As per Section 23 of the UGC Act, the use of the term 'University' is prohibited from being used, unless explicitly established as one as per Section 3 of the UGC Act

Education ministers of all states, vice-chancellors of state universities among other senior officials would also be attending the Governors' Conference

UGC final year exam news: While representing the UGC, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta also stated that states can consider pushing the September 30 deadline ahead but not cancellation of exams and that degrees cannot be conferred without conducting exams

The Supreme Court on Monday said that the next hearing on the University Grants Commission's directives for final-year exams will be held on August 14

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun his inaugural address at the 'Conclave on Transformational Reforms in Higher Education under National Education Policy' today

The conclave will have sessions dedicated to significant aspects of education covered under the new National Education Policy (NEP), including holistic, multidisciplinary and futuristic education, quality research and equitable use of technology for better reach in education

The significant changes under the New Education Policy also includes establishing a single regulator for higher education, flexible undergraduate courses with multiple exit options and appropriate certification, and bringing back 2 crore out of school children, among others

The vice-chancellors of the state-run universities will write to the University Grants Commission (UGC), stating the reasons for not following the July 6 guidelines that mandated final semester examinations by September 30

Coronavirus impact: Delhi state university exams cancelled; Deputy CM said that the degree will be awarded on the evaluation parameters decided by the universities

Home Ministry advised universities and other institutions to adhere to standard operating procedure (SOP) prescribed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in view of the COVID-19 pandemic

University Grants Commission (UGC) permitted top 100 universities, as per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking or those with scores of 3.26 or more, to offer full degree programmes online

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Wednesday asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to revisit the guidelines for intermediate and terminal semester exams and the academic calendar

Corona lockdown live updates: Union Home Ministry said new guidelines to fight COVID-19 will come into effect from May 4, which shall give considerable relaxations to many districts; India saw 1,813 new cases and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours

Coronavirus lockdown extension live updates: From Tuesday, Haryana will restrict movement to satellite cities of Gurugram and Faridabad. Borders in Sonipat and Jhajjar have already been tightened

UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain said this helpline shall be \"reguarly monitored and managed by counsellors and identified faculty members\"

Coronaviris News Updates: Director of Bhopal Health Department, J Vijay Kumar, tests positive for coronavirus; his second test sample also found positive

Coronavirus Crisis Live Updates: Migrant workers face troubles amid 21-day nationwide lockdown; state government make food and shelter arrangements as exodus from Delhi, Noida, Ahmedabad, Mumbai continues

Coronavirus outbreak news updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that social distancing is important and useful to prevent the spread of the virus

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

The results of the Periyar University UG/PG exams 2019 have been released on the official website of the Periyar University, periyaruniversity.ac.in. The students can check the results online by following these steps.