FM Sitharaman also announced the govt will set up 5 university townships in the vicinity of major industrial logistics centres, and set up or upgrade 4 Telescope Infrastructure.
Team led by higher education secretary Vineet Joshi arrived at campus Saturday but was greeted with protests. Students & teachers insist on V-C Shambhu Nath Singh’s removal.
The event, 'Adani Global Indology Conclave: Reviving Parampara for a United World', will be held between 20 and 22 November at Adani Shantigram Township in Ahmedabad.
Kerala & Karnataka govt have said they wouldn’t adopt the curriculum. Over 900 academics signed petition against draft mathematics curriculum last month, urging UGC to withdraw it.
Govt-appointed panel led by former ISRO chief had recommended transition of exams like NEET-UG to an online format, Aadhaar-based biometric verification of candidates at exam centres.
According to an education ministry report, India has 1,04,125 single-teacher schools. Andhra Pradesh accounts for the highest number at 12,912, followed by UP and Jharkhand.
Even as state govt harps on ahead of polls about socio-economic progress over the yrs, schools have a lot of catching up to do, shows Performance Grading Index for 2022-23 & 2023-24.
Education ministry analysed results of 66 education boards. Data also shows consistent rise in number of students graduating from Class 12 with science stream over 11 years.
Parliamentary standing committee on education, women, children, youth and sports urges a rise in education spending to 6% of GDP, noting it was just 4.12% in 2021-22.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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