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Bhubaneswar: When Cyclone Fani battered Puri and Khurda districts in Odisha, it not only damaged the infrastructure but also created an imbalance in the educational system in the State. The OPSC candidates from these two districts on Tuesday demanded postponement of the Odisha Civil Services Mains Exam, scheduled to begin from July 5, 2019. In […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today announced a revised schedule for completing the admission process for various junior colleges across the State. As per the revised notification of the Directorate of Higher Secondary Education, the deadline for admissions into Plus II courses has been extended by five more days till June 26, 2019. The revised date […]

Bhubaneswar: The admission process into Plus III courses in various degree and autonomous colleges in Odisha for the academic session 2019-20 will begin from June 24. As per the notification issued by Department of Higher Education, the students can download the Common Application Form (CAF) for admission from the official website www.samsodisha.gov.in from 11 AM […]

New Delhi: To ensure that the academic records of students enrolled in the technical institutions are available online, AICTE has directed them to join the National Academic Depository (NAD) platform by September. The NAD is a central government initiative to provide all academic credentials of an individual online. At present, many academic institutions and boards, […]

New Delhi: The students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, an autonomous body under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), have shown excellent results in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2019 conducted by IIT Roorkee. A data analysis of JEE (Advanced) result shows that out of 6094 KV students who appeared in JEE (Advanced) this year, 1019 […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday refused to extend the schedule of counselling for filling up as many as 603 vacant seats in post-graduate medical and dental courses in deemed universities and private colleges. A vacation bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant disposed of a plea by the Education Promotion Society of India, […]

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued guidelines for recruitment of faculty members in institutes of higher education to address the issue of shortage of quality teaching staff in such institutions. The UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers and other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and other measures for the maintenance […]

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in Odisha declared the results of 2019 Annual Plus II Arts, Commerce and Vocational courses today. While the total pass percentage in Arts stream is 65.89 %, commerce this year registered a pass percentage of 70.26%. A total of 2,31,150 students had appeared the annual exam in […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra government will bring in a legislation to make teaching Marathi language compulsory in all schools in the state, including those affiliated to ICSE and CBSE, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Thursday. Fadnavis informed the Legislative Council that there is already a provision for teaching Marathi language in schools attached to non-state education boards. […]

Shillong: The United Kingdom and India have jointly invested over 75 million pounds in academic collaborations since 2006, effecting over 25,000 bilateral exchanges, an official said on Saturday. The bilateral investment, the biggest by any country with the UK in the recent past, has resulted in multiple policy dialogues and institutional partnerships, he said. “The […]

Bhubaneswar: Ranjan Kumar Sahoo from Mohammad Nagar Patna village under Jaleswar Tehsil of Balasore district has made the State proud by securing Rank 2 in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)- PG Entrance Examination 2019. The result of the entrance test was declared on June 19. Ranjan appeared for the post graduation entrance […]

Bhubaneswar: Braving all odds, daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver has achieved a feat that will inspire many. Puja Sahoo, a Plus-II Arts student of Ravenshaw Junior College in Cuttack, has now become the talk of the town following her success in the Plus II exams, the results of which were announced yesterday. By scoring 540 […]

New Delhi: The Delhi government will pay the examination fee charged by the CBSE from students in its schools from next year, officials said. The announcement was made Saturday by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at an event held to celebrate the good show by Class XII students in the board examinations. “Access to high-quality education […]

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Saturday declared the results of the written examinations held for various post-graduate diploma courses to be offered in academic session 2019-20, officials said. A total of 1,365 candidates out of 5,839 applicants have been declared successful in the written test, the IIMC said. There are a […]

Bhubaneswar: The online process for admission to Plus III courses in various degree and autonomous colleges in Odisha for the academic session 2019-20 will begin today. As per the earlier notification issued by the Higher Education Department on June 20, students can download the Common Application Form (CAF) for online admission from the official website […]