Higher education sector must find innovative solutions with economic sustainability at this hour of crisis say Nitin Gadkari, union minister of Road Transport & Highways and MSME. Addressing the webinar on ‘Impact of Higher Education In The Post COVID Economy’ organized by FICCI in partnership with AIU on May 15, Gadkari said, “Education and research play an important role in helping any sector. Innovation, …

Researchers at Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida have announced the discovery of two strains of plastic-eating bacteria that have the potential to solve the problem of plastic waste globally. The bacterial species namely Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain DR11 and Exiguobacterium undae strain DR14 were isolated from the wetlands adjoining the University by Dr Richa Priyadarshini and her team at the Department of Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences. …

55 students from the undergraduate and postgraduate programs of Pune-based FLAME University will support the global WageIndicator system from the current academic year. This cooperation is the primary outcome of an agreement between FLAME University and WageIndicator Foundation of the Netherlands which led to setting up of the WageIndicator Research Lab at FLAME. WageIndicator Foundation operates websites with wage and …

QS Young University Ranking 2020 was released in New Delhi on July 2 for universities that have been established in and after 1969. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati established in 1994, Anna University, Chennai, a state technical university established in 1978 and O.P. Jindal Global University established in 2009 are the three Indian universities that figure in these young university rankings.  …

The IIHMR Board, which governs the Jaipur-based Indian Institute of Health Management Research University (IIHMR, esb 1984)  has appointed Dr. S D Gupta as the Chairman of the university from June 1, this year.  Dr. SD Gupta has done pioneering work of creating and establishing new discipline of health management, and promoting research in health policy and health systems and programme …

295 degrees were awarded in a hi tech well-attended show made special by inspiring convocation addresses by Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India and Dr Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Shiv Nadar also sat through the whole event lasting over 3 hours In words of Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Shiv …