The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was established in 1909 with active support from Jamsetji Tata and thus is also locally known as the "Tata Institute". It is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in India and has the highest citation per faculty among all the universities in the world. It was granted the deemed to be university status in 1958 and the Institute of Eminence status in 2018.
The National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) is an Indian government laboratory based in Pune, in western India.
The Ministry of Railways is a ministry in the Government of India, responsible for the country's rail transport. The ministry operates the statutory body Indian Railways, an organisation that operates as a monopoly in rail transport and is headed by the Chairman and CEO of Railway Board. The Ministry of Railways along with the Railway Board is housed inside Rail Bhawan in New Delhi.
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Presidency College, Kolkata. Established in 1931, this unique institution of India is one of the oldest institutions focused on statistics, and its early reputation led it to being adopted as a model for the first US institute of Statistics set up at the Research Triangle, North Carolina by Gertrude Mary Cox.
Education in the Indian subcontinent began with teaching of traditional elements such as Indian religions, Indian mathematics, Indian logic at early Hindu and Buddhist centres of learning such as ancient Takshashila and Nalanda. Islamic education became ingrained with the establishment of Islamic empires in the Indian subcontinent in the Middle Ages while the coming of the Europeans later brought western education to colonial India.
Anand Kumar is an Indian Mathematics educator best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches underprivileged students for JEE - Advanced, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). By 2018, 422 out of 510 students had made it to the IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary. Kumar has spoken at MIT and Harvard about his programs for students from the underprivileged sections of Indian society. Kumar and his school have been the subject of several smear campaigns, some of which have been carried in Indian media sources. His life and work had been portrayed in the 2019 film, Super 30, where Kumar is played by Hrithik Roshan.
The state of Karnataka in India has institutions like the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad (IIT,DWD) Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kanarese State (Kanstate), the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad (IIIT), International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) and the National Law School of India University. In addition, a Visvesvaraya Institute of Advanced Technology (VIAT) is being constructed in Muddenahalli.
Gomia is a census town in the Gomia CD block in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The modern name is a transformation of Gumiaover the years. Though, today, it is still listed as Gumia by the South Eastern Railway (India).
Ravenshaw University, formerly known as Ravenshaw college, is a co-educational state university situated in Cuttack, Odisha on the eastern coast of India. Founded as Ravenshaw College in 1868, the institution became a university in 2006. The university has nine schools, thirty three academic departments and a student enrolment of nearly 8,000. It is one of the oldest educational institutes in the country and its history is synonymous with the history of modern Odisha.
Indian Institute of Technology Patna is a public technical university located at Bihta in Patna, India. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. It is one of the new IITs established by an Act of the Indian Parliament on August 6, 2008.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national level board of education in India for public and private schools, controlled and managed by the Government of India. Established in 1929 by a resolution of the government, the Board was indeed a bold experiment towards inter-state integration and cooperation in the sphere of secondary education. There are approximately 26,054 schools in India and 240 schools in 28 foreign countries affiliated to the CBSE. All schools affiliated to CBSE follow the NCERT curriculum especially from class 9 to 12. The current Chairperson of CBSE is Vineet Joshi IAS.
Delhi Public School, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, was established in 1988 in collaboration with Bharat Coking Coal Limited. It is an English medium co-educational school affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi. This is one of the schools run by the Delhi Public School Society, New Delhi. It was inaugurated by Shri. Salman Khurshid.
St. Michael's High School, Patna, also referred to as SMHS Patna or SMHS for short, is a private, Roman Catholic, co-educational high school in the Digha neighborhood of Patna, Bihar, India.
Sainik School, Purulia is a Sainik School established by the Sainik Schools Society in 1962, at Purulia, near Manguria in Purulia district, West Bengal India. The school prepares its students for the officers cadre in the Armed Forces and for other professions.
Nripendra Narayan Memorial High School is the oldest educational institution in Tufanganj subdivision. It is at the center of the town and is of historical importance regarding education in pre-independent India. The school was established in 1916 by Maharaja Jitendra Narayan, the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and is named after the late Maharaja Nripendra Narayan.
Cotton University is a public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established in 2017 by the provisions of an Act from the Assam Legislative Assembly which merged Cotton College State University and Cotton College. The University progressed to become one of the top 200 institutions of the country.
The Indian Institute of Management Jammu is a public, autonomous business school located in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Established in 2016, it is the youngest Indian Institute of Management. Prof. B. S. Sahay is the Founder Director of IIM Jammu. IIM Jammu is currently (DBA) in Management as per Indian Institutes of Management Act 2017. The student intake is 240 for the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programme for the year 2019.
Patna Collegiate School is a Government High School located in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established by officials of East India Company on 10 August 1835 to spread the english pattern of education in Bihar. Its previous name was Patna High School. It was founded at Alan Ganj, Ashok Rajpath, Patna and is the oldest High School in the State of Bihar, India. The school is located at Dariyapur, Patna and is affiliated with the Bihar School Examination Board. The current principal of the school is Dr. Madhuri Dwivedi.
The National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI) is India's first and only civil service training institute located in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. This institute is presently located inside the lush green 55-acre campus of Ministry of Railways's apex training institution, National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) as a makeshift arrangement. It is slated to shift to its permanent campus in Waghodiya taluka of Vadodara in the near future, for which the land acquisition has started.
