Hyderabad: Unfazed by the row over his nationality, world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand on Tuesday played chess against 40 maths wizards simultaneously at the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) here.Moving from one table to another, the Grand Master made his moves with ease a...

Wardha, Maharashtra: Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) is inviting applications for admission to the following courses:1) M.A. (Hindi)2) M.A. (Rural Development)3) M.S.W.4) M.J.M.C.5) M.Lib.6) B.J.M.C.7) B.Lib.8) Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development9) Post Graduate Di...

Bangalore: Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) is inviting applications for its two-year Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM).To be eligible for applying for the programme, candidates should have cleared ATMA / CAT / MAT / XAT with at least 77 percentile marks. Candidate...

Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is inviting applications for admission into its Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) in the following areas of specialization:1) Agriculture2) Business Policy3) Economics4) Finance and Accounting5) Computer and Information System6) Ma...

Bangalore: The second international space exhibition and conference began here on Wednesday with global space agencies and vendors showcasing their latest technologies, products and services.Organized by the state-run Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Confederation of Indian Industry...

New Delhi: The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has announced the June 2010 Session Examination Results for Foundation, Intermediate & Final (Old Syllabus) and Foundation, Executive & Professional (New Syllabus) on Wednesday, August 25 at 12:00 PM IST.The results are avai...

Chandigarh: Britain would not allow students, migrants or immigration agents from Punjab to abuse its visa rules, said Minister for Immigration Damian Green on Tuesday, stressing that there would be zero limit on unskilled migration."The government is committed to reducing migration to the UK and we...

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad is embarrassed over the human resource development (HRD) ministry withholding clearance to its proposal to confer an honorary doctorate on world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand and has apologized to the grandmaster.The university, which was planning to conf...

Shimla: A bill to regulate private universities in Himachal Pradesh was on Monday referred to a select committee by the state assembly.Opposition Congress legislators Kaul Singh Thakur, G.S. Bali and Sukwinder Singh Sukhu expressed apprehensions about the Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Institu...

London: Declining standards among British graduates are leading companies to fill jobs with foreign workers as employers believe they are too poorly educated to rival immigrants, a study has warned. The companies believe that standards are declining fast among graduates and school-leavers and want m...

Agartala: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is on a mission to reach out to farmers in remote and far-flung areas with the latest global information on farming and agriculture, a senior university official said here on Monday."IGNOU is trying to reach people in remote areas with the...

New Delhi: A six-day workshop on 'Research and publications in social sciences' to promote and strengthen social sciences in India started on Monday at the Jamia Millia Islamia, a press statement said."This workshop is part of a new initiative by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to promote and...

New Delhi: A high-powered committee of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has uncovered several large irregularities in granting recognition to teacher training institutes by the Northern Regional Centre (NRC) of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).All states under the juris...

New Delhi: Enterprising British youngsters are utilizing their school holidays to gain first-hand knowledge of the impact of globalization. At least 30 are learning Indian business processes at leading multinational companies, acquiring basic knowledge of Indian culture as lodgers with Indian famili...

Mumbai: Don't just vote but consciously select your leader - that is the premise behind an Indian portal that offers the database of Mumbai's 1,500 politicians in order to help voters make an informed choice. It has now been selected by the prestigious Harvard University for research.The portal, www...

Beijing: An overwhelming majority of Chinese students - around 87 percent - who studied abroad in 2009 received financial support from their parents, a government survey has said.It said only nine percent of those studying abroad received scholarships from foreign institutions while three percent su...

New Delhi: What the government could not, civil society is stepping in to do. Students in Delhi are busy doing their bit to clean up the Yamuna river, the city's lifeline, ahead of the Commonwealth Games - planting saplings along its banks and holding workshops and street plays to enthuse people to ...

London: The British government is spending 110,000 pounds on a century-old school which has no students on the rolls but a headteacher, a caretaker and board of governors on the roster.The classrooms of the Ysgol Capel Iwan Primary School near Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire, which opened in 1888...

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Sunday launched a certificate course in PC Hardware and Networking in association with HCL Infosystems Ltd, an official said."It is a state-of-the-art industry ready course created jointly by IGNOU and HCL. This programme is to be offe...

Chandigarh: Foreign students at the Chaudhry Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) in Hisar will now have to study Hindi as a compulsory subject, a varsity official said on Sunday.The academic council of CCSHAU decided to make Hindi language a compulsory subject for foreign students ...