Gurgaon: There is need for reorienting the country’s strategic thinking and reappraising its higher defence organisations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today, noting that India was well positioned to become a net provider of security in its immediate region and beyond. The prime minister, who laid the foundation stone of [...]

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has achieved 100 percent target of enrolment, retention and transition of students in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the central government’s programme for achievement of universalisation of elementary education, an official said today. “To ensure and monitor learning level of students studying in government schools, assessment tests would [...]

Lagos (Nigeria), May 23 (IANS) India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country’s human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. “Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and [...]

Washington, May 23 (IANS) Twelve-year-old Indian-origin boy Sathwik Karnik won the 2013 National Geographic Bee by correctly naming Chimborazo, a peak in Ecuador, as the farthest point on earth from the Equator. A seventh grader from King Philip Regional Middle School in Norfolk, Massachusetts, in the US, he won the [...]

Shimla : President of India, Pranab Mukherjee starting his three days visit to Himachal today, the Himachal Pradesh University, Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha and Indian Institute of Advance Study have all been spruced up as the first citizen of the country is scheduled to attend functions at these venues. Renovation, [...]