Chennai, Feb 5 (IANS) One person was killed and three others were injured in a yet unexplained blast on Saturday in the garden of an engineering college in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, around 170…
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia addresses a press conference in New Delhi, on Dec 15, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, on Saturday suspected…
Bengaluru, Feb 6 (IANS) The vice chancellor of a private university here has been arrested for allegedly raping a 33-year-old woman, the police said on Saturday. “We have arrested Madhukar G. Angur on Friday night…
London, Feb 6 (IANS) Oxford University has named British actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Emma Watson visiting fellows at Lady Margaret Hall. Cumberbatch, whose last stage role was as Hamlet at the Barbican here, and Watson…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) Soumitra Dutta, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, will become the dean of a new integrated College of Business being launched by the Cornell University during the 2016-17 academic…
London, Feb 4 (IANS) Glacial meltwater has been known to contain phosphorus, but as Greenland ice sheet melts, it could be releasing more of phosphorus — a key nutrient that can enrich waters of the…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, while refusing to quash a notification that fixed upper age for admission to schools for entry level education at four years, exempted three kids…
Sydney, Feb 2 (IANS) Recent threats made to Australian schools has been dismissed by police as hoax calls from overseas “designed to cause unnecessary disruption”, authorities said on Tuesday. New South Wales (NSW) police dismissed…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) After two weeks of massive protests over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar, classes resumed at the University of Hyderabad on Monday. Normalcy returned to the campus of the central…
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) In a major progressive policy, the Maharashtra government has decided to permit failures in HSC (Class XII) exams to reappear in July so that they don’t lose a valuable academic year,…
Sydney, Feb 1 (IANS) Nine schools in Australia’s (NSW) state were in lockdown on Monday for the second day following an anonymous bomb threat. The NSW department of education confirmed that the schools were taking…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (PTI) An early marriage at a tender age of 14 had forced Santana Murmu out of school when she was in class VIII. A mother of two daughters now, the poor tribal…
Chennai, Jan 30 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Saturday said the students of now sealed S.V.S. Medical College of Yoga & Naturopathy and Research Institute in Villupuram will be admitted in government colleges….
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) The University of Chicago has established a professorship for the study of Sanskrit with a $3.5 million gift from an Indian-American couple to help it advance the study of the Indian…
Hyderabad, Jan 30 (PTI) The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) today called for a bandh of colleges in Telangana in protest against the “politics over dead bodies” done by Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi at…
Hyderabad, Jan 30 (IANS) Amid continuing protests by students of University of Hyderabad over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar, interim Vice Chancellor Vipin Srivastava has gone on leave. Barely a week after Vice…
Gurgaon, Jan 29 (IANS) A 20-year-old youth, who anticipated a poor result in his Chartered Accountant (CA) examination, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling at his home, police said here on Friday. Aabir…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Fashion designer Anita Dongre will share her journey of taking Indian crafts to global consumers with her Grassroot initiative at a conference at the Harvard Business School in Boston. She…
Bhubaneswar: Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy addresses press regarding 3rd Parliamentary Consultative Committee for Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, at Bhubaneswar, in…
Bengaluru, Jan 29 (IANS) India and the US should collaborate in higher education, research and hi-tech areas to benefit mutually and foster a stronger bond of friendship between the two countries, Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana…