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As many as 22 students of an institute here will take off to the US Sep 19 for an intensive workshop at the Kennedy Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The students of M. C. Kejriwal ...

National Level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE ) is a scientifically designed skill based assessment test, for students of classes II to XII, (CBSE / ICSE /all State Board Syllabi). It is a National Maths and Science Olympiad test held ...

Three Indian Americans are listed among the final 10 budding student scientists from across the country who will begin a unique summer mentorship program with a 3M scientist in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The finalists are : ...

The Government has formulated a scheme Disha to encourage and promote women scientists in the Science and Technology (S&T) sector by enlarging the scope of gender parity initiatives for greater out reach of existing schemes and adding new components. The ...

CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research  (CSIR -IITR) has earned Rs. 22,53,900/- in the last three years by way of sale of rats, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits.  CSIR-IITR has been endeavoring to enhance revenue generation through contract R&D and knowledge based services. It is ...

Government has undertaken several programmes / schemes under various departments to strengthen the academics and industry interface in science. The programmes of some of the key government departments/institutions which engage Universities/IITs, R&D institutions and industry are listed below: 1. Department of Scientific & ...

The 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Starting from a decade ago, ARWU has been presenting the world Top 500 universities annually based on transparent methodology ...

New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS): The gap between top schools and mass institutions in India is widening and has the potential to slow domestic economic growth, deepen income inequality and create less social mobility, warns a study. The country is ...

Bangalore, Aug (IANS): A 10-day Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF) will be held at the Bharatiya City complex here from Aug 30. "The fest is coming to India for the first time since EISF was founded 25 years ago (1989) ...

A recent study says that, UK is facing shortage of teachers for subjects like Mathematics and Science. Due to the scarcity of teachers, more than 1,00,000 secondary school students will be taught by untrained teachers in these subjects. The fact ...

More than two-thirds of industry leaders of 1990 did not exist in anymore 2004. Nokia which ruled the mobile handset industry last few years with market share of 61%, now have just 19%. Orkut which had 17.5 million Indian users in ...

Be it science or arts, the choice of subjects varies depending on the universities. For instance, an economics degree may be given as a BA by one university, but as a BSc by another. Biology, biochemistry, mathematics, physics, chemistry, social science, ...

The latest survey called 'India Today- Nielsen Best Colleges Survey' has revealed their reports with the list top institutes in streams like Arts, Commerce, Science, Law, BCA, BBA, Engineering, Medical, Fashion and Mass Communication. Nielsen Team members Umesh Jha, Nitin ...

The Christ University is all set to hold its three day workshop in Bangalore on "Restoring safety to the Shattering of the Temenos: Trauma, Neurobiology, Attachment and Expressive Arts Therapy" by Dr. Kate. T. Donahue (PhD, REAT) from 17th to 19th ...