Chennai, April 18 (IANS) A wilful defaulter of a Rs.9,000 crore bank loan can be a member of parliament but a poor student who had defaulted on education loan due to economic/family circumstances is barred…
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) A wilful defaulter of a Rs.9,000 crore bank loan can be a member of parliament but a poor student who had defaulted on education loan due to economic/family circumstances is barred…
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim has recently established a supercomputer ‘Param Kanchenjunga’, which is said to be fastest among all 31 NITs, an official said. “It is aimed to…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, April 17 (IANS) He is all of 23 years but that has not stopped Akshay Ahuja from guiding and training even nine-year-olds with his engineering skills and helping them create robots….
Lucknow, April 16 (IANS) In view of the fast rising summer temperatures, all schools in Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh must start earlier at 7 a.m. and close latest by 12 noon, the authorities said…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Rightwing group Hindu Sena’s student wing Hindu Vidyarthi Sena on Friday organised a Ram Navami prayer at the Jawaharlal Nehru University to “purify the varsity”. “(After February 9 incident when…
Guwahati: Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) To overcome the unemployment issue in the country, skills training needs…
Bengalaru, April 15 (IANS) Software major Infosys Ltd has made 20,000 campus offers for hiring freshers from colleges and institutes across the country to ramp up its headcount in 2016-17, a senior executive said on…
Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Prof. Talat Ahmad during a press conference in New Delhi on July 16, 2014. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) The Indian Navy has collaborated with Jamia Millia Islamia…
Nagpur, April 14 (IANS) Suspected right-wing Bajrang Dal activists pelted stones and hurled a slipper at Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar here on Thursday but he escaped unhurt. Police have detained 10…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, April 14 (IANS) At his age, teenagers loaf around and look for fun and adventure. Not so for the 16-year-old Arsh Ali. He not only makes sketches without an eraser in…
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday disagreed with the central government’s decision to hike the annual fees at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by 122 percent. “The Centre must…
New Delhi: Lyricist and poet Gulzar at the `Jashn-e-Rekhta` Urdu festival in New Delhi on Feb 13, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Chandigarh, April 13 (IANS) Poet-lyricist Gulzar has accepted an offer to join the Tagore Chair…
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya during the inauguration of 3rd International Conference on Life and Livelihood Skills Realizing and Sustaining Clean India in Hyderabad on Nov 19, 2015. (Photo:…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, April 13 (IANS) Half of the students in 20 percent government schools of Himachal Pradesh had failed their class X exams and 14 percent the class XII exams in 2014-15, an…
Bengaluru, April 12 (IANS) The second year pre-university course re-exam in chemistry was held across Karnataka on Tuesday as rescheduled after its question paper leaked twice leading to cancellations on March 21 and March 31….
Jammu, April 12 (IANS) A “provocative” Facebook post over the NIT -Srinagar issue by a Kashmiri student led to a scuffle between Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students at a private college here on Tuesday. A section…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, April 12 (IANS) Despite the lure of a mid-day meal, low attendance in Tripura’s government schools is a “cause of concern” while enrollment is rising in private schools without the facility,…
Srinagar, April 12 (IANS) Around 1,500 non-local engineering students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Srinagar on Tuesday vacated their hostel rooms and left for their homes. The students said they were asked by the…
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday recalled its 2013 verdict quashing a Medical Council of India (MCI) notification mandating common National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) both for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and…