Japan astronomers find most distant galaxy cluster

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 13:29

Japanese astronomers said today they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered.

US opens `American Corner` in Uttar Pradesh

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 13:05

With an aim to promote American studies in India, an American Corner and American Studies Curriculum were inaugurated at a college in UP.

Doctors going to US for studies to sign bond

Last Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012, 23:58

The govt said any doctor going to the US for higher studies would have to sign a bond with it before leaving and honour the document.

UK assures India to allow post-study work permits to students

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:08

Britain has assured India that it will continue to allow post-study work-experience permits to students, provided they get appropriate jobs commensurate with their qualifications or degrees, India's Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said.

‘UPA has better chance of winning Prez elections’

Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2012, 18:58

Cong-led UPA has a better chance of winning the 2012 Presidential election, an analysis by a think-tank says.

Hindu challenges rule stipulating compulsory Islamic studies

Last Updated: Saturday, October 29, 2011, 20:15

A Hindu boy has filed a petition in a Pakistani court challenging a rule that stipulates a student must have a certificate in Islamic studies to be eligible to appear for entrance tests to medical colleges.

Emma Watson resumes studies at Oxford

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 18:42

Emma Watson has resumed her studies after starting classes at Oxford University.

Studies of universe`s expansion win physics Nobel

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 16:48

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Govt plans to buy aircraft for atmospheric studies

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 20:50

India will soon have an airborne laboratory to study clouds and their interaction with tiny suspended matter in atmosphere, knowledge of which could lead to better understanding of monsoon.

‘Harry Potter’ books cast a spell on medical studies

Last Updated: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 14:24

`Harry Potter’ series were not just box office hits, but the popular wizard characters have become a basis for many medical studies.

Goa Univ to have chair on Indian diaspora studies

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 15:40

The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has decided to set up a chair on Indian diaspora studies at the Goa University, Goa`s commissioner for Non-Resident Indian (NRI) affairs Eduardo Faleiro said Tuesday.

No need for more committees, studies on black money: Experts

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 16:18

Delays in action against black money by way of committees and studies will give time to corrupt politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats to divert their ill-gotten funds into shell companies, an eminent JNU professor has said.