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Government to spend Rs.30 billion on high school scholarships
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) In order to arrest the increasing dropout rate from schools after class 8, the government Friday decided to allocate Rs.30.04
Jharkhand government to give its students a haircut
Ranchi, May 9 (IANS) The Jharkhand government is going to give haircuts to students in state-run schools. 'School principals have been directed to hire part-time barbers ...AMU to help link madrassas to mainstream education
Lucknow, May 9 (IANS) In an attempt to open up mainstream higher education in India to madrassa students, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has decided ...Police remand for accused in teacher suicide case
Ahmedabad, May 8 (IANS) A man whose alleged sexual harassment of a woman led her to commit suicide was sent to police custody for five ...Strip-search of girls leads to principal's suspension
Ranchi, May 7 (IANS) The principal of a Jharkhand school has been suspended for ordering that 13 young girls be stripped after another student complained ...Court to hear IIM alumni challenge to OBC quota Wednesday
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Delhi High Court Tuesday deferred hearing a petition by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) alumni association to restrain the ...Meghnad Desai to address Tata Institute convocation
Mumbai, May 6 (IANS) Lord Meghnad Desai, professor emeritus at the London School of Economics, will deliver the annual convocation address of the Tata Institute ...Teachers clash with police near Bihar assembly
Patna, May 6 (IANS) Hundreds of school and college teachers broke security cordons at the state assembly here Tuesday, protesting against the government's policy to ...Where one student and two teachers make up a school!
Shimla, May 6 (IANS) A primary village school in Himachal Pradesh has just one student but two teachers and not surprisingly its functioning depends entirely ...Copyright problem leaves Jharkhand students without history books
Ranchi, May 6 (IANS) Students of Class 8 in Jharkhand will suddenly find themselves without their history textbooks as the National Council of Education Research ...Nine injured after fan falls on class
Pathankot (Punjab), May 5 (IANS) A teacher and eight students were injured Monday when a ceiling fan fell on them in a classroom in a ...IIT in Andhra Pradesh to begin classes this year
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) The new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Andhra Pradesh will commence classes from this academic year (2008-09) at a makeshift ...20 years on, mission to literacy still short of target (Special)
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Twenty years after its launch, the National Literacy Mission (NLM) is still struggling to meet its objective. It is 10 ...Government gives nod to hike in IIT fees
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The central government has approved the proposal of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to double their fees, a official ...Arjun Singh assures education bill in monsoon session
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh Saturday assured a delegation led by Shanta Sinha, chairperson National Commission for ...NASA names planet after Kerala professor
New York/Kollam (Kerala), May 2 (IANS) In a rare honour, the US space agency NASA has named a 'minor' planet after a Kerala zoology professor ...National Police University gets in-principle approval
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Aiming to provide research back-up for law-enforcement agencies, the union cabinet Thursday gave in-principle approval to establish a National Police ...Pirated books seized in Kolkata
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) The authorities soon plan to raid all shops on College Street - the largest book market in Kolkata - to seize ...France opens door to engineering students from India
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) France has opened the doors to its technology for Indian engineers - for the first time selecting 16 young engineering ...'Darjeeling Limited'- a caricatured view of India (Review)
Film: 'Darjeeling Limited'; Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Irrfan Khan; Director: Wes Anderson; Ratings: * Maybe this one didn't mean to ...PM hopes Jammu and Kashmir will be knowledge economy hub
Jammu, April 26 ( IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has hoped Jammu and Kashmir will emerge as a knowledge economy hub with the establishment of ...IIMA: no rollback in fees; OBC quota in two weeks
Ahmedabad, April 26 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) has decided to implement the Other Backward Classes quota from this academic year onwards ...Himachal Pradesh to get four more private universities
Shimla, April 26 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has approved the opening of four more private universities in the state, officials said Saturday. 'Letters of intent have been ...IIMs begin identifying creamy layer among OBC
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) In order to ensure that the 27 percent other backward classes (OBCs)reservation is implemented from the coming academic session, the ...Students stage anti-quota protest on apex court lawns
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) A group of about 350 students from premier medical and other colleges held a protest on the lawns of the ...Most Commented
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Shahrukh Javed Jah
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03 March, 2008 03:57:37
I think musharraf should be ranked nuumber 1
Yogishri Oumkaar
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20 February, 2008 05:32:50
For democracy to survive, the majority of population of a country should be liberal, which is not the case with Pakistan. Democracy means a setup ...
Yogishri Oumkaar
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14 February, 2008 09:19:25
This was not just a political tamasha, they have also made a mockery of the lives of thousands of people. Every morning in almost all ...
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03 February, 2008 09:23:57
Mr. Raj Thackeray seems to be the most ignorant about Chhath Puja. By his comments, he has shown disrespect towards the people of Bihar ...
Steve Rice
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22 January, 2008 09:33:49
Mr. Gordon Brown has come on this visit to India and China with a specific purpose. As rightly said in the article Britain has now ...