Parents of Archana Kar, who is pursuing her MBBS in Ukraine, are an anxious lot since her mobile phone went switched off two days ago.Archana, who hails from Bhadrak in Odisha reportedly shifted to a bunker from her hostel in Kharkiv city with 200 other Indian students two days back and since then no contact…Continue Reading
NAGPUR: Both parents should be equally responsible for taking care of their children’s education expenses, ruled the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court after an 18-year-old approached it, as he was finding it difficult to pay fees at IIT Dhanbad, where he has secured admission in the mechanical branch. Dismissing the father’s contention that he…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: Not just school authorities or private transporters but even parents have been found wanting in securing the safety of children while commuting to school, a recent study shows. Nearly 47% of children and parents surveyed admitted that school buses or vans don’t have seatbelts; in the case of private transport it is as…Continue Reading
Back in the late 1980s, an Indian college student in the US was figuring out ways to communicate free-of-cost and stay in touch with his friends who lived halfway across the globe. E-mail wasn’t an option, phone calls were very expensive, the internet was barely in its nascent stage. There was hardly any way out,…Continue Reading