New Delhi: The union cabinet on Thursday gave its approval to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill that, among other things, envisages 25 percent reservation for weaker sections...

New Delhi: Kumari Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of Railway, has announced several concessions for the students in the Railway Budget for 2009-10, presented today. According to the announcement, the ...

New Delhi: The Central Government today said that it has opened more than 2.7 lakh schools under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). ...

New Delhi: Talking about his 100 days agenda to reform educational system in India, Kapil Sibal, Union Human Resource Development Minister (HRD) said, "No reform can take place till we have consensus ...

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will hold the Geologists' Examination, 2009 from December 5, 2009....

New Delhi: The President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil has written to all Governors and Lt. Governors asking them to help in eliminating the menace of ragging from educational institutions in the...

New Delhi: Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development today announced the 100 days' programme of the HRD Ministry. Following are the details of the programme: ...

Kolkata: Even as a section of residents sat on a hunger strike against his move to construct a school at the upscale satellite township of Salt Lake, former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on Th...

Kolkata: West Bengal's Left Front government on Thursday criticised the educational reforms outlined by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, dubbing them as efforts aimed at "absolute...

New Delhi: With "expansion, inclusion and excellence" as his guiding factors to revamp Indian education, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday announced a slew of measures, inclu...