The landscape of higher education for students with disabilities in India has long been shrouded in obscurity, with limited data and awareness hindering progress. However, a recent study conducted under the NCPEDP-Bajaj Finserv Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities has brought to light a sobering reality: the pervasive challenges confronting these students in their pursuit of education. Only 3 out …

Nirma University’s law school has won the 1st edition of Dr. TMA Pai International Technology Arbitration Moot, 2024 and received a cash prize of Rs. 1.50 lakh. Manipal Law School, a constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Bengaluru organised this landmark event over two days on March 30-31. The theme of the competition was based on the intersection of …

Given the critical importance of cybersecurity in the lives of people and nation, the Government is actively thinking of rolling an undergraduate program in cybersecurity where talented students from outside the JEE will also be enrolled. This step is taken to scale up the capacity for producing trained skilled manpower in the cybersecurity. “There is a need to have a …

Tata Power Skill Development Institute (TPSDI) and the Skill Council for Green Jobs (SCGJ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at enhancing skills in the renewable energy sector and empowering an increasing number of individuals to pursue careers in green jobs. Dr. Praveen Saxena, CEO, SCGJ and Himal Tewari, CHRO, Chief – Sustainability & CSR, Tata Power at …

Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), a constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, has launched a dual-degree program in collaboration with Deakin University, Australia. The program offers students the choice of selecting their major from two discipline areas i.e. Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering. The 2-year BTech program at MIT and the 2-year Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) at …

The Zoological Survey of India published a book entitled, ‘An illustrated guide to the Lepidoptera of India: taxonomic procedures, family characters, diversity and distribution’. For India, this illustrated guide is the first ever of its kind. The diversity of global Lepidoptera is updated to 166,320 species, 143 families and 43 superfamilies, of which 13,124 species, 101 families and 31 superfamilies …