The fees for girls will be halved at entrance tests for polytechnics or ITI vocational courses and 30 percent seats reserved for them in vocational training programmes, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Thursday.


Vocational training: 30 percent quota for Bengal girls


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Mathematics genius Subhas A. Khot who got the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, a top Maths award in the world, has an "extraordinary academic talent and remarkable concentration power", his school teachers recall.


'India-born top Maths prize winner was remarkable student'


Mathematics genius Subhas A. Khot who got the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize - the 'Nobel of Mathematics' - has an "extraordinary academic talent and remarkable concentration power", his school teachers recall.


Maths 'Nobel' winner a topper all his life


Students of Dhirubhai Ambani International School have outperformed their global peers pursuing International General Certificate of Secondary Education, the institution said Tuesday.


Dhirubhai Ambani school outperforms global peers


Three school girls were killed and 20 others injured when a tanker rammed into their school bus in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, police said.


Three UP school girls killed in accident


India and Japan Tuesday agreed to advance bilateral academic cooperation.


India, Japan to strengthen education ties


West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has ordered action over the alleged ragging of a female tribal college student in West Midnapore district, a minister said Tuesday.


Mamata orders action over tribal student's ragging


Japan's ambassador to India Takeshi Yagi Monday said greater people-to-people contact between the two countries can be expanded through education and hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit his country soon.


Japan envoy bats for greater people-to-people contact


Ragged and threatened by two of her college seniors for months with hostel authorities turning a deaf ear to her plight, a first-year tribal student in Bengal's West Midnapore district has now approached police.


Tribal girl alleges ragging in Bengal


At least six children fainted and 20 fell ill Monday after drinking water at a school in Bihar's Bhojpur district, an official said. All were out of danger after receiving medical treatment.


20 children fall ill after drinking water in Bihar school


Students led by All India Students' Association (AISA) Saturday blocked railway tracks in Bihar's Bhojpur and Darbhanga districts demanding scrapping of the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) from the UPSC entrance examination, police said.


UPSC protest: Students block railway tracks in Bihar


Fifty students of a government primary school fell ill in Bihar Friday after eating their mid-day meal in which a dead lizard was found, an official said.


Dead lizard in Bihar mid-day meal, 50 students ill


At least 24 students of a government primary school fell ill in Bihar Friday after eating mid-day meal in which a dead lizard was found, officials said.


Dead lizard in Bihar mid-day meal, 24 students ill


At least 28 civil service aspirants were arrested for a violent protest against the aptitude test in the entrance examination, police said Thursday.


28 civil service aspirants held for violence


US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday visited the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.


Kerry visits IIT Delhi


Russia is seeking to promote its education and culture in India and strengthen people-to-people ties ahead of President Vladimir Putin's expected visit here later this year.


Russia seeks more Indian students, to promote its culture in India


Civil service aspirants Wednesday night clashed with police and burnt down two buses and a police booth during their continued protest here demanding scrapping of the aptitude test from the entrance examination, police said.


UPSC protestors torch buses, police booth in Delhi


A court in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur Wednesday sentenced the owner of a school in Kumbakonam, where 94 children perished in a fire in 2004, to a life term in prison. Nine people were sentenced to varied terms in jail, while 11 others were acquitted.


Tamil Nadu school fire: Life term for owner, jail for nine others


Wipro chairman Azim Premji was conferred an honorary doctorate by the IIT, Kharagpur, Saturday at its 60th convocation.


Premji gets honorary doctorate from IIT Kharagpur


A 15-year-old girl in Odisha set herself on fire after her parents said they couldn't pay her school fee, a family member said. An official Saturday termed it as an accident.


No school fee, girl sets self afire


A school teacher in West Bengal's Howrah district was detained Friday for allegedly thrashing a class 8 student caught talking during class, even as several incidents of corporal punishment were reported from the state.

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