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Fifth year in a row, a desi kid wins US spelling bee

That Indian American kids rule when it comes to the National Spelling Bee, particularly in the last two decades, was manifest on Thursday night when Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old from San Diego,......

Yogathon draws thousands across US

The Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, USA, concluded its fifth annual Health for Humanity Yogathon recently with almost a million repetitions of the Surya Namaskar, a series of yoga postures.Despite the......

Educating India, one village at a time

A team from Pratham had arrived at a village in Uttar Pradesh to assess if the children could read, but the village head was dismissive. Lying shirtless on his cot, he told them all children in the......

US: Indian kid wins Geographic Bee in style

Akshay Rajagopal, a 11-year-old sixth-grader from Lincoln, Nebraska, took top honours at the 2008 National Geographic Bee held in Washington, DC on May 21, collecting a $25,000 college scholarship......

US: Indian student wins prestigious scholarship

An 18-year-old 'exceptionally promising' high school senior from Andover, Massachusetts, was among 28 students named by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation last week as recipients of its up to $30,000......

SRK to host a new game show

Do you think you are smarter than a fifth grade student? Confused! Well if you are then participate in a new game show and let the Badshah of Bollywood, Sharukh Khan do the rest. After hitting it......

News Corp has big plans for India

With Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation restructuring its broadcast business in Asia, Uday Shankar, the chief executive officer of STAR India has been entrusted with many more responsibilities. He......

Panchvi Pass bowled by IPL

Confronted with poor audience response and low television viewer ratings due to the DLF Indian Premier League, Star Plus has decided to air repeat telecasts of Shah Rukh Khan-anchored quiz show Kya......

IPL scores over Paanchvi Paas

The ongoing Twenty20 cricketing action of the Indian Premiere Leaguehas found more viewers and better television ratings on Set Max than film star Shah Rukh Khan's latest avtaar of a quiz master in......

SRK or IPL: Tough choice for channel sponsors

Star Plus has signed up telecom major Airtel as the presenting sponsor for the Shah Rukh Khan-anchored Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hai. According to sources, the deal has been struck at Rs 40......

Too many stars spoil even the idiot box

And coming up after the break, the eight-time Filmfare Award winning actor will ask Mrs Mishra to sing.'Yawn.Ladies and gents, welcome to the silly superstar season in televisionland, with three of......

SRK's classroom is fun!

I always wanted to be a teacher,' reveals Shah Rukh Khan on the first episode of his new game show for Star Plus, Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain, which made its debut on April 25 amidst huge......

First Look: SRK's new quiz show

Shah Rukh Khan returns as quizmaster on television with his new show, Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain, after hissuccessful first innings in Star Plus' Kaun Banega Crorepati.Paanchvi Paas is a......

Rock 'n' roll time at the USBO!

School Of Rock, starring Jeff Black, grabbed more than the Denzel Washington sexy crime thriller Out Of Time. The story of adesperate rock musician who secretly trains fifth graders to enter a rock......

School Of Rock: A wild musical comedy

A sweetly subversive film, School Of Rock, could give director Richard Linklater his first mainstream hit. Though the film appears on the surface to be a wild musical comedy assailing the......

People speak for fifth grader

QNA

Q. Is sex education necessary to be introduced in school?
: A. It is OK to impart the requisite education to youngsters to address several points, viz., adolescent curiosity on the part of youngsters and also...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/is-sex-education-necessary-to-be-introduced-in-school//answers/8388624

Q. Govt. gives reservation on basis of OC/OBC/BC/SC/ST etc..India should not be divided on the basis of OBC or non -OBC or caste. India should have only two classes : RICH and POOR.Govt. should help those by reservation who are economically poor in every field in any catagory.WHAT DO YO SAY ?
Moto Singh: A. Quallification, Intelligence, Skill, Talent Excellence, Merit and all virtues can go to hell under the Govt.'s reservation policy and India is...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/govt.-gives-reservation-on-basis-of-ocobcbcscst-etc..india-s/8145070/answers/8505803

Q. kyan panchvi pass ke saval pooch kar carorepati banana sahi hai? kyon yeh jyada pade likho ki sere aam tohin nahi hai?
Prabhat Kumar Kumar: A. Nahin Kanhaiya Sahaabji , Aap phikar mat kijiyein, yeh show maine tou nahin kha par yeh jarror keh sakata hoon ki aise shows humein kuch bhooli...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/kyan-panchvi-pass-ke-saval-pooch-kar-carorepati-banana-sahi-/8494839/answers/9881605

Q. Does our producers & directors dont have their own creativity because of instead of giving people their own stories, they go either for Aurshi murder case story or now Veerappan's Life?? or copy the same film from South Movies???
Kanhaiya Marwal: A. We have been seeing films after films and applauding them and many do not even know they are the remake of films either made abroad or in the...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/does-our-producers-amp-directors-dont-have-their-own-creativ/9818609/answers/9248666

Q. Do you watch 'Kya aap Panchvi Pass se Tez hain'? The idea is a total copy of similar English program "are you smarter than a fifth grader?". Can't we produce something original or do we always have to ape others?
Cyrus Irani: A. very very boring more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/do-you-watch-kya-aap-panchvi-pass-se-tez-hain-the-idea-is-a-/9233774/answers/9152075

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Gym classes vital to lower obesity risk among kids

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3 cheers for cricket, it's family entertainment

The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) theme song Korbo lorbo jeetbo re rent the air as fans sporting purple tees and waving golden flags trickled into... ...

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Five Arizona Teachers Each Awarded a $5,000 Grant

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona recently awarded five Arizona fifth-grade teachers a $5,000 grant for each of their... ...

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