AMRITSAR: The University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman, Prof Ved Prakash, addressed the 42nd foundation day of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) on Thursday. Prakash said, "The private institutes have become business-oriented as they cater to professional courses but not the overall development of higher education. Subjects like social sciences are ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Students Union (PSU) has given a statewide call for students strike on November 21 against the collection of the Parent­ Teacher Association (PTA) funds in various government and government-aided colleges and the alleged misuse of such funds. The PSU would ·also organise protest dharnas in front of ...

AMRITSAR: The faculty of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) has decided to confront vice­ chancellor AS Brar over the dismissal of a senior professor and removal of another as the head of department. On Wednesday, the GNDU Teachers Association (GNDU-TA) conveyed to the V-C its opposition to both decisions which were ...

PATIALA: Punjabi University Syndicate on Monday approved Rs 160-crore budget for the financial year 2010-11. The budget shows a deficit of Rs 65 crore and the university lias made an appeal to the government to enhance grants to help run its affairs and meet its salary and other bills. The revised ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government on Thursday’s rod that it was all set to establish 13 new government colleges. Chairing a meeting with the six-member delegation of University Grants Commission (UGC) here on Wednesday evening, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that the design pattern of all the colleges had been approved ...