Education News Updates

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the results of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) today. Candidates can check their results from the official website- ntaneet.nic.in.  There were speculations that NTA might declare the results a day before the actual scheduled date keeping in view Eid today. However, after the confirmation regarding the results by […]

The Minister of Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ held another review meeting of the schemes and programmes of HRD Ministry in New Delhi on Tuesday. Secretary, Higher Education R Subrahmanyam and the senior officers of the Ministry gave presentation on (i) Generation of skills and employment through vocational education, (ii) working of IIMs and […]

New Delhi: Boys outshone girls in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) results announced on Wednesday, bagging the top six slots. Nalin Khandelwal from Rajasthan topped the exam, conducted for admissions to MBBS and BDS programmes offered at medical and dental colleges that are approved by the Medical Council of India, scoring 701 out […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha girl Sangeeta Agrawal has managed to secure 17th rank among top 20 female scorers in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2019, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. Obtaining 680 out of total 720 marks, Sangeeta secured an overall rank of 91 in the examination. Out of 32,378 candidates who appeared […]

Bhubaneswar: Ashutosh Panda has emerged as Odisha topper in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) of 2019 with an all-India rank of 73, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. As per initial reports, Ashutosh, a student of Yuvodaya College in Bolangir, topped from the State after scoring 682 out of 720 marks. Speaking […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will soon declare the CBSE Class 12 re-evaluation and improvement exam result. As per reports, the Board may release the result by the end of this week. It is believed that the Board has decided to release the result a bit early following the High Court’s […]

New Delhi: Students from other boards who feel that a subject they studied has a similar syllabus to that of the NCERT and is not in the list accepted by the Delhi University can produce an equivalence certificate from their board, officials said Tuesday. This year, the DU’s admissions committee has mapped different subjects from […]

UGC NET 2019 Admit Card: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Human Resource Development Group (CSIR) is expected to release the hall tickets for the Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and lectureship today online. The candidates who have applied for the exam can download their admit cards at […]

Bhubaneswar: The Matric supplementary exam conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha is likely to be held by the last week of June or the first week of July, informed board sources. “The preparations for the supplementary examination are on in full swing. We will announce the exam dates after the application dates […]

New Delhi: The Delhi University will hold its entrance exams for postgraduate, MPhil, PhD and nine undergraduate courses from June 30 to July 6, officials said Thursday. This year, the National Testing Agency (NTA) will be conducting the entrance exams for the first time. There are 11 undergraduate courses, for which entrance exams will be […]

Bhubaneswar: At a time when the Modi government has already implemented the 10 per cent reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) of the general category across all colleges and universities, including private institutions, from the 2019-20 academic year; Odisha government is yet to implement the quota in State-run educational institutions. Premier institutions in Odisha […]

The Minister of Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ held the third consecutive review meeting of the schemes and programmes of HRD Ministry in New Delhi on Thursday. Secretary, Higher Education R. Subrahmanyam and the senior officers of the Ministry gave presentation on (i) Open Distance learning (ii) Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) (iii) Digital […]

In a major development, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notification regarding ‘Introduction of Artificial Intelligence, Early Childhood Care Education and Yoga as New subjects in School curriculum from the Academic session 2019-2020’. It was earlier informed that the application for introducing the skill subjects for session 2019-2020 should be sent […]

Bhubaneswar: For the mandarins in the State Higher Education Department, the nagging fact to fore in the 2019 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UG) (NEET-UG) is when the number of students appearing for the coveted exam from Odisha were almost static (only 0.23 per cent rise), almost all the neighbouring States have posted a handsome growth of  […]

New Delhi: General category MBBS students on Friday moved the Supreme Court with a fresh plea seeking modification of its order, which restrained students from registering fresh choice during allotment of PG medical and dental seats in Maharashtra. The top court had earlier junked the EWS quota for the current academic session. Senior advocate Sanjay […]