Mexico will launch three satellites that will be used for national security and to expand telecommunications capabilities, President Felipe Calderon has said.The satellites will also help expand the use of telecommunications in the health and educati ..

Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov Tuesday shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm.The two were awarded for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene," the ..

Having attracted a lot of industrial investment in the last three decades, Haryana is charting a new course for itself - as an education hub that can boast of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AII ..

When it comes to taking any decisions on the hallowed portals of engineering and management education, even a visionary and an overzealous human resource development minister like Kapil Sibal has to contend with the slow and time-consuming process of ..

An elementary school in China organised a fund-raiser for collecting donations for the flood-hit people of Pakistan.The principal of the school in Gongyi city in Henan province sent a cheque of 1,506 yuan ($220) to the Pakistani ambassador to China,  ..

With India playing host to global sporting events like the 2010 Commonwealth Games that are expected to boost the market for sport management professionals in the country, the mood regarding placements is upbeat on the campus of the Indian Institute  ..

All-boys schools are booming in Britain as more and more parents are now shunning the idea of co-ed institutions as those apparently lead boys to act "tough" or "play the fool".There has been a recent surge in the number of pupils ..

Extending a friendly hand towards the common people of India, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer Friday did voluntary service at a New Delhi Municipal Council school here.The US ambassador, along with his wife Sally, his children and other participants  ..

Air India has appointed Ramco Systems, a city-based software solutions provider, for designing an software package for its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility, a spokesperson of the national carrier said here Friday.AI plans to bring all  ..

President Pratibha Patil Friday said India intended to increase enrolment in higher education from the present 14 million to about 40 million."Higher education has been accorded priority in our country. It is our aim to increase gross enrolment  ..

Many students from India's Punjab state are facing frustration as they are being denied fee refunds by some colleges in Australia, and an educational consultant said that "we are sick and tired".The Indian students are seeking fee refun ..

Yale University is planning to grow ties with India to at least equal its ties with China and make it a leading university in the US for teaching of India, according to a media report.Yale was earlier "devoting pretty large resources to China,&q ..

A top Canadian university will confer an honorary doctorate degree on former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam next week.The University of Waterloo, in the city of BlackBerry, will host the renowned space scientist and honour him with an honorary d ..

Seven Indian students have been selected by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) for prestigious Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarship, it was announced Tuesday."I congratulate the seven outstanding people who hav ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest in the world, will open study centres in six European nations, including Germany and France, to offer personalised courses, its Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has said."We ..

PanIIT, an alumni association of seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), will hold a conclave next month in which nealy 5,000 engineers will participate, officials said Tuesday.The three-day conclave, scheduled to be held from Oct 29-31 in Noida ..

As part of its initiative to integrate modern technology in distance education, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) said Tuesday it would provide a certificate programme in English through Nokia phone's Ovi Life Tools."We will ..

Seven Indian students have been selected by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) for prestigious Australian Leadership Award (ALA) scholarship, it was announced Tuesday."I congratulate the seven outstanding people who hav ..

UAE's Education Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan Saturday opened the 23rd conference of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT).Economy Minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, senior officials and HCT's teaching staff attended the  ..

India is set to become a major scientific player in 20 years, provided there is a favourable environment for innovations and structural and administrative reforms are undertaken, said a vision document released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturd ..