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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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SC
upholds MCI's PG admission rules
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NEW DELHI: On January 12 the Supreme Court upheld the
Medical Council of India's (MCI) postgraduate admission
regulations and quashed Kerala government's
decision to reserve seats for doctors working in its
hospitals and other departments. The court said, in no uncertain terms,
that the admissions to the postgraduate medical courses
can be done only on the basis of merit of students
appearing in the common entrance examination. The apex court division bench comprising
Justices T S Thakur and R Banumathi said
that the regulations framed by the MCI were
binding and state governments could not make any rule in
violation of the regulations.
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IIT Delhi director
quits, raises a bitter contoversy
NEW DELHI : IIT Delhi director Raghunath K Shevgaonkar resigned in a
huff on December 22, raising a controversy which leaves the Ministry of
Human Resource Development (MHRD) to explain many things.
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PMO seeks digital
connectivity status of universities
NEW DELHI :
Prime Minister's Office has sought details of
universities connected via optical fibre networks and
those having local area networks (LAN) set up on their
campuses along with wi-fi facility.
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One year after, CSIR is still without a
Director-General
NEW DELHI:
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
country biggest research organisation with numerous
laboratories in the country has been running without a
de jure boss for over a year.
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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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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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Mediation
fails, Andhra may hold own Eamcet |
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HYDERABAD : Third-party mediation efforts by the
Governor having failed, the AP government
was now actively considering to hold its own EAMCET.
Andhra government, which had threatened to move
court if the Telangana government refuses to accept its
authority, hasn't taken a step so far giving
clear indications that Andhra will go its own way.
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Higher Edu
& Research Bill, 2011 withdrawn |
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NEW DELHI :
On November 25 the Central government officially
withdrew, so to say, the sword of Damocles hanging over the
UGC and the AICTE. The government withdrew from Rajya Sabha
the Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011, which sought
to create an overarching body in the higher education
subsuming existing regulatory bodies such as UGC, AICTE and
NCTE.
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ADN Bajpai
gets a
2nd term at HPU |
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SHIMLA : Dr A D N Bajpai got a second term as a
vice-chancellor at Himachal Pradesh University here.
A Raj Bhawan source confirmed on November 15 that the
Chancellor Urmila Singh, has appointed Bajpai for a second
term.
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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
and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram. |
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