The newly appointed President of the Maldives, Dr Mohamed Waheed, who was in India recently to meet not only the top political leadership including the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, but also captains of industry. Dr Waheed took time off from his ..

As Indian software services firms wait out the lull in demand, the depreciating rupee - the Indian currency has fallen by nearly 8% against the dollar since April - is opening up new opportunities while throwing up some challenges.Besides the transla ..

RMK Engineering College at Kavaraipettai held its 13th graduation day recently. M Narendra, chairman and managing director, Indian Overseas Bank, delivered the convocation address and handed over degree certificates to 862 graduates. He also gave out ..

Magadh University (MU) has decided to build a media centre on its campus at Bodh Gaya at a cost of about Rs 100 crore. The centre would help impart teaching in journalism and mass communication as well as prepare documentaries on e-classes and touris ..

"IT" in Bengal  could easily scale the dizzy heights of a Bangalore, but the state needs to urgently bolster its marketing strategy, cut property prices, tone up high-speed internet infrastructure and create an enabling environment for ..

Foreign students in Osmania University will finally have a place to stay in the varsity’s campus. Prof. C Venugopal Rao, Joint Director of the University Foreign Relations Office (UFRO) informed that construction work for a new hostel for forei ..

A day after class XII science results were announced, the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) kick started the procedure for admission with distribution of booklets on Friday, officials said, adding that the PIN of the booklets can be ..

The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) conducted MPharm entrance test for 2012 on Sunday. Around 700 students appeared at the test, official sources said.In the meantime, diploma engineering entrance examination, 2012 was also conducted on the  ..

Piyush Jain from Jhansi and Harpreet Singh  from Kanpur topped the state entrance examination (SEE) 2012 for Master of Business Administration and Master of Computer Application respectively.While in the girls category, Preety Singh from Agra, a ..

Patna University  (PU) has revised the fee structure of different vocational and self-financing courses and made it uniform for all the institutions.A decision to this effect was taken in the PU's academic council meeting chaired by vice-cha ..

AIADMK Puducherry unit secretary A Anbazhagan demanded the withdrawal of “400 per cent to 500 per cent increase in tuition and other fees for various courses by the Pondicherry University”.Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the p ..

The Garware College of Commerce is all set to introduce a five-year dual degree programme in collaboration with the Canada-based Douglas College (DC) from this year. The programme will allow students attain up to three-year work permit in Canada.The  ..

Notwithstanding the economic uncertainty, fresher recruitment and salary levels  have seen a upward trend in the IT and ITeS sector during the January-March quarter of 2012 compared to other sectors in the same period, shows a survey.The survey  ..

The SC on Wednesday gave its approval for enhancing fees in engineering colleges for the academic year 2012-13, provided they submit their statement of accounts to the Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC).The AFRC had proposed a fee hike ra ..

Investors have been a tad uneasy about the information technology (IT) sector since once-bellwether Infosys Technologies gave a muted dollar revenue growth of 8-10% for the current fiscal.But that angst was to some extent eased after Tata Consultancy ..

The University Grants Commission will not process any fresh applications for setting up deemed universities in the state for this academic year. Several top engineering colleges from the state have applied for the “deemed status” to make  ..

Indicating a steady decline in students opting for MCA and MBA seats in the state colleges, the applications for ICET-2012, the common entrance test for the two courses, has declined by 10 per cent this year when compared to last year. The situation  ..

Three out of top five Indian IT firms have moved up the global ranking in terms of revenues in 2011.According to Gartner, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) moved to rank 16 in 2011 compared to 21 in 2010, Cognizant has moved to the 27th spot compared t ..

 Dr Maheswar Ojha of the National Geophysical Research Institute has been awarded the Indian National Science Academy medal for young scientist, 2012.He wins the prize for his contributions in the field of gas hydrates, which is a compound of me ..

The Indian economy is one of the most boring topics to write on. Most would prefer a column on Sachin's RS nomination or who could be the next president. And yet, the situation is worrisome. The economic stats that matter are not good.The governm ..