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Revision of history with change of governments leaves students perplexed
Revision of history textbooks with change of governments subscribing to different ideologies has left students in Rajasthan perplexed, with experts cautioning that politics and education should not be allowed to interfere in each other's domain. Recently, the Congress government constituted a textbook revision committee in the school education department after coming to power in Rajasthan. Based on the committee's findings, the department revised a short biography of RSS ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar introduced by previous BJP government. The committee has removed the prefix 'Veer' from Savakar's name in Class X social science textbooks and it now refers to him as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who "plotted assassination" of Mahatma Gandhi, who was killed by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948, less than a year after India gained independence from Britain. The committee has included a point stating that before independence Savarkar, who was arrested in 1910 for alleged revolutionary ...
Revision of history with change of govts leaving students perplexed
Revision of history in school textbooks with change of governments having different ideologies has left the students perplexed about the historical facts, with historians cautioning that politics and education should not be allowed to interfere in each other's domain. Recently, the Congress government after coming to power in Rajasthan had constituted a textbook revision committee in school education department. The department, based on the committee findings, has revised a short biography of RSS ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar introduced by previous BJP government. The committee has removed prefix 'Veer' from Savakar's name in Class X social science textbooks and it now refers to him as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who "plotted assassination" of Mahatma Gandhi. The committee has included a point stating that Savarkar "apologised" to the British Rule to reduce his prison term and grant mercy. The text book will be introduced in the curriculum from next academic year, Rajasthan School ..
St Stephen's warns teachers who objected inclusion of supreme council member in interview panel
Delhi University's St Stephen's College Tuesday sent warning letters to three of its governing body members for condemning the inclusion of a member of the institution's Supreme Council in the interview panel for selection of students. In a statement, the three members of the governing body had objected to the inclusion of a member of its Supreme Council in the interview panel, saying it is a violation of the college constitution. The three members -- Nandita Narain of Department of Mathematics, N P Ashley of Department of English and Abhishek Singh of Department of Economics had condemned the "illegal and unacademic decision taken by the Principal", that "could compromise the academic integrity of our admissions process" while demanding its withdrawal. The warning letters sent to the three members said they (the trio) issued "false and irresponsible comments to the media". In the warning letters issued by college principal Professor John Varghese, the teachers have been "advised not .
Toddlers learn new words more easily from other kids: Study
Parents, take note! Your toddlers are more likely to learn new words from other children, a study has found. Children are voracious learners who glean all kinds of information from the people around them. In particular, children mimic and learn speech patterns from their family. Previous research has shown that infants attend selectively to their mother's voice over another female's voice. However, scientists from Ohio State University in the US suggest that children learn new words best from other children. "Much of what we know about the world is learned from other people. This is especially true for young children," said Yuanyuan Wang from Ohio State University. According to Wang, speech is loaded with important paralinguistic information about the speaker including age, gender and even social class. Children learn and process this information in speech to understand and integrate speaker-specific information. The research team wanted to determine what age group was most ...
Protests continued in Kashmir over child's rape
Protests continued in Kashmir valley on Tuesday over the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl in Bandipora district of the state, officials said. The state police has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the rape case and one person has been arrested. Even as authorities closed several educational institutions in the valley, students took out protest rallies against the alleged rape of the minor girl in Sumbal area of north Kashmir's Bandipora district last week, the officials said. They said protests erupted at Women's College Maulana Azad Road here as the students came out of their classes and assembled in the campus. The protesting students demanded stern action against the accused, the officials said, adding later, the protestors marched towards the Press Enclave here. Protests rocked Kashmir University in Hazratbal area of the city where hundreds of students of different departments under the banner of Kashmir University Students Union (KUSU) assembled inside .
Kids learn new words best from their peers
The best way to help children develop a strong vocabulary is to allow them to have conversations with other children as toddlers learn new words best from other kids, says a new study.
Srinagar hosts 3rd Pencak Silat State C'ship
Third Pencak Silat State Championship has been organised for Kashmiri students in Srinagar on Tuesday. Students from different schools are participating in the tournament, which primarily revolves around punching, kicking and throwing."The theme of this championship is to follow the new calendar. Next month we have sub-junior and under 12 national championships (to be held in Bhopal). We are selecting our best probables. For this, we have called Kashmir division students," Iqbal Ahmed, the organiser, told ANI."The same championship will take place in Jammu in a few days as well. Kashmir's best lot will then compete to make Jammu and Kashmir's best team to represent the state in competitions. Career-wise, a recognised game by the sports council helps a student get each and every possible benefit. One learns self-defence, as well as health and fitness, is maintained," Iqbal added.When asked students how they are benefitting from the game, one student said with the help of this ...
