Vedic culture is still relevant and gradually becoming more popular among Indian diaspora, especially in the youth, said researchers and scholars at a seminar held in the national capital.


Vedic culture growing popular among Indian diaspora


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Some 1,000 policemen on Monday searched the sprawling JNU campus here for Najeeb Ahmed but failed to find clues which could lead them to the student who went missing over two months ago.


1,000 policemen search JNU campus for missing Najeeb


Terming the Delhi Police the puppet of the central government, the JNU Students Union (JNUSU) on Monday denounced the campus search operation undertaken by it to find missing student Najeeb Ahmed, as absurd, and their methodology as clueless.


Combing campus for Najeeb an absurd exercise, says JNUSU


Police on Monday reached the sprawling Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in search of a student who went missing over two months ago.


Delhi Police search JNU campus for Najeeb


Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and ISRO Chairman A. S. Kiran Kumar and two others were conferred the prestigious SIES-Kanchi Seer awards in different fields at a function here on Sunday night, an official said here on Monday.


Fadnavis, three others get SIES-Kanchi Seer memorial awards


Lamenting the lack of training infrastructure, Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Pratap Rudy on Saturday said without a skilled workforce, Make in India will not happen.


'Make in India will not happen without skill makers'


A record number of over 1,000 IIT-Kharagpur students have bagged lucrative jobs in just 13 days of the first phase of placement season this year, the institute said in a statement.


Over 1,000 IIT Kharagpur students bag jobs in 13 days


The Pakistani Army chief, Gen Qamar Jawed Bajwa, laid a wreath and offered prayers on Friday to mark the second anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on Peshawar's Army Public School.


Pakistan remembers victims of 2014 school attack


The Union government's digital transactions awareness campaign has got a tremendous response with over a lakh students from higher educational institutions becoming a part of the drive, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday.


Digital literacy campaign to attract over 25 lakh volunteers: Javadekar


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the police's Crime Branch to search every nook and cranny of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus with the help of sniffer dogs to find out missing student Najeeb Ahmed.


Search entire JNU campus to find missing student, HC tells police


Funds released to schools and other institutions in Haryana for various projects will now be monitored through a web-based technology, state Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said on Wednesday.


Haryana to monitor funding to schools through web-based technology


President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said that there will be unrest and frustration in the country if it is unable to provide jobs to the youth.


Youth work force will be frustrated if jobs not provided: President


Domestic mobile wallet platform MobiKwik will facilitate digital payments for students in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, the company said on Tuesday.


Pay via Mobikwik at JNU, IIT-Delhi


Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate a new Indian school in Sharjah on December 22, local media reported on Tuesday.


Kerala CM to inaugurate new Indian school in Sharjah


Activists and residents of the ashram at Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan will seek President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention against shooting of a "commercial film" inside the ashram that, according to them is a disgrace to the establishment.


President, PM to be approached against 'commercial' film shoot at Visva Bharati


Male students who frequently go to bars or parties are more likely to assault a woman over the first five semesters of college, suggests new research.


Frequent bar visitors more likely to become sex offenders


Researcher Minhajuddin Sirajuddin from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bengaluru has become the first scientist from India to join the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Programme network, a statement said on Saturday.


First Indian researcher nominated to European investigator programme


Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar has said the South Asian University (SAU) is functioning better than SAARC -- its parent organisation.


SAARC going through teething problem: Akbar


A college girl was shot dead in West Bengal's Nadia district, police said on Friday.


Bengal law student shot dead


In a tragic accident due to dense fog, thirteen teachers were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck in Punjab on Friday morning, police said.


13 teachers killed in Punjab road accident


At least six teachers were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a truck in Punjab due to dense fog on Friday morning, police said.

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