UGC recognizes 14 new higher schooling institutes for open and distance studying

University Grants Commission has recognized 14 new Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) for supplying courses through distance education. This list is further to eighty-two such institutes that had been known through the UGC in May this yr.
In December 2012, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, dissolved the Distance Education Council which became the erstwhile regulator of Distance Education programs and transferred regulatory features to the University Grants Commission.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development in a gazette notification posted earlier known all the levels provided through open and distance mode of training by using the colleges hooked up with the aid of an Act of Parliament or State Legislature, Deemed Universities, Institutes of National Importance are eligible for posts and services beneath the crucial authorities, furnished they had been authorized by using the UGC and anyplace essential, via All India Council for Technical Education for the program for which it is the regulatory authority.
Karachi: Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday that China completely helps Pakistan in coming near the UN Security Council after India revoked the special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Qureshi visited China on Friday and met together with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and different top officers in Beijing.
Addressing an information convention in Islamabad after coming back from China, Qureshi said, “I shared with China that we intend on taking this remember to the United Nations Security Council. I want to tell the state that they’ve confident us in their whole help.”
“China has directed its consultant in New York to keep close liaison with Pakistani diplomats on the difficulty,” he stated, including that China and Pakistan have also nominated their focal people at Director-General stage for the motive.
He said China desires the resolution of the difficulty in keeping with the UN Resolutions.
“China has a clear position that India has taken a unilateral step in Jammu and Kashmir which can be unlawful and against the norms of global law,” Qureshi stated.
China on Friday instructed Qureshi, who air-dashed right here on Friday to are seeking its assist on Kashmir, that it seemed both India and Pakistan as “pleasant neighbors” and wants them to remedy the issue via UN resolutions and the Shimla agreement.

Qureshi stated that Pakistan becomes also considering different options.
“We are considering different options as properly we are hoping there may be no bloodshed, however, we see matters shifting toward similar escalation in tensions,” he introduced.
The minister said the Pakistan government does not want to remember “army options”.
“We reserve the right to defend our motherland in event of any misadventure, he stated.
Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi said on Friday it is time for Pakistan to see a new reality and forestall interfering in the internal matters of India.
“From their side, they would like to assign a panic scenario, the global community does now not think there’s a warfare-like situation. It is a ploy to deflect interest…It is time for Pakistan to look a new reality and prevent interfering within the inner subjects of India,” it said.
Qureshi stated in an interview with Geo TV that he might apprise Prime Minister Imran Khan about his China visit and then the following step would be determined.
He said apart from taking the problem to the united states, Pakistan turned into also questioning to take it to the Human Rights Council.
Separately, the overseas workplace said that China expressed extreme concern over India’s unilateral moves in Kashmir.
The overseas ministers of Pakistan and China agreed that each facet might carefully coordinate and consult each other at the evolving traits, it stated.
Qureshi Saturday held an assembly with former overseas secretaries to chalk out the future path of action.
On Monday, India revoked Article 370 to withdraw the unique popularity to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the place into Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. In response to India’s circulate, Pakistan downgraded the diplomatic members of the family via expelling the Indian High Commissioner on Wednesday and suspended change ties with New Delhi.