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How student activism is taking India by storm, with issues ranging from caste discrimination to high feesDebates and free speech enrich college education. To control this freedom is to allow the manufacture of young minds conditioned by majorit...
21 Feb, 2016, 06.29 AM IST
SC, ST grievances in focus, JNU might figure at Vice Chancellors meet called by HRD MinistryHRD ministry has queried varsities on implementation of 2012 UGC regulations, including creating equal opportunity cells and appointing ant...
14 Feb, 2016, 12.48 PM IST
Social Justice ministry seeks report on dalit student's suicide"The Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment has written to the Chief Secretary Telangana government and sought a report over the suicide...
20 Jan, 2016, 03.10 PM IST
Rohith Vemula suicide: Government mulls advising HCU to revoke expulsion orders of dalit studentsGovernment sources told ET that these measures will crystallise once the two-member fact-finding committee submits its report.
20 Jan, 2016, 09.24 AM IST
President okays government review of UPA's Vice Chancellor nomineesPresident as Visitor of these universities has cleared HRD ministry's new proposal to deal with appointments.
14 Aug, 2014, 12.03 PM IST
Ahead of 2014 polls, govt plans universities for minoritiesThe Centre is mulling setting up five universities with 50% seats reserved for religious minorities, a "Muslim outreach" by Congress ahead ...
01 Jun, 2013, 06.30 AM IST
India will emerge as global power despite challenges: D PurandeswariMoS for Commerce and Industry today said there was a need to usher in a new-age entrepreneurship to achieve sustainable growth based on rob...
27 Dec, 2012, 06.00 PM IST
- Planning Commission appoints Narayana Murthy to channelize corporate funding in higher education
The Narayana Murthy Committee has been charged with the task of creating a framework which will bring in private funding into the domestic ...
18 Jan, 2012, 05.29 AM IST
4% of govt purchases will have to be from dalit, tribal-run firmsAhead of its battle with dalit czarina Mayawati, the Congress-led Centre has made it mandatory for all central bodies to make at least 4% o...
02 Nov, 2011, 12.05 PM IST
- All deemed university proposals in cold storage
In a first step to bring order in the higher education sector Kapil Sibal directed to keep all pending proposals for “deemed to be universi...
05 Jun, 2009, 05.55 AM IST
- Cong defends Jamia funding defence counsel in blast case
Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed came out openly in support of vice chancellor.
25 Sep, 2008, 03.49 AM IST
- Talk to Naxalites, says govt committee
Admitting that the rise of Naxalism was a "political movement with a strong base among poor peasantry and adivasis", a high-powered governm...
28 Apr, 2008, 04.46 AM IST
- VCs against fee hike but not scared of foreign universities
At the regional consultations of university vice chancellors on the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission, the heads of univ...
09 Oct, 2007, 03.16 AM IST
- 'India needs to step up research activities'
Some issues that a majority of colleges are grappling with are lack of available infrastructure to bring about the required changes.
14 Sep, 2007, 04.34 AM IST
- Manmohan wants to take education to a higher level
The Prime Minister’s Office has announced a massive expansion of the university and college network. A central university will be set up in...
02 Jun, 2007, 01.13 AM IST