Tamil Nadu: JNU VC heading Madras University selection panel is ‘attempt to saffronise’, says DMK

M Jagadesh Kumar has been nominated as the head of the panel to appoint Madras University’s vice chancellor.

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· Mar 06, 2020 · 06:56 pm

J&K governor approves bill to set up National Law University in the state

A government spokesperson said such an institution would bring the state at par with other states that already have national law universities.

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· Oct 02, 2019 · 12:06 pm

Delhi University syllabus: ABVP protests against ‘anti-RSS’ content in English and History courses

A member of Delhi University’s Academic Council also said a story introduced in the English syllabus portrayed the RSS and its ideology in a poor manner.

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· Jul 17, 2019 · 01:16 pm

A new hurdle in college admissions this year: Modi government’s 10% EWS quota

At Delhi University, students are struggling to secure income certificates. College administrators worry about infrastructure and staff shortages.

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· Jun 22, 2019 · 09:00 am

UP: Private universities must promise to avoid ‘anti-national activity’, says new ordinance

Under the ordinance, national integration, secularism, moral building and ‘desh bhakti’ or patriotism are among the objectives of universities.

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· Jun 19, 2019 · 08:36 am

JEE Advanced results declared, Maharashtra’s Kartikey Gupta is the topper

Himanshu Gaurav Singh from Allahabad came second while New Delhi’s Archit Bubna secured the third place.

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· Jun 14, 2019 · 03:52 pm

CBSE Class 12 results announced, two UP girls top exams, pass percentage recorded 83.4

Thiruvananthapuram was the best performing region with 98.2% students passing the exam.

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· May 02, 2019 · 02:10 pm

IIT-Madras India’s best institute, IISc Bengaluru comes second in HRD ministry’s national ranking

Seven IITs featured in the top 10 overall list of the National Institutional Ranking Framework released today.

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· Apr 08, 2019 · 07:22 pm

Plan to restrict PhDs to areas of national importance is against national interest, says academic

The HRD ministry has distanced itself from the order issued by the Central University of Kerala and said it had not issued any such directive.

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· Mar 26, 2019 · 05:48 pm

Kerala academic quits after HRD says researchers to pursue PhD only on topics of ‘national interest’

Professor Meena T Pillai called such orders suicidal and feudal.

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· Mar 24, 2019 · 06:54 pm

Indian academics lead the world in publishing in fake journals – tarring the whole education sector

A UGC decision in 2010 making research compulsory for teachers to rise up the ladder prompted some to pay dubious publications to feature their work.

Pushkar Sinha

· Jan 21, 2019 · 08:00 am

NEET 2018: SC quashes order granting 196 grace marks to students who wrote exam in Tamil

The Madras High Court had awarded the marks after it was revealed that certain questions were incorrectly translated from English to Tamil.

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· Nov 22, 2018 · 10:34 pm