A civil lawsuit has been filed against a school district in California seeking to suspend a controversial yoga programme which parents feel 'unlawfully' promote religious beliefs.
The reserve price for the bottle is 40,000 pounds.
Should other states take Tamil Nadu's lead and abolish corporal punishment?
Byju's is in talks with three-four strategic buyers, including Joffre Capital Ltd and language learning platform Duolingo, to sell one of its key assets, US-based digital reading platform Epic, for about $400-$450 million, according to sources. With this, the beleaguered edtech firm wants to meet various commitments, including repaying its entire $1.2 billion term loan B (TLB) within six months. "The binding offers of the bidders to acquire Epic are expected to come in the next few weeks after the due diligence is complete," said a person familiar with the matter.
Mentally-challenged children find themselves ignored by India's education system.
A report by Amnesty International titled 'Safe Schools: Every Girl's Right' has found that a shockingly high number of girl students in India face physical, sexual and psychological abuse on a regular basis. According to the report, instances of abuse are highest in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi, with the national capital, where 87 per cent of young female students reported facing abuse, listed as the worst place for young female students.
A United States court has ruled that Yoga classes in an elementary school do not endorse Hinduism or violate students' right to religious freedom and are "devoid of any religious, mystical, or spiritual trappings".
'If his father and brother were alive today, they would be brimming with joy. This is the life's most memorable day and only few are lucky to see it. I'm the proudest mom on this earth.'
Sharma, who was earlier employed with Kanda's MLDR airlines, was found dead on August 5, 2012 at her Ashok Vihar residence in North West Delhi.
The consortium will launch programmes in ease of doing business in their respective regions B-schools.
rediffGURU Aruna Agarwal, a qualified child psychologist and behaviour therapist with over 20 years of experience, offers parenting advice.
Formula One will have a record 24 races in the season that starts in Bahrain on Saturday.
Brand India's societal divisions and distortions have remained as much relevant in 'liberal' America and Europe as it still is in the structurally stratified Indian society of the 21st century, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A nation neglects its security at its peril. And Sainik Schools are a pivotal cog in the security apparatus.
Under pressure from all quarters following the alleged suicide of a student after being caned by the principal, the elite La Martiniere School for Boys in Kolkata on Friday banned corporal punishment. "No child will be subjected to physical punishment and mental torture and whoever contravenes such provisions, shall be construed a major violator of rules and if found guilty, shall be liable for disciplinary action," the school's board of governors said in a notification.
Violation of the rules will attract a fine of Rs 4000, the chief minister said.
The West Bengal government on Thursday said it was formulating rules to ensure that schools do not create fear among students as physical and mental torture pose hindrance to their natural development.
Several child rights organisations had been demanding the ban following reports of torture in schools.
Jaswinder Singh, father of the victim, said that his son Mansukh was allegedly beaten by the teachers after he got into a fight with a fellow student.
Biographies of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda, Arya Samaj founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati, and writer and freedom fighter Pandit Shriram Sharma have been included in the curriculum.
A government survey report has revealed that around 1,875 government-run schools in Bihar do not exist. The report says that the government's Global Positioning System, which were used toascertain the physical verification of the schools to chalk out their upgradation and modernization, have failed to locate them. M I Khan reports.
Amid Israel's retaliation against the Hamas' surprise attack on October 7, hospitals in the Gaza Strip are nearing collapse without electricity and basic supplies and doctors have to decide on which patients get ventilators, who gets any medical treatment at all or who gets resuscitated, The New York Times reported.
'Life had its own plans and now I have learnt to go with the flow.'
As per the official announcement by Delhi government, the teachers will be deployed from December 31, 2022, until January 15, 2023, to ensure COVID-appropriate behaviour is followed at Delhi Airport.
Parents, relatives, friends need to accept that things said in jest can deeply scar young minds and should therefore, be best avoided, notes Aarti David.
'Younger children don't really distinguish based on class, gender, income and so on.'
The girl's mother demanded that the school should be shut down.
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The residents of Phule Malwadi hope this desperate act will draw attention to their problem.
Om Prakash Rajbhar said the parents will be forced to sit in police stations for five days and will neither be given food nor water if they don't send their children to school.
Police have taken into a custody an autorickshaw driver in connection with the rape of a girl, who was found bleeding on a street in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain city, and five others are also being questioned in the case, a senior official said on Thursday.
Asian Games gold medallist Indian boxer Kaur Singh, who once fought the legendary Muhammad Ali in an exhibition bout, died on Thursday.
"She (the teacher) dragged my child forcefully and asked her to stay for five minutes inside the boys' washroom as a punishment for not wearing the uniform," alleged the father of the victim.
'My world changed the day Aaradhya was born.'
'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.' 'If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?' 'What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'
In a fillip to the ambitious Agnipath scheme, the Union home ministry has announced 10 per cent reservation for former Agniveers in vacancies in the Border Security Force (BSF) with relaxations in the upper age limit.
'We will bring up students with an imperfect understanding of their own history and a superficial understanding of science.' 'This is not what we should be doing to future generations.'
'When you are at 15,600 ft, and in a glacial terrain, where temperatures are much below zero, and can dip to even -40 degrees Celsius, it is not just the harsh weather you have to brave, but isolation too which comes at such a height'
The MHRD plans to track various performance parameters of government school teachers and students through tablets and smartphones, reports Sahil Makkar.
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