Tension prevailed in Hyderabad University on Tuesday as students ransacked the office of Vice-Chancellor P. Appa Rao to protest his return from a nearly two-month leave.


Hyderabad varsity students ransack VC office


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India has embarked on the path of educational diplomacy in order to provide foreign students who come here "affordable excellence", union Human Resource Development  Minister Smriti Irani said on Monday.


India offers affordable excellence through educational diplomacy: Irani


In a shock to thousands of second year pre-university course  (equivalent to class 12) students across Karnataka, the higher education department cancelled the chemistry exam held on Monday as its question paper was leaked.


Karnataka cancels exam after paper leak


Five students of the Central Hindi Institute here accused of eating beef have been identified but officials denied the charges saying they were now on a holiday.


Students in alleged beef row identified


The central government has a "multi-prolonged strategy focussed on development" to improve the quality of life in the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas of Chhattisgarh, a Union minister said on Monday.


Centre focused on left extremism-hit areas' development: Minister


Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) and Smile Foundation NGO on Monday announced a long term partnership to reach out to the underprivileged sections of society to skill and facilitate employment.


Philips, Smile Foundation launch Skill India programmes


Intimate pictures of Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner snuggling have leaked online.


Intimate snaps of Harry Styles, Kendall Jenner leaked online


Expressing solidarity with university professor S.A.R. Geelani, Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) on Friday demanded his release after dropping the sedition charge against him.


Delhi University teachers' body demands Geelani's release


Bollywood actor Anupam Kher on Friday took a dig at JNU students Anirban Bhattacharya and Umar Khalid, who were granted six-month interim bail by a Delhi court in a sedition case.


Anupam Kher takes dig at JNU students granted bail


A court here on Friday granted six months interim bail to JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, arrested  on charges of sedition.


Khalid, Anirban get six month interim bail


As the RSS on Thursday dubbed AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi as anti-national for his refusal to say 'Bharat mata ki jai', BJP president Amit Shah said other factors will be taken into account to judge Owaisi's patriotism.


RSS says Owaisi anti-national, BJP's Shah looks to other factors


Yale will become the first university member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), a private-public partnership to strengthen carbon pricing policies through the development of a network for sharing best practices.


Yale joins global carbon pricing policies coalition


The high-level inquiry committee set by JNU to probe the controversial event of February 9 has not recommended rustication of five students including students union chief Kanhaiya Kumar, for their alleged involvement in the event in which anti-national slogans  allegedly raised. However, it has rapped the organisers.


No mention of rustication of students in JNU panel report


Delhi Police on Wednesday told a court here that JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya organised the February 9 event on the campus while JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was not its organiser.


Kanhaiya not February 9 event's organiser: Police tell court


Software major co-founder S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris) and Hexaware-and-Aptech founder Atul Nishar have invested an unspecified amount in Avagmah, an education technology startup focused on higher education


Infosys co-founder Kris invests in education startup


A court here on Wednesday reserved for March 18 its order on a bail plea of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charge.


Delhi court order on JNU students' bail on March 18


Breaking a three-year dry spell for Indian-Americans, two 17-year-old high school students have won the top prize of $150,000 with their medical-related projects in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search contest, the society for Science and Public (SSP) announced on Tuesday.


Two Indian-Americans win first place in science contest


Venice, March 16 (IANS/AKI) A teacher has been sacked from a technical high school in Italy for sending sexually explicit text messages to pupils, a media report said.


Teacher fired in Italy for 'sexting' pupils


Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday denied media reports that a high-level inquiry committee had recommended the rustication of five students from the university.


JNU denies media reports on rustication of students


A court here on Tuesday extended, till March 29, the judicial custody of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charges for allegedly raising "anti-India" slogans, court sources said.


JNU students Umar, Anirban's judicial custody extended


A young student in a Ghaziabad college was stabbed in the neck here on Tuesday. The alleged attacker later tried to kill himself, police said.

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