New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The president of Jawaharlal Nehru University’s students union was on Friday arrested in a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy, police said. Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested for raising anti-India slogans…
New Delhi: New Delhi: Fourteen students from India`s premier institutes for science and technology – Indian Institute of Technology during the 9th Honda Young Engineer and Scientists Award in New Delhi on Feb 11, 2016….
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) Four Indian American engineers are among 80 new members selected to the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for their valuable contributions to the society. Anil K. Jain, Dr Arati…
Bengaluru, Feb 10 (IANS) Fears of another leopard prowling in and around a private school on Tuesday night were unfounded and its so-called sighting was a speculation, a top official said on Wednesday. “No leopard…
Geneva, Feb 9 (IANS) The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) on Tuesday said unemployment levels in Switzerland reached 3.8 percent in January — up from 3.7 percent in December 2015. With an additional…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) A student of a residential school in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district died on Tuesday after allegedly being beaten by teachers for indiscipline. Two teachers were arrested in this connection, police said….
Chennai, Feb 8 (IANS) It remains a mystery whether an object that fell from the skies into an engineering college campus in Vellore was a meteorite or not. While the Tamil Nadu government declared on…
Bengaluru, Feb 7 (IANS) A male leopard was on Sunday tranquilized and trapped after it quietly entered a private school in the city and injured five people, a wildlife official said. “We bolted the room…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Former students of St. Stephen’s College, including historian Ramchandra Guha, on Saturday alleged that they were stopped from entering the college premises to attend a prayer meeting for a man…
Chennai, Feb 5 (IANS) One person was killed and three others were injured in a yet unexplained blast on Saturday in the garden of an engineering college in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, around 170…
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia addresses a press conference in New Delhi, on Dec 15, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, on Saturday suspected…
Bengaluru, Feb 6 (IANS) The vice chancellor of a private university here has been arrested for allegedly raping a 33-year-old woman, the police said on Saturday. “We have arrested Madhukar G. Angur on Friday night…
London, Feb 6 (IANS) Oxford University has named British actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Watson visiting fellows at Lady Margaret Hall. Cumberbatch, whose last stage role was as Hamlet at the Barbican here, and Watson…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) Soumitra Dutta, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, will become the dean of a new integrated College of Business being launched by the Cornell University during the 2016-17 academic…
London, Feb 4 (IANS) Glacial meltwater has been known to contain phosphorus, but as Greenland ice sheet melts, it could be releasing more of phosphorus — a key nutrient that can enrich waters of the…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, while refusing to quash a notification that fixed upper age for admission to schools for entry level education at four years, exempted three kids…
Sydney, Feb 2 (IANS) Recent threats made to Australian schools has been dismissed by police as hoax calls from overseas “designed to cause unnecessary disruption”, authorities said on Tuesday. New South Wales (NSW) police dismissed…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) After two weeks of massive protests over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar, classes resumed at the University of Hyderabad on Monday. Normalcy returned to the campus of the central…
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) In a major progressive policy, the Maharashtra government has decided to permit failures in HSC (Class XII) exams to reappear in July so that they don’t lose a valuable academic year,…
Sydney, Feb 1 (IANS) Nine schools in Australia’s (NSW) state were in lockdown on Monday for the second day following an anonymous bomb threat. The NSW department of education confirmed that the schools were taking…