The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Monday recommended the removal of the principal and vice-principal of Kolkata's La Martiniere School over the suicide of Class 8 student Rouvanjit Rawla."They not only used corpo ..

Over 300 former Tamil Tiger rebels, currently under rehabilitation, will sit for an examination that would prepare them for higher education in the universities, the government said Monday.Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe, commissioner general of rehabi ..

Gita Gopinath, a Delhi School of Economics alumnus, has been named professor of economics at Harvard University, becoming the first Indian-origin woman professor in the institution's history. Kolkata born Gopinath, 38, is considered an authority  ..

At least 20 people were reportedly injured when police used force to end a 14-hour "gherao" (confinement) of Visva Bharati University Vice Chancellor Rajat Kanta by students demanding a rollback of the tuition fee hike.Protesting the police ..

A university in Gujarat has tied up with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to exchange ideas, share knowledge and pool resources and expertise to develop curriculum and learning materials, an official said Friday. The Gu ..

Test launches of Russia's new booster rocket Angara are to start in 2013, the rocket designer said Thursday.Vladimir Nesterov, head of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, said the rocket assembly would be completed in the f ..

A 30-year tradition will be broken when Delhi University (DU)does not begin classes July 16. Due to the implementation of semester system, the academic session begins five days later on July 21.There was nothing specific related to DU opening June 16 ..

While concerns are being raised over the introduction of the semester system in Delhi University, the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university has gone ahead and introduced it in all its post-graduate courses, an official statement said Thursday.Around  ..

The state cannot compel minority institutions to reserve teaching posts for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs), the Supreme Court has said.The court said that the actions of the state in discharge of its "duties, functions and gov ..

The Jamia Millia Islamia University has extended the last date of completing admission formalities to postgraduate courses till July 19, a statement said Wednesday.The last dates have been extended for postgraduate courses offered by the Faculties of ..

He is in India with his bag of education tools. Veteran US educator Samuel W. Micklus says creativity and critical thinking are key to education as opposed to learning by rote and he is about to let Indian schools know how."Schools relying on ro ..

The 22-year-old Patna-born prodigy Tathagat Avtar Tulsi is all set to become the country's youngest faculty at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai in Mumbai.Official sources said that Dr. Tulsi, will be joining as an assist ..

The passage of India's foreign education investment bill could pave the way for unprecedented new opportunities for education cooperation between the US and India, according to a senior US official."Imagine the possibilities: there are alrea ..

The central government Tuesday said it is considering the setting up of two new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) in the northeastern region."The locations are being worked out," Minister of State for Human Resource Develo ..

Since its first launch in 1994, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has so far placed 41 satellites (19 Indian and 22 foreign) into orbit - making it one of the most successful launch vehicles ever worldwide.* The PSLV was originally de ..

The West Bengal government has decided to reserve seats for students from other backward classes (OBC) in colleges and universities from the next academic session, Higher Education Minister Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury told the state assembly Monday." ..

American youths like space and so, keep a "talking distance" of at least 10 yards while speaking to a peer on campus. Keep a pressure cooker handy. Those are among the crucial lifestyle lessons being offered to US-bound students from India. ..

After successfully placing five satellites in orbit Monday, India's space agency ISRO said it will launch more satellites this year and efforts were on to put two Indians in space orbit."We will launch GSat-5, a communication satellite, usin ..

Indian space agency ISRO Monday crossed a new milestone Monday in launching third party satellites by slinging three foreign satellites into orbit, reaching a total of 25 satellite launches.The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) rocket P ..

Five satellites, including the advanced high resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit Monday after India's space agency ISRO successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from here."I am ext ..