The National School of Drama's theatre-in-company , Sanskar Rang Toli, organised a week-long festival (November 8-14) for children, Bal Sangam, on the occasion of Children's Day. Around 200 children from different parts of India participated in the festival.
One of the groups that participated was the ..
Trinity College Dublin, with a 400-year-old tradition, and the proud custodian of the Book of Kells (the manuscript that contains the four Gospels in Latin), played host to some unusual visitors from India. A mega-budget Bollywood movie completed filming on the historic and picturesque campus last month. Says Climaco ..
Michael Russell, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education & Lifelong Learning, speaks to Tirna Ray on how Scotland can be a key partner in Indian efforts to widen access to higher education
Traditionally , UK has always been an Indian student's first choice. ..
The Manipal University convocation held at KMC Greens on Saturday was the largest ever for the number of students who received the post and under graduate degrees. Over 2,400 of them from the campuses of Manipal, Bangalore and Mangalore were present to receive their certificates. In addition, 34 PhD scholars received ..
Eleven 'half-baked ' postgraduate diploma courses introduced by the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University without prior approval from the MCI or the Centre were declared illegal by the Madras high court on Thursday.
Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar , allowing a batch of writ petitions, said, "The ..
The Tiruvallur police on Saturday arrested 11 marine engineering college students on charges of attacking their juniors at the International Maritime Academy in Puduchataram on the Chennai -Tirupathi highway. Eight students were injured in the group clash, police said.
A brawl started over food in the ..
Once, the human digestive system was just a black-and-white drawing in the biology text. Today, there is a video on what happens to food after we swallow it. The animated movie was a fall-out of a student asking if the food changed colour when the digestive juices in the alimentary canal mixed with it.
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Indian parents often goad their babies to not grow up fast. If childhood is about magic, it is vanishing even before it is lived. In fact children are indeed growing up fast, speeding past the springtime of their lives, say psychiatrists who connect that to the falling levels of emotional quotient. The warm hugs, the ..
The conversation over lunch may have varied from the inhabitants of Mogappair West to the meal's spice levels, but it returned repeatedly to common themes such as climate change and the environment and more importantly, how to make projects targeted at these themes effectively. On a rainy Thursday afternoon at the ..
The science week at Nalanda Vidya Niketan proved beyond doubt that the internet is a very useful tool for children. They made science models to basic questions--- like why an egg does not float in water, how does a door bell function -- to metal detectors, wind mill, non stop trains, gold flake, floating head, bio ..