Technophobia or fear of new technology begins before we are born, say researchers. University of Bath researchers claim pre-natal testosterone exposure has an effect on the way the brain develops that makes it either easier or more difficult to grasp ..

Looking for long-term partnership in academics and research, India and Scotland Tuesday signed four memoranda of understanding (MoUs) which will facilitate student and faculty exchange and encourage joint degree development. The MoUs were signed in t ..

Fossils of the what could be the oldest plants ever have been unearthed in Argentina. The amazing find indicates that plants had already existed on earth 472 million years ago, a full 10 million years earlier than thought. Experts have confirmed that ..

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) might allow the corporate sector to start engineering and other technical colleges, a top council official said Monday."Companies formed under Section 25 of the Companies Act may be considere ..

Eminent biochemist A.N. Rai Monday took charge as vice chancellor of the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) here amid protests from various students' organisations, which set a day's deadline for his resignation. Meghalaya Chief Minister Mu ..

Russia's Soyuz TMA-M manned spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the mission control said Sunday.The Soyuz brought to the ISS Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka and American US astronaut Scott Kel ..

Scientists in China have discovered the fossils of a previously-unknown dinosaur species - a meat-eating theropod.The fossils of the dinosaur were unearthed at Longshan in Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Chuxiong in September, said Dong Zhiming, a resear ..

Options other than students' fee hike should be generated to augment the source of income of institutes, director of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) Shekhar Chaudhuri said here Friday."I personally feel that options othe ..

Government schools in Haryana will now have special kitchens to prepare mid-day meals for students, Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said here Sunday."Instructions have been issued to prepare mid-day meal at the same place for the primary and up ..

Saying that the United States was in a fight for the future with countries like India and China, President Barack Obama has taken strong exception to opposition Republican move to slash the education budget.He strongly disagreed "with the econom ..

Renowned professor of philosophy Amita Chattopadhyay is all set to be the first vice chancellor of the Presidency University.Chattopadhyay is an alumnus of the Presidency College and a retired professor of the Jadavpur University."I am really ha ..

If Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has her way, students will get to see the Commonwealth Games events for free.Realizing that many venues were hardly attracting crowds, the Delhi government Wednesday asked the Games Organising Committee (OC) to  ..

Aligarh Muslim University students Tuesday staged a sit-in outside Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis' office to demand restoration of their union which was dissolved in 2007.The vice chancellor's office blamed outsiders for inciting trouble on  ..

The central government has released Rs.120 crore to the Andhra Pradesh government under the centrally-sponsored scheme of post-matric scholarship for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes, said a statement released here Tuesday."The ministr ..

Mexico will launch three satellites that will be used for national security and to expand telecommunications capabilities, President Felipe Calderon has said.The satellites will also help expand the use of telecommunications in the health and educati ..

Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov Tuesday shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm.The two were awarded for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene," the ..

Having attracted a lot of industrial investment in the last three decades, Haryana is charting a new course for itself - as an education hub that can boast of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AII ..

When it comes to taking any decisions on the hallowed portals of engineering and management education, even a visionary and an overzealous human resource development minister like Kapil Sibal has to contend with the slow and time-consuming process of ..

An elementary school in China organised a fund-raiser for collecting donations for the flood-hit people of Pakistan.The principal of the school in Gongyi city in Henan province sent a cheque of 1,506 yuan ($220) to the Pakistani ambassador to China,  ..

With India playing host to global sporting events like the 2010 Commonwealth Games that are expected to boost the market for sport management professionals in the country, the mood regarding placements is upbeat on the campus of the Indian Institute  ..