New Delhi: North- East India is expected to get a major fillip as Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is gearing up to start several Diploma and Certificate programmes in Agriculture, announced Prof. Omprakash Mishra, Pro Vice Chancellor, IGNOU.

Prof. Mishra was addressing the North- East India National Seminar–cum-Consultation on "Strengthening Development P...

New Delhi: In a recognition to the literary brilliance of the State, the former president of Asam Sahitya Sabha, Dr Lakshmi Nandan Bora was today formally conferred the coveted Saraswati Samman for the year 2008 for his novel Kayakalpa. He is the first novelist from the region to be honoured with the prestigious award.

A scientist by profession, Bora has to his credit 56 volumes of nov...

Report by IED Correspondent; New Delhi: Government have considered and approved the request of Government of Assam for conversion of Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, presently under the Government of Assam, into an autonomous grants-in-aid institute of the Government of India, under the Department of Science and Technology. This would me...

New Delhi: Noted Assamese writer Lakshmi Nandan Bora will be honoured with the prestigious Saraswati Samman this year for his novel 'Kayakalpa'.

The award, instituted by the K K Birla Foundation in 19...

Kokrajhar: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today laid the foundation stone for a knowledge city at Rowmari in Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) area in Chirang district.
The knowledge city, at a cost of Rs 300 crore on a plot of 500 bighas of land, will be on a Public-Private Partnership mode, with BTC government offering help to private Camellia Group for the first-of-it...

Guwahati: Eminent litterateur and newly elected Assam Sahitya Sabha president Rongbong Terang has been chosen for the prestigious Assam Valley Literary award for 2008.
The Williamson Magor Education Trust, which gives away the annual award, informed in a release today that the award will be formally conferred in March.
Born in a small hamlet in the hill-district of Kar...

Guwahati: Assam's first private university Don Bosco University was formally inaugurated by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today, heralding a new era in higher and accessible education in the state.
Classes in the engineering college of the varsity had already commenced from August, with MBA, MCA and other such courses to start in the successive years.
Mr Gogoi, laudin...

Guwahati: The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) unit, the sixth in the country, was today inaugurated here by Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Ramvilas Paswan.
Speaking on the occasion, Paswan said the state had tremendous potential for the growth of pharmaceutical industry because of its proximity to major markets of the north ...

Guwahati: Vidya Bharati, the country's biggest non-government educational organization, shall hold its three-day executive meeting from here tomorrow to charter its future plans as well as hammer out new avenues to handle the emerging scenario.