New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Hailing Virat Kohli for his talent, determination and dedication, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday asked children to follow in the footsteps of the Indian skipper to…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Indian higher education establishments are “not doing well” at all, the school system “is terrible” and in urgent need of reforms, says noted mathematician M.S. Raghunathan. “Our institutions of higher education…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) The LIGO India project is likely to be commissioned in 2024 and its activities would require Indian universities churning out young researchers trained in the science to take up the mantle…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will start a journalism course in Urdu, the government announced on Tuesday. M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, will inaugurate the…
Srinagar, Jan 17 (IANS) Intense cold and extremely slippery road conditions prompted the Kashmir University on Tuesday to postpone the day’s scheduled exams and suspend classes for the next 10 days, an official said. Following…
Lucknow, Jan 17 (IANS) The class X and XII examinations of students of the UP Board will be held between March 16 and April 21, an official said. While the official schedule and time table…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Delhi government on Monday issued notice to over 50 private schools for adopting “arbitrary” criteria for nursery admissions which it had abolished last year. The notice was issued by…
Ranchi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Jharkhand government on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sampark Foundation to launch ‘Sampark Smart Shala Programme’ that aims at providing Maths and English tuitions in 26,000 primary…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) After some private schools reportedly refused admission to children living in the neighbourhood, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said the schools were allotted land “practically free of…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Patiala city in Punjab is to host Britain’s premier debating competition in India, the ‘Great Britain Debate’, on Tuesday, an official statement said here. Thapar University will host the debate,…
Abuja, Jan 16 (IANS) At least five persons were killed and over 15 injured when two suicide bombers attacked a university in Nigeria’s Borno state on Monday, police said. A seven-year-old boy detonated his improvised…
Mumbai, Jan 16 (IANS) Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh D. Ambani on Monday urged the youths and students to help India realise its true potential and make this “an Indian century”…
Lucknow, Jan 16 (IANS) At least 40 school children were injured early on Monday when a bus carrying them turned turtle in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, a police officer said. The condition of 10 injured…
Kabul, Jan 15 (IANS) The Afghan Eduction Ministry on Sunday said the Islamic State terror group has kidnapped 14 teachers from Nangarhar province. The ministry said the incident took place on Sunday when students were…
Shimla, Jan 15 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has made giant strides in education, progressing from one college, nine high schools and 52 middle schools in 1948 to over 15,000 governmental educational institutions, including 116 colleges, an…
Beijing , Jan 15 (IANS) Zhou Youguang, who simplified Chinese language by introducing Pinyin, died here on Saturday. He was 112. Pinyin is the romanised form of Mandarin characters — one of the most complicated…
By Sahana Ghosh Mohanpur (West Bengal), Jan 15 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government should show decisiveness of the kind that was on display over demonetisation to depoliticise and revamp regulatory bodies in higher education and…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Even as Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Saturday dubbed as “Islamizing” the West Bengal government’s attempts to “secularise” school text books by replacing certain words, the government clarified the changes were…
By Aparna Kalra A government school that needs 59 teachers being run by two temporary appointees: This is not a story from a poor, rural backwater but from the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi,…
Patna, Jan 13 (IANS) Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday announced that nearly 3.5 lakh contractual teachers in Bihar will get their wages hiked after the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission in the state….