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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed petitioners, who dropped out from their courses between November 5 and November 18, 2024, to register for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Advanced. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih passed the order while hearing...

New Delhi: The government's artificial intelligence programme unit IndiaAI and Microsoft have partnered to train 5 lakh individuals, including students, educators, developers, government officials, and women entrepreneurs on AI by 2026, a senior company official said Wednesday. Microsoft India and South Asia President, Puneet Chandok...

New Delhi: Farm workers and drivers will figure among the fastest growing jobs over the next five years, while roles of cashiers and ticket clerks will see the largest decline, a new study showed Wednesday. In its Future of Jobs Report 2025, the World Economic...

Debadurllav Harichandan, OP Bhubaneswar: Despite being a power-surplus state for the past four years, a total of 2,182 schools, including 1,672 government schools, in Odisha reeled under darkness in 2023-24, according to Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) Survey 2023-24 released by the Ministry...

New Delhi: White-collar hiring activities increased by 9 per cent in December as compared to the same period last year, according to a report. In the white-collar hiring sphere, high-skill and strategically important jobs were in high demand. According to Naukri JobSpeak, the index increased...

Bhubaneswar: The Union government has approved Rs 676.70 crore for infrastructural development of various universities and colleges in Odisha under Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-USHA), state Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj said Tuesday. Speaking to reporters here, Suraj said that of Rs 676.70 crore,...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Friday prescribed modalities for the implementation of the ‘Panchasakha Sikhya Setu’(PSS) scheme. PSS is a flagship programme of the state government aiming to revamp school education by promoting volunteerism and collaboration through innovative citizen-government partnership. The newly elected BJP government has recently...

Sambalpur: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Sambalpur has announced a strategic shift in its admission process, deciding to independently conduct the exercise for the MBA programme in the 2025-2026 academic year, an official said Friday. The same admission process will be applicable for the newly...

New Delhi: A DIGI-EXAM system to check impersonation, multi-stage and multi-session testing, test centre allocation policy, setting up secured test centres in each district and mobile testing centres in rural and remote areas are among the recommendations made by the Centre's high-level panel on exam...

New Delhi: NCERT textbooks for some classes will cost less from next year, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced Tuesday. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), which currently prints five crore textbooks a year, is working to augment capacity to 15 crore...