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Venice implemented a €5 ticketing system for day visitors last month. The city has already said that nearly one million euros have been collected in the first 11 days of the tax application, SchengenNews reports. Local media sources told Schengen visa news that from April 25 to May 5, approximately 1,95,000 tickets were sold, slightly surpassing projections and generating €975,000 in revenue. However, this amount falls short of covering the expenses associated with establishing the online reservation system, conducting information campaigns, and managing ticket controls, which amounted to three million euros.

Delhi riots. He vividly remembers how his shop in the main market was burnt and his family of 10 lived in a camp for over four months before they could gather the courage to return. «The shop took longer to rebuild but the business has not been the same,» he says. North East Delhi constituency, which has the maximum concentration of Muslim voters in Delhi at 20.7%, is divided along communal lines. The epicentre of the Delhi riots of 2020 which claimed 53 lives and left 583 injured, North East Delhi is witnessing a tight contest between two-term BJP MP Manoj Tiwari and Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar, a former CPI leader involved in students politics. Tiwari is the only BJP MP who has not been dropped by the party in Delhi. But anti-incumbency is visible on the ground.

Karnal | Panipat: A former CM and the currentCM are in the fray in Karnal — one contesting for the Lok Sabha elections and the other for the state assembly bypoll. Manohar Lal Khattar, who was replaced as Haryana CM, is contesting the Lok Sabha election after resigning from Karnal assembly seat. His successor Nayab Saini is contesting the by-poll from the same assembly seat. But more than the CM and the former CM, it is the two other candidates — Congress' Divyanshu Budhiraja and NCP-INLD joint candidate Virender Maratha — who have created a lot of buzz in this constituency, where the BJP registered the second highest margin in the previous Lok Sabha polls. Karnal is seen as one of the better seats for the BJP which its precursor, Jan Sangh, had won for the first time in 1962. While Karnal is hub for rice millers, dairy players and the footwear industry, Panipat in a handloom industry centre.

higher studies abroad than before, but the US continues to be their preferred destination. In 2022-23, the US issued over 1.4 lakh student visas in India, more than in any other country. A major jump is expected.

Indian embassy in Kyrgyzstan issued a press release on Wednesday and said that due to swift action by the Kyrgyz authorities, the situation in Bishkek has returned to normal. No untoward incident has been reported in Bishkek during the past few days. However, as a measure of precaution, the classes are being conducted in an online mode. “As the academic year is coming to a close, prior to travelling back to India, including for summer vacations, all Indian students must contact their respective universities about the formalities required for the completion of their exams.”

Delhi is witnessing a battle between two prominent Biharis. The contest in the Northeast Delhi constituency is the most watched in Delhi for its two main contenders. The Congress has fielded former president of JNU Students' Union, Kanhaiya Kumar, who became known for the controversy over raising of anti-national slogans on the JNU campus in 2016. He is challenging a formidable incumbent, BJP's Manoj Tiwari, a famous Bhojpuri singer and actor who is known for his hugely popular song 'Rinkiya ke papa'. Tiwari won from the Northeast Delhi constituency in 2014 as well as 2019. His vote share in 2014 was 45% which grew in 2019 to 54%. Kumar and Tiwari are locking horns in a constituency with a sizable population from Poorvanchal. No laughing matter for 'Rinkiya ke papa'? Tiwari's political weight can be gauged from the fact that he is the only sitting MP who has been retained in Delhi. The BJP has replaced candidates in all other six constituencies in Delhi. His vote share grew in 2019 when he defeated former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit with a margin of more than 3.5 lakh votes.

The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting in Texas have scheduled a news conference ahead of the upcoming second anniversary of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history

A fatal boating over the Victoria Day long weekend on a lake north of Kingston, Ont., is under investigation by the OPP, after three people were killed and five injured.

SuperKalam, an AI-led personal mentor for students preparing for competitive exams, has concluded a seed funding round raising Rs 16.3 crore or $2 million. The funding round was led by YCombinator and Fundersclub with participation from notable investors, including YC Partner Puneet Kumar, GoodWater Capital, Nurture Ventures, SuperCapital, Pareto Ventures, among others. The company says that the secured funding will be utilised to boost SuperKalam's AI-led educational platform, expand its reach, enhance user experience, and foster continuous innovation in personalised learning services. Unlike traditional edtech platforms that rely on one-size-fits-all content delivery, SuperKalam places students at the center of a customised learning experience. By utilising AI-driven analytics, the platform adapts to each student's unique needs, offering tailored learning paths, instant doubt resolution, and progress tracking.

