Sahil Makkar

Third-generation IIMs catch up with older ones in placements

IIM-Amritsar student offered Rs 5.4 mn annual package

Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan budget hiked four times to Rs 96 bn

Rusa aims to increase enrollment in higher education by 30 per cent

Varsities, faculties divided over proposed benefits of graded autonomy

The categorisation was done on the basis of universities' National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) score

JNU, AMU get full autonomy: Govt gives 60 institutes freedom to fix courses

They can also offer higher salaries - more than what the pay commission recommends - to attract academics from abroad

Modicare: Centre finalises 1,100 benefit packages, states still not ready

NITI Aayog and Union health ministry to hold a second round of consultation with states

UP Investors Summit: Adani, Birla, Ambani lead Rs 4 trn investment promises

1,045 MOUs signed in all, for commitments equalling state's annual budget; Adani tops with promise of Rs 350 bn in 5 years

Rotomac pens scam: Vikram Kothari is fighting battle, might be hard to win

Founder M M Kothari along with sons Vikram and Deepak in many ways changed the rules of the mouth freshener business

Polls on cards? FM Jaitley increases election budget by 110 per cent

Election Commission overall budget increased by 41 per cent

Budget 2018: Jaitley's Rs 500,000 health scheme for 500 mn ahead of polls

Rs 12 bn proposed for free drugs and diagnostic tests, benefits to be provided through creation of 150,000 health and wellness centres

MHRD recruits 1,200 IIT, NIT students to teach in rural colleges

The government didn't elaborate its plan of employing these students upon completion of their three-year contract

Economic Survey 2018: Climate change may lower farm incomes by 20-25%

Survey calls for direct income transfer to farmers, suggests raising area under drip and micro irrigation

Economic Survey 2018: social sector spending continues to hover around 6%

The Survey noted that there was an improvement in quantitative indicators such as enrolment levels, completion rates and other physical infrastructure

AAP MLAs' disqualification, state polls: CEC Rawat's immediate challenges

Rawat is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1977-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre

LPG subsidy flow stops after credits to Airtel accounts

Beneficiaries say unaware that sops were paid to payments bank accounts

Two BJP states contemplate death penalty for rape; face opposition

The Bill - Dand Vidhi (Madhya Pradesh Sanshodhan) Vidheyak, 2017 - is awaiting the President's assent

UP set to introduce NCERT textbooks in madrasas

Earlier, UP Government had also launched a dedicated portal for making online registration mandatory for the madarsas

Ashutosh Varshney likens Modi to Indira Gandhi; Yogendra Yadav agrees

Varshney said populist leaders such as Modi, Gandhi and the US president Donald Trump don't like constitutional restrains

Plagiarism to cost students, faculty dearly

Pupils would face cancellation of registration, staff denied increments, barred from publication of papers

NEET: A way forward or ahead of time?

The roll-out of NEET has been far from smooth

Target 2019: NDA fast-tracks rural homes for 10 million

From the look of it, NDA is focused on PMAY, just like UPA was on MGNREGA