The Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies has constituted a five-member inquiry committee to look into an illegal alcohol party that involved 489 students (254 boys and 235 girls), 80 of whom were detained by police, an official said Monday ..

Singapore Buddhist organisations have offered funds amounting to around $5-10 million for building a library at the proposed Nalanda University which will be a global centre of learning."The Singapore Buddhist community is making an important ge ..

Finally, classes for the new session of the premier institutions of technology (IIT) and fashion designing (NIFT) began on Monday after the orientation programmes were over on Saturday in Jodhpur.The IIT classes began at the newly constructed section ..

The Shaolin temple, China's ancient Buddhist monastery and the home of martial art kung fu, has now become a UNESCO world heritage site.Nestled in Mount Songshan of Central China's Henan province, the monument of Zen Buddhism was added to the ..

Nearly 350,000 foreigners entered Britain on suspect student visas last year despite new rules to curb the number of illegal immigrants, officials said Monday.Home Office figures reveal the total of visiting "students" and their dependents  ..

Marred by increasing incidents of violence involving student leaders of rival political parties, Panjab University (PU) here is set to introduce stringent measures to curb them.According to Chandigarh police records, at least 33 criminal cases relate ..

The Department of History and Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia has been rated as a Centre of Excellence in a survey, an official said Friday.A survey called 'Arts and Humanities Research Mapping, India' was conducted by India Foundation for th ..

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSC) is open to provide access to its new supercomputer Annapurna for use of other research organisations."After meeting our needs if there exist free computer time we may offer access to other research i ..

India and Britain Thursday discussed cooperation in education when Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal met his British counterpart, Minister of State for Universities and Science David Willets.According to an official statement from the H ..

India and Britain Thursday decided to launch a new phase of the India-UK Education and Research Initiative, as they discussed prospects of further cooperation in the field of education.According to a joint statement issued at the end of the visit of  ..

With vocational training high on the Human Resource Development Ministry's agenda, government has decided to set up new Indian Institutes of Information Technologies under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode."The government of India ha ..

Sunil Kumar, an Indian American management guru, has been named the new head of the University of Chicago's prestigious Booth School of Business.Currently the senior associate dean of academic affairs at Stanford University's Graduate School  ..

University of California Santa Cruz and the Asian School of Business (ASB) in Kerala's capital Wednesday launched a strategic tie-up that would include a series of exchange programmes.Announcing this here, G. Vijaya Raghavan, member-secretary of  ..

Transgenders in Karnataka Tuesday celebrated recognition of their identity by the Bangalore University that has reserved one seat for them in all post-graduate courses run by it."I have received a number of congratulatory messages from transgend ..

The United Arab Emirates will host the fourth World Future Energy Summit 2011 (WFES), an annual meeting dedicated to renewable energy.WFES will be held in Abu Dhabi Jan 17-20, 2011, Reed Exhibitions announced Tuesday. It is expected that one of the k ..

Seeking to help them qualify for joining nuclear plants that will start operating in the Gulf by 2017, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sent a group of students on a trip to South Korea to undergo training on nuclear energy.A total of 48 students f ..

Former Aussie cricket captain Steve Waugh Monday said Australia is completely safe for Indian students."Australia always welcomes Indian students and we make sure that our country is totally safe for them. We would make the best effort to look a ..

Iran Saturday launched a fusion research programme that will help build its first homemade nuclear reactor to generate electricity, the state-run Press TV reported.Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali-Akbar Salehi said some 50 s ..

The Uttar Pradesh government has unearthed a multi-crore racket in disbursement of scholarships to Scheduled Caste students in educational institutions in the state.The racket involves hundreds of engineering, medical, dental and management colleges  ..

The right to education act will not interfere with madrasas, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal asserted Sunday.Replying to questions during a media interaction at the end of a function at the B.R. Ambedkar University here, Sibal said: & ..