Bhubaneswar, April 6 (IANS) At least five students from Odisha’s KIIT University are set to participate in an annual aero-design competition to be held in California, USA next week, the university said Saturday. Organised by the US-based Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), in collaboration with organisations like National Aeronautics and [...]

Kolkata: Family members of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta Friday expressed disgust over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbing his death in police custody as a “petty” and “small” matter, and alleged he was “murdered” by police. “This is murder. The bus driver has reportedly said [...]

Agartala, April 5 (IANS) At least eight mediapersons were seriously injured Friday when junior doctors and medical students beat them up at a Tripura government medical college and hospital here. “Some medical students and junior doctors attacked the annoyed relatives of a dead patient at the government-run Gobinda Ballav Pant [...]

Shimla, April 5 (IANS) Strange as it may sound, a majority of Class 5 students in Himachal Pradesh government schools are not able to comprehend textbooks meant for students of Class 2. Likewise, students of Class 3 could not read a text meant for Class 1. These are some startling [...]

New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s Lahore-based Salamat International Campus for Advanced Studies (SICAS) Thursday won the India-Pakistan School Debate 2013 held at the Siri Fort auditorium here. Organised jointly by the Debating Society of India and Debating Society of Pakistan, students of SICAS and Kolkata-based La Martiniere school debated [...]

Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Thursday postponed the Maharashtra state civil services exam after the commission conducting the exam lost data of 350,000 candidates from its server due to a technical snag. Chavan’s announcement came in the state legislature, barely a day after he declared that the [...]

Shimla, April 4 (IANS) Four convicts punished for the 2009 ragging death of medical student Aman Kachroo will have to cough up an additional fine of Rs.90,000 each, the Himachal Pradesh High Court ruled Thursday while upholding their conviction. Ajay Verma, Naveen Verma, Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma, on whom [...]

Shimla, April 4 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday upheld the conviction of four students involved in the sensational ragging-to-death case of medical student Aman Kachroo. A division bench comprising Justice R.B. Misra and Justice Surinder Singh also enhanced the fine on the convicts from Rs.10,000 to Rs.1,00,000 each. [...]

Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) Students largely stayed away from schools and colleges while traffic came to a virtual standstill in many cities of West Bengal Thursday as Left youth groups protested over the death of a student activist in police custody. Classes in educational institutions were hit across the state [...]

Panaji, April 4 (IANS) All schools in Goa would be made wi-fi enabled within months, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the state assembly Thursday. Parrikar was speaking during the question hour. The budget session of the Goa assembly is currently on. “Most schools will have wi-fi within three to four [...]