Modi govt 3.0: Who is in, who is out

Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister on Sunday for a record-equalling third term, heading a 72-member Union council of ministers that put emphasis on continuity, youth and experience while......

IIT-M row: SC panel summons HRD sec, IIT director

The national scheduled castes panel on Tuesday issued notices to Union human resource development secretary and IIT-Madras Director asking them to appear before it on June 8 amid a political row......

Restore normalcy: Govt to JNU VC after violence

Human resource development ministry officials on Wednesday "advised" Jawaharlal Nehru University vice chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar to increase communication with students, take the faculty into......

Rohith suicide: 150 students on hunger strike in Delhi

Alleging "delay in justice" to Hyderabad University research scholar Rohith Vemula, 150 protesting students from universities across Delhi who were detained earlier on Wednesday decided to go on an......

Order kills pay rise hopes for IIT, IIM faculty

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has killed hopes of an immediate pay rise for the faculty of centrally funded technical institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology,......

A family so rich they didn't know they were being robbed!

'The D K Adikesavulu clan is so wealthy, owns so many houses, and has so much jewellery,' notes T V R Shenoy, 'that it did not notice a servant stealing at the rate of Rs 66 lakh every year!'......

The IIT story: IIESTs, 3 new IITs on way

It is well-known that the following seven engineering colleges were chosen for possible conversion to Indian Institutes of Technology / Institutes of National Importance:Aligarh Muslim University......

New IITs: A long journey ahead

It is now well known that the S K Joshi Committee has selected seven colleges/universities for potential upgrading to Indian Institutes of Technology.The committee took into account parameters like......