Over 200 students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here boycotted classes in protest against what they termed "lack" of amenities at the makeshift campus, officials said.
NIT, the premier technology institution at Karaikal was inaugurated during July, 2010 and it started functioning ..
CSIR has joined hands with a prominent European organisation for finding novel, faster-acting, and more effective regimens for tuberculosis and alaria by advancing the discipline of cheminformatics.
The agreement signed today by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research between its Open ..
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has announced 100 per cent increase in scholarship to the students hailing from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward classes.
"Keeping in view the escalating prices of essential commodities, the Chief Minister has announced to double the ..
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat stressed on the need of improving the education system in the country so that the children were taught to be fearless and model citizens. Bhagwat who was the chief guest was speaking at the golden jubilee celebrations of the Vivekanand Education Society at Chembur on Monday.
Criticising ..
The government has convened a meeting of state education departments here tomorrow to deliberate upon a panel's recommendations on improving teacher education programmes which include pre-entry testing of candidates for admission to training institutes.
The Supreme Court-appointed Justice J S Verma ..
It is about two years since the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009 came into force and one year since the Supreme Court upheld its Constitutional validity. Yet the legislation seems to have made very little difference to the quality of education provided to the weaker sections and ..
The Tamil Nadu government announced a series of welfare measures, including proposing new engineering colleges and drinking water projects, totally at cost of over Rs 1,000 crore.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalitha announced new engineering colleges would come up in Dharmapuri and Tanjavur ..
Concerned over discrimination against children in schools on the basis of caste, religion and community, Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has suggested measures to the government to tackle the issue.
Defining as to what is tantamount to discrimination in schools, training teachers to tackle the ..
If you do not know the answers to Who is William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton or the Beatles , you may not get British citizenship.
Immigrants who wish to settle in the UK will now have to learn key facts about British history to pass their citizenship test.
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As many as 41 students of a government-run school for tribals near here fell sick after having food at their hostel, authorities said.
Chief District Health in-charge Dr G B Verma said, "41 students of Adarsh Niwasi school were admitted to a local civil hospital last night after they complained of ..