On February 13, a specially designed real-time electronic counter flashing red numerals in the office of Ashish Rajpal, promoter-chief executive of iDiscoveri Education Services Pvt. Ltd, confirmed that the number of students enroled in the company’s flagship Xseed programme in 303 schools had crossed the 100,000 milestone

The Union HRD ministry’s bombshell affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on January 18 proposing withdrawal of the deemed varsity status of 44 mainly private higher education institutions across the country, promises a battle royale with skeletons tumbling out of the dank cupboards of the ministry and University Grants Commission

Promoted in 1999 on an 11 acre futuristic campus, VIT is one of the handful of engineering colleges in Maharashtra to boast faculty and student exchange agreements with reputed universities abroad

The GP or general physician who made home visits at unearthly hours no longer makes house calls. But with the population and its ailments having multiplied, the demand for the GP’s services is still strong

Pakistan’s surviving Hindu minority continues to suffer traditional caste-based oppression, compounded by the exploitation of feudal Muslim landlords. Yoginder Sikand reports from Hyderabad, Sindh province