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News: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam launched the programme in the presence of Minister of State of HRD Ram Shankar Katharia, Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region and Department of Space Jitendra Singh, Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan. The science labs aim to ignite passion and nurture spirit of enquiry and ...

News:  HRD Ministry would soon come out with a set of four key parameters, expected to be ‘teaching-learning’, ‘academic performance’, ‘outreach’ and ‘impact’ of the institute nationally and globally, for ranking of Indian institutes across streams. It was chaired by both higher education and school education secretaries and attended by ...

News: Central government employees going abroad need to disclose estimated expenditure and source of funds prior to their visits, according to a draft policy formed by the centre. They also need to give details of such trips taken by them during the past four years. Employees need to give details of period of travel, name ...

News: HRD Minister Smriti Irani has announced the launch of a new app which will offer books to the students for free to up the education of the country. Under the banner of NCERT, a mobile app will be enabled to the students for downloading NCERT books from class 1 ...

Notes: Reacting to a report in Mail Today, Irani said she had held a meeting with representatives of IGNOU and the Army and had directed officials in the HRD ministry to expedite the award of degrees.  The Army and IAF signed an MoU with IGNOU for bachelor’s degrees for their ...

News: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today announced that IIT admission fees of Pratapgarh brothers, Raju and Brijesh, sons of daily wager, Dharamraj Saroj, would be waived. A daily wager’s sons – Raju (18) ranked 167 and Brijesh (19) ranked 410, made it to top 500 positions in IIT entrance examination ...

News To encourage banks to lend to students, the central government is set to create a Rs 1,000-crore credit guarantee fund that banks can draw upon in case of defaults on loan repayments. There has been a series of discussions in recent weeks between banks and finance ministry officials on ...