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 …

UG/PG students and fresh graduates can pitch their venture ideas across different themes till June 10  StartupIndia SmartIDEAthon — an annual pan-India mega pitch-fest by GITAM (Deemed to be University) for undergraduate and postgraduate student innovators to showcase  their entrepreneurial ideas — is accepting applications for innovative ideas by Indian students across four themes: Food & Health, Toys for STEM, Sustainable …

Kolkata residents Ruchi Jain and Akash Jain who launched the baby carrier brand Butt Baby in 2021 with an investment of just Rs. 4 lacs achieved a highly creditable Rs.4.25 Cr in little over a year.  This was done by simply reaching out to their sizeable Instagram following. This incredible success was achieved against the backdrop of Akash’s previous businesses not …