Aligarh, March 7 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday said mutual respect and acceptance of alternative ways of thinking and living are not just slogans in Indian society but formed the country’s natural way…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The students union of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on Wednesday held a referendum over the attendance issue to show the strength of their support to the administration. JNU has…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) There is a yawning gap between what Indian higher education (HE) students are taught and ground realities and one way of addressing this is to improve the…
Jaipur, March 7 (IANS) Under the “Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao” programme, the prayer meetings in Rajasthan schools will include discussions on healthy nutrition, an official said on Tuesday. According to Rajasthan Minister of State for…
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) In a move that could go a long way in strengthening healthcare in Uttar Pradesh, the state Cabinet on Tuesday ratified a proposal mooting two years of government service for medical…
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Biodegradable sanitary napkins and a ‘beeswax cloth wrap’ to replace silver foil were the two winning novel utilities which won the sustainable lifestyle challenge here on Tuesday. The challenge, organised…
Roorkee, March 6 (IANS) IIT Roorkee Cognizance, an annual technical festival of the campus, has launched a pan-India fund raising campaign to sponsor a skill-based training programme for 40 unemployed youth and help them get…
Washington, March 6 (IANS) US well-known university Harvard announced on Sunday that Jorge Dominguez, a professor in the government department at Harvard, had been placed “on administrative leave” as 18 women came forward to accuse…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday confirmed that a CBI probe has been ordered into the alleged Staff Selection Commission (SSC) paper leak case, over which hundreds of job…
Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) With hundreds of students from Punjab wanting to migrate to other countries and taking the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), the Cambridge University Press (CUP) on Monday announced that it…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) on Monday invited suggestions from the public on changes that they want done in the NCERT curriculum for classes I-XII. “The MHRD has…
Dhaka, March 5 (IANS) Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday visited writer Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, who was stabbed by an attacker at a university last week and was hospitalised. Iqbal, known for his secular…
Jammu, March 4 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that the students of Jammu and Kashmir have shown unprecedented resilience by living in the midst of a disturbed atmosphere and yet excelling…
Chandigarh, March 4 (IANS) Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday asked universities in the country to reform, perform and transform in order to become centres of excellence. Addressing students and faculty of Panjab University…
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) Veteran actor Anupam Kher found speaking at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) a “humbling experience”. He was invited to speak at the LSE SU India Forum (LIF) 2018 hosted…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, March 4 (IANS) Caste discrimination continues to leave a bad taste among students savouring their midday meals in almost every rural government school of Himachal Pradesh, a state where the literacy…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Describing the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) job scam as similar to Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Saturday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)….
Lucknow, March 3 (IANS) Unhappy with the Uttar Pradesh government for non-reimbursement to private schools in last two years for providing education to children under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, schools registered with the…
Guwahati, March 3 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday advocated research-based employment-driven curriculum for higher education that was restructured every five years to keep in tune with the changing times. The Chief Minister…
Chandigarh, March 3 (IANS) Buoyed by the success and state-wide acceptance of its online ‘Teachers’ Transfer Policy’, the Haryana government has decided to extend it to eight more departments having 500 and more state cadre…