Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which came third in the HRD ministry’s ranking of engineering institutes in the country, on Monday said it lost out mainly due to its faculty-student ratio….
New Delhi, April 4 (IA NS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit. The apex court…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Science at Bengaluru in Karnataka has been ranked the best in university category of ‘India Ranking 2016’ by the union HRD ministry. The Institute Of Chemical…
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, April 4 (IANS) With assembly elections just a year away and with the opposition Congress in disarray, the RSS has surprisingly emerged as one of the most bitter critics of Goa’s…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The Human Resource Development Ministry on Monday ranked IIM-Bangalore as the top management institute and IIT-Madras as the top engineering institute in India. The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore was followed…
New York, April 3 (IANS) A US school teacher accused of calling at class 7 student a terrorist during a class discussion on India has been sent on leave following a demand for her ouster…
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Feb 26, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani will address an international conference…
New Delhi: Social activist Medha Patkar during protest against the Land Acquisition Bill at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on May 5, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, April 3 (IANS) Activist Medha Patkar, who was on…
Houston (US), April 3 (IANS) A family in a US county is demanding that a teacher of a local middle school be fired after she called a class 7 student a ‘terrorist’. Twelve-year-old Waleed Abushaaban…
Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) Over 1.2 million students across Bangladesh on Sunday appeared for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams. The number of students has increased this year by 144,744 from last year,…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to ensure safety of students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar where clashes erupted between…
Washington, April 2 (IANS) The Central Intelligence Agency has admitted to accidentally leaving “explosive training material” under the hood of a Northern Virginia school bus for more than a week last month. The agency inadvertently…
Bengaluru, April 1 (IANS) Karnataka Pre-University (PU) board director Pallavi Akurathi was transferred on Friday night a day after chemistry question paper of the second year PUC re-exam was leaked on Thursday. According to an…
Dehradun, April 1 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said it was the duty of our institutions to instill in their students core civilisational values, and love for the motherland. “It is the duty of…
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Fifty six percent of the 539 candidates in the first phase of Assam assembly elections are Class five to Class 12 passouts while another 40 percent are graduates or postgraduates,…
New Delhi: Social Scientist Yogendra Yadav joins protest to condemn the “institutional killing” of 26-year-old scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), Rohith Vemula at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo:…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday assured of full support in achieving the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. Naidu’s assurance came as the Legislators…
Chandigarh, March 31 (IANS) In a major relief to 9,455 junior basic training (JBT) teachers selected by the previous Congress government in Haryana, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday vacated the stay on…
Panaji, March 31 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Thursday said a BJP leader’s alleged comments about beating up JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar were “not proper”. “I do not know what (BJP’s state…
Hyderabad, March 31 (IANS) Civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and two Communist Party of India-Marxist MPs were Thursday not allowed to enter University of Hyderabad while continued curbs on the campus evoked strong protest from…