Mumbai, July 27 (IANS) Profit booking, combined with caution ahead of derivatives expiry and a key announcement over the US interest rate, depressed the Indian equity markets on Wednesday. During the day’s volatile trade session,…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition against its earlier order that no private unaided school allotted land by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) shall raise fee…
Kolkata, July 27 (IANS) Jadavpur University will form a committee to investigate sexual harassment allegations by 13 varsity students against a professor’s son, an official said on Wednesday. The allegations have been made against Ekalavya…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, July 27 (IANS) Burning the midnight oil were not the only stress factor this year of candidates aspiring for the limited number of seats at the country’s medical colleges. These were…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, July 27 (IANS) Burning the midnight oil were not the only stress factor this year of candidates aspiring for the limited number of seats at the country’s medical colleges. These were…
By Nirendra Dev New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The New Education Policy (NEP) draft prepared by the government has created a fear of invoking “a new brand of nationalism” linked to one religion, senior Congress…
By Prachi Salve While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before — and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men — they are either marrying early or…
Bengaluru, July 27 (IANS) Schools and colleges across Karnataka will remain closed on Wednesday too, as no there was let-up in the indefinite strike by over a lakh employees of the state-run road transport corporations…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Mathematician Anand Kumar, who has been providing coaching to marginalised students for IIT entrance through his Super 30 coaching programme, on Tuesday met Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar…
Shillong, July 26 (IANS) Over 200 students of the Indian Institute of Management- Shillong on Tuesday participated in plantation drive ‘Prakriti’ to pay tributes to former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on the eve of his…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) has been ranked world’s 12th best government institution, according to a report. Out of 746 institutions, France’s National Centre for Scientific Research was…
Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) Historian Sujata Mukherjee will teach history of modern India with special emphasis on science, gender issues and health care at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand as the Indian…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has extended till August 30 the last date for entries for its second annual competition for short films on human rights, an official statement…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which seeks to set up six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) including one at Jammu. The…
Hyderabad, July 25 (IANS) Pharma major Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories on Monday presented scholarship to 250 students of government-run schools in Telangana for the academic year 2015-2016. The scholarships were awarded to those students of 22…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which seeks to set up six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The New IITs are to…
Ghaziabad, July 25 (IANS) The Ghaziabad district administration has asked about a dozen schools and colleges located along the National Highway-58 to close for a week in view of Kanwaria Yatra, the annual pilgrimage of…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) As many as 81 per cent of the citizens want a regulatory body to monitor school fee hikes by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as well as the…
New Delhi/Islamabad, July 25 (IANS) The government on Monday directed its officials in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to send their wards outside Pakistan for their education, a move Pakistan described an âinternal, administrative…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Several students who appeared here on Sunday in National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) complained they were treated badly by the invigilators — some of the male examinees were told…