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  Cabinet approves over Rs 7,000 crore for construction of six IIT campuses

  India | October 27, 2017 23:08 IST

  Each of the permanent campuses to be established at Tirupati, Palakkad, Dharwad, Jammu, Bhilai and Goa will have a facility for housing 1,200 students from the academic year 2020-2021.

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  7.51 lakh teachers in universities to get benefits of 7th Pay Commission

  India | October 11, 2017 22:42 IST

  Union HRD Minister told media persons that 7.51 lakh teachers will be benefited from the decision. He said that the decision will come in to effect from January 1 2016.

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  No intention to change names of AMU, BHU, clarifies Prakash Javadekar

  India | October 09, 2017 23:02 IST

  Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the government has no intention to change the names of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Banaras Hindu University (BHU)

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  Government junks plan to introduce common engineering entrance exam

  India | August 23, 2017 17:28 IST

  The Human Resource Development Ministry has decided to junk the plan of introducing a common engineering entrance exam from next year

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  Mamata Banerjee strikes down Centre’s advisory on I-Day celebrations to Bengal schools

  Politics | August 14, 2017 12:49 IST

  Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has instructed all educational institutions to ignore a directive issued by the Union HRD Ministry to follow a prescribed format for I-Day celebrations

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  HRD ministry wants boards to end moderation policy from 2018, sets up panel

  India | June 13, 2017 10:23 IST

  The HRD Ministry has taken the initiative to convince the state boards to curb the "malpractice of spiking of marks" and implement a more scientific moderation policy from 2018.

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  HRD makes Aadhaar mandatory for getting govt fellowships, scholarships

  India | April 28, 2017 8:06 IST

  The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has notified that students seeking government scholarships and fellowships will need to declare Aadhaar numbers by the end of June.

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  To check ‘duplication’, HRD asks teachers to give religion, caste, Aadhaar details

  India | April 27, 2017 8:55 IST

  In an attempt to set up a national teachers’ portal and detect “fake teachers” in the country, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has profiled at least 60 per cent of more than 15 lakh university and college teachers.

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  Publisher to face action for defining ‘36-24-36’ as ‘best female body shape’ in textbook: MHRD

  India | April 13, 2017 13:47 IST

  HRD Ministry today said that action will be taken against the against the private publisher who defined females with a shape of ‘36-24-36’ as the “best body shape”.

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  Govt ranks JNU, Jadavpur University among India's 10 best; IISc tops list

  India | April 03, 2017 17:23 IST

  While JNU was ranked sixth best institution in the list of top 10 overall educational institutes in the country, Jadavpur University secured the 5th spot in the list of top 10 universities.

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  After medical, Centre mulls single entrance test for all engineering aspirants from 2018

  India | December 23, 2016 9:06 IST

  The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is considering single national entrance test for engineering courses. The All India test will be on the lines of the NEET examination in Medical colleges. The move is expected

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  HRD ministry to reintroduce compulsory class X board exams

  India | November 14, 2016 23:27 IST

  The class X board examination will once again be made compulsory for CBSE schools from the 2017-18 academic year, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said today. In an informal conversation with reporters after a meeting

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  Implementation of no detention policy in schools should be left to states, recommends CABE

  India | October 25, 2016 20:01 IST

  No child should be failed till Class 5 but the policy of no-detention upto Class X should be left to states, Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) recommended in its meeting today.

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  HRD Ministry panel says Teesta Setalvad liable for 'mixing religion with politics'

  India | October 23, 2016 11:26 IST

  An HRD Ministry panel has concluded that a prima facie case exists against Teesta Setalvad under section 153A and 153B of IPC as she tried to mix religion with politics.

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  Scrap English as compulsory language, references that insult Indian culture: RSS body tells MHRD

  Politics | October 21, 2016 13:18 IST

  the RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN) has suggested the HRD ministry to gradually remove English as medium of instruction and emphasise on Indian languages at all levels of education.

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  Government may revoke ‘no-detention policy’ for school children till class 8

  India | October 10, 2016 12:24 IST

  Concerned over a possible drop in the quality of education being imparted in Indian schools, the central government is said to be considering the revocation of the ‘no-detention policy’ that bars schools from detaining students who fail in exams till

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  IIT Council approves govt plans to increase seats to one lakh by 2020

  India | August 24, 2016 11:06 IST

  The IIT Council has approved government plans to increase the number of seats in various courses for admitting non-resident students with an aim to take their total intake to one lakh by 2020.

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  ‘Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit’, says HRD Ministry probe panel; exonerates VC

  India | August 24, 2016 9:42 IST

  The one-man judicial commission, set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to look into the circumstances leading to the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University in January this year,

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  Javadekar accepts PMO’s suggestion for no govt role in IIM chief appointment, Irani had rejected move

  Politics | August 12, 2016 11:30 IST

  The HRD Ministry has agreed to relinquish the government’s role in appointing the chairman of the Board of Governors (BoG) at all IIMs. The decision comes a month after Prakash Javadekar took charge from Smriti Irani, who had rejected a panel of corp

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  New portfolio reflects PM Modi’s faith in my capacity: Textile Min Smriti Irani

  Politics | July 06, 2016 20:52 IST

  New Delhi: Putting up a brave face after getting transferred from crucial HRD Ministry to low-profile Textiles Ministry, Smriti Irani said her new portfolio signified the "faith" shown by the Prime Minister and the party