The earliest flowers on Earth, emerging over 140 million years ago, were likely pollinated by insects, new research has found. Ruby Stephens, a PhD candidate in botanical science at Macquarie University, worked with a team of Australian scientists to develop an evolutionary tree tracking the pollination of more than a thousand species of flowering plants across all of the Earth’s …
About 50 Indian Forest Service officers from different batches toured the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in Delhi as part of their career training program, organized under the aegis of the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy. The visit provided an opportunity for the officers to gain insights into the field of Ayurveda and its significance in forest conservation and …
KPMG in India and the NHRD Bangalore Chapter have announced that they would be coming together to offer a variety of short virtual instructor led executive training programmes specifically targeted at Human Resources (‘HR’) professionals across various levels. These programmes will allow HR professionals to hone specific skills that they need to build and learn outside of their own domain. Participants …
Reactions to India Rankings 2023 released on June 5 are continuing to pour in and the trend suggests these rankings under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) are coming of age and public institutions in particular getting a knack of it. Continuing its remarkable strides in global and national rankings, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) has made an …
Autar Nehru After the report of the union Ministry of Education appointed Dr. K. Radhakrishnan-led Overarching Committee was made public on May 12 for consultations, the reforms and restructuring of the assessment and accreditation processes and apparatus for of HEIs (about 1,113 universities and 43,796 colleges) in India, have moved into a critical but transformational phase. The current accreditation mechanism …
The 8th edition of India Ranking was released in New Delhi by the union MoS Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh in presence of top officials of various higher education regulatory bodies and ministry along with delegates from the top ranking HEIs that were felicitated on the occasion. This year the total participation has gone upto 8686 HEIs, number of categories and subject …
