Belagavi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a farmers` rally in Belagavi on Feb 27, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told students appearing in the board exams…
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told students appearing for board exams to remain positive, and not to come under pressure of expectations. Modi, in his radio programme “Mann Ki…
Union HRD Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani. (File Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, Feb 27 (IANS) Targetting central minister Smriti Irani over suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, the SC/ST Teachers Forum and Concerned Faculty…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) At least 100 student activists led by Students’ Federation of India (SFI) were here on Saturday prevented by police from submitting a deputation to West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi urging him…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Ashutosh Kumar, a student facing sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, joined the police investigation on Saturday. The police on Friday night…
Patna, Feb 27 (IANS) Over 1,200 students in Bihar have been disqualified from class 12 examinations for cheating and dozens of other people have been arrested for helping them, an official said on Saturday. “The…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Economic Survey for 2015-16 has expressed concern over lower reading levels in public and private schools while stressing that inclusive growth requires bridging gaps in educational outcomes and improvement…
Seoul, Feb 26 (IANS) South Koreas monthly spending on private education per child hit a record high in 2015, with seven out of 10 students taking private lessons, official data showed on Friday. According to…
Lhasa, Feb 26 (IANS) Tibetan authorities are set to build 250 bilingual kindergartens in rural areas by 2020, a media report said on Friday. The regional government will increase the gross enrolment ratio in pre-school…
Srinagar, Feb 25 (IANS) Taking a step forward to establish meaningful contact with the youth, the Indian Army on Thursday announced that it has been organising free tuitions classes for needy students in north Kashmir’s…
Patna, Feb 25 (IANS) A Dalit student of a medical college in Bihar faces legal trouble after he threatened to end his life if he is not declared to have passed his MBBS final year…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Police on Wednesday detained and later released 60-70 students from near India Gate after they took part in a candle light vigil in support of Dalit student Rohith Vemula who…
Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) Amid the protests at the JNU and Jadavpur University, West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Wednesday warned that higher educational institutions were becoming ‘platforms of politics’. Addressing an event here, Tripathi…
Patna, Feb 24 (IANS) A total of 412 students caught cheating in Class 12 exams were expelled in Bihar on Wednesday and dozens of people who helped them to cheat have been arrested, officials said….
Gurgaon, Feb 24 (IANS) A case has been registered against the management of a private school here on the charge of endangering the life of a girl student during a horse-riding event on the campus,…
Patna, Feb 24 (IANS) The state authorities have decided to take tough measures to conduct cheating-free exams as over one million students across Bihar started their Class 12 exams on Wednesday. Around 70,000 officials, including…
New Delhi: US Ambassador to India Richard Verma calls on the senior BJP leader L K Advani in New Delhi on Feb 4, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Patna, Feb 23 (IANS) Amid uproar over the JNU…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) JNU Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar on Monday assured the varsity teachers association that the administration would not allow police inside the campus area. “The VC has said that he will…
By Archana Rao and Sidhartha Dutta New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) In the dead of a cold February night, they grew apprehensive, if not scary, and whispered in hushed tones that police may enter the…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) A retired professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has come down heavily on Vice Chancellor M. Jagdeesh Kumar for letting the varsity plunge into an “unprecedented crisis” and said allowing…