EDUCATION

'AI-For-India 1.0' is an online coding event and is open for students, IT and non-IT professionals and anyone in the age group of 8 to 80 years interested in coding. It is scheduled to be conducted on April 24, 2021. According to the institution, this event is expected to set a world record for the largest coding workshop conducted online.

In most of the states, including Delhi, students from Class 1-8 will not be able to attend schools in the beginning of the new session. The Delhi government has clarified that schools will not be opened for the lower classes at the moment amid increasing numbers of coronavirus infections.

Vijay Kumar Chaudhery, Education Minister of Bihar announced the result along with the BSEB president in Patna, on Friday. The minister said that a total of 13.40 lakh students of three streams -- arts, science and commerce subjects, had sat for the exams, and 10,45,950 students managed to pass. The result came 40 days after the last examination this year.

"However, this is not to say that the movement must end. We must continue coming together, asking questions, making art, and discussing academic freedom and the precarious political situation we find ourselves in. We must continue showing solidarity with our faculty members, workers, each other, and movements against injustice beyond Ashoka", the students said.

In reference to the resignation of Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the students had said in a letter that the events point to a failure of Founders, Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor in protecting the faculty. They said this also has implications for freedom of speech for the students and faculty.

The number of international students, on their F-1 or M-1 visas, fell by 18 per cent last year, to 1.25 million, according to a new tally by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which manages the Department of Homeland Security's student visa monitoring system.

Parents can check the merit list on the official web sites of the schools. Apart from, this various institutions have also put out the list on notice boards outside school premises. The nursery admissions process began on February 18 this year and will continue till April 1.

The noted political commentator is known as a staunch critic of the Modi government at the Centre and has been regularly expressing that in his writings. Faculty members at Ashoka University in Sonipat displayed their ire by writing to the Vice-Chancellor and board members, expressing anger and deep anguish over Mehta's resignation as a professor from the university.

BHU's Social Sciences Faculty had recently sent a proposal to Reliance Foundation, asking Nita Ambani to join the university as a visiting faculty at their Women Study Centre. Her response is still awaited. A group of about 40 students, on Tuesday, protested outside the residence of Vice-Chancellor Rakesh Bhatnagar on the campus and submitted a memorandum.

With this MoU, it has become the youngest recognized IoE and part of the hallowed league of top 20 public and private institutions mandated to elevate Indian higher education on the global stage with complete academic and administrative autonomy. Shiv Nadar University (Delhi NCR) was recommended as an ‘IoE' by the EEC in August 2019 after the ‘Institutions of Eminence' scheme was rolled out by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2017.