New Delhi: At a time when billions of rupees are being spent to provide elementary education to children, there is a group of people where the rate of literacy among children is almost zero.Known as ...

New Delhi: The government will set a goal of creating 500 million trained technicians by 2020, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Saturday....

New Delhi: Nearly 45,000 schools, colleges and other educational institutes run by Christian organisations around the country were closed on Friday to protest the continued violence against the commun...

New Delhi: A survey conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in 2006, has revealed that the learning ability of students of class III and VII in Government school...

Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's mega development package for Assam, with maximum thrust on boosting the state's education sector, has been hailed here as a visionary step towards gi...

Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said his government was putting in place a national network to facilitate sharing of knowledge and information among higher educational institutions...

Guwahati: India is expected to account for a fourth of the world's total skilled workforce by 2020 and the central government is according top priority to higher education, allocating Rs.275,000 c...

Jorhat (Assam): Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said shortage of doctors and nurses was the biggest hurdle as India sought to provide adequate healthcare facilities to the people....

New Delhi: The Results of the Company Secretaries Examinations conducted in June 2008 by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) have been declared today at 12 noon IST.The results are al...

New Delhi: The Education sector must be provided with appropriate tax exemptions that would help it attract more investment, said an industry lobby report released on Sunday. ...