Cambridge: A former metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, is to co-direct a new training programme for senior police executives in India, led by the University of Cambridge. The university&...

Washington: Indian-American computer scientist Subhash Khot, most well known for his "Unique Games Conjecture", has received the prestigious National Science Foundation's (NSF) $500,000 Alan T. Wa...

Washington: Manoranjan "Mano" Misra, an Indian American professor known for turning coffee grounds and chicken feathers into fuel, been honoured as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada Syste...

Kuala Lumpur: New Delhi has announced scholarships for the Indian diaspora for undergraduate studies in India during 2010-11. The undergraduate courses include engineering, architecture, technology, h...

Melbourne: The minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today welcomed the release of the Baird review final report into the legislation that governs international education in Australia.Following his r...

New Delhi: After successfully treating hundreds of cancer patients in India, a Noida-based institute has now accepted an offer from Malaysia to provide targeted "dendritic cell" therapy to patients th...

Melbourne: Nearly a fifth of Australian private colleges are "permanent residency factories", a new report in the education sector has revealed.A string of assaults on international students, particul...

Jerusalem: The manuscript of the path-breaking theory of relativity written by physicist Albert Einstein has been put on display for the first time in Israel.The 46-page manuscript of the "Theory of G...

Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said recently that lack of educational facilities and attacks by Taliban have kept five million school going children out of schools and pleaded with insurgents to...

New Delhi: Cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, The South Asian Network of Goethe-Institute, has declared to provide fully funded annual fellowship in Arts Management and Cultural Po...