Lok Sabha passes biotech centre bill
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill that seeks to give legislative backing to the Regional Centre for Biotechnology and empower it to award Master’s and PhD degrees. Introduced…
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Befriended on social media, Gujarat students gang rape woman
Ahmedabad, April 25 (IANS) The police have arrested 11 students of an engineering college in Anand, in central Gujarat, for allegedly gang raping a 20-year-old woman from the Union Territory of Daman. The Daman police…
Kanhaiya fined, Umar, Anirban suspended from JNU
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The JNU on Monday fined student leader Kanhaiya Kumar Rs.10,000 over a controversial event on Kashmir in the campus and rusticated students Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and Mujeeb Gatto. According…
Mobile app launched for maintenance of Delhi government schools
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) A mobile application to facilitate daily maintenance of government schools in Delhi was launched on Monday at the Thyagaraj Stadium here by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy…
Kanhaiya fined, Umar to lose a session
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was on Monday fined Rs.10,000 and his friend Umar Khalid rusticated for a semester by a panel which probed a controversial event on Kashmir held…
Heat wave: Odisha schools declare summer vacation
Bhubaneswar, April 25 (IANS) With the mercury showing no signs of subsiding, the Odisha government on Monday announced summer vacations in schools from April 26. “We took the decision as the Met department forecast that…
US university students protest kirtan singing by white woman not born Hindu
By Arul Louis New York, April 25 (IANS) Singing of kirtans at an Ivy League university has drawn protests from a section of Indian students there. Unlike in the protests against yoga the demonstrators this…
One killed in Aligarh varsity violence, VC meets agitators
Aligarh, April 24 (IANS) One person was shot dead and at least a dozen others were injured when two groups of students clashed in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus here, police said on Sunday….
We should now focus on quality education: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the focus now should be on the quality of education rather than its spread and on…
Quake-hit Nepal kids still without safe classrooms: Unicef
Kathmandu, April 24 (IANS) A year after a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, 1.6 million school children in affected areas are still without safe classrooms and starting their new academic year in temporary structures. While…
One killed in Aligarh Muslim University violence
Aligarh, April 24 (IANS) One person was shot dead when two groups of students clashed in the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) here, police said on Sunday. A dozen students were injured in the violence that…
Attempt to strangle me, says JNUSU president
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University students union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Sunday said a man tried to strangle him on a Jet Airways flight earlier in the day. “Yet again, this time inside…
One killed in Aligarh Muslim University violence
Lucknow, April 24 (IANS) One person was killed and over a dozen were injured on Sunday when student groups of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) clashed and set set varsity property, including vehciles and the…
Kanhaiya attacks PM over ‘jumlas’
Mumbai: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar addresses a students rally in Tilak Nagar in Mumbai on April 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, JNUSU president…
University professor killed in Bangladesh
Dhaka, April 23 (IANS) Bangladeshi police suspect the involvement of Islamist radicals in the murder of a university teacher who was hacked to death on Saturday morning. Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, who taught English at the…
97-year-old man in Bihar appears for MA exam
Patna, April 23 (IANS) A 97-year-old man, who had graduated in 1938, has has appeared in an exam for a post-graduate degree of Nalanda Open University (NOU). Clad in a light coloured shirt and dark…
Professor killed in Bangladesh
Dhaka, April 23 (IANS) A university professor was killed in the northern Bangladesh district of Rajshahi on Saturday, police said. Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, who taught English at the Rajshahi University, was attacked by two unidentified…
Schools reversing fee hikes on our orders: Delhi government
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Many private schools have had to revoke their decision to increase their fees following the Delhi government’s directions, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia claimed on Friday. “I am glad that…
Army takes Mumbai students on adventure tour in Kashmir
Jammu, April 22 (IANS) Over 130 students from Mumbai schools are on an adventure tour of the border areas in Jammu and Kashmir, interacting with war veterans and even trying their hand at firearms and…
Prohibitory orders in Lucknow for BEd entrance exam
Lucknow, April 21 (IANS) Prohibitory orders have been clamped in the state capital where UP Joint Entrance Test for BEd will be conducted at 56 centres on Friday, district officials said. The exam which would…