Education

Online application for “Central Sector Scheme for Scholarship for College and university students” for the year 2018, 1st Renewal for the year 2017, 2nd renewal for the year 2016 and 3rd Renewal for the year 2015 is available on National Scholarship Portal (http://scholarship.gov.in). Students may

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the proposal for opening of 13 new KendriyaVidyalayas (KVs) in seven States and a second JawaharNavodayaVidyalaya(JNV) in Alot, District Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. These 13 schools are in Banda (Uttar

Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar, in a reply to a starred question in Rajya Sabha, on Thursday said that in pursuance of the proposal of the Union Budget, 2018-19, to treat school education holistically without segmentation from pre-school to Class XII, the Department of School Education and

His house does not have electricity or a toilet and his father collects garbage to make ends meet. The odds were always against 18-year-old Asharam Choudhary, but he battled all challenges and cleared the prestigious AIIMS entrance exam in the first attempt. Choudhary, who hails from Dewas in Madhya

It is 11 am, time for “TV serial-type” lessons inside the Project Girls High School at Katoria in Bihar’s Banka district. Around 85 students of Class 10 are crammed in a room, four girls to a bench, but no one’s complaining. On a 40-inch screen plays a video, in Hindi, on photosynthesis. The nodal

Nearly 100 city corporation schools will soon be equipped with gardens that grow vegetables for their mid-day meal scheme. A self-help group which acquired expertise in terrace gardening under the National Urban Livelihood Mission will train the corporation teachers and students. "Members of the SHG

Teachers of Government schools can now send their entries directly for National Award for Teachers. Announcing this, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar said that this is a new initiative, as earlier entries were selected by the State Government. In the new system

Dreams start small. Ask Sudiksha Bhati, student and winner of a Rs 1.92 crore scholarship in a college in the US. Sudiksha, whose father runs a small dhaba and mother is a homemaker, used to dream about studying in a school when financial constraints forced her to drop out in 2009. Today, the 17

Mangnaram Bishnoi, a long-haul truck driver, is rushing to Kota to see his sons — Mahendra Kumar Bishnoi and Shyam Sunder Bishnoi — who have cleared NEET and JEE-Advanced, respectively, this year. Bishnoi, 45, has not seen his sons since June 1last year. A resident of Kanasar village in Phalodi

The Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar launched the new digital initiative of HRD Ministry ‘National Digital Library of India’on the occasion of National Reading Day in New Delhi on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion Minister said that a new era of Digital India has begun as

Anu Kumari became the first person in Uchwawal village in Jharkhand’s Latehar district to clear the matriculation examination conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council. Uchwawal village, mostly inhabited by the Parahiya tribes — one of the 12 primitive tribes groups (PTGs) in Jharkhand — is 130km

A bunch of leading companies, led by those in the IT space, is engaging proactively with students at both school and college levels. Philips, IBM, WiproNSE 0.15 %, EXL Service, SAP Labs and Infosys are among those driving such initiatives, for reasons as wide-ranging as promoting interest in STEM