Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan Wednesday ordered the cancellation of Post-Graduate Medical Entrance Test conducted by Vijayawada-based NTR University of Health Sciences.


Andhra cancels PG medical entrance test


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Three students of the Indira Gandhi National Open University here were injured Wednesday when they clashed with the varsity security staff.


Three IGNOU students injured in campus clash


Seven Indian American college students have been awarded the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship that would fund their educational expenses in the coming years, a media report said Tuesday.


Seven Indian American students win pretigious scholarship


An Indian-American student's bold suggestion to the US government that it could save $136 million a year by simply switching fonts from Times New Roman to Garamond in government printing has caught national attention, with printing officials terming his work as  "remarkable" while others dismissed it saying he was too young to understand the "oddity" of font measurement.


Indian-American boy ignites debate over typeface change


The second incident of a student allegedly committing suicide within a month at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has raised deep concern among the authorities of the oldest IIT in the country.


Second suicide in a month gets IIT Kharagpur worried


India will set up a vocational training institute and agricultural research labs in Libya to help the north African nation develop its human resource, Indian ambassador here Anil Trigunayat has said.


India to set up vocational institute in Libya


An Oil India-led consortium has won two offshore oil blocks in Myanmar for exploration.


Oil India-led consortium bags two Myanmar oil blocks


To help 6.7 million out-of-school Pakistani children get education, UN's Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown Saturday announced a financial programme, Xinhua reported.


$500 mn UN support for Pakistan's education plan


US-based storage solutions provider Western Digital (WD) Thursday launched a personal cloud solutions product named "My Cloud" in India that enables users to organise, centralise, secure and access digital contents from anywhere in the world.


WD launches personal cloud solutions in India


The president of a defunct "sham" California university with nearly 98 percent Indian students has been convicted of creating a front for foreign students seeking to establish US immigration status.


Head of sham US varsity which duped Indians convicted


The O.P. Jindal Global University here has announced 50 scholarships for Africans to study at its campus from August.


Indian varsity offers 50 scholarships for Africans


Indian Air Force's College of Air Warfare (CAW) at Secunderabad has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Osmania University for the conduct of Ph.D course for its officers.


College of Air Warfare signs MoU with Osmania University


In a significant reform of the immigration laws affecting international students, Australia has eased the financial requirements for the visa applicants from "high risk" countries like India, China and Pakistan.


Australia eases visa laws for Indian, Chinese students


A Britain-based Sikh group has been working on a proposal to set up a free faith school in the London borough of Redbridge area in Greater London with nearly 1,500 parents extending their support to the cause, media reported.


British Sikh group plans free faith school


Susmita Roye, an Indian-American associate professor of English at the Delaware State University, has been named as a recipient of the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Award for Faculty.


Indian-American professor receives award for 'Mothering India'


An Indian girl, representing Delhi Public School (Ghana), has won this year's national spelling bee contest and will represent that west African nation in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US later this year.


Indian girl wins spelling bee contest in Ghana


About one in four business school graduates in India find jobs in America, second only to China, which sends 38 percent of its alumni to the US, according to a new survey.


A fourth of Indian business graduates land jobs in US


One of the biggest issues confronting Indian universities is their absence from the list of top-ranking varsities across the world. The best rank we have is for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, at 222 in 2013, down from 181 in 2009 as per the QS World University Rankings.


Why top global rankings elude Indian universities (Comment: Special to IANS)


More than half of Sikh children in US schools endure bullying with over two-thirds of turbaned Sikh children among its worst victims, according to a new national report. Sikh children have been punched kicked, and had their turbans ripped off by fellow students, it found.


Sikh children in US schools targets of hate


The body of a second year MTech student of Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room Monday, a top institute official said.


Body of IIT-Kharagpur student found hanging in room


Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan, who believes in the right of education for each individual, joined a social campaign for the cause by painting a part of a school's wall here.

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