New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Alleging that Lt. Governor Anil Baijal is hiding certain documents from his ministers, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said in the state assembly that he is an elected Chief…
Dubai, Oct 4 (IANS/WAM) A three-year programme aimed at enhancing the skills of 17,000 teachers across 66 districts of Uganda was launched by philanthropic organisation Dubai Cares to mark World Teachers Day on Wednesday. The…
Agartala/New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Tripura government was on Wednesday put in an awkward position after the Supreme Court postponed hearing of a petition challenging the state government’s recruitment of 12,000 non-teaching personnel until…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Delhi Assembly on Wednesday passed a Bill to make about 15,000 guest teachers in government schools in the national capital permanent. “Regularisation of services of guest teachers and teachers…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Delhi Metro has launched a ‘Daan Utsav’ to encourage people to donate books and stationary to help needy children, it was announced on Wednesday. The week-long will end on October…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Some two dozen people staged a protest outside Delhi Assembly here on Wednesday against a Bill that seeks to regularise guest teachers and which is to be passed at a…
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday said that a bill to regularise 15,000 guest teachers in Delhi government schools is “beyond the legislative competence” of the assembly and asked Chief…
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The father of murdered student Pradhuman Thakur on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the grant of anticipatory bail to Augustine Francis Pinto and two other officials of the Ryan…
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry on Tuesday launched a diploma course in Elementary Education to train teachers across the country for teaching students up to Class 8. The Ministry…
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Central Water Commission (CWC) has signed MoUs with IIT Roorkee and Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad to support capacity building in dam safety under a rehabilitation and…
Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on Monday confirmed the news about working with producer Ronnie Screwala on his project titled “Kabaddi” but refuted the rumours about Hrithik Roshan walking out of the…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) A special one-day session of the Delhi Assembly will be held here on Wednesday to approve the Guest Teachers’ Regularisation Bill. On September 27, the Delhi Cabinet had okayed the…
Gurugram, Oct 2 (IANS) The suspended principal of a Ryan International School, where a boy was found brutally murdered on September 8, has been reinstated in another of the group’s schools, leaving the parents of…
Varanasi, Oct 2 (IANS) BHU Vice Chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi, who is being blamed for last month’s violence and baton-charge on protesting girl students in the campus, has gone on leave, citing personal reasons. BHU…
Riyadh, Oct 1 (IANS) A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, the first time in the country after a ban on women driving was lifted, reports said…
Shimla, Oct 1 (IANS) Foreigners are literally paddling towards a cleaner and healthier countryside in Himachal Pradesh. The central government’s ambitious programme Swachh Bharat Abhiyan may not be on their agenda, but they were racing…
London, Sep 30 (IANS) An Oxford college where Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi studied as an undergraduate has removed her portrait from public display, in a move that follows global criticism over her…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 30 (IANS) Times have changed and gone are the days when Vijayadashmi was celebrated by Hindus alone in Kerala. This day now sees thousands of tiny tots cutting across caste, creed or religion…
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi fired one mess worker and suspended another days after a dead rat was found in the food served in one of its hostel…
New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) S.P. Jain School of Global Management, which has campuses in Sydney, Singapore and Dubai apart from Mumbai, has been ranked among the top 20 institutes in the ‘Best International MBAs…