One of India's leading industrial conglomerates, JK Organisation, is setting up a multi- disciplinary university, JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU), in Jaipur, Rajasthan, at an estimated cost of Rs.3 billion."The multi-disciplinary university  ..

Russia's Soyuz spacecraft put six US communications satellites into orbit Tuesday, an official said.The spacecraft blasted off at 17.11 GMT from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space centre, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said.The Globalstar- ..

Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata will be conferred with the Yale School of Management's prestigious "Legend in Leadership" award in Mumbai later this month. The award will be presented to Tata at a conference of renowned business leaders f ..

Even as 60 more countries in the world have shown interest to embrace nuclear power to meet their energy needs, only one third of these may generate atomic power, says an official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."Nuclear power i ..

Chinese companies have been breaking the UN embargoes against Iran by aiding in Tehran's nuclear programme, the US government has concluded.President Barack Obama's administration believes Chinese firms have assisted in missile technology and ..

A teacher, a lawyer, a judge and now back to being a student - 100-year-old Bholaram Das has just enrolled for his doctorate, perhaps becoming India's oldest university student.Das has got admission in a PhD programme at the Gauhati University in ..

After the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) opened its centres in West Bengal and Kerala, Muslims in five other states also want similar centres, AMU Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis said here Sunday."Muslims living in West Bengal and Kerala are ex ..

The newly-formed Indian Council of Universities (ICU) Saturday alleged that a series of legislations formulated by the human resource development (HRD) ministry are not constitutional. The council includes nearly 60 private, state and central univers ..

Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Saturday mooted a neighbourhood book policy, with libraries and reading rooms across the country. "The aim should be that in the manner of neighbourhood schools, there should be neighbourhood libra ..

The Centre's repeated decisions to repatriate senior officers on trivial grounds have now come under the scanner of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).While setting aside one such order of premature repatriation passed by the Ministry of T ..

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad's (IIM-A) annual international business school summit called 'Confluence' will be a platform to showcase ideas and innovations this year.Until date, Confluence has been focusing on themes relev ..

As Microsoft and Autodesk Friday signed MoUs with the All India Council for Technical Education for providing free software to engineering college students, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal pitched for giving such facilities to seconda ..

Software majors Microsoft and Autodesk will provide free software to students and engineering faculty in colleges under the ambit of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).AICTE Chairman S.S. Mantha signed MoUs with Autodesk Chief Educ ..

US President Barack Obama has warned that cutting America's education budget would amount to "unilateral disarmament" in an "education arms race" from India and China to Germany to lead the global economy."Nothing would b ..

The prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have been allowed to open campuses abroad, a human resource development (HRD) ministry official said Wednesday.In a decision taken at a meeting between HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and the directors  ..

Human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the planet can provide. Consequently, at current rates of consumption of resources, humankind will need the capacity of two earths by 2030, according to t ..

The team that built the first solar-powered plane is planning a round-the-world flight within two years, with a stopover in China, a media report Thursday said."We plan to stop in Hawaii, the US, a European country, Japan and probably China - it ..

The number of Indian students enrolling at Australian universities for the 2011 academic year is set to plunge by 80 percent, an academic said.Melbourne University Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis said that higher education across Australia, including Vict ..

The prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have been allowed to open campuses abroad, a human resource development (HRD) ministry official said Wednesday.In a decision taken at a meeting between HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and the directors  ..

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has sanctioned Rs.3.90 crore for laying an astro-turf at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), a university official said Wednesday. The turf is expected to be in place within a year."The Central Public Works D ..