Medical education minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday demanded the state government rename Bangalore University (BU) after Kempegowda who played a major role in the history of Benglauru. “Kempegowda is a statesman and it would be advisable to rename BU as Kempegowda University,” he said during the Kempegowda Jayanti celebrations at Palace Grounds. Bangalore University officials, however, said they’re not aware of […]
The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has released on its website the KEA NEET Document Verification Schedule 2018 for Karnataka, non-Karnataka and NRI/PIO/OCI candidates along with Foreign Nationals. The KEA released verification schedule for Karnataka candidates with NEET All India Rank from 1 to 757,569; for non-Karnataka candidates who have secured NEET All India Rank from […]
The FDI Policy allows up to 100% foreign investment in the education sector under the automatic route (i.e. without the requirement of prior Government approval). Further, FDI in companies engaged in construction-development projects (including inter alia educational institutions) is permitted up to 100% under the automatic route, subject to compliance with certain conditionalities. The education […]
After a century of imparting technical education, the winds of change are sweeping through University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), the only engineering college of Bangalore University (BU). In what is seen as a landmark change in its academic structure, the iconic institution will be moving from an absolute marking system to a grading system for its students, from […]
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed a direction by the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to the Education Department to withdraw the No Objection Certificate (NOC) given in favour of Baldwin group of schools for getting affiliation of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) for allegedly forcing the […]
Newcastle University, UK, a major research-intensive university, located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England, concluded its last leg of the employability seminar in Chennai. The seminar had started from June 15, 2018 in Delhi followed by Mumbai and Bangalore for offer holding students considering a course of study at Newcastle University, UK […]
This year, 68 upcoming medical colleges have not made it to the list of approved medical colleges, as the Health Ministry has announced its DISAPPROVAL to issue the letter of the establishment to these medical colleges. With this disapproval, 9000 new MBBS seats will not be available for the admission quota for the year 2018-19. […]
Dismissing a plea seeking to recall the government’s decision to reduce cut-off percentile for postgraduate seats for medical courses by 15 per cent, the Delhi High Court has disapproved of the practice of arraying the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) as a party to the cases before it. The government had decided to reduce the cut-off percentile […]
Will implement IOT & BlockChain based retail platform in all stores NucleusVision, and Gini & Jony, India’s leading children’s wear retail chain, today announced their partnership to use NucleusVision’s Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain (BC) based customer identification platform – NucleusION or ION. ION allows brick-n-mortar retailers to identify any customer who walks into […]
The Survey Park police, Kolkata, have arrested 8 members of an inter-country gang which cheated medical aspirants of their lakhs by offering fraudulent admissions for Karnataka and Bengal medical institutions. This, days after the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), results were announced. This came after two employees of a fake consultancy firm at Kalikapur spilt the […]
