Engineer’s Day: Remembering Sir MV
Engineers continue to play an extremely important role in the development of any country. 15th September of every year is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India, in appreciation of the profession and in honour o...
Celebrating the ‘Philosopher President’
“The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.”
Teachers are the most influential people in our lives. After our parents, it is our teachers that shape our ideas, develop our minds and help us...
Delhi University To Be Announced Sixth Cutoff List On July 22
The 8th top ranked university in the country, the University of Delhi to be announced its sixth cutoff list for several merit-based undergraduate courses for students on July 22. This varsity had initially rele...
AUD Has Released Its Second Cutoff List, See More Details!
AUD (Ambedkar University of Delhi) has released its second cutoff list in earlier this morning, basically, the admissions of different courses go dip between 1.75 percent to 3.25 percent especially for students...
CBSE to announce Neet 2017 results today
The Supreme Court had requested that the board pronounce the outcomes before June 26.
A representative for the Central Board of Secondary Education said the consequences of the National Eligibility cum Entra...
SC orders CBSE to announce NEET results soon
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered that the results of the 2017 National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) be declared by June 26, thereby overruling a stay the Madras high court had issued+ .
The C...
UGC and AICTE to be replaced by new education system
In early March the Prime Minister had chaired a meeting on education following which the decision was taken. Several experts had advocated a similar idea, but the same was never implemented.
Currently work i...
All the Best! CBSE 10th results released, Check on official website
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) released its Class 10th Board or Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results. The results can be accessed on cbse.nic.in or cbseresults.nic.in.
The ...
CBSE 10th results likely to release tomorrow, and how you can check grades
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to release the results of the 10th 2017 examinations on 3 June, media reports said. However, an official update is yet to come from the board.
The ca...
CBSE UGC Net Results announced, see 4 easy steps to download results
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the results of University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) 2017 on May 29. The results of the exam, which was conducted on Janu...
CBSE class 12th results announced, topper score 99.6 percent
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday announced the result of Class XII examination with Noida girl Raksha Gopal+scoring a whopping 99.6 percent to bag the first rank.
The second and thir...
CBSE 12th Board Results could be delayed due to High Court decision on Moderation Policy
The CBSE Class 12 Results 2017 is unlikely to be declared today. Some reports suggest that it could take another week to be declared owing to the marks moderation policy. The Delhi High Court had on Tuesday tol...
CBSE 12th results may be out tomorrow
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to declare the results of Class 12 Board Exam 2017 or Senior School Certificate Examinations 2017 (SSCE) on its official website this week.
Althoug...
Analysis of JEE Advanced Paper, bar raised this year!
JEE Advanced, the examination for admissions to IITs, the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and the Indian Institute of Science, was held on Su...
CBSE may soon release the NEET answer keys at official website
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had conducted the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) on 7 May 2017. Amidst controversies over frisking protocols, the exam was held at 104 exam cities on t...
Delhi High Court scolds CBSE against schools selling books and uniforms
After considering the Central Board of Secondary Education advisory to schools not to indulge in commercial activities, the Delhi High Court today directed the board to ensure the schools affiliated with them a...
SRM University will declare SRMJEEE results today, on official website
The SRM University will declare the results of SRMJEEE 2017 today on the official website.
The admission will be granted on the basis of the performance in the Entrance Examination SRMJEEE (UG) 2017 conducte...
JEE main results out, topper kalpit veerval secures 100 % marks
Regular classes and a bit of confidence helped Rajasthan’s Kalpit Veerwal score full marks and clinch the All India Rank 1 in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2017. The results were announced on Thursd...
JEE 2017: Results to be announced shortly
JEE Main 2017 Answer Key will be released shortly! This is a great news for all candidates who had appeared for the exam on 2 April 2017 in offline mode. The Board will also release the scanned copies of the OM...
CBSE board results likely to be delayed for the first time in 20 years
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) may delay the declaration of results of Class 10 and Class 12 board exams for the first time in over 20 years as the examinations were delayed due to the Assembly...
Indian Institute of Business gets EQUIS accreditation
The Indian School of Business (ISB) on Wednesday said it has been accredited by EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and re-accredited by Association for Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)...
