New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) A controversy erupted on Friday after the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued a circular asking universities to celebrate September 29 as ‘Surgical Strike Day’, with the Congress calling the move…
Hyderabad, Sep 21 (IANS) With the “Global Open Access Week” scheduled to be celebrated next month, Hyderabad-based Omics International has invited the academic and research communities to join the Open Access movement. It urged the…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) A controversy erupted on Friday after the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued a circular asking universities to celebrate September 29 as ‘Surgical Strike Day’, with the Congress calling the move…
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) Terming the University Grants Commission (UGC)’s circular to celebrate “Surgical Strike Day” on September 29 as “BJP’s gimmick ahead of the elections”, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Friday said…
Kolhapur (Maharashtra), Sep 21 (IANS) The Shivaji University Kolhapur (SUK) managed to successfully stonewall a potentially damaging cyber-attack on its computer system recently, an official said here on Friday. The cyber attack was detected on…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court has agreed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used in the process of verification of medical colleges by the Medical Council of India (MCI). The apex court…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday criticised Congress leader Kapil Sibal for terming the observance of Surgical Strike Day as a “jumla” (gimmick), contending that the exercise will enhance national…
Bhopal, Sep 21 (IANS) A three-and-a-half-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by the conductor of her school bus here. The accused has been arrested, police said on Friday. According to police, the incident came to light…
Imphal, Sep 21 (IANS) Eighty students and six professors of the Manipur University were arrested after police stormed the boys hostel early on Friday following a complaint by the Vice Chancellor’s office, officials said. According…
By Binita Das Purulia (West Bengal), Sep 21 (IANS) As a 15-year-old, she convinced her parents not to marry her off so she could fulfill a childhood dream of becoming a doctor and treating the…
New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Learn a strategic and practical way to create wealth; flick through easily accessible articles with ideas and wisdom that will help readers in their careers; know methods through which anyone…
Bengaluru, Sep 20 (IANS) Infosys is partnering with the US-based Trinity College to create educational programmes that prepare liberal arts students and its techies for the digital workplace, said the software major on Thursday. “The…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Under its recently launched Play and Progress scheme, the Delhi government on Thursday announced incentives of up to Rs three lakh per annum for school-level sports talent. “While students under…
By Vishal Narayan New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The National Law University-Delhi (NLU-D) on Thursday withdrew an advertisement it had issued a day earlier inviting applications for the position of Research Fellows for the ‘Office…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) A Delhi High Court bench on Thursday recused from hearing the plea seeking a stay on a state government’s circular that directs the city schools to collect Aadhaar and voter…
United Nations, Sep 20 (IANS) Over 300 million children globally between the age of five and 17 years of age were not in school, the Unicef said in a news report. More than one-third of…
Rome, Sep 20 (IANS/AKI) Foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi is “closely following” the case of a 23-year-old woman who wrote to her school in Monza begging for help to return to Italy from Pakistan, where…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said that people do not need to make an enemy of English to assert primacy of local languages and that supremacy of English is…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The Congress-affiliated National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) on Wednesday approached the Delhi University’s Vice Chancellor seeking revocation of newly-elected students’ union President Ankiv Baisoya’s admission and a criminal action…
New York, Sep 19 (IANS) Owing to lack of female peers, as much as 10 per cent women usually tend to drop out of their doctoral programmes in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) — an…