San Francisco, June 28 (IANS) In what is being hailed as a “groundbreaking discovery”, astronomers have for the first time observed two supermassive black holes orbiting around each other in a distant galaxy. In an…
London, June 28 (IANS) Every school in London is to be offered knife detectors to enable students to be screened for hidden weapons, Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. It forms one part of the biggest…
Raigad (Maharashtra), June 28 (IANS) At least 20 students were hurt when a large tree crashed in the compound of a school in Kapde-Burke village here on Wednesday morning, officials said. The incident occurred at…
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) In a relief to law aspirants, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Delhi University to continue admitting 2,310 students in its LLB course. A division bench of Justice Manmohan…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday stressed on the need to make critical reforms in the country’s educational system and asserted that private sector can play major role in it. “Right…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) In a letter to Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said that textbooks must not be used as a “platform for political…
Bhubaneswar, June 27 (IANS) In order to make engineering students industry ready, the Odisha government has started a ‘finishing school’, a specialised and dedicated programme for the students, said an official on Tuesday. The International…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 27 (IANS) In a first, the state-run IT@School Project will raise Rs 10 crore by disposing off around one crore kg of e-waste and will use the money to buy new computers for…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) After virtually dumping the report of an earlier committee, the Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday constituted a nine-member panel headed by eminent space scientist K. Kasturirangan to prepare the…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) E-commerce marketplace Flipkart on Monday announced that it has collaborated with HP, Intel and Microsoft so that consumers can buy HP Intel Core i3 Windows 10 laptop for Rs 36,000…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The Delhi School of Journalism, conceived by the Delhi University (DU), has inched closer to becoming a reality after the Academic Council resolved one of the thorniest issues – whether…
By Frank F. Islam Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently called for empowerment and education of Muslim women. One would have expected this message to receive widespread acceptance and support. It did not. There was resistance…
London, June 24 (IANS) Starting school young may affect the well-being of some children, especially those with learning difficulties or who were born prematurely, suggests new research. Children who are younger than their peers when…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, June 24 (IANS) Tripura’s Left Front government is facing an unprecedented shortage of teachers to run its 5,000 schools from the next academic year beginning in January. The Supreme Court order…
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) The Delhi University (DU) colleges announced their cut-offs on Friday with most of them concentrating around the 97 per cent tab for commerce courses, set earlier in the day by…
The Hague (Netherlands), June 23 (IANS) The West Bengal government’s Kanyashree Prakalpa on Friday was awarded the first prize in United Nations Public Service Award for Asia Pacific here. Out of 552 initiatives from 62…
Chennai, June 23 (IANS) A young team that built the world’s lightest and first 3D printed satellite “KalamSat”, launched by the US space agency NASA on Thursday, was felicitated by a social group here on…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday told the Delhi High Court that it will re-evaluate the answer sheets of students who have asked for it. Additional Solicitor…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Delhi University’s Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) on Friday announced its cut-offs for B.Com. (Honours) and B.A. (Honours) Economics at 97.75 per cent for the current academic session. The…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) As many as 6,11,539 students have qualified the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical and dental courses, it was announced on…