India’s education system must prepare children for life
byThe far-reaching Right To Education Act, now in its fourth year of implementation, obliges the central and state governments to provide eight years of…
Education
Five Odisha students head to US for aero-design competition
byBhubaneswar, April 6 (IANS) At least five students from Odisha’s KIIT University are set to participate in an annual aero-design competition to be held…
Dead SFI leader’s family ‘disgusted’ by Mamata’s comments
byKolkata: Family members of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta Friday expressed disgust over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbing his…
Doctors, medical students, beat up scribes in Agartala
byAgartala, April 5 (IANS) At least eight mediapersons were seriously injured Friday when junior doctors and medical students beat them up at a Tripura…
Declining educational standards: Himachal lawmakers worried (Himachal Newsletter)
byShimla, April 5 (IANS) Strange as it may sound, a majority of Class 5 students in Himachal Pradesh government schools are not able to…
Lahore school wins India-Pakistan school debate
byNew Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s Lahore-based Salamat International Campus for Advanced Studies (SICAS) Thursday won the India-Pakistan School Debate 2013 held at the…
Maharashtra state civil services exams postponed
byMumbai, April 4 (IANS) Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Thursday postponed the Maharashtra state civil services exam after the commission conducting the exam lost data…
Himachal court upholds conviction in Kachroo ragging case
byShimla, April 4 (IANS) Four convicts punished for the 2009 ragging death of medical student Aman Kachroo will have to cough up an additional…
Himachal court upholds conviction in Kachroo ragging case
byShimla, April 4 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday upheld the conviction of four students involved in the sensational ragging-to-death case of medical…
Classes hit, roads blocked in Bengal over student’s death
byKolkata, April 4 (IANS) Students largely stayed away from schools and colleges while traffic came to a virtual standstill in many cities of West…