higher education from prestigious universities overseas for a fruitful career. However, not all are successful in achieving this dream. The obstacles are many — finding a good institution, identifying the right course, qualifying and securing admission, getting a visa, arranging finances, doing well in studies, securing a good job and getting permission to stay and work in your country of choice. If you are planning to go abroad for higher studies, you should have a good understanding of all the available options before selecting the best one. We tell you about the 5 most popular countries Indian students prefer to go for higher studies and what these countries offer in terms of education opportunities, finances and jobs.

admit cards for the CS Executive and Professional Exams June 2024. Candidates scheduled to appear for the examinations, set to be conducted from June 2 to June 10, 2024, can now download their hall tickets from the official website at icsi.edu. ICSI CS exam 2024 admit card: How to Download ICSI Admit Card To access their admit cards, candidates must log in using their 17-digit Registration Number. The admit card is a mandatory document for exam entry, and students are urged to ensure they download and print a copy well in advance of the exam dates.

coaching hub of India. Most students aspiring to get into IITs head there to prepare for the toughest exams like JEE. However, Rajendra Choudhary, who developed the Meesho online shopping platform and studied in Kota earlier, warns that students need to be mentally and emotionally strong to survive in the city. «If you go to Kota, you will become like a machine. Most of the time will be spent studying and giving exams. It is important to be mentally and emotionally strong to survive two years in that city,» says Rajendra. Rajendra, who hails from Balapura in the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, went to Kota to study for engineering entrance exams after completing 11th grade.

Attrition rate among MBA graduates hired directly from campus was the highest across disciplines in 2023, reporting the highest one-year (40 per cent) and two-year (38 per cent) attrition rates, showed a survey by Deloitte. Infant attrition was the highest among Graduate in Management (BBA /BCom /others) degree holders with 33% of fresh hires leaving organisations in less than a year of joining, showed data shared exclusively with ET from Deloitte’s Campus Workforce Trends 2024 survey.

Does the political survival of Britain’s first Indian-origin prime minister call for the sacrifice of the dreams of thousands of Indian students aspiring to study in the UK and find a job there to pay off the loans they have taken to finance their education? We hope Rishi Sunak will rise above the primitive instinct to make sacrifices and instead turn fortune's grimace into a smile. Right now, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is on a losing wicket in British politics. It has lost all recent by-elections and city council elections.

Billionaire philanthropist Rob Hale has surprised the graduating class at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by giving each of them $1,000

Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday, the first campus to do so as part of a systemwide protest against a public university they say has violated the speech rights of pro-Palestinian advocates. United Auto Workers Local 4811 represents 48,000 graduate students who work as teaching assistants, tutors, researchers and other academic employees on the 10-campus UC system. Organizers said the campuses will not strike all at once, opting instead for rolling strikes, to protest the arrests and forcible ejection by police of union members who participated in demonstrations calling for an end to the war in Gaza.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in an apparent helicopter crash in the East Azerbaijan province of the country. Various human rights groups have nicknamed as the "Butcher of Tehran". What is the reason for this? What has the deceased President done to earn the notorious title?

Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration on Monday announced summer vacations for students of classes 9 to 12 across all schools in Noida and Greater Noida amid severe heatwave conditions. Summer holidays for students in classes up to 8 have already been declared in the district.

TROY, N.Y.—The co-founder of the AI chipmaker Nvidia said he chose to study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the late 1970s because it had a state-of-the-art mainframe computer. Now, he is betting that a quantum computer at his alma mater could reinvigorate the region. Curtis Priem, 64 years old, is donating more than $75 million so RPI can have a quantum-computing system made by International Business Machines—making it the first such device on a university campus anywhere in the world.

Maharashtra HSC 12th Result 2024 Live Updates: The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has released the official date and time to announce the Class 12th Result 2024. The board announced that the Maharashtra HSC 12th Result 2024 will be declared on May 21 at 1:00 PM.

Prince Edward Island (PEI), a significant protest is unfolding. A group of former and current international students, mostly from India, have taken to the streets, voicing their distress over a policy shift that jeopardizes their future prospects in the country. According to reports, the controversy centers on the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), a lifeline for many international students aiming to secure permanent residency (PR) in Canada. Typically, Indian students enroll in institutions in provinces like Ontario or British Columbia. However, upon realizing the fierce competition for PR in these densely populated areas, many transfer to smaller, less populated provinces like PEI. Do you meet the immigration criteria? Check here These provinces, grappling with stagnant and aging populations, have historically relied on the PNP to attract temporary residents, thereby addressing labor shortages and sustaining population growth.