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IGNOU starts MBA programme in banking, finance

Posted On, Jun 15, 2013

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will offer a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in banking and finance from this July academic session, an official said Saturday.

Tributes pour in for Iain Banks, ‘one of Scotland’s literary greats’

Posted On, Jun 10, 2013

Tributes have been paid to the author Iain Banks, 59, best known for his novels The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road, who has died just two months after announcing he had terminal cancer.

DU teacher ends hunger strike

Posted On, Jun 8, 2013

Prem Singh, a Delhi University teacher who undertook a hunger strike at Rajghat here seeking the withdrawal of the four-year undergraduate programme, has ended his fast.

Indian professor, Oprah honoured at Harvard

Posted On, May 31, 2013

Sir Partha Dasgupta, Indian-born professor of economics at the University of Cambridge, UK and talk show celebrity Oprah Winfrey were among the nine people recognised with honorary degrees at the annual convocation of Harvard University here Thursday.

A Swedish varsity with over 100 Indian research tie-ups

Posted On, May 27, 2013

Sweden's Karolinska Institutet (KI), one of the world's leading medical universities, is undertaking research-collaboration work with over 100 educational institutions and research institutes in India, with a professor saying it was of "indescribable interest".

Italy has lowest graduate share in Europe

Posted On, May 23, 2013

Italy has the lowest graduation rates in Europe with just one-fifth of people aged 30-34 holding a university degree, according to a study.

Indian wunderkid is youngest Berkley topper in a century

Posted On, May 11, 2013

Kolkata-born Ritankar Das, a bioengineering and chemical biology double major at the University of California at Berkeley, has become the youngest student to receive the University Medal in more than a century.

JNU, DU English departments among world’s top 100

Posted On, May 11, 2013

Jawaharlal Nehru University's Center of English Studies has once again been ranked amidst the top 100 English departments in the world by prestigious QS World University Rankings 2013.

Another CMJ varsity official arrested in Meghalaya

Posted On, May 10, 2013

Shillong, May 10 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Friday arrested another top official of Meghalaya's private CMJ University in connection with selling fake Ph.D. degrees, a CID official said.

UAE students shine in Kerala board exama

Posted On, Apr 25, 2013

Students of schools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who appeared this year for the class 10 examinations conducted by the Kerala State Education Board, have come out with flying colours, posting a 98.8 percent pass rate.

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