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For the current academic year 2018-19, COMEDK will hold an online examination all over India on Sunday, the 13th May 2018, across 300 centres for the Engineering programs and about 20,000 seats are being offered by around 190 colleges in the state of Karnataka. The test will be followed by offline counseling. Following the National Eligibility -cum- Entrance Test (NEET) ...

The results of JEE Mains 2017 admission test for admission to NITs and centrally-funded institutes were published today and more than 10 lakh students who had appeared for the JEE Main 2017 examination on April 2 in 2000 Centres in 109 cities can now check their results and the rank before applying for JEE advanced for admission to IITs. Surprisingly, ...

Government scholarships for students undertaking higher education in foreign universities in the field of art, agriculture, law, medicine, engineering are as follows:- National Overseas Scholarship for Scheduled Tribe Students: The scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Under the scheme, financial assistance is provided to meritorious Scheduled Tribe students for pursuing Master level courses, Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral Research ...

Budget 2017-18, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday has three significant changes embedded in it. First, presentation of Budget advanced to 1st February to enable the Ministries to operationalise all activities from the commencement of the financial year. Secondly, merger of Railways Budget with General Budget to bring Railways to the centre stage of Government’s Fiscal Policy. Thirdly, ...

Moving over from the aspiration to keep the body young, researchers have now focused on keeping the brain younger and their findings showed that taking the stairs improves your brain’s health and that school educations has an immense positive effect on your brain. Researchers led by Jason Steffener, a scientist at Concordia University’s Montreal-based PERFORM Centre, found that the more ...

Youngest Nobel peace prize winner Malala has topped the British School of Exams and scored six A grades, the highest possible, and four As, the second highest in her General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations. She was the youngest person ever to win a Nobel peace Prize, she was declared joint-winner along with India’s children’s rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi. ...

This morning Twitter is trending with #DegreeDikhaoPMSaab as many of the twiterati are questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show his degree. Apparently, PMO has refused to share the information about the qualification of PM Modi after an RTI was filed seeking information about his education details. Also read: Xiaomi’s First ‘Made in India’ Smartphone Redmi 2 Prime Launched One tweet ...

The government of India is considering an exclusive satellite for farmers to help in weather forecast and provide timely services for farming and agriculture, said minister Jitendra Singh in a reply to a starred question in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Besides weather, the satellite-enabled services to support farmers include agro-advisory, agromet services, soil moisture and agricultural extension activities to support ...

A fake candidate in place of state education minister Kedar Kashyap’s wife has allegedly sat for a PG exam conducted by an open university held in Bastar on Tuesday. After getting a tip-off, a local media team, reached the high school where the exam was being conducted by Pt Sunderlal Sharma(OPEN) University. The media personnel asked the in-charge of the ...

Eminent scientist C.N.R. Rao has rued the lack of basic infrastructure for science in India saying the quality of education in India needs to be considerably improved. Delivering a public lecture on “Celebration of Science” at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Bharat Ratna-awardee lamented that India lacked behind considerably in the world of science. “No academic institution in ...