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Smriti Zubin Irani, 38, the youngest minister in the
Modi cabinet has been allocated the Ministry of Human
Resource Development. The move has surprised many
political observers who have given vent to their views
and venom on social media as well as in private gatherings.
Irani, a higher secondary passout,
with a soap entertainer background, was pitted against Rahul Gandhi
in Amethi and, indeed, gave him a tough fight, loosing
by just a few thousand votes. Obviously this does not
qualify her for the august Ministry of Human Resource
Development which was, in the recent past, graced by
giants like Murli Manohar Joshi, Arjun Singh and Kapil
Sibal. Higher
Education experts and political observers are at their
wits end to solve this mind-boggling riddle behind
Modi's ministry-making exercise.
Smriti is a sitting Rajya Sabha member
who was elected
from Gujarat in 2011 and hence doesn't need a
bye-election route to Parliament till 2016. But then
what prompted Narendra Modi to award the high-profile
MHRD portfolio to her?
Is she being used as proxy,
a stop-gap arrangement, till a political heavy-weight
--may be Dr Murli Manohar Joshi -- agrees to step
in ?
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Amartya
stirs row, then mollifies BJP
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NEW DELHI:
On 19th of February 82-year-old Amartya Sen
triggered off a controversy that had obvious political
overtones. Then on February 25 he took a quick U-turn, turned defensive and made
a sober move to silence the controversy he had
himself stirred.
In an obvious move to mend fence with the BJP
government in Delhi the Nobel laureate expressed appreciation of the
Union government, the Bihar government and the East
Asia Summit to help create Nalanda University.
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MHRD promises to frame
new criteria for deemed varsities
NEW DELHI : Allowing
relief to deemed universities, the MHRD told the Supreme Court on February 23
that it proposes to frame 'criteria' to deal with the
issue of recognition of deemed universities.
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Budget bloomer ?
Andhra Pradesh to get another IIM
NEW DELHI :
Union Finance Minister's budget
speech of February 28 carried an announcement that made
even the MHRD bosses
sit up in surprise -- an IIM
for Andhra Pradesh!
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Admission test : a private venture for 11
pvt. varsities
NEW DELHI:
A group of 11 private universities have decided to pick
students for admission from an examination to be
conducted by a Bangalore-based private agency, ERA
Foundation.
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SC tells Central govt to
hurry up on
damned deemed universities
NEW DELHI : On January 8 the Supreme Court gave
Central government five-weeks' to submit its report on
the status of the 41 deemed universities facing
de-recognition.
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MHRD accepts uniform
staffing pattern for varsities
Pune, Kolkata film
inst. to be centres of excellence
4-year UG course :
UGC sends warning note to varsities
UGC MOVE TO BOOST
BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
KARNATAKA TOLD TO HOLD FEE TALKS
WITH COLLEGES
INDIA TO DEVELOP OWN
HIGHER EDUCATION RANKING SYSTEM
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Welukar
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MUMBAI:
Suspended and ousted Mumbai University vice-chancellor Rajan
Welukar's efforts to get himself reinstated bore no fruit on
March 3 when he called on the Chancellor Ch Vidyasagar Rao
after the Supreme Court order.
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Andhra
prepones Eamcet to May 8 |
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HYDERABAD : Andhra Pradesh
has preponed its Engineering and Medicine Common Entrance
Test (EAMCET) to May 8 instead of May 10 in view of clash of
dates with other entrance tests.
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Gajbhaiye
arrested, suspended from IIT |
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KANPUR: On Feb.23
the CBI arrested IIT don N S Gajbhaiye and two days later,
on February 25, the IIT administration suspended him for allegedly amassing wealth and property
disproportionate to his known source of income.
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Rs 10 crore to
Azam's varsity for med college |
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LUCKNOW: A separate
provision has been made in the budget to provide a grant of Rs 10 crore
to set up a medical college/ hospital at Muhammad Ali Jauhar University
(Rampur) of parliamentary affairs minister Mohd Azam Khan. Khan is the
chancellor of the university.
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Hungarian
scholarships for Indian students |
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NEW DELHI : The
University Grants Commission has invited applications from
interested Indian students for
“Stipendium Hungaricum”
Scholarship Program started by the Hungarian Government. The
scholarships are for 200 Indian students to pursue undergraduate,
postgraduate, M.Phil/PhD and postdoctoral studies in Hungary in 2015.
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4 IIITs to
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NEW DELHI : On
August 12 HRD Minister Smriti Irani introduced the Indian
Institutes of Information Technology Bill 2014 in Lok Sabha
which seeks to declare the four IIITs as institutes of
national importance on lines of the IITs and NITs, granting
them degee awarding powers. These four IIITs are – the IIIT
Allahabad, the IIIT Gwalior, the Indian Institute of
Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur
and the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design
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