WASHINGTON - An Indian linguist, who is a native of Bihar, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by South Asian Language Resource Centre (SALRC) to develop a South Asian languages curriculum in the US.

NEW DELHI - Heralding better days ahead for the capital’s students, several top notch companies like Tech Mahindra, HDFC and Dell are queuing up at Delhi University (DU) for recruitment and hundreds of scholars have bagged offers in the last few days.

Government cash for the media business? It’s already there but shrinking fast, report finds

Action against 20 engineering students for ragging

BHOPAL - Authorities of the premier Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) here Thursday said they have “taken action” against 20 second year students accused of ragging their juniors.

Completing college: State universities want more students to earn their diplomas

Environment education to be compulsory in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW - Environment education will be a part of the school curriculum in Uttar Pradesh from the next academic session.

AMU junior doctors on strike

ALIGARH - More than 500 junior doctors at the Aligarh Muslim University have gone on strike demanding a probe into the alleged irregularities in the entrance examination held Jan 24 for the MD, MS, PG diploma and MDS courses.

School exam board error forces student to waste two years

KENDRAPADA - A wrong piece of information posted on the Board of secondary Education (BSE) Orissa website and published in its records has forced a student to take his class 10 board examinations twice and start preparing for a third attempt, though he had passed the first time.

Australian state starts support service for foreign students

MELBOURNE - A new 24-hour support and welfare service that will “make a real difference” for international students studying in Australia’s Victoria state has been started, Premier John Brumby said Thursday.

Report: College endowments suffered historic declines, but some start to rebound

Report: College endowments suffer huge declines

Indian linguist to develop South Asian language course in US

Venezuelan police fire tear gas to chase off protest over TV channel shutdown, domestic woes

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Environmentalists sue to halt plans for Navy training they say threatens endangered whales

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Tech Mahindra, HDFC queue up to recruit Delhi University students