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Satyam, and his classmate Harshita Rao, 17, won bronze medals in chemistry at the international competition held in the first week of September in Moscow, becoming the first team from a government school to bring home a medal. When 17-year-old Satyam, studying in a government school, applied to

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will start optional bee-keeping classes for its school students from December. The civic body said that the aim of the initiative is to promote apiculture (the technique of rearing bees). The NDMC said that a feasibility study for the project was done and they

Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) reviewed the price situation of Onion in Delhi in a High Level meeting chaired by the Secretary, DoCA Avinash K. Srivastava with all the concerned stakeholders including MD NAFED, MD NCCF,Safal,and others. Onions for retailing by Safal is being made available at

From a prototype of artificial skin for people with burn injuries to environment-friendly LPG and kerosene cooking stoves, affordable cancer diagnosis technique to a device for detection of insecticides in fruits and vegetables, at least 143 such projects were on display at Indian Institute of

All have heard of Super 30, which was started by Anand Kumar in 2002 for coaching underprivileged children to get into the prestigious IIT. Kumar is Patna based and has gained international attention, for training poor backward students to crack IIT-JEE. And every year the results have shown how

To attract foreign students and faculty to its campus, IIT Delhi Wednesday organised a summit meeting on “Globalization of IIT Delhi: New Opportunities for Higher Studies in India”. After being given the Institute of Eminence (IoE) tag, IIT has already admitted 70 students to various postgraduate

When Ramjal Meena first stepped into Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as a security guard in 2014, he had no clue he will enrol in the same university as a student some day. Last week, the 34-year-old first-generation learner from Rajasthan’s Karauli cracked the JNU entrance examination for

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences is set to perform a lung transplant — a procedure that had so far been unavailable in both government and private hospitals in Delhi. The country’s premier medical institute received the licence for performing lung transplants from the Delhi government in

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has prohibited the use of Plaster-of-Paris in idol making. The chemical plaster is known to trigger heavy pollution in the Yamuna and water bodies after idols made out of it are immersed during festivals. The land holding and civic agencies have also come up

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is planning to provide free WiFi — for the first 20 minutes — in areas under its jurisdiction in the next six months, chairman Naresh Kumar said Tuesday. The council is planning to set up 625 ‘smart poles’ to provide internet connectivity, he said. Kumar was

A three day National Yoga Olympiad of school children, organised by the National Council of Educational Research and Training is being held at Chacha Nehru Bhawan in New Delhi. The Olympiad was inaugurated on 18th June by the Director and UNESCO Representative for India, Mr. Eric Falt in the

Of all the things the 59-year-old forgot in the last 12 years, the one that came back quickest to her was how to add tadka to a dish. The woman, serving a life-term for killing her husband, is one of five to be shifted from a closed prison to India’s first semi-open one for women at Delhi’s Tihar