The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Council on Monday gave a go-ahead to the proposed hike in the tuition fee for undergraduate students. With the go-ahead to the proposal, the fee will be hiked from Rs 50,000 to Rs 90,000 per year from 2013. ...
06:12 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Kerala was the front runner for IIT, Union HRD Minister Pallam Raju on January 6 said. In the 11th plan, some IITs were granted. They were in various stages of progress. "We need to consolidate and definitely we will look into new requests and I think definitely Kerala is the front runner", he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here when asked about the state's long plea for...
01:54 PM, Jan 06, 2013
There is a need to create intellectual property with proprietary rights by enhancing the knowledge base and help the country emerge as a major power, Union HRD Minister MM Pallam Raju said on Thursday. ...
11:51 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister MM Pallam Raju on Thursday said the government would take all measures to ensure women are safe inside the campuses of universities and other educational institutions. ...
09:19 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal will meet IIT directors tomorrow to resolve the common entrance exam row as the government proposal is being resisted by some of the IITs. Sibal will chair the meeting of the IIT council, the highest decision making body of these elite institutes comprising IIT directors and heads of other educational bodies, deliberating on a resolution adopted by the IIT Joint Admission Board(JAB) which met...
04:04 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Washington: Rejecting criticism and virtually ruling out going back on the new proposal, the Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said the government has no intent to impinge on the autonomy of the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs). Defending the decision to have one nationwide common entrance test, which is being opposed by IIT Kanpur among others, Sibal said this has been taken in accordance with the...
10:27 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: After concerns raised by state governments and Opposition from certain sections of the IIT, HRD minister Kapil Sibal got some much needed support from his state counterparts. There was consensus on the common entrance test for engineering colleges. "We have to compete internationally, all states have endorsed it. They have given full support," Sibal said. At the annual meeting of education ministers, even BJP ruled states gave it...
08:43 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal says he hopes the burden of 25 per cent school quota for the poor will not be passed onto other parents. He assures that the government and schools will work out a way to fund the additional expenditure. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said that the schools would find ways not to pass the monetary burden on parents of the...
07:56 AM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: 'Aakash', the world's cheapest tablet, will be fully indigenous soon and its improved version will be launched by the government at the same price. Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said Datawind - the manufacturer of the product - will not be associated with it anymore and the Government has roped in C-DAC and ITI in further development of the tablet computer. "There have been some problem with...
10:50 AM, Feb 20, 2012
Sibal said the directors did not raise any issue over the pay structure. ...
05:43 PM, Oct 16, 2009
Kapil Sibal has assumed charge as the HRD Minister. ...
02:07 PM, May 29, 2009
Arjun Singh is seen as too old - even old fashioned - for the new Cabinet. ...
01:55 AM, May 23, 2009
IIMs haven't spent even a single penny from the fund released to them. ...
09:21 AM, Nov 11, 2008
The HRD minister is basking in victory on the reservation issue. ...
10:00 AM, Oct 19, 2008
IIMs accept Government pay structure, says Sibal ... 
