New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) For three days, about 45 teachers and principals from different schools turned students and learnt how to enhance the quality of teaching methods at a workshop here. The three-day workshop, ‘Gurkul for Gurus’, sponsored by Malabar Golds and Diamond for school teachers and principals ended [...]

Gurgaon: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone of the first Indian National Defence University (INDU) here May 23, an official said today. The INDU will provide for holistic study of defence and strategic security challenges. It will be will be set up at village Binola, 26 km from [...]

Shimla: Police manning the campus ahead of the scheduled President of India Pranab Mukherjee visit, next week, students’ violence has abated after the tough measures taken by the administration that has even barred wearing of any organizational badges at the institute. Students lying locked up in police custody for 5 [...]

Shillong, May 18 (IANS) CMJ University Saturday decided to file a writ appeal after the Meghalaya High Court directed the controversial private varsity to stop admissions while throwing out its appeal to allow it to continue admissions. “Our clients (CMJ University) will be filing a writ appeal before the division [...]

In the shadow of several 8000 meter high peaks, which include Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Lohla, Lingtern Pumori and others, the Sanawar Everest Team has set out to get to the top of the Mt Everest, something the boys, now grown up to be counted as men, have trained hard for [...]

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a response from Haryana’s chief secretary and director general of police over media reports that panchayats of six villages have decided against sending girls to school over fears of sexual harassment. The NHRC has sought reports from the two officials over [...]

Jalandhar: President Pranab Mukherjee will confer the first honoris causa degree of the Lovely Professional University (LPU) to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the varsity’s convocation to be held in this Punjab city Monday (May 20), a varsity official said. LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said: “President Pranab Mukherjee will be the [...]

Shimla: Auckland House School, one of the top girls schools in the country has recorded a cent percent result for students who appeared for the ISC and ICSE examination. Principal Sunita John let Hill Post know that from among the 88 girls who appeared for the ICSE (10th) class examination [...]

Shimla: Holding the union cabinet decision to transfer 67 schools run by Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry for Tibetans to Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) as a gross violation of the constitution, Bharat Raksha Samity has stated that a decision compromising with the sovereignty of the country would be challenged before [...]

Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) A class 3 student of a primary school in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district died here Friday, days after he was mercilessly thrashed by his teacher who allegedly beat him with a stick before banging his head against a wall. Ten-year-old Bapi Joardar, a student [...]