Saudi Arabia is keen to intensify bilateral ties with India with education being a priority, said Saudi Ambassador Saud Mohammad Al-Sati during his address at Aligarh Muslim University.


Saudi Arabia seeks closer educational ties with India


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Tata Steel will build 30 model schools in Odisha with an investment of Rs.135 crore in an effort to provide quality education to students in far-flung areas, it was announced Wednesday.


Tata Steel to build 30 model schools in Odisha


At least 20 people, including two policemen, were injured Monday in two separate clashes between student activists of the RSS, Trinamool Congress and the CPI in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district, police said.


20 injured in campus violence in Bengal


A team of students from Harvard University Sunday visited the coal gasification steel plant of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) in Angul in Odisha.


Harvard students visit Odisha steel plant


A training centre to promote financial literacy, banking, insurance skills and entrepreneurship would soon be set up in Rajasthan, an official statement said Friday.


Centre in Jaipur to promote financial literacy


Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Friday exhorted the Punjabi diaspora to establish NRI schools across the state for connecting their future generations with  their roots.


Badal urges NRIs to open schools in Punjab


An Indian-American has gifted $2.5 million to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for a new state-of-the-art engineering lab dedicated to integrated microsystems, the university said.


Indian donates $2.5 mn for UCLA research facility


Apart from reinforcing the benefits of public-private partnership and adopting an inclusive approach towards wildlife in India, tiger conservationist and naturalist Valmik Thapar strongly feels that focussing on this much-ignored subject in schools would introduce children to the wonderful world of the animal kingdom. What would start as a hobby could become a career option in  later years.


Wildlife education should be done in schools: Valmik Thapar (IANS Interview)


At least 34 Indian and Pakistani schools in Dubai will adopt a parent-school contract in April 2015, an initiative by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA).


Indian, Pakistani schools in Dubai to sign contracts with parents


The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) Tuesday expressed concern over the disrupted education of hundreds of thousands of Syrian children amid the continuing conflict in the West Asian country.


Unicef concerned over Syrian children's disrupted education


State education ministers Tuesday endorsed the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) and the credit framework for skills to enable student mobility across institutions after the union government strongly pitched for the measure aimed at meeting student aspirations and employment needs.


States nod for system to enhance student mobility, job needs


A section of Jadavpur University students, who launched a fast-unto-death late Monday night to press for the removal of vice chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti, rejected the registrar's appeal to initiate a discussion Tuesday.


JU students on hunger strike, reject appeal for talks


With percentage of GDP spent on research and development stagnant at one percent over last two decades and two-thirds of the expenditure coming from the government, there is an urgent need for industry to increase its share to double spending to two percent by 2017, Vice President Hamid Ansari said Monday.


Industry should increase its share in R&D: Ansari


The immense demographic dividend and potential of the youth can be productively channelized for growth and development of the country only when the higher education system is provided a "job orientation", Health Minister J.P. Nadda said Saturday.


Job oriented higher education needed: Nadda


Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) alumni in Saudi Arabia have demanded a posthumous Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, for university founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a media report said.


AMU alumni in Saudi Arabia seek Bharat Ratna for founder


The Rajasthan government will introduce self-attestation of documents Jan 1.


Rajasthan to introduce self-attestation of documents Jan 1


The 59th annual convocation of Jadavpur University here was marred Wednesday by slogan-shouting and black flag demonstrations with a large section of students and teachers boycotting the event to press their demand for the removal of vice chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti.


Black flags, boycotts mar Jadavpur University convocation


The Australian High Commission has launched a website that will help Indian and Australian students looking for study opportunities in each other's countries, a statement here said Tuesday.


Website for Indian, Australian students launched


Over 1500 students from different government schools will Thursday pay tribute to the Pakistan terror attack victims, an official said Wednesday.


Delhi school students to pay tribute to Pakistan terror victims


The CBI Tuesday arrested seven people from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on charges of impersonating candidates in an online nationalised bank clerical examination, officials said.


Seven arrested by CBI in UP for exam fraud


The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office Monday filed an indictment against three right-wing Jewish activists for setting fire to a Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem last month.

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