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After months of trickles and teases, the full hardware details about the first Radeon Vega graphics card are finally here as AMD formally launched Radeon Vega Frontier Edition on Tuesday. Don’t get too excited though. This hardware is intended for “data scientists, immersion engineers, and product designers” rather than gamers. That professional focus reflects in the pricing: The air-cooled Frontier Edition costs $1,000 ... Read More »

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), in partnership with Wiley, is pleased to announce the publication of the GMAT Official Guide 2018 series. The guides offer a comprehensive set of questions for all types of test takers. Representative image The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), in partnership with Wiley, is pleased to announce the publication of the GMAT Official Guide ... Read More »

WITH 88 PER CENT aggregate in the Class XII CBSE exams, Muktsar boy Navdeep Singh was on cloud nine when he saw his name right on top of the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) result declared on Friday. NEET is conducted for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges. Bathinda girl Nikita Goyal came 8th to become the topper ... Read More »

A total of 11,38,890 students had appeared for the NEET, out of which 6,11,539 have passed the medical entrance examination which was held on May 7. Photo: HT New Delhi: Navdeep Singh from Punjab has topped the prestigious National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 for admission to MBBS and BDS courses, results of which were declared by CBSE today. ... Read More »

Breaking away from tradition, off-campus colleges have announced higher cut-offs this year, similar to those announced by North and South campus (on-campus) colleges. Photo: Saumya Khandelwal/HT New Delhi: High cut-offs in certain courses, overloaded website and some colleges mandating original class XII mark sheets played a dampener on the first day of admission to Delhi University (DU) colleges on Saturday. ... Read More »

The highest DU cut-off was 99.66% for BSc (Hons) Electronics in SGTB Khalsa College. Photo: HT New Delhi: Delhi University has announced its first cut-off list for the academic year 2017-18 for merit-based undergraduate courses, with many registering a drop in cut-offs across colleges. The highest was 99.66% for BSc (Hons) Electronics in SGTB Khalsa College. In humanities stream, Khalsa ... Read More »

CBSE told to submit details on scrapping re-evaluation NEET results 2017: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the result for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 on Friday and Dehradun’s Hritik Chauhan has topped among candidates of Uttarakhand with a rank of 317. Before NEET, Hritik had also cleared AIIMS and JIPMER with flying colours. ... Read More »

49% students fail in Bihar Board Class 10 exam 2017 The result of Class 10 board exam has been finally declared today, on June 22, by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) and shockingly, 49 per cent students have failed the exam. Only 14 per cent students pass the Bihar Board Class 10 exam with first division The result of ... Read More »

IN A major relief to the financially hit Panjab University, the Punjab government in its annual budget on Friday announced an increase of Rs 7 crore in its annual grant to the university. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) too has increased its annual allocation to the university to Rs 207.80 crore from last year’s Rs 198 crore and ... Read More »

The bench has asked the education boards to take advice from experts on whether its suggestions can be acted upon. A bench of Justices V M Kanade and A M Badar, noted that a high percentage of students drop out of schools after the tenth standard as they are not able to clear Maths and language papers. In a bid ... Read More »