Miranda House deemed best college in India by HRD ministry
Six Delhi University colleges have made it to the list of the top 10 colleges in India under a national ranking released by the human resources development (HRD) ministry, with Miranda House being ranked at num...
UGC Recommends Universities to Add Aadhaar Number in Degree Certificates
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed all universities and educational institutions to add identification mechanisms like student’s photograph and Aadhaar number beside security features in degree...
IISC among top 10 universities in the world
There is some good news for the Indian Education Sector. In the recently released Times Higher Education Rankings, the Indian Institute of Science or IISc, Bangalore as famously known has made to the list of To...
IIT Roorkee releases answer key for GATE 2017
IIT Roorkee, which is the organizing institute of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2017 has released the answer keys in the official website of this year's test; http://gate.iitr.ernet.in. The c...
DU Students protest against ABVP viloence on facebook
Days after Delhi University’s Ramjas College witnessed violent clashes, a Lady Sri Ram College student who is the daughter of an officer who died in the Kargil war started a social media campaign ‘I am not afra...
DTU student lands 1.25 crore job with Uber
A student of Delhi Technological University (DTU) has received a job offer with an annual salary of Rs.1.25 crore from United States-based cab-hailing company Uber Technologies.
This is the second-highest of...
Rahul Dravid declines honorary doctorate from Bangalore University
Rahul Dravid on Wednesday declined to accept an honorary doctorate degree conferred on him by the Bangalore University, saying that he would like to accomplish research in the field of sports and then earn the ...
Exit Test to be made mandatory for Engineering students
Engineering students of both government and private institutions might soon have to write a mandatory exit examination in their final year. Their performance in this examination is likely to determine their emp...
Amazed to see IITians opting for MBA: Google CEO
Admitting that he used to bunk classes during his engineering days at IIT Kharagpur, Google CEO Sundar Pichai today expressed surprise to find young IITians aiming to get into IIMs even as he stressed on the im...
Full UPSC exam schedule for 2017
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the examination calendar for the year 2017. It carries on recruitment to services and posts under the union by conducting various competitive examinations...
Shiv Sena covers this poster of ‘modern hanuman’ at IIT-Bombay, deems it offensive
Members of the Shiv Sena put a piece of white cloth over a painting that showed Hindu god Hanuman --- in western attire and sporting gadgets --- inside the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) campus o...
FIITJEE posts this shameful ad to lure students
FIITJEE, a known coaching institute that offers preparation for engineering exams including the tough IIT-JEE examination, appears to have resorted to mind games in order to poach good students from opting for ...
CAT 2016 analysis and question patterns, no sectional time limit this year
The Common Aptitude Test (CAT) 2016, conducted for short-listing eligible students for the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme across the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) as well as other p...
For CAT Aspirants: Top 25 MBA colleges of India
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has already released the top universities, management, engineering and pharmacy colleges list. This first-of-its-kind indigenous ranking framework for higher educat...
CAT 2016: Last moment tips and thinks you must know
There’s just a Saturday left between you and the Common Admission Test 2016 (CAT 2016) for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), to be conducted on Sunday, December 4, 2016, in two separate s...
‘Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai’ is now an IIT Guwahati question worth 11 marks
With demonetisation leading to a series of debates and analyses of the bold economic move, it has also given birth to many memes, jokes, videos and, of course, reprised the legand of Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai (Son...
Have you ever wondered why your fingers wrinkle when you take bath?
If you’ve ever washed away your day with hours in a hot-tub, you might have asked yourself, “Why do my hands look like I’m 90 years old when they’re in the water?”
The full explanation of how and why our fin...
Last two days left to apply for more than 1,700 posts at Indian Post Payment Banks
The last date to apply for Scale I, Scale II and III, and Scale IV to VI officers in India Post Payments Bank Ltd (IPPB) has been extended to November 7, 2016. The application process, which began on October 4,...
Here is why Army, Navy and Air Force of India have different salutes
If you've ever seen a military function or even the recent Republic Day parade on the telly, then you would know that the one common feature is a salute. The salute is the highest form of respect that the Armed...
