The Goa government has promoted the Vasco rape victim, and her elder sister, to next class, considering it as a special case, as both the girls could not take the examinations because of the trauma.
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City mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who visited the market, said the fire was controlled to some extent, but refused to comment on how long it would take to extinguish the blaze completely.
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Hesham Qandil, a United States-educated technocrat was on Tuesday roped in by President Mohamed Mursi to be Egypt's first post election prime minister, who will face the task of restoring the country's socio-economic stability, hit by months of protests and uncertainty.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- founders of Marxism -- may be out of history syllabus in government schools in West Bengal following a recommendation by a state education panel.
The clarification in this regard was made on Friday as Shiv Sena ministers met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
The state police crime branch is reported to have established conduct of malpractices by officials of board of school education (BOSE) and education department to help the state education ministers' son pass his board exam in 2009.
Worsening the crisis in Assam, State Education and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma quit on Monday demanding the immediate ouster of Tarun Gogoi as chief minister.
Union Minister for Human Resource and Development Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday that the Indian Institute of Technology Council has proposed that students seeking admission into IITs all over the country will have to pass just one test instead of appearing in separate tests for various institutes.
Roy, on his part, said the decision to name him in the first information report was 'politically motivated'.
The Goa Children's Court has acquitted Rohit, son of state Education Minister Atanasio Monserratte, on the charge of raping a German minor girl. Rohit was arrested in November 2008 for allegedly raping a 14-year-old German girl and sending her lewd messages. The court acquitted Rohit on Wednesday as the mother of the victim and the girl refused to cooperate with the prosecution. Both have returned to Germany and were not available to testify before the court.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK supremo M Karunanidhi's gesture to send a high-level team led by the education and archaeological department to meet Modi in Gandhinagar on Monday has created a flutter in Congress circles in New Delhi
The resolution said the state will be called Bangla in three languages -- Bengali, English and Hindi.
Two youth were critically injured on Sunday as mobs defied curfew and attacked the home of the state education minister in south Kashmir Anantnag district. Meanwhile 34-year old Mohammad Ashraf Mir who was critically wounded in police firing in Palhallan town on the Srinagar Muzaffarabad road on September 6 succumbed to injuries in the Soura medical institute this afternoon.
Government today announced plans for setting up a National Institute for Assessment which would evaluate curriculum and education standards at school level in different states and suggest measure to improve them.
And these colleges are affiliated to the Bihar School Examination Board.
It will all future appointments for gazetted and non-gazetted posts on contractual basis for the first seven years
The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states' education ministers on Wednesday trashed Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal's road map for education, stressing that fiddling with examinations and a single board for 12th class examination cannot reform the education.
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.
The guidelines also stress on institutional mapping so that only the institutions recognised by the appropriate body of the State and Centre will be eligible for the scheme.
Scores of students on Friday staged a protest outside the CBSE office in Delhi against the paper leak.
A Goa court has granted conditional bail to state Education minister Atanasio Monserratte's son Rohit in German minor rape case.
Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh resigned as BSEB chairman on Wednesday after noose started tightening around him in the scandal.
United States Education Foundation in India offers a programme in New Delhi for prospective students.
The Maharashtra government's proposed move to introduce sex education in higher classes of some schools has run into trouble with Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar on Wednesday staying the implementation of the decision following strong protests from several quarters.
Eastern India sends the least number of scholars, North leads.
The Haryana government on Tuesday also said it will introduce teaching of Bhagvad Gita shlokas in schools.
Trinamool Congress on Saturday removed Mukul Roy, a former confidante of Mamata Banerjee, from the key post of party general secretary.
North Korea has reportedly published a list of 310 bizarre patriotic slogans to kick-start celebrations ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding and the liberation of the Korean peninsula from Japanese rule
The Shiv Sena has spurned Congress' request to participate in the bandh.
Even a day after he was booked for allegedly raping a German minor girl, the Goa police are still unable to arrest the state Education Minister Atanasio Monserratte's elder son Rohit. "We have not been able to arrest him till now. The search is still on," a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
The Untied States Education Foundation in India (USEFI) invites applications from interested Indian nationals between 21 and 29 years of age, currently teaching English at college level or training to be teachers of English for the 2008 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Programme.
The 2009 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award for outstanding students invites applications.
Sena further said that accusations against the ministers shows that "politics is being played to put a halt to their ambitions".
The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee on Saturday evening decided to suspend sacked state education minister Ripun Borah from the primary membership of the party in the wake of his arrest by Central Bureau of Investigation on a bribery charge on June 3. The APCC informed the media that sacked minister Borah was suspended from the party after the AICC gave the approval for it. The AICC former minister was a member of the party's national level committee.
USEFI announces professional development programme for Indian and Pakistani Teachers of English.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has won from Maninagar Assembly constituency by 87,000 votes. State Education Minister Bhupendra Lakhawala has won from Vadodara with a margin of 29,387 votes.
The new pattern announced by CBSE and various State Education Boards will bring in a fresh dose of objectivity into this year's Class X board exams. Here's what students can expect in their board exams next year.
A FIR has been filed against expelled Congress legislator Atanasio Monserrate.
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