The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has entered into a strategic Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with IG Drones to set up 50 Drone Centres of Excellence (CoEs) across 50 engineering colleges in India. The Drone Centres of Excellence will serve as dynamic hubs for innovation, hands-on training, and research, embedding advanced drone technology into technical education. Students will gain …

National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela) has been selected as one of the Hub Institutions under the Partnerships for Accelerated Innovation and Research (PAIR) Programme, launched by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF). It is the only NIT across the country and the only hub institute from Eastern India selected under the program. In its first phase, the PAIR Programme focuses …

Hyderabad-based Mahindra University will play host to the Bharat Higher Education Summit 2025 (BHES), being organised by the Confederation of Indian Private Universities (CIPU) in association with Hyderabad-based Mahindra University’s Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC-MU). Vice Chancellors from more than 150+ leading universities across India are expected. The forum aims to serve as a transformative platform to shape the future of higher education in …

The 2nd meeting of the National Task Force on the Mental Health Concerns of Students and the Prevention of Suicides in Higher Educational Institutions took place on April 12 under the chairmanship of Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, former judge of the Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi where it decided to form three working groups each looking after different …

CMR University, Bengaluru, is set to host their flagship event, Global Open Innovation Challenge as part of CAUSE 2025, on April 16th and 17th at its Lakeside Campus in Bagalur. The event is being organised to mark the ‘Design Thinking Day’, an annual event hosted by CMR University with a mission to highlight the significance of adopting design thinking to …

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel Saturday presented the inaugural Ratnasinhji Mahida Memorial Awards to two eminent tribal achievers — Prof. (Dr.) Madhukar S. Padvi, the first Vice Chancellor of Birsa Munda Tribal University, Rajpipla, and Dr. S. Prasanna See, Professor of English at Andhra University, who is globally recognised as the first woman to have devised alphabets for numerous Indian …