In a conservative Turkish city, Iranian gays find an uneasy refuge from persecution at home

Iranian homosexuals carve out a refuge in Turkey

1.13 million students appear in engineering entrance test

NEW DELHI - In what is termed as the “largest single day examination”, at least 1.13 million students gave their All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) Sunday, seeking to join several National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) and other government run leading institutes.

IIT-Delhi to enrol 850 students in B-Tech this year

NEW DELHI - The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will increase its students intake by 27 percent this year to accommodate the quota for other backward classes. In all, the institute will admit 850 students at the B-Tech level.

Nepal school expels 29 girls for ‘being accursed’

KATHMANDU - Less than a week after a religious leader in Iran said earthquakes were caused by women who were promiscuous and wore revealing clothes, a school in Nepal’s west has expelled 29 girls for “angering the gods” as they had begun to menstruate, a report said.

Careless, wrote teacher on Prince Charles maths notebook

LONDON - Maths was not Prince Charles forte, shows a nearly 50-year-old exercise book on which an exasperated teacher has written “careless” and “you must be more careful when putting in decimal point”.

Officials say army kills 9 alleged militants in fresh clashes in northwest Pakistan

Officials: Army kills 9 insurgents in NW Pakistan

8,000 schools closed as Nepal Maoists call indefinite strike

KATHMANDU - Close on the heels of the UN expressing deep concern at the loss suffered by Nepal’s children due to mounting strikes called by the political parties, former Maoist guerrillas Sunday began an indefinite closure of public schools countrywide, demanding a rollback in new fees.