New Delhi/Geneva, Oct 24 (IANS) The major challenges in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are finance and technology, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said on Monday. Mahajan told the “BRICS Parliamentary Cooperation on…
New York, Oct 24 (IANS) Tired of running after your child to finish his homework? Blame his increased addiction to digital media devices like TV, video games or smartphone or tablets, a study has found….
Kolkata, Oct 24 (IANS) A West Bengal college is partnering educational institutes in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to conduct research on higher education for disadvantaged youth. Salesian College, Siliguri, has joined hands with four other…
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) At a time when jobs as business analysts are in demand, US-based educational institution Udacity on Monday launched their first nanodegree course on predictive analytics that will enable students to…
Salgaon (Sirohi district) In a classroom in the government school here in southwest Rajasthan, about 25 students from standards 3, 4 and 5 standing in a circle, animatedly recited a story spoken by a specially…
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) JNU students on Sunday staged a noisy protest outside Vice Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar’s house here demanding to know the whereabouts of a student who went missing nine days ago….
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 23 (IANS) As many as 10,000 lower primary and upper primary government schools in Kerala will start getting 2Mbps Wi-Fi broadband internet powered by BSNL from November 1 — the state’s Foundation Day,…
Ahmedabad, Oct 22 (IANS) Kumar Mangalam Birla, the 49-year-old Chairman of the $41 billion industrial conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, has been named the new Chairman of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), according to a…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The CBI on Saturday arrested Central Council of Homeopathy President Ramjee Singh and another person on charges of accepting Rs 20 lakh in bribe to give a favourable inspection report…
Guwahati, Oct 22 (IANS) As the entire world is closely observing the US Presidential debates and the possible fallouts of the polls, a team of students from Guwahati-based NPS International School are camping in the…
Kurukshetra (Haryana), Oct 22 (IANS) Underlining the need for preserving India’s spiritual heritage, BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday said the country could not become a super power if its spiritual heritage was compromised. “If…
Ranchi, Oct 22 (IANS) Thousands of para teachers in Jharkhand, on strike for more than a month demanding a wage hike, have written a letter in blood to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention…
By Vishal Narayan New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) As a mob of around 30 students rained blows, abuses and communal slurs on JNU student Najeeb Ahmed on the night of October 14, some of them…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) The JNU Students Union in a letter to the Union Home Minister on Friday sought its intervention and asked it ensure the safety of the missing student, Najeeb Ahmed, after…
Gandhinagar, Oct 21 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are arriving in Gujarat on Saturday and will be attending separate events. Protocol department section officer M.R. Mallik on Friday said the after…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday instructed all government schools to be white-washed every year during the summer vacations so that “students look forward” to coming to the school….
Geneva, Oct 21 (IANS) With 33 per cent of Syrian schools unable to function and 1.7 million children currently out of school, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Friday warned that another 1.3 million students…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Over 200 students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were detained here on Friday while demanding swift action to locate missing fellow student Najeeb Ahmed. Ahmed went missing on October…
Dimapur (Nagaland), Oct 21 (IANS) A student body has urged the NSCN-IM to stop its unlawful “tax collection” from various educational departments in Arunachal Pradesh. At a meeting with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will pay a two-day visit to Gujarat from Saturday during which he will inaugurate the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Heart Institute at Ankleshwar. Mukherjee will also inaugurate the…