New Delhi: Centre’s move to introduce the National Commission of Higher Education and Research Bill has seen opposition from the Bar Council of India on the ground that the proposal tends to take away its powers in legal education.The decision to drop the proposal which sought a tooth and nail oppos…
New Delhi: Kapil Sibal, the Human Resource Development (HRD) minister had in October 2009, formed a series of committees during a meeting of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Council - the highest decision making body, to look into the functioning of various IITs which now lies dormant.It has…
Kanpur: President Pratibha Patil recently buried a ‘Time Capsule’ on the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) campus on the occasion of its golden jubilee celebrations and also unveiled a nanosatellite developed by the institute. The capsule, which is made of a special metal, contains pen-…
New Delhi: Cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, The South Asian Network of Goethe-Institute, has declared to provide fully funded annual fellowship in Arts Management and Cultural Policy.Starting March 15, 2010, the first edition of ‘A. R. Think South Asia Fellowship’ that includes…
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said recently that lack of educational facilities and attacks by Taliban have kept five million school going children out of schools and pleaded with insurgents to stop such attacks.”Five million of our school going children can not still go to schools,” Karzai t…
Jerusalem: The manuscript of the path-breaking theory of relativity written by physicist Albert Einstein has been put on display for the first time in Israel.The 46-page manuscript of the “Theory of General Relativity”, which was donated by the scientist to Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1925, ha…
Bangalore: India’s test of its new Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) has had to be aborted after 150 seconds.”The 200-second test, conducted at the liquid propulsion systems centre at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu on Friday, was aborted after 150 seconds when a deviation in one of…
