Top US and Indian business executives will meet here Monday to address critical issues affecting US-India High Technology Cooperation in areas like defence/strategic trade, civil nuclear cooperation, biotechnology, nano-technology and civil aviation. ..

Indian-American computer scientist Subhash Khot, most well known for his "Unique Games Conjecture", has received the prestigious National Science Foundation's (NSF) $500,000 Alan T. Waterman Award.The award is given annually to an outst ..

The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to make its stand clear on a plea that a short-term course on primary health was required to allow non-MBBS persons to practise medicine in rural areas.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan ..

Members of a Congress-Trinamool Congress-led employees' union staged a protest at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital Saturday and demanded better medical infrastructure at the hospital during the visit of central Health Minister Ghulam Nab ..

Treating cancer with just one injection? It may sound unbelievable, but an Indian medical institute is soon to start human trials to treat cancer in six weeks through a solitary injection dose."It's a single injection dose medicine to treat  ..

India plans to set up a National Education Finance Corporation (NEFC) to provide loans for educational infrastructure expansion and re-finance study loans to needy students who otherwise fail to pursue higher education."A proposal for the establ ..

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Wednesday initiated a campaign to check mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, chikunguniya and malaria in time for the Commonwealth Games.Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain said that an action plan has been chalked out to ..

The Cabinet Thursday approved setting up of 137 General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) Schools in at least 18 states to boost human resource in the health sector. The total cost will be Rs.1,370 crore."The schools will be opened in these states at  ..

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith Thursday announced the winners of the inaugural Australia-India Science and Technology Research Awards (AISTRA) that will help research placements for researchers from both countries."The theme for the i ..

At least 90 percent of Indian universities are providing below-par education and the time has come when action is required to improve it, Sam Pitroda, advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said here Thursday.Speaking at an educational conference  ..

Three people were arrested and eight teachers suspended after an inspection of an examination centre in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district Thursday exposed mass copying on the first day of Class 10 exams of the state education board, officials said ..

Uttar Pradesh's first DNA laboratory with an additional lie-detector facility is coming up here.Set up on the premises of the existing forensic science laboratory, the new facilities would become operational by the end of March, Inspector General ..

The situation is tense at Tamil Nadu's Annamalai University after the "accidental" deaths of four students from Bihar and Jharkhand. Even as their bodies are being flown out Wednesday, classes have been suspended and hostels too are bei ..

 Highlighting the prevalence of ragging in educational institutions, a national helpline has received nearly 160,000 calls in just eight months.Minister of State for Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari informed the Lok Sabha that between  ..

The month-long exam schedule for class 12 students of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) began Wednesday with a challenging physics paper while some Class 10 students appeared for Music, an optional subject.The Class 10 students of the I ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), one of the world's largest open universities, will get Rs.91 crore from the union budget for the next fiscal.IGNOU will get Rs.91 crore innthe 2010-11 fiscal, Rs.9 crore more as compared to the  ..

India Friday allocated Rs.42,036 crore (Rs.420 billion/$ 9.1 billion) for both the school and higher education sectors in 2010-11, an increase of over Rs.5,600 crore from the previous fiscal - a move that aims to reform education by bringing equality ..

The human resource development (HRD) ministry appointed expert committee has found that some of the deemed universities likely to face blacklisting are like family-run institutions, the Lok Sabha was informed Wednesday."In respect of these 44 de ..

The government is committed to the welfare of the marginalized sections of society through public-private partnerships for economic and social development, says the Economic Survey for this fiscal.Nearly Rs.1,300 crore have been released for the &quo ..

Dozens of test samples from dolphins show that they could help marine biologists clue in on human cervical cancers. Marine mammals like dolphins are our close kins, but scientific knowledge of infectious diseases, particularly of viral origin, affect ..