Education

Over 2,000 students of Kendriya Vidyalayas will be part of a pilot project in which they would be taught science and mathematics on tablets. Initiated by the HRD ministry to enhance learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, the students will not only access the

Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search

A Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) will come up in Ranchi in 3 months. This will function under the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals. The Institute will offer courses on skill development, technology support and promote further research in the field of plastics

In the schools that we have studied we rarely realise that many of the support staff in school have not studied much. One school in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand has come out with a unique programme wherein students of the school have become teachers and are conducting a crash-course to impart literacy to

In Kadus, a sleepy village in Maharashtra's Rajgurunagar town, a handpicked batch of 70 students trained for the past one year for the IIT joint entrance examination (JEE) has achieved a 100% success rate with all of them clearing the mains. So have 149 students trained at Bundi in Rajasthan (50)

With the inspiration of P M Shri Narendra Modi, to help create a spirit of respect for our real heroes, HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar and Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre jointly launched a campaign to have a ‘Wall of Valour’ in 1,000 educational institutions across the country

Not all news is negative from Jammu & Kashmir, where mostly we hear of stone pelting youth and the armed forces trying their best to maintain law and order. Here is a news which is so positive. “The Army’s Kashmir Super-40 initiative for coaching J&K youth for engineering entrance exams broke all

Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh is a tribal zone. The literacy rate here is 43.3%. And still, 55 students from this area have cleared the IIT-JEE Mains. Most of them belong to small villages and have to walk several kilometers to reach their government-run schools. This achievement has to be credited to a

Bhilar, a village located between the hill stations of Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani will soon be famous as it will become India’s first “village of books”. Maharashtra Minister for Culture Affairs and Marathi Language Vinod Tawde informed that 15,000+ books would be made available and placed at

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, schoolchildren from over 2,000 government and private schools across Delhi will get an opportunity to learn legalities from sitting judges, former judges, public prosecutors, psychologists, social workers and lawyers. The students will be informed about legal

Kalpit Veerval of Udaipur has created history by scoring 360 out of 360 in the JEE mains. Never before had anyone scored cent percent marks. Kalpit had appeared from the SC category and has topped across categories. Rajashtan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, in a tweet, has congratulated Kalpit

After the news of child prodigy Kautilya Pandit from Haryana, comes the news of one Abhishikt Kumar Gupta, in Ranchi -much younger and equally talented. Born in a peasants’ family—his father Kuldip Prasad Gupta is a farmer holding a below poverty line (BPL) card—this 4 years and 10 months old child