'Parents are like customers and the customer is king.' 'As a result, disciplining by teachers is also frowned upon.' 'One of my teachers gave a student a C in some subject and the father says to me: "I didn't send my son to an expensive school like this for him to get a C!"'
The 2009 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award for outstanding students invites applications.
The shortage of skilled workers in India is one of the country's biggest challenges.
Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods has tied up with Manipal Education to introduce a two-year MBA degree in media and entertainment.
The annual event attracts a vast number of delegates from industry, academia and policy areas from beyond the 700-strong alumni network of India's top business schools -- the six Indian Institutes of Management.
'I told myself, I will be 23 next year. Why can't I be a billionaire too?'
'We are not yet out of the woods.' 'If India sees the South African or Brazilian type of mutations, our numbers will rapidly rise.'
The new project will be associated with research themes featuring the exploration of transportation means, energy and food on the Red Planet.
In April, the US stopped funding to WHO as the Trump administration reviewed the ties.
Kerala has recorded 24 cases including two foreign nationals.
The shelling from across the border started in Nowshera sector around 12.30 pm, ending over 12-hour-long lull in the border skirmishes which intensified after India's pre-emptive strikes on Jaish-e-Mohammed's terror camps at Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on Tuesday.
Nomura Group Study found that in 2019, out of the fifty-six companies which shifted their production out of China, only three of these invested in India; while 26 went to Vietnam, 11 to Taiwan, and 08 to Thailand. In April 2020, Nikkei noted that out of the 1,000 firms which were planning to leave China and invest in Asian countries, only 300 of them were seriously thinking of investing in India.
Patent filings in India would be more and more driven by new technologies, which are either kept secret or patented.
IIT Kharagpur set to be a one-stop-shop for all your parents' 'doctor-engineer' dreams! :-)
India and many other countries are unlikely to achieve the UN Millennium Development goals of halving poverty and education for all children by 2015, said India's Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma.
Ten scholarships are available for Indians to carry out research leading to PhD and DPhil in British constitution.
'If not, we can become frighteningly chaotic, more chaotic than what we are today.' 'In today's environment in the country, we still have a window of opportunity.'
Did you know that 17% seats are reserved for girl students in every branch of engineering?
The consortium will launch programmes in ease of doing business in their respective regions B-schools.
The Sports Ministry is set to establish 1000 Khelo India Centres (KIC) at the district level across the country with the help of sporting champions, who will be remunerated for providing their expertise. The centres will either be run by a past champion or have them as a coach.
International education consultant NNS Chandra shares his advice.
It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
A Haryana student has been selected for a three-year astronaut training programme of National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States.
If you're looking for immediate returns, it is unlikely to happen in today's environment
Amity University is scouting for land in Ahmedabad to set up its first campus in Gujarat.
The government has been taking steps to promote cashless or digital transactions to take India towards a less-cash economy
From college intake to visa guidelines, here's everything you'll need to know before signing up for a course in New Zealand.
The Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 award is to be announced on Monday, and there are four contenders.
Saudi Aramco chairman and head of the Kingdom's cash-rich wealth fund PIF Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan will join the board of Reliance Industries Ltd as an independent director in a precursor to a $15 billion deal. Reliance chairman and Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, who had two years back disclosed the talks to sell a 20 per cent stake in the company's oil-to-chemical unit to Saudi Aramco, announced the appointment of Al-Rumayyan at the company's annual meeting of shareholders. Harvard educated Al-Rumayyan, 51, will replace Yogendra P Trivedi, 92, who has expressed a desire to retire, Ambani said. On the sale of a 20 per cent stake in the O2C business, he said the deal is likely to conclude this year.
'If the RSS should be saluted for choosing such a scholarly statesman to address its highly trained cadre, one must also praise Pranab Da's sagacity for having gracefully accepting the invitation, thus disapproving any ideological apartheid,' says former BJP MP Tarun Vijay.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that vague laws that lend themselves to different interpretations are the foremost reason for pendency of cases in courts.
SC sought reply from Centre and Haryana over the boy's father's plea seeking CBI probe.
The International Institute Of Information Technology, Kolkata, invites applications for its graduate and post graduate programmes in Technology.
The BSF was effectively retaliating and the firefight was going on.
'Having dealt with security and insurgency for 15 years, I am fully convinced that the steps taken by the government in regard to J&K and the measures in force there are essential,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
He came to India in the 1970s to light up some hotels
Mumbai-based start-up Purple Squirrel Eduventures is helping students decide on their careers through industrial visits
Stepping up his offensive, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at BJP's ideological mentor, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh saying its belief was "murdering" individuality and that thought process is now running the country in which only one man knows everything from farmers to clothes.
The government must undo the damage inflicted by the flawed policies of globalisation, and India should be converted into a country where entrepreneurs can thrive and the entire population can participate in the economy, says Arvind Kumar.
