India's target is to achieve 175 gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy by 2022 and rooftop applications are supposed to contribute 40 GW of the total 100 GW of targeted solar capacity.

This year's budget is the most awaited announcement since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the incumbent government's last budget of this term.

The higher education landscape in India is undergoing a paradigm shift, with private deemed to be universities beginning to make significant contributions in terms of quality and quantity.

Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan is not known to hold back his punches. And defaulting promoters are a pet target of his. He has said it many times before, and he's just said it again in Davos: Promoters of companies that go belly-up have to face strong consequences.

Medical professionals rang in the New Year debating the implications of the National Medical Commission Bill tabled in the Lok Sabha. That it has now been sent to the standing committee should hopefully put some concerns to rest considering the bill.

The Union Cabinet yesterday cleared revised pay scales for about 7.58 lakh teachers and academic staff of higher educational institutions following the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission.

This revision would register an entry pay growth in the range of 22 per cent to 28 per cent. The measures proposed in the revised pay structure are expected to improve quality of higher education, and also attract and retain talent

It also gave its nod to the Human Resource Development Ministry's plan of creating 20 world-class institutions in the country.

Policy analysts and experts have advocated the replacement of AICTE and UGC with a more efficient regime for a long time.

The importance of education in one of the fastest growing major economies of the world cannot be overemphasized. Over the last two decades, India has remarkably transformed its higher education landscape.

The countries in the Asia Pacific region are increasingly embracing agricultural biotechnology, while we are still debating the merits of it. The 2017 budget needs to set this wrong right by providing incentives to improving agricultural research within the country. 

In the mid-1970s, when women started pursuing professional education - engineering, accountancy, business administration - outlooks changed and it progressively started to change things on the ground.

Google Head of Developer Training Peter Lubbers said the company aims to train about 2 million people in the next three years.

In an exclusive interview with Business Today's Joe C. Mathew, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry talks about the emerging areas in intellectual property.

Budget is a journey and clearly one year does not tell the full story - but this was Budget No. 3, so expectations were singularly high.

It is a social budget for Bharat…which is required and necessary but some of the key sectors could have received more emphasis

Bihar is one of the poorest states in the country, and needs the Centre's support to click the growth trajectory.

YES Bank also said it may use the agreement to raise equity capital through a global depository receipt listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Now students as well as parents will have such details of the colleges - their past performance and infrastructure - to make an informed choice before seeking admission.