Education

Delhi government will provide financial assistance for entrance examination coaching to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students for admissions to civil service, law, engineering, medicine and banking, among other major courses. The proposal, which will be placed before the cabinet next week

The year 2017 has been a life changer for Hundadi Kadraka, a 27-year-old mother of three. Her existence in the remote Railima village in the foothills of Odisha’s Niyamgiri hills saw a disruption this year. Her husband persuaded her to send her eight-year-old daughter Momita to the village primary

To attract girl child to schools rapid strides are being made in Rajasthan. In the Kasturba Gandhi Girls Schools an added attraction has been the setting of kitchen gardens which help in providing better health to the children. Seeing the success of this project in Bhilwara district it is being

Engineering students across the country will undergo a compulsory induction programme from next year as part of their undergraduate programmme. Students will have to follow a daily routine of physical activity with games and sports including Yoga. Each student will pick one game and learn it for the

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has reduced the pass percentage in the board examinations to match with the other boards. For the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) class 10 exams the pass marks has been dropped by two per cent from 35 per cent to 33

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that education is the most powerful weapon which can transform the world. He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the Andhra Pradesh Campus of Vellore Institute of Technology, in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh today. The Chief

The Bharti family, led by Sunil Mittal, has pledged Rs 7,000 crore — 10% of their family wealth, which includes 3% of their stake in the country’s largest telecom firm Bharti Airtel — to the Bharti Foundation, their philanthropic arm. The foundation, which runs the Satya Bharti schools in northern

This is the story of 17 year Seboti Pahariya. Born and raised in Amguri, 110 km from Dibrugarh, she is from a family of tea garden workers. She had to quit school five years ago when she was in Class VI to help the family deal with medical expenses of her ailing mother. Seboti will join Class VII in

This is the story of two village children who started their studies in Ekal Vidyalayas in their villages. Later they joined former schools and after further studies have joined the army and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Many others who started their initial entry to literacy in Ekal have

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860, and as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for

The Union Cabinet on 24 th October 2017 approved a Rs. 7,002 crore plan for construction of permanent campuses for six new IITs, to be completed by 31 st March 2020. Each campus will have facility for housing 1,200 students, beginning from the academic year 2020-2021. Currently, these institutions

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh dedicated to the people state's first Dev Sanskriti University in village Sankra near Kumhari. This University has been developed by Gayatri Pariwar. In this University 53 subjects will be taught including Yoga, Dharam Sashtra, IT. छत्तीसगढ़ के मुख्यमंत्री