Around 1000 students who were unable to submit their forms in time with the West Bengal Higher Secondary Council for the intermediate examination, were allowed to appear for it.
Education minister Bratya Basu told the state Assembly, "As no fault was established on their part in being unable to ..
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who also holds Education portfolio, said, "The students studying in fifth and sixth standards will get the e-notepads in June, when schools restart".
He said the electronic writing pads would be loaded with the e-content in terms of curriculum.
The ..
The Orissa High Court has issued notices to the state and the Centre seeking their response to a PIL opposing the merger of the prestigious Institute of Mathematics and Applications with Kolkata-based Indian Statistical Institute.
Adjudicating over the PIL filed by a Bhubaneswar-based advocate, a division ..
Scotland's cultural, business and academic ties with India are to be bolstered with the creation of a new centre at the University of Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh India Institute will encourage a greater awareness of India in Scotland and aims to build a programme of training in major Indian languages, the ..
The government initiated fresh efforts for early passage of long-pending educational reform bills with new HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju reaching out to Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj in this regard.
The meeting was significant in view of the fact that Raju's predecessor Kapil Sibal achieved little ..
An eminent structural engineer joined the small but expanding league of Indian-Americans heading educational institutions in the US as he was approved as president of the reputed University of Texas at Arlington.
Dr Vistasp M Karbhari, who completed his higher education from University of Pune, is at ..
The Punjab government has sacked 589 teaching and non-teaching staff of the state Education Department for being absent from duties.
Disclosing this here today,stat Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka said 212 teaching and non-teaching staff had already been sacked and now 377 more teaching and ..
The Maharashtra government has strongly recommended de-affiliation and cancellation of all permits to Aditya Dental College here after an enquiry into a flurry of complaints against the institution.
In a letter to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Deputy Secretary of State Medical Education ..
People perform better in mental tests at the age of 50 if they have engaged in regular intense activity, such as playing sport, running, swimming or working out in the gym, since childhood, UK researchers have found.
Levels of exercise in more than 9,000 people were examined at the ages of 11, 16, 33, 42, ..
In a first of its kind discovery in nearly a century, NASA scientists have found the third closest star system to the Sun, located only 6.5 light years away.
The pair of newly found stars is the closest star system discovered since 1916.
Both stars in the new binary system discovered by ..