Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) Children’s Film Society of India CEO Shravan Kumar has been conferred the ‘Edutainment Award’ of Event Capital, India’s biggest education expo and students conclave, an official said here on Saturday. Kumar…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) Around 25 lakh job aspirants on Saturday appeared in a competitive written examination for 6,000 Group D posts of the West Bengal government amid high security. The examinees, who appeared in…
Patna, May 20 (IANS) Nalanda University plans to introduce Vedic Studies and may also start short-term executive programmes on subjects like Mindfulness and Yoga. “Within the existing schools, we will create new departments,” Vice Chancellor…
New York, May 20 (IANS) An Indian-origin student was found dead here after he went missing earlier this week, police said. Aalaap Narasipura, 20, was an electrical engineering student at Cornell University and was missing…
Washington, May 20 (IANS) The overall financial well-being of Americans continued to improve in 2016, while those with less education were worsening, according to a Federal Reserve survey. About 70 per cent of the respondents…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Delhi University on Friday announced a special drive to enrol African students for the coming academic session and said it has begun reaching out to various embassies of countries…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) About 50 former students of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) have written to their alma mater urging it to cancel a panel invitation to former Bastar Inspector General…
Gurugram, May 19 (IANS) The Haryana government on Friday announced upgradation of a government high school to Class 12 in a village of this district, after girl students staged a sit-in at the school’s gate….
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Envisaging an alternative future, a two-member student team from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur have come up with an innovation of a water tank inserted into walls that could potentially substitute…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday lavished praise on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, lauding her government’s competence especially in the education and health sectors. “She is doing lot of work,…
Agartala, May 18 (IANS) Opposition parties on Thursday termed the Tripura government’s decision to create 13,000 non-teaching posts as an attempt to win next year’s assembly elections. The Trinamool Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
Washington, May 18 (IANS) A 14-year-old Indian American student has won the prestigious $50,000 National Geographic Bee contest here, becoming the sixth consecutive Indian American to win the championship. Pranay Varada, who is Dewitt Perry…
Chandigarh, May 18 (IANS) The Punjab government on Thursday signed an MoU with Reliance Jio to provide free Wi-Fi facility in all state-run engineering colleges, industrial training institutes and polytechnics, a minister said. The step…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Union Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar on Thursday said India will double its wealth in 10 years and the process to achieve that has begun. “It took 80…
Singapore, May 18 (IANS) Two employees from the National University of Singapore (NUS) were hit by a fresh round of cyber attacks on Thursday. It was reported that the latest attacks undermined the computers of…
Agartala, May 17 (IANS) The Tripura government on Wednesday created 13,000 non-teaching posts in two departments – ostensibly to “accommodate” 10,323 teachers facing the axe due to a March 29 Supreme Court verdict. Announcing the…
Chandigarh/Rewari, May 17 (IANS) With around 10 girls falling unconscious and rushed to hospital following their indefinite hunger strike, the Haryana government on Wednesday gave in and announced that the government school in their village…
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved a collaborative mission between industry and academia for accelerating research for early development of bio pharmaceuticals. The programme entails an…
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved an agreement on faculty exchange between the National Defence College here and the National Defence College in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an official said. A statement…
Rewari (Haryana), May 17 (IANS) A group of girl students, who were on a hunger strike for a week to demand upgradation of the government school in their village to Class 12, ended their fast…