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Home Office data from the UK reveals a dip in the number of study visas issued for main applicants by the country in 2023 compared to the previous year. In 2023, there were 4,57,673 study visas issued to main applicants, which represented a 5.5 per cent decrease compared with the previous year. Click & check your eligibility for immigration Find out The 2023 total was the second highest on record for a calendar year and was 70 per cent higher than the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the Home Office said.

South Korea’s government has begun steps to suspend the medical licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors, days after they missed a government-set deadline to end their joint walkouts, which have disrupted hospital operations

UK, Canada, and Australia are having a significant impact on prospective student demand for study in those countries, according to a report by ICEF Monitor. IDP's latest research, «The Voice of the International Student,» conducted in January 2024 across 67 countries with 2,500 student participants, shows that a lot of students are thinking twice about studying in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Meanwhile, the United States seems to be becoming more attractive among students. Are you immigration ready? Find out The prospective student demand for Canada, in particular, is dipping dramatically, while interest in the US increased significantly in 2023, according to a report by Studyportals.

Central Asia got an unique opportunity to get themselves acquainted with state of art IT training. More than 1,000 young people from Central Asian countries completed the Google Cloud and Machine Learning training program in Almaty recently. As a result, 20 students were offered an internship at the Kazakh-British Technical University (KBTU), according to the press service of Google Developer Groups (GDG) Cloud Almaty.

Philadelphia bus stop on Monday afternoon, police said. The city's police commissioner, Kevin Bethel, said about 15 to 20 students were at a bus stop in the city's Ogontz neighborhood around 3:45 pm when two people walked up and opened fire. Police said people were getting on the stopped bus when the gunfire erupted. Police said one 17-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Two 15-year-olds had graze wounds and a 49-year-old woman and a 71-year-old woman on the bus were hit, they said.

HCL Group has invested Rs 166 crore to acquire a minority stake in education software company Educational Initiatives (Ei) This is a part of the secondary stake sale, where HCL Group has acquired a portion of the stake held by Mumbai-based private equity firm Gaja Capital in Ei.

Congress ahead of Rahul Gandhi's Nyay Yatra's entry into Gujarat, former Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President and sitting MLA from Porbandar, Arjun Modvadia resigned from the party as well as his legislative position on Monday. Apart from him, former Rajula MLA and one of the strongest Ahir leader of Congress Ambarish Der too resigned from Congress. Modvadia and Der are expected to join BJP on Tuesday. As a matter of fact, speaker of Gujarat Assembly Shankar Chaudhary had to fly down to Gandhinagar from Tharad in Banaskantha leaving a programme mid-way to accept Modvadia's resignation. Congress responded with surprise while in the afternoon, incumbent GPCC President Shaktisinh Gohil told the media that Modvadia was active in organising Nyay Yatra in Dahod until Sunday evening, other senior leaders refused to accept possibility of Modvadia resigning until he actually put in his papers. Rahul Gandhi's yatra is scheduled to enter Gujarat on Thursday.

Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for the second Ayurvedic College of Assam. Sonowal also laid foundation stones for construction of two 50 bedded Ayush hospitals at Mowamarirjhar in Kokrajhar and at Silbari in Baksa, virtually from here. The new college will be developed with an estimated cost of Rs 70 crores. The Ministry of Ayush approved the proposal for establishment of Ayurvedic College at Dudhnoi in Goalpara in 2022-23. It is to be noted that the first Ayurvedic College was established way back in 1948 in Guwahati by Bharat Ratna Lok Priya Gopinath Bordoloi. The 50 bedded Integrated Ayush hospitals will be developed with an investment of Rs 30 crores. The college will have one G+3 College building, one boy’s hostel, one girls hostel, staff quarter, principal’s quarter, among other equipment, furniture, books etc. The college, which will be adjacent to the Integrated Ayush Hospitals, inaugurated by Sarbananda Sonowal in July, 2023, will be developed in 93 bighas of land. The state PWD will be executing agency and will be completed within 30 months.

delimitation exercise of last year, political parties put their best foot forward. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal who is Rajya Sabha MP is fielded from Dibrugarh axing Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Labour Rameswar Teli. Congress's Gaurav Gogoi is looking to shift his constituency to Nagaon. Gogoi' Lok sabha constituency Koliabor ceased to exist, and a new constituency was created Kaziranga. The political landscape of Assam stands changed after almost 27 years as the Election commission of India has published the Delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies last year.

