By Calestous Juma. Four of the highest recipients of Olympics medals are also permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The US, UK, Russia and China rank on top not necessarily because they’re superpowers, but because they field competitors in nearly every sport.
By winning five medals in taekwondo, African countries demonstrated they too can diversify into new sports and excel. More...

Manipal University has bagged the prestigious Capacity Building project in Higher Education offered by the European Union under the Erasmus Plus programme.
A press release issued by the university here on Friday said that the three-year project carries a grant of € 564178 (about Rs. 4 crore) to develop a Centre for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a teaching-learning methodology in schools to address issues related to multilingualism. More...