A medical college should have at least 10 acres of land for a college and hospital and not more than 250 students, according to the recommendations given by the Medical Council of India (MCI) to the central government Saturday."The council has g ..

UAE's Education Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan Saturday opened the 23rd conference of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT).Economy Minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, senior officials and HCT's teaching staff attended the  ..

India is set to become a major scientific player in 20 years, provided there is a favourable environment for innovations and structural and administrative reforms are undertaken, said a vision document released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturd ..

An institute here has started a 10-week Chinese-speaking course for foreign diplomats, a media report said Sunday.Fifty-six diplomats from 26 countries will attend the course every weekend, China Daily reported.The programme was launched Saturday by  ..

The central government Friday informed the Supreme Court that it had finalised the rules and regulations for all India common entrance test (CET) for post-graduate medical courses.The government also told the apex court that it had finalised the rule ..

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University kickstarted its three-day green cultural festival 'Aahvaan 2010' Friday. This year's theme 'Towards zilch lifestyle' is aimed at promoting a zero waste lifestyle."All the a ..

Cash-strapped universities and colleges in California will get more than $200 million in stimulus funds that will allow many campuses to admit new students, restore courses and retain faculty and staff, a media report said Friday.The University of Ca ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has begun a three-day meeting of its international partner institutions to make its programmes more viable.The fifth coordinators’ meet began Wednesday and is organised by IGNOU's Internati ..

India is nowhere in the recently released world university rankings. The three rankings — Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and QS World Universit ..

Bangladesh will soon launch a new satellite for improvement of information and communication technology, a government statement said.According to the statement released Wednesday, the satellite will upgrade the broadcasting facilities of the country  ..

Houston-based Boeing Company Wednesday said it has a tentative agreement with Space Adventures Ltd to provide seats for private passengers into outer space.The seats would be on board its CST-100 spacecraft, which it is developing under NASAs push fo ..

Indian and Chinese students, who lag behind at age five, outshine white British children in exams when they reach age 16, a study has revealed.The research suggested that peer pressure may influence how well different groups work at their studies.The ..

The global meltdown has knocked out the information technology and enabled services (IT/ITes) as the top job creator and pushed it to the fourth place, says a survey on hiring trends in 2010.The healthcare and hospitality sector has emerged on top of ..

A post-graduate student of Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) Wednesday accused her seniors of ragging her, a college official said.The student had approached the anti-ragging cell of the college two days ago claiming that the seniors were harassing ..

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch four satellites within a span of one week in December, a top space scientist said Tuesday."We will be launching the satellites this December. Currently the two rockets are bei ..

Three students of a government-run polytechnic institute were Tuesday booked for physically abusing and ragging two of their juniors on the campus in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said.Montu Singh and Sandeep Kumar - both first year stu ..

Haryana's Board of School Education Tuesday announced the postponement of all examinations that were scheduled to begin from Wednesday but officials did not disclose the reasons for this."Examinations have been postponed due to unavoidable c ..

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has let it be known that he was looking forward to tackling pointed questions on any topic during a 40-minute interactive session Tuesday at the Visva-Bharati University founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath T ..

India's first course in value addition to bamboo products, intended to meet demands of the international market, will be introduced in Tripura University in collaboration with the textile ministry's Bamboo and Cane Development Institute (BCDI ..

Scientists have successfully used genetic modification (GM) to improve the salt tolerance of rice, often grown on salty soil."Rice is the staple food for billions of people around the world," says Darren Plett, who led the study. "Rice ..