Huddled in blankets and shivering in the snow, survivors of history's most notorious death camp returned and bowed their heads in tribute to the 1.5 million people who were slaughtered there.

One in four boys aged 14 to 17 has been classified as a serious or prolific offender by a Home Office study.

Children will be given compulsory history lessons about great British heroes such as Lord Nelson, Sir Francis Drake and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, under Conservative plans to restore respect for the nation's heritage.

The University of Oxford is to cut the number of British undergraduates it admits and "vigorously" recruit more foreign students, who pay the full cost of their degrees.

All 12-year-olds at a comprehensive are to be told that homework is being scrapped because teachers have better things to do than mark it.

John Clare answers your queries on A-levels: why now? revision courses and detecting dyslexia

Leading universities have been accused of letting down students by offering as little as four hours teaching a week for some courses.

Rachel Johnson on a classy way to give

Ruth Kelly has confirmed that she is receiving 'spiritual guidance' from the Roman Catholic Opus Dei movement, but denied that its conservative view on issues such as abortion would limit her role in government.

About 92 per cent of the 5846-km Golden Quadrilateral project is expected to be completed by December 2005, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and Shipping T R Baalu said on Saturday.

India has the potential to become an outsourcing hub for Japanese automotive industry as well as other sectors, Vikram Kirloskar, the chairman of Kirloskar Systems Ltd, said.

It's raining brands in the market, and never before has the Indian metrosexual male had so many choices as he has now.

The requirement of a licence for ordinary investors to trade on the stockmarket in the shape of the new MAPIN-UIN is egregious.

Between Chitpur's crumbling facades and go-carting clubs in the suburbs, Kolkata feels like a city shedding its chrysalis.

If you thought India's financial system is past the stage when you have to worry about things going wrong (for UTI has been fixed, the financial institutions have been made into banks, and the banks made much safer), you may

Some 24 years ago, Narotam Satyanarayan Sekhsaria, a 33-year-old cotton trader from Gujarat left the family-run business to try his hand in the cement sector.

Telecom company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has filed a lawsuit against the central government at Bombay High Court, seeking a compensation of Rs 2,560.72 crore (Rs 25.6 billion) for premature termination of its international long distance monopoly.

Volvo has appointed Eric Leblanc as the new managing director to succeed Ulf Nordqvist, in Volvo, India.

The bidi industrialist who's famously opened up the skies and promised to make flying commonplace for Indians.