'The Mughals became completely Indian in every sense and united the vast Indian subcontinent, not only territorially, but also the hearts and minds of people with multiple religio-cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversities' 'The Mughals, arguably, made India an enviable superpower in the then world.' 'Are the Hindutva rulers of today scared of acknowledging Mughal accomplishments?' asks Mohammad Sajjad.
A new survey of school children by IT major TCS has found that the next generation is embracing digital world as true digital natives and shifting their academic and social life online.
In the wake of Fathima Lateef's tragic suicide at IIT-Madras, A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com speaks to students and professors to find out if one of India's leading educational institutions has a dark side to it.
Tax Guru Anil Rego answers your personal income tax queries
She quit her career in financial services to pursue her passion for writing.
World Education Fair 2008 admissions open for Sep 08/ Feb 09 intakes.
'Will the Statue of Unity and Tent City Narmada have as much of a transformational effect on the local economy as the salt desert/Tent City Dhordo did is something that only time can tell,' says Sanjeev Nayyar.
It is his 100th Test appearance and AB de Villiers's family made sure they were all with him in Bengaluru on his special day.
We cannot simply bhangra off into the sunset. But we should take a moment to celebrate. A long, historic, poignant moment. This election is a Big. Freaking. Deal. For our country, our futures, our children, our spirits, notes Pia Padukone.
To build one's political and ideological arguments on the dead bodies piling up outside our crematoriums is despicable and breaches the basic tenet of human civility, argues Vivek Gumaste.
Who would want to study in a classroom when you have such a gorgeous campus around you?
'The easy availability of funds has enabled us to not only hire the best faculty, but has also made it possible for us to retain them with the best possible infrastructure -- labs, grants etc,' Ashoka University VC Malabika Sarkar tells Geetanjali Krishna.
Sports academies are catching the fancy of astute businessmen. Wizcraft International Entertainment, an event management and entertainment agency, plans to rollout around 8 sports academies with an outlay of nearly Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion). The non-sport company will panout the eight academics across eight cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad,Kolkata, Pune, Goa, Chennai - in a phased manner beginning early 2008.
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) invites applications for its undergradaute and postgraduate courses for the academic year of 2008-09.
Companies such as Amazon, Uber are looking at expanding their hubs in Canada.
Paswan was a minister under six different prime ministers, hardly out of government since he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977, observes Virendra Kapoor.
From college intake to visa guidelines, here's everything you'll need to know before signing up for a course in New Zealand.
Bullying of Asian American students, including Sikhs, has nearly doubled in public schools in New York City, according to a report by two civil rights groups.
From his economist mother to politicians and academia -- all hailed Banerjee's achievement.
The Vivekananda Yoga University was jointly launched on Tuesday by minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan and chairperson of the standing committee on external affairs P P Chaudhary during a virtual event held at the Consulate General of India in New York.
Various state governments had announced free transportation and accommodation, including West Bengal that ran special metro service for candidates.
Vice President Mike Pence said Trump had authorised a ban on entry of foreign nationals who travelled to Iran in the last 14 days. The United States also advised its citizens not to travel to parts of South Korea and Italy, from where reports of coronavirus have appeared.
Rediff reader Ravikant Rajput from Saudi Arabia writes about his school teacher Neela Joshi.
The job placement rate for students trained by NIIT in China is over 90 per cent.' A revealing excerpt from Saibal Dasgupta's Running With The Dragon: How India Should Do Business With China.
'Even today, I am like a kid in a candy land -- I look at my airplane with as much excitement as an eight year old.'
The Delhi government will come out with a final decision shortly.
Do you want to take up science in college but you're unsure about the career options it offers. Here's all to need to know about the science stream.
The six IIMs which conduct CAT "were still working" towards conducting the test online, says Bakul Dholakia, director of IIM-Ahmedabad.
360 Degree has a network of more than 500 volunteers across the nation.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Two days after a gunman opened fire at the peaceful precincts of the Indian Institute of Science, killing one academic and injuring four, the sense of unreality was heightened by a bomb hoax.
The event was also attended by Prince Charles.
The proposed campus will come up on around 125 acres, which the company will acquire from airport authorities, and would house as many as 3,000 employees.
Being a student means a lot of things, not only grades, says overseas consultant NNS Chandra, in his advice to readers.
For the new millennium generation, slowly and at an accelerating pace, it is attractive to harbour a start-up ambition, says R Gopalakrishnan.
Veteran Congress leader, Islamic scholar and distinguished writer Dr Rafiq Zakaria passed away at his residence in Mumbai early on Saturday.
'When a person is capable of infecting 50 others, will you think about the privacy of the person or about protecting the lives of people?'
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