With an aim to prevent the alarming rate of increase in stress-related suicides by students, the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) has launched the state-wide “suicide prevention campaign”. However, it lacks any official data on such cases of suicides. The education department has claimed that the campaignContinue Reading

Siliguri – A college in North Bengal has partnered with five other colleges and universities in three neighboring countries to research on higher education for disadvantaged youth. The three-year project initiated by International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) is entitled “Continuing Education of Disadvantaged Adolescents” jointly undertaken in India, BangladeshContinue Reading

A major Internet outage affected many of the world’s biggest online firms on Friday, with websites including Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, PayPal and eBay down for long stretches. Other services such as PlayStation Network also appeared to be hit by the outage. Google and Facebook were unaffected. The widespread disruptionContinue Reading

The government is set to announce the reintroduction of the Class 10 board exam for students affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India’s largest national school test-conducting body. The announcement is likely to be made by HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on October 25 and will be hisContinue Reading

Jowai: “It is becoming more and more evident that the Church of Northeast India is fast emerging as a major force among the Christian believers in the country,” says Mgr Thomas Menamparampil, archbishop emeritus of Guwahati (Assam) and former apostolic administrator to Jowai (Meghalaya). Drawing a picture for AsiaNews ofContinue Reading

Lucknow: A day after Sunni cleric and All India Muslim Personal Law Board member Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahli announced launching of a campaign on ‘rights of women in Islamic law’, Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said on Thursday the better idea would be to give women the right toContinue Reading