Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The government will appeal against Gwalior district court order asking it to block website pages on internet publishing defamatory material about Arindam Chaudhuri-led IIPM institute. ...
05:28 PM, Feb 19, 2013
He said he did not mind online pot shots at his looks, but he will sue abusers if they harmed his business. ...
02:03 PM, Feb 19, 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 government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools. The committee, which has five members from the social science background, will review class IX to XII social science/political science textbooks of NCERT from the point of view of identifying educationally inappropriate material in them, said a NCERT notification....
09:39 PM, May 16, 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
New Delhi: After various complaints by students across the country of glitches on the University Grants Commission (UGC) website, the higher education body has decided to extend the last date for the submission of the National Eligibility Test (NET) application to May 10, 2012. The first-ever fully objective-type NET is scheduled to be held on June 24. A notice on the UGC website says: "Due to unprecedented increase in the...
01:17 PM, May 02, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The issue of anomalies in provision of revised UGC pay scale to university, government college and aided college teachers is back to haunt the State Government. The Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations may have come as a boon for the State Government employees, but for university teachers, it has been a case of what they call 'discrimination'. Although the University Grants Commission (UGC) notified the revision scheme soon after Pay...
11:26 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) announced the holding of the National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) exam on June 24, 2012 for determining the eligibility for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and eligibility for lectureship in the universities and colleges run by the higher education body. It is the first time the UGC-NET test, held twice a year, will be conducted in objective-type questions mode. UGC will conduct...
11:31 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Massive challenges face the Govt when it comes to education. ...
12:04 PM, Oct 29, 2009
The counting centre of the Lalbaugcha Raja Ganpati mandal has been busy. ...
08:44 PM, Sep 07, 2009
It is unhappy with the way previous HRD minister gave recognition to institutes. ...
11:36 AM, Jun 18, 2009
According to UGC's new provisions the guilty can be fined up to Rs 2.5 lakh. ...
11:02 PM, May 27, 2009
Adelaide: Kevin Pietersen became the fifth Englishman to score a double century in Australia as England's lead ballooned to 306 runs on the third day of the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval. The number four showman relished his return to the ground where he last hammered a big century to continue England's relentless accumulation of runs to plunder the home attack. When rain washed out play after tea...
11:49 PM, Nov 12, 2007
The conference will discuss making higher education accessible to economically backward groups. ...
11:45 PM, Oct 09, 2007
It will frame strict regulations to be followed by all the universities. ...
08:24 AM, Oct 09, 2007
