Banks repeatedly violate RBI’s circular, deny student loans citing parents’ credit score

By Aathira Konikkara Despite the mandate of an education-loan policy to benefit poor students that has been in place since 2001, India's public-sector banks continue to deny student loans citing poor credit ratings. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty...

Why is Byju & Whitehat Jr Silencing Dissent?

 Byju and Whitehat Jr have been silencing dissent. This news have cropped up in various social media. Read it yours...

Google and Arunachal Pradesh government in talks for Chromebooks in schools

Google is in discussions with the Arunachal Pradesh government to run a pilot for deploying Chromebook laptops for school students. Chromebook is a laptop running Google’s Chrome Operating System. The devices are designed to be used primarily while connected to the internet with most applications and data residing “in the...

DU's Gyanodaya Express to Take students to Northeast

New Delhi, Sep 24 : Delhi University's Gyanodaya Express train will travel to Northeast this year to enrich students' understanding about the culture and heritage of the region.As many as 900 students will be given the opportunity to travel on Dharodhar-Gyanodaya Express from December 20 to 30. They will be given basic working knowledge of eight different languages of the northeast under special...

18 Candidates From Northeast India 17 Clear Civil Services Examination

New Delhi, Jun 30 : 30-year-old Shimray Asaiwo Bellrose, a Tangkhul Naga who hails from Lunghar village in Manipur, is proud to have cleared the civil services examination, 2013, conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.She has secured the 1106th position in the final list of the successful candidates.Bellrose has been staying in New Delhi since 2011 after completing her Msc in Botany from...

191 from Northeast Qualify in JEE (Advanced) 2014

Guwahati, Jun 24 : In the results of JEE (Advanced) 2014, a total of 1,582 candidates (1,457 boys and 125 girls), out of the 10,053 registered from the IIT Guwahati Zone, have qualified. They include 191 from the north-eastern States except Tripura; 1,338 from Bihar, 41 from Siliguri, and 12 from Dubai, UAE.Prem Anand emerged as topper in the IIT Guwahati Zone, securing 260 out of 360, an IIT-G...

Delhi University Helpdesk in City Big Hit With Students

By Kangkan KalitaGuwahati, Jun 5 : The Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) helpdesk, which started functioning this week to entertain queries of aspirants seeking admission in colleges under Delhi University (DU), is receiving an overwhelming response.Students from across the state are thronging the helpdesk at the district library here to get DU offline forms and to find out the names of colleges...

First green campus college in Notheast India

In a first for the North East region, a city-based College was adjudged as having an eco-friendly 'green campus', officials said.St Anthony's College, one of the leading colleges in the state, affiliated to the North Eastern Hill University here, received the distinction of being the only campus to have passed the ambient air quality testing conducted by the Meghalaya State Pollution ControlBoard,...

JNU To Have Separate Hostel For Northeast Students

By Pradeep KumarNew Delhi, Sep 5 : Clearing numerous hurdles for construction of a 500-bed North East Students' hostel, the JNU authorities today identified land, courtesy the initiative of NE MPs Forum (NEMPF).JNU Vice Chancellor Prof Sudhir Kumar Sopory, Rector Prof Sudha Pai, Deputy Registrar Kh Siile Anthony and Superintending Engineer Pradeep Kumar along with the forum's Secretary General Takam...

IIBM to Start One Year Post graduate diploma course in banking

Guwahati, Sep 1 : What is expected to bring large pool of students from Northeast to the banking industry, the Indian Institute of Bank Management (IIBM) will soon roll out a one year post graduate diploma course in Banking and finance to equip the students of the region for making inroads in the banking industry. According to IIBM in next few years banking industry will have a whooping manpower...

7,000 Thesis Seized From Controversial Meghalaya Varsity

Over 7,000 Ph.D theses were seized from Meghalaya's private controversial CMJ University, accused of fraud and selling fake degrees, police said Friday.The Meghalaya governor's secretariat had lodged a first information report (FIR) with police against the CMJ University and its chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha for alleged lapses and fraud."We have seized over 7,000 PhD thesis from two different CMJ university...

Abdul Kalam To Teach At IIM-Shillong

Shillong, Jun 24 : Former president APJ Abdul Kalam will be lecturing students of Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Shillong for three days on ways to make India an economically developed nation, the institute said."The students and faculty of IIM-Shillong are elated that Dr Kalam is coming to teach at the institute. I am sure his lectures would benefit not only our students but also faculty...

Over-The-Counter Forms Still Popular at Delhi University

By Vijetha S. N. Delhi University aspirants filling up forms on Day Two of admissions on Thursday. Photo: Monica Tiwari Thousands turn up for hard copy form on Day Two of admissions Delhi University resembled a pickle-jar on Day Two of admissions on Thursday with thousands relentlessly trooping into its North Campus and hustling for an application form amid intensified humidity levels —...

University in Shillong Suspected in Fake PhDs Scam

Shillong, Jun 6 : Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.Police have arrested four senior officials from CMJ University in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on suspicion of fraud and forgery and are hunting for the chancellor, who has fled."We are not sure about his whereabouts,...

Are Ph.D's An Academic Dead Zone?

Why grads with a doctorate are more likely to be unemployed than master’s degree holders By Charlie Gillis VIEW IN CLEAN READING MODE » WHAT IS THIS ?   Dominic Chan/CP Two decades ago, if you sat at a dinner party next to someone with a Ph.D., chances were, those letters made an impact. You’d try to sound your smartest, asking about the person’s field of study,...

Meghalaya's Controversial Private Varsity Has Centres in UP

Shillong, May 11 : Meghalaya Governor R.S. Mooshahary Friday said the controversial CMJ University, involved in issuing fake Ph.D. degrees to students, had also established centres in almost all districts of Uttar Pradesh.CMJ University, the first private varsity in this mountainous state capital of Meghalaya, hit media headlines following Mooshahary, who is also the 'visitor' of the university,...

28 New ITIs To Come Up in Northeast

New Delhi, Apr 30 : Seven northeastern states, including Assam, have proposed setting up 28 new Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the region, parliament was informed Monday.The northeast now has 71 ITIs, affiliated to the National Council of Vocational Training, Minister of State for Labour and Employment K. Suresh said in a statement in the Lok Sabha.He added that no unemployment benefit...

APJ Abdul Kalam to teach students of IIM-Shillong

Shillong, Mar 7 : Former president APJ Abdul Kalam will teach students of the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong a course titled "Societal transformation bio-technology and its application". "I am a teacher. As a professor, wherever knowledge takes me, I go. I like meeting young people and I would like to contribute to their knowledge," Kalam told reporters here. The "Missile Man", as...

Northeast Students miss Out On Varsities' Admissions

Hyderabad, Aug 1 : The violence in Assam has affected admissions even in city universities as students from the troubled areas of Bodo-Muslim conflict have missed out on admissions in varsities, including English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) and University of Hyderabad (UoH). As transportation for most northeastern states is being channelled through Guwahati, students from Manipur and...

SFI JNU Expulsion: Disaster For CPM, Good For Campus Politics

By Pallavi Polanki New Delhi: The unprecedented move by the CPM to disband SFI-JNU for not toeing the party line could well turn out to be the beleaguered student body’s best hope yet for political redemption on campus. Increasingly isolated and electorally marginalized – a downslide set off by its decision to defend CPM’s positions on Singur and Nandigram...