The government on Monday said providing relief to 'aam admi' from higher food prices will remain its top priority and expressed confidence the economy would grow by 7.5% in 2009-10 and at an even higher pace of 8% in the coming fiscal."M ..

Erum Shakeel, Class X student of MGD, who wants to become a fighter pilot, is being monitored round-the-clock by her mother and elder sister Amrin Jabin.“She has been studying for 12-15 hours for the last two months. After she stopped socializi ..

During the reunion of the pioneer batch of IIT-K, the ex IItians interacted with the students presently studying at the institute and shared with them their life journey. Each alumnus had something or other to narrate. Most of them were found sharing ..

Scientists have come up with evidence to show that calcineurin, an enzyme, is critical in controlling normal development and function of heart cells. The loss of the protein leads to heart problems and death in genetically modified mice, says a new s ..

Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Saturday said he will try to build a consensus among all states to implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act from April 1. He also stressed that the government is and will be strictly against com ..

In a joint venture with India, a power plant will be set up in Bangladesh in three years to produce 1,320 MW. Two coal-fired units with production capacity of 660 MW each will be built in Khulna district, 180 km southwest of Dhaka. A bilateral docume ..

Over 1,500 girls from a private college here have been busy shaping up the careers of illiterate and unemployed villagers in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Students of the Sardar Patel Mahila Mahavidyalaya (SPMM) in Barabanki district, some 35 km from Luckno ..

Nearly 190 private colleges of Punjab will observe an 'education bandh' (strike) Feb 26 on the call of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), which represents their faculty, principals and stakeholders. The JAC was constituted last month by the pr ..

A new networking website has been launched for Indian alumni and students in Australia to enhance the experience of international students. The website, MyOzNetwork.com, supported by the Australian government, is designed to provide past, present and ..

The Human Resource Development ministry is expecting to introduce a single entrance examination system for admission into all professional educational institutes like engineering and medical colleges in the country."By 2013 we should have in pla ..

Students from India are "always welcome" in his country, British Minister Pat McFadden said Tuesday though Britain has stopped accepting student visa applications at its three centres in northern India."Students from India are always w ..

Private sector Axis Bank is targeting to increase the retail portfolio of its lending shortly, a top bank official said here Monday."We want to increase retail portfolio to 25 percent of the total lending in near future," Axis Bank executiv ..

A high-level delegation from India should visit Australia in the wake of the recent attacks on Indian students there, according to V.P. Unnikrishnan, secretary of the Federation of Indian Communities, Queensland (FICQ).Unnikrishnan told IANS over pho ..

Students can learn some science concepts just as well from computer simulations as they do from direct observation, says a new research. A study found that people who used computer simulations to learn about moon phases understood the concepts just a ..

Concerned over some parliamentarians' demand to scrap the restrictions on sale of tobacco products near schools and colleges, a voluntary organisation here has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to take steps that would affect youngste ..

The deadly H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu, may have affected more than 57 million Americans and killed as many as 17,000 of them, according to new official estimates.Though 2,498 confirmed deaths linked to the H1N1 virus had been repor ..

Fifty eight activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist party and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, were arrested Saturday in Bangladesh following the violence earlier this week in Rajshahi University campus. Nearly 200 activists and ..

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Osmania University students Friday called for Telangana shutdown Saturday to protest the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel, saying these were not favourable for formation of Telangana state.Demanding that  ..

The Punjab government has asked the vice chancellors of universities in the state to prepare a blue print of a programme to impart vocational education training to nearly 100,000 unemployed youth.Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Wednesday as ..

High winds forced US space agency NASA to cancel the planned launch of a solar probe Wednesday. The countdown for the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was called off because the wind load was higher than allowed, NASA said. An earlier l ..