Jawaharlal Nehru University
IIT Delhi Tops QS Asia Rankings 2025
The QS Asia University Rankings 2025 have been released. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) has achieved the highest position in India. It ranks 44th overall in Asia. This marks an important achievement for IITD and showcases its academic excellence. ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2024
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
First Woman Vice Chancellor of JNU
Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit was recently appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She is the first woman VC of the university. She was appointed by the President of India. Her appointment was recommended by the prime minister ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News
Nature Index
The Nature Research, a division of the popular Springer Nature recently released Nature Index. India secured 12th rank in the index. Highlights The countries that secured top 5 places in the index includes USA, China, Germany, UK and Japan. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
President of India presents Visitor’s Awards 2019
The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind hosted a Conference of all Central Universities Vice-Chancellors, Directors of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research and the Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bengaluru on Tuesday, 17th December 2019 at Rashtrapati Bhavan ..
JNU signs MoU with IIT Delhi for Research, Technology Development
The two premier institutions, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and IIT Delhi inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in research, education and technology developments in science and other disciplines. Key Highlights of MoU MoU Objective: To recognise each other’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019
Jawaharlal Nehru University inks an agreement with IIT-Delhi
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has inked an agreement with IIT-Delhi for cooperation in research, education and technology developments in science and other disciplines. This collaboration will also facilitate access to each other’s libraries and central research facilities to intensify ..
Meeta Narain conferred with Pushkin Medal 2019
Prof. Meeta Narain of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been conferred the prestigious ‘Pushkin Medal – 2019’ for her contribution to Russian studies abroad. Narain has contributed towards re-writing of Russian studies textbooks for graduate students after the dissolution of ..
JNU decides to confer alumni award to Nirmala Sitharaman & S Jaishankar
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has decided to confer its Distinguished Alumni Award to Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. The award will be presented at JNU’s third convocation to be held in August. Ms Sitharaman had completed her ..