The Rajya Sabha Tuesday decided to defer the educational tribunal bill to the next session.The decision was taken with the consent of the house after Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal agreed to the demand made by several opposition memb ..

India's Pallava Bagla has won the American Geophysical Union (AGU) David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for his articles on the impact of climate change on Himalayan glaciers.The Perlman Award of AGU, the largest organisation  ..

Arup Roy Choudhury is the new chairman and managing director of state-run utility NTPC. Roy was earlier with the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC)."I intend to take NTPC to greater heights towards becoming the largest and best p ..

A Vigyan Gram, or a science village, is to come up on the outskirts of Tripura's capital, complete with a museum, library, planetarium, botanical garden, bird sanctuary and other attractions to popularise science among the masses.The Vigyan Gram, ..

The Gujarat High Court Monday directed the state government to amend a law which regulates admission to diploma courses so that students of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) do not face discrimination.A division bench asked the governme ..

A 19-year-old Chinese woman and her father cycled about 15 days covering 1,200 km to attend her first day in college in Beijing, a media report said Monday.Wang Xiaohan became the first woman to undertake such a feat. She arrived in Beijing Saturday, ..

A first-year engineering student in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district was hospitalised after he was allegedly ragged and assaulted by his seniors because he declined to mouth abusive words, police said Monday.Rajanshu, a B.Tech student of the Pranv ..

The number of Indian students going for studies to Australia would see a sharp drop this year for various reasons, Australian High Commissioner Peter N. Varghese said Saturday."We will see significant reduction in number of students going to Aus ..

As the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur gets set to celebrate its diamond jubilee next year, its 300-odd alumni have come forward with a call for the young IITians to contribute to India's socio-economic development."Being an IITian  ..

In a new twist to the movement for a separate Telangana state, students from the region Saturday manhandled teachers from Andhra and Rayalaseema on the Osmania University campus here.Protesting the spot evaluation of their B.Ed examination papers by  ..

Imagine securing a US high school diploma without even stepping out of your home in India! As India attempts to go international in the field of education, here is a virtual classroom straight from America.The American International Academy, a US-bas ..

No fresh attacks on Indian students have been reported from Australia recently, parliament was informed Friday.In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said: "The number of attacks on Indian students ..

There is enough global information available on the latest agricultural techniques and strategies, but farmers need to be educated about it in their local dialect and the techniques translated into applications, an expert said here Thursday.Speaking  ..

Over one lakh students are expected to vote in the Sep 3 Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls, a university official said Thursday, adding that campaigning in cars in the campus has been banned this year."Fifty-one colleges in both the n ..

The UN has called for a moratorium on all nuclear tests before the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) comes into force,Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on all countries to impose a moratorium on all nuclear tests, his special repres ..

More needs to be done to attract women to the fields of science and technology, US Assistant Secretary of State for Scientific Affairs Kerri Ann Jones said here Thursday."Women are under-represented on the top level in the field of science and t ..

Iran has successfully test-fired a new version of the domestically-built surface-to-surface missile, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Wednesday.Vahidi announced that the new generation of Fateh-110 is a medium-range ballistic missile with improved  ..

A bill to regulate private universities in Himachal Pradesh was Monday referred to a select committee by the state assembly.Opposition Congress legislators Kaul Singh Thakur, G.S. Bali and Sukwinder Singh Sukhu expressed apprehensions about the Himac ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is on a mission to reach out to farmers in remote and far-flung areas with the latest global information on farming and agriculture, a senior university official said here Monday."IGNOU is tryin ..

The University of Hyderabad is embarrassed over the human resource development (HRD) ministry withholding clearance to its proposal to confer an honorary doctorate on world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand and has apologised to the grandmaster.The u ..