31 Indian Universities make it into top 1000 of the World
India has improved its position in the global higher education, with a record 31 educational institutions making it to a new list of the world’s top varsities topped by the University of Oxford.
The Indian I...
Oxford named world’s top University
The University of Oxford, the oldest in the English-speaking world, took the top spot in the latest World University Rankings, released annually by Times Higher Education. The English university dating to 1096 ...
CAT deadline extended after lukewarm response from applicants
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) on Thursday extended the registration window for the Common Admission Test (CAT) by five more days, after seeing a subdued response from aspirants.
At the end of th...
In this college, Sunny Leone and Mia Khalifa welcome students after their vacations
While students just starting college are a jittery lot, stepping into the college corridors for the first time, this batch of freshers in a college in Kerala were in for some rather pleasant surprise, when thei...
This Ex IIT Professor has given his entire life for Tribals
We have read stories on how graduates from top universities have taken initiatives to support poor but not many go and live with them. Alok Sagar, an ex-IIT Delhi professor, left his lucrative job in 1982 to se...
Are you a middle class Indian? Find out here!
In a country quite as large as India, it's hard to identify anything that actually counts as being in the "middle." Yet most of us claim we are middle-class, no matter where we fall on the spectrum, whether com...
Chan-Zuckerberg foundation to invest $50 Millions in education startup BYJU’s
Education technology start-up Byju’s, owned by Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd, on Thursday said it has raised $50 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Belgian investmen...
70% students at IIT Bombay skip bath everyday
Taking a bath every day is an inevitable habit for most human beings. But for some students of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, that seems to be a difficult proposition to take care of.
A study conduct...
IITs and IISc at the bottom of Asia’s Most Innovative Universities ranking
In the latest Reuters rankings, only Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) — figure at the lowest in the list of the Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Univers...
Teachers Day: President Pranav Mukherjee takes class, Google celebrates with doodle
The Google homepage today shows an animation where a teacher, portrayed by a bespectacled pencil holding a book, is leading small pencils depicting students. The student pencils are shown jumping and walking wi...
What is Zika virus? How to protect yourself from it?
The deadly Aedes aegypti mosquito supposedly has another threat up its wings for India, apart from fast-spreading diseases like dengue and chikungunya. The recent confirmation of 13 cases of Zika virus among In...
Bill passed to change the name of West Bengal to Bengal
The West Bengal Assembly today passed a resolution to change the name of the state from West Bengal to 'Bangla' in Bengali, 'Bengal' in English and 'Bangal' in Hindi amidst strong opposition by BJP and reservat...
IITs blacklist 31 startups for campus placement
As many as nine companies have been blacklisted from recruiting at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay for one year.
The institute has blacklisted the companies this year, based on four grounds – tho...
Government approves 1000 research scholarships every year for IITs
On Tuesday, the union government approved a new scheme to provide 1,000 research fellowships a year to B.Tech students of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) to encourage them to opt for research in India...
IITs and IIMs losing their charm? Over 700 dropouts in 2016 from India’s Premier Institutes
As many as 656 students dropped out of IITs in the 2015-16 academic year, highest being from IIT Delhi, while 49 students left IIMs, the government said today.
IIT Delhi saw 256 students dropping out, follow...
This is how you should read the Hindu for clearing UPSC
First read the very 1st page. Then go to the last page.
The starting from last page move towards the 1st one. The order will be last page, sports page, economy section, science and technology section, Inte...
Changing Indian Time Zone by half an hour can save a lot of power!
Bangalore scientists have said that advancing the IST by half an hour will save energy by upto three billion units every year.
The time zone for India is based on 82.5° E longitude, passing through Mirzapore...
Haryana: 51% students fail Class 10 Board exams
Over 51% students have failed in the Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE) Class X examinations. The results were announced on Sunday. The overall pass percentage is merely 48.88%, which is only marginally h...
CBSE class 12 results for 2016 announced, Delhi girl tops
The CBSE on Saturday announced the 2016 results for class 12 examinations for all 10 regions. The pass percentage of girls has been recorded at 88.58% and 78.85% for boys. Sukriti Gupta of Montfort School in De...
