The score of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is  used for admissions to various Engineering post-graduate programmes around the country. It is also used by several Public Service Undertakings (PSUs) for recruiting engineers in entry-level positions.  GATE – Mechanical Engineering will be conducted on February 4, 2017. BHEL – Last date for applying […]

The score of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is used by several Public Service Undertakings (PSUs) for recruiting engineers in entry-level positions. It is also used for admissions to various Engineering post-graduate programmes around the country. GATE – Civil Engineering will be conducted on February 12, 2017. BPCL – Last date for applying […]

(UGC CBSE NET 2017 candidates waiting outside one of the the center in Mumbai, as entry was not allowed even after the scheduled time fixed by CBSE. Photo Credits- Megha Mehta)  On behalf of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted the National Eligility Test (NET) for January 2017 […]

A female coaching aspirant preparing for NEET hanged herself to death in Kota, the first coaching student suicide of the year. Tanya Rana (18) of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, was found hanging from ceiling fan in her hostel room in the Kunhadi area of Kota on Friday midnight. Hostel authorities later informed about the suicide to the […]

Jallikattu, is a sport where contestants have to hold on to the hump of a bull for the longest time, and try to calm it. As dangerous as it sounds, it has been a Tamil tradition, and people of Tamil Nadu have taken the streets of Chennai, to protest against banning the sport. For some […]

Concerned by the slump in number of female students entering the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Joint Admission Board (JAB) on August 21, 2016, decided to set up a sub-committee under the chairmanship of Professor Timothy Gonsalves, Director, IIT Mandi to examine the ways to improve the participation of girls in the Bachelor of […]

Due to a bank holiday in Tamil Nadu today, January 17, 2017, the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main office has extended the fee payment deadline for applicants by one more day. Though the application portal is closed, registered candidates who are yet to pay the fees can do it by January 18, 11:59 pm. They […]

Ronika Goswami from Guwahati, Assam, aspired to be a Chemical Engineer. She started her journey from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur, in 2010. After finishing her Bachelors in Technology, she took the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) as she aspired to work with one of the top Public Service Undertaking (PSU) […]

The founder of the Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar motivated the coaching students of Kota through positive thinking and meditation for busting stress in life. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar conducted a mass meditation and interactive session with thousands of coaching students at ‘Utsah’, an event jointly organized by the Art of Living foundation […]

​ The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTU-H) will hold the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) on May 12, Post-Graduate Common Entrance Test (PGECET) on May 30 and Engineering Common Entrance Test (ECET) on May 6, declared the Telangana State Council of Higher Education on Thursday. Last year, EAMCET was held thrice […]