The European Union (EU) and the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) have joined hands in an effort to resume education in Nepal for one million children affected by last year's devastating earthquake.


EU, Unicef launch education project in Nepal


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Rome, Feb 1 (IANS/AKI) Italy has urged Egypt to locate an Italian doctoral student who "mysteriously disappeared" in Cairo on January 25, the foreign ministry said.


Italian PhD student vanishes in Egypt


Barely five years after it was established, the Delhi Public School Ghana has pipped around 50 schools to top two levels of the 2015 Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) examinations in the west African country.


DPS Ghana pips 50 schools to top Cambridge certificate exams


A day after the death of a six-year-old boy after falling into an open septic tank at a private school, the Delhi government on Sunday ordered all schools in the city to prepare a "safety report" within a month.


Delhi government orders schools to prepare safety reports


The Nalanda University in Bihar has decided to add a School of Linguistics and Literature from the year 2017-18.


Nalanda varsity to have school of linguistics


The University of Chicago has established a professorship for the study of Sanskrit with a $3.5 million gift from an Indian-American couple to help it advance the study of the Indian subcontinent.


Indian-American couple gifts $3.5 mn for Sanskrit studies at Chicago varsity


Google on Saturday paid tribute to India's eminent painter Amrita Sher-Gil by dedicating a doodle of her famous painting of three girls on her 103rd birth anniversary.


Google doodles Amrita Sher-Gil on birth anniversary


Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday exhorted the Indian IT industry to develop a software application that would automatically translate into English words spoken in their mother tongue by those who had no formal education in the English language.


Develop app for automatic translation into English: Siddaramaiah


Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Friday announced that the Delhi NCR outlet of edutainment theme park KidZania, in which he has a share, will open for public in May.


KidZania to open in Delhi NCR in May


Vyapam, which has been known for a massive admission and recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh, has taken to rewarding teachers who detect fraud in examinations, honouring six of them on Friday.


Vyapam rewards fraud detection, attempts image makeover


India and the US should collaborate in higher education, research and hi-tech areas to benefit mutually and foster a stronger bond of friendship between the two countries, Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy said on Friday.


Murthy bats for Indo-US tie-up in higher education


The second autopsy on the body of T.Monisha, one of the three girl students whose bodies were found near their college in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district last week and had, according to the police, committed suicide, was done here on Thursday, said an advocate.


Second autopsy done on body of naturopathy college student


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the National Cadet Corps (NCC) students to take inspiration from the life of Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of the key architects of the Indian Constitution.


Take inspiration from Ambedkar's life: Modi urges NCC cadets


Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday inaugurated auto body repair and auto body paint workshops set up by Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (MSIL) at an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in the capital.


Maruti Suzuki sets up workshops at Delhi training institute


A section of students of Jadavpur University boycotted classes here on Wednesday in protest against the suicide of Hyderabad Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula.


Students protest in Kolkata over Dalit scholar's suicide


The Madras High Court on Monday issued notice to the Tamil Nadu government and ordered the preservation till January 27 of the body of T. Monisha, one of the three girl students who allegedly committed suicide.


Madras HC notice to TN government in suicide case



Madras HC issues notice to TN government in suicide case


An Indian-origin Muslim cleric has been awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Leicester in Britain in recognition of his commendable work for the local community, it was reported on Monday.


Indian-origin Muslim cleric gets honorary doctorate


Children would now get to know about Independent India's 'Param Vir' war heroes through the Veergatha series of illustrated books published by National Book Trust.


Veergatha series books to introduce children to Indian war heroes


The death of three girl students of a naturopathy college in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district is shrouded in mystery, with police registering a case of suicide and parents calling it murder.


Death of three Tamil Nadu students shrouded in mystery


Student groups protesting in the University of Hyderabad over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar termed as "highly insulting" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement in which he described Rohith Vemula as 'Bharat Mata's son'.

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