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27 Jun

First session of 18th Lok Sabha held, President addresses NEET-UG paper incident

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The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha began, President Droupadi Murmu addressed the joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Addressing the 18th Lok Sabha for the first time, President Draupadi Murmu addressed recent NEET-UG paper leak incident. She said, "If due to any reason there is obstruction in examinations it is not appropriate. Sanctity, transparency are a must in government recruitments and examinations. The government is committed to conduct fair investigation and ensure the most stringent punishment to those guilty in the recent incidents of paper leak." Additionally, the President has also congratulated the…

11 May

Education Minister to execute plans on vocational courses in Assam

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The Board of Secondary Education Assam (SEBA) has recently celebrated Golden jubilee where Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu too attended the event. During his speech, the education minister has informed about the plans to remove vocational courses from higher education syllabus and integrate the vocational branch into Arts, Science, and Commerce streams. He said, "The vocational courses will be soon integrated with the Arts, Science, and Commerce streams. Each student will be given skill training. When knowledge and skills are imparted together, it results in a holistic form of education, preparing students for real-world challenges." Further he added saying, "We…

10 May

Shocking incident unfolded in Assam

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Amidst Higher secondary examination results a shocking news has come up about students being marked absent. As per reports, in different Assam's Cachar district institutes students were marked absent in several papers and most of them were in English papers despite their presence during their respective exams. The school sources has informed that the students who were marked absent were present and also appeared for the exam. Further, the board have ensured to look into the matter and corrective measures to be taken as soon as possible.

07 May

Dr Reddy’s profit after tax grew up 36% to Rs 1,307 Crore, revenue Rs 7,083 Crore

Priyanka Roy0 CommentsBusiness, Education

Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Tuesday reported a 36% rise in its consolidated profit after tax to Rs 1,307 Crore for the quarter ending March 2024 due to strong sales in the US market. The Hyderabad-based drug major had reported a profit after tax of Rs 959 Crore in the January-March quarter of financial year 2022-23. Revenue increased to Rs 7,083 Crore in the period under review from Rs 6,297 Crore in Q4FY13. For the full year ending March 31, 2024, the drug major said its PAT increased to Rs 5,568 Crore compared to Rs 4,507 Crore in financial year 2022-23.…

04 May

HS 2nd Year result to be declared by May, informs Ranoj Pegu

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Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu has informed about completion of the 'HS 2nd Year Result 2024' drafting process. Following it is expected that, Higher Secondary results are to declare soon. Earlier, Education Minister said that results might get declared before May 5. To check the results, students can visit the given link below: Assam Higher Secondary Educational Council will activate ahsec.assam.gov.in 2024 and resultsassam.nic.in 2024 by using their HS roll number and roll code, students can check their respective results. Detailing the procedure below: Open the official website of Assam Higher Secondary Educational Council: ahsec.assam.gov.in 2024 or resultsassam.nic.in 2024. Find the ‘AHSEC HS result 2024 link’ on the homepage…

21 Feb

Indian student undergoes brain surgery after taking ‘anti-sleep’ pills during exams

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEducation, Health

A Class 10 student from Lucknow, Prajakta Swarup had gone under a major brain surgery due to a clot that led to damage of nerves, last week. The reason behind this was intake of excessive sleeping pills along with steaming cups of coffee. Prajakta had been staying up all night preparing for her board examinations. Prajakta collapsed one evening and was hospitalised. Her parents later found a bottleful of pills in her drawer and when they handed them over to the doctor, they were shocked to know that their daughter had been on anti-sleep pills. "Shocking though it may sound,…

12 Feb

Assam Budget To support 10 lakh girls’ education levies no new tax

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsAssam, Business, Education

A bundle of women-centric schemes were unveiled by the Assam government on 12th Feb 2024( Monday) in its Rs 2.9 lakh crore budget for 2024-25 which includes financial help to provide education to 10 lakh girls up to post-graduation level to do away with child marriage. In a year when the country will vote to elect the next central government, Assam Finance Minister Ajanta Neog did not levy any new tax on the common people or commercial establishments as well. In an attempt to bring every family in the government job's network, she framed a new law for giving 5%…

17 Jan

Pratik Dalal has been appointed by Edtech Company Unacademy as the Chief Financial Officer of its offline centres business

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Recently Edtech Company Unacademy has appointed Pratik Dalal as the Chief Financial Officer of its offline centres business, according to an internal message sent by Co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal to employees. Actually Dalal is a seasoned finance professional with more than 20 years of experience in leadership positions spanning multinational corporations and startups. This is actually good news as Unacademy is doing business and making changes to become better. Today Unacademy is very trusted brand and many student get advantage from them. Actually Unacademy is doing business mainly in education and they know many things in this area. In…

03 Nov

India, UAE sign MoU to strengthen ties in education sector

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEducation

Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Education Minister signed an MoU with his UAE counterpart Ahmad Al Falasi on November 1, 2023(Wednesday) in order to strengthen present educational cooperation between the two countries. The MoU aims at facilitating student and faculty mobility, designing courses, lectures, joint research programmes, symposia, organising and participation in conferences, scientific and educational exhibitions in areas of mutual interest held in both countries. ''One of the largest schools in Abu Dhabi catering to the Indian community, ADIS is nurturing Indian students and instilling in them the culture, values and ethos of both India and the UAE. These students are…

08 Sep

Reliance foundation scholarships open for applications, apply by Oct 15

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEducation

The Reliance Foundation led by Nita Ambani has started accepting undergraduate scholarship applications form for the academic year 2023-24. Students pursuing undergraduate and are in first year are eligible for availing scholarship. Students from any stream can fill the form. The last date to apply is 15th of October 2023. Students will be selected based on their 12th marks, their score in aptitude, household income and other specified qualifying requirements. Total of 5,000 students will be selected for the scholarship who will get upto rupees 2 lakh for studies and an opportunity to be part of an enabling support system…