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The Supreme Court on Monday lifted the stay on the admission process in Indian Institute of Technology and various other institutions who start the admissions and counselling process based on the JEE Advanced examination. Supreme Court's Decision on IIT Admissions ...

Engineering aspirants might be able to take the JEE Main exam three times a year instead of the current pattern of only one entrance test yearly. Students aspiring to study engineering at the top engineering colleges are likely to get multiple ...

In order to curb the number of vacant seats lying in IITs and NITs, the HRD Ministry seems to have accepted the recommendations from those institutes to remove the unpopular courses, conduct special rounds of counselling permitting candidates to register afresh, ...

In a bid to ensure timely admission of students into premiere colleges such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other engineering colleges without delaying, the school education boards across the country have been asked to ...

The Joint Apex Board (JAB) has decided to use Aadhaar-based biometric attendance machines for attendance at the JEE main examination centres. Earlier, Aadhaar card has been made mandatory for the JEE main examination registrations. In a bid to curb malpractices and ...

The registration process for JEE Main 2017 begins today, on December 1, 2016. The last date for registration is January 2, 2017. JEE Main is known to be one of the toughest entrance examinations in India. This year, the JEE examination ...

Indian languages should be given priority when it comes to medium of instruction in schools and colleges, recommends RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN) to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry. In a recent meeting between SSUN leaders and HRD Minister ...

A three-member committee was set up by the HRD Ministry to suggest measures to curb vacant seats during admissions into IITs and other centrally funded technical institutions. The committee is headed by IIT Kharagpur director Partha Pratim Chakraborty and consisting of ...

The Union HRD minister, Prakash Javadekar, said that improving the quality of education in India still remains a major challenge. He was talking in the 'Young Makers Conclave'. He said that there are 270 million students in the country from KG ...

The central government is planning to introduce caste-based reservation system in teaching positions of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The HRD ministry will be holding talks with the chiefs of these B-schools in this regard. Chairmen and directors of IIMs will ...

Higher Education Financial Agency (HEFA) is to be set up by the government to encourage research in institutes like IITs, IIMs and other higher education institutes. The fund of up to 20,000 crores can be given to these institutes to build ...

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Puducherry has invited applications for admissions in Ph.D programme in various disciplines. The application can be sent for both full time and part time Ph.D. The last date to apply is September 15.  A monthly ...

Owing to IIT JEE Board's multiple counselling sessions, less seats are going vacant this year. As the joint counselling session for IITs, NITs, IIITs, came to an end, it was noticed that only 73 seats were vacant in the IITs, which ...

The Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) will be allowed common counselling process along with the IITs and NITs from the next academic year. The HRD Ministry has approved the common counselling process for the IISERs from next year ...