First Horticultural university at Haryana, India

Radha Mohan Singh , the Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister has laid the foundation stone of Haryana State University of Horticultural Sciences at Karnal, Haryana.

The establishment of a fully fledged horticultural university will cater the needs to support the gap between teaching, research and extension activities in the state.

Indian men won Asian nations cup

Indian men won the Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament. They won Vietnam with a 3-1 victory in the final round as they pushed formidable China down to second place here on Wednesday.

This was the third time that Indian men won the event. They won at Esfahan, Iran in 2005 and Kolkata 2009 previously when China did not participate on both occasions

GUJCET exam dates

The GUJCET exam dates have been released. This state level medical entrance examination is scheduled to be held on May 10.

GUJCET exam will be conducted to offer admission into engineering, physiotherapy and alternative medical programmes to various government/ government aided universities and private colleges/ institutes across Gujarat.

National Anthem should be made mandatory

The Madras High court said that the National anthem should be made mandatory during the morning assembly in all the private schools in Tamilnadu.  A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice MM Sundresh gave the direction on a petition seeking that singing of national anthem be made mandatory in schools.

"Private schools must follow such singing of national anthem as part of their curriculum," the bench said disposing a PIL by N Selvathirumal, an ex-service man, seeking a direction to authorities to make it mandatory for all private schools in the state to sing the national anthem during the assembly.