Posts Tagged ‘Kapil Sibal’
Kapil Sibal launches Anti-Ragging Web-Portal
Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource Development inaugurated the Anti-Ragging Web Portal here todayCall Centre, Database of institutions/students, engaging an independent non-government agencycall centerparents, and to be stored electronically8001805522 will be managed and followed up in a structured software system • Customized [...]
Kapil Sibal Launches NIOS’s Mukta Vidya Vani
Mukta Vidya Vani, a pioneering initiative of the National Institute of Open Schooling, 127 learners had qualified for counseling in AIEEE and 267 qualified for counseling in BArch and 9 learners qualified for counseling in the AIPMT exam from the NIOS [subscribe2]
Common Entrance Test: Govt-IITs row ends; new format from 2013
A consensus between the government and IITs over Common Entrance Test ,50,000 students from the CET would sit3, under which aspiring candidates for IITs and other central institutes such as NITs and IIITs will have to take tests under a new format of common entrance test which will also take the plus two board results into consideration
Kapil Sibal skips IIT council meet
RD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday skipped the meeting with IIT Council to resolve the common entrance test controversy even as an IIT Faculty Federation member claimed that a compromise formula has been worked out Sources say Sibal was not present as he wanted to show that the IITs are autonomous and there is no government interference Sibal, [...]
Kapil Sibal suggests setting up of council of deemed to be Universities
A meeting of the Vice Chancellors of Deemed to be Universities was held under the Chairmanship of Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, here today to discuss about the Joint Entrance Examination for admission to Engineering courses and implementation of uniform accounting standards in these institutionsMHRD AIEEE normalised [...]
Sharad Pawar slapper has now Kapil Sibal on target: IB alert
Rohini resident Harvinder Singh, who hogged headlines for slapping two high-profile politicians last year, is now planning to slap Human Resource and Development 9 last year, Harvinder Singh slapped and kicked Sukhram inside the premises of a Delhi court just moments after he was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment in connection with a [...]
Sibal-Clinton Lead Indo US Higher Education Dialogue ‘Connect to India’ Initiative Unveiled
The second Indo US Higher Education dialogue was held in Washington, United States yesterday with Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Kapil Sibal and US Secretary of State Ms Hillary Clinton as the co-chair Dpening the dialogue, Shri Sibal said the digital world is challenging the lecture-driven teaching traditions of the university [...]
No going back on common entrance test: Sibal to IITs
Amid widespread criticism of his ministry’s proposal for one nationwide common entrance test, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has clarified that the government has no intention to impinge on the autonomy of the IITs3, aspiring candidates for IITs and other central institutes like NITs and IIITs will have to sit under a new format of common entrance [...]
Sibal expresses concern on incidents of discrimination and profiling from The North Eastern Region
Shri Kapil Sibal Expresses Concern on Recent Incidents of Alleged Discrimination and Profiling of Students from The North Eastern Region The Minister of HRD, Communications & IT, Shri Kapil Sibal has expressed his deep concern on the recent incidents of alleged discrimination and profiling of students from the north-eastern region pursuing [...]
Parliament passes bill to include 8 new IITs
The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed two key bills to enable students of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research get their degrees and give 8 new IITs their status through an Act of Parliament1, already passed by the Lok Sabha, seeks to set up eight new Indian Institutes of Technology in Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, [...]
Upgraded Aakash tablet to be launched next month: Sibal
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said that the upgraded version of low-cost tablet PC, Aakash, would be launched next month "The second version of Aakash will be launched in May," Sibal told reporters The Aakash tablet will be produced domestically, and in this regard the government is talking to various manufacturers from across the [...]
World IT Forum 2012 opens in New Delhi
E-Governance Empowers Common Man, Promotes Government Accountability, Says Kapil Sibal The Union Minister of Communications & IT and HRD, Shri Kapil Sibal today said that e-Governance not only brings the delivery of a large number of services to the people but also has an empowering effect on the common man2 in New Delhi, Shri Sibal [...]
State Higher/Technical Education Secretaries Meet held: Shri Kapil Sibal calls for Child Centric Education
A meeting of Principal Secretaries/Secretaries of Higher and Technical Education of State Governments was held at New Delhi today which was presided by Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil SibalUnion Territories took partst May, 2012 They will specifically instruct all the colleges to upload the data on the portal [...]
AICTE joins hands with Microsoft
AICTE joins hands with Microsoft in providing Cloud Technology for Engineering Students In a bid to broaden educational reform to improve technical education and prepare students for the workforce of tomorrow, AICTE chairman Dr S0,000 technical colleges and institutes throughout India services organizations or to start and run own ventures with [...]
Cabinet approves separate law for Sikh marriages
The Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to bring in a bill allowing registration of marriages of Sikhs under the Anand Marriage Act, 1909 meeting a long-standing demand of the community for a separate provision for them instead of being included under the Hindu Marriage Act909 to provide for registration of marriages under the Act," Union Minister [...]
More communities added to Scheduled Castes list
The government on Thursday decided to include some communities in the list of Scheduled Castes in Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Tripura In Kerala, Pulluvan and Thachar communities will be included in the list of Scheduled Caste, an official release said in New Delhi The carpenters in the Thachar community will not be included in the SC [...]
Airtel launches 4G service in Kolkata
Bharti Airtel, the biggest telecom services company, launched broadband wireless access or BWA services based on 4G technology in Kolkata today It was inaugurated by telecom minister Kapil Sibal While users can enjoy faster downloads and internet speeds, the department of telecom has disallowed voice, video calls due to concerns flagged by [...]
Kapil Sibal launches ‘Open Government Platform’ developed by India and US
Shri Kapil Sibal Launches ‘Open Government Platform’ Developed by India and US, Initiative will Spur Citizen Engagement and Interface with Government The Minister of Communications and Information Technology Shri Kapil Sibal launched India’s Open Government Platform 0 in Delhi Host-based operation at multiple levels of government, with [...]
Kapil Sibal says that accreditation has decisive role in modernising, improving higher Education
Shri Kapil Sibal says that Accreditation has Decisive Role in Modernising, improving higher Education; inaugurates first World Summit on Accreditation Quality assurance that accreditation offers can play a decisive role in modernizing, improving and achieving better value for money of our higher education systemst World Summit on [...]
Upgraded Aakash tablet to be launched in April, With old price
An upgraded version of Aakash tablet computer would be launched in April without any increase in the price, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday Described as the world's cheapest tablet, the revised version would be faster with a longer battery life of three hours and better screen Datawind would [...]
