15 new central universities by next academic session

October 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Representatives of 17 American educational institutions will participate in a U.S. University Fair to be held in New Delhi on October 8, from 1:30 to 5:30 pm, at the Fulbright House, 12 Hailey Road.

September 30th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Wednesday urged the government to earmark 50 percent of the seats in central universities for students from rural areas.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In view of the special status of State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Government has decided to establish, as a special dispensation, two appropriate Central Universities in the State - one in Jammu region and another in the Kashmir Valley. It is expected that this will meet the regional aspirations in the State.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There would be no Class 10 public exams for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools from 2011 and a grading system would be introduced from the current academic session, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal announced Monday. The minister told reporters here that board exams would be held as usual this academic year, but a grading system would be introduced along with the prevalent marks system.

July 28th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday witnessed uproarious scenes over the issue of setting up central universities in the state. As soon as the session of the assembly started, members of the BJP and Panthers Party came down and raised the issue of setting up central universities.

July 17th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In order to curb incidents of ragging in colleges, the administration of the union territory of Chandigarh has decided to come down hard on the guilty by strictly adhering to the guidelines of the Supreme Court and University Grants Commission (UGC). "Ragging in any form is a serious offence.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has directed all University Grants Commission (UGC) recognised varsities to launch their own websites and make readily available all information sought by students and aspirants. After a meeting chaired by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal here Friday, a ministry statement said the central government is concerned about certain practices being adopted that could damage the credibility of the entire university system.

July 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In order to curb incidents of ragging, the Panjab University (PU) Thursday announced various steps, including forming of committees on the campus from the next academic session. "We are committed to make PU campus totally ragging free.

June 29th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh will adopt a zero-tolerance policy against ragging and will even cancel affiliation of the education institute where any such incident is reported, Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan said Monday.

May 16th, 2009 Hindus have urged “elite” universities of USA to be more “inclusive” rather than “exclusive”. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Princeton University only enrolled five Native American graduate students this current academic year, which was about 0.2 percent of its student body.

March 29th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Admitting that mere Supreme Court guidelines are not enough to prevent ragging from spoiling the careers of students, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to convert these into strict regulations before the next academic session. 'We have realised that more than a decade-old guidelines are not enough to curb the menace of ragging.

March 29th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Sunday decided to raise its post-graduate tuition fees for first and second year students by Rs.50,000 annually from the 2010 academic session. Fees for first-year students will be be increased from Rs.5.5 lakh per annum now to Rs.6 lakh, and that for second-year students from Rs.6 lakh to Rs 6.5 lakh, a senior official of the institute told IANS.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will commence academic sessions in 2009-10, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said while presenting the interim budget in the Lok Sabha Monday. An ordinance was promulgated for establishing 15 central universities and in addition to this, six new IITs in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Punjab and Gujarat started functioning in 2008-09, he said.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The parliament session commencing Thursday will consider 39 measures - 27 bills, 10 financial measures and two non-legislative items, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said Wednesday. 'These include three bills replacing three ordinances - the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Ordinance, 2009, the Central Industrial Security Force (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009, and the Central Universities Ordinance, 2009, promulgated by the president during inter-session period,' he told reporters here.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will issue an ordinance to create 12 new central universities, it was announced here Friday. 'This is being done because the bill to create the universities could not be passed in parliament (in the session that concluded last month),' Home Minister P.