In a respite to pre-primary students of Dunne's Institute in south Mumbai, the Bombay High Court directed the state PWD to decide on a plea made by the trust owning the building, seeking permission to install a new lift, which could be used by the students.
Presently, the students have to climb six floors ..
The delay in construction of the campuses of the eight new IITs has not affected the "standards of education" and pace of research, Union Minister of Human Resource Development M M Pallam Raju said here.
Referring to IIT-Jodhpur, he said that the institution has done remarkable job in the field ..
Indian IT professionals in the US have welcomed the proposed immigration bill on several counts, particularly the Green Card, introduction of merit-based visa and increase in H-1B visa quota.
Thousands of Indian IT professionals, most of whom here work on the H-1B visa, are jubilant over the proposal ..
Musicians who learn a new melody demonstrate enhanced skills after a night's sleep, according to a new study.
Researchers from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas found that performance of a musical task improved among pianists whose practice of a new melody was followed by a night of sleep.
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Advertising and digital media agency Focus Group launched a social networking website 'Worldoo', aimed at children aged between 6-12 years.
Focus Group MD Monish Ghatalia said, "Worldoo will offer a platform to kids to live, express and play. They will have access to educational content and games ..
To create awareness on heritage among teachers, Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation organised a heritage education workshop in the national capital.
Over 275 teachers from schools from Delhi and cities like Aligarh, Ludhiana, Taran Taran, Srinagar, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jalandhar and ..
The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has appealed to President Pranab Mukherjee to set up a central university in the GTA area of the Darjeeling hills.
The demand for a central university was a long standing one and it had been mentioned in the tripartite GTA agreement signed on July 18, 2011, ..
A sample survey has shown that Indians still consider Australia a favourite overseas education destination, second only to the United States, despite the spate of attacks on Indian students in 2009 and 2010. The survey, conducted among 1,233 Indians in Australia, by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and the ..
The newly introduced BCom (H) course at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has become a runaway hit with 12,000 applications received and two days to go before the registration process ends for the 2013-14 admissions. The university has just around 1,000 seats to offer—one-eighth the number in DU.
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Thousands of minority students in the city without an Aadhaar card may have to forgo their Centre-sponsored scholarship as the amount disbursal is coming to an end in a month's time and less than 20% of students have enrolled so far.
The Centre has taken up direct benefit transfer through Aadhaar linkage ..