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A meritorious B.Tech student, hailing from Sikkim, allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room here Wednesday, officials said.

The Bihar government has rejected about four million applications to check a fake degree racket and other irregularities in the teacher recruitment drive for government-run schools, officials said Wednesday.

He is the eldest son of illustrious Indian magician P.C. Sorcar. But unlike his father, Manick Sorcar chose to weave magic with animation and laser.

PARAM Sheersh, a supercomputing facility for bio-informatics and computational biology, was formally inaugurated at the North Eastern Hill University here Monday.

Government primary and junior high schools in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Noida and Ghaziabad will remain closed till Jan 7 because of dense fog and intense cold, according to official orders Sunday.

Three special cells have been set up to conduct studies on the effect of climate change on water resources, it was announced Wednesday.

From putting up metal detectors to imparting self-defence training to students to mock evacuation drills, schools in the Indian capital are steeling themselves against the threat of terror that could find an easy target in children.

The Andhra Pradesh government Monday decided to allot 210 acres of land here for the second campus of the Mumbai-based premier scientific research institute Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).

Teachers of a school in Bihar's Gaya district burnt books meant to be distributed among students to keep themselves warm on a chilly winter day, angering villagers.

With the freezing cold unlikely to see a thaw in the next few days, the Delhi government has asked all state-run schools to extend the winter break by two more days for students till Class 8, while all municipal schools will reopen only Jan 12.