Students of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research or NIPER in Punjab's Mohali protested against the alleged large-scale corruption in the institute that was highlighted by an assistant professor, who was later sacked following the allegations. ...
08:53 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Students of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research or NIPER in Punjab's Mohali have called off their protests for 15 days, awaiting action from the management on the alleged large-scale corruption that was highlighted by an assistant professor and who was later sacked following the allegations. ...
08:46 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Author and Professor of Political Science, University of Hyderabad Jyotirmaya Sharma joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on his book 'Cosmic Love and Human Apathy'. ...
06:05 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Professor RK Sinha of Patna University is popularly known as India's dolphin man. Thanks to him, dolphins have now been declared as the National Aquatic Animal. ...
11:46 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Dr M S Sunil is a zoology professor at the Catholicate College in Kerala's small town of Pathanamthitta but what she does is much more than just teaching. It started a few years ago when she decided to build a home for one one of her students who lived in very shanty conditions. What started off as a solo effort has now grown into what many call the M S...
11:00 AM, Feb 05, 2013
London: Here is good news for frequent flyers. Researchers have developed new 'time-control' spectacles which they claim reset the body clock to overcome jet lag and insomnia. The high-tech glasses emit a soft green glow which works on the human body clock to change our sleep patterns. Using the device, called the Re-Timer, means long-haul air passengers can step off the plane feeling fresh, even after flying over long distances,...
04:39 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Vadodara: A faculty member at MS University of Baroda was on Saturday arrested for allegedly ragging, along with senior students of his department, a junior student on the campus, police said. "Professor Mayur Gupta of the Department of Architecture was apprehended on charges of ragging first year student Harshvardan Sutariya on the campus," Sayajigunj Police Inspector AB Saiyed said. We have recorded statements of officials of the Architecture department as...
11:49 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Washington: In a bizarre claim, a Harvard neurosurgeon has said that he visited heaven when he slipped into a coma after contracting a rare disease. In his new book, 'Proof of Heaven', Dr Eben Alexander says he took a journey to the afterlife when he slipped into a coma in 2008 after suffering from a rare bacterial meningitis. Alexander, who has taught at Harvard Medical School and other universities, spent...
04:44 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Kolkata: A PhD student of Agricultural Extension, Economics and Statistics department of Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan has leveled charges of molestation against a professor of the department. The accused Siddhartha Deb Mukhopadhyay is the university's Dean of Students' Welfare. Viswa Bharti authorities have initiated an inquiry against Mukhopadhyay. Mukhopadhyay has been asked not to interact with students on a one-on-one basis. The Visva-Bharati authorities have also removed the teacher from his...
02:22 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Washington: A US university professor was taken into protective custody after he took off his clothes in front of the class and started shouting at the students. A call came in to the local police dispatch centre "about a man in the Michigan State University Engineering Building shouting in the hallway", a statement posted on the university website said. "MSU police responded and took the man, a university professor, into...
12:34 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Vatican City: An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said on Friday. "Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery," the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. "In any case, it's a fake." Joining a highly...
03:17 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Coimbatore: What made the probe into the Anna University semester exam marks scandal easy was the ready confessions of the three suspended faculty members. The scam would have never been probed, despite widespread knowledge about it for the past two years, but for written complaints from assistant professors Sivakoumar and Mani Anand. In late May, a few Anna University professors received anonymous petitions that several students of College of Engineering...
12:33 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Los Angeles: Professor X, the Marvel comic book character who formed and led the superhero mutant team known as X-Men, has been killed off. The latest issue of comic book 'Avengers VS. X-Men,' out on Wednesday, saw the wheelchair bound and telepathic character, whose full name is Charles Xavier, get killed by Cyclops, a member of his very own X-Men team. "When we first crafted 'Avengers VS. X-Men,' we didn't...
02:41 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Hyderabad: Alliance Franaise of Hyderabad is organising a talk with Dr Daniel Negers, a French professor who is a Telugu expert from National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilization (INALCO), Paris on September 1, Saturday, at 11 am. Dr Negers who speaks fluent Telugu, will be talking about his anthropological research and how he mastered the foreign language. His research had been conducted over a period of 23 years, during...
02:42 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: A 43-year-old woman professor at a city college has become the latest victim of the Nigerian fraud, losing around Rs 11.50 lakh to cheats who sent her an email stating she had won $8,50,000 under an ICC World Cup Mobile Lucky Draw. The city cyber cell said that they had been sensitising people about the email trick popularly called Nigerian fraud, but the greed was making people fall prey...
05:12 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Chennai: The police have registered a case against six persons, including IIT-M Professor Maiya and five security guards of the institution, for assaulting Express photographer Albin Mathew. Both Mathew and Maiya were summoned to the Kotturpuram Police Station on Wednesday evening.After preliminary probe, a case was registered under Sec 147 (punishment for rioting), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (ii) (threat to cause...
07:51 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New York: As the Sikh community in the US makes efforts to recover from the tragedy of the Gurudwara shooting, a Harvard professor has said Sikhs have emerged as a role model for Americans who can learn from the dignity and generosity of the community. "Most Americans still know little of the Sikh Americans whose history in the United States, dating to the early 20th century, is now firmly part...
05:32 AM, Aug 18, 2012
Mumbai: Friends of a student from IIT-Bombay have alleged she was raped by one of the staffers of the prestigious institution on Saturday. Cops, however, claim the 27-year-old woman, Anjana Gokhale (name changed) has denied that any such incident occurred and has so far refused to file a case or get a medical examination done. According to the allegations, the girl went to play tennis with the staffer, 55-year-old Nirmal...
05:22 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Not much has been written about Jassie Gift, the young musician, who is shuttling between Karnataka and Kerala for his music and singing assignments. The musician has been setting tunes to many a films, the latest in Malayalam being 'Naughty Professor' and 'Nidhra'. Anyhow, the latest news is that Jassie is all set to tie the marital knot with Athulya, is a native of Thiruvananthapuram on September 11, 2012. Athulya...
04:35 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Santa Ana: A professor arrested on arson charges wrote in emails that he was thinking of getting a dozen machine guns and shooting at least 200 students at the California high school attended by his late son, according to emails obtained on Wednesday. Prosecutors say Rainer Reinscheid was upset after his son killed himself in March shortly after the boy was disciplined by officials at University High School in Irvine....
08:39 AM, Aug 02, 2012
