Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised the Anveshana programme of Prayoga Institute of Education Research for its work in making scientific research accessible to school students. The programme, launched in 2022, supports student-led research projects and provides hands-on learning opportunities.
The panel was constituted after a 20-year-old Nepalese student of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha's Bhubaneswar was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her hostel room.
At the core of Nitish Kumar's decision was a cold political calculation. He assessed that the RJD's support base was unlikely to vote for JD-U candidates in the Lok Sabha polls. He was unsure of winning even half a dozen if he stayed with the RJD and the Congress.
It said AMU is not and cannot be a university of any particular religion or religious denomination as any university which has been declared an institution of national importance cannot be a minority institution.
The 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC) will be headed by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) chancellor MC Pant and develop textbooks for classes 3 to 12.
'The government should immediately enact an Act to make caste discrimination a criminal offence and lay down a procedure similar to that of the Anti-Ragging Act.' 'Ragging has nearly been eliminated because it is treated as a criminal offence.' 'Similar procedure should be used in case of caste discrimination.'
The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the roll-out of the 'PM POSHAN in Schools' scheme that will provide hot cooked meal to students of elementary classes in government and government-aided schools across the country.
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'Economic issues do not matter during elections; it is the emotional connect that helps swing votes.'
The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals. Now that switchback ride between hopes for the technology and fear of it seemed to have taken us on another upward path, as the virus made us fall back in love with it. Read on for an intriguing excerpt from Rory Cellan-Jones's Always On: Hope And Fear In The Social Smartphone Era.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the Ministry of External Affairs is coordinating with the Pakistani authorities to complete the formalities to send back his body home.
Services skipper Soumik Chatterjee slammed a century while Yashpal Singh hit an unbeaten 92 to take Services to 284 for four on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group C match against Goa in Porvorim on Saturday.
One in five students drop out from school.
Rajasthan School Education Minister Vasudev Devnani on Tuesday claimed the revised syllabus has the first prime minister's name at 15 places in different textbooks.
A whopping Rs 140 crore suit has been filed against veteran Malaysian Indian politician Samy Vellu by the educational arm of his party, the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), accusing him of misappropriation. The Maju Institute of Educational Development (MIED), the educational arm of the MIC, the country's largest Indian based political party said the sum 100 million ringgit (Rs 140 crore) included special and general damages.
Tennis great Andre Agassi was in his element while revealing his innermost thoughts on life on and off the court on Wednesday and said he was proud of his life.
Regional Institute of Education (Mysore) invites applications on plain paper from eligible candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes.
Major strengths and weaknesses, if any, in respect of schools would also be highlighted in respect of all the 1.04 million schools, an official release said.
'At the tender age, children should not be subjected to a rat-race,' according to the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration.
The 33-year-old actress is UNICEF's celebrity advocate for education in India.
Students of class VIII in Rajasthan schools will no longer study the contribution of Jawaharlal Nehru in their social science textbook as references to the first prime minister have been dropped.
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.
'India is a country where many of the problems need local solutions and some be solved using basic science.'
That's what teachers are telling students in many Indian schools.
With fresh enrollments crossing 100,000 mark, the total number of Indian students studying in the US reported a sharp increase this year.
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