Four Jamia students booked for brawl
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Four students of the Jamia Millia Islamia were booked after they assaulted a student for celebrating Diwali festival on the campus, police said on Wednesday. Police said the accused have…
Education
Australian university celebrates unique ‘Festival of India’
Sydney, Oct 25 (IANS) The campus grounds of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) transformed into a “Little India” as the highly-rated Australian university celebrated Festival of India 2017 – a stimulating, event-packed week…
Congress flays NDA government on SCs/STs education funding, scholarships
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Accusing the government of waging a war against the SC/ST communities, the Congress on Tuesday demanded immediate release of their scholarship arrears and increased scholarship allocations, among other things. The…
Amid results fiasco, Mumbai University VC sacked for ‘gross negligence, failure’
Mumbai, Oct 24 (IANS) Mumbai University Vice Chancellor, Sanjay Deshmukh, was on Tuesday evening sacked for the long delay in declaring the results of over four lakh students. Maharashtra Governor C. V. Rao sacked Deshmukh,…
6,200 girls trained in self defence under BSES’s CSR initiative
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Around 6,200 girls have undergone self defence training in the past three years under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative of BSES, one of Delhi’s two electricity distribution companies (discoms),…
Amazon announces all-new Kindle app
Bengaluru, Oct 24 (IANS) Global e-tailer Amazon on Tuesday announced an all-new Kindle app that is designed for book lovers and provides easy access to the most popular Kindle features. “We’ve built the new Kindle…
Mumbai University VC sacked
Mumbai, Oct 24 (IANS) Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao on Tuesday evening sacked the Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University, Sanjay Deshmukh, an official announcement said here. (This story has not been edited by Social News XYZ staff…
Melania Trump takes on anti-bullying cause in school visit
Michigan, Oct 24 (IANS) US First lady Melania Trump highlighted prevention of school bullying, with a stop at a Michigan middle school where she chatted with students in a sixth-grade class working on an activity…
Tripura government in quandary over recruitment of 12,000 non-teaching staff
Agartala/New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) The Left Front government in Tripura was in a quandary after the Supreme Court on Tuesday postponed hearing of a petition challenging the state government’s recruitment of 12,000 non-teaching employees…
IIIT-Hyderabad to offer programme for techies
Hyderabad, Oct 24 (IANS) The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Hyderabad on Tuesday announced the launch of a programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for technology professionals. IIIT-Hyderabad’s Machine Learning Laboratory in…
Puerto Rico reopening some schools after hurricane devastation
San Juan, Oct 24 (IANS) Puerto Rican authorities will start reopening some public schools from Tuesday, a small step towards normalcy weeks after Hurricane Maria left a trail of destruction across the US territory, the…
Kolkata dengue scare: Schools advise winter uniform
Kolkata, Oct 24 (IANS) Winter has set in early in the city for a clutch of schools affiliated to the ICSE board, thanks to panic over dengue. To prevent schoolchildren from the bite of the…
JNU teachers demand Vice Chancellor’s removal
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Monday held a mock ‘public trial’ of varsity Vice Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar and sought his removal after holding him “guilty” on several…
Student hit by teacher falls unconscious, hospitalised
Ghaziabad, Oct 23 (IANS) A Class 4 student collapsed and fell unconscious on Monday after an angry teacher flung an object at him that hit him in the groin in a Ghaziabad town. The still-unconscious…
1817 rebellion to be mentioned as First War of Independence: Javadekar
Bhubaneswar, Oct 22 (IANS) Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said that the 1817 ‘Paika Bidroha’ or rebellion would find a place in history books as the First War of Indian…
Built dormitories to accommodate extra 500 students: JNU
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday said it has built extra dormitories to accommodate around 500 more students in the last one-and-a-half years. “JNU has been over the year and…
Punjab to merge schools with less attendance; AAP opposes
Chandigarh, Oct 21 (IANS) A move by Punjab’s Education Department to merge government primary schools having less than 20 students with the schools located within one-km radius has been opposed by the state’s main opposition…
School shooting in Brazil leaves 2 dead
Rio de Janeiro, Oct 21 (IANS) Two students were killed and four others wounded on Friday when one of their classmates opened fire inside a school in the central Brazilian city of Goiania, authorities said….
Suu Kyi common room ‘unnamed’ by Oxford students
London, Oct 20 (IANS) Undergraduates at the Oxford college where Myanmars de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove her name from the title of their junior common room because of her…
XLRI highest summer internship stipend hits Rs 5 lakh
Kolkata, Oct 19 (IANS) XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, has completed its summer internship placement process (SIP) for 2017 in just two days, with top companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coca Cola and Microsoft, roping…