Finding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones…

Finding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones…

 People across India can log onto the ‘Shabd Shala’ website and provide suggestions for possible translations of these words or their most prevalent usages in their respective languages.  File image for representation. | Photo Credit: AP ‘Selfie’, ‘drones’, ‘metaverse’, and ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are among the new, “technical” English words that become a part of Indian psyche […]

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Education Ministry launches PM Modi’s young authors mentoring scheme YUVA 2.0 

Education Ministry launches PM Modi’s young authors mentoring scheme YUVA 2.0 

The Ministry of Education on Sunday launched YUVA 2.0 – Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors, a programme to train young and budding authors to promote reading, writing and book culture in the country, and project India and Indian writings globally. “YUVA 2.0 is a part of India@75 Project (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav) to […]

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NEP 2020 two years celebration LIVE Updates: PM Modi to inaugrate new initiatives under Education ministry

NEP 2020 two years celebration LIVE Updates: PM Modi to inaugrate new initiatives under Education ministry

NEP 2020: As the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 completes two years today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will launch a slew of initiatives in the education and skill sectors at an event in New Delhi at 4 pm. From the introduction of a four-year multidisciplinary undergraduate programme with […]

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NIRF: IITs sweep rankings, IISc tops universities, Delhi colleges shine

NIRF: IITs sweep rankings, IISc tops universities, Delhi colleges shine

LED BY IIT-Madras, the Indian Institutes of Technology continue to dominate the country’s higher education landscape, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022 released Friday. Be it engineering education, management or research, the premier institutes figured prominently across categories in the rankings released by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the presence of University […]

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NIRF Rankings 2022 to be released on July 15: Education Ministry

NIRF Rankings 2022 to be released on July 15: Education Ministry

NIRF India Ranking 2022 will be announced for 11 categories. This includes Overall, University, Management, College, Pharmacy, Medical, Engineering, Architecture, ARIIA (Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements), Law and Research Institutions. IIT-Madras has been ranked as the top institute in the overall educational institutes and engineering categories last year. The institute had secured the […]

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Across class, subject, Covid hits school scores

Across class, subject, Covid hits school scores

A deep learning crisis has set in during the Covid pandemic, with a largescale Central Government survey capturing a fall of up to nine percentage points between 2017 and 2021 in the performance of students in subjects ranging from maths to social sciences. The dip has happened across subjects, and grades, shows the results of […]

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