New Delhi: At a time when billions of rupees are being spent to provide elementary education to children, there is a group of people where the rate of literacy among children is almost zero.Known as ...

New Delhi: The government will set a goal of creating 500 million trained technicians by 2020, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Saturday....

New Delhi: Nearly 45,000 schools, colleges and other educational institutes run by Christian organisations around the country were closed on Friday to protest the continued violence against the commun...

New Delhi: A survey conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in 2006, has revealed that the learning ability of students of class III and VII in Government school...

New Delhi: Animators, fitness instructors, shoe designers, there is no shortage of new age professions for those who do not want to tread the beaten path in today's India....

Dehradun: In a bid to scout excellence in the field of R&D (Research & Development), the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R) will host the 3rd Uttarakhand State Science and Technol...

Mumbai: The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Nicholas Negroponte, will now introduce laptops with various keyboards in local Indi...

New Delhi: This August National Geographic Channel viewers are in for a refreshing new treat with the channel's new content, new look and new website....

New Delhi: Indian high school students will get an opportunity to show off their way with words and logic in UK early next year....

New Delhi: With former Indian chief justice A.M. Ahmadi saying Muslims have let down the constitution by not availing of rights enshrined therein, a book launch event here on Saturday turned into an ...