While concerns are being raised over the introduction of the semester system in Delhi University, the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university has gone ahead and introduced it in all its post-graduate courses, an official statement said Thursday.Around  ..

The state cannot compel minority institutions to reserve teaching posts for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), the Supreme Court has said.The court said that the actions of the state in discharge of its "duties, functions and gov ..

The Jamia Millia Islamia University has extended the last date of completing admission formalities to postgraduate courses till July 19, a statement said Wednesday.The last dates have been extended for postgraduate courses offered by the Faculties of ..

He is in India with his bag of education tools. Veteran US educator Samuel W. Micklus says creativity and critical thinking are key to education as opposed to learning by rote and he is about to let Indian schools know how."Schools relying on ro ..

The 22-year-old Patna-born prodigy Tathagat Avtar Tulsi is all set to become the country's youngest faculty at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai in Mumbai.Official sources said that Dr. Tulsi, will be joining as an assist ..

The passage of India's foreign education investment bill could pave the way for unprecedented new opportunities for education cooperation between the US and India, according to a senior US official."Imagine the possibilities: there are alrea ..

The central government Tuesday said it is considering the setting up of two new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) in the northeastern region."The locations are being worked out," Minister of State for Human Resource Develo ..

Since its first launch in 1994, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has so far placed 41 satellites (19 Indian and 22 foreign) into orbit - making it one of the most successful launch vehicles ever worldwide.* The PSLV was originally de ..

The West Bengal government has decided to reserve seats for students from other backward classes (OBC) in colleges and universities from the next academic session, Higher Education Minister Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury told the state assembly Monday." ..

American youths like space and so, keep a "talking distance" of at least 10 yards while speaking to a peer on campus. Keep a pressure cooker handy. Those are among the crucial lifestyle lessons being offered to US-bound students from India. ..

After successfully placing five satellites in orbit Monday, India's space agency ISRO said it will launch more satellites this year and efforts were on to put two Indians in space orbit."We will launch GSat-5, a communication satellite, usin ..

Indian space agency ISRO Monday crossed a new milestone Monday in launching third party satellites by slinging three foreign satellites into orbit, reaching a total of 25 satellite launches.The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) rocket P ..

Five satellites, including the advanced high resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit Monday after India's space agency ISRO successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from here."I am ext ..

An expert committee has concluded that the radiation level of the radium beryllium (Ra-Be) source stored in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU was within safe limits, an official said Sunday.The eight-member committee was appointed by Vice Chancellor ..

The famed Super 30, a coaching institute in Patna which prepares 30 poor students for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance exam free of cost, opened shop in Assam Sunday."We are proud and very happy to announce the formal inaugurati ..

Scientists of the Indian space agency Friday are working to fix the power snag that switched off 12 transponders of the INSAT-4B communications satellite Wednesday night and restore services to some television channels and telecom operators. A transp ..

Academic activities continued to be hit in Visva Bharati University for the second consecutive day Friday following the indefinite strike called by the students' unions against the sudden hike in tuition fees. A section of students under the bann ..

Thousands of northeastern students join Delhi University every year. But the joy of securing admission is often cut short by the difficulties they face in the Indian capital, be it racial discrimination, the language barrier, sexual harassment or tro ..

The cabinet Thursday cleared a bill that aims to revive the ancient Nalanda University in Bihar as a global centre of learning. Pegged as a symbol of global cooperation in education, the Nalanda University, proposed to be set up in Bihar near the sam ..

Radha Charan Gupta has been selected for the prestigious Kenneth O. May Prize for the History of Mathematics for his contribution to the subject, officials said Thursday.Gupta, a retired mathematics professor, is the first Indian to receive the award ..