
New Delhi: The joint council of the IITs and NITs will meet on Monday to discuss the government's move to hold a single entrance test for undergraduate technical courses. Sources say that the IITs, by and large, have opted to retain the existing format of JEE for 2013. Ahead of Monday's crucial meeting, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday met the IIT faculty federation and is understood to have sought...

09:01 AM, May 28, 2012

Mumbai: With the number of class IX students failing to secure a minimum of 25 per cent marks in their final exams in their Maths and Science papers rising this year, city-based schools are a worried lot. School principals believe that special efforts are required from teachers, students and their parents to obtain better results in the coming years. As per state government's new rule, all class IX students will...

03:41 PM, May 22, 2012

Mysore: Strict parenting took a shocking new turn in Mysore on Wednesday. A class seven student was forced to beg in front of a temple by none her own father as a punishment for getting poor marks in exams. When the police learnt of the incident they summoned the 12-year-old's father, who claimed that it was an effort to make his daughter realise the hardships of life. The father of...

09:06 AM, Mar 28, 2012

With regular classes suspended, thanks to the ongoing turmoil in Kashmir, students find themselves in a fix. ...

08:47 PM, Sep 01, 2010
Lage Raho... has inspired a slew of Gandhigiri-style protests worldwide. ...

12:27 PM, Aug 19, 2008

Academics to do doctoral fellowship at St John's, the PM's graduation college. ...

08:58 PM, Jul 18, 2008