The 23rd India Conference at Harvard, a major student-led global forum examining India’s rise across business, policy and culture, will bring together leading voices from sport, politics and the creative industries in Boston next month, with Olympic champion P.V. Sindhu, parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor and designer Manish Malhotra among its headline speakers.
Kanyashree University welcomed its newly admitted students with a Student Orientation Programme at its Academic Campus on Monday, in which the institution’s emphasis on holistic education, discipline and social responsibility at the outset of university life were highlighted.
The Rajasthan government has constituted a five-member committee to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances and factors that led to the death of a Class IV student, who reportedly jumped from the fourth floor of her school building here on Saturday.
An eighth-grade student of the school had demanded to come to school wearing the hijab.
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken a suo motu cognisance of the gangrape of a second-year medical student from Odisha.
A 14-year-old class VIII student of a government-run school allegedly stabbed his classmate on the school premises in Kendrapara district on Friday, a police official said.
According to the police, the incident took place near the toilet inside Dhamora Government Higher Secondary School located at Orchha Road in Chhatarpur.
Another school student dies in an accident due to road rage between two errant bus drivers near Gate 2 at Salt Lake.
In the midst of allegations of nepotism in allotment of houses under Bangla Awas Plus scheme, a student leader of the ruling Trinamul Congress has declined to accept the fund, even though the family is eligible.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is believed to have ordered an inquiry into the alleged diversion of government money meant for student tablets to other accounts, sources at Nabanna claimed.
