Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 33rd convocation ceremony of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University via video-conferencing on Friday, his office said. A total of 17,591 candidates will be conferred with degrees and diplomas at the convocation ceremony. The governor of Tamil Nadu will also be present on the occasion. The university is named after former Tamil Nad ...(View More)
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Raising concerns regarding the Government of India’s new guidelines for holding online/virtual international conferences and seminars for educational institutes and universities, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi whether the Centre is trying to impose “one nation, one thought”. Publicly-funded universities will have to get ...(View More)
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Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Monday chaired the 54th meeting of the Council of Institutes of Technology (IITs) to discuss the implementation of New Education Policy(NEP) 2020. During the virtual meeting, Pokhriyal asked IITs to develop Institute Development Plan as envisioned in NEP 2020 to improve the mobility of faculty between institutions and industr ...(View More)
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The Arunachal Pradesh government is working to encourage youths to be entrepreneurs rather than striving for government jobs, which is a British-era mindset, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said on Saturday, marking the 35th Statehood day. The state government keeping in mind the three directives has embarked on various schemes and policies to develop the skills of the youth so that ...(View More)
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Kerala took a major step forward in its progress towards a knowledge society with the inauguration of the country’s first Digital University, based in Technocity at Mangalapuram near here on Saturday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan presided over the function, where Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, who is also the Chancellor of the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation ...(View More)
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Asserting that priority will be given to establishing university constituent undergraduate colleges across Bengaluru, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister Dr CN Ashwathnarayan said that district commissioner has been asked to hand over available government lands to the department to facilitate the process. “Priority would be given to establishing univer ...(View More)
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