New Delhi: Job skills credentialing firm, Aspiring Minds on Wednesday said it is adding over 250 assessment centres pan India in partnership with Don Bosco Tech Society. These assessment centres spread across 27 States will be used by Aspiring Minds and its partners for delivering various skill based assessments andContinue Reading
Shillong — Acclaimed photographer and photo chronicler of five decades of Indian history Mr Raghu Rai told Media Studies students at St Anthony’s College Shillong “Leap for the stars.” Speaking at the 20th year celebrations marking the start of the first Media Studies Department in Northeast India at Shillong in 1995 MrContinue Reading
Bangalore: The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, has chosen Bangalore Oniyavara Seva Coota (BOSCO), for the prestigious 2014 National Award for Child Welfare, under Institution/Organization Category, for its decades-long outstanding service in the field of welfare of the marginalized children. The award carrying a cash prizeContinue Reading
English dailies Morung Express, Eastern Mirror and Nagaland Page and vernacular papers Capi Daily (in Angami dialect) and Tir Yimyim (in Ao dialect) were published with their editorial spaces blank yesterday as a mark of protest.Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Education Minister P K Abdu Rabb today said he did not agree with boys and girls sitting together in college classrooms in the state. He was reacting to a controversy over the expulsion of a male student from the Farook College in Kozhikode for sitting together with girlsContinue Reading
Dharamsala: Nearly three years ago, the Dalai Lama came out with a perfect prescription for the first time in history to empower Buddhist nuns. His decision encouraged them to take up doctorates in philosophy. The first batch of 20 Buddhist nuns are set to become the first generation of womenContinue Reading
New Delhi: Senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal died at a hospital in Gurgaon near Delhi today. The 89-year-old leader was admitted to the Medanta Medicity Hospital in the city on November 13 in critical condition. He was suffering from respiratory problems for over a month. In aContinue Reading
Panaji : One or two national leaders of the BJP, as well as from other political parties, make nonsensical comments and stoke intolerance to lure voters, a Catholic leader of the party said here on Monday. BJP’s Goa legislator and the party’s minority face Michael Lobo also accused leaders ofContinue Reading
Pune: In a bid to encourage early education among children from Maharashtra’s backward tribal communities, the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is set to introduce textbooks that would enable tribal students to take lessons in their colloquial dialects. According to education authorities, the move purports to achieveContinue Reading
Mathura: Scholars and delegates from India, Canada, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and other countries will deliberate on world security and radical Islam at a three-day International conference starting here on November 18. “The recent massacre by Islamic State in Paris has justified our efforts to organize an International Conference on Radical IslamContinue Reading
