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In the wake of a spurt in student agitations in West Bengal that saw heads of top varsities being locked-in, state Higher Education Minister Bratya Basu Tuesday cautioned against such "extreme movements". He said the first step to get their ...

In a bid to tap entrepreneurs and enhance their skills, country's premier B-School, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), will assist the West Bengal government to impart training to select candidates, a release said Tuesday. According to the statement, ...

At least 113 students of a school in Odisha's Puri district fell ill Tuesday after consuming iron and folic acid supplements on empty stomachs, an official said. The students of the Upper Grade Middle English (UGME) School at Gopinathpur were ...

Students of Rajabazar Science College of Calcutta University has lifted the 16-hour gherao of the Vice-Chancellor and the Pro Vice-Chancellor over their demand for better campus placement following assurance from the authorities. Later West Bengal Governor M K Naryanan, who ...

Heads of the two universities, that witnessed intense student agitations including lock-ins of the officials, Tuesday met West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan apprising him of the situation and urging him to take firm action. Jadavpur University vice chancellor Souvik Bhattacharya, ...

Bhopal, 24th Sept 2013: A forecast seminar on career opportunities available in the pharmacy sector was conducted by Amulett Pharmacy and PharmaATOP at Bhopal. An expert team of Amulett Pharmacy and PharmATOP Vigils, informed pharma aspirants about the various career opportunities ...

The JNU- Jawaharlal Nehru University's Students Union has started with an Online Campaign over the UPSC- Union Public Service Commission for excluding 'Foreign' languages, mainly Arabic and Persian, from the list of optional subjects in UPSC examination. The petition was ...

Telecom service provider Vodafone Monday announced a programme through which it will directly recruit people from top 20 Indian business schools and technology institutes, a company statement said here. "Our aim is to be a leading customer and talent-centric organisation ...

A total of 28.5 million children in conflict-plagued countries are being denied an education, leaders from governments and international organisations said at the UN General Assembly here. "We must make an intentional and deliberate turn from past policy responses to ...

The election to the 11th executive committee of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) will be held Oct 15, said an official statement Monday. The final list of candidates will be released on Oct 5. "There shall be election of ...

Close on the heels of gherao of the Jadavpur University vice chancellor by students for 51-hours, B-Tech students of a college of Calcutta University gheroed the varsity's VC and pro-VC alleging that the authorities were not taking any steps for their ...

Twenty girls from different parts of Jammu and Kashmir are on a visit to Kolkata as part of the 'Bharat Darshan' tour organised by the Border Security Force. The trip is aimed at acquainting the girls, many of them from ...

Students from various Delhi schools Monday measured the circumference of the earth using the Qutub Minar's shadow on the autumnal equinox. The experiment conducted by Space foundation, an organisation working for popularising astronomy, aimed to educate the students about traditional ...

The students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will take up the task of illuminating the slums in Munirka, south Delhi through a solar lighting project, an official statement said Monday. IIT-Delhi is working on the project in collaboration with ...