New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Clashes at Ramjas College here illustrate the growing threat to freedom of expression on Indian university campuses, Amnesty International India said on Wednesday. Several people were injured in clashes between…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order for February 27 on an appeal filed by the AAP government, challenging a single-judge order that stayed its nursery admissions notification…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) A young woman on Wednesday committed suicide by jumping from a building of a south Delhi college, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday. Megha Rathore, 20, was working as a…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Clashes erupted between two student groups outside Ramjas College here on Wednesday, a day after the ABVP forced the suspension of an event to be addressed by JNU student Umar…
Hyderabad, Feb 22 (IANS) Tension prevailed in parts of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad on Wednesday as police arrested scores of students and their leaders to foil a rally of unemployed youths. Sporadic…
Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) The Trump administration plans to roll back protection for transgender students, reversing federal guidance that required public schools to allow children to use bathrooms that matched their gender identities. In a…
Patna, Feb 22 (IANS) In a horrific incident, a minor girl died after she fell into a vessel of boiling water at her school when the mid-day meal was being cooked, police said on Wednesday….
Patna, Feb 22 (IANS) Nalanda University’s new Chancellor, Vijay Bhatkar, will visit the upcoming campus at Rajgir in Bihar on March 1. It will be his first visit after he was appointed the Chancellor, officials…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared the results for the Civil Services Mains Examination 2016 on its official website. The UPSC conducted the examination from December 3 to…
By Akanki Sharma New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Using the toilet in school was an ordeal for 15-year-old Vineetha two years ago because of poor sanitation and cleanliness. A class 10 student at ZPHS Kodurupadu…
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) In a major push for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Skill India’ mission, Microsoft’s Indian-born CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday launched “Project Sangam” to help the government not only train but also…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Nobel laureate and renowned economist Amartya Sen said on Tuesday that if the government wants to set up world-class universities it should not try to “execute autocratic power on the…
Raipur, Feb 21 (IANS) Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar on Saturday urged a group of youths in Maoist-affected area of Dantewada to give up arms and take up the pen to script a…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) In an effort to learn from the Indian education system and to gather prevailing best practices, a delegation from ministry of education, Government of Ethiopia is currently visiting India. The…
Sydney, Feb 21 (IANS) Australia’s New South Wales state will focus on better preparing students for university and employment in a major overhaul of its school curriculum. New South Wales on Tuesday unveiled changes to…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) The face-off between the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration and the agitating students continued on Tuesday, with the university expressing shock at the “misinformation” being spread by the students community….
By Vishal Narayan New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) An administrative botch-up has deprived hundreds of Delhi University (DU) retirees of their pension since 2014, with the varsity telling a court here that it cannot abide…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the JNU on a plea against a UGC notification that a Professor cannot guide more than three M.Phil and eight Ph.D…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) With the aim to achieve 100 per cent literacy among prison inmates of West Bengal, the state has launched a Computer Based Fundamental Literacy Programme (CBFL), it was announced on Monday….
Bhopal, Feb 20 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government is to establish ‘Shramoday’ schools in the state to provide private school-like education to the children of labourers free of cost, officials said on Monday. These schools,…