Pallam Raju gets HRD ministry: Big shoes to fill in?
Oct 29, 2012
NDTV to promote university sports
Oct 6, 2012
2013 से IIT के लिए नए फॉर्मेट में प्रवेश परीक्षा
Jun 27, 2012
Where are the teachers?
Jun 25, 2011
Pakistan seeks India's help in training its teachers
Press Trust of India | Friday April 19, 2013
Pakistan has asked India to present it with methods of teachers' training and research materials of various teacher training institutes.
NDTV launches Toyota University Cricket Championship
NDTV | Thursday February 7, 2013
University Cricket Championship is an all-India T20 League brought to you by NDTV and the Ministry of HRD starting February 2013.
Education Ministry orders ragging probe at architecture college SPA
Press Trust of India | Monday January 7, 2013
Taking a serious note of the ragging incident at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) here, the HRD Ministry has ordered a fresh inquiry into the episode that took place in September last year.
No subsidised LPG cylinders for mid-day meal programme
Friday November 23, 2012
The Petroleum Ministry has turned down a request of the HRD Ministry to allow supply of subsidised LPG cylinders for the mid-day meal programme. "The request of HRD Ministry has not been agreed to," said Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor.
Shashi Tharoor's boss defends him over BJP's 'love ministry' taunt
Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday October 31, 2012
New Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju on Wednesday came out in defence of his ministerial colleague Shashi Tharoor, terming as unfair the BJP's taunt that the Minister of State for HRD should be made minister of "love affairs".
IPL controversy over many years ago: New minister Shashi Tharoor
Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Sunday October 28, 2012
The suave, multi-lingual Shashi Tharoor is Sunday's Comeback Kid. He is back in the union council of ministers after two and a half years and will be minister of state for Human Resource Development.
Land bill: Government overrules changes proposed by parliamentary panel
Oineetom Ojah Sinha | Thursday July 5, 2012
Rural ministry has rejected the Standing Committee's suggestion that government should not acquire land for PPP projects.
Entrance test row: IIT Directors discuss compromise formula proposed by Kapil Sibal
Reported by Um-e-Kulsoom; edited by Mala Das | Saturday June 23, 2012
It's a compromise formula devised by Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal ahead of a crucial meeting of the IIT Council on June 27 on the new entrance format for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
IIT entrance exam row: Breakthrough soon?
Reported by Um-e-Kulsoom, written by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday June 19, 2012
After an acrimonious fight between the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) over the new 'one nation, one test' entrance format for all centrally-funded engineering colleges, there are indications o...
Entrance exam row: After IIT Kanpur, Delhi likely to follow suit
Reported by Um-e-Kulsoom | Saturday June 9, 2012
The government's 'one nation, one test' format for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is raising many voices of dissent. The decision of the IIT Kanpur Senate on Friday to conduct its own entrance examination in 2013 has taken ...
IIT Delhi alumni write to PM against common entrance exam
Reported by Um-E-Kulsoom Shariff | Wednesday June 6, 2012
The alumni association of the IIT or Indian institute of Technology has written to the Prime Minister, attacking Education Minister Kapil Sibal over his one-nation one-exam policy. The association writes that "IITs are being destroyed by mindless tam...
Single entrance test for IITs? Crucial meeting to decide today
NDTV Correspondent | Saturday June 2, 2012
In what could decide the fate of several students aspiring to get into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the government will today hold a crucial meeting to on whether there should be a single entrance test for admission to the prestigious ...
143 technical institutes seek to shut shop: Govt
Sunday April 29, 2012
The phenomenon can be largely attributed to the mushrooming of technical institutes across the country.
Government: 6,100 tonnes foodgrains reported to be damaged in 2010-11
Monday March 19, 2012
The government today said out of the 60 million tonnes of foodgrains distributed in the country in 2010-11 through the Public Distribution System (PDS), only 0.061 lakh tonnes were reported to be damaged.
HRD Ministry should focus on schools: Digvijaya Singh
NDTV Correspondent | Saturday September 11, 2010
After taking on Home Minister P Chidambaram, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has now trained his guns on Human Resources Minister (HRD) Kapil Sibal. Speaking in Jabalpur, Digvijaya said the HRD Ministry should shift its focus from higher education to developing the school system."The need at ...