The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial IIPM. ...
08:35 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Department of Telecom, under a court order, recently ordered blocking of 78 URLs, 73 of which contained content apparently critical of the controversial Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) and its head Arindam Chaudhuri, including a University Grants Commission notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. The URLs blocked included many from mainstream news organisations such as Firstpost, Outlook, Times of India, Rediff, Indian Express and Economic Times,...
04:46 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The Indian Institute of Planning and Management is embroiled in yet another controversy as the government has directed Internet Service Providers to block over 73 URLs carrying defamatory articles about the private business school and its chairman Arindam Chaudhuri. These URLs include a University Grants Commission (UGC) notice on the unrecognised status of IIPM. ...
10:52 AM, Feb 16, 2013
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has published the National Eligibility Test (NET) results on September 18. After publication of the results, UGC allegedly altered the qualification norms by stating that candidates belonging to the general category needed to score an aggregate of 65 per cent for all three of the NET's papers to become eligible for college and university lectureship. This has led to disaffection among those who...
02:39 PM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared results for the National Eligibility Test (NET) for selection of college and university lecturers. About 5,71,627 candidates sat for the test on June 24, 2012. Candidates can log on to http://ugcnetonline.in/Result_june2012.pdf and tally their roll numbers against those declared selected. 43,957 candidates have qualified the test and as many as 3,625 candidates have qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), a UGC...
11:39 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Foreign universities entering into agreement with their Indian counterparts for offering twinning programmes will have to be among the global top 500. The Indian varsities on the other hand, should have received the highest accreditation grade, according to the new set of guidelines approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) on Saturday. "The underlining objective is to ensure that only quality institutes are permitted for offering the twinning programmes...
07:47 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The site for online registration for the University Grants Commissions (UGC's) National Eligibility Test (NET) aspirants at www.ugcnetonline.in is up and running as IBNLive checked out on the morning of May 3. This is the first time that UGC has started accepting applications online. Candidates attempting to enroll themselves on the site had experienced problems on May 2 which a UGC spokesperson attributed to unprecedented heavy traffic. The...
10:21 AM, May 03, 2012
Wellington: Three Twenty20 matches ahead of a 50-over series and three Tests may seem somewhat trivial considering South Africa's ultimate aim is to become the top-ranked Test team after this tour, but there is plenty to be gained across these three matches. As the series gets underway in Wellington on Friday night, both teams are geared up for a scrap and the right to gain the upper hand before the...
01:40 PM, Apr 24, 2008
The University Grants Commission has pulled up MS University for suspending Professor Shivaji Panikkar. ...
09:24 PM, Jun 22, 2007
