Over 9,000 students take part in cultural meet

October 15th, 2009 DHANBAD - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi met students of Indian School of Mines University (ISMU) here on Wednesday and assured them of taking up their demand for getting IIT status to the institute with the Union HRD ministry. The students have been campaigning for a status equivalent to the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

October 10th, 2009 RANCHI - Tribal men and women near Ranchi recently celebrated their annual cultural festival with pomp and gaiety. The two-day cultural festival called 'Murma festival' was celebrated at Murmu subdivision, 30 kilometers from Ranchi.

October 6th, 2009 Eiffel Tower lit up with colors of Turkish flagPARIS — The Eiffel Tower has been lit up in red and white, the colors of the Turkish flag, as part of festivities in a French cultural season celebrating Turkey. The special lighting will last through Sunday.

September 23rd, 2009 ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital will host the meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Sep 28-Oct 2, WAM news agency reported Wednesday. Official delegations from 112 countries, which have signed the Agreement on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and over 50 representatives from regional organisations and non governmental organisations will take part in the event.

August 1st, 2009 SRINAGAR - A seven-day Indian Trust For Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) workshop on Creativity Education and Arts under the Jammu and Kashmir chapter commenced in Srinagar to nurture the creative talent of the youth. Around 50 students in the age group of 14-18 years were selected from various schools in the Kashmir valley to participate in the first of its kind workshop, which include courses in painting, photography, theatre and creative writing.

July 28th, 2009 GOPALPUR - Students from Tibetan and non-Tibetan schools participate in the 'Ninth Inter-school Programme 2009' that began at Gopalpur near Dharamsala. The interactive programme has been organised by the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of his holiness the Dalai Lama in collaboration with Tibetan Children's Village (TCV).

July 27th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - An interaction with South Korean students was an enlightening experience for Orissa's tribal school children. The visit by Hanseo University's students to Bhubaneswar, which is a part of the students exchange programme, is aimed at providing them an insight into the lives of these kids who come from small and underdeveloped regions of the state.

July 26th, 2009 DURJOYNAGAR - As talks at different levels are going on improve the Indo-US relations five new graduates from Boston have joined their teacher in a school in remote Tripura to launch an initiative to bridge the education gap and inspire children to become successful. They see this initiative as going a long way in improving Indo-US relations.

July 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - An Australian delegation Monday assured the Punjab government that Indian students, the majority of whom are from Punjab, are completely safe in the country despite the recent spate of racist attacks against them. The delegation, headed by Colin Walters of the department of education employment and workplace relations and officials from the department of public safety, met Punjab's Chief Secretary Subodh C.

June 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indiana University in the US has been given a government grant of $119,999 to educate middle and high school teachers and students in Hindi and Urdu, two of the three "strategic languages spoken in some of the most populated countries." The University's India Studies Programme has been given the grant from the "STARTALK" funding for a four-week residential immersion programme for high school students in Hindi and Urdu, two languages largely spoken in India and Pakistan. The STARTALK programme of the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the United States.

May 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - In the wake of the attacks on Indian students in the country, an Australian police officer is to travel to India to brief prospective students on avoiding street violence in Australia, media reports said. Police community liaison officer Senior Constable Victor Robb said that his advice would mainly cover "safety strategy tips", Radio Australia reported Thursday.

April 17th, 2009 BEIJING - A Festival of India will be held in China and a reciprocal Festival of China in India in 2010 with the aim 'to promote mutual awareness and understanding of the rich cultural heritage of each country'. The memorandum of understanding for holding the two cultural events was signed here Thursday by Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao and China's Vice Minister Zhao Shao Hua.

March 6th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Thursday announced two scholarships to meritorious Malaysian students for pursuing post-graduate courses. The High Commission of India said in a statement here that the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) scholarship would not cover courses in medicine or dentistry.

January 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Students of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh refused to eat food as a Dalit woman had cooked it, an official said Tuesday. The majority of students, belonging to the upper caste, refused to have lunch provided to them under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme by the Guraini Primary School in Khetaasrai village of Jaunpur, about 150 km from here.

December 26th, 2008 AHMEDABAD - 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.