₹114,900, Apple is also offering exclusive sale offers for teachers and students, with discounted rates of ₹104,900 for education on the 13-inch model and ₹1,24,900 for the 15-inch version. One of the key highlights of the latest MacBook Air is the impressive performance enhancements it boasts, with a remarkable 60 percent speed boost compared to its predecessor, the M1 version.

NDTV. According to the report, Ankit Kumar, with his wife and his friends, was at the Laforestta Cafe in Gurugram's Sector 90. After the meal, all of them consumed the mouth freshener and then were seen screaming and crying in pain and discomfort. Even one of the men started vomiting on the restaurant floor while a woman put ice in her mouth, repeatedly saying, "It's burning." ALSO READ: Karnataka news: 3 minor students, entering exam hall, attacked with acid in Mangaluru "We don't know what they have mixed (in the mouth freshener).

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit: Justice Lalit was born on 9th November 1957, in a family of leading lawyers, in Solapur, Maharashtra. His father, Shri U.R. Lalit, was an Additional Judge at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court’s and a leading senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India.

The News Minute. The attacker – Abin (23) – has been arrested by the police. Police said that Abin is a resident of Nilambur taluk of Malappuram district in Kerala. According to the police, the accused reportedly entered the college premises on 4 March and threw acid on a 17-year-old girl.

Sandeshkhali continues to boil even after the arrest of key-accused Shahjahan Sheikh, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation which was on its way to Sandeshkhali was stopped by security forces at North 24 Parganas' Minakhan on Monday. A BJP team consisting of 15 people, including state BJP's ST Morcha President Joyel Murmu, left for Sandeshkhali from Kolkata to talk to the tribal community in the conflict-ridden Sandeshkhali area. The police stopped them with a barricade on the Kolkata Basanti Highway near Malancha in Minakhan. Even after some talks with police personnel, the delegation was not allowed to move forward. Hence the BJP leaders started protesting by sitting on the Kolkata Basanti Highway.

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Monday conducted its Class 12th Physics board exam 2024. The three-hour question paper started at 10.30 am and concluded at 1.30 pm. The Physics theory paper was worth 70 marks in total.

College athletes in Utah who are looking to profit off their name, likeness and image will have to seek written approval from their school for any business deal exceeding $600

Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials

Thousands of senior doctors have rallied in the South Korean capital to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions

schedule for the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG is likely to be changed depending on the Lok Sabha elections schedule, according to UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar. The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday announced that the exam would be conducted from May 15 to 31 and the results declared on June 30. India is gearing up for general elections to elect its 18th Lok Sabha, the schedule for which is likely to be announced this month. «The dates announced by the NTA are tentative. Once the election dates are announced, the NTA will finalise the CUET-UG dates. The tentative schedule is from May 15,» University Grants Commission (UGC) chief Kumar told PTI on Sunday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that policies for Indian Railways were being framed by the government keeping only the rich in mind, and claimed that trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a «guarantee of betrayal». In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi alleged that by showing the dream of making those wearing «hawai chappal» (slippers) travel by «hawai jahaz» (airplane), Prime Minister Modi is even distancing them from «gareebon ki sawari» (vehicle of the poor) railways. «Amidst a 10 per cent increase in fare every year, loot in the name of dynamic fare, rising cancellation charges and expensive platform tickets, people are being lured by showing them a picture of an 'elite train' that the poor cannot even set foot on,» the former Congress chief said. The government has collected Rs 3,700 crore from senior citizens in the last three years by «snatching away» the exemptions given to them, he claimed.

application process will close at 10.50 pm and the deadline for payment of fees is 11:50 p.m. The candidates are allowed to make the corrections, latest by 7 March 2024 up to 11:50 P.M. Thereafter, no correction in particulars, whatsoever, will be entertained by NTA under any circumstances, the NTA has stated.