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Even as the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is trying to promote Sanskrit in a big way by issuing press statements in this language, the number of students who wish to study it is falling alarmingly.


Few takers for Sanskrit as a subject in UP


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In a move to promote children's theatre in rural India, the National School of Drama (NSD) will showcase the results of its first such effort with Odisha's tribal children in the form of two plays produced in a Children's Theatre Workshop in the state.


NSD's rural children theatre program begins with Odisha


Initial investigation by the CBI into the multi-crore scholarship scam reveals a deep-rooted nexus between government officials, private institutions and public sector banks to siphon-off funds meant for poorest of the poor students. Students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Minorities were also deprived of scholarships to pursue basic education.


Scholarship scam: How officials, bankers cheated poor students


Indian students aspiring to enroll themselves in the US universities can now get authentic information, with the American Embassy here launching an App on Wednesday for this purpose.


US Embassy launches App for Indian students


A total of 382 cadets were commissioned into the Army after a Passing out Parade at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun on Saturday.


382 IMA cadets join Army after Passing out Parade


The 'Yeh dosti nahin todenge' song was portrayed on reel by Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra, but in reallife, it fits quite well for Bollywood's Hema Malini and Rekha. The BJP MP has acknowledged Rekha, for the funds she gave as a nominated Rajya Sabha MP, which have finally been released by the government and used for infrastructure development of a college, benefiting scores of students in Mathura.


Hema-Rekha 'dosti' helps Mathura college


The Gujarat Government, through its Student Start-up and Innovation Policy (SSIP) programme, has lent support to as many as 4,000 innovative projects, while it braces for harnessing and upscaling 500 students' startups in the next five years.


Gujarat's student startup initiative to back 500 projects


The CBI has arrested three persons in connection with its ongoing investigation relating to leakage in online Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination 2017 conducted by Staff Selection Commission (SSC), the agency said on Thursday.


CGL examinaton lekage 2017: CBI arrests three


A Class 11 student in Telangana, who had committed suicide after she was declared "failed" in the exams by the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE), had scored the pass marks, the result of re-verification of her answer sheet shows.


Telangana student who committed suicide had passed exam


The principal of a college in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district was Friday arrested and sent to jail for making objectionable religious comments, police said.


MP principal lands up in jail for derogatory comments on goddess


Seven Indian-origin kids, along with an American, have been declared co-champions of the US National Spelling Bee after the tie among the eight couldn't be broken even after 20 rounds of the finals.


7 Indian-origin kids are US Spelling Bee co-champions


President of student union of Delhi University's Ram Lal Anand college, Utakarsh Sharma, was found hanging in his house on Thursday afternoon.


Student leader of DU's RLA college hanged himself


In a significant development, the Mumbai police's Crime Branch will take over the investigations into the alleged suicide of Mumbai medico Payal S. Tadvi, official sources said here on Thursday.


Crime Branch to investigate Mumbai doctor's death


A PIL was filed in Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking directions to the Centre to frame guidelines for safety of private coaching institutes, in the wake of tragedy in Surat, where over 20 people, mostly students were killed after a massive fire broke out at a coaching centre.


PIL in SC on safety of students in private coaching centres


With the Maharashtra HSC examination results announced on Tuesday, many eyes were on the performance of one student - the National Award-winning heroine Prerana 'Rinku' M. Rajguru.


'Sairat' heroine Rinku scores 82% in Class 12 board exam


One female student and a man were killed and 16 others injured after a man wielding knives  attacked a group of schoolchildren outside a bus stop in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Tuesday, the police said, adding the attacker stabbed himself after the rampage and later died.


3 killed in Japan stabbing spree (3rd Lead)


In a swift move, the Uttar Pradesh government has cancelled land allotment worth several hundred crores to city-based Institute of Management Technology (IMT). The institute is owned by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's family and is headed by his son, Bakul Nath.


UP government cancels land allotment of college owned by Kamal Nath's family


Feroz Alam a.k.a. Raja had considerable political clout till about a day ago. His SUV bore the name plate 'BSP coordinator Patiyali and he moved around with half a dozen young boys.


BSP leader held for getting MBA paper leaked for girlfriend


In a shocking revelation in the sexual abuse scandal unearthed in a government college in Faridabad last week, an arrested lab assistant has admitted that several girls were targetted by senior college staff, including an Associate Professor.


Faridabad College sex abuse case: Lab assistant admits involvement of teaching staff


The CBI has arrested six persons for allegedly deploying remote desktop technology to breach the system security network of the prestigious real-time BITS Pilani online examination.