the Narendra Modi government’s bid to introduce uniformity in admissions to central universities throughout India. The Modi government’s move is commendable given that the evaluation parameters of students in state universities vary widely within the same state and across the country so that students who secure 100 out of 100 in […]

Delhi HC Refuses To Allow Ayurveda Aspirants Having Low NEET Percentile To Participate In Counselling

Delhi HC Refuses To Allow Ayurveda Aspirants Having Low NEET Percentile To Participate In Counselling

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to allow two Ayurveda course aspirants having low percentile in the NEET examination to participate in the counselling process for admissions to Ayurveda courses. The court declined to give any interim relief on their plea which claimed that it is unfair to subject them to the same entrance […]

Bhubaneswar a Preferred Destination For Higher Education Post-Covid

Bhubaneswar a preferred destination for higher Education post-Covid

The capital city of Bhubaneswar has emerged as an education hub in eastern India. National institutes like IIT, AIIMS, NISER, NIFT, and several private universities in the city have been attracting students from across India and outside. In a changed scenario post-covid when students prefer local institutes, the city has become a preferred destination for […]

UGC India’s Official Twitter Handle Hacked, Account Restored

UGC India’s Official Twitter Handle Hacked, Account Restored

The University Grants Commission (UGC)’s official Twitter account earlier hacked on Sunday, April 10, which was restored later. The unidentified hackers took control of the UGC’s Twitter handle- @ugc_india and made several irrelevant posts. The hackers made a series of tweets tagging the followers of UGC. “In celebration of the reveal of the Beanz Official […]

Delhi University To Set Up Two Firms To Raise Money From Alumni, Funding For ‘Innovation’

Delhi University to conduct webinars on admission process from next week

The Delhi University (DU) will set up two not-for-profit companies to seek funds from its alumni and to promote innovation, university Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh has said. As the university enters its centenary year, Singh said there should be policy reforms. “In the centenary year, we should come towards policy reforms to make DU a better […]

Banaras Hindu University Launches Scholarship Scheme For International Students

Banaras Hindu University Launches Scholarship Scheme For International Students

Banaras Hindu University has launched a new scholarship scheme for international students. Under the programme- “Scholarship to International Students“, foreign students will receive Rs. 6000 per month which will be renewed annually on the basis of satisfactory performance. The decision to launch “Scholarship to International Students” was taken in the meeting of Governing Body of […]

Himachal Pradesh Emerges As Best Performing State In Education Sector: CM Jai Ram Thakur

Himachal Pradesh Emerges As Best Performing State In Education Sector: CM Jai Ram Thakur

Himachal Pradesh has emerged as the best-performing state in the education sector in the country, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Friday. He was addressing a function organized on the occasion of the inauguration of a Delhi Public School at Tiara in the Kangra district. Thakur said there are 1,878 senior secondary schools, 931 […]

QS World University Rankings By Subject 2022: Five IIT Delhi Programmes Feature In Top 100

QS World University Rankings By Subject 2022: Five IIT Delhi Programmes Feature In Top 100

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: Five academic programs of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi gas featured in the top 100 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022 released on Wednesday, April 6. The five IIT Delhi programs, which achieved top-100 ranks globally are Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer […]