The Jammu and Kashmir Education Department is planning to compensate for the loss by extra and special classes. Some schools are also opting for e-lectures that are distributed to the students through Internet.
The reputation of Bihar's schools has taken a knock. Satyavrat Mishra explains how a student-teacher nexus has gamed the system to produce toppers by the dozen.
The state government on Wednesday slapped a show cause notice Ryan international school for allegedly asking its teachers and students to seek membership of BJP.
The angry reaction from the Director (School Education) came after some channels aired Faesal's pictures alongside Wani's bullet-ridden body.
'The copying mafia is very powerful. We need to use technology to fight them.'
The move comes after Taliban gunmen stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar in December last year.
Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi on Wednesday said coming out with a "white paper" for every government department and initiating a "security index" to ensure better policing will be her priorities if the party is voted to power in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls.
He said that children are most affected due to rising pollution and government will make a policy of odd-even formula with their involvement.
'The cold weather of Delhi was thawed away completely by the warmth of the prime minister,' says Kshitija Desai.
Suriya Prabha trains students from government schools in rural Tamil Nadu to code and use Artificial Intelligence to solve problems.
At least 33 children were taken ill after they were severed a meal at a government-run school in Bihar's Vaishali district on Friday.
Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh stoked a controversy by saying that the word 'adhinayaka' in the national anthem should be replaced with 'mangal' as it praises British rule.
Women candidates married to a man with two surviving wives have also been barred from applying.
Despite winning several times in court against the primary school council of the West Bengal government's education department, Sengupta has not been able to get his proper salary as per the present pay scale. The latest order in his favour from the high court came on Thursday, but Sengupta was sceptical after the fate of earlier orders.
The Delhi government on Saturday terminated the services of Uma Khurana, the teacher who is accused of forcing schoolgirls into prostitution.
In a bid to create terror and panic ahead of the polls, Maoists blew up a government middle school at Lakhisarai district in Bihar on early Thursday, just as the state was going to polls, the police said.
Official sources in the Education Department confirmed that students in the exam centre at Jagjivan Ram College in Gaya, TPS College in Patna and Sher Shah College in Sasaram, district headquarters of Rohtas district, went on the rampage and boycotted the examination. "After authorities deployed at the examination center, including police officials, did not allow the students to carry books, copies and mobile phones inside the exam hall, the students turned violent.
The transfers were effected keeping in mind the demands of ministers, an official said, adding the conflict between them was resulting in inefficiency of work.
In yet another secretary-level change, government appointed Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981 Gujarat cadre IAS officer, as the new Financial Services Secretary replacing G S Sandhu.
Digital learning with personal computers will soon become a mass reality with Intel and HCL Infosystems planning to introduce the Intel-powered Classmate PC in India from August. Wipro and Zenith Computers will soon follow the suit.
And these colleges are affiliated to the Bihar School Examination Board.
Wilful non-compliance of such mandatory features could attract imprisonment of up to a year or a fine that could go up to Rs five lakh or both.
The Sikhs emphasised that there must be basic understanding of their religion and its practices among school officials.
Not just students, even school teachers and principals are part of the rot afflicting Bihar's education system.
Johnson, the former foreign secretary, secured 92,153 votes against 46,656 of his rival Jeremy Hunt in the battle for 10 Downing Street.
It looks like Hindi, which faces political opposition at the front door, is entering Tamil Nadu through the kitchen, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
A special investigation team visited the Bihar School Examination Board and quizzed its chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad. The team seized computers and hard disk from the BSEB office.
Bihar government on Monday dissolved a committee constituted by Bihar School Examination Board to probe into alleged irregularities in evaluation of marks in this year's 10+2 examination.
A combative Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, furious over the CBI raid at the Delhi Secretariat, has alleged that the day-long action by the probe agency was to look for an inquiry committee file relating to Delhi District Cricket Association that "traps" Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
How can we call Bharat our Bhagya Vidhata? asks school manager.
"The circular is issued by the local authority. The state government doesn't go with the views of these local authorities," Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde told Rediff.com over the phone.
United States President Barack Obama last week announced his intent to name three Indian Americans among 14 new members to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
India Inc very keen to do business in Gujarat.
Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh resigned as BSEB chairman on Wednesday after noose started tightening around him in the scandal.
China is getting aggressive in its fight against doping and plans to step up testing before the 2008 Olympics come to Beijing, a Chinese sports official said.\n
Several child rights organisations had been demanding the ban following reports of torture in schools.
Impasse over continuation of 13-odd "HIV positive" students in a South Goa school has deepened with more parents now resolving to withdraw their wards from the school in protest against management's decision to not cancel admission of these children.
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