Industrialist Sanjiv Goenka will chair IIT-Kharagpur's Board of Governors (BoG) for a second time, a statement said on Thursday.


Sanjiv Goenka to chair IIT-Kharagpur's Board of Governors


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Dubai, July 5 (IANS/WAM) Dubai has launched a new programme to help Egypt boost its female education.


Dubai to help boost female education in Egypt


Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, taking part in the  BRICS Education Ministers' meeting in Beijing on Wednesday, said increased cooperation in education was the need of the hour.


Javadekar calls for cooperation in education at BRICS meet


Authorities here have asked as many as 27 colleges and 26 schools to take steps to check use of drugs by their students after a probe found that over 1,000 students, some of them as young as 13 are using 'high-end' drugs like LSD and MDMA, an official said on Wednesday.


Students of over 50 Hyderabad schools, colleges found taking drugs


A Saudi Arabia-based NRI has joined hands with Super 30, a free coaching centre which helps children from poor families reach the prestigious IIT engineering institutes, to help talented youth from the minority community prepare for the IIT and other technical education courses.


Saudi-based NRI joins hands with Super 30 to help talented minority students


Super 30, a free coaching centre which helps children of the poorest of the poor get into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), has joined hands with a non-resident Indian for financial help.


Saudi-based NRI to fund Super 30 initiative for free IIT-JEE coaching


Jagaran Group CEO Sanjay Gupta was on Monday appointed Chairman of the society and board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar.


Jagran Group CEO named Chairman of IIM Amritsar


Drawing inspiration from Bollywood movie "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.", a Delhi University student sought to cheat in the  Faculty of Law's LLB course entrance exam here, but was caught, the police said on Monday.


DU student held for cheating in law faculty entrance exam


Online learning platform BYJU'S on Monday announced it has acquired TutorVista and Edurite from Pearson Education.


BYJU'S acquires TutorVista and Edurite


Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon publish a book dedicated to the youth, both in India and across the world.


Modi to publish book for youth


The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), which started the 75th round of survey from July 1, is for the first time collecting data related to communicable diseases, officials said here on Monday.


NSSO collecting data on communicable diseases for 1st time


Children may love to see pictures on their storybooks, but having more illustrations than one on a page could result in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers, new research has found.


Too many pictures in books don't help kids learn more words


An 11-year-old Indian-origin boy here has scored 162 in the prestigious Mensa IQ test, two points higher than geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.


Indian-origin boy beats Einstein, Hawking in IQ test


To make their students more competitive globally, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI) on Thursday announced changes in its syllabus and exam pattern which will be applicable from July 1.


CA entry test set to become more difficult


The CBI on Thursday announced Rs 10 lakh reward for information about Najeeb Ahmed, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student who went missing in October last year.


CBI's Rs 10 lakh reward for information on JNU student


Every school in London is to be offered knife detectors to enable students to be screened for hidden weapons, Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced.


Every London school to be offered knife-detectors


In order to make engineering students industry ready, the Odisha government has started a 'finishing school', a specialised and dedicated programme for the students, said an official on Tuesday.


'Finishing school' programme for Odisha engineering students


In a first, the state-run IT@School Project will raise Rs 10 crore by disposing off around one crore kg of e-waste and will use the money to buy new computers for schools, said an official.


Kerala IT@School to raise Rs 10 crore by disposing off e-waste


The West Bengal government's Kanyashree Prakalpa on Friday was awarded the first prize in United Nations Public Service Award for Asia Pacific here.


Bengal's 'Kanyashree' initiative given UN recognition


As much as Rs 1,538 crore will be spent on developmental projects in Thiruvananthapuram under the Smart Cities Mission, a Minister said on Friday.


Thiruvananthapuram Smart City to cost Rs 1,538 crore: Minister


The KSIDC, the nodal investment promotion agency of the Kerala government, has tied up with Cornell University, US, to set up a Life Sciences Park in Thiruvananthapuram.

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