Indian Universities News

Bharat Ratna awardee and eminent scientist C N R Rao, veteran journalist N Ram, leading painter A Ramachandran and music director late V Dakshinamurthy have been conferred with honorary doctorates by the Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam. While Rao was ...

The European Commission has chosen five Indian universities for a prestigious project on 'Plant Virology In The New Era: Breeding For Resistance'. The commission has sanctioned 2,953,700 Euros for the programme which offers around 100 scholarships. Sri Venkateswara University ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to appoint NGOs in order to monitor ragging issues in varsities across the country. Based on the requirements, UGC has invited proposals from various NGO who are the voluntary sector organisations. ...

The start up of new autonomous colleges in Kerala was revealed on the inauguration of the zonal conference of vice chancellors of various universities in Kochi. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who inaugurated the conference and headed a speech later said, ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday thanked India's East Asia Summit partners for contributing to the setting up of the Nalanda University in Bihar as six countries began the process of signing inter-government agreements stating their commitment to this ambitious academic venture. ...

The UGC- University Grants Commission, exercising the powers conferred to it, has notified the UGC's Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaboration between Indian and foreign Education Institutions Regulations-2012 in the gazette of India on 21st September, 2013. As ...

As we all know, THE World University Rankings 2013-14 results has been released yesterday, Oct-02-2013. It employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and ...

Expressing concern over the quality of educational institutions in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday said Indian universities are not counted among the top in the world. Delivering the convocation address at the Pondicherry University here, Mukherjee said: "If we ...

Four 3-membered panels have been formed of vice-chancellors, in order to look into various issues across the campuses. After the university teachers ruled over the committees saying that, similar panels which were formed earlier have not seen any results, the ...

A man has been arrested for allegedly selling fake university marksheets and certificates to students, police said. Manoj Kumar was arrested from his residence in Dabua colony on a tip off. He was selling fake marksheets, degrees of UGC ...

New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has initiated an Internship Scheme from 1st September 2013 to engage Indian Nationals, who are Graduate /Post Graduate or Research Students enrolled in reputed University/Institution within India or abroad and ...

President Pranab Mukherjee Friday asked universities to use technology to reach out to students who don't have access to education due to geographic or economic limitations. "Many bright students are prevented by geographic location or economic difficulty from seeking higher ...

Aligarh Muslim University is all set to hold 'All India Essay Writing Competition' for University and College students in English language on "Sir Syed's Vision and Efforts towards Education of Women". Please note: the participants must be a valid student ...

Following the approval of National Forest Commission (NFC), the University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified various universities and institutions to encourage Research and Ecology. The notification says, the UGC deputy secretary Shakeel Ahmad, has made it clear that the move ...