Washington, April 12 (IANS) Scientists have reported that rampant use of social networking, texting and chatting on mobile phone can result in lower grades and poor performance of students, says a study. The widespread use of media among college students — from texting, chatting on mobile phones to posting status [...]

Abu Dhabi, April 12 (IANS/WAM) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Italy have discussed academic cooperation and student exchange programmes between them. The talks were held Thursday between UAE’s minister for culture, youth and community development Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and Umberto Vattani, president of the Venice International [...]

Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Kolkata Thursday erupted in protests as academicians, students, writers and scientists expressed shock and anger over vandalism at the Presidency University and historic Baker’s laboratory by state’s ruling Trinamool Congress students wing. While Governor M. K. Narayanan called the attackers “criminals”, the West Bengal Human Rights [...]

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The Right to Education Act has ensured that the education budget in most states has doubled – 11 million more children are now enrolled in schools, Louis-George Arsenault, Unicef India representative, said Thursday. Arsenault said 99 percent of India’s rural population now has a primary [...]

Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) A day after the Presidency University here was vandalised by student activists, police Thursday arrested two of the attackers. “We have arrested two persons who were among those who vandalised the university,” Joint Commissioner of Police Jawed Shamim said. He refused to comment on their political [...]

Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Describing the vandalism of Presidency University as a “trivial” matter, the Trinamool Congress Thursday castigated the media for not giving due importance to the heckling of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Delhi. “We are shocked at the behaviour of the media for showing trivial [...]

Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Expressing shock and dismay over the attack on Presidency University and its historic Baker Building Wednesday by Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) activists, alumni Thursday said it was a “sorry state of affairs”. Armed with sticks and rods, TMCP members stormed the Presidency University campus here [...]

Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Hundreds of students, alumni, teachers and employees of Presidency University staged a protest march in the city Thursday, condemning the vandalism of the prestigious institution and demanding punishment for the miscreants. The five-km march from the university gates saw the protestors – sporting black arm and [...]

Raipur, April 11 (IANS) Seven new Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) will come up in Chhattisgarh in 2013-14 to promote technical education, a minister said Thursday. “Technical education has been given priority to create self-employment in the state,” Higher Education and Technical Education Minister Ramvichaar Netam told reporters here. He added [...]

Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Taking suo motu cognisance of the vandalism at the prestigious Presidency University, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission Thursday asked city police to probe the matter. “We have asked the city police commissioner (S. Purakayastha) to initiate a probe into the vandalism at the Presidency University [...]