The Supreme Court Friday termed as arbitrary the fixing of June 16 for conducting INI CET 2021 and directed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to hold the post graduate medical entrance test after one month. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and M R Shah disposed of a plea filed by doctors seeking admission in PG medical and challenging the notification of fixing June 16 as date of INI CET 2021. The bench said that having regard to the difficulty faced by the candidates due to the examination and many placed far way due to COVID duty from the examination centre, the exam needs to be postponed.
Read more about IIT-Kanpur improves ranking in world s best varsity list by 73 ranks on Business Standard. This year, IIT-K has been ranked as the 277th position in the list
Read more about QS ranking: IIT Kharagpur jumps 34 places to reach 280th spot globally on Business Standard. The London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the QS World University Ranking 2022 recently.
Read more about Enrolment of female students lowest in institutes of national importance on Business Standard. This is according to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2019-20.
Efforts are underway to ensure more universities and institutions of India scale global excellence and support intellectual prowess among the youth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as he congratulated those figuring in the top-200 positions in QS World University Rankings 2022. According to the 18th edition of the rankings, the India Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, is India s top ranked institution for the fourth consecutive year. IIT, Delhi, has become India s second-best university, having risen from the 193rd rank to 185 in the world since last year. It has done so by overtaking IISc which bagged the 186th rank. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has got a perfect score of 100 out of 100 for the citations per faculty (CPF) metric in the analysis by London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).