New Delhi News

New Delhi, March 2: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), an innovation promotion platform in the NITI Aayog, with an initial fund of Rs.150 crore for research and development. Named after former prime minister ...

New Delhi: Giving a boost to higher learning and with the promise of providing one major central institute in each state, the government on Saturday earmarked Rs 26,855 crore for higher education, an increase of over 13 per cent over last ...

New Delhi, March 2 : The Union Budget for 2015-16 has cut spending on child education, development, health and protection as compared to last year, child rights organisation CRY has said. Criticising the Union Budget for 2015-16, NGO Child Rights ...

New Delhi, February 28: India needs to build quality education and skill development infrastructure and a policy especially for higher education to meet requirements of futuristic employment opportunities, the Economic Survey has said. "The policy prescription lies in shifting attention ...

New Delhi, February 28: Finance minister Arun Jaitely presented the first year Union Budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Saturday. Highlighting that the budget, which aims at the growth and investment in 2015-16 fiscal year, the Finance minister ...

New Delhi, February 26: The government is committed to promoting the use and advancement of technology for the development of the country, said union Minister for Minority Affairs Najma Heptulla. Inaugurating a two-day international education conference on "Learning Technologies in ...

New Delhi, February 26: Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) spent Rs 5,345.5 crore till September on its 12 medical college projects, which is over half of the estimated cost, Parliament was informed today. The estimated cost of the 12 medical ...

New Delhi, February 25: The possibility of an university dedicated to arts and crafts is being actively considered by the Government. The HRD Ministry has set up a committee to explore the possibility of having such a university and submit ...

New Delhi February 24: The Central government is taking up a initiative to introduce a new system to grade universities of the country, states a recent communication to the Supreme Court (SC).  The process of framing the requisite criteria ...

New Delhi, February 24 : The protest which Anna Hazare launched today against the land ordinance at Jantar Mantar here saw a group of about 100 students from an engineering college in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh turning up to offer their ...

New Delhi, February 24: President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said education was the "priority of priorities" for the government. In his address to the joint session of both houses of parliament, he said: "Education is the priority of priorities for my ...

New Delhi, February 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday confessed to students that he himself had been an ordinary student and also had bad hand-writing -- which could explain how he passed. In his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio ...

New Delhi, February 23: Infusing freshness into a system where earning maximum grades takes priority over understanding, experts have come up with solutions like teaching mathematics through video games - allowing students to go beyond the obvious. According to the ...

New Delhi February 23:Rote learning techniques have long-plagued the Indian education system, where even "science is taught like history". Infusing freshness into a system where earning maximum grades takes priority over understanding, experts have come up with solutions like teaching ...