A new course on Sustainable Urban planning using remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) has been launched at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur's outreach centre here, NITI Aayog said on Tuesday.


Course on sustainable urban planning launched at IIT Kanpur


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Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) R.P. Sharma on Tuesday issued an advisory to the police, educational institutions and parents to ensure that colleges are free of crime.


Odisha Police issues advisory to ensure crime-free colleges


At least 47 people, including children, were injured in a school bus crash involving several vehicles in Germany on Tuesday morning, according to local media.


47 injured in school bus crash in Germany


Fourteen school children and a teacher were wounded in a knife fight in a school in Russia on Monday.


Many wounded in Russian school knife fight


A mob indulged in arson in a school to protest a dance performance by a schoolgirl on a 'Padmaavat' movie song during its annual day celebrations, after which four accused were held, police said on Monday.


Violence in MP city school over Padmaavat song, four held


The relay hunger strike by a Delhi University Ph.D. scholar -- who has filed a police complaint over alleged casteist remarks made against him -- and his supporters on the campus to demand the arrest of the so-called erring Professor continued for the fourth day on Sunday.


DU scholar, supporters continue hunger strike to demand teacher's arrest


Ladakh-based education reformist and innovator Sonam Wangchuk believes that the rights given under the reservation policy should be curtailed after its benefits are used by one generation of a family. Accordingly, families in which one generation has benefited from the reservation policy should relinquish their right and not pass it on to their off-springs.


Only one generation be allowed to use reservation rights: Educationist Sonam Wangchuk (IANS Interview)


The 22nd edition of the National Youth Festival, which is being organised in Uttar Pradesh this year, is intended to capture the vibrancy and fresh perspective of the country's youth, an official statement said.


Annual youth festival seeks to capture participants' fresh perspectives


Three female students drowned when a boat with at least 34 students on board capsized off the Dahanu coast in this Maharashtra district on Saturday morning, officials said.


Three girls dead as boat with 34 students capsizes in Maharashtra


TiE Hyderabad on Saturday announced the winners of TiE Young Entrepreneurs Award for 5th season.


TiE Hyderabad announces winners of Young Entrepreneurs Award


Two teenage girls were killed and six others were missing after a boat carrying 40 students for a picnic capsized off the Dahanu coast in Maharashtra on Saturday, an official said.


Two girl students die in Maharashtra boat capsize


A boat with at least 40 students on board capsized off the Dahanu coast in Maharashtra on Saturday, an official said. Following a massive search and rescue operation, 32 of them were saved from the Arabian Sea.


Boat with 40 students capsizes in Maharashtra, 32 saved


Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, the world's largest online book retailer, and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in scholarship to fund 1,000 undocumented immigrant students, a scholarship fund has announced.


Jeff Bezos donates $33 mn to fund undocumented college students


Army chief Bipin Rawat said that the army is working on evolving a better system for providing aid being to children of martyrs and those disabled in action, after government put a Rs 10,000 cap on the monthly fund.


Education cap issue: Army evolving better system, says Rawat


A professor at Beihang University in China has been removed from his faculty post after a former female student accused him of sexual harassment on social media.


Professor axed after sexual harassment charge


A ransom of Rs 25 lakh has been demanded for the release of a school teacher kidnapped in Madhubani district of Bihar, police said on Thursday.


Rs 25 lakh demanded for release of kidnapped school teacher in Bihar


A Class 3 student in Ghaziabad who had been complaining of harassment for some time died mysteriously in his school, leading to allegations of foul play by his parents, police said on Thursday.


Class 3 boy dies in school, parents allege foul play


A former Ph.D. student from Jawaharlal Nehru University was reported missing from the university campus when he went there for some work on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday.


Ex-JNU student goes missing from campus


With intense cold conditions continuing across Bihar, academic activities in all public and private schools have been badly affected.


Bihar schools shut till Saturday due to cold


A team of six students from SR Engineering College, Warangal has bagged a national level award for designing a cost-effective solution for rural toy makers.


Telangana college bags award for toy-making machine


About a decade ago, when Latika Gupta began her teaching career at a reputed Delhi University college, she became curious about "the interplay of religion and gender in the lives of girls" and thus set out on a journey to explore this rather untouched facet. The result? Her just-released book, "Education, Poverty and Gender: Schooling Muslim Girls in India", focuses on how the academic life of its students is affected by their religion and culture by examining the interplay between "home" and "school".

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