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ISED advocates ‘Pandemic Economics’ as a new discipline

Such research and studies are crucial for policymaking during a crisis

Ensure institutes are trained in online education: HRD Minister to V-Cs

Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has advised all the Vice-Chancellors to ensure that all institutes are trained in ...

Decision on reopening schools, colleges on April 14 after reviewing Covid-19 situation: HRD Minister

The government will take a decision on reopening schools and colleges on April 14 after reviewing the coronavirus situation in the country, Union HRD ...

Decision on reopening schools, colleges on April 14 after reviewing Covid-19 situation: Ramesh Pokhriyal

The government will decide on reopening of schools and colleges on April 14 after reviewing the coronavirus situation in the country, Union HRD ...

Foreign students with over one-year stay in Australia eligible to access superannuation: Govt.

In a relief to foreign students, including from India, facing financial hardships during the coronavirus pandemic, the Australian government has ...

UoH notifies entrance exam for 2020-21

University of Hyderabad (UoH), a premier Central University, has invited online application forms for its entrance examinations and admissions to ...

Coronavirus: Students to take global exams TOEFL, GRE at home

Global exams like TOEFL and GRE will be taken at home except in mainland China and Iran given the COVID-19 situation across the world, according to ...

E-learning platform Imarticus launches NSDC approved courses for professionals amid lockdown

Along with some of India’s largest corporations, a swathe of start-ups and multinationals are asking employees to work from home as the number of ...

Lido Learning to hire over 500 online tutors

Ed-tech start-up Lido Learning will hire more than 500 online tutors across the country in April to meet the rise in online demand, with schools shut ...

‘Lockdown giving big boost to virtual classrooms’

While online education has been making rapid technological advances globally, few Indian institutions have been able to successfully incorporate ...

CBSE introduces ‘Applied Mathematics’ as new academic elective from 2020-21

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced ‘Applied Mathematics’ as a new academic elective from the current academic year ...

Great Learning launches online library on artificial intelligence, digital marketing

Great Learning, an online classroom on Artificial Intelligence, launched ‘Great Learning Academy’, a digital repository that offers over 300 hours of ...

NTA extends dates for submission of online application forms of various examination

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has extended the dates for submission of online applications forms for various examinations due to the ongoing ...

Telangana SSC exams deferred again

With the lockdown period extended till April 14 from the earlier deadline of March 31 in the State, the Telangana Government has further deferred the ...

Govt school students from Nursery to Class 8 will be promoted to next class: Delhi’s Education Minister

Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister, Manish Sisodia, on Monday announced that all the students of Delhi government schools from ...

Covid-19:Ed-tech platforms see spike in users

There has been a significant increase in the number of learners signing up on ed-tech platforms during the lockdown, say experts.“There are two ...

Start-up incubator T-Hub’s Covid-19 challenge for students

Start-up incubator T-Hub, IT infrastructure firm Q City and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have announced a Covid-19 Innovation ...

Covid-19: BITS Pilani-Hyderabad suggests AYUSH approach to reduce transmission

Team formulates nutraceutical-based formulation to kill the virus

Close schools to fight virus? These places say no

As the coronavirus has made its way around the world, more than 160 countries have closed schools. Nearly 90 per cent of the world’s student ...

Now, an app that enables continued schooling in corona times

A firm associated with the Kerala Start-up Mission (KSUM) has come up with an app that enables students to continue with their studies that have gone ...

NEET postponed due to coronavirus outbreak

The HRD Ministry on Friday postponed the national medical entrance exam, NEET, in view of the countrywide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, ...

Kufos Vice-Chancellor Ramachandran passes away

Noted fisheries scientist and Vice-Chancellor of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos) A Ramachandran died of cardiac arrest in ...

Andhra Pradesh: Govt to promote students in 6-9th grades without exams

Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to do away with annual examinations for the students of class 6th to class 9th in view of coronavirus threat ...

Indian American hoteliers offer free accommodation to stranded Indian students

Indian American hoteliers have come forward to the rescue of Indian students stranded in the US following the implementation of lockdown measures in ...

Covid-19 impact: CBSE extends application deadline for school affiliation till April 30

Coronavirus cases in the country crossed 600

National Supercomputing Mission approves installation of facility at IIT Guwahati

The Technical Advisory Committee of the National Supercomputing Mission (MSM-TAC) has approved the installation of a Supercomputing facility of the ...

Salem’s Sona College of Technology and Vee Technologies tackle Covid-19 with ‘Corona-Scan’ and ‘Corona-Support’ apps

Engineering students of Sona College of Technology, Salem, and engineers of Vee Technologies, Bengaluru, a business process management company, have ...

Tamil Nadu postpones Class X board exams

The Class 10 board exams in Tamil Nadu have been postponed by two weeks as a preventive measure due to Covid-19.The exams were to commence on March 27 ...

University of Hyderabad closes hostels till April 6

The University of Hyderabad (UoH) announces lockdown of all hostels and the messes by March 23, 2020. The decision comes as a preventive measure to ...

Devi Shetty advises students not to worry about gloomy situation

IIM-B holds simple ceremony, confers degrees

UPSC defers personality tests of civil services candidates

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has postponed the personality tests (Interview) of the candidates of the Civil Services (Main) Examination ...