New Delhi: Finance Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram on Friday presented the "Budget 2008" in the Parliament. The various initiatives taken by the government were outlined in the finance minister's spee

New Delhi: What are the clothes and styles that Indian youngsters embrace at different points of time? An institute here is documenting it all to give the country a sense of its contemporary fashion h

London: A poor "working memory", rather than low intelligence, is the reason for under-performance in school, say researchers who claim to have developed a tool to assess memory capacity. Durham Univ

New Delhi: Tens of thousands of students across the country are burning the midnight oil for their board examinations barely a week away. But they should watch out for their health. Studying through

New Delhi: India will document, validate and popularise folk medicine practices of tribals across the country and even start institutes for their study to save these traditions from extinction. "Folk

New York: It is probably not such a good idea to freely share a "good idea", a new study has found. Researchers at Indiana University contend that when information is freely shared, good ideas tend t

Chandigarh: Chandigarh's founder, the French architect Le Corbusier, will finally get a place in his name in the city that he designed over 55 years ago. The Chandigarh administration has decid

New Delhi: Azad, 11, and Nuruddin, 8, are deaf and dumb. They go to school every day. They learn nothing. Their teachers have no idea how to teach them. Chandu, 10, is mentally retarded. His school d

New Delhi: The contemporary novel is changing shape in India. The latest entrant that is finding place on bookshelves is the 'graphic novel', which tells stories through illustrations and pros

Sydney: The dreams of many international students, including Indians, have soured as the private Global College here faces closure. However, not too many were happy with the institute as they were all

Mumbai: A woman who is fighting allegations of being mentally unsound and practising black magic in the Bombay High Court has been honoured by the chief justice of the high court for topping the Maste

New Delhi: Come Feb 15, and the sprawling Delhi University (DU) campus at the edge of northern ridge would be smoke free - hopefully. Already declared a no-smoking zone, the campus will sport street p

Kolkata: Aamir Khan's film "Taare Zameen Par" has been an eye-opener for harried schoolteachers in West Bengal's Burdwan district. At their wits' end in dealing with recalcitrant children

Kozhikode: Make sure you are not carrying any plastic bag while entering the Calicut Orphanage Lower Primary School here. Otherwise, a kid wearing a blue cap and badge will politely ask you to hand it

Ranchi: Coming from an impoverished tribal background, he worked as a peon in a Jharkhand university. But now Sushil Tudu has beaten all odds to qualify as a lecturer in the same varsity. Tudu, in hi

Bangalore: India's official response to a project to spread low-cost computers among school students was not too enthusiastic. But that has not stopped techies from seizing the opportunity. The O

Keeping in mind the recent school shootout in Gurgaon, parents and teachers should stop blaming one another for their wards going astray and resorting to violence, said experts gathered here to delibe

Mumbai: Got a manuscript? Can publish. That's the message emerging from a new venture at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival here. The festival is held over nine days in February - it started on Saturda

Mumbai: Japan may soon open its gates to Indian primary schoolteachers specialising in mathematics. For, the Japanese believe that Indians are the best in the world when it comes to teaching this subj

Thrissur (Kerala): Children who used to raid Olive Ridley nests for eggs at a beach near here have turned protectors of the endangered sea turtles, thanks to an awareness campaign by school authoritie

New Delhi: Melodious strains of Russian folk music and the echo of literary giants like Tolstoy and Pushkin floated in the air on a chilly Saturday morning as nine days of literary feast began at the

Berlin: The Ruetli School in the tough south-eastern Berlin borough of Neukoelln was a symbol of classroom chaos, playground violence and an apparently insurmountable clash of civilisations just two y

Johannesburg: College students are often shown in Bollywood films enjoying campus life even with repeated failure year after year, but a high court here has decreed that a South African Indian medical