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When will students be shifted from 99-year-old dilapidated school building: HC asks AAP govt
The Delhi High Court has asked the AAP government by when it can shift students from one of its schools, the building of which is 99 years old and in a dilapidated state, saying it was concerned with the safety of the children. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the Delhi government to file a status report indicating by when the students would be accommodated in other schools and the time frame for repairing or reconstructing the building. The court, however, made it clear that the structure in question should not be used for anything else in its present condition as it could cave in any time according to an affidavit submitted by the Delhi government. The directions from the bench came on a PIL by NGO Social Jurist which has alleged that Rajputana Rifles Heroes Memorial Senior Secondary School in Delhi Cantonment, taken over by the Delhi government in 1975 and getting 100 per cent aid from it, was in a horrible condition. The Directorate of Education ...
Colourful bands, tattoos in TN schools keep caste cauldron
Colourful bands and tattoos may be fancy wearables and art forms for many, but for students in several government schools in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, these symbolise their caste identities and deep-rooted prejudices. Cuddalore in north Tamil Nadu is dominated by Most Backward Class Vanniyars, while Scheduled Castes, the second largest in number, account for nearly 30 per cent of the population, with the two communities being at odds with each other for long. The tug of war between the two has been spilling over to schools in deep pockets of the district, where compound walls are painted with graffiti of outfits espousing their respective causes, with students seeking to assert their caste identities. A red and blue wristband denotes the suppressed caste or leanings towards a regional Dalit-based political outfit, while a yellow-green one points to Vanniyars or support to a political party known to be backing the community, said a police officer. Tattooing of a
'Harassed' on way to school, girl commits suicide: Police
A 15-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself to a ceiling fan at her residence in outer Delhi's Sultanpuri area, with the police saying Saturday that she killed herself as she was being constantly "harassed" by a man on way to her school and tuition classes. The girl died on September 19, they said, adding that a case was registered Saturday on the basis of a complaint filed by her parents. In his complaint, the girl's father has alleged that his daughter was being "mentally harassed" by a local man who was apparently married. Her father has also alleged that the accused used to frequently "harass" her on way to school and tuition classes, police said. The accused even threatened to beat the girl's younger brother if she did not go with him. Fed up with the constant harassment, she allegedly committed suicide, her father has alleged. The girl was a class X student of a government school, the police said. Police are also probing if the accused had proposed marriage
Islampur clash: Dead students' families, RSS demand CBI inquiry
The RSS and families of the two students, who died in a clash with police in North Dinajpur district over teachers recruitment in a high school, Saturday demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident. Locals have alleged that the two, who were former students of the school, were killed in police firing but the superintendent of police of North Dinajpur, Sumit Kumar had said the police did not open fire. The SP had, however, admitted that the students had received bullet injuries and had said the police were investigating who had opened fire. The RSS demanded that the state Education Minister Partha Chatterjee apologise for trying to malign the outfit's image. The parents of Rajesh Sarkar and Tapas Burman, the two students who died in the Thursday's clash, made the demand when CPI-M leaders Sujan Chakraborty and Ashok Bhattacharya met them at their homes at Daribhita village in Islampur area. The parents said the cremation of the two bodies would be done only after a CBI probe is ...
BJP calls for Bengal shutdown over killing of two youths
The BJP on Saturday called for a 12-hour shutdown in West Bengal on September 26 to protest against the alleged killing of two youths in a clash between the agitating students and police in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district.
Mamata blames RSS, BJP for the student deaths, accuses them of creating communal disturbance
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday blamed the RSS and the BJP for the death of two students during a protest against appointment of Urdu teachers in a school and accused them of trying to create communal disturbance. Banerjee, who is in Milan, Italy, on an official tour, also came out in support of providing Urdu teachers to Daribhita School in Islampur in North Dinajpur where a clash between protesters and police claimed the lives of the two students. The BJP has called a 12-hour shutdown in the state on September 26 to protest against the death of the two students. Warning the saffron organisations "not to play with fire by doing politics on the issue", she appealed to the people of the state not to pay heed to the politics of the BJP and the RSS and foil the shutdown. "The BJP and the RSS should say why the two students were killed," she said while interacting with journalists from the city who were accompanying her. "They (BJP, RSS) are like vultures waiting ...
