PM Modi-led Cabinet clears key reforms in skilling, IIT expansion, and coal allocationThe Union Cabinet has approved significant initiatives to bolster India's skill development, higher education, and energy security. These i...
07 May, 2025, 12.36 PM IST
The more (plugged in) IITs, the betterIITs are expanding their footprint with increased seats, aiming to accommodate 6,500 more students. This move needs to be complemented by b...
12 Mar, 2025, 11.03 PM IST
5 new IITs to add about 200 BTech seats per year, centre mulls timelinesThe five newer IITs are set to increase their undergraduate seats by 200 each annually over the next five years, doubling their current int...
10 Mar, 2025, 11.44 PM IST
Will be best ambassador for drone industry, says Chandrababu NaiduAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu promised to make the state a drone hub, encouraging the industry to test their applicatio...
22 Oct, 2024, 02.46 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arriving in Jammu today to inaugurate and lay foundation of projects worth over Rs 30500 crorePrime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Jammu to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth over Rs 30...
20 Feb, 2024, 01.06 PM IST
PM to inaugurate campuses of 3 IIMs, lay foundation for permanent campuses of 3 IITs on Feb 20Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate campuses of three IIMs -- Jammu, Bodh Gaya, and Visakhapatnam. "He will also inaugurate 20 new...
19 Feb, 2024, 06.03 PM IST
Beyond Hyderabad: Holy town Tirupati fast emerging tech hub in AndhraTirupati, Visakhapatnam, and Vijayawada have been listed as emerging technology hubs in India, according to a report by Deloitte India and ...
04 Sep, 2023, 04.20 PM IST
President Droupadi Murmu approves appointment of new directors at 8 IITs: Education ministryWhile Venkayappaya R Desai from IIT Kharagpur's Department of Civil Engineering has been appointed as the Director of IIT Dhardwad, the ins...
20 Sep, 2022, 12.53 AM IST
Government on course to roll out tech education at IITs and NITs in Indian languagesThere is clear consensus in the task force on the larger aim of creating an enabling system and process for all students from a non-English...
14 Jul, 2021, 10.23 AM IST
Not a single highway road is perfect when it comes to green plantation, says GadkariThe road transport and highways minister urged the officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to engage experts for plant...
26 May, 2021, 10.20 PM IST
Andhra Pradesh govt to launch watershed projects in five districtsThe state Cabinet, at its meeting last week, cleared the project to be implemented in the four Rayalaseema districts of Anantapuramu, Chitt...
21 Dec, 2020, 12.00 PM IST
Changes in education policy aimed at making India 'Vishwaguru': HRD Minister Ramesh PokhriyalPokhriyal said it was the dream of the government to develop a robust education system that elevated the country as as a world leader.
13 Aug, 2019, 10.25 PM IST
Around 35 per cent shortfall of teachers in 23 IITs: RTIIn old IITs, 30% posts of teachers are lying vacant at IIT Bombay, Delhi (35%), Guwahati (27%), Kanpur (37%), Kharagpur (46%), Madras (28%)...
14 Feb, 2017, 06.54 PM IST
Bill introduced in Lok Sabha to bring 6 new IITs, ISM under IIT ActHRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, who introduced the bill, in the statement of objects and reasons said the government has set up six new IIT...
19 Jul, 2016, 07.34 PM IST
Chhattisgarh & Goa facing land hurdle for new IIT campusesWhile every state queues up to win an IIT or IIM, finding it a worthy enough campus in another battle altogether.
23 Mar, 2016, 02.02 AM IST
Central institutions to come up in Andhra Pradesh with Rs 3,030-crore pushThe institutions include IIT at Tirupati, IIM at Visakhapatnam, NIT at Tadepalligudem in West Godavari district and IISER.
20 Aug, 2015, 06.39 PM IST
Tirupati and Palakkad IITs ready to roll from AugustTwo of the five newly announced IITs, IIT-Tirupati and IIT- Palakkad, are ready to start classes from the first week of August, 2015
24 Jun, 2015, 08.05 PM IST