Greetings from all quarters, including his political rivals, poured in on Monday for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who celebrated his 68th birthday in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi.
The enthusiasm has been sparked off among these kids after the Indian Space Research Organisation set up two large parabolic antennas in Byalalu. Manoj, a Class 6 student of the Yesgohalli government primary school, says his ambition now is to become a scientist. It is quite surprising the manner in which he explains with ease the functions of the antenna.
Students of a primary school in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district were served mid-day meals mixed with 'bhang' and liquor, apparently to make the food tastier.
"The headmen have to act as the eyes and ears of the administration and help the government in carrying forward its developmental agenda," Azad said.
The Reserve Bank of India will take up 'financial literacy' programme to educate youngsters about basic banking transactions in a big way, RBI Deputy Governor V Leeladhar said on Monday.
Most south Asian nations will fall short on the Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight globally agreed development goals due to be achieved by 2015, a study by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund said.The report has warned that developing countries stand to suffer the most from climate change and the degradation of natural resources.
The controversy over whether the government should mandate cooked food or pre-packaged meals at child care centres (anganwadis) and for the mid-day meal scheme in primary schools under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) misses the wood for the trees.
Sub-divisional police officer Chingtham Anand, a resident of Imphal's Haobam Marak locality, was killed in a sniper attack while he was on duty overseeing the cleaning of the grounds of Eastern Shine School for construction of a helipad jointly by the police and BSF, officials said.
"While you were squeezing the life out of your wife, your children can be heard crying in the background for their mummy. It is clear that they heard what was going on and knew that she was being hurt by you," the judge noted in his sentencing remarks.
Former West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was on Thursday sworn in as the 14th Vice President of India.
Relief Commissioner Alok Pandey told reporters that the government is constantly working to ensure that there is no loss of life due to the weather phenomenon.
The father of suspec ted terror mastermind Shahid alias Bilal in an exclusive interview.
To have at least one demonstration school in every district.
Under the red alert, which is the highest in the four-tier emergency response system created in 2013, all schools have been ordered to be closed, and outdoor construction halted.
In the wake of the 'hijab' (headscarf) row, the Karnataka government has asked educational institutions to follow existing uniform related rules, until the high court comes out with an order in this regard, next week.
As 22 students died after eating mid-day meal in Bihar's Chhapra, about 50 children of another government school were taken ill on Wednesday after they were served food under the scheme in Madhubani district of the state.
Catch J Baby in theatres, and if you want to watch more touching Tamil stories on the dysfunctional family, Arjun Menon lists where you can find them on OTT.
The incident had acquired political overtones with the Bharatiya Janata Party and West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar hitting out at the Mamata Banerjee government over the killings, and the RSS claiming the teacher was its supporter.
The agency detected the fixed deposits in State Bank of India, Axis Bank and Bank of India during the questioning of several close aides of Mondal and other witnesses during its ongoing probe in the case, they said.
School teachers in Haryana have been told not to wear jeans at work and to be formally dressed. An order in this regard was issued by the director of Elementary Education, Haryana (Panchkula).
It said since the appellant at present would be more than 20 years old, there was no requirement of sending him to the Juvenile Justice Board or any other child care facility or institution.
The Congress in its poll manifesto had promised to undo the changes made to school textbooks when the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power, and had also promised to scrap National Education Policy.
"It is a matter of self-respect and dignity to live in Indra Nagar rather than in a street that identifies your caste.'
The 'One Laptop Per Child' project, which is the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, was launched in 2005. Citing that some developing nations had not followed their verbal agreements with concrete orders, Negroponte has launched a "give one, get one" scheme allowing individuals to buy two laptops at a pre-determined price and have one of the laptops sent a child in the developing world.
Flood-ravaged Dhemaji district where surface communication is in shambles, is infested with ULFA militants taking advantage of interior locations.
Navdeep Singh Jaryal died when a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Sabah in Malaysia.
A publishing house has launched a series of textbooks that incorporates four subjects in the same volume.
The scholarship has been introduced to encourage others to be 'pure and focus on school'.
The air quality is expected to improve further due to wind speed favourable for the dispersion of pollutants.
'But if you look with a biased mind, you may find our achievement a small one.' Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah defends his police force.
Ahead of the state assembly elections due this year-end, Baghel made as many as 15 announcements in his address during the state-level Independence Day function at the Police Parade ground in Raipur.
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka appears to be readying itself for a big fight, and this time it is over the Bhagavad Gita. A statement by Karnataka Chief Minister D Sadananda Gowda, in which he said that the government was considering introducing the Gita in primary and secondary standards in school has drawn appreciation as well as flak in the state. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday approved the revision of Kannada and Social Science textbooks of Classes 6 to 10 in the state for this academic year by removing the chapters on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder K B Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar among others.
Taliban attackers' brazen assault on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar city that claimed the lives of over 150 students on Tuesday has brought back chilling memories of a similar bloodbath in Russia in 2004 when Chechen rebels stormed a school.
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.
'The Modi government is doing a good job but corrupt officers are siphoning off funds,' says journalist Pawan Kumar Jaiswal against whom an FIR has been filed for his video expose of school children being fed salt and rotis as their mid-day meal.
The 102-year-old was given a warm welcome by election staff at the Kalpa booth in Mandi Lok Sabha constituency, which went to polls in the last and seventh phase of the general elections.
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