New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration deployed guards outside several schools on Monday to thwart the student union’s call for boycotting lectures to oppose the mandatory attendance decision imposed recently….
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The relay hunger strike by a Delhi University Ph.D. scholar — who has filed a police complaint over alleged casteist remarks made against him — and his supporters on the…
By Rituraj Baruah and Rohit Vaid New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Ladakh-based education reformist and innovator Sonam Wangchuk believes that the rights given under the reservation policy should be curtailed after its benefits are used…
Noida, Jan 13 (IANS) The 22nd edition of the National Youth Festival, which is being organised in Uttar Pradesh this year, is intended to capture the vibrancy and fresh perspective of the country’s youth, an…
Palghar (Maharashtra), Jan 13 (IANS) Three female students drowned when a boat with at least 34 students on board capsized off the Dahanu coast in this Maharashtra district on Saturday morning, officials said. A massive…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said digitisation of various scholarship deliveries to students has eliminated middlemen from the system. Stating that the Ministry of Minority…
Hyderabad, Jan 13 (IANS) TiE Hyderabad on Saturday announced the winners of TiE Young Entrepreneurs Award for 5th season. The winners of the Business Plan Competition will fly to the International TyE Finals to be…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) Three first year students were on Saturday awarded the maiden “Learn-Earn-Return Fellowship” introduced by IIT Kharagpur this year, the institute announced. The award has been instituted with crowd funding sourced from…
Palghar (Maharashtra), Jan 13 (IANS) Two teenage girls were killed and six others were missing after a boat carrying 40 students for a picnic capsized off the Dahanu coast in Maharashtra on Saturday, an official…
New York, Jan 13 (IANS) Are your students unable to concentrate on their lessons in the classroom? Take them for outdoor learning sessions. According to a study, a lesson in the lap of nature can…
Palghar (Maharashtra), Jan 13 (IANS) A boat with at least 40 students on board capsized off the Dahanu coast in Maharashtra on Saturday, an official said. Following a massive search and rescue operation, 32 of…
San Francisco, Jan 13 (IANS) Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in scholarship to fund 1,000 undocumented immigrant students, a scholarship fund…
Gandhinagar, Jan 12 (IANS) In a major embarrassment to the Vijay Rupani-led BJP government in the state, Gujarat Governor O.P. Kohli on Friday raised the issue of rising discontent among youth due to unemployment, which…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Army chief Bipin Rawat said that the army is working on evolving a better system for providing aid being to children of martyrs and those disabled in action, after government…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday interacted with a delegation of Harvard University students who came to his residence. “Congress President Rahul Gandhi interacts with a delegation of students pursuing…
Chandigarh, Jan 12 (IANS) The Haryana government has decided to open new government women’s colleges in 29 different locations this year, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Friday. “With this, Haryana will become the…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 12 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to issue instructions to commence construction of the National Institute of New Energy and Innovation (NINEI) in the state’s…
Chicago, Jan 12 (IANS) A private school in Wisconsin in the US has apologized for asking Class 4 students to list “three good reasons for slavery and three bad reasons”. Trameka Brown-Berry, an African American…
Beijing, Jan 12 (IANS) A professor at Beihang University in China has been removed from his faculty post after a former female student accused him of sexual harassment on social media. The university announced on…
By Swagata Yadavar New Delhi, Jan 12: One in four Indian women is married before 18, and 7.8 per cent of women aged 15 to 19 are pregnant or mothers, according to the latest available…