Chennai, May 5 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said Tamil Nadu people’s focus on education and the institutions like University of Madras are model for India to follow. Delivering the 160th Convocation Address…
Srinagar, May 5 (IANS) An assistant professor from the Kashmir University has been reported missing leading to protests by the students, police said on Saturday. The family of Muhammad Rafi Bhat from the Sociology department…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Sydney-based University of New South Wales (UNSW) has instituted 61 scholarships to attract “bright” Indian minds and provide them financial assistance for studying in the Australian varsity. The scholarships for…
Agra, May 5 (IANS) The Agra district authorities have penalised 128 school buses and issued an order to update security arrangements in a campaign to screen all vehicles transporting students to schools, officials said on…
Sonipat (Haryana), May 5 (IANS) The 2019 graduating batch of Jindal Global Law School, part of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) here, has received 23 “Day Zero” offers, the highest for any law school…
Chennai, May 4 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on Friday announced a travel allowance of second class train fare for Tamil Nadu students appearing for the NEET medical entrance exam outside the state. In…
Gurugram, May 4 (IANS) A Class 12 girl student hanged herself at her house after performing poorly in a re-exam in economics paper, police said on Friday. Police said Muskan Chahal, 17, was a student…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) A PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court on Friday to seek change in law to ensure students from poor families who pass Class 8 from private schools can…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The government has identified 75 National Resource Centres to update the curriculum of different fields of studies and provide online refresher training to the teachers, an official statement said on…
Vellore (Tamil Nadu), May 4 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said India is going through an epidemiological transition and faces three challenges in disease control. “First, India has to reduce maternal and infant…
Chennai, May 4 (IANS) The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) led by T.T.V. Dinakaran on Friday announced that it will help with lodging facilities NEET aspirants from Tamil Nadu who have been allotted exam centres…
Bengaluru, May 4 (IANS) With an eye on returning to power in Karnataka, the BJP on Friday released its manifesto for the Assembly elections by promising free smartphones to poor women, free laptop to students…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed a plea moved by Sikh students seeking permission to wear traditional ‘kada’ and ‘kirpan’ inside the exam hall in the upcoming NEET exam….
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Sticking to the decision to change name of the Dyal Singh College, its governing body chairman Amitabh Sinha on Thursday said that the administration had done no wrong and accused…
Imphal, May 3 (IANS) Irate over their long-standing demands remaining unfulfilled and a top official telling them to “join the underground”, students in the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University on Thursday locked up all varsity…
Rome, May 3 (IANS) School authorities in Italy’s Piedmont region have banned several children from attending kindergarten because their parents failed to comply with a government immunization deadline, media reports said. The children belong to…
Kabul, May 3 (IANS) At least 45 schoolgirls were poisoned following a suspected gas attack in Afghanistan’s Takhar province on Thursday, police said. “Up to 45 students of Banan Middle School in Khwaja Bahauddin district…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) In an effort to further support education and learning efforts in India, Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, on Thursday announced additional grants of $3 million to two non-profit organisations…
By Sanjiv Kataria Time was when, if you aspired to study abroad, you wouldn’t look beyond the US and the United Kingdom with their prestigious colleges and great institutions of higher learning, many of them…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday highlighted the importance of research and innovation in improving the socio-economic status of a nation, terming it the bedrock of advancing knowledge. “Knowledge alone…