Kolkata: Children will now be spared the ordeal of homework, with the West Bengal Board of Primary Education considering doing away with it for students up to Class V.
Instead, they will be required to solve the worksheets at the end of each book which, board sources said, should be enough for learning. ..
Kolkata: ICFAI University, Tripura organised a Media Workshop on ‘Future of Journalism in Internet Age’ on December 23.
The speaker was Soumyajit Mahapatra, chief public relation officer, Calcutta Telephones and Secretary, Public Relation Society of India. This workshop aimed at highlighting ..
Bhubaneswar: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) XXVII All India Conference on ‘Library/Information Users in Digital Era’ is being organized by KIIT University on its premises from December 26-29, 2009. It is for the first time IASLIC All India Conference is being held in ..
Kolkata: Guruvar Awards, the biggest Teacher’s Awards in the country, announced its winners.
Having started in September 2009, the interactive campaign culminated into the celebration of the Indian School Teacher. 16 winners amongst over one lakh nominations by people across the nation were ..
Entrance exam for doctorate programme in the University of Pune will be held in the first week of January, 2010. The entrance exam is now a must for the PhD aspirants as per the new guidelines of University Grants Commission (UGC).
Acting Vice-Chancellor Arun Adsool said the varsity had finalised the ..
As Pune is emerging as a hub for the animation and gaming sector, the University of Pune (UoP) has proposed to start a bachelor's course in animation and digital arts.
With the varsity contributing in the area of imparting training in animation and gaming, the industry hopes that the process of ..
Ahmedabad: 'Chandrama', an animation film, directed by two students from city's National Institute of Design (NID), has won 'Animax Extraordinary Award' at the recently concluded Autodesk Panorama Asia Pacific Animation Bootcamp-2009 held in Hongkong.
The award winning film directed by Pratik ..
Sydney: Some classrooms have higher levels of ultrafine pollutants than outdoors due to activities like glueing, painting and drawing, says a new study.
There also were significant increases in ultrafine particle levels when detergents were used for cleaning.
Lidia Morawska from the ..
Madurai: The madurai bench of the Madras High Court has granted an interim stay to appointment of Engineering Graduates in Departments which required Legal knowledge" in the Tamilnadu State transport Corporation's (TNSTC) divisions in south Tamil Nadu.
Justice K N Basha, admitting a petition filed by ..
Applications have been invited for the Entrance Test for Admission to the Under Graduate Medical/Engineering/Pharmacy Courses at Manipal University.
The Courses offered are (i) Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS): 4 1/2 years plus 1 year compulsory rotating internship (ii) Bachelor of ..