India should use its position in the field of education to spread goodwill in South Asia, said former Pakistan diplomat Sajjad Ashraf, who hoped it would help improve ties Pakistan.


Pakistan ex-envoy asks India to use education for goodwill


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At least a dozen children fell ill Wednesday after taking their mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar, officials said. The students are out of danger.


Dozen students fall ill after mid-day meal


The Japan International Cooperation Agency will provide Rs.1,336 crore (JICA) loan for building part of the campus of the newly established Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad.


Rs.1,336-crore Japan loan agreement for IIT Hyderabad


The Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), an autonomous body under the union ministry of commerce and industry, Wednesday opened a new academic block and packaging laboratory, with a view to encouraging research and innovation.


IIP opens packaging laboratory, academic block


Celebrated Indonesian author Ayu Utami Tuesday said Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's works are "appealing" to readers in her homeland due to the bard's ideas on education that are relevant even today.


'Tagore's ideas on alternative education appealing to Indonesians'


Leading B-schools the world over may be teaching the tricks to tackle cut-throat competition and the "go-for-it" killer instinct to prepare management graduates for industry, but a management institute near Chandigarh has something different in mind.


This B-school teaches ethical decision-making, social entrepreneurship 


Australia's prestigious Griffith University has awarded a fellowship to a Kerala researcher to study the ethno-cultural moorings of the diaspora community from the state, which left the shores of Malabar generations ago.


Australian varsity fellowship for Kerala diaspora study


Acclaimed Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar says that children from the middle class are learning English at the "cost of vernacular languages".


Children learning more of English, says Javed Akhtar


Noted scientist R.A. Mashelkar, yoga expert B.K.S. Iyenger, actors Kamal Haasan and Vidya Balan, tennis player Leander Paes, cricketer Yuvraj Singh, and former chief justice of India, the late J.S.Verma were Saturday conferred the Padma awards on the eve of the 65th Republic Day.


Kamal Haasan, Vidya Balan, J.S. Verma, Yuvraj among 127 Padma awardees


One student was shot on campus in South Carolina State University of the US Friday, police said.


Student shot in US university campus


Education solutions provider K2 Learning Resources Friday unveiled a tablet - TabLab - to access textbooks and relevant materials on trendy gadgets by teachers and students in the commerce stream.


And now, a tablet for commerce students


India needs secure systems and networks to tackle the increasing threats against the cyber security of the country, Gulshan Rai, director general of the Indian government's Computer Emergency Response Team said Thursday.


'Cyber education needed to tackle threats'


Real estate firm Supertech Thursday said it will set up a university in Uttarakhand that will require an investment of Rs.750 crore in the first phase, expected to be completed by the end of 2015.


Supertech to invest Rs.750 crore in setting up university


Eight Indian-American students are among the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition, America's premier national science research competition for high school seniors.


8 Indian-Americans among 40 Intel Science Talent Search finalists


The Right to Education and Protection Authority (REPA), probing the ragging incident that led to the death of a Class 5 student in a West Bengal school, in its report Wednesday blamed the school authorities for not taking complaints of ragging seriously.


Bengal ragging death: School failed to empathise, says REPA


Incessant showers since Tuesday morning have virtually paralysed life in Taj city Agra.


Heavy downpour disrupts life in Agra


The central government Monday decided to provide financial assistance of Rs.27.2 billion ($440 million) to the revived Nalanda University in Bihar's Rajgir district.


Centre's over Rs.27 billion aid to Nalanda University


India-born Meera Chandrasekhar, professor of physics and astronomy and Curator's Teaching Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, has won Baylor University's 2014 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.


Indian-American wins US Great Teaching award


Two schools have been booked here for violating closure orders till Jan 20.


Two Ghaziabad schools booked for violating closure orders


President Pranab Mukherjee Friday presented the country's highest Arabic Scholar's Award for the year 2013 to Prof. Zikrur Rahman, director, India Arab Cultural Centre and Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia.


President honours Arabic scholar


With the American Embassy School in New Delhi under the scanner for alleged violation of India's tax and visa laws, the US sought to sidetrack the issue by suggesting that it was not run by the embassy.

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