AP school board releases class 10 results
Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (APBSE) released the class 10 results on Tuesday.Students can check their results on the board's official website (http://results19.bseap.org) after entering their roll number.While releasing the results, school education commissioner Sandhya Rani informed that a total of 6,30,082 students including 10,588 private candidates appeared for the examination which ran through March 18 to April 4, 2019.Supplementary examinations will be held from June 17 to June 29.Of the total 6,19,494 regular students, over 94 per cent passed the exams. "94.68 per cent of the boys and 95.09 per cent of the girls passed as regular students," she said.In the private candidates, 58.82 per cent passed them exams out of which girls constitute 61.84 per cent, she stated.All of the students passed in the exam in 5,464 schools, while three schools secured zero per cent results.With 98.13 per cent, East Godavari district has the highest pass percentage while Nellore ...
Maharashtra PG medical students on warpath
After the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court scrapped the applicability of Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) for the current year (2019), some 250 medical students who had secured admissions to various post-graduation courses in Maharashtra are now left high an dry.
St Stephen's college GB objects to inclusion of supreme council member in interview panel
The governing body of Delhi University's St Stephen's College has objected to the inclusion of a member of its Supreme Council in the interview panel for selection of students, saying it is a violation of the college constitution. The Supreme Council is a subset of six members of the Governing Body (Managing Committee) and comprises all members of the Church of North India. According to the college constitution, the Supreme Council of the college shall have the control of the religious and moral instruction of students of the college and of all matters affecting its religious character as a Christian college of the Church of North India. The announcement to include a member of the Supreme Council was made at a meeting of the college's Staff Council held on Monday. Professor John Varghese, the college principal made the "shocking announcement", according to a statement issued by three members of the governing body. The three members -- Nandita Narain, N P Ashley, Abhishek Singh ...
Girls outshine boys in Andhra Class 10 exams
Girls outperformed boys in Class 10 exams in Andhra Pradesh, the results for which were announced on Tuesday.
Indian-American students among US Presidential Scholars
Indian-American students accounted for more than 10 per cent of the 55th class of the 2019 US Presidential Scholars, according to the Department of Education.
Maruti Suzuki India inaugurates Center of Excellence at ITI, Becharaji
Maruti Suzuki has invested around Rs 4 crore to set up the facility and will continue to maintain and run it.
Sivan hopes space programme for youth spawns good scientists
Exhorting students to develop scientific temper, Indian space agency's top executive K. Sivan on Monday hoped the space programme for the youth would produce a good number of scientists every year.
Stephen's GB members accuse principal of taking 'illegal decision'
The members of the Governing Body (GB) of St. Stephen's College on Monday accused Principal John Varghese of taking an "illegal decision" to include a member of the Supreme Council in the interview panel for selection of students for admission to the college and sought withdrawal of the decision.
New KVS order will deprive students to study Assamese: ASS
Assam Sahitya Sabha (ASS) president Paramananda Rajbongshi Monday alleged that the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) was "conspiring to deprive students in its schools their "birth right" to study Assamese and other regional languages. Rajbongshi at a press conference here claimed that a recent KVS notification "will deprive the students in the Kendriya Vidyalaya schools in Assam along with the rest of the country of their birth right and democratic right to study Assamese and other indigenous languages". He claimed that till last year teaching of mother tongue languages was carried out in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools, but the notification of March 29 making physical education and some other subjects compulsory had stated that classes on regional languages will be given for one hour either before school begins or at the end of it. "This will compel students to remain in school for long hours from 7.45 am till 4 pm, naturally it will decrease the students interest to ...
Queen's University in Belfast signs MoU with Tezpur varsity for doctoral programmes
Queen's University Belfast, one of the leading varsities in UK and Ireland, has signed a MoU with Tezpur University in Assam to jointly supervise doctoral programmes in the next five years. It will enable scholars from Tezpur University to commence PhD study at Queen's in September this year. The collaboration will also offer opportunities for student and staff exchange for the purposes of study, research and teaching. The MoU was signed here between the Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Vinod Kumar Jain, and Ian Greer, the Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast. According to the MoU, primarily, the scope of collaboration will be in research and aligning with the strengths of both the institutions. Initially, identified research areas of interest are primarily within the engineering field. However, it is expected that research areas from other faculties will be explored at a later stage. "We have a long-standing relationship with India and are committed to assisting Indian .
Iranian students protest mandatory headscarf rule
Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says university students have held a campus protest against authorities' increasing pressure on women to wear mandatory headscarves in public. The report says the students both men and women briefly scuffled with another group of Tehran University students who support the country's conservative dress code. The headscarf, or hijab, is required in public for all women in Iran. Those who violate the rules are usually sentenced to two months in prison or less and fined around USD 25. ISNA reported in May that a prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was sentenced to seven years in prison after defending anti-hijab protesters. Iranian authorities have adopted a tougher approach toward such protests since 2017, after dozens of women publicly took off their headscarves.
Row as Rajasthan proposes changes in Savarkar study
The Rajasthan government has courted controversy by proposing changes in freedom fighter and Hindutva proponent Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's profile in the school syllabus.
Apply for Sahapedia-UNESCO fellowship from May 15
Starting May 15, scholars can apply for the third edition of the Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship programme, a project that encourages fresh research on tangible and intangible heritage across India and South Asia.
