Anti-narcotics EAGLE teams raid paan, kirana shops near colleges, seize tobacco, gutkha products

Anti-narcotics EAGLE teams raid paan, kirana shops near colleges, seize tobacco, gutkha products

EAGLE head and IGP Ake Ravi Krishna and NTR Commissionerate Deputy Commissioner K.G.V. Saritha of Police seize gutkha and cigarette packets from a paan shop during a raid in Vijayawada on Saturday. K.V.S.R. Siddhartha Pharmaceutical College principal Dr. A. Suneeha is also seen. | Photo Credit: Rajulapudi Srinivas In a joint operation, officers of the … Read more

Justice K. Lakshman declines relief to engineering colleges over fee enhancement

Justice K. Lakshman declines relief to engineering colleges over fee enhancement

Justice K. Lakshman of Telangana High Court on Friday declined to permit the enhancement of annual fee for different courses by 12 engineering colleges. Disposing of interim applications in the writ petitions filed by these colleges, the judge instructed TG EAPCET-2025 Convenor to inform the students that the fee paid by them would be subject … Read more

ED seizes ₹1.37 crore cash during search proceedings on three engineering colleges allegedly involved in seat blocking scam

ED seizes ₹1.37 crore cash during search proceedings on three engineering colleges allegedly involved in seat blocking scam

The Enforcement Directorate logo. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has seized ₹1.37 crore cash during searches at 17 locations related to seat-blocking scam in private engineering colleges in Bengaluru. “There is an extensive network of agents, educational consultancy service entities, which is used to bring students for admission from … Read more

Many Bengal colleges not holding Students’ Week as they kept waiting for formal order

Many Bengal colleges not holding Students’ Week as they kept waiting for formal order

Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI To celebrate or not to celebrate is the question for many colleges in West Bengal regarding Students’ Week, a recently launched annual event held from January 2 to 8, as they have not received a formal order from the State government for its conduct. While … Read more

CET: KEA issues show-cause notice to 2,348 candidates who did not report to colleges

CET: KEA issues show-cause notice to 2,348 candidates who did not report to colleges

Despite being allotted seats in the second extended round of UGCET-2024, 2,348 candidates failed to pay the fee and report to their respective engineering colleges. As a result, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) issued show-cause notice to these candidates on Wednesday asking for an explanation. Seats denied to others KEA executive director H. Prasanna mentioned … Read more

Tamil Nadu rains, Chennai rain alert LIVE updates: CM Stalin takes stock of monsoon situation; schools, colleges to remain closed across districts today

Tamil Nadu rains, Chennai rain alert LIVE updates: CM Stalin takes stock of monsoon situation; schools, colleges to remain closed across districts today

Low-pressure area over Bay of Bengal to trigger heavy rain over T.N. till Thursday A low-pressure area that formed over the southeast Bay of Bengal during the early hours of Monday will set the stage for widespread rainfall, particularly over north Tamil Nadu, and herald the onset of the northeast monsoon over the State. The … Read more

Karnataka: Regulatory committee formed to monitor free structure in nursing colleges

Karnataka: Regulatory committee formed to monitor free structure in nursing colleges

Presently, the fee structure for nursing students stands at ₹10,000 under government quota, ₹1 lakh under management quota, and ₹1.4 lakh for non-Karnataka students. | Photo Credit: File photo Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil has said that a fee regulatory committee has been formed to monitor and regulate the fee structure in nursing colleges … Read more

Why a proposal to upgrade government, aided colleges as unitary universities was scrapped

Why a proposal to upgrade government, aided colleges as unitary universities was scrapped

Backlash: Members of the Association of University Teachers and Tamil Nadu Association of Non-Teaching Staff of Aided Colleges staging a demonstration in Coimbatore on December 9, 2010 against the plan. | Photo Credit: S. SIVA SARAVANAN While Tamil Nadu continues to expand its footprint in higher education, its attempt to go a step further by … Read more