The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) cancelled the Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) and ordered a probe after its question paper leaked on social media on Wednesday.


Paper leaked, Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test cancelled


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Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla on Tuesday said the government is open to reconsider the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates on certain components in the education sector.


Government open to review GST in education sector: Shiv Pratap Shukla


Sensex surged over 340 points during the afternoon session of the trade on Tuesday as lower inflation figures gave way to expectations of an ease in the monetary policy by the central bank.


Sensex surges over 340 points on expectations of rate cut


The Jawaharlal Nehru University students' Union (JNUSU) on Monday termed filing of chargesheet against 10 JNU students for rioting and sedition a "clear case of vendetta" by the ruling party and an attempt by it to "whip up a frenzy" ahead of the general election.


Chargesheet against Kanhaiya, others a case of vendetta: JNU Students Union


Delhi Police on Monday filed a chargesheet against former JNU Students Union (JNUSU) President Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a sedition case after some students shouted "anti-national slogans" in February 2016.


Delhi Police files chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar


The Gujarat government will be coming up with an Android application for students to register themselves in employment exchanges, an official said.


Gujarat to launch app for employment exchange enrolment


A disgruntled maintenance worker at a primary school here attacked and injured 20 students with a hammer on Tuesday, according to authorities.


20 injured in Beijing school attack


The Union Cabinet on Monday approved 10 per cent reservation for economically backward upper castes in jobs and educational institutions, informed sources said.


Cabinet approves 10 per cent quota for economically backward upper caste


China has executed a man for attacking 12 children with a knife at a kindergarten in 2017, the state media reported on Monday.


China executes man for kindergarten knife attack


Six persons, including five students, were killed on Saturday when a school bus skidded off the road and rolled into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, an official said.


6 killed in Himachal road accident


Dense foggy conditions in Punjab have forced the education department to change the timings of all schools in the state.


Fog forces Punjab to change school timings, temperatures dip again


When Narendra Modi was running for office, he promised to create 10 million jobs per year. The Modi administration has come nowhere near generating that number of jobs during his tenure in office, with the Indian economy expanding but the growth being essentially "jobless".


India needs a competency-enhancing, job-creation master plan (Comment)


An Indian-American teenager has won the inaugural "Digital Transformation Hackathon" at Cornell University for designing a device to detect the actual pain level of a patient during a diagnosis.


Indian-American teenager wins Cornell University hackathon


The Ila Dalmia FICA Research Grant 2018 of the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) has been awarded to JNU academic Rigzin Chodon, whose research revolves around visual material from newspapers of Ladakh and Kyelang from  various parts of the last century ranging from 1925 to 1959.


Ladakh's visual culture researcher receives FICA grant


Gun violence on campuses across the US in 2018 reached records unseen in the past 20 years in terms of both the number of incidents and the degree of devastation, the Washington Post reported.


US school shootings set 20-year records in 2018: Report


Forty-three people, including 35 students of a computer training centre, were injured when the private bus in which they were travelling overturned in Jawali subdivision of Kangra district on Thursday, police said.


35 students on way to attend Modi's rally injured


A 28-year-old-man of West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district was arrested for hacking a Central website and uploading names of fake scholarship applicants, police said on Thursday.


Bengal man arrested for hacking a Central website, tampering with scholarships


With the arrest of three persons including two school owners, the Delhi Police claimed to have busted a fake education board syndicate that cheated over 10,000 students in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and other states, an officer said on Wednesday.


Fake education board busted, 3 held for cheating 10,000 students


A federal judge in Washington ordered North Korea to pay $501 million to the parents of Otto Warmbier, holding the country accountable for the "barbaric mistreatment" and death of the University of Virginia student in 2017.


US court orders N. Korea to pay $501m in student's death


A minor fire broke out on Monday on the second floor of University Grants Commission building here due to a short circuit, a fire officer said, adding some important files and documents in record room were reduced to ashes.


Fire in Delhi's UGC building, important files destroyed


The Indian and Pakistani armies on Monday traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir prompting authorities to shut down schools in the vicinity.

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