Headmaster of an upper primary school in Kerala was on Saturday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a lower court in connection with a case of burning the National Flag on Republic Day in 2005.
Making significant progress, India has reduced its "out of school" children by over 90 per cent and has achieved "universal primary education", said a UNESCO global education report released on Thursday.
India's number one tennis player Sumit Nagal is left with less than Rs one lakh in his bank account and a morose feeling of not leading a good life.
The richest one per cent in India now own more than 40 per cent of the country's total wealth, while the bottom half of the population together share just 3 per cent of wealth, a new study showed on Monday.
Chaudhary Charan Singh, who on Friday was conferred with India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, is popularly known as a champion of farmers.
All-India Central Board Secondary Examination Class XII topper Mohammad Ismat battled the odds to score a stunning 99.6 percent this year.
The single judge of the Karnataka high court hearing the case related to the 'hijab' ban in school-college campuses referred the matter to Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi on Wednesday with a view that the CJ may decide on constituting a larger bench to look into the case.
72 year-old washerman, Pancham Lal, who is accorded 'VIP' status on polling days, was the first to cast his vote in the erstwhile princely state. Sharat Pradhan reports
The video of students of the Siyur Primary School in Jamalpur block of Mirzapur district being served salt and roti in their midday meal had gone viral on the social media on August 22, triggering outrage and leading to the suspension of two teachers.
The issue of 'snooping' using Pegasus spyware snowballed into a massive political row in Parliament and outside as various parties demanded a thorough investigation and sacking of Home Minister Amit Shah, while the government maintained it had nothing to do with it.
'I had the opportunity to portray a wildlife crime fighter on screen, which allowed me to express my concern for society, wildlife, and the environment. I strongly believe that humans share this planet with countless other species and hold immense respect for every living creature.'
Sukhu said that he was a warrior and will fight till his last to ensure the welfare of the state and its people.
Right from the word go, Bijoya Sawain's focus was on teaching students good manners and behaviour, the difference between right and wrong, the value of cleanliness, integrity, honesty and so on.
A video showing the incident involving school teacher, Tripta Tyagi, and the Class 2 boy in Muzaffarnagar has gone viral on social media eliciting strong words from several political parties.
A 36-year-old suspected woman Maoist, wanted by the Chhattisgarh police, was on Tuesday arrested from a south Delhi locality where she was allegedly hiding, police sources said. Soni Sori, a primary school teacher and an aunt of Lingaram Kodopi who was recently arrested for allegedly acting as a conduit between Maoists and Essar, was apprehended from Katwaria Sarai by a team of Delhi police. "We raided the premises on a tip-off provided by the Chhattisgarh police," said a cop
Over 16 lakh voters are eligible to cast their franchise in the by-election necessitated by the death of Dutt on May 25.
Suriya Prabha trains students from government schools in rural Tamil Nadu to code and use Artificial Intelligence to solve problems.
Several sex workers had staged a protest and removed barricades put up by the police restricting entry of people to the area.
The flash flood, triggered by heavy rain, struck Shalan town in Ning'an city, submerging its low-lying primary school where 352 pupils and 31 teaching staff were staying.
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Mansukhbhai Jagani has won patents for his innovation in India and the United States.
Boston-based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organisation, is targeting to sell 1 million OLPC XO laptops in India by the end of the current financial year.
The much-awaited $35 computing-cum-access device, to be made available to students right from primary schools to universities, will be launched on October 5.
A Chinese primary school teacher stabbed four children to death and wounded 12 pupils and four colleagues last week in central China's Hunan province.
The embattled Left Front has done one more volte face by deciding to regularise hawkers in Kolkata's busiest streets.
'We couldn't believe that in the 21st century world, a European country can be bombed, can be invaded.'
A four-year-old boy, resident of a village located 60 km away from Bihar's capital Patna, has been accused of murder.Alok Pandey, who is yet to join a primary school, has been charged by the police in Bhojpur district for assaulting and seriously injuring his neighbour, who died on his way to the hospital.The case has been registered despite the fact that as per Section 82 of the Indian Penal Code, the police cannot file a criminal case against a child below the age of seven.
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The top brass of the Bihar education department came under shock when it was found that funds granted under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan -- a government of India programme which aims to provide free and compulsory education to all children of ages 6 to 14 years -- was used by 54 headmasters of government-run primary and middle schools to build their own homes instead of constructing new classrooms and schools, officials in Patna said on Monday.
In a letter, State Council of Educational Research and Training director Sajjan R urged competent authorities to immediately suspend all such teachers' training programmes.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh remembered his own school days in a highly energy-deficient era while addressing children on the Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas.
This meant targets set for primary school admissions, assured income for every family and roads, water, housing and electricity. And yearly spending of over Rs 1,20,000 crore (Rs 1,200 billion), up from Rs 36,000 crore (Rs 360 billion) in the last year of the National Democratic Alliance government.
Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral contest in Tamil Nadu.
Snack food and beverage major PepsiCo plans to replace carbonated or sparkling beverages with juices and other low-calorie products in schools
I did not take up research for any award.' 'What is more important is the medicine that I have developed.' 'This helps the patient recover and the family is happy that their relative has survived and they go back to their lives.
'We need a candidate who will do our work and fight with the authorities; someone we can hold accountable.' 'Piyush Goyal is not that candidate.'
Aged 11, Adora Svitak is not just another primary school kid; she teaches in one.
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