Engineering students getting admission to private colleges under the government quota will have to shell out Rs 2,500 more per year as fee, taking the annual fee from Rs 30,000 to Rs 32,500, Higher Education Minister VS Acharya said Monday.Acharya al ..

While the state government has stopped awarding scholarship to poor and meritorious students of colleges and universities, the central government and some public sector undertakings have of late come forward to help talented boys and girls.At least t ..

Ever since the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) came into being in 2004, there have been reservations about its earnestness.While the state government conducts the Common Entrance Test (CET) to allot seats ..

Former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi has asked State Government to reserve seats for reserved category students in Chhattisgarh Engineering colleges.Dr BR Ambedkar Employees Association President Sanjay Thul said, from a long time the association has been ..

Worried that the high failure rate will affect the morale of their students, engineering colleges are planning to hold counselling sessions. The aim, they said, is to help first-year students cope with their disappointment and motivate them to perfor ..

The apex decision making body of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has broken free of the human resource development (HRD) ministry in a move that could be the first step towards allowing the IITs to govern themselves. Empowered by independe ..

The Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay on Thursday launched a laboratory, set up in association with Applied Materials Inc, a global supplier for manufacturing solutions for semi-conductor and solar industries.The scope of the Applied Materials  ..

Uttar Pradesh police today said the kingpin of the gang involved in leakage of AIEEE question paper belonged to Jaunpur district and has base in Ghaziabad and Mumbai."The leader of the gang, which leaked the All India Engineering Entrance Examin ..

The Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (Comed-K) is not budging on the exam date for the under-graduate Entrance Test which will be held as per schedule on May 8, 2011.If the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE ..

The AMU management today decided to hold all entrance examinations, including for its medical and engineering colleges, as per schedule despite the varsity closing doing indefinitely following student clashes."During a high-level meeting, senior ..

Following the leak of the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) paper conducted by the CBSE over the weekend, the examination for those who could not appear for it has been scheduled for May 11.A Human Resource Development Ministry spoke ..

A three-member inquiry committee has been set up to investigate the AIEEE paper leak on Sunday that affected lakhs of students, forcing the CBSE to reschedule the test with a fresh set of questions.Some 32,000 students who could not appear for the ex ..

Mishra was a meritorious student. There was no record that he had previously suffered any cardiac arrest, Kasalkar said.The relatives of the deceased have been contacted and efforts are on to collect information about Mishra from the students living  ..

A short course of five days on seismic design of railway bridges is being organised at IIT Kanpur. The programme started from Monday.The course is an outreach activity of IIT Kanpur for the professionals engaged in the design of railway bridges. This ..

NASA on Sunday delayed Monday's targeted launch of the space shuttle Endeavour as work continues to resolve an electronics problem that scuttled Friday''s launch attempt, officials said.A new date for Endeavour''s launch has not y ..

When a large tired bunch of 11.13 lakh students while recovering from the morning jolt of the paper leak walked back to their respective exam halls at noon, they just knew they wanted the tumultuous day to at least close on a brighter note. But when  ..

After a spate of protests by students against private unaffiliated institutes made headlines in the recent past, the state government seems to have been stirred out of inactivity. The government has declared that it will upload the details of all pri ..

The Mangalore University, known for the strides it has made in nuclear physics, is all set to get a linear nuclear accelerator at a cost of Rs10.34 crore.A high level committee of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, has cleared the proj ..

Day two of Common Entrance Test (CET), 2011 proved to be better than day one, for most of the candidates seemed complacent about the papers.Most candidates said physics and chemistry papers were easy compared to mathematics and biology papers. Devara ..

Responding to the state higher education minister VS Acharya’s new fee proposal of Rs32,500 for undergraduate engineering courses, the Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association (KUPECA) wrote to him on Saturday and clarified th ..