A school based on caste: where section A is Upper Caste, B is OBC, C is SC
An intermediate college principal in the Hathras district wrote a new chapter on casteism by segregating Class IX students on caste lines and allotting each caste a separate classroom.
The principal, RadheyS...
Rajasthan deletes chapter on RTI from school textbook
Rajasthan’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government has deleted a chapter on the Right to Information (RTI) movement from the class VIII social science textbook.
The decision has shocked many RTI activists ...
CBSE to soon invite application for NEET phase-2.
CBSE will soon launch the online application link for NEET phase-2, which is scheduled for July 24. Only students who had not registered for NEET phase-1, earlier called AIPMT, are eligible to apply for this.
...
UPSC declares final result of Civil Services Examination 2015, Tina Dabi secures 1st rank
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) declared the final result of Civil Services Examination 2015 on Tuesday. Delhi girl Tina Dabi has topped the 2015 civil services examination, while railway officer Ath...
SC for second chance to students who appeared for NEET-1
Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider opening up phase two of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) to students who appeared for the common entrance...
10 facts about Amit Singhal: The man who quit Google for philanthropy
Last night Amit Singhal announced that he was retiring from Google. Amit Singhal who? Well, those who keep an eye on Google know him fairly well. Although, he is not as well-known as Larry Page, Sergey Brin, an...
NCERT Books must needed for UPSC preparations!
It takes a lot of hard work to achieve your dreams. For those who dream to be the best in the country, to be the most respected men and women, to be the most powerful, UPSC is the threshold. It is also consider...
5 Questions you should ask yourself to realise what your passion is!
Passion is an interesting idea. Something we do just because we love doing it. Something we could do for our lifetime even if it pays us nothing. Some call it the inner calling, some call it a dream while other...
Chhattisgarh emerges as top performer in ‘Digital India Week’ !
Chhattisgarh has emerged as the best performing State in the field of information technology during the ‘Digital India Week 2015’
“The state has secured first position for its performance during Digital ...
These recent decisions by Khap Panchayat are kinda really cool!
The Khaps of Haryana make for an interesting case study. They are notoriously famous for their weird decision making and regressive mindset. They are popular for honor killings every now and then.
That has c...
Javed Jaffrey teaches an important lesson through this small video!
'Intolerance' is the Indian media buzzword of the year. If the current heat wasn't enough to prove that, then this video definitely will.
As the debate is now entering daily conversations, the well-known Ind...
WATCH NOW: The biggest lesson this party season!
PrankBaaz team conducted a social experiment, in which a guy approached girls and while talking to them, mixed something in their drinks. The crime was committed with such precision that the girls couldn't to k...
Two College Friends Raise $13 Million To Build India’s First Electric Scooter
Last year, Delhi became the world’s most polluted city. The number of air pollution-related illnesses globally has been rising drastically. Delhi’s traffic is not a joke. According to one news sou...
12 year old Nashik Girl invents a shower that saves water
A 12 year old girl from Nashik, Shrusti Nerkar, has come up with a special shower that can help save upto 65 litres of water while bathing.
The shower has special nozzles that stop water from g...
One of the Oldest Ramayana Manuscript From 6th Century Found In Kolkata, suggests an alternate storyline
A 6th-century manuscript of Ramayana, which focuses on the separation of Rama and Sita and portrays them more as humans, has been found tucked inside a Purana at a Sanskrit library here. It is markedly diff...
Story of Ishan Pandita: Dreams do come true, if you believe in you!
In India, aspiring for any sports other than cricket as a career is no less than a crime. Hence, it is heartening to see when someone like Saina Nehwal or Somdev Dev Varman make it big. Yet no suc...
Google CEO’s India visit: Highlights from Sundar Pichai’s trip to his homeland
Google's newly appointed CEO Sundar Pichai was in India this week and it was a hefty trip. During his two-day trip India-born Pichai met President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several othe...
CLAT 2016 dates announced!
For those aspiring to be lawyers, the details of CLAT 2016 have been announced. Common Law Admission Test
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for entry into one of the 17 national law universities for t...