NEET & Clean: Experts bat for exam rejig; recommend use of AI, computer-based testsTheir recommendations include holding computer-based tests, multiple shifts, multiple days, use of AI to ensure each question paper is uniq...
27 Jun, 2024, 10.11 AM IST
Hyperlocal services startup Dusminute raises Rs 11.5 crore led by Inflection Point VenturesDusminute provides a superstore within the community and a dedicated super app for home deliveries and other value added services offering ...
20 Jul, 2023, 10.57 AM IST
Social media is the new hunting ground for those with revoked offersAs more job offer revocations hit engineering colleges in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, students say social media is helping open up mor...
26 Jun, 2020, 10.13 AM IST
Involving tribal communities can boost India's wildlife conservation: IIT prof17 Jun, 2019, 12.52 PM IST
Centrally funded universities to add up to 3 lakh seats for 10% quotaThe new 10% quota for the economically weak will significantly increase admissions to higher education, adding up to three lakh seats in ce...
23 Jan, 2019, 11.20 AM IST
Entire country needs to be trained in combating disasters: NDRFThe chief of the about 12,000 specially trained personnel force, who has himself been at the forefront numerous times, recalled tragedies l...
17 Apr, 2016, 03.40 PM IST
More IITs & IIMs open across India: Here's why it's important to expand without compromising qualityFor every alumnus who swears by elitism of the 'top tier' of technology, there’s a counterpart who believes more such institutions are need...
26 Jul, 2015, 11.31 AM IST
India to explore US assistance in setting up IIT campusThe two countries also decided to focus on developing vocational skills by augmenting their cooperation in the field of community colleges.
17 Nov, 2014, 09.58 PM IST
Zomato in talks to raise $200 million, aims to enter billion-dollar club by DecemberHong Kong-based hedge fund Tybourne Capital Management is also in discussions with the eight-year-old company as are a number of strategic ...
08 Oct, 2014, 02.04 PM IST
Clamour for civil service jobs is raucous only in UP and BiharActually, students outside the Hindi belt have better things to do: aspire for private jobs, lead a respectable life as an artist, architec...
07 Aug, 2014, 12.44 PM IST
Panjab University beats IITs, enters top 400 club in THE World University Rankings 2013-14Panjab University joins the group of universities ranked between 226 & 250, putting it way ahead of its closest Indian rival IIT Delhi.
03 Oct, 2013, 10.43 AM IST
UGC move to allow foreign universities to set up in India worth cheeringThis opens up huge opportunities for the world’s greatest and most influential universities to bring a broad set of programs to the Indian ...
24 Sep, 2013, 02.00 AM IST
- IITs see steady slide in world rankings, report says
Between 2009 and 2013, the IITs saw a steady slide in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings.
12 Sep, 2013, 07.34 AM IST
- Exam row: IIT Directors to meet tomorrow
IIT Directors will meet tomorrow which will be followed by their meeting with HRD Minister Kapil Sibal next week to address the issue of si...
22 Jun, 2012, 07.55 PM IST
- Copycats from IIT-Kanpur?
In one of the most blatant cases of plagiarism to hit the elite IITs, Bio-technology Advances, a review journal, has retracted two papers f...
09 Oct, 2010, 03.20 AM IST
- IIT-Kanpur students hail SC ruling on quotas
Students of Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur hailed the interim stay by the Supreme Court today on 27 per cent reservations to OBCs in...
29 Mar, 2007, 02.40 PM IST
- Now, Moily wants quota for Muslims
Amidst the raging controversy over quotas, Veerappa Moily, who heads the Administrative Reforms Commission, said that reservation for Musli...
13 Nov, 2006, 02.01 AM IST