BJP calls for West Bengal bandh after student's death on Sept 26
A day after a college student succumbed to his injuries after being injured in a clash between police and mob in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a 12-hour bandh in the state on September 26.Tapas Barman, a third-year student was severely injured when a mob clashed with the police forces during a students' protest. He later succumbed to his injuries in the North Bengal Medical College.The protest was against recruitment of Urdu teachers in Daribhit High School in Islampur area whereas the students' demand was for Science and English teachers.The BJP also observed a 12-hour bandh in the district on Friday after Rajesh Sarkar, a student of the ITI college, lost his life after being hit by a bullet on Thursday.
Islampur clash: BJP calls for 12-hour shutdown in WB on Wednesday
The BJP has called a 12-hour shutdown in West Bengal on September 26 to protest the killing of two students in a clash with police in North Dinajpur district in the state. Announcing the shutdown, senior BJP leaders Mukul Roy and Pratap Banerjee accused the state government of failing to control the situation in Islampur, where the clash occurred on Thursday at Daribhit High School. The villagers of Daribhit had claimed that the students were hit by bullets fired by police. However, the police had denied its involvement, even as the district superintendent of police had conceded that the two had died of bullet injuries. Pratap Banerjee said, "We have decided to call a 12-hour shutdown in the state against the killing two people in police firing in Islampur area." The people of Islampur and the entire state are "fed up with the misrule of TMC in Bengal" and the shutdown will be "an expression of people's anger against the anti-people government", he said here. SP Sumnit Kumar had said .
A single idea can't run a country: Rahul Gandhi
In a veiled attack at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that a country with over a billion population cannot possibly be run by a single idea.Addressing a gathering of academicians here, Gandhi said, "In India, the labourer, the farmer, the small and medium businesses, everybody is saying that a country of over a billion people cannot possibly be run on one single idea. To me, the fact that we allow our people to talk, to allow them to have a discussion is the biggest strength of our country."The Congress president further said, "I feel academicians are under attack, I understand that they feel being under pressure, you feel that an ideology is being imposed upon. You feel that one syllabus has now suddenly become acceptable to every single institution of India. You are not alone in this feeling."Gandhi also opined that the Indian teaching system must be allowed to have its own voice and express its own opinion. "We talk ...
Rahul attacks Modi government, says an ideology being imposed on education system
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Modi government saying that "an ideology" is being imposed on the education system and assured the teachers that his party was with them in fighting the battle.
Financing studies abroad while staying financially healthy (Educational Tips)
It's an inescapable reality that sending your child abroad to study can be prohibitively expensive. For most middle-class Indian families, the hefty amount is just not something they can afford to spend, even though some parents get caught up in the enthusiasm of providing their child with the advantage of a high-quality education and end up depleting their savings or going bankrupt.
Meghalaya cabinet approves final draft of education policy
The Meghalaya cabinet Friday approved the final draft of the state Education Policy, 2018, which seeks to address the various challenges facing the education sector. Addressing reporters after a cabinet meeting, Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong said, We have approved the final draft Meghalaya State Education Policy, 2018 which is a long pending aspiration of the people of the state." Tynsong also congratulated the education minister Lahkmen Rymbui and the education department for ensuring that the state got its own education policy. Rymbui said, The policy tries to address the main issues and concerns facing the state today and attempts to provide policy options for the government based on best practices and research driven interventions." Stating that the policy also places the learner as the focal point, he said that it further covers broad areas which include vision, overall goal, goals for the development of early childhood care and education (ECCE), ...
Teacher training for Maha syllabus change to be broadcast on
Teachers will be provided digital training in connection with the change in the curriculum of Classes I to VIII from the academic year 2018-19, Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde said Friday. He said that the training would be broadcast on Gujarat's free Doordarshan DTH channel. He informed reporters that broadcasting the training modules on Maharashtra's DD Sahyadri channel would have come at a cost whereas the Gujarat government, which has 16 educational channels, had offered to beam it free on the "Vande Gujarat" channel. He added that the training would be in Marathi. Responding to criticism from the opposition on using a channel from Gujarat, Tawde said, "We haven't used the services of any channel from Pakistan." The Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Dhananjay Munde, however, criticised the decision and said that if the state government had so much love for Gujarat, then it should shift the capital to Gandhinagar. Referring to a ..
Meghalaya Cabinet approves state education policy
The Meghalaya Cabinet on Friday approved the State Education Policy after 46 years of statehood.
89 students, 6 teachers held for agitation in Manipur University
A total of 89 students and six teachers of Manipur University were arrested early Friday in Imphal following an agitation on the institute's campus the day before, a top officer said. Mobile internet services have been suspended in the state for the next five days to avoid circulation of "misinformation and rumours" over the incident, he said. A team of officers raided the university hostel and the residential quarters around 1 am, and took the students and the teachers into custody based on a complaint filed by newly appointed acting Vice Chancellor K Yugindro Singh, IGP L Kailun said at a press meet here. Singh, in his complaint, stated he was "gheraoed" by the agitators for trying to assume charges at the central university, where a prolonged battle between former vice chancellor AP Pandey and the students and teachers have hampered academic activities for over four months, the IG said. President Ram Nath Kovind, in his capacity as Visitor of the Manipur University, recently placed
TN college chairman faces sexual harassment charges
The chairman of a private college here has courted trouble after a video purportedly showing him molesting a woman staff went viral. After the video surfaced, protests against the chairman were staged by a section of students of the college affiliated to the Students Federation of India in the campus Thursday, leading to closure of the institution for three days, police said. Members of the All-India Democratic Women's Assication Friday lodged a complaint with police seeking arrest of the chairman. Though the woman staff had lodged a complaint a couple of days ago, she withdrew it Thursday, police said. According to AIDWA sources, the woman staff had been mentally affected and stopped going to the college following the incident. They also alleged that similar incidents involving some other staff had taken place in the past. The college management remained tightlipped.
Research scholar found hanging at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad hostel
A research scholar of IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad was found hanging in his hostel room, police said Friday. A management official of the institute said the research scholar, Ranjan Rathi, was alone in Jasper Hostel room and had locked it from inside Thursday. His roommate, who had gone to Ranchi, rang his other friends late at night when Rathi did not receive his calls from the evening. Other students from the hostel also knocked his door but did not get any response. Since the room was locked from inside, the students informed the security department. When the security staff peeped through the ventilation, they found Rathi hanging on a rope. The Police was informed and the room was unlocked to take out the body. Dhanbad Sadar police station officer in-charge Ashok Kumar Singh said the body has been sent for post-mortem at Patliputra Medical College Hospital. Details are being taken from the students of the hostel and others about Rathi to resolve the death ..
IIT(M)-NTU to offer joint doctoral programme
IIT-Madras and Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University held the first round of discussions here on a joint doctoral programme to be offered under a pact signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the City State in June. Water and photonics among others could be key focus areas of the programme, Alumni Community Chair Professor of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras Prof R Nagarajan told PTI Friday. Officials of both the institutions met for the first time recently at IIT-Madras since the signing of the memorandum of understanding on June 1 this year during Modi's visit to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Various aspects of water such as delivery system, recycling, purification, and photonics among other focus areas were shortlisted during the talks, Nagarajan said. Meanwhile, an IIT-M release said Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, an alumnus of IIT-M, has agreed to sponsor five students of the institute annually for stay at ..
West Bengal: Another student dies in Islampur clash
A college student, injured in a clash between a mob and the police in North Dinajpur, died Friday, pushing the death toll to two. The BJP observed a 12-hour bandh in the West Bengal district over the incident on Friday. Tapas Barman, a third-year student, succumbed to injuries in North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, officials said. Rajesh Sarkar, an ITI student, died in the clash Thursday. Locals alleged that the two students were killed in police firing but the SP of North Dinajpur, Sumnit Kumar, said the police did not open fire. The SP, however, admitted that the deceased students had received bullet injuries and said the police were investigating who fired the gunshots. Kumar said people in the mob were carrying illegal arms and bombs, and 14 police constables were injured in the clash. He said seven people, including some BJP supporters, were detained in connection with the incident. Both Barman and Sarkar were area residents and former students of Daribhit High School in ..
Fill up teaching vacancies in school for visually impaired: HC to AAP govt
The Delhi High Court has directed the AAP government to "forthwith" appoint 10 contract teachers to vacant posts in a school here for visually impaired boys and provide the students with "assistive devices" like audio recorders to help them study. The direction by a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao came on a PIL claiming there was 50 per cent vacancy of teaching staff in the school and that its building, which also had hostel facilities, was in a poor condition. The petition by the National Federation of the Blind, which works for the rights of visually impaired persons, said the sanctioned teaching strength of the Government Senior Secondary School for Boys (Blind) in north Delhi's Kingsway Camp was 20, but there were only 10 teachers ,of which six were on contract. The plea also said the school was functioning without a principal for over two years and the repair of the building was taking time. The Delhi government said the rules for inducting teachers on a
