Emphasising on the need for introducing skillful and resourceful courses for development, Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said that a vocational educational programme will be launched soon.The programme -- National Vocational  ..

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the launch of iON, a fully integrated information technology solution for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in Rajasthan."For the first time, SMBs can experience certainty in their operations by leverag ..

Fearing the possibility of rogue programs getting embedded in imported chips that could compromise security of critical installations, the government is planning to two chip-manufacturing units at an investment topping Rs 25,000 crore.Right now, ther ..

The process of admissions to the new academic session at Makhanlal Chaturvedi Rashtriya Patrakarita Evam Sanchar Vishwavidyalaya has begun. The last date of filing applications has been fixed at May 25.The entrance exam will be held on June 12 at nin ..

The admission process of the undergraduate courses for 2011-12 at Delhi University (DU) will start from June 15 with the notification of the first cut-off list. The admission schedule for the academic session 2011-12 has been approved by the advisory ..

With the admission procedure in Delhi University set to begin on June 15, colleges are busy devising methods to work out their first cutoffs. Different colleges are adopting different strategies for compiling the first cutoff which is likely to be in ..

Srinivas Murthy is on the edge. His father peers with concern from behind his newspaper at the restless 17 years old and his mother keeps urging him to eat his breakfast.It has been a roller coaster ride for Srinivas beginning two months preceding hi ..

The United States may experience reverse brain drain as thousands of Indian IT professionals contemplate returning to India, according to a survey conducted by Corp-Corp.com, a US-based technology job portal.The finding was based on a survey of more  ..

India's population is projected to peak at 1.718 billion in 2060, after which it will decline. At its peak, India will be the most populous country there has ever been or probably ever will be.According to population projections released by the U ..

The organised sector in India is set to create about 1.6 million new jobs in the year 2011, reveals the latest results of Ma Foi Randstad Employment Trends Survey (MEtS), the largest study on the Indian employment trends and opportunities.According t ..

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 ..

The IT industry is likely to witness attractive salary hikes and job offers for experienced professionals, resulting in high attrition over the next few quarters as demand for talent will outstrip supply, say experts. "It looks like a talent war ..

Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be India's fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).The supercomputer " SAGA-220", bu ..

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 ..

Karnataka Management Aptitude test, which holds key to the management quota MBA and MCA seats in self-financing university affiliated and AICTE approved colleges, will be held on July 24.The test will be held in 12 centres and is open to students fro ..

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 ..

When Kerala-based engineer Nelvin Thomas set up his company, it was the height of recession so he and his partners decided to concentrate on devices that would save money for companies. That was the beginning of an artificial intelligence-based power ..

A national body of unaided professional educational institutions today claimed regulations framed by government and authorities such as the AICTE were hampering growth of education in private sector. The new set of AICTE regulations for starting new  ..

Supplementary online content, greater emphasis on analysis and India-centric examples... education primers have changed beyond recognition in the country.Guidebooks for competitive examinations and higher education are now more tech-oriented, India-s ..

IT firm Mahindra Satyam today said it plans to hire about 18,000 people during this fiscal."We have plans of hiring about 18,000 people this year (FY'12). Over 5,000 are from campuses and the rest are from lateral hiring or recruitment of ex ..