Indian students continue flocking to New Zealand for higher education and the number has increased by 300 percent in the last six years, says a diplomat from that country."India is a big market of talented students for us. Their number has consi ..

Hike in school fees and then in development and activities fee in many Delhi schools has become a major cause of concern to many parents. Tired of the financial and mental stress this has put on them, the Delhi Parents Council has now threatened to m ..

A Himachal Pradesh court Friday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of four students who have been accused of allegedly ragging a first-year medical student leading to his death last month.Aman Kachru, 19, died March 8, a few hours after being a ..

A three-member panel formed by the Supreme Court to probe the death of a first-year MBBS student by ragging last month has accused the Himachal Pradesh medical college where the incident occurred of "not implementing seriously" the apex cou ..

A 20-year-old college student has been partially blinded after he was allegedly ragged by his seniors here, police said Saturday.According to a complaint by P. Akhil Dev, a first year BBA student from Thiruvananthapuram, he suffered serious injuries  ..

The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to revive an Uttar Pradesh law which sought to reserve 50 percent of seats in the state's all public and private educational institutions for students from Dalit, tribal and backward communities.A bench of Acti ..

America's largest private student lender Sallie Mae plans to move 2,000 overseas jobs back to the US from India and the Philippines, reversing a cost-savings measure the company took a year ago.The jobs are projected to cost the Reston-based stud ..

The number of Indian and South Korean students applying for the fall admission to US graduate programmes have fallen, while applications from China and the Middle East have surged, according to a survey released by the Council of Graduate Schools Tue ..

Hundreds of students, clutching brochures and study certificates, thronged the day-long New Zealand Education Fair held in the capital Sunday.Parents with their children, groups of school-going teenagers and graduates sauntered through the stalls put ..

The reported class XI physics paper leak that forced Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB)officials to get a fresh paper printed and distributed at the last minute was not actually a leak. The board had got papers of class X ..

Where has all the engineering faculty gone? This might well be the desperate query on the minds of college managements and technical education officials.As Gujarat gears up to have 18,000 more engineering seats from June, the million-dollar question  ..

Even though class XII exams are over, students of Class XII - science are still studying hard. The reason: Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET) is scheduled for April 16.This time though, the authorities of various exam centres have been made accoun ..

It was at IIT-Bombay that Nandan Nilekani learnt "the most important lessons of my life'', a gratitude that the 1978-batch alumnus andnow Infosys chief expressed with a $ 5-million donation to the institute. Years ago, when Kanwal Rekhi  ..

India's annual rate of inflation fell marginally to 0.26 percent for the week ended March 28, from 0.31 percent the week before, official data showed Thursday.The inflation had declined for eight consecutive weeks to 0.27 percent for the week end ..

Vice President Hamid Ansari will go down memory lane next week when he visits his alma mater St Edward's School in the Himachal Pradesh capital after more than half a century.Ansari, 70, who had studied in St Edward's during 1949-51, will spe ..

Indian students continue flocking to New Zealand for higher education and the number has increased by 300 percent in the last six years, says a diplomat from that country."India is a big market of talented students for us. Their number has consi ..

Computer science, law, languages and yoga are some of the subjects included in Mexico's first university for the elderly, an innovative project that seeks to respond to the gradual ageing of the population.Approximately eight percent of Mexicans  ..

The Delhi government Wednesday issued show cause notices to 12 unaided public schools for taking arbitrary decisions on the issue of fee hike, a statement issued by the state government said."Keeping in view reported instances of arbitrary decis ..

The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to revive an Uttar Pradesh law which sought to reserve 50 percent of seats in the state's all public and private educational institutions for students from Dalit, tribal and backward communities.A bench of Acti ..

Ganesh Kuban was forced to drop out of school when he was 10 after his father died. He has been supporting his family ever since byfixing scooters at a roadside mechanic's shop in central Mumbai.But when the shutters come down at his workplace ev ..

IT training firm NIIT Ltd said it has entered into a deal to provide information and communications (ICT) training in 29 New Delhi municipal schools.NIIT will train the teachers and offer computer aided education to 11,500 students from these schools ..

Tata Motors were set to accept the application forms for the world's cheapest car, the 624-cc jelly-bean shaped Nano, from Thursday in what will be the steepest booking fee charged in India for an automobile.Over the next 17 days, prospective buy ..

Debunking the myth that H-1B visas steal American jobs, a US think tank has asked the Congress to instead raise the cap on them to promote economic growth and generate much needed tax revenue a few days after a Republican Congressman introduced a bil ..

A new bill has been introduced in the US Congress to exempt foreign graduates of US PhD programmes from counting towards a cap on H-1B visas and give them 'green cards' or permanent residency directly.Jeff Flake, Republican member of the Hous ..

The number of Indian and South Korean students applying for the fall admission to US graduate programmes have fallen, while applications from China and the Middle East have surged, according to a survey released by the Council of Graduate Schools Tue ..

America's largest private student lender Sallie Mae plans to move 2,000 overseas jobs back to the US from India and the Philippines, reversing a cost-savings measure the company took a year ago.The jobs are projected to cost the Reston-based stud ..

All it took for inspiration to develop a painless injection was a mosquito bite. Yes, a mosquito uses a unique method to deliver a painless bite and researchers at IIT Kharagpur wondered if they could make an injection that mimicked the mechanical ac ..

Several hundred students of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) from the Delhi region were on Monday reportedly unable to appear for the class XII exam as their identity cards were not delivered to them. Many others have spent the last few da ..

Steel production in Germany dropped by half in the year up to March, the steepest decline since unification nearly 20 years ago, according to figures released Tuesday.The Federal Statistics Office said German steelworks produced 2.1 million tonnes of ..

A consumer who was penalised by the ICICI bank despite cancelling her loan was awarded compensation by the consumer commission Monday which found the bank guilty of deficiency of service in the case.Kiran Sikri had applied for a car loan from the ICI ..

Not a single student of the post graduate programme for executives at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has got overseas placement this year, thanks to the adverse economic condition prevailing worldwide."The global nature of t ..

Eating 70 grams of baby broccoli sprouts daily for two months, keeps a gutsy stomach bug like H. pylori at bay. The bug can cause gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer.A small pilot study involving 50 people shows that such a routine reduced by m ..

Two million children die in India every year and over 60 percent of them die in the first 28 days of birth, international charity Save The Children said on the eve of World Health Day Monday.It highlighted that a majority of these deaths are because  ..

Nicotine may interfere with cellular communication in your body, according to a new study.Researchers have found 55 proteins that interact with the alpha-7 nicotinic receptor, so called because nicotine binds to them when it is introduced into the bo ..

An Australian polio victim confined to a Melbourne hospital with an "iron lung" respirator for the past six decades completed her 82nd birthday Sunday.June Middleton, who entered the Guinness Book of Records three years ago as the person wh ..

Fed up with official apathy, people of a Bihar village, suffering for decades due to high fluoride content in drinking water, have sent politicians the simple message: no safe drinking water, no votes.Villagers in Khaira in the Jamui constituency hav ..

A majority of chief information officers (CIOs) of companies in India expect the economic slowdown to end by October-December 2009, a survey conducted by market intelligence IT consulting major IDC India showed Monday.The survey, titled 'Identify ..

More than half of corporate India's workforce suffers from various chronic and lifestyle diseases, with those in the information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITES), media, knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and financial services top ..

The Japanese government plans to draw up a supplementary budget for fiscal year 2009 with an economic stimulus package of more than 10 trillion yen ($100 billion), Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said Monday.During a meeting with Yosano, Prime Minister ..

At a time when channels are cutting costs due to the economic slump, Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has launched two channels in Asia, including an India-centric lifestyle channel."There's no perfect time to laun ..