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The Ministry of Human Resource Development has announced that it is going to provide 12,000 e-books for higher studies by the next month under its ambitious e-Pathshala initiative. The study material in the form of books will be made available free on a mobile application. According to HRD Minister Ms. ...

Research and innovation is all set to take a new turn with the Prime Minister’s office directing the Ministry of HRD to fast track the framework for setting up 10 private autonomous universities. The agenda is to invite world-class private institutions for higher studies to set up in the country ...

As per UNDP reports India has shown improvement in ranking though rank low when compared to Pakistan and Bangladesh which are ranked 147 and 143 respectively, for the year 2014. India’s rank improved from 130 to 135 among 188 countries. Norway, Australia and Switzerland occupies top three ranks. HDI takes ...

Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said e-UGshala initiative will be launched on December 25 to enable open access to digitised contents for undergraduate learning. The minister also talked about making the e-pathshala available on mobile phones to enable access to children in remote areas. After digitisation of the ...

News: Government of India is leveraging the research potential of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to meet industry demands for innovative solutions for the “Make in India” initiative. It has created a corpus of Rs 250 crore annually with an aim of giving an impetus to the ‘Make In ...

Another proposal by IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) to increase the quota of students appearing for JEE (Advanced) from 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh has been approved. The minister insisted that the interests of socially and economically weaker sections should be protected at all costs. The council has also approved ...

Europe’s largest economy Germany and Asia’s third largest economy India have a healthy bi-lateral economic relations despite the sluggish speed of concluding Indo-EU Free Trade Agreement. As Indian Prime Minister Modi’s most of the policies such as Make in India or Digital India, are focused on making India a manufacturing ...

  Indian government has recently launched a scheme to provide interest subsidy for the period of moratorium on education loans taken by economically weaker sections from scheduled banks. The loans will be provided for technical and professional studies. It is projected that by 2030 India will become the largest contributor ...

News HRD Minister Smriti Irani before preparing draft requested Teachers and CBSE students to give suggestion on new national education policy At national teacher’s day award function she said that the inputs from the stakeholders from cross sections of the society are important for drafting new national education policy. The ...

News Germany will now promote Indian languages including Sanskrit in its educational institutions Human Resource Development Ministry decided to discontinue teaching of German as an alternative to Sanskrit and showcased it as national interests. At G-20 summit in Brisbane in November last year this issue is being raised and criticized ...