Maharashtra government has decided to rename the Marathwada Agricultural University in Parbhani after the late state chief minister Vasantrao Naik.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet here today. The move comes during the birth centenary of Naik.
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A five-member team of a school here has scaled 19,688-ft high Mt Tibba peak in Himachal Pradesh.
The students of Bishop Cotton School scaled the peak on June 11, a school spokesman said here.
The expedition commenced on June 3, he said adding the team had set ..
For students in Mumbai, monsoon points to reopening of schools, new books, new teachers and beginning of another academic year. However, this year, students in the city are getting an opportunity to welcome the academic session in a different way. The Badminton Association of India (BAI), in an effort to promote ..
Both, students appearing through school and private for supplementary exams can obtain their hall ticket on June 21 and June 22, according to official sources.
Hall tickets can be obtained from the hall ticket-issuing centres that are mentioned by the Regional Director, Govt. Exams.
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The word 'tweet' in the sense of social networking has entered the hallowed pages of the Oxford English Dictionary with the lexicon breaking its rule that a new word needed to be in use for ten years before inclusion.
John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, said, "The noun and ..
A group of 14 students, including two from India's O P Jindal University, have been selected to participate in an innovative global internship programme on human rights and governance in Europe.
The students from various universities, including Oxford University, Harvard University and O P ..
About 70 per cent students own smart phones with a larger user base in smaller cities than the metropolitan cities, according to a survey by software services firm TCS.
Nearly six out of 10 post-millennial respondents own a smart phone, but what is remarkable is that the difference in ..
The University of Madras will begin a massive recruitment drive to fill in nearly 150 faculty posts, including that of 91 assistant professors and 50 associate professors from the first week of July. University officials said recruitment on such a scale is taking place after more than a decade.
The last ..
A tug of war is on between the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) over the Supreme Court order that approval of AICTE is not required to obtain permission and run MBA courses by private institutions since it does not fall under the definition of technical ..
The Himachal Pradesh high court has upheld the government's decision to close down eight government degree colleges that had reportedly been opened in haste, without proper infrastructure and budgetary provisions, by the outgoing government last year, and dismissed a bunch of petitions challenging the new government's ..