Jamia Millia Islamia university's biotechnology department has been rated one of the top 10 public institutes of India in a nationwide survey, a university official said Monday.The biotechnology department of the university was surveyed under var ..

The government Monday said that 12,000 MW of wind energy has been tapped so far out of the total potential of 48,500 MW in the country.New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah informed the Rajya Sabha that more than half of the 9,000 MW targ ..

A total of 3,400 students out of 13,000 who registered themselves for admission into MBA and MCA courses have been granted admission so far. The admission process will end on August 16."Students will have to register themselves till August 16, a ..

Come 2011 and there will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all government and medical colleges in the country.This important decision, taken by the Medical Council of India and accepted by th ..

Twenty-nine students from different towns of Punjab and Haryana are waiting for the refund of their tuition fees, amounting to Rs. 87 lakh, from a Dutch university that was closed in June.The students had applied for different courses at the European ..

A bill for re-establishing the ancient Nalanda university was introduced in the Rajya Sabha Thursday. The Nalanda University Bill, 2010, will establish a central university in Nalanda district of Bihar, identifying with the ancient university, which  ..

With the flagging off of a special bus, a national campaign titled 'Bus Aur Nahin' against ragging was launched in Delhi University (DU) Wednesday.The bus will travel to nine cities in the country covering over 40 colleges to create awareness ..

The University Grants Commission (UGC) Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the government could act in any matter related to a varsity, including recognition or derecognition, only after its recommendation.The UGC said its recommendation in matters ..

India will launch a satellite to monitor sea water levels in collaboration with the French space agency, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan said Wednesday.The satellite, called Saral, will carry an altimetre (ALTIKA) for s ..

A total 92 teams of two members each participated in the first-ever multi-city inter-school general quiz contest hosted by the Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU) here Tuesday.Sri Kumaran's Children Home (SKCH) comprising Milind Hegde and Vikas ..

 Scientists and students from across the world will participate in an Asian Science Camp organised in India for the first time Aug 17-19, an official said Tuesday.The Asian Science Camp aims to enlighten talented science students through discuss ..

With the flagging off of a special bus, a national campaign against ragging will be launched in Delhi University (DU) Wednesday.The campaign titled 'Bus Aur Nahin' will be flagged off by Vice-Chancellor Deepak Paintal outside his office in th ..

Rashad Hussain, son of an Indian migrant couple from Bihar who is US special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Sunday visited Bihar's free coaching centre here for poor students aspiring for an Indian Institute of Technology (I ..

As part of its community development initiative, the Jamia Millia Islamia University in collaboration with the Youth Empowerment Services NGO is organising a book donation programme for distribution to the needy.The two-day programme will be held Aug ..

A college manager  allegedly shot and critically wounded a teenaged ex-student of his institute in the adjoining Barabanki district late on Friday evening.The victim was identified as a local resident, Vijay Anand, aged around 18 years. Police r ..

IIT-Delhi will enter its 50th year on August 16 giving a kickstart to a variety of academic and industrial events in the coming months. IIT-D will also award 1,371 students this year of which 465 will be undergraduate students and 138 PhDs.IIT-D dire ..

China has started test flights of its first homemade amphibious plane dubbed Seagull 300, a media report said Friday.The plane is built by the Shijiazhuang Aircraft Industry Co Ltd in China's northern Hebei province, China Daily reported on its w ..

There is a shortage of 1.2 million teachers in India and states must speed up the recruitment process to bridge the gap, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Friday."We have a shortage of 1.2 million teachers. In some states ther ..

The authorities in New Zealand have suspended processing applications of international students to study at Auckland's Kingsland Institute after the arrest of two men for alleged immigration fraud, an official statement here said.Immigration auth ..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said India has a "long way to go" in spreading literacy, adding that paucity of funds will not be allowed to hamper the spread of education in the country."We still have a very long way to go (in s ..