Patna: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad announced on Wednesday that Patna Ayurvedic College would be upgraded and accorded the status of National Institute of Research, and the Patna Regional Research Centre of Unani medicines would be turned into a model institute.

Azad was addressing the concluding session of 'AROGYA-2000', an altern...

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) shall establish training centers at 400 locations in the Bihar state. These will be equipped with computer labs to provide distance education through information technology to the remotest parts of the State. In addiditon to this, it is estimated that during the year 2009-10, 25,000 government officials shall be trained ...

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) shall establish training centers at 400 locations in the Bihar state. These will be equipped with computer labs to provide distance education through information technology to the remotest parts of the State. In addiditon to this, it is estimated that during the year 2009-10, 25,000 government officials shall be trained ...

New Delhi: A factually incorrect news item is being published in a section of the media regarding the MOU signed between the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Bihar Government for project called Samarth involving training of teachers. It is alleged that IGNOU gave the contract worth Rs. 400 crores to a company unilaterally without a transparent bid process.

Patna: In its bid to introduce semester system at under-graduate and post-graduate levels, Patna University (PU) has directed principals of colleges and heads of post-graduate departments to submit by November 14 draft proposals for its implementation.

PU is likely to implement this new system from the academic session 2010-11. Syllabus for each paper would be divided i...

Patna: Bihar Governor Debananda Konwar, on Thursday, kicked off the 93rd Foundation Day celebration of Patna University with a speech aimed to energize the teaching staff and raise the confidence of both employees and students of the nation's one of the oldest universities.

Emphasizing the need for a sound education policy in the state, the Governor said that good e...

Patna: The Bihar government on Tuesday launched E-Samarth, an education program to impart computer-aided education to the students of Class VI to VIII, at 244 middle schools across the state. It was launched by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Nitish said that this system will be implemented in all the schools in the state and hoped that this would help create more interest among children and check...

Patna: The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) will complete Rs. 600 crore project of constructing the ESIC Medical College at Bihta, Patna within two years and first academic session will start in 2013 in a time bound manner.

This was announced by the Union Minister of Labour & Employment Minister, Shri Malliarjun Kharge at Bihta near Patna today. He also said the ES...