EDUCATION

Pictures: Heavy police deployment outside JNU campus ahead of protest march to Parliament

Exclusive Pictures: Heavy police deployment outside JNU campus

12:27 pm November 18, 2019

New Delhi: Heavy police deployment was made outside the JNU campus on Monday in the wake of a protest march to Parliament by the JNU Students’ Union against hostel fee hike. The agitation comes on the first day of the Parliament’s Winter Session, which will end on December 13. The students’ protest against the increase […]

Nobel Prize in literature- Laureate Peter Handke says honoring him is ‘courageous’

Nobel laureate Peter Handke says honoring him is ‘courageous’

9:23 pm October 10, 2019

STOCKHOLM: Peter Handke says the decision to award him the Nobel Prize in literature was courageous. The Austrian author, who lives in France, said Thursday the recognition gave him what he described as “a strange kind of freedom.” He spoke outside his home in suburban Paris. Handke was an opponent of NATO’s airstrikes against Serbia […]

Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke win Nobel literature prizes

Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Nobel literature prizes

9:00 pm October 10, 2019

STOCKHOLM: Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke — two writers whose works are deeply intertwined in Europe’s religious, ethnic and social fault lines — won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for literature on Thursday. The rare double announcement came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex abuse […]

IIT Delhi, Ayurveda institute to develop herbal wound dressing, fumigation device for wound healing

Hike in fees for IIT MTech courses not for existing students: HRD ministry

9:50 pm September 29, 2019

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry said on Sunday that the recent hike in fees for M Tech courses at Indian Institutes of Technology will not impact existing students. It said the hike will be applicable on fresh admissions only and “needy students” will be provided necessary financial support. “There is no fee hike for the existing students. […]

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath meets Kashmiri students; talks of dialogue and democracy

Yogi meets Kashmiri students, talks of dialogue and democracy

6:29 pm September 28, 2019

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday met a group of Kashmiri students here and talked of the importance of dialogue in democracy while urging them to share their trial and tribulations directly with him to resolve them. “We are living in a democratic society and it should be kept in mind that […]