Ranchi, July 22 (IANS) A day after a class 11 student committed suicide in Jharkhand, parents of the boy on Saturday registered an FIR against the Principal and Vice Principal of the school, police said….
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) US’ prestigious Stanford University, in its Social Innovation Review, has expressed appreciation for the Delhi government’s move to offer free primary medical healthcare through neighbourhood clinics, popularly known as Mohalla…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Friday gave its approval to a bill amending the law on free and compulsory education to extend the deadline for teachers to acquire the prescribed minimum…
Chandigarh, July 21 (IANS) Students passing out of government medical colleges in Haryana will now be required to do a fixed period of service in government hospitals of the state, state Health Minister Anil Vij…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The CAG on Friday said it found gaps in financial management, compliance, monitoring and evaluation of Right To Education (RTE) Act 2009. Also, teachers were deployed for non-educational purposes in…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The first batch of 10 Indian start-ups was on Friday graduated from the “Nexus Incubator”, a collaboration between the University of Texas and the US State Department, during at event…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Inadequately qualified teachers, working after enactment of the Right to Education Act, were being given a “last chance” to acquire minimum qualifications by March 2019, said the government on Friday….
Kabul, July 21 (IANS) A teacher was shot dead by two masked gunmen in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, the latest in a string of targeted killing in the militancy-hit country, an official said on Friday. “Sahab-ul-Haq…
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Star couple Paresh Rawal and Swaroop Sampat have come together for a song, “Saamne aa”, for the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign. “Saamne aa” is written and directed by social storyteller…
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Seven scholars from IIT-Bombay and IIT-Kharagpur are among 10 selected for six Qualcomm Innovation Fellow (QInF) programmes in India for the academic year 2017-18, an official said. They will conduct research…
By Rupesh Datta Itanagar/New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) In a bid to provide better education and training to young people, the Arunachal Pradesh government is considering setting up Sainik Schools that would motivate them to…
Bengaluru, July 20 (IANS) The Karnataka government will gift laptops to 1.5 lakh students of ‘poor’ families joining colleges across the state this academic year, Law Minister T. B. Jaychandra said on Wednesday. “The state…
Gurugram, July 19 (IANS) Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop visited a school here on Wednesday as part of bilateral students and teachers exchange programme. BRIDGE (Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement), started…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday presented the “Pranab Mukherjee Award for Academic Excellence” to Aman Aggarwal for scoring the highest aggregate in Class XII CBSE Examination 2017 among the students…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill declaring the 15 existing IIITs, established through public-private partnership, as institutions of national importance, enabling them to grant degrees. Education was not…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) A court on Wednesday pulled up the Delhi Police for seeking more time to file report on action taken against those who allegedly raised anti-national slogans at the Delhi University’s…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Edtech startup accelerator EDUGILD on Wednesday organised a first-of-its-kind ‘Aurora 2017’ international edtech immersion summit that will showcase products related to augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), 3D and gamification….
By Ranajit Bhattacharyya and Aadarsh Gangwar In 2016, as many as 96.5 per cent of rural elementary government schools had toilets, but more than one in four (27.79 per cent) were dysfunctional or locked, according…
By Vishal Gulati Thimphu (Bhutan), July 19 (IANS) He knows travel is the best teacher and when the destination is spirituality, the experience is more than just sightseeing. It helps you pack young and vibrant…
Jammu, July 18 (IANS) Two Indian soldiers were killed on Tuesday as the Pakistan Army resorted to heavy shelling and firing along several areas of the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, leading authorities to shut…