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External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, on his maiden visit to Bhutan, announced a new series of scholarships for young students from the Himalayan nation to study in prestigious Indian institutions, the external affairs ministry said on Saturday.
| | Students from the Gulf region have outperformed their Indian counterparts recording a whopping 93.23 pass percentage in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 results declared on Friday.
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Watching the latest flick on your mobile may still be some months away. But you can catch up with favourite comic strips or read those illustrated tales of Amar Chitra Katha, as phone operators are offering more features to lift their bottomlines.
| | Intelligent honeybees know a bit of maths too, and can count upto four, according to an international team of scientists.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike has died of lung cancer, aged 76, his publicist said Tuesday.
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India was the stuff of his dreams, pieced together from TV, books and family stories. So 14-year-old Talak Lad was thrilled to actually visit his country of origin for a sports meet along with other students from 20 Gulf schools.
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Noted Indian historian Romila Thapar, who created a more "pluralistic view of Indian civilisation", and Irish historian Peter Brown will share the $1 million 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity on Dec 10.
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The Indian Student Association (ISA) at Murray State University will host a celebration event focusing on traditions of their heritage on November 14 at the MSU Curris Center.
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The government will commission studies to identify job opportunities abroad for Indian nationals, it has been announced.
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A group of 33 non-resident Indian (NRI) students visited the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad as part of the central government's Know India Programme (KIP) that aims to associate younger generation of Indian diaspora with the country and its culture.
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The corridors of the school resonates with the chants of Sanskrit shlokas each day. Never mind the somewhat muddled and imperfect pronunciations, the spirit of the students, many of whom are not Indians, symbolizes the ideology of the Global Indian International School that offers global education with the Indian spirit.
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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi now wants to get an image makeover by displaying its innovations and become popular like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University.
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As part of its efforts to boost cultural diplomacy with the Gulf, India is planning a project to translate major Indian literary works into Arabic.
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Applications are invited from qualified High School and Middle/Junior High School students graduating in the year 2008 for scholarship awards that will be presented at the 22nd Annual India Heritage Awards function on May 4 at the Golden Sails Hotel, 6285 East Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach.
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