Stockholm (Sweden): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, met Mr. Goran Hagglund, Minister for Health and Social Affairs of Sweden here on Thursday. During his meeting with the Swedish Minister, the ongoing programmes under the Swedish International Development Agenc...

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday gave its approval for strengthening and development of Agricultural Education at a total cost of Rs.2276.65 crores during the Eleventh Plan period. Of the total cost, Rs.1125 crores will be spent on developing and strengthenin...

New Delhi: The Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD) has launched its first academic programme, the Postgraduate Diploma programme in Development Studies. The programme has been developed in collaboration with the Council for Social Development and is aimed at preparing development professiona...

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs recently signed an agreement to work collectively on a project titled "International Migration and Diaspora Research" at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, at JNU's School of Social Scien...

Jaipur: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) here on Thursday to foster working relations between the two bodies. The MoU was signed by Mr. Ved Jain, President, I...

Patiala: The Punjab Government has decided to establish nine colleges in the educationally backward districts of the state including a girls' college at Amritsar. This was announced by State Education Minister Dr. Upinderjit Kaur during the concluding function of the Punjabi Week organized by the Pu...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the establishment of the UNESCO Regional Centre for Training and Education in Biotechnology at Faridabad. The institute will be given the status of a Category-II Institution of UNESCO with the revised budget of Rs. 99.55 crores The proposed Centr...

New Delhi: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) and the Omar Zawawi Establishment LLC, for setting up an Institute of Cost and Management Accountants in the Gulf country. The institute will promote and propagate the ...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the setting up of an engineering college at Malda, West Bengal on the modular pattern of teaching as adopted by the Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology (SLIET), Longowal, Punjab. The institute will be known as Ghani Khan Choudha...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved the signing of Headquarters Agreement between India and South Asian University and also gave its approval for issuing a notification under the United Nations (Privileges & Immunities) Act, 1947. The Headquarters Agreement will provide an overall frame...

New Delhi: Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), has announced admissions for the third batch of its Certificate programme in Video Production, to be offered under the aegis of Centre for Media Studies (CMS), located within the University Campus at Kashmere Gate. The Certificate prog...

New Delhi: It's a revolution! Nearly two million students pursuing education in the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) across India and abroad will soon be able to choose their examination date. "No stress, no fixed exam date. Students can walk in to examination leaving behind stress, t...

Washington: A new class of compounds called phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with less toxic effects than existing drugs, according to a new study. The compounds could be less harmful than current cancer treatments like cisplatin and carboplatin b...

Dubai: The count is out. And a total of 1,323,218 books were read by children between the ages of three and 14 in the course of a two-week campaign in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) aimed at helping the education of children in developing nations. What is that again, you would say. Well, the idea ...

Berlin: Berlin Technical University has awarded a doctorate to an 88-year-old man whose studies were obstructed by the Nazis, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit has reported. Dimitri Stein submitted his thesis on electrical engineering in 1943 but university authorities refused him an oral examination be...

New Delhi: The week-long National Children's Assembly & Integration Camp will conclude here at the National Bal Bhavan on Thursday. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Mr. Arjun Singh had inaugurated the Camp on Children's Day i.e. November 14. On this occasion, a valedictory programme ...

Kolkata: Institute for Inspiration and Self Development (IISD), headquartered here and jointly promoted by infrastructure financing major Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd. and Prajna Vidya Bharati Ltd, signed here on Wednesday an agreement with the British educational institution, AOC International, ...

London: British scientists were hailed on Wednesday after the first tissue-engineered windpipe, built from the patient's own stem cells, was successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. Scientists at Bristol University were in a European team that conducted the operation on a...

New Delhi: The Global Indian International School, which has its branches in seven countries and imparts education with an Indian spirit, is all set to open 15 more schools in India by 2010. Of these, the first five will come up by 2009 end. The Global Indian Foundation, a Singapore-based non-profi...

New Delhi: Public-private partnership can boost higher education in India and give chance to over 170 million students who are currently left out, the industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) suggested on Wednesday. "Partnerships, especially public-private partn...