San Francisco, June 7 (IANS) Technology giant Google announced a new educational programme, designed to teach children about internet safety issues such as phishing, internet harassment and passwords, the company said in a blogpost. The…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) With an aim to equip people to deal with medical emergencies better, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda on Tuesday launched a “First Responder Course”, which will…
Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) Soon, student-teacher squads will fan out to curb drug and alcohol abuse on the Jadavpur University campus, officials said on Tuesday. The varsity authorities, headed by Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das, held…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The Skill Development Ministry has trained more than 1.17 crore aspirants in various skills since the inception of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship Skill India Mission, Minister of State for…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its order on petitions by Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and other seeking the restoration of 50 per…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) The All India Management Association (AIMA) will hold a special session to mark its diamond jubilee on July 7, and President Pranab Mukherjee will attend it, an official statement said….
Patna, June 6 (IANS) Hundreds of Class 12 students who failed to clear the Bihar board exams continued their protest for the seventh consecutive day in Patna on Tuesday demanding their answer sheets be checked…
Beijing, June 6 (IANS) A total of 9.4 million Chinese high school students will appear for the 2017 national college entrance examination, also called Gaokao that will start on Wednesday, the Ministry of Education said….
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) India, which offers a unique statistical training programme for participants from least-developed and developing Asian and African countries, should cash in on the geo-political advantage of the course…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) An Iranian student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday complained he was punched on the nose and roughed up by about 10 students, who were bursting firecrackers while celebrating…
Dubai, June 5 (IANS/WAM) Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the launch of a six-month training programme “Empowerment with RTA” to help Emirati graduates seeking jobs. “The programme reflects RTA’s keenness to support…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) At the cusp of completing hundred years of its inception, the Delhi University (DU) has asked academics to write about its history besides seeking proposals towards the same end by…
Patna, June 5 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday assured of action against officials and school teachers after completion of the probe in the Class 12 topper scam. He said teachers of those…
London, June 5 (IANS) At least half of India’s under-18 population lives in acute poverty, reveals a “deeply disturbing” study from Oxford University. Across the 103 low and middle income countries surveyed, children were found…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Physics of Everyday Things – The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day; Author: James Kakalios; Publisher: Crown Publishing; Pages: 256; Price: Rs 599 Oscillatory motion, capacitors, potential difference, disordered semiconductors,…
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS) As many as 171 Indian students were awarded here by the International Olympiad 2016-17 that saw a participation of at least 45 lakh students from 25 countries. These were the…
Patna, June 3 (IANS) A day after his arrest for forgery, Bihar’s Class 12 Arts topper Ganesh Kumar was sent to to judicial custody for 14 days on Saturday. “After produced in a local court…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she has written to Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar and urged for the resumption of non-NET fellowships that were discontinued by the…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) A total of 90.5 per cent students cleared the CBSE Class 10 exams this year, the board announced on Saturday. A total of 16,68,567 students appeared for the Central Board…
Shimla, June 3 (IANS) Two newly-opened medical colleges in Himachal Pradesh will start admissions from this session, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh announced on Saturday. He also thanked the Union Government for granting permission for establishing…