Birmingham City University will confer an honorary doctorate on Shankar Mahadevan at a ceremony in 2023, and the singer and composer will lead on several collaborative projects at the University’s Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and STEAMhouse creative hubs. The award-winning Indian singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan, described as one of the greatest Bollywood vocalists alive, is to receive an honorary doctorate …

Reservation structured singularly on economic criteria does not violate any essential feature of the Constitution of India and does not cause any damage to basic structure of constitution says the Supreme Court judgment pronounced on Nov 7, 2022. The five-judge constitutional bench in a split verdict 3:2 upheld the Constitution (103 Amendment) Act, 2019 with Justices CJI U U Lalit …

IIT Kanpur-backed innovation ‘Fleather’ – a regenerative approach to creating leather out of floral waste, developed by IIT Kanpur-incubated startup Phool.co, gets global recognition as one of the 15 finalists for the 2022 Earthshot Prize. Fleather’ is developed as animal-free leather by Phool,founded by Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar in July 2017 with critical incubation support from the Startup Incubation …

Ministry of Education released a detailed report on Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2021-22 on school education of India on Nov 3, with additional data on important indicators viz., digital library, peer learning, hard spot identification, number of books available in school library, etc. As per the report, in 2021-22 total students enrolled in school education from …

The PGI Report for 2021-22 will be revamped by adding new indicators aligned with NEP 2020 initiatives to expand the coverage without altering total points. By doing so, Domains such as teachers, digital education, learning outcome etc will get enhanced weight in the Index. The revamped PGI 2021-22 will replace the redundant and saturated indicators. The marking system will also …

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), on Nov 3 announced two key initiatives in line with its future growth plans—the launch of a redesigned website along with a refreshed logo and a go-ahead on the reconstruction of some parts of the old campus. The decisions taken by the IIMA Board of Governors,  in first case is for a digital-first …