Chandigarh, Jan 8 (IANS) The Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Monday arrested former Vice Chancellor of I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University (PTU) at Kapurthala, Rajnesh Arora, for allegedly committing major financial irregularities and administrative lapses during…
Chandigarh, Jan 8 (IANS) The Haryana Education Department has asked all schools in the state to ensure compliance of its orders on extending winter vacations till January 14 in view of the cold wave prevailing…
Aligarh, Jan 8 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has expelled Mannan Bashir Wani, a Ph.D student, after the Jammu and Kashmir Police said they were looking for him for joining the Hizbul Mujahideen militant…
Gurugram, Jan 8 (IANS) A Sessions Court here on Monday rejected the bail plea of a Class XI student of Ryan International School, arrested for allegedly murdering Class II student Pradhuman Thakur on September 8…
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Sunday called for a boycott of the ‘compulsory attendance’ decision of the varsity administration, urging students to not sign the attendance register when…
Chandigarh, Jan 7 (IANS) The Haryana government on Sunday announced that schools in the state will remain closed till January 14 in view of the severe cold wave conditions in the state. Dense fog prevailed…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, Jan 7 (IANS) It’s a taboo no one really talks about in remote villages of Himachal Pradesh — but could soon end. Women in many remote parts of the mountain state…
By Sanjiv Kataria When Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy says the trend of stagnation of starting salaries for software engineers for six to seven years is “worrisome”, we should be nervous. What does it imply…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said vacancies in Central Universities were unfair to students and they should be filled quickly and urgently. It was for all authorities to ensure…
Paris/Pune Jan 6 (IANS) Unesco has announced its full support to India-based Terre Policy Centre’s Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) in its 2018 Programme. Unesco’s Knowledge Societies Programme will now work closely with SCCN to…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The number of students enrolling for higher education in India saw a marginal 0.7 per cent increase in 2016-17, an indication that the government’s ambitious target to enrol 30 per…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The number of students enrolling for higher education in India saw a marginal 0.7 per cent increase in 2016-17, according to a government survey released on Friday. Human Resource Development…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The CBI on Thursday said it has files a case against Meghalaya’s PWD Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh and Additional Chief Secretary P.S. Thangkhiew on charges of their alleged role in manipulation…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The CBI has registered a corruption case against the Aligarh Muslim University’s former Vice Chancellor Naseem Ahmad for his alleged involvement in the illegal appointment of an official in the…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Thursday approached Vice Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar with a memorandum signed by more than 2,000 students denouncing the decision making attendance compulsory…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, a publisher from across the neighbouring country is likely to participate in the upcoming 45th New Delhi World Book Fair 2018 to be…
Mumbai, Jan 4 (IANS) Angry protests erupted and anti-government slogans were raised here on Thursday as the police abruptly refused permission for a convention to be attended by Gujarat Dalit legislator Jignesh Mevani and JNU…
Kolkata, Jan 4 (IANS) West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi on Wednesday condemned the incident of agitation by the student’s union in the Charuchandra College here and urged the students to show “student-like courtesy” towards…
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Student leaders from various groups from different parts of the country on Wednesday here agreed upon the need to overhaul the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines on student union elections. They called…
Tura (Meghalaya), Jan 3 (IANS) Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for the 100-seat Tura medical college here in western Meghalaya. The medical college will come over 100 acres at Doldegre…