By Umer Rashid Hardoi (Uttar Pradesh), June 10 (IANS) Inside a dimly-lit classroom in this district, with its walls decorated with drawings and paintings made by children, Seema Yadav, 36, is teaching a group of…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) India’s capital city has always had a cosmopolitan culture and it is imperative to hold on to it, says renowned writer-scholar Rana Safvi, whose latest book, “The…
By Amit Dasgupta The CBSE results are out and students would be enrolling in droves for university education. While children find it exciting to embark on the next chapter of their life-journey, it is also…
Bengaluru, June 9 (IANS) Schools and colleges have been shut in the coastal districts of Karnataka on Saturday due to heavy monsoon rains lashing the region, officials said. The coastal districts of Udupi, Dakshina Kannada,…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Umar Khalid, student leader of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has filed a police complaint alleging he has received death threats from gangster Ravi Pujari, a police officer said on Saturday….
Yangon, June 9 (IANS) Six school children have gone missing in a flood which occurred in central Myanmar, media reported on Saturday. The four boys and two girls were caught in a strong current on…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The Delhi University on Friday urged the striking teachers to come back to work and start evaluating exam sheets in interest of the students. In a meeting conducted on Friday,…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Facing allegations of unfair marking in the entrance exam for aspiring architects, the Council of Architecture (CoA) has agreed to recheck the papers for those candidates who are not happy…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) A former student of Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi committed suicide on Friday by jumping from a building on the campus in south Delhi, police said. Anshuman Gupta, 31, was unemployed…
New York, June 8 (IANS) The mother of a five-year-old girl in the US shared a picture of a rhyme that teaches toddlers how to prepare for a mass shooting, that has gone viral with…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The headmaster of a high school in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district has been suspended for “leaking the question papers” of the state-run Madhyamik (Secondary) examination earlier this year, authorities announced on…
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday asked various stakeholders for their suggestions on examination reforms in the higher education domain. In a notice issued on Thursday, the UGC said…
Ranchi, June 7 (IANS) Students of the science stream have performed poorly in the Class 12 board examination in Jharkhand, according to the results published by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Thursday, with over 50…
Beijing, June 7 (IANS) Over nine million students in China are appearing for the National Higher Education Entrance Examination that began on Thursday and will help determine their academic and professional future. A total of…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Several candidates cried injustice on Wednesday when the Council of Architecture (COA) published results for the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) without re-evaluating the earlier result, as it had…
Imphal, June 6 (IANS) Efforts by protesting students of the National Sports University (NSU) here to storm the office of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Wednesday were foiled, police said. Police also picked up…
Ranchi, June 6 (IANS) Training in heavy engineering began on Wednesday at the Common Engineering Facility Centre set up jointly by Atomenergomash, the machine-building division of Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, and India’s state-run…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked higher learning institutions to send data of complaints received against caste-based discrimination during the period 2017-18 and action taken by them to curb…
Patna, June 6 (IANS) The Bihar School Examination Board on Wednesday declared the results of Class 12 examinations held in science, arts and commerce streams, with NEET topper Kalpana Kumari topping the science stream with…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Not just academics, the emphasis in coming years will be on teaching young students life skills and “experiential learning” in schools, Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar said…