Chennai, Jan 12 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K.Stalin urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider the request made by the state for exemption from National Eligibility cum Entrance Examination (NEET) for medical education. Chief Minister was speaking at a function in which 11 new medical colleges in Tamil Nadu were virtually inaugurated by Prime […]
New Delhi, Jan 10 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Delhi, Madras, Mandi and Indore got new directors on Monday, according to officials. While IIT-Bombay professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras professor V Kamakoti has been appointed as the director of the institute, they said. Kamakoti designed India’s […]
Chennai, Jan 10 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu higher education minister, K. Ponmudi said that the state government has decided to postpone all semester examinations in the universities of the state given the surge in Covid -19 cases. The exams were scheduled to commence on January 20th and the minister said that the revised dates would be announced […]
New Delhi, Jan 4 The Republic Day camp for the cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) was formally inaugurated by its Director General Lt Gen Gurbirpal Singh on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The camp is held at the culmination of one complete year of training of NCC cadets and is conducted […]
Chennai, Dec 27( BPNS) The Students of the elite Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) will be conducting a menstrual awareness programme,’ Unmute’ focusing on menstrual hygiene management. The students of the premier institute will also be conducting awareness programmes on self-defence techniques to prevent sexual assault. A statement from the IIT- Madras said that […]
Chennai, Nov 19 (BPNS) The Consulate of the United States of America in Chennai held a week-long virtual workshop “Destination South India” in association with IIT Madras, United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF), and the US-based Forum on Education Abroad (FEA) for non-governmental organizations and educational institutions to promote South India as a foreign study […]
Chennai, Nov 16 (BPNS) Students of several colleges in many rural districts of Tamil Nadu are forcibly giving transfer certificates (TC) to students citing lack of online attendance. Most of the students were called and informed that their TC is ready and asked to collect. Rajesh. K, a student who is in the second year […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 6 (BPNS) Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala has removed the head of department of Nano Science and Technology department, Dr. Nandakumar Kalarickal from the post. A research scholar, Deepa Mohan who belongs to Scheduled Caste community had complained against the Professor that she was facing caste-based harassment from the head of department. The […]
Chennai, Nov 4 (BPNS ) While the DMK and its allies in Tamil Nadu have been on a campaign that the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) would lead to destruction of medical education in Tamil Nadu as it does not favours government school students, students of government schools, and government-aided schools have improved their […]
Chennai, Nov 2 (BPNS) The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC ) has taken action against a lower primary school for maintaining the attendance register of students on the basis of their caste. Instead of maintaining the attendance on an alphabetical basis, the school clubbed together students on the basis of their caste. The students were divided […]
