Steve Jobs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)By BROOKE DONALD | AP SAN FRANCISCO: A copy of Steve Jobs’ death certificate made public Monday indicates that the Apple Inc. co-founder died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs. Jobs died last Wednesday at age 56. Apple did not disclose his cause of death, but Jobs had been in poor health for a number of... 

London (IANS): Even after a soccer team loses 10 consecutive matches, a fan might persist in the belief that his team can reverse its bad luck. A new research says a ‘faulty’ function of the brain’s frontal lobe is the reason for such optimism. Why is human optimism so pervasive when reality continuously challenges these biased beliefs, asks Tali Sharot of the Wellcome Trust Centre... 

An Indian student pursuing his PhD in the US to be a medical scientist relates his experiences and advises students on the admission process By VINAL MENON I was passionate about biology, but never wanted to be a doctor. With a strong schooling in Mumbai and frequent visits to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where my father worked, I had a taste of two good worlds – the city of my birth, Mumbai, and the city... 

Poonch, Apr 4 (ANI): The Indian Army is providing free education to deprived children in remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir. The Army has started a school in the Saujian-Gagriyan region near the Line of Control. Army officials said that when the school started, parents were charged Rs. 50 per month as tuition fees, but they later realised that residents could not afford to pay and decided to provide... 

Muscat, Mar.27 (ANI): Five members of the Indian School Muscat have been elected to be the part of Board of Directors that frames policies for Indian schools in Oman. Out of the 14 candidates, who contested for the five seats of Indian schools’ Board of Directors, Alexander Tonny George, Subramanian Muthukumar, Mukavarukandy Ambujakshan, Michael Arul and Anchan C. K. came out with flying colours. Oman”s... 

New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) The Delhi Weekend Book Bazaar, a literary carnival designed to give book lovers, particularly students, an opportunity to browse and buy their favourite books at cheap rates, will take place at Delhi University’s North Campus March 25-27. To be held at Faculty of Fine Arts lawns, the mart is being organised by the country’s largest government publishing institution,... 

Washington, March 23 (IANS) Every 26 seconds, a student leaves school in the US, official figures show. This startling revelation came as US President Barack Obama announced during a visit to South America the launch of a programme to increase the number of Latin American students in the US. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has described the dropout of 25 percent among students as “unacceptable”,... 

Bangalore, March 22 (IANS) Former Wipro executive Anurag Behar was Tuesday appointed as the first vice-chancellor of the newly set up Azim Premji University (APU) by its chancellor and Wipro chairman Azim Premji. Behar (42), who spearheaded Wipro Infrastructure Engineering division’s remarkable growth, heads the Azim Premji Foundation (APF), a non-profit organisation launched by Premji to contribute... 

New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), with its country-wide network, has the greatest potential to tackle the issue of skill deficit among youth, the varsity’s vice chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said Tuesday. Pillai said the varsity’s over 3,000 study centres “can network with the local educational and training institutions for providing... 

Panaji, March 21 (IANS) Thousands of people, mostly parents of school-going children and nearly all of Goa’s Catholic legislators, converged here Monday demanding that grants must be given to primary schools offering English as the medium of instruction. The rally organised by the Forum for Rights of Children’s Education (FORCE), comes in the wake of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, which...