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Centre’s Indian Knowledge System division set to broaden scope to include fashion, edutainment

Moving away from traditional topics, such as ayurveda and astronomy, the Union Ministry of Education division has called for research proposals in modern fields.

1965 war hero Abdul Hamid’s name back on Ghazipur school, official says ‘was just repainting job’ issue

The school in Dhamupur, part of the PM Schools for Rising India scheme, was reportedly set to be renamed PM SHRI Composite Vidyalaya Dhamupur by authorities.

No complaint without affidavit, ID card. Faculty term Motihari central university move ‘dictatorial’

On Thursday, Mahatma Gandhi Central University implemented a revised policy requiring faculty members to submit complaints. New norms are 'dictatorial', say faculty members.

Day after cops detained Jamia students, personal details of protesters put up at university gates

The students, suspended for protesting disciplinary action against 2 PhD scholars, claim they're getting threat calls & have slammed university for displaying their numbers, addresses.

NTA under fire once again after a record 12 questions dropped in JEE-Main 2025. What went wrong

Despite reducing the number of questions from 90 to 75, the error rate in the engineering entrance exam increased to 1.6 percent from the 0.6 percent limit.

UGC halts CARE reference list of journals for ‘greater academic freedom’. What it means for academia

Introduced in 2018, UGC-CARE list aimed to recognise only reputable journals for faculty selections, promotions, and research funding.

NITI Aayog report says Haryana biggest laggard among its neighbours in higher education

Report has found Haryana lagging in rankings, gross enrolment ratio (GER), density of higher education institutions, number of faculty members & funding compared to the GSDP.

In bill to establish private universities, an ideological shift by Kerala’s ruling LDF

9 yrs ago, a senior Kerala State Higher Education Council official was slapped by a protester when the Oommen Chandy govt was considering allowing private universities in Kerala.

NITI Aayog says lack of English proficiency key barrier to state university graduates getting jobs

A NITI Aayog report released Monday made several recommendations to enhance state public universities, noting that they serve over 80% of total student population in higher education.

NITI Aayog calls for HEFA-like finance agency, fee autonomy to improve state public universities

Report flags financial constraints arising from insufficient govt grants, over-reliance on traditional revenue streams & a lack of autonomy to adjust fees in the universities.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.