Govt appoints Lt Gen N S Raja Subramani as next Chief of Defence StaffLieutenant General N S Raja Subramani (Retd.) has been appointed as the next Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), effective from his assumption of...
09 May, 2026, 08.04 AM IST
MPhil or PhD – What is your master plan?The article discusses the differences between MPhil and PhD degrees, highlighting their scope, duration, and opportunities. It also notes r...
24 Sep, 2024, 04.53 PM IST
MPhil not recognised degree: UGC to universitiesThe University Grants Commission (UGC) cautioned universities against offering MPhil courses, stating it is not a recognized degree. UGC Se...
27 Dec, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
Mukhmeet S Bhatia takes over as ESIC DGBhatia is an IAS officer of 1990 batch of Jharkhand cadre. Earlier, he has worked as Additional Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs...
01 Apr, 2021, 07.36 PM IST
New Education Policy envisions imparting 21st century, employability skills: Kasturiranganforward education to the next step.It also has a provision at.
31 Jul, 2020, 05.24 PM IST
NEP: Flexible degree courses, single higher education regulator, common norms for public & private collegesThe undergraduate degree will be of either 3 or 4-year duration with multiple exit options within this period, with appropriate certificati...
29 Jul, 2020, 10.29 PM IST
Corona outbreak made global scenario more complex: Rajnath SinghIndia today has emerged as an important contributor towards growth, development, prosperity, peace and stability, in both Asia and the worl...
08 Mar, 2020, 10.35 AM IST
Forced to transliterate into Hindi: Non-Hindi speaking JNU studentsA Tamil research scholar, whose dissertation topic is "Syntax of Tamil and Korean", alleged that he was "forced" to transliterate his name ...
26 Jul, 2017, 08.17 PM IST
2,515 students receive degrees from IIT-Bombay; PhDs at record highA total of 101 PhDs were awarded during the interim convocation held in March, making it the highest number of PhDs being awarded in the hi...
14 Aug, 2016, 03.48 PM IST
984 graduates, five MPhil candidates apply for porters' posts in MaharashtraAs many as 984 graduates and five MPhil degree holders have applied for the five 'hamal' (porter) posts in Maharashtra, a senior official t...
20 Jun, 2016, 04.21 PM IST
First ever MPhil degree in Hindi awarded in PakistanMilitary-run National University of Modern Languages (NUML) here has become the first Pakistani university to award the degree.
31 Aug, 2015, 02.05 PM IST
UGC warns universities against 'outsourcing' PhDsUGC has directed all universities to ensure that research supervisors for MPhil and PhD students are allocated from regular faculty members...
08 Jul, 2015, 07.10 PM IST
UGC likely to allow PhD enrollment under distance educationThe development comes against the backdrop of IGNOU teachers reminding UGC about its assurance to relax norms in context of research progra...
21 Jun, 2015, 01.33 PM IST
- Britain's Cambridge University invites application for Manmohan Singh scholarships
The scholarship was launched in 2007 in the name of India's prime minister, who studied and achieved a First in Economics at St John's Coll...
21 Nov, 2012, 07.57 PM IST
- Qualifying NET is must to become lecturer: HC
The Delhi High Court has upheld the UGC policy of making it mandatory for an aspiring lecturer to qualify National Eligibility Test (NET).
07 Dec, 2010, 06.15 PM IST
- Rahul was awarded Cambridge M Phil degree in 1995: University
Amid a controversy over Rahul Gandhi's foreign degrees, the University of Cambridge has said the Congress leader was a student of Trinity C...
29 Apr, 2009, 02.59 PM IST
- Full speed ahead
Policy makers today must deal with complex issues of social reality and development. To understand such topics in their entirety, it is ess...
15 Apr, 2002, 12.40 AM IST