Geneva: The number of unemployed young people is set to swell by 500,000 worldwide this year to reach 71 million, marking the first hike in three years, the UN said Wednesday. In a new report, the UN’s labour agency estimated that the global youth unemployment rate would reach 13.1 percentContinue Reading

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad high court has called upon state governments across India to consider dissolving the sports quota for admission in educational institutes, saying it provided a backdoor entry to students who were not meritorious. The quota does not have constitutional sanction either, it added. In an order dated AugustContinue Reading

Guwahati: Former Cuban president Fidel Castro’s image is hardly seen without his trademark fatigues. A group of students here decided to initate a metamorphosis. They made a portrait of the revolutionary leader garlanded with a gamosa, a cloth used in Assam as a mark of love or respect, and sentContinue Reading

Darjeeling – A college in Darjeeling held 3-day Radio Production Workshop to train seminarians to participate in the community radio venture to be launched soon. Director of the Salesian College Community Radio organized a 3-day Radio Workshop for 40 students including 19 seminarians who volunteered for the training held forContinue Reading

Chennai: Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) inaugurated its third campus in south India in Oragadam (Tamil Nadu), the automobile hub of Tamil Nadu, on July 29. The new campus was inaugurated by R Seshasayee, chairman, Infosys. Seshasayee, during his address, recounted examples of Mahatma Gandhi and Mark ZuckerbergContinue Reading