Education

To fulfil the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide thrust to good quality technical and higher education in the backward areas of the country, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), for the first time, has recruited more than 1200 highly qualified and motivated graduates

Teachers of 17-year-old Shruti Tiwari, a resident of Matehiya village in Lakhimpur Kheri district's Bheera town, say that she will be remembered by Class X students in UP for years to come. Shruti, who found herself struggling with science subjects in 2015, started making her own notes in Hindi

The Assam government on Friday distributed scooties to 1,000 girl students who had excelled in the State Board Class XII final examinations in 2017, with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal saying it was one move on part of his government to accelerate the process of women empowerment in the state

Believe it or not, Raj Kumar Vaish, aged 98 years, has received a Masters degree. May be this is a global record. Bihar Governor Satyapal Malik and his Meghalaya counterpart Ganga Prasad on Tuesday rose from their seats as a student of Nalanda Open University came on stage to receive his masters

As part of its efforts to give a digital push to higher education, the HRD ministry has decided to offer nearly 300 online courses in Hindi and 10 other Indian languages on its online course portal Swayam. To be launched in the next three months, these courses include subjects such as cloud

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