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In a heartbreaking turn of events, a 17-year-old girl from Amroha lost her life at AIIMS Delhi after battling a severe illness. Medical professionals attributed her condition to a long history of fast food consumption, a choice her family now deeply regrets. A 17-year-old Class 11 student from Amroha, Ahana, died while undergoing treatment at…
HYDERABAD: A criminal case was registered against a government school principal in Kompally after he allegedly made four Class 10 students beat up a Class 7 boy on Monday.The victim, who suffered bruises on his back, informed his parents, who lodged a criminal complaint against the school principal. Police subsequently registered a case.According to authorities,…
Yann LeCun, former Meta AI chief and Godfather of AI teaches computer science at New York University (NYU). During a recent podcast appearance, LeCun joked that he is a computer science professor who argues against studying computer science. Explaining what he meant, he later told Business Insider (BI) that he was not asking students to…
The trade deal aims to expand cooperation in services, mobility, goods, investment and trade facilitation. (AI image) India-New Zealand trade deal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon on Monday had a telephonic conversation and announced finalising the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Both leaders stressed that this FTA would…
Supreme Court regularises BDS degrees of Rajasthan students In recent years, several admissions to private medical and dental colleges have come under legal scrutiny over deviations from NEET-based selection norms. One such long-running dispute involved students admitted to private dental colleges in Rajasthan during the 2016–17 academic session after qualifying criteria were relaxed at the…
UGC issues alert against three fake universities The University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a new public warning asking students, parents, and employers to stay alert about three institutions that are functioning as universities without any legal approval: NIMS, Delhi, Sarva Bharatiya Shiksha Peeth, Karnataka and National Backward Krushi Vidyapeeth, Maharashtra. According to the UGC,…
Man arrested for ‘raping’ minor girls after spiking their soft drinks (Representative image) BENGALURU: Two college students and an electrician have been arrested in Bengaluru for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old student and blackmailing her with an obscene video recorded without her consent. The accused — G Vikas, 20, a student of Allied Health Sciences; N…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella once shared his experience of how not going to IIT which he describes as the “the holy grail” for middle-class students became a turning point for him. The IIT rejection redirected his life towards a path only few could have imagined and which eventually led him to become the CEO of…
NEW DELHI: India has sounded a caution for students headed abroad for pilot training. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a notice for such students and their parents that it “has no role or responsibility in the regulation, oversight, quality, progress or completion of pilot training undertaken at organisations/ institutions situated abroad…
The Viksit Bharat Adhishthan Bill proposes a minimum ₹2-crore penalty and immediate closure for illegal universites and higher education institutes. A proposed overhaul of India’s higher education law could make it significantly harder for unauthorised universities to exist and far easier for regulators to shut them down. The Viksit Bharat Adhishthan Bill proposes a minimum…
