New York: With three more American banks biting the dust, the total number of collapses in 2009 has touched 133, more than five-fold that of last year.
Battered by the financial turmoil, an average of 11 banks especially the small and medium ones, are going belly up every month in the ..
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir today said it will implement its employment policy from April next, under which government jobs would be provided to one lakh unemployed educated youth in a phased manner in five years.
"The historic employment policy will be implemented in the state ..
London: Plans are underway for the final event of Cambridge's 800th Anniversary Year, which will take place in January 2010.
Exactly twelve months from the start of the 800th anniversary celebrations, when more than 10,000 people crowded into central Cambridge to witness a spectacular ..
Coimbatore: Forensic science and medicine is a tool to make sure excellence in investigations to speed up logical conclusion in crime cases, said P. Sivanandi, Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City on Saturday.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Continuing Medical Education in Forensic Science and ..
Bhopal: Five branches of Aligarh Muslim University are to be set up in different parts of the country soon, Lok Sabha MP Maulana Asrar-ul-Haque Qasmi said here.
The prestigious institute will branch out in Murshidabad (West Bengal), Mallapuram (Kerala), Kishanganj (Bihar) and one place each in ..
Nagpur: PG medical students and faculty must serve in rural areas once a month to provide specialised treatment to patients there, a senior minister said.
"We are planning to make it mandatory for all post graduate students and faculty to visit patients from rural areas once a month," Minister ..
Thiruvananthapuram: French Ambassador to India Jerome Bonnafont on Friday said his country was looking forward to getting more students from India to study there.
"We want to triple the number of students from India in the next three years," Bonnafont told reporters here.
The ..
Kolkata: Days after technical glitches threw the online Common Admission Test out of gear at several centres across the country, two IIMs-Calcutta and Bangalore-have mooted a proposal to scrap the online exam and revert to a pen-andpaper test, at least for this year.
Fed up with reports of disrupted ..
Kolkata: IIM-Kozhikode director Debashis Chatterjee has not ruled out the possibility of a CAT retest, which becomes apparent from the fact that a lot of students from Kolkata and elsewhere in the country have not been given a rescheduled date for taking the online CAT.
The CAT committee will analyse the ..
New Delhi: Calm had been restored to Visva-Bharati on the promise that an inquiry would be conducted against vice-chancellor Rajat Kanta Ray. But now all three members of the inquiry committee have decided to opt out of the panel.
Amlan Dutta and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, both former V-Cs of Visva Bharati, ..