New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday disallowed the Uttar Pradesh government from withdrawing the provision of free education beyond class 10 from poor general and backward category students in the state while retaining it for Dalit and tribal students.
A bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice B.S...
Lucknow: A headmaster of a government-run primary school in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh has been accused of molesting an employee, police said today.
Virendra Yadav, who is absconding, on Monday allegedly molested the 30-year-old school cook inside the Bidpur Primary School in Mohana town of ..
Varanasi: Four engineering students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) here have been booked for allegedly ragging a first year student outside the varsity campus, police said today.
The four students -- two of B. Tech third year and surprisingly two in the first year -- allegedly assaulted the fresher ..
Hyderabad: The Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia, Perth, Alan Robson today said that certain 'unscrupulous agents' operating in India were bringing students to his country with "false expectations" and landing them in trouble.
'Unscrupulous agents are bringing Indian students to ..
Kolkata: A first-year student of a private technology institute in Howrah tried to commit suicide on Wednesday after he was beaten, tortured and forced to do drugs by his seniors. During the 90-minute ordeal, Nayan Adak’s wrists were slashed with razors and he was injected with air.
Unable to take the ..
Pune: The University of Adelaide, Australia, had planned setting up of Asias first wine institute at Narayangaon, about 80 km from Pune, in association with India's largest wine-making company, Indage Vintners, earlier known as Champagne Indage.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Champagne ..
Kolkata: It is seldom that all talented tweens of the city get a common platform to showcase their creativity and intelligence before a huge audience. The Times of India did just that by organizing a unique contest to identify the Best All Rounder Tween on September 10 at GD Birla Sabhaghar.
After a month-long ..
New Delhi: The Arkansas State University (ASU) (Jonesboro, USA) will conduct a presentation on admissions to the varsity for students in New Delhi on September 16, 2009.
The presentation, to be conducted by TASMAC - the South Asia Coordination Office of ASU, will cover information about ASU, courses offered and ..
Kolkata: A round-table interactive discussion on literary translation in India and England was held at Sahitya Academi on September 7 headed by distinguished literary translators and publishers with participants from south, east and North-eastern India, where experts addressed the common dilemmas faced by translators...
New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said the school curriculum would be modified keeping in view the constitutional values
'We will bring changes to the school curriculum. The changes will be made to make education more exciting for the children,' he said.
The government had changed the curriculum ..