Bhopal, June 4 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday opposed the proposed renaming of Barkatullah University in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal as ‘Vagdevi Bhojpal University’, alleging that the move was “politically motivated” and “aimed at erasing the legacy of a prominent freedom fighter”. The controversy erupted a day after the university’s Executive Council unanimously approved a proposal to rename the institution, one of the oldest and most significant centres of higher education in Central India.The pr…
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Bhopal, May 6 (IANS) In a major push under the National Education Policy (NEP), students in public universities across Madhya Pradesh will soon be able to study 11 Indian languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Assamese, Bengali, Odia and Sindhi, as part of their academic credits.Higher Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar, while chairing a review meeting in Bhopal on Wednesday, directed universities to implement the language courses and allocated spe…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) People and students across several states on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to stay the operation of the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, saying that if implemented, the new rules could have created serious and difficult situations in the future. The Supreme Court also issued notice to the Centre and the UGC. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagc…