Delhi power distribution company (Discom) BSES on Thursday announced that it has signed separate agreements with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to deal with different aspects of energy conservation and conduct research on Demand Side Management (DSM).


BSES, TERI tie-up on energy efficiency, student awareness


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The Central government on Wednesday launched a common admission portal for foreign students to promote Indian education to "200,000 international students by 2023".


Common admission portal for international students launched


With political parties demanding a CBI probe into the alleged attempt at sexual trafficking of college students by a professor, the Tamil Nadu Police chief ordered the transfer of the case to the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CBCID).


CBCID to probe case against college teacher luring students to sex trade


PMK leader S. Ramadoss on Tuesday said committees appointed by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit and the Vice Chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University P.P. Chellathurai to probe an alleged sexual trafficking complaint were not legally valid.


Governor, VC can't probe criminal cases, only CBI should: PMK leader


Students seeking justice for the Kathua rape and murder victim, clashed with the security forces on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, police said.


Students clash with security forces in J&K


PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday demanded the arrest of a college professor who is alleged to have tried to lure her students to extend "sexual favours" to top officials of a leading Tamil Nadu university.


Ramadoss wants CBI probe into sexual exploitation of students


If you belong to the generation that played platform games like "Mario", "Street Fighter" and "Pacman" in the nineties -- bunking classes and hiding from parents who fumed at your late arrivals -- you will probably be more tolerant of today's kids playing games on smartphones, laptops or consoles.


Core mobile gamers to propel PC gaming market in India (Tech Trend)


The Delhi Police has booked another Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor for allegedly molesting a student, it said on Saturday.


Another JNU teacher booked on molestation charges


The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the plea of a French national, a founding trustee of an international school in Mumbai, to remain out on bail in a case of alleged sexual assault on a three-year-old girl.


SC asks French national accused in child sexual assault to surrender


In a shocking instance of corporal punishment, a government school teacher allegedly pierced a wooden cane into a student's throat for failing to do a maths problem, a police official said here on Friday.


Maharashtra teacher pierces student's throat with cane


Three more persons -- two bank officials and a woman -- have been arrested in connection with the leak of Central Board of Secondary Education Class 10 mathematics question paper, police said on Thursday.


Two bank officials, woman held in CBSE maths question paper leak


The CBSE has filed a police complaint against a website for publishing false news and spreading rumours that a number of questions in the JEE (Main) examination were lifted from a model paper prepared by a coaching institute, an official said on Thursday.


CBSE files FIR against website for false news on JEE


Education is at the heart of new digital economy and the digital learning solutions' market in India is currently at $2 billion -- the second largest market for digital education after the US, global networking giant Cisco said here on Thursday.


New Cisco blueprint to tap $2bn Indian digital education market


Realising the need to skill students in disruptive technologies like Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyber security, global networking giant Cisco on Thursday announced a "Blueprint for Digital Education" here.


New Cisco blueprint to skill students for New-Age technologies


Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said the country must effectively harness its demographic profile through real education.


India must harness its demographic profile: Vice President


Title: Education of an Ambassador: Reflections on Higher Education Reform in Kerala; Author: T.P. Sreenivasan; Publisher: Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd; Pages; 248; Price: Rs 800


The impossible challenge of reforming Kerala's higher education (Book Review)


Thirty people, including 27 students, were killed on Monday when a private school bus fell into a gorge in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, police said.


27 schoolkids among 30 killed in Himachal accident


In a bid to bridge the widening skill gap, Microsoft on Monday announced expansion of the capabilities of its Cloud-powered "Project Sangam" to the Middle East and Africa.


After India, Microsoft takes 'Project Sangam' to Middle East, Africa


Maharashtra came out at the top with 53 awards in total at the recently concluded Smart India Hackathon (software edition), followed by Tamil Nadu and Delhi, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) said on Sunday.


Maharashtra wins most awards, Tamil Nadu next in Smart Indian Hackathon 2018


Veteran comedian Bill Cosby's honorary degree has been revoked by Ohio State University amid his retrial in a sexual assault case.


Bill Cosby's honorary degree revoked


Two Chinese universities have severed ties with a professor who was accused of the sexual assault of a female student who committed suicide